Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter. It belongs to J.K. Rowling and I think we all already knew that.

Author's note – This is my second fanfiction story. I hope you like. You should read my other hp fic also! Anyway let's start the story.

Date chapter started: Friday, December 31, 2004

Date chapter ended: Friday, December 31, 2004

Date story updated: Friday, December 31, 2004

And I remember I kissed his hair…before it was blue.

The father in Life As A House

Time for the first chapter!

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Chapter 1 – The defiant one

"Lily darling, come down here before you miss the train," Lily's mother screeched from the bottom of the stairs.

"Coming," Lily shouted as she slumped out of bed and rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

Lily opened her closet door and pulled out a red spaghetti strap tank top that matched her hair perfectly. She lifted her arm and sniffed her armpits deciding that she didn't need to shower. She grabbed her deodorant and put some on quickly. She then quickly grabbed some loose jeans off the floor, first checking to make sure they were clean, she pulled them on and entered the hallway.

She quickly brushed her hair until her curls were silky looking with the light reflecting off them. She brushed her teeth and then inspected herself in the mirror; she was once again ready to head back to Hogwarts, for now what was her sixth year.

"Lily!" shouted Lily's mother from the stairs once again.

"I am coming!" Lily shouted running back to her room. She slipped into her sneakers and started dragging her trunk out of her room and down the stairs.

As Lily got to the bottom step, her mother came out of the kitchen and gasped, "You are not leaving this house looking like a hooker."

"Mom, I do not look like a hooker," Lily said, completely ignoring her mother's superiority.

"You will march your butt right back upstairs to your room and change right now," her mother demanded.

"Whatever," Lily said, turning around and heading back to her room. She just slipped a gray hoody over her shirt and came back downstairs.

"That looks so much nicer," Lily's mother said, beaming as she put the camera to her face and snapped a shot at Lily.

"Can we go now?" Lily asked.

"Oh course dear. Let me just get your father and Petunia down here," Lily's mother said and went to collect the rest of the family.

Lily waited patiently, which was quite unusual for her. She knew that the family members had been found when she heard Petunia's voice. "Why do I have to take her to her freak school on that freak train. I would rather spend my Saturday cleaning toilets," Petunia screeched.

The unforgettable Miss Evans was right there to yell at Petunia, "Petunia Evans you will respect you sister. This is no time to be jealous. Lily will be graduating in one more year and she needs our support each year by dropping her off at the train. You will not see her for about two whole months! I will have no more or this!"

"Mom," Petunia groaned, by the sound of her voice Lily knew that once again her mother had won.

"Enough," Miss Evans said and ushered her husband and Petunia down the stairs and by Lily. Mister Evans grabbed Lily's trunk as he passed. Lily walked behind her father with her new cat sitting on her shoulders. (A/N – Tara this is in honor of you.) He was a sleek grey cat named Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion purred with satisfaction as Lily scratched him behind his ears.

The family packed themselves into the vibrant yellow Volkswagen Beetle. They were soon off onto the road.

"Radio please?" Lily begged with puppy dog eyes.

Miss Evans turned on the radio to have the song American Idiot by Green Day blast from the speakers. Lily relaxed against the seat and mouthed the words along with the song.

"Do we really have to listen to this?" Miss Evans said ushering towards the radio.

"It is called music mom," Lily said, annoyed by being interrupted.

"Music? This has no beat at all. This is only yelling. How can you call this music?" Miss Evans argued to her daughter.

"Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't," Lily said turning to look out the window. Mountain Lion sat next to her and rubbed his head against Lily's arm affectionately. Since he was a wizarding cat, cars or any other kinds of travel didn't faze him.

"Yes it does," Miss Evans said as she gave up and stopped bothering Lily.

Soon they had arrived at the train station and Lily's dad left to go get a trolley. He was back within minutes and they were all on their way to platform 9 3/4.

They arrived with still about 20 minutes to spare.

Lily not wanting to hang out with her parents starting making suggestion, "I better go and find an empty compartment. Bye mom. Bye dad. Bye Petunia. I will see you all at Christmas break unless I decide to stay," Lily said as she hugged her parents goodbye and then made her way onto the train.

