Disclaimer: I do not own this. It belongs to J.K. Rowling. I only own Alexis and Melissa and Chris and Cassandra. Oh yea and the plot also belongs to me. Enjoy
Lily stood on the platform, red tank top, black skirt, and black boots on. She was looking out for her best friends. The whistle on the train blew and she figured they must already be on board. As she was pushing her trunk onto the train someone bumped her hip and she turned around to see one of her best friends Alexis Garcia smiling innocently at her.
"Oops. Sorry Lily. I've gotten so clumsy. I'll watch where I'm going next time."
"I missed you too, Alex," Lily said while flinging her arms around her best friend.
"Hey there you lovely angels, aren't you missing the magnificent part of yourselves today," Sirius said while walking up to them and heaving Lily's trunk onto the train.
"Well hello, Black. I haven't seen Melissa yet, but we'll be our magnificent selves soon enough," Lily replied.
Melissa
"Why, Black, weren't you such a gentleman putting Lily's trunk on the train…impressive. And the magnificent lovely angels are complete after a long summer apart," Melissa said smiling at her two best friends.
Magnificent Lovely Angels. That's what the 3 girls were. They came up with that acronym for their names when they became best friends. Melissa's name supplied the magnificent, Lily's the lovely, and Alexis's supplied the angel part. In reality however, none of the three were angels, but they liked to think they were anyway.
Sirius scowled at Melissa and said to Lily, "Well here you are Evans. I need to find the Head Boy and have a word with him."
He boarded the train and smirked at Lily, then quickly ran down the corridor in search of the Head Boy.
"Damn," Lily muttered, "I should've asked him who it is since he seems to know."
"Let's go look for an empty compartment," Melissa said while getting onto the train and then dragging Lily's trunk down the corridor with the two girls on her heels. Melissa stopped in front of an empty compartment and opened the door, "Let's go in here," she said.
They put their belongings away and Lily sat down next to Alexis. Alexis had brown curly hair and a petite figure. She was only about 5'1'' but she had amazing grey eyes that were speckled with hints of green in them. She then looked up at her Melissa who had strawberry blonde hair and intense blue eyes. She was tall with a slender figure. She loved wearing skirts.
Lily was grateful that Melissa and Alexis were her best friends. She was grateful that they had accepted her without hesitation. You see, Melissa and Alexis were both purebloods, and on the train ride to Hogwarts in her first year, she had heard that some people didn't like people that didn't have parents that knew magic. After spending a few classes with the Slytherins though, she knew it was completely true, but also that they were the only ones likely to give her a problem about it. Melissa and Alexis had started off as her roommates, but over the course of their first year, their friendship had evolved and had become something that was unbreakable. They now understood each other better than anyone else did. Their friendship was something she would cherish forever.
"Earth to Lily," Melissa called into Lily's ear and Lily jumped. "Lils are you ok? I've been calling your name a few times now and you were just staring off into space," Melissa said to her friend, looking a bit concerned.
Lily gave them both a reassuring smile, "Just remembering some old things."
"Well," Melissa began, "you need to remember about being in the Heads compartment for the meeting, missy."
Lily jumped up and bolted for the door and called after her, "Thanks Melissa!"
She ran down the corridor to the Heads Compartment. Once she got there Remus Lupin opened up the door for her, "Well here comes one of our late Heads."
She looked at Remus apologetically, "Sorry Remus," she said. Out of all the marauders she liked Remus the best. He was the only one she could tolerate for amounts of time that exceeded the two minute mark. She was about to begin the meeting when she actually processed what Remus had said to her when he had opened the door for her. If Remus wasn't the Head Boy and Sirius had gone to find him then that only left one sad possibility…
"Hey everyone sorry I'm late," said a male voice from behind her…a male voice that she knew extremely well.
Lily looked toward the door and saw James Potter. He was looking at her with amusement in his deep hazel eyes. It took Lily a minute to fully comprehend that James was the Head Boy. She didn't know whether she should laugh or cry or both.
James saved her the trouble of choosing and decided to start the meeting, "While Evans here recovers from the shock of seeing me here I'll begin the meeting. Remus, what do you think are some of the things I should let everyone else know?"
"Potter, you have no idea what you are talking about so how about you do everyone here a favor and keep your big fat mouth shut," Lily said to James having recovered from her state of shock.
"Now Evans, that's no way for the Head Girl to behave in front of the prefects," James said to her.
Lily ignored him and spoke to the prefects, "You have all had the honor of being chosen by Professor Dumbledore to have a certain rank in authority. This authority brings with it a certain responsibility. You are now going to be looked up to by your fellow students, especially the younger ones. You need to set an example for-,"
James cut her off, "Now that you have been given a boring pep talk I'll just lay down the rules and obligations and I'll let you all be on your way."
Lily glared at him, "Potter, I was not finished talking, you have no right to cut me off like-,"
James ignored Lily and continued on, "You are going to be patrolling the train every half hour. You will be making rounds along with the other prefect from your house. Come and find either me or Evans before the train ride is over and we will give you the password for your houses. And you might want to go through this packet for anything I might have missed going over. There will also be monthly meetings that you are required to attend in order to go over things. You are all also in charge of helping to decorate the castle during the holidays and other festivities. If there aren't any questions then please go on your way. Hufflepuff will have patrol first, then Slytherin, then Ravenclaw and then Gryffindor. Just keep rotating until the ride is over. If you need anything just let Evans or me know."
