CHAPTER 4-BACK TO SCHOOL

The rest of the days passed quickly. There was much sorting to be done and emptying of trunks. Seeing as it was their last year, they could throw out a lot of things that they wouldn't need any more because of N.E.W.T's. It was a sorry sight indeed when Mrs McKinnon came up to all their rooms with a bin liner for each person to fill which they did easily. There was so much mess that by the time the dustbin man came, he asked about how much they were throwing away there was so much stuff!

Lily sat on her trunk in the lounge. James and Sirius were doing the same, Alice was chasing her kitten, Spring, around the room and Mary was digging through her trunk to find her purse, which she packed in there accidentally. Frank was organising his uniform and Mrs McKinnon was shouting at Marlene to come downstairs and to be quick about it.

'Marlene get that lazy butt of yours down here right now or I'm going to hex you!'

'I can't find my stuff mum. My uniform is gone!'

'I've already told you it's on your freakin' bed!'

Finally, a cheery Marlene skipped downstairs with a school satchel with her uniform in it, (to many glares from her mum; which she ignored.)

'Right then now everybody,' she pointedly glanced at Marlene who looked away. 'Is here I want you all to apparate to kings cross. I trust you all to be sensible and if any of you have a problem you can always send me an owl, yes?'

'Yes Mrs McKinnon!' Everyone chorused.

'Goodbye then,' she raised a hand in farewell as everyone disappeared with a loud crack.

Lily apparated a little awkwardly and felt dizzy when she landed. She looked around to see Alice appear beside her.

Crack!

James apparated on top of her.

'Sorry Lily, didn't see you there!' He grinned as she glared at him and clambered to her feet.

Crack!

'Sorry Lily-flower! Didn't realise you and Prongsie were directly where I was apparating.' Sirius said loudly and brushed an imaginary speck of dust off his t-shirt.

'Over here you guys!' Alice beckoned. 'Mary's got us a compartment.'

They all ran over to her and jumped aboard the scarlet train. Lily was having a little difficulty dragging her trunk on but James gave it a shove and she toppled over with it, him on top of her.

'Sorry,' he muttered, awkwardly standing up as Sirius guffawed at them loudly.

'Make way for Mr and Mrs Prongs please, or prongs and prongslette,' he announced causing quite a few people to stare awkwardly at him.

'Shut up Black!' Lily slapped him.

'Aww the Lily-flower not like me any more?'

'Leave it Sirius,' James laughed easily, pushing him out the way into the compartment.

'Erm James?' Lily asked tentatively. 'Tell Alice and Mary I've got to go to the heads compartment.'

'OH.' James said. 'I'd better go then!'

'What?' Sirius was looking from Lily to James with a plot reforming in his head. 'You are head girl right Lily? And James you're...'

'Head boy,' James said, shrugging.

'Make way for head prongs and head prongslette please!'

'Shut up padfoot!' James voice sounded stern but his manner was cool. 'After you,' he stood back for Lily.

'Err, thanks,' she squeaked, blushing.

They were the last two to arrive in the heads compartment. As they looked around, they saw lots of prefects. The only one they recognised was Remus who was reading his favourite book, although he put it away when the meeting started.

'Right then,' Lily clapped her hands together.

'Congratulations on being a prefect this year, all of you and especially to those who are in fifth year,' James began.

'Indeed. SO this year, you've got prefect duties. These are called rounds for those of you in fifth year. This means that you each have a night and where you and the other prefect in your year and house must patrol the corridors.'

'For any instance you may deduct points from students breaking rules, out after curfew or similar.'

'IF you have any questions you may come to me or James,' James' heart leapt. 'That will be all.'

'OH and your patrolling timetables will be handed out to you by Professor McGonagall in the great hall,' James added. 'That will be all. Please check the train every so often on the journey to check everything is in order. You may go now, thank you.' James dismissed the students and they all filed out except from Remus who was waiting for them. As they passed James and Lily many smiled at them and congratulated both of them.

Ohmigod he's so perfect.

'S-s-sorry wh-wha-what?' Lily stammered. She'd been so busy thinking about James she didn't realise him talking to her. His hazel eyes locked onto her green ones and she found it hard to break her gaze from them.

'You want to join is in our compartment Lily? You can bring Alice, Mary and Marlene.'

'Ok,' She grinned nervously.

I'D LOVE TO JAMES IS SO CUTE! A voice inside her head screamed.

Lily Maria Evans, you hate Jam-POTTER. What's wrong with you today? Are you out of your mind?

I honestly don't care, leave me alone it's my opinion.

'Lily, OI, Lily!' Marlene poked her in the side.

'What?' She exclaimed.

'Stop daydreaming! The trolley's just arrived Lils, everyone else has gone to get something. Go on then!' Marlene pushed her towards the door, clutching her purse.

'Lily-flower!' Sirius grinned. 'You had some sort of vision there. Just staring at Prongsie here and muttering random things.'

