Meant to Be

Chapter 3

A/N: I know. I gotta update more. Writers' block sucks people.

Weeks went by with professors piling on homework, late night study sessions and prefect meetings. No one knew better than Lily Evans that the world was unfair. She was doing her head girl duties AND Amos' head boy duties, as he was too busy abusing his head boy powers (i.e. bringing girls and such to the head dorms).

Riley had found a boyfriend (whom she refused to talk about) and Lindsey had started quidditch practice. Now, not only was Lily working too hard, but she hardly saw her friends. On top of not seeing her friends and having all those extra duties she couldn't seem to stop becoming distracted whenever a certain group came gallivanting through the Gryffindor common room.

They were loud and made scenes, large ones, ones that were unavoidable because she was head girl and couldn't just let them run around and be stupid, wrecking the furniture and such. Lily had kept track of how many detentions she'd given them, 27. Each.

Then came the first Hogsmeade trip of the year, on a sunny day in the middle of October. Lily found herself wandering around without a friend in the world, hers were off with some people she didn't know and didn't care to know. So she wandered around the tiny village, and eventually found her way to the shrieking shack, where she found the marauders. They stopped joking the moment Sirius looked up and found her watching them.

"Thought you'd be hanging around with your friends, Evans" said Peter from where they had been wrestling on the ground.

"Yeah, I would've thought that too until I was rudely informed this morning that they were going to go and hang out with Angella Parker and her stupid little friends. Seriously, I have no idea how those girls make it through their classes, all they do is sit around and flirt. I bet they flirt some of those nerdy-looking guys into doing their homework for them. I cannot believe that my so-called friends would ditch me for some…some…" Lily trailed off as she realized who sitting before her and listening to her rants.

Remus smiled, "Hey, it's okay. You've got us. Besides, it sounds like you need a change of environment."

"Yeah, you're right. I do. I've gotta talk to Dumbledore about getting someone else to be head boy, Amos isn't doing anything. I do rounds every night, by myself; I plan prefect meetings, run them and then dish out responsibilities." Lily turned to look at the four boys from under her lashes, "Would you guys like to…hang out with…me then? Of course, you can say no, I mean, there's no possible way we could all get along. C'mon we've treated each other like crap for six years…and there's no one I have more fun trading blows with, than you guys…so…would you like to hang out with me? Help me loosen up a bit. I'm a bit of a downer, if you know what I mean…"

"I dunno Evans. We'd have to think up a nickname for you and swear you to secrecy for all the rule-breaking we do. You'd have to give us less detention…" Sirius replied.

"You know you love the detentions Padfoot, they give you a chance to catch up with your favorite teachers." James grinned at his best mate.

"So, what do you say? Wanna hang out then?"

Now, here's the part I need some help with. Do you want:
A. Lily to just randomly to become friends with them

B. Lily to become friends with them, but they have complications (i.e. fights and such)

C. Lily's friends to see the error of their ways -or-

D. other (please specify)

That would help me a whole lot.

I'm going to work on getting a longer chapter next. My mom's in the hospital so I gotta go help and such.

See ya on the flip side.