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Meetings and confrontations

The remainder of the summer seemed to have gone by in a blur. Before we knew it, Sirius and I were walking down Kings Cross on our way to platform 9 ¾ where we would be meeting Remus and Peter for our seventh and final year at Hogwarts. When Sirius and I crossed over the barrier, we spotted Peter talking animatedly with Remus. Remus looked really bored until he spotted us and immediately walked over to us leaving Peter speaking to himself.

"Hey Prongs. Padfoot."

"Hey Moony, hey Wormtail, how's it going?" I said.

"Not too good right now, full moon last week."

"Any plans for the next one?" Peter asked.

Sirius beamed, "Wormtail, of course we have plans, but we can't talk about them here can we? Mr. Head Boy here might give us detention," he said smirking at me.

"Prongs, you made Head Boy? Congratulations!" beamed Remus.

"Thanks Moony, but I was sure it would be you. I seriously don't know what Dumbledore was thinking."

"Well I have some good news for you Prongs. Wormtail and I were standing by the barrier earlier when we heard a certain red-head telling her best friend that she made Head Girl."

"Are you serious?"

"No, I am," Sirius said laughing before receiving a punch on each shoulder from Remus and Peter.

I rolled my eyes at them before running my hand through my hair; a nervous habit I acquired over the years. A certain red-head made Head Girl? The only red-head in our year was Lily Evans….Wait a minute. Evans. It finally dawned on me. I was going to be Head Boy with Lily Evans. I've had it bad for her for as long as I could remember but she'd never given me the time of day. She thought I was an insensitive, arrogant, bullying toerag and I admit I was pretty bad, but now she had to work with me. We were going to have to spend time together! HA!

"You heard right Prongs, Lily Evans is Head Girl," Moony repeated with an amused expression on his face.

"If you don't close your mouth soon I think that fly might think it's an invitation, Prongs," Sirius laughed at me while holding Peter in a choke hold.

I couldn't believe my luck. Of course, how could she not be Head Girl? She was the smartest witch at Hogwarts and it was common knowledge that she was Dumbledore's favorite.

"Um, I'll see you guys later, I have a prefect's meeting to take charge of," I said before running off in the direction of the prefect compartment.

I suddenly had an extra skip in my step. This was going to be a great year after all. It was my last year at school, and I was going to have to work in close quarters with the girl I was head over heels with. Maybe this was my year. Maybe this was the year that Lily Evans finally went out with me. I wasn't even paying attention to where I was going when I heard her voice in the corridor. I suddenly stopped, my heart thumping fast.

"Wow Alice, this is going to be a great year! I just really hope the Head Boy is not a Slytherin."

"Who do you think it is? I mean I'm pretty sure it's going to be Remus Lupin, he's one of the smartest boys in our year apart from James Potter and Sirius Black," Alice responded.

"It has to be Remus. He's smart and responsible despite the fact that he's friends with Potter and Black. I'll never understand how such a nice and responsible guy ended up with friends like that. Especially Potter, the arrogant prat."

What? My heart sank and the smile I was carrying before that moment immediately disappeared. Here I was, completely excited about having to share head duties with Lily Evans and she was talking bad about me. I mean I knew she didn't like me, but I had never really heard her talk about me with her friends like that, especially when she hadn't seen me all summer. I didn't even know she talked about me with her friends at all for that matter!

"Oh Lily, it can't possibly be Potter! Everybody knows what a troublemaker he is, why would Dumbledore make him Head Boy?" Alice responded.

"I hope you're right because if I have to see more of him than I already do, I'm going to have to hex myself," she said before they both broke out in giggles.

When the train began to move, I saw Lily and Alice laughing and making their way towards the prefect compartment when I felt someone come up behind me.

"So are you going in Prongs?" Moony asked.

"Yeah," I responded absentmindedly.

As Remus and I walked into the prefect compartment, all eyes were on me. I vaguely heard a Slytherin ask another why I was there before making a witty remark, but I was too distracted by the look of absolute horror on Lily's face when she looked at my badge.

"Hey Evans, should we get this meeting started?" I managed to say without sounding too nervous and flashing her one of my infamous smiles.

She didn't respond, she only glared at me with a look that would send the bravest Gryffindor into hiding. At that moment, I felt like she was about to stand up and hit me, so I began the meeting without waiting for a response. Dumbledore had written out instructions for us to explain in detail to the prefects about passwords, patrolling duties, and Hogsmeade trips. I only meant to get the meeting started, but the glare I received from Lily scared me into thinking that if I stopped talking, she would curse me. I really didn't need a girl cursing me in front of a bunch of prefects, especially with Remus in there; he would never let me live it down.