Alice, Frank, James, Sirius, Mary, Peter and Remus burst into laughter. Alice picked up a couple of pumpkin pasties and some chocolate frogs. Lily just bought chocolate frogs and a couple of cauldron cakes, having of had a late breakfast. James was reaching for the cakes at the same time and Lily and their hands touched. She felt a crackle of electricity pass between them and felt herself flush.

'Sorry,' she muttered, drawing her hand away.

Back in the compartment, the group feasted. There were wrappers and crumbs everywhere by the time all the food was gone so Lily waved her wand and they all disappeared. They sat in pretty much silence for the next ten minutes.

'We should get changed now,' Alice announced.

'Yes we should but getting changed in the same one, I mean, no way!' Marlene laughed.

James and Sirius set to work using the curtains as a screen to divide boys and girls. They enlarged it first then used magic to temporarily hang it up.

'You've got 5 minutes to get changed before the curtain comes down get going!' James laughed.

The hogwarts uniform was actually rather pleasant, Lily thought. It was a white shirt, black skirt (or trousers), black standard shoes, a house colours striped tie, a black sweater (with the hogwarts crest) and a cloak. Lily tied her hair back into a messy bun and reapplied some mascara and lip gloss.

'You girls all done?' Remus called over the curtain.

'Yes!' Mary called, checking all the girls.

Slowly, Sirius and James set removing and changing the curtain (which was now too big and the wrong shape) back to normal. They had just fixed it when the hogwarts castle came into view.

The hogwarts castle really was an amazing sight. It was grey stones everywhere but was full of colour. Several towers reached high into the sky and a huge lake was just visible from where the train was.

'Quite a sight huh?' Remus grinned at her from across the window.

'Erm, yeah, I guess. I'll be sad to go.' Lily sighed.

'THE TRAIN HAS ARRIVED AT HOGSMEADE STATION PLEASE LEAVE YOUR LUGGAGE ON THE TRAIN IT WILL BE TAKEN TO THE CASTLE SEPERATELY. THANK YOU FOR RIDING THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS!' A voice over the sitcom called.

The ride to Hogwarts was nothing but cheery. Lily was sitting next to Alice and James (Marlene's fault, again). However, if she was flustered, he didn't press it and just made positive conversation about newts and patronuses. Sirius and James got into enchanted thought bubbles at one point which meant you got into pairs and everything you thought came out in bubbles from your wand. If you popped the bubble, only you could hear what the other person had said.

Lily slowly started a conversation with Alice, who was laughing. A pale pink bubble blossomed from the end of her wand and Lily poked out her wand to pop it.

So, Lily, you seem distracted lately, anything on your mind?

Lily sighed and waved her wand, a orange bubble appearing.

Not particularly, just stuff.

Alice raised an eyebrow as an emerald green bubble from James' wand floated towards her. Cheekily, an ignoring both James' and Sirius' protests, she popped it. When she had heard the message she burst out laughing and her eyebrow raised.

'Really Potter? Ohmigod you're so unpredictable. I thought you'd forgotten all that, put it behind you.'

'Notice the maybe in there Prewett. Anyway, if you even think about telling anyone what you just heard then I'll tell they whole school about what I caught you and a certain other person doing over the summer,' James grinned.

'Oh no,' Alice flushed. 'Please don't! I won't tell your secret and you won't tell mine!'

'Good good Prewett, carry on now!'

Sirius grinned slightly and reached forwards to pop Alice's bubble just to annoy her and as he listened a look of boredom that didn't reach his eyes took over his face, but not before James noticed the excitement flicker.

'Spill, now!' James cast a shield charm between them and himself before blossoming a couple of little bubbles from his wand, followed by a gigantic one from Black's. Seeing as the shield charm was between them, neither Lily nor Alice could pop the bubble to hear what Black was laughing about. A sudden call from Remus grabbed their attention though.

'Hey everyone, look, we're here!'

Everybody looked at the castle with a sudden sadness. It was their last year and after that, who knows, they might never see each other again. Suddenly, a red bubble appeared from Sirius' wand. The shield charm had worn off just moments before and all 7 hands reached to pop it, laughing when they heard his voice with a rolling of the eyes.

Frickin' sentimental.

'Come on, we're here. James stood up abruptly and pointed at the entrance gates, where strict Professor McGonagall was standing. Being closest to the door, he swung it open and grabbed Lily's hand to pull her off the cart.

Lily averted her eyes, guiltily grinning, to the castle awaiting before them. She desperately tried to push the grin from her face which was the conclusion of tingling down her arm, the one he was holding.

Author's Note. I'm really sorry I've not updated but I'm that bad I forgot I had a fanfiction account...however, I WILL try to be better but yeah! Hope you enjoyed this chapter ;) :) :* I also have a blog so if you want PM me and I'll drop you a link! x