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"WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME???"

"Look Lily calm down it's not as bad as you think-"

"NOT AS BAD AS I THINK? NOT AS BAD AS I THINK????"

Crash

"For God's sake Lily that nearly hit me!"

"DO I LOOK AS IF I CARE, POTTER???"

Lily and James were both in the now deserted common room, having just come back from Professor Dumbledore's office. James had just ducked behind one of the sofas before Lily had thrown a vase at him.

"I don't even get why you're so mad! It's not as if you've been expelled, or anything!"

"I'D RATHER BE EXPELLED THAN BE HEAD GIRL ALONG SIDE YOU!!!!"

"That doesn't sound so bad! You, me, along side each other," James said suggestively, before ducking as Lily threw another vase at him. "Hey! Lily I could get hurt!"

"THAT'S THE IDEA POTTER! Why the hell would Dumbledore do this to me? Was I Hitler in another life cause only he would deserve this! Or Napoleon," Lily added as an afterthought.

"Look I didn't ask to become Head Boy and it was as much of a shock for me as it was for you. Well, maybe not as much," James added as Lily glared at him.

"You…you planned this somehow! You…brainwashed Professor Dumbledore into choosing you as Head Boy to get back at me for all the times that I wouldn't go out with you!" Lily accused him.

James stared at her from behind the sofa.

"You're serious aren't you?" he asked her in shock.

"Well didn't you?"

"No!" he protested immediately.

Lily shook her head to clear it. To be fair, she shouldn't have been surprised. Potter was smartest in the year only second to her and he was popular among the students. He would have made a great Head Boy were it not for the fact that he used his popularity to create havoc and misery. He spent most of his time playing pranks or asking her out. And now she was going to have to share a dorm with him. Great. Freakin great.

"For God sake, get out from behind that sofa Potter, I won't throw anything else at you," Lily told him, having marginally calmed down. "For now at least."

James reluctantly left the safety from behind the sofa. He'd been shocked to see how well Lily had taken the news that he was Head Boy in Dumbledore's office, but nothing compared to the shock he had felt when she suddenly turned on him as soon as they had entered the common room. "So..." he asked hesitantly.

"So."

Well that helped, he thought. Really gave him an insight into what she was thinking.

"Well," he tried again.

Lily stared at him.

"What the fuck do you expect me to say Potter?" Lily angrily asked him, bothered by his constant staring.

"Nothing, nothing," James reassured her quickly, glancing sideways at her. "It's just...don't you think that we could possibly start again? I mean we've never been friends and we've never had to be but now..."James trailed off.

"Now that we're both Heads we should make a new start? Is that what you wanted to say?" Lily asked him, suddenly tired of their constant bickering, even though the year had only just started. "Fine," James' face suddenly lifted. "But I want you to know that this is your only chance. Mess it up and I swear I'll-"

"yeah, I get the picture," James interrupted hastily.

"We can start by planning what we're going to say to the Prefects next Saturday evening."

"Next Saturday?" James asked.

"Yes of course, next Saturday. Didn't Professor Dumbledore tell you in your letter that he had changed the meeting that we're supposed to have with the Prefects on the train to next Saturday?" Lily asked him, puzzled.

"Oh, right. Yeah he did sort of mention it I suppose," James mumbled, suddenly looking uncomfortable.

"Why, can you not make it?" Lily asked, eyebrows raised and arms folded, a dangerous look in her eyes.

"Um...well...the thing is...I kindaalreadyhaveplans," James said in a rush.

"What???"

"Um...yeah," James told her, awaiting the anger that would follow.

"Well cancel them, then!" Lily snarled, advancing towards him.

"See that's the thing... I can't,"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T???"

How the hell was he meant to explain this to her? It wasn't his fault that the full moon was next Saturday. He had made a promise to his friend and he wasn't about to break it for a Prefect's meeting. But Lily… heck, there was no way that Lily would ever understand that.

"WELL?" Lily demanded.

"I'm sorry but I can't say. Can't you just trust that I have a good reason?" James told her, regretfully, knowing that the uneasy truce they had just agreed to would be over before it had even begun.

"Trust you? Why the hell would I trust you? After everything that's happened between us you expect me to trust you?" Lily asked him menacingly.

"I'm sorry but can't we just re-schedule?" James suggested.

"Re-schedule? No I'm sorry but we can't just re-schedule to fit around your busy dating schedule," Lily glowered at him, assuming that he wanted the night free to make-out with one of the sixth years who didn't know any better. Lily would rather hold the meeting without James there at all, if he would rather be off with his date.

"Date? Lily seriously, I do not have a date Saturday night," James told her seriously.

"Then what the hell Is so important that you have to miss the first prefect meeting of the year?" Lily demanded.

"I can't tell you Lily! I wish I could but I can't! It's just that-"

"Listen Potter I really don't want to hear your excuses. Now. I am holding the Prefect's meeting on Saturday night. Are you going to be there or not?"

James looked at Lily sadly before replying, "No."

"Fine then. Fine. " And without another word, Lily left a miserable James staring after her regretfully as she went upstairs to her dorm.

The dormitory door slammed open as Lily entered.

