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Author's Note: Enjoy!
The rest of the month flew by quickly. Lily and Nerissa had taking various shopping trips for school and gone swimming quite often. Lily begged Nerissa to do these things so that way they could avoid the marauders, mainly James. There were times though when Nerissa and Sirius went out. Instead of roaming around the house, or going wherever she pleased, Lily would lock herself in Nerissa's room working on a few plans to improve the school as Head Girl.
Soon it came to be September 1st the beginning of the term. All six students said their goodbyes and thank yous to the Potters as they boarded the train. "So where are we sitting" Nerissa asked.
"Um… I have to sit in the first compartment for a while, and I don't know how long I'll be there," Lily said taking her notebook and quill out of her school bag.
"Oh right, I'll just sit with Sirius, Remus. Have fun," She then started running down the hall "Sirius, wait up!" Sirius grabbed her at the waist and soon the three of them disappeared into a compartment.
"Well Lilsy dear, that just leaves the two of us," James said sneaking up behind her.
"Let's get on with it," Lily said walking into the first compartment, the only one without a glass door that had a big H on it. The two of them had only spoken when necessary ever since their ordeal in the living room.
The compartment they were in was incredibly fancy. There were only two plush arm chairs in the room, both red, the whole compartment itself was red and gold. Surprisingly there was a fireplace in the room, with the Gryffindor lion above it. In the fireplace was Professor McGonagal's head.
"Hello Professor," Lily and James both said taking a seat.
"Hello Ms. Evans, Mr. Potter. I would like to once again congratulate you on becoming Head Boy and Girl of the school. It's a very long process to chose whom will be the Heads, but you two made it. Now, I want to give you a quick briefing of what you do. First of all you distribute the passwords of each house to the prefects. Second, you plan some of the school activities for the year. Third, you tell the prefects their duties and make sure their doing their jobs right. Fourth, you will meet with Professor Dumbledor once a month to brief each other one what's going on in the school. You two yourselves will also have to meet with each other every other day, and that should be easy for luckily you two are in the same house. You will also roam the halls to make sure no mischief is going on, and you two will be able to deduct points from the houses, but of course you will not, deduct just because you want Gryffindor to win, is that understood?"
"Yeah," James said his eye wondering
"Yes Professor," Lily said jotting notes down.
"Now, I must be going soon so I'm going to tell you the house passwords and you're then to report to the prefects, giving them their passwords and telling them their duties. So here are the passwords, Gryffindor is hogswash, Ravenclaw is librota, Hufflepuff is gentlepigsfeet and Slytherin is grotesque. Now I also expect that you two do not take advantage of these passwords. You're both never to step foot into any house but Gryffindor's. We'll know who to find if something strange goes on in one of the houses. Now, Lily you know all of the rules for the prefects so I'll expect you to tell them and James, you will go with her and pay close attention, you need to learn the prefects duties as well as your own. Goodbye," and in a flash Professor McGonagall's head was out of the fire.
"Come on James," Lily said heading towards the door.
"Wait a minute Lily," James said getting up.
"Yes?" She responded tartly
"Why so bitter and distant? Look, I know the two of us haven't gotten along well throughout the years, but you know I've changed. Haven't I? So why don't we just put everything behind us, call a truce and be friends? Plus, with you and I friends, then you and Rissa can hang around with Sirius, Remus and Peter more because you won't be at odds with me. So, truce?" James stuck his hand out.
Well…Lily thought He has changed, and I suppose it would be fun to hang around with the marauders…
"Alright James, truce," Lily started Wait a minute, what am I doing, oh come back with something "but if you do anything stupid, I'm going to cut off your man hood and serve it to you for breakfast." She then accepted the handshake.
"Good, good, now let's go scare those prefects with all of our Headlyness, then enjoy the ride." James said walking out the door. Lily followed him across the hall. She quickly went through what the prefects were to do since most of them were in their second year of being a prefect. Once they were given their passwords and duties James and Lily went down the hall to where their friends were seated. They opened the door to one side Remus and Peter, the other marauder who was slightly plump with dull brown hair and eyes, engaging in conversation while across from them was Nerissa resting her head on Sirius' shoulder with his arm around her, whispering something into her ear.
"Hey there James," Remus said looking up from his conversation.
"Hello there," James replied taking a seat next to Remus.
"How was your official business?" Nerissa asked.
"Oh, it was fine," Lily said seating herself.
"Only fine?" Nerissa asked "Lily, this sort of thing gives you kicks and giggles."
"Well, it was just a bunch of rules and such." Lily said. "But really, do you want to continue talking things that are uninteresting to you?"
"You're right," Sirius said "Anyone see any good quidditch this summer?" Soon everyone but Lily debating about quidditch. This is so much different from when we all sat together 6 years ago…James was a prick and had played nasty tricks on me, and then made me make a fool out of myself in front of everyone. That's when I vowed to hate him for life…well…looks like that's over. Lily was absent mindedly staring at him.
"May I be of some service?" James asked interrupting the great debate.
"What?" Lily said snapping back into reality, heat rising in her cheeks.
"Well you've just been staring at me for the past five minutes," James said.
"Ohhh, Lily fancies James, Lily fancies James," Sirius said.
"Actually…" Lily said Think of something! She then muttered something quickly under her breath. "I was trying to see how you could possibly manage to just sit there while you're nose is running"
"What, no its-does anyone have a tissue?" James asked.
"No…" Nerissa said
"Ah, use your robes," Sirius said kicking his feet up on the window.
"That's disgusting," Lily said. "Here," from her pocket she pulled out a tissue and handed it to James, their hands briefly touching, causing Lily's cheeks to get even hotter. A few hours later they had gotten to school. Since all six of them couldn't fit into a horseless carriage, the marauders went into one on their own while Lily and Nerissa went into their own carriage.
"So Lils, you and James weren't snapping at each other. What's with the sudden change of heart?" Nerissa asked while they awaited for another person to join their carriage.
"Your brother changed over the summer," Lily said, "he was actually mature and asked for a truce, so I figured it would be the best thing to do if we were to be head boy and girl, and make it work."
"Wow, I can't bel-" Nerissa started until she was interrupted by;
"OH MY GOSH!" Yelled a high pitched voice. Oh no, Lily thought "Lily Evans and Nerissa Potter. It's been ages!"