Hello! Yes, I'm back with chapter one, finally. I know I was supposed to post yesterday but I'm here now. Thanks to everyone who's sticking to this story with me, it means a lot. :)

Chapter One

Lily Evans woke as the sound of her alarm clock rung, she slammed the snooze button down and groaned into her pillow, digging her face in deeper before sighing and sitting up. She pushed the hangings around her four poster bed open, and stood up, grabbing her clothes and a bag and stumbling into the bathroom. Minutes later she stood in front of the mirror adorned in her robes, drying her hair quickly with a towel before taking her wand and touching a strand of hair.

"Infusco," she whispered.

Her thick, dark red locks started to turn black, starting from the roots and running down. It was a charm she had found in her first year, the colour was temporary and would simply wash out. It was extremely easy to keep up, instead of the having to wear a wig, like she used to, which would become horrible tangled when she'd sleep and slip off. Lily grabbed her slightly large, square framed glasses from their case in the bag she'd brought along, and slid them on. They where supposed to be only used for reading, but she wore them out of habit. They also magnified her bright green eyes making her look a bit bug-like.

Finally she took a small jar from the bag and unscrewed the top, taking some thick white paste onto her fingers and spread it over her forehead and made a small dot by her mouth. Slowly the paste faded and pimples appeared on her forehead here and there some worse looking than others, and the dot of paste by her mouth formed into a light brown mole.

It was a Zonko's product she'd gotten in Hogsmeade her first time (she also had gotten the cream to get rid of them). And than she spread a stick of horrible pale pink lipstick over her lips, making them look smaller and thinner.

Lily smiled and checked to make sure everything was in place. Anyone who would've seen this scene would've been highly confused about why she was disguising herself. But they didn't know that Lily had gone to a posh, proper private school before coming to Hogwarts. Where she had instantly been welcomed with open arms because of her appearance, while others who where not quite pretty but not ugly where excluded and ignored. Lily had found this extremely rude and ridiculous and slightly unbelievable and when she received her Hogwarts letter had immediately decided she was going to get a real friend unlike not the fake ones she had - without, being pretty. But she hadn't been successful in the last six years, instead having the students tease her and the one girl she had spoken too had scampered after Lily had been pranked, afraid she would be too. Lily remained open minded and optimistic that it'd work out in the end, and if not, than everyone really were just as horrible as she had thought.

After pinning her head girl badge to her chest, she strode out of the bathroom and grabbed her bag, pretending not to hear one of the girls who shared their dorm, whisper to another, "She always takes so long in their, though I dunno why, it's not like any amount of make up she tries will help 'er.", and her friends snicker. Lily walked down the girls staircase, through the common room and the portrait hole, and continued down to the Great Hall. She slid into an empty seat at the Gryffindor table and spooned some porridge into her golden bowl, just as the post arrived.

The owls swooped in and landed by their owner's, delivering packages or letter's. And some, like Lily, had a large tawny owl come and deliver the Daily Prophet. Lily thanked the owl and opened the paper propping it against her goblet of pumpkin juice. When she finished her breakfast she stood and walked out of the Great Hall up to Transfiguration. Where she joined the line of students who where waiting outside the classroom for the bell. When it eventually rung Professor McGonagall opened her door and everyone filed in, sitting down at their tables.

Lily took a seat at an empty table and took out her book, quill, parchment, and a bottle of ink. when everyone had finished sitting down, Professor McGonagall began to speak.

"Today we shall be practicing transforming a rabbit into a tin," she informed. "Mister Cobbler, please pass one of these out to everyone."

A boy came up and took the box. After everyone had gotten a rabbit and Professor McGonagall had given them the incantation and showen them an example, the class broke out in noise as everyone began to work.

No more than five minutes later the door swung open and four boys stumbled in. Lily recognized them immediately as James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Petegriw. The 'Marauders' as they liked to call themselves.

"Black, Potter, Lupin, Petergriw, you're late," snapped Professor McGonagall.

"And you're looking quite smashing today, Professor," grinned Sirius, cheekily. "Wouldn't you say James?"

"Absolutely corking," grinned James. "Do something different with your hair?"

Many students snickered, it would be a cold day in hell before McGonagall took her hair out of the severe knot it was twisted into.

Lily snorted and rolled her eyes. And it seemed as though Professor McGonagall shared her thought because she looked highly un-amused.

"Sorry Professor," said Remus, stepping in. "We woke late."

Professor McGonagall glanced at him before nodding, "I expect you all to be on time tomorrow, or I'll be taking points away. Now, please sit down."

Lily watched McGonagall explain to them the spell and give them their rabbits. James grabbed his wand and after a few flicks managed to transform it into a perfect tin. He turned to Sirius who'd also managed to get it and they shared and smirk. Lily rolled her eyes once more. Their arrogance matched their intelligence, which was quite high.

But it wasn't just their ego that made Lily annoyed; they both had dated more girls in the last three years than any other bloke she knew.

Not, that is was exactly hard for them to get dates, what with James's messy black hair and bespectacled hazel eyes and Sirius's tidy black hair, that fell perfectly into his grey eyes, they both where admittedly handsome. But Remus was quite cute though, with his chocolate brown hair and eyes, and he'd only dated a few girls.

Maybe that was because he didn't ditch his girlfriends after only days, mused Lily.

Remus was smart but not arrogant about it and nice (something the other ought to work on) - though just as mischievous as Sirius and James. Remus had always been nice to Lily whereas James and Sirius liked prank and test their inventions (charming regular spell check quills into changing all her words that started with a s, f, c, h, b, or even e into swear words on her essay) and tease her. It was one of their favorite things to do, besides hexing Snape or Snivellus as they liked to call him.

Lily's gaze shifted over to Peter who was having difficulty with the spell and Remus was now attempting to help him.

Peter on the other hand wasn't very handsome or cute, he had thin blonde hair, watery blue eyes and a pointy noise and wasn't quite as smart as the other three. Though he was quite nice maybe a bit shy sometimes.

Lily was shook out of her thoughts as the rabbit on her desk moved. She glanced at McGonagall to see if she'd noticed Lily hadn't been working, but McGonagall was now trying to help Peter as well. Sighing in relief, Lily grabbed her wand and started to try work on transfiguring her rabbit.

As the day wore on Lily had endured a prank from James and Sirius and a few insults from them as they passed in the corridor. But nothing to horrible thank god, seeing as tomorrow was a Hogsmeade trip she'd rather not be up all night trying to undo whatever hex they'd cast on her or rewriting and an essay they stole. At least she could say her days at Hogwarts were never boring, she mused as she clambered into bed. Never peaceful either though, a dry voice sounded in her head. She sighed and grabbed her book from her bedside table, closing the hangings around her bed. Reading, until her eye lids drooped and everything went black.

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