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Chapter 2: An Unexpected Encounter (Part 1)

Always Doesn't Mean Forever

"Oh my god… I can't believe how hot he is!" Screeched a very excited Emma McCleave (finally breaking the silence), clutching on to Lily's arm as she began to hop up and down from anxiousness. "And look! He's spotted us!" She screamed in delight.

Lily instantly froze. They had seen them looking at them? Oh god… this couldn't be good. For the love of fizzing whizbees.

Emma's face contorted terribly as she realized what was happening. "Oh no… they've spotted us!" she suddenly turned bright red as she ran her hands through her hair worriedly. "LILY!" she screamed, shaking her friend violently. "Think of something to do! You're the smart one!"

"Why don't you ask Sarah? She's had the most experience with… with boys" Lily said, faltering on the word boys. Her chest had clogged up, and she could feel her breathing becoming ragged. She was referring, of course, to their other friend. Lily's brain had gone unusually blank… something that occasionally occurred to her when she was under pressure.

But Sarah was just staring at the door, open mouthed, as a figure approached the door of the compartment. Lily could faintly see a shadow of a hand reaching out to the door-handle. The real panic started when she saw the knob turning, slowly. She felt like she was stuck in a horror movie, but she was too excited to see what was going to happen next to run away. Slowly, the door slid open a crack, to reveal a tall and toned man.

"Hello, ladies," the boy said, grinning happily. "What can I do for you all today?"

Two Hours Earlier

Her auburn ringlets were flying out behind her as Lily Evans made her way to King's Cross-station, at platform 9 ¾. She barely had 5 minutes to make it onto the Hogwart's Express. Despite the fact that she had woken up 2 hours prior to this, it took much longer then the Evan's had anticipated for them to get to the station, which resulted in Lily running late.

"Sorry," she muttered as she scurried into a random passenger awaiting another train in her hurry. She quickly dodged numerous people in the station, as she wheeled her trolley around to face the brick wall between the platforms 9 and 10. Without giving it a second thought, she confidently ran through the barrier, transporting her from the muggle station to the magical Hogwart's Express.

Breathing a sigh of relief, she began to mosey her way up to the train's steps when she heard her name being hollered out at her from behind. Turning quickly, she was delighted to see one of her two best friends, Emma McCleave weaving her way through the crowd towards her.

"LILY!" She screeched, taking a running leap to her friend, engrossing her in a monster hug. Her long blonde hair cascaded down her back, in small soft curls. She looked like an angel in Lily's opinion.

"Oh my gosh! I haven't seen you forever! I cannot believe how incredibly different you look!" she added with a grin, giving Lily a once over, including a nod of approval. "You look great sweetie… You won't even be able to imagine how much I missed you," she added as an afterthought, picking up some of Lily's trunks, lugging them up onto the train. "Hurry up… Sarah's waiting for you."

By Sarah, Emma was referring to Sarah Johnston, Lily's other best friend, completing their golden trio. Giddy with excitement, she quickly took some luggage and ran after her friend.

"Lil!" Once again, Lily found her self getting bombarded with hugs as Sarah ran up to her. Laughing, Lily disentangled herself from Sarah, taking a quick second to admire her medium length brunette locks, finally settling herself on a bench.

"So… tell me everything that's happened with you guys." Lily stated.

Within seconds, Sarah and Emma busied themselves with filling Lily in on every detail of their lives over summer without her. Conversations varied from summer romance, clothes, trips to the states, getting past first base, and books… but before long, the trio finally focused on a favorite subject.

"So," Sarah said, wiggling her perfectly waxed eyebrows as she gazed out at her two friends with gorgeous brown eyes. "What do you guys say to taking a little tour of the Gryffindor boys… see how they filled out over the summer?" she suggested, grinning like a mad woman, her almost black hair shining magnificently in the sunlight.

The girls bounded out of the compartment immediately, skipping down the halls, occasionally peeking into random people's rooms, exchanging thumbs up when they found somebody that appealed to them.

After making rounds through a few hallways, Lily and Sarah were starting to get a little tired of the game.

"You know, maybe we should head back now…" Sarah announced, thinking of the cauldron cakes lined up and waiting for them. "We've been doing this for…"

But how long they'd been doing it for, they'd never know, as Sarah was standing stock still, staring obviously into a compartment.

"Oh. My. God." She whispered, putting a hand over her heart as she squinted her eyes to get a better view of the occupants inside of the glass door. "I can't believe it… I can't sodding believe it."

This captured her two friends' interests instantly, causing Lily and Emma to push each other out of the way to see what was entrancing Sarah in such a way. Emma, with a smirk on her face, succeeded, and turned to look inside of the compartment. Her reaction was similar to Sarah's.

Lily was getting put out, and a little exasperated that she couldn't see what treasures lay inside of the mystery compartment. Finally, she shoved Emma out of the way, and peered inside. It was then that she understood.

Inside of the compartment were the three most handsome men she had ever laid her emerald eyes on. What surprised her the most was who they were.

None other then James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin. Peter was inside of the compartment too, but nobody was really to be bothered with him.

"Look at them," Emma breathed, blinking a few times, as if to make sure the beautiful people weren't just an illusion her mind was playing on her.

As soon as Emma spoke, Sarah's eyes unglued themselves from the three boys and shook her head. "I can't believe I'm checking out the Marauder's…" she whispered, seemingly disgusted with herself. "I hate those bloody gits. Come on, Lily… let's leaving Emma to her drooling self." She turned on her heel and started to walk away, before realizing that Lily wasn't following.

Because Lily was still looking inside at the men.

"That chocolate hair… his toned muscles, and what amazing blue eyes… when did Sirius get to be so hot?" She thought to herself. If she was in her right mind, Lily would have instantly stopped staring like a mesmerized schoolgirl, but Lily wasn't in her right mind… she was currently only thinking of one man. And that man was Sirius Black.

(Back To Present...)

A/N: Oh yeah! All about the element of surprise, right guys? Yes, I know, you think you didn't read it right… but rest assured, you did! Lily is thinking of… Sirius Black. Not James Potter. But worry not, because this is a Lily/James fiction… this is all part of the plot . And I hope after reading that, you won't abandon this fiction. Because I have plenty of surprised up my sleeve! Yay Jamie! Yay cliffhanger! Yay reviews! (Or I'm hoping I'll be able to say yay if I see any in my lonely inbox.) Well, I'll be posting part 2 in a few days, so stay tuned. Oh, and one last thing… I'm terribly sorry that this chapter is so short, but it's "part 1." Part two is at least two, maybe three times longer. With that said, lots of love and inbox's full of reviews from happy readers.

- Jamie-Lynn Love