Lily quickly found an empty compartment and used a levitating spell to get her trunk up and away. She then left the room with Mountain Lion on her shoulders to go find Eva, Chloe, Natalie, Sophia and Paige. Those five girls and Lily formed the group of girls that all the guys loved because of course they were all knockouts.

Lily was the most education concerned of the group. Paige was a completely klutz. Chloe was the shy girl in the crowd. Eva was completely out there and outrageous. Sophia was the girl people labeled as different because she never cared about what anyone thought and wouldn't let anyone or anything get to her. No one completely understood her, but Lily and the rest of the group were the people who came closest. Natalie was the one who stuck up for everyone else. She was quite buff and always kicked butt at anything athletic. She was an amazing Quidditch player. These six girls all belonged to Gryffindor house and they referred to themselves as the knockout wandering wizarding women or k3w for short.

Lily made her way down the corridor only to bump into James Potter and the Marauders.

"Oh, if it isn't my Lily flower," James said, leaning in for a kiss.

Lily slapped him, "Shut up Potter unless you would like to inform me where Chloe, Sophia, Natalie, Eva and Paige are."

"Ouch Evans," James said rubbing his cheek.

Sirius and Remus sniggered.

"Well?" Lily asked staring James down.

"No, but you can come hang out with us Evans," Sirius said moving up next to James.

"In your dreams Black," Lily said and turned to leave.

"That went well," James said turning to his friends.

"Yeah very well," sniggered Sirius.

Lily stalked off down the hall and left the three to make fun of each other. She couldn't stand any of them except Remus.

Lily kept checking compartments to look for her friends. She spotted Alice, a fellow Gryffindor who was quite nice.

"Hey Alice, have you seen any of the k3w's?" Lily asked.

"Yeah they are about two compartments down," Alice said.

"Thanks," Lily said and went to the compartment that Alice had pointed to.

Lily opened the door and was greeted by enthusiastic squeals. Sophia yelling over the racket, "Hey Lils, that's my hoody!"

Lily giggled, "I missed you too Sophia," and pulled her friend into a hug.

"God Lily, you have grown," Eva said from the other side of the room.

"So have you," Lily said looking over at her party obsessed friend.

Lily looked around the room. They had all changed quite a lot.

Sophia had gone from having mega short black hair to having extremely long black hair that cascaded over her shoulders. There were lightning blue streaks in her hair that were woven in with the black in randomly placed braids all around her head. She had grown about one inch making her five foot two inches. Lily noticed that Sophia had also changed her eye color, which was now an icy blue that matched her hairstreaks. Lily had to admit that Sophia was a total babe, not that she hadn't been before.

Eva had grown also, now about a towering height of five foot eight inches. That included her favorite heals that she happened to be wearing at the moment. Without the shoes she was about five foot six inches. Her hair was a golden brown creamy color that came down a little below her shoulders. She had natural waves in her hair as well. Her eyes were hazel with a mischievous glint in them.

Chloe was the smallest in the group. She had pale blond hair. It dropped to just below her ears and flared out in layers. She had added some orange-brown streaks to make the pale blond stand out more. She had soft brown eyes and little lips that always held a smile. She only came up to about four feet eleven inches.

Paige had gone from a disco chick over the summer to a complete Barbie doll. She had beach blond hair that was quite long. She had turned her eyes from the hazel they had been to an ocean blue. She was about five feet three inches.

Natalie was the only one who had stay pretty much the same. She had her same very dark brown hair pulled back into a neat ponytail. Her gray eyes held the same peace and acceptance they always had. Lily could tell that Natalie had gotten stronger over the summer, though. She had also grown to the five feet six inches, just matching Eva.

"I missed you guys so much," Lily said pulling all her friends into one great large hug.

"We have missed you too Lily. We were just all catching up on our summers," Chloe said.

"Yeah and Natalie was telling us about her hook up with Sirius," Paige sniggered.

"Sirius?" Lily said laughing. "That boy is such a bloody prat."

"Yeah, but I quite fancy him," Natalie said, trying to defend Sirius. "He isn't that bad if you get him alone."

"Alone?" Lily said raising her eyebrow and they all started giggling.

Once they had all finished laughing, Lily had them move to the compartment she had picked, to sit with her.

