"POTTER!" It was breakfast in the great hall and it had been a week since the beginning of term. Within the first week every student had become accustomed to the Head Boy and Girl constantly fighting. Lily marched directly over to where James and his fellow Marauders were sitting. He glanced up at her, opening his hazel eyes slightly wider. "What is Evans dearest?" Her face turned an even darker shade of red. "Did you move around my things in the common room?" She was fighting to keep her voice level. The two of them rarely spent time together when in their dormitory which meant that they couldn't keep an eye on the other. He crinkled his fore head. "Sorry Evans, I didn't touch anything, but you might want to check under the couch. You fell asleep there."

She ground her teeth and glared. She walked back to where the other girls were sitting. "You probably shouldn't be that hard on him. I mean he has been trying awfully hard." Lily glared at Alia. Alia blew her a kiss. "Really Lils, he isn't so terrible." Lily immediately shook her head. "He's positively awful. I can't get anything done when he's around. Besides he might have some use now but once Quidittch starts he'll never help." Alia was about to say something when the arrival of Tristan stopped her. Tristan still had the same look. She even looked fresh and rejuvenated. "Kind of you to join us," Alia said. Tristan glanced up at her from the seat she had taken next to Lily.

"Well I was debating on having breakfast with moaning Myrtle but you three seemed the better pick. Perhaps I'll go and have a nice party with Myrtle if being late to breakfast is unacceptable." Her voice was calm and there was absolutely no bite to it, but Alia knew better than to retort back. Cris shifted uncomfortably in the silence and was about to say something when Tristan interrupted her. "Bloody Hell-" She glanced to the other side of the table. Lily mechanically answered, "Language Tristan." She shook her head."No, bloody hell. What on earth is that waste of life doing?" They all followed the direction of her gazed. Sirius had proceeded to shove every plate and goblet of his section of the table. He was standing on it, while completely ignoring the angry growls of his fellow Gryffindors. "As you all know the Marauder's throw a prank at the beginning of every year. Now I know that you all must be wondering why the delay. Well the truth is, this is our last year. Watch yourselves." He smiled cheerfully and slid off the table.

Lily was about to stand up when Cris grabbed her. "Trust me you don't want to stand up. Lily looked around at all the other students who were standing at staring around them. All of sudden every standing student was attacked by flying food. The teachers were as well. As soon as they made any attempt to clean themselves their skin would turn different colors. Every Slytherin was turning red and gold. Lily glared at James and Sirius who were currently laughing hysterically. "POTTER! BLACK! IN MY OFFICE IMMEDIATELY." Sirius called back to professor McGonagall. "Of course Minnie dearest, I must say you're looking particularly attractive covered in food and that color orange really suits your skin. She glared at them. Dumbledore pretended to give a stern look but ended up laughing. His skin was a bright magenta purple. Lily was so angry she gasped for words. "POTTER!" she finally managed to choke out words. Tristan started laughing hysterically. "Don't be too rough on him Lil, after all did you expect he would stop pranking?" Lily just glared at her. Alia took a deep breath and glanced over at the Ravenclaw table. She caught the back of a curly black head. She bit her lip. Tristan noticed where her gaze was focused. "Don't." Alia gave a dry laugh. "I don't know what you're talking about Tristan." Tristan sighed.

Lily and Cris completely missed the small exchange. "Come on Lils, just come down." Lily was slowly returning to her original color. "I can't believe that stupid git. He's the Head Boy. He can't… Ugh, when I get my hands on him." Tristan started to laugh.
"Be careful Lils. I think that's exactly what he would love." Lily let out a deep breath, choosing to ignore Tristan's comment. "I'm going to class. Are any of you coming?" The girls shook their heads sadly as they stood to follow her out of the Great Hall.

"Potter and Black I'm very disappointed. Especially in you Potter. You're the Head Boy now. You need to set and example. You each will get a week of detention. " James and Sirius bowed their head's.

"Of course professor." James said carefully.

"Yes Minnie, I will endeavor to be less of a disappointment so that one day you will consider me worthy of your exquisite presence." Sirius gave her a twinkling smile.