Lily was impressed that he was able to get the meeting over with so quickly. She would never admit it though. Plus it was much easier to be mad at Potter for him cutting her off then actually admitting he did well. So Lily chose to glare at him while everyone else left the compartment.
"Prongs, I'll go and get Padfoot and Wormtail. We'll be back in a bit," Remus said to James while leaving the Head's Compartment.
"What the bloody hell is the matter with you Potter," Lily screamed at him once Remus closed the door.
"Evans I have no idea what you're talking about," James said in mock innocence.
Lily took a deep breath, "Potter you are a stupid arrogant git. You know I actually care about the position of being a Head Girl. But you have to go and decide to make me look like a complete fool! You are so immature Potter. I would've thought that over the summer you might have actually grown up a bit, but I guess I was wrong!"
James looked around the compartment and said, "Bloody hell Lily. You could at least keep your voice down. You're setting a great example for the people in the next compartment. They get to hear the Head Girl yelling at the Head Boy for no reason that seems apparent to them as none of us have green hair or boils over our faces."
"Well I could certainly fix that for you Potter," Lily countered pulling out her wand.
Just as she lifted it up the compartment door opened and Sirius caught her wrist, "Now Evans, play nicely. You also might want to keep your voice down. You sound like you're yelling to yourself since no one could hear James's voice."
Lily blushed and yanked her wrist from Sirius's grip, "Don't touch me, Black."
She turned to leave the compartment but James grabbed her around the waist and spun her to face him. She felt her heartbeat quicken.
"Stay with us for a little while Evans. We'll play a game or something," James said to her.
Lily didn't like the fact that her heartbeat had quickened. She needed to get away from him. He was not supposed to make her feel like that, "Actually Potter I need to go and get my friends," she regained some of her composure so she added, "I don't want to spend my time with some immature git anyway."
She pushed him away from her and just then the compartment door opened and a 7th year Ravenclaw named Chris Cantore stood in the doorway. He had been in a few of Lily's classes last year and they got along well. Lily had liked him quite a bit last year.
"Hey Lily," he said to her, "I was wondering if you want to come to my compartment and hang out for a while."
Lily was grateful for his save and took the opportunity. She was just about to say something when James cut her off, "Actually she was just going to go back to her friend's compartment."
Chris didn't back down though, "Well, Lily, then I'll walk you back to the compartment and we can catch up on some things."
"Sounds good to me," Lily said throwing James a dirty look, "Let's go."
Lily left the compartment with Chris following her and she shut the door behind her, leaving James glaring after the two of them.
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Lily smiled happily and opened the door to the compartment her friends were in.
"Don't you look happy right now," Alexis commented, "Did the meeting go that well."
Lily's smile faded a bit, "No actually the meeting was a disaster."
She described the meeting to her friends and how James had embarrassed her and how she had gone on to yell at James. Then she went on to tell them about Chris coming to her rescue. She left out the part about how James had made her feel when he had grabbed her though.
"Chris and I were catching up on some things though and he kept complimenting me," Lily said to her friends with the full smile back on her lips, "And…he told me about how he's liked me for ages now and how he can't take being away from me anymore. So he asked me out."
Alexis threw a chocolate frog at her, "Don't keep us hanging. What did you say to him?"
"Well I said yes of course," Lily told her friends as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Alexis embraced Lily and told her, "I'm happy for you Lils. I know you liked him a lot last year."
Melissa looked at Lily with a peculiar look and Lily had to ask, "Ok Melissa, what's the problem?"
Melissa hesitated before answering, "Lils, I really am happy for you, but do you remember what I told you about his reputation?"
Lily looked at her blankly so Melissa continued, "Well he has a reputation with being just a bit too friendly with other girls. He goes around acting like he's in love with everyone. He basically has a reputation as a player."
"Chris isn't like that anymore even if he was before Melissa," Lily explained to her friend, "When we were walking down the corridor his ex-girlfriend Cassandra came up to him and was begging him to talk with her. He told her that he was busy and he kept on walking."
"Lily," Melissa said, "Chris and Cassandra have had a relationship of being on and off for two years now. They have this whole rebounding -,"
"Melissa, look I've liked him for a long time and I'm already going out with him. I'm not going to change my mind. I know he's changed," Lily said to Melissa getting slightly defensive over Chris.
"Yeah Melissa," Alexis said, "Just because you and Black had a really rough time last year with your relationship doesn't mean every guy is going to be like that."
Melissa blushed, "I am just looking out for Lily. Guys are ruthless. You give them your heart and they think it's a toy. Then they get bored with it so they throw it and it breaks. They leave you heartbroken and torn to pieces."
Alexis saw tears in her friend's eyes and quickly tried to fix what she had done, "Meliss, I'm sorry. Besides, that just refers to Black. He's a scum and this year you are going to finally let go of your feelings for him and then he's going to be the one crying for you."