"Hy Lily. How'd it, em, go?" Sam asked timidly, getting up from her bed as Lily marched over.

"Oh, it went fabulous! Just great!" Lily sarcastically answered as she flung open her suitcase. "I found out who's Head Boy."

"Well?" Sam asked, knowing full well what the answer was.

"It's Potter! James freekin' Potter! James arrogant Potter! Why the hell would Dumbledore do this to me? After everything I've had to put up with from Potter! I mean, he wasn't even a prefect for God's sake! And then he has the audacity to tell me he can't go to the Prefects meeting!" Lily ranted.

"Audacity?" Mandy whispered to Sam.

"The nerve," Sam told her.

"And he wouldn't even have the decency to tell me why he couldn't come to the meeting! Can you believe that? Jerk, moron, ass-hole, clue-less, ignorant idiot who has no thought for anyone else," Lily kept muttering insults at James Potter under her breath as Mandy and Sarah tried to stop themselves from laughing.

"So you're going to have a lot of fun this year then?" Mandy asked mischievously.

"Shut up."

"So are you just going to do the Prefects meeting by yourself, or what?" Sam asked.

"No, I'll just reschedule it for this Friday so Potter can make it, and instead I'll spend Saturday night finding out what he's keeping from me," Lily answered, smugly. If James Potter thought that he could lie to her and get away with it then he had a lot to learn. She was going to find out exactly what was so important that Potter felt he had to miss a Prefects meeting and then she was going to make him regret it for the rest of the year.

"So what did you tell her?" Sirius asked James, after hearing about Lily and James' argument.

"About Saturday night?" James looked at Sirius, "I just said that I couldn't tell her and that she would just have to trust me."

Sirius snorted, "Bet she took that well."

"I'm sorry Prongs. It's all my fault that you're in trouble with Lily," Remus said, guiltily.

"It's not you fault Moony. She would have found some reason to be mad at me anyway," James told him.

"She can't be as mad as that time we turned her uniform transparent at breakfast last year," Sirius grinned, remembering Lily's look of outrage as she tried to cover herself up. "Man, who knew that she had such gorgeous-"

"Padfoot! That is my future wife you're talking about!" James said gritting his teeth.

"What? She's hot! Deal with it!"

"Of course she's hot! I still don't need my best friend telling me that," James said, shoving Sirius as he did.

"What the hell was that for?" Sirius wanted to know.

"Oh quit being a whiner Sirius," James laughed at him as Sirius pretended to look affronted.

Sirius grabbed a pillow, "You dare mess with most gorgeousest of the Marauders?" he demanded dangerously.

James grabbed the pillows of his own bed. "Why yes, I think I do."

It wasn't long before all four Marauders were involved in the pillow fight. Remus and James had formed an alliance against Sirius and Peter and were winning heavily due to the fact that Peter kept missing his targets and had decided at the last moment, to join the winning side against Sirius.

"Peter! What the hell are you doing???" Sirius yelled at him before ducking as James threw a pillow at him.

"He's realised who the better side is, mate!" James yelled before receiving a pillow to the head. Seeing that his target had hit the mark, Sirius jumped from behind his makeshift fortress and yelled, forgetting about Remus and Peter. "Aw crap," he yelled as Remus, Peter and then James who had recovered, jumped on him and attacked.

"What do you say?" James asked Sirius as he held him in a head grip.

"No fucking way!" Sirius yelled, struggling to break free from James' grip.

"Go on, say it!" James laughed.

"Fine…I am a big fat ugly loser who is nothing compared to James, Remus and Peter. They are much better looking than me. Happy now you gits? You gonna get off me?" Sirius demanded.

"Now doesn't it feel much better now that you've admitted the truth?" James asked him, still laughing as he got off Sirius.

"Yeah, yeah. Well at least I'm not in deep shit with Evans, mate," Sirius said, clapping James on the back.

James looked at him. "Thanks for reminding me."

"You're very welcome Prongs. Now, who fancies a trip to the kitchens?" Sirius asked.

"How the hell can you be hungry? We were just at the feast!" Remus asked, wonderingly.

"Well, I think you'll find that it has been several hours since the feast Remus and I am hungry after all that exercise. Anyone coming? No? Ok then, see you losers later!" And with that Sirius left the dormitory, the prospect of food making him skip.

"Did Sirius just skip?" Remus asked, in shock.

"I really don't know why we're friends with him sometimes," James laughed.

It was Monday morning, and Mandy was sitting at the Gryffindor table with her head in her hands.

"Do you know the last time I was up at this time?" She asked Lily and Sarah who were sitting next to her. "This time two months ago. Why the hell do we have to be up at seven bloody thirty? It's not like classes start before nine!"

"Oh cheer up Mandy! Look. There's some bacon," Sarah told her, holding the plate of bacon under Mandy's nose.

Mandy looked up. "Well I do like bacon," she said while Lily and Sarah laughed.

"So when you moving in to the Head's dorm?" Sarah asked as she poured herself pumpkin juice.

"Thursday night. Apparently they've had to make a few adjustments to the dorms for us," Lily replied.

"Adjustments?"