"Out of my office NOW!" they hastily left to find Remus waiting for them outside.

"Come on, we have to get to class." He started walking towards their first class, which just happened to be Transfiguration with McGonagall. "Only a week of detentions Moony." Remus shook his head. "I'm sure that you two have already broken the detention record. James you're the Head Boy." James nodded. "So everyone keeps saying. Moony, did Lily look upset." Sirius started to laugh as well as Peter. Remus just rolled his eyes. "She looked furious Prongs. She was turning red and stalked out of the hall." James winced. "She's gonna be even more impossible to live with. What d'you reckon she's not still mad at me?" They walked into the classroom. James glanced at Lily who had glanced towards the door. Her emerald eyes were glaring furiously at him. "Looks like she's still mad mate." James sighed as he looked around there weren't many available seats. He walked next to Lily. "Do you mind if I sit here Evans, there's no other place?" She continued to glare at him. He couldn't help but think about how beautiful her eyes were. "Well it doesn't look like I have a choice, Potter." He sighed and took the seat next to her.

"Look Evans, I'm really sorry but it's tradition to do the prank. In the future since I'm the head boy I won't prank nearly as much. I'll leave that to the rest of the marauder's." She turned to stare straight ahead. "Do what you want, Potter." He sighed as he took out his Transfiguration book.

Remus also managed to get the seat right behind James, which happened to be next to Cris. "Do you mind if I sit here? " She gave him a smile. Silvery tendrils cupped her face.

"Of course you can sit here Remus. I'm not Lily, or Tristan." She gave a laugh and smiled as she gestured towards the seat next to her.

The rest of the day was relatively uneventful. Sirius and James had gone off to serve their detentions while Remus and the girls stayed in the Common Room. Peter had managed to sneak of somewhere. "Look Lily I really think that you should give James a chance." Lily glanced up at Remus.

"Remus I know that he's your friend, but he's an arrogant prat." Cris and Alia sighed and shook their heads. "Lily, he's been my best friend for a long time. He's been there for me for everything. He's changed a lot. He's not a bad guy Lily; he can't help the pranking and the hexing. He's trying to tone it down. He'll make a good head boy. So far he's been okay." Lily sighed.

"Remus it's only been about two weeks into term. He's already in a week of detentions," She looked at the faces surrounding her. "All right. I'll give Potter a little bit of a chance. After all, we do technically live together." She shook her head. She had a feeling that it wasn't going to work out so well. Remus smiled at her. Cris glanced at him out of the corner of her violet eyes. If we weren't good friends

Wait a second what am I thinking. This is crazy. We are just friends. He doesn't think of me like that. Cris brushed off these thoughts. She was glad that Lily would give James a chance. She knew that he cared about her even though he did act like, well like an arrogant prat. She glanced over Alia who was currently gazing at Tristan. Tristan was smiling at Lily, but the smile didn't reach her eyes like it used to. She looked tired. Cris glanced at Alia who nodded. "Look I'm going to head up to bed, I've already finished my homework. Coming Tristan?" Tristan nodded slowly and stood up while grabbing her books.

Tristan and Alia sat in the dorm in silence. Finally Alia spoke up. "About this morning. It wasn't what you think. It was something else entirely. We don't talk anymore." Tristan's eyes widened. "You two don't talk at all? Last year though-" Alia cut her off. Her voice was now harder and more vehement. "Well last year is bloody over. This year is just beginning. This is the way things are." Tristan looked at her feet. She sighed again. "What is with you and the sighing, you do it all the time now," Alia snapped. Tristan just looked her. "I'm sorry Alia, I didn't know. What happened?" Alia had calmed down remarkably.

"I know that you didn't know. That's not my fault entirely though. No one heard from you once. You didn't even let me know that you were alive. I was worried about you. I know how things are at home." It was Tristan's turn to ice over. She was on the defensive in an instant. "I was fine. Things were fine, I just had a busy holiday." Alia nodded.

"Now I'm sorry. We might as well get ready for bet. There's no use snapping at each other. Besides you look like you could use some sleep." Tristan nodded and smothered a yawn. Little did anyone know that during the middle of the night her bed was empty.