"I've been trying for quite some time to let go of him," Melissa said to her friends while wiping her eyes, "maybe when it comes down to it, I'm not strong enough."
Lily looked at Melissa perplexed, "Melissa, you are such a strong person. Don't ever think you aren't. Look at how you came through after losing your mum. Melissa, you are just about the strongest person I know. Time will heal your broken heart. I promise. I will kick Black's arse if it's the last thing I do."
Alexis joined in, "We will plan one big prank that'll take care of all of the marauders. We'll show them to never again mess with us."
"We have to be sure to hit Black and Potter the hardest though," Lily added.
Just then the compartment door opened and three out of the four marauders stood in the doorway.
Sirius looked around at the girls, "I have the strangest feeling we were just being talked about."
Lily didn't feel like dealing with them at the moment so she directed her attention to Remus, "Lupin, I'm really not in the mood for Black and Potter right now could you please get them to leave."
James took the chance to answer her, "Actually Evans we were getting pretty bored in the Head's compartment. So we decided to come visit our favorite girls and get them to stay with us."
Sirius picked up before the girls could refuse them, "Evans, love, do you think we are just going to leave that easily after walking all the way over here? Nope. So-"
A Hufflepuff prefect burst into the compartment at that moment. She looked at Lily, "Lily there are two groups of people fighting in the next compartment. We need to find them an empty compartment so we can separate them."
"Tell one of the groups you've found a compartment for them and bring them in here," James said to the Hufflepuff who anxiously left.
"Prongs let's help the girls move their luggage to the Head's compartment," Sirius said while smirking.
"How convenient," Lily remarked, "A fight breaks out and they need an empty compartment and-"
James had placed a hand over Lily's mouth to keep her from yelling as the group of students entered the compartment.
"Lily, don't yell in front of them and make a big deal out of it," James hissed into her ear.
Lily bit his hand causing James to yelp and she stormed out of the compartment to the Head's compartment. James walked in and glared at her.
"What the bloody hell was that for Evans?" he asked.
Lily just ignored him while her friends came in. She went to sit on the couch and saw that there were actually books on it. She looked to see what they had been working on. She picked up a piece of parchment. It was blank. She decided she would start to do some work too. She was about to use the piece of parchment when Remus tried to pull it away from her. She held onto it though.
"Remus, it's just a piece of parchment," Lily said.
"Actually Lily, I am very attached to that piece of parchment."
Now Lily was getting curious. Remus would be the least likely person to give her a hard time over a piece of parchment. Sirius appeared on her other side and was reaching for the paper. Melissa walked over to her and took the parchment so that Sirius or Remus wouldn't get it.
"Grant," Sirius growled, "Give that paper here."
Melissa stared at him, "What's so important about this garbage piece of parchment."
Both Sirius and Remus gave two different answers. A smile played on Melissa's lips. James entered the compartment then.
"Wow is there a war going on that doesn't involve me in it," James asked.
"Prongs, she's got the map," Sirius said to James.
"Ah," Melissa said, "It's some kind of magical map."
Sirius blushed and James took a step towards Melissa but she stopped him, "Potter, don't come closer or I set it on fire."
James gulped and didn't move any closer to Melissa. Suddenly the compartment door opened and chaos erupted. Sirius took the chance to stun Melissa and James lunged for the parchment. In the end Remus had the parchment. James had scratches on his arm, and Sirius had been knocked out and bitten by Lily.
Lily sat back and admired her handiwork. When Sirius regained consciousness he groaned in pain, "Damn Evans, you're a feisty one aren't you?"
Lily smirked at him. Just then a prefect entered the compartment and told them they were five minutes away from Hogwarts.
As the group started changing into their robes Alexis spoke up, "Boys, just so you know, we promise you we will find out what that map is."
Sirius chuckled, "That's funny Garcia. And by we you mean the Magnificent Lovely Angels?"
"Black, it's a promise that we are making to you. Just remember that we don't break promises," Melissa said menacingly.
At long last the train pulled to a stop. James and Lily helped the other students get off the train and find carriages. Chris had found Lily and offered to wait with her, but it was raining hard so she told him she would meet him inside. He agreed and found a carriage that Cassandra and her friends happened to be in. He went with him, but since it was raining and it was the first available one he found, Lily let it go.
Once all the students were off the train Lily got into a carriage with Melissa, Sirius, and James.
"Meliss, where's Alex," Lily asked.
Sirius answered her, "Garcia and Remus left in another carriage. Garcia was sneezing and Remus wanted to get her out of the rain and into the castle."
Lily thought that was extremely sweet of Remus. She had always thought that they both had something going on for each other. They looked cute together too. Lily decided to make it her mission to get them together. Or at least try to.
When they ran up the front stone steps Lily found Chris waiting for her. He took her hand and walked into the Great Hall with her. Not before she caught the glare in James's eye though.
"Do you want to sit me at my table for the feast tonight?" Chris asked her while they walking.
"Actually, I want to spend some more time with my friends, but how about for dessert you come sit over with me. I'll save you a spot," Lily said, smiling at him.
He nodded, "I'll walk you to your table then and come by as soon as the desert appears on the table."
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