It was a miserable cold and rainy September 1st as a beautiful red head walked onto the platform of 9 ¾. She was, by far, the queen of Hogwarts. Her long red hair hung just past her shoulders and her eyes were a piercing emerald green. Every guy loved her and every girl hated her. She had perfect grades, perfect hair, perfect eyes, and she had the three most wanted guys in the school wrapped around her finger tips. She had also been made Head Girl for her 7th and finale year at Hogwarts.
Lily walked down the platform until she had made it ½ way down the train. She looked around her, glad to see that like always she had every guys eye. She smiled and waved to a group of 6th year guys from Ravenclaw. She had the added popularity that came with being the Head Girl. She was looked up to and respected by all of the other girls in the school, except maybe the Slytherins, but she could care less what they thought of her. She turned her attention away from the Ravenclaws and got onto the train. Lily smiled. She was going home. The castle was more her home than London had ever been. Yes it was good to be going home.
Lily pulled her luggage through the train looking for her best friend, Ruby Stevens. She had walked past two full compartments, Ruby had been in neither. Lily had given up on finding her friend now and turned to walk back up to the front of the train where the prefects and the Head boy would most likely be. The annual Head meeting was held in the Prefects car and would be starting ten minutes after they left the station. She might as well go up and get her things ready. Lily had just started to walk up to the front when she heard her name being called behind her.
"Lily! Lily, over here!" Lily turned around and smiled when she saw best friends' head poking out of a compartment a little farther down the train. Lily gathered all of her things and made her way down to her friends compartment. When Lily walked in there were two other people in the compartment with Ruby. Lily's other two best friends, Charlotte Kohl and Marian White. Ruby started right off asking Lily tons of questions. "So, Lils, how was your summer? Head Girl, congratulations! Have you seen either James or Remus yet? Or for that matter, Sirius? Do you think you'll get him this year? Oh, I wonder who the Head Boy will be? What will you do if its Remus? Will you go after him?"
"Hey, Ruby slow down Hun! You need to seriously relax. I don't know who the Head Boy is, I don't really care. No I have not seen any of the three guys. I plan to go out with Sirius this year, that is if he's grown up a little bit over the summer. Well, maybe even if he hasn't. My summer was wonderful, Paris was beautiful. Oh, and if Remus is Head Boy nothing will happen between us because I am going after Sirius this year. I just hope that James doesn't cause any problems. I am so sick of him asking me out every time we see each other. I mean he can be really funny and he's not always that bad to hang our with but I just wont go out with him. I would have thought he could have gotten that through his brain after being turned down 100 times."
Marian looked over to Lily and sighed. "Now who's the one who needs to slow down Lils." The girls looked at each other and then all started to laugh. Just then the compartment door slid open.
"What is so funny ladies? Please, do share." Lily looked up at the sound of the voice. Her jaw dropped slightly when she saw Sirius and James standing in the door. The walked in and Remus and Peter followed them. "Mind if we join you four beauties?"
Lily turned quickly so that the marauders wouldn't see her blush. Once Lily got her self under control she looked back to the rest of the group. She noticed that James, Remus and Sirius all had there eyes on her. Lily looked down at her hands, her palms were sweating. Oh My God! Why is this making me nervous. I'm always hanging with these three. They shouldn't make me nervous. Yet my palms are sweating! Ok, I have to get out of here! I cant let Sirius see me like this. "As much as I would love to sit here and talk with all of you I have a meeting that I will be late for if I don't leave now. I'll catch up with you guys later."
Lily stood up, gave Ruby, Charlotte, and Marian hugs and then quickly left the compartment. Lily closed the door behind her as she left but then realized that the meeting wouldn't start for another 15 minutes. She decided that she should get down to the Prefects compartment now. She didn't want to take the risk of stopping to talk to someone and running late and she couldn't go back into the compartment. Lily started to make her way down the train towards the first compartment. She was almost there when she heard someone chasing after her.
"Lily! Hey, Lily wait up!" Lily didn't need to turn around to know who that voice belonged to. James Potter. The one person that she didn't want to talk to right at this moment. She didn't want to have to sit and listen to him go on and on about how perfect he thought she was and have him ask her out for the 1,000 time since 5th year. Lily just decided to ignore him and keep walking. Unfortunately for her he was faster than her and could catch up with her easily. He walked beside her for a minute and when she didn't acknowledge him he grabbed onto her arm and made her stop and look at him.
"What exactly do you want Potter. I am in no mood for you cheap pranks. I have to get to my meeting anyways and I really don't wish to be late." Lily stood there and glared at him. While they got along most of the time she didn't feel like putting up with him right now.
"Just here me out Lily. First of all you Heads meeting doesn't start for another ten minutes, seeing as the train just left. Secondly, I was wondering if I could walk you to your meeting. I'm going that way too, so please just let me walk you there Lils."
"Fine you can walk me up to the prefects compartment." They slowly made there way up to the front of the train. When they reached the entrance to the prefects compartment Lily expected James to say good bye, but instead he just kept walking. "Uh, James, where exactly do you think your going. That is the Prefects compartment, only prefects and heads can go in there." Then a thought occurred to Lily. Oh My god! He's the head boy! How can this be. I didn't care who I was partnered with as long as it wasn't him. This is going to be one long year. "So, you're the head boy. You don't think you could have told me in the compartment or on our little walk here? God, you just kept quiet. You just liked to see me all anxious about who it would be. Hold on. How did you get to be a Head. You weren't a prefect, so you cant be Head Boy. You just cant be. Shouldn't Remus be the Head Boy or, just, I mean, shouldn't someone else be Head Boy?" Lily couldn't seem to make any sense. She couldn't seem to get one single word out.
"I know. I thought that only prefects could be made Heads but I guess not. Oh well. I guess we will just get to spend even more time together now. We should probably get in there and get things set up. Lets go."