As I finished explaining the last of the instructions, I stopped and chanced a glance at Lily expecting some sort of approval. Her scowl had disappeared and instead she looked as if she had just swallowed a particularly bitter treat.

"Was there anything you wanted to add Evans?" I asked her in the most professional voice I could muster under her stare.

"Yes Potter," she responded curtly.

With that, she began passing out lists of passwords to each of the house prefects. Man she was gorgeous. I had liked her for a long time now, but his year she was different somehow. She had really grown up a lot over the summer and her face no longer showed girlish features. She was now an incredibly beautiful woman. I don't think I heard a word of what she said afterwards because I was mesmerized by her large emerald eyes and her full red lips. After a few minutes of staring at her, the meeting was over and everyone began walking out of the compartment and onto the corridors. Remus gave me a devilish grin before patting my shoulder and walking out behind everybody else. I quickly recovered from my trance and began writing down some notes about the meeting so that I could turn them in to Dumbledore. I had been writing for about five minutes before I noticed that Lily was standing in front of me tapping her foot on the floor impatiently while staring down at me. I looked up and I saw a very amused yet angry look on her face.

"Potter, what are you playing at? You are the last person I expected or hoped to be Head Boy," her voice getting louder as she spoke. "Maybe Dumbledore sees something I don't, but how could he have chosen you?" she yelled getting closer to me. "If I'm going to have to put up with you on a regular basis, I hope you finally realized how old you were and I hope that you're not just pretending to take this seriously," she stated loudly with a bit of annoyance in her voice.

"I know how old I am Evans," I said looking up into those beautiful emerald eyes that were on fire at the moment.

"Well you certainly don't act your age most of the time," she began before turning her back on me and continuing on some sort of rampage. "I hope you take this position seriously Potter because I will not be doing your share of the work. If you think I was convinced by the way you took over the meeting today, you are sadly mistaken. I know how you like to show off, and this was just another stage for you wasn't it?" she finished pointing a finger menacingly at me.

I stared at her dumfounded for a moment before I found words to respond to her.

"You won't have to do any of my work Evans. I suppose Dumbledore chose me as Head Boy because he obviously thinks I can do this and no, I wasn't showing off, I was simply taking on my responsibilities. Isn't that what I was supposed to do?" I responded getting a bit annoyed by her sudden outburst.

"Hah, the day you grow up is the day flobberworms learn to fly! Just because Professor Dumbledore thinks you can be responsible for whatever reason does not mean I believe it for one second. Seriously Potter, what could possibly make you grow up?"

Wow, she didn't dislike me, she flat out hated me. I was no stranger to being at the wrong end of her temper but I had never got it that bad. I did what I was supposed to do in the meeting, I didn't hex anyone and yet she still yelled at me. I mean, I practically ran the meeting by myself and she was accusing me of not being responsible?

"Well Evans, if you're done insulting me, I think I'm going to go look for my friends. Here are the notes I took from the meeting to give to Dumbledore. I'm sure you'll find that I did more than my share of the work," I told her with a bit of sarcasm in my voice.

I walked out on her just then, but I felt her staring at me. I didn't mean to be so harsh with her, but her last words hurt. She usually only got mad at me when I terrorized another student or when I was caught pulling a prank, and I could handle that, but today I had only done my job. I had a lot of work to do if I was ever going to get her to like me the way I liked her.

I walked into the compartment where Sirius, Remus and Peter were laughing hysterically. Sirius was already planning the first Marauder prank on the Slytherins.

"Hey Prongs, how did the meeting go?"

"Great," I said faking a smile.

Sirius obviously was not interested in the answer to his own question because he quickly continued with his plans. I sat back on the seat and looked out the window. I couldn't believe how much Lily hated me. I thought this year was going to be different as soon as I found out she was Head Girl because she was finally going to have to get to know me, but I was dead wrong. I never saw Lily as a callous individual, and I certainly did not expect her to say those things to me without a proper explanation. Knowing that she couldn't believe there could be anything to make me grow up made me miserable. Had she not heard about my parents? Either she didn't know, or she didn't care.

"How does that sound to you Prongs?" I heard Sirius ask.

"Sounds great Padfoot," I responded although I had no clue what he had been talking about. I was lost in my thoughts about Lily Evans. Why did she have such a lasting effect on me? She turned me down time after time and made me look like a fool and yet I still went after her. No other girl had ever turned me down, and in spite of that, I was after the one that had done just that on countless occasions. Why couldn't she just be like all the other girls? But then again, I guess that's why I liked her so much. She wasn't like the other girls. She was Lily Evans.

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