Lily and the rest of the k3w made their way down the hallway only to be greeted by the marauders from the compartment she had thought was empty.

"If it isn't my Lily flower," James Potter called from the bench he sat on.

"Hey Nat," Sirius said using Natalie's nickname.

Remus sat there talking to Peter about something and didn't notice the arrival of the k3w.

"And what do we owe the company of the marauders?" asked Sophia making her way to the front of the group.

James and Sirius' jaws dropped. "Whoa Sophia, you are a total babe," They said in unison, grinning.

"I suppose, but could you please leave the k3w in peace," Sophia said, unamused and cleaning her fingernails.

"Sure, I just wanted to see my Lily flower," James said getting up to leave. "Can I have a goodbye kiss?" he asked Lily.

"Sure, in your wildest dreams pretty boy," Lily said and shoved him out of the compartment.

"Hey Nat, can I have a goodbye kiss?" Sirius asked as he got up to leave.

"Sure, just not today," Natalie said and shoved him out of the compartment after James.

"You're welcome to stay, Remus," Lily said as she sat down on the bench opposite to him.

"Sure, I just love the ladies," Remus said and gave a laugh, joined by Lily's.

Chloe, whom the whole k3w knew fancied Remus, sat down next to him shyly.

"Hey Chloe," Remus said giving her a small smile. "I like what you did with your hair. It looks really pretty."

"Thanks," said Chloe, trying to play it cool, but couldn't help but beam.

"Hey rat boy, out," Paige said, motioning for Peter to leave.

Peter got up and scurried out of the compartment awkwardly.

"Wow Paige, you have changed a lot," Remus said, thinking he was in a department store looking at a "my size Barbie doll."

"Thanks," Paige said, unsure if it was compliment or an insult.

The rest of the k3w took up the rest of the compartment and made themselves comfortable.

For the rest of the train ride, Remus chatted with the members of the k3w and Lily and Remus went to the prefects meeting.

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The Hogwarts Express had arrived at Hogwarts, finally and all the students were filing out. First years headed towards the boats as usual and everyone else made their way towards the carriages. The k3w quickly got a carriage all to themselves.

"So Lils, how was the prefect meeting?" asked Eva after they had all gotten comfortable.

"Not that interesting actually," Lily said.

"Wow Lils, you really have changed. I thought you were into that kind of stuff," Natalie said.

"Actually I have decided that I am too boring and I need to live a little bit more. That is why I have decided it is time I entered a party girl phase," Lily said grinning.

"This is going to be so much fun!" exclaimed Paige.

"Laugh it up Barbie doll," Sophia sniggered.

"I think it is cool that you have decided to try something new," Chloe put in. "I have wanted to try and be a little more confident lately," Chloe added.

"Hey, you can join me in my little adventure," Lily suggested.

"I think we all should," Eva said, her eyes glinting mischievously.

"So it is on then?" Natalie asked.

"Agreed. We all become major party girls and enjoy our sixth year to the fullest!" Paige shouted and got some stares from the passing carriage.

"Yea lets just be amazing chicks and see how many guys we can get," Sophia joked.

"Yeah like have a contest," Lily sniggered.

"Wow we really should," Eva sniggered as well.

"But what about the hearts we break?" asked Chloe.

"We can just go for the guys with inflated egos like James Potter and Sirius black," Natalie offered.

"You're just saying that so you can have Sirius," Paige said playfully shoving her friend.

"Hey is it such a crime?" Natalie asked.

"I think it is a good idea," Lily said. "We can deflate some egos." Lily started grinning uncontrollably.

"You just want to get back at James Potter for asking you out so many times in fifth year," Sophia said.

"Hey don't forget about fourth, third, second and first," Chloe added.

"Well you are perfectly right. The look on Potter's face when I accept the next time he asks me out is going to be so priceless." Lily chimed.

"Excellent," Eva said grinning. "So it is decided. Lets make a list of our targets tonight."

And so the girls had a plan. They couldn't wait to begin the next day.

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Author's notes – I hope you liked that chapter. I know that it wasn't that long, but anyway I am planning on finishing this story so hopefully you liked it. It may take me awhile for updates because I am in the process of writing another story as well at the moment. Anyway please review and happy New Year to you all!

-The oh so psycho one-