"To stop us from killing each other," Lily simply said, as if that explained everything.

"Ooh look at the teachers table. There's that hot Professor Matthews again! When do you think we have him this week?" Sarah wondered.

"You'll find out soon enough, there's Professor McGonagall with the timetables. Do you really think he's that hot?" Lily asked Sarah after McGonagall had given them their timetables.

"Hell yes! Why, don't you?" This time it was Mandy that answered.

"Well, he's handsome but he's not really my type," Lily said, grabbing a piece of toast before Sirius, who had just sat down opposite her took them all.

"What is your type then?" Mandy asked, glaring at Sirius as he stuffed food in his mouth. "Ew Black what are you doing sitting here? Within twenty meters of us?"

"Oh, so now I can't even sit where I want to?" Sirius demanded.

"Not if it's near us you can't!"

"Well it was a free country the last time I checked. So anyway who is your type then Evans?" Sirius wanted to know.

Lily smiled mischievously. "Had you not guessed Sirius?"

Sirius looked confused for a moment. "N-o-o," he said slowly, "That's why I was asking."

"Haven't I told you before? I like tall, handsome, black-haired quidditch players and I have for a while now." Lily hid behind her hair so that Sirius would not guess that she was having a hard time not laughing.

"So not James then-Hey!" Sirius hastily stood up, realising that Lily meant someone else entirely. "But- but…you can't… I-I have to go," and Sirius nearly ran out of the Great Hall as Lily, Mandy and Sarah all burst out laughing.

"Oh God Lily you are such a genius! That was bloody brilliant!" Mandy said, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Did you see his face?" Lily cried out, clutching her side in pain from so much laughter.

"He's not going to be able to look you in the eyes for ages Lily!" Sarah congratulated her.

"Come on we better get to class, looks like we have Potions first," Lily said getting up and glancing at her timetable, glad that the topic of conversation had steered away from her and back onto the subject of their new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor. She couldn't possibly tell Mandy and Sarah that when they had asked her what her type was, an image of James Potter had flashed through her mind. It was too crazy a notion to be even considered. So why did it bother her for the rest of the morning?

"Evans!"

"What the hell do you want Potter?"

"Why is there a rumour going around the school that you have a thing for Sirius?" James yelled.

They were standing in the corridor outside Defence Against the Dark Arts, waiting for Professor Matthews to arrive and let them in. Lily had been leaning against the wall before Potter had arrived and she now glared hatefully at him.

"What business of yours is it who I like?" Lily asked him, her fists clenched.

"It's my bloody business if it's my best friend or anyone else for that matter!"

"When will you get it through that thick skull of yours that it isn't? Even if I did like Sirius, which by the way I really don't, it would be none of your business!" Lily told him.

"So you don't like Sirius?"

"No!! But that's not the poin-"

"Well that's ok then!" And James, missing Lily's point completely, left to join his friends down the corridor.

"That arrogant son of a -"

"Miss Evans."

Lily turned around slowly and found herself staring into the blue eyes of Professor Matthews.

"Sorry sir, I don't normally swear its just…well…it's just Potter…" Lily trailed off as Professor Matthews continued staring at her.

"Just make sure that it doesn't happen again, Miss Evans" Professor Matthews told her, and Lily, who was quite sure that he had heard most of the argument, was startled to see him wink at her before he entered his classroom.

"Did you see…?" Lily kept looking at Professor Matthews as she sat between Mandy and Sarah.

"See what?"

"Nothing, must have imagined it," although Lily was sure that she hadn't.

When everyone was seated, Professor Matthews took them through the course, though Lily doubted that anyone but herself and Remus heard much of it. Most of the girls were staring at him as if he was a God, and even Lily had to admit that up close, Professor Matthews was gorgeous. The guys however, already seemed bored, until Professor Matthews told them that they would each be split into pairs with a member of the opposite sex for the rest of the year. At that announcement all the guys straightened up in their chairs and all the girls except Lily and Sarah looked excited. It was the hope of nearly every girl in the room to be paired with one of the Marauders, well except with Peter, and to have the chance to spend the rest of the year with one of them was a very appealing idea.

"If I am paired with one of the Marauders I think I will kill myself," Mandy muttered under her breath.

"And for the whole year! What if we get a complete asshole like, say, one of the Marauders?" Lily said under her breath so that only Mandy and Sarah could hear.

"I wouldn't mind being with Remus," Sarah joined in. "At least he's smart and funny and the most sensible of the lot."

All the girls agreed that Remus would probably be the best Marauder to be partnered too, although none of them were hopeful that they would be that lucky.

When Professor Matthews explained that the partners would have work on certain assignments together and would have to spend a lot of time together, Lily groaned, imagining herself with Potter spending more time than she would ever wish with him.

As Professor Matthews started reading the partners out Lily's only thoughts were 'Please don't be Potter, Please don't be Potter, Please don't…

"Lily Evans"

"Yes professor?" Lily looked up at Professor Matthews hoping that he could read her thoughts.

"Your partner this year will be Sirius Black."

"WHAT??"

Ah and you all thought her partner would be James!! Mwahaha!!

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