Chapter 7

Lily groaned, as light came pouring in through her closed bed curtains. She removed her pillow from underneath her head and shoved in front of her face, hoping to block out the wretched light. Her hopes were not answered as the curtains were wrenched open.

"Lils'!" Alaina whined. She tried to tug the pillow away from Lily but she just held tighter. "Lily, you are going to be late for class...we only have five minutes!" Lily immediately sprung out of bed and went to her trunk. She began tearing things out in a rush.

"Guys!" Lily squealed, in absolute horror. "Why didn't you tell me earlier? I had so much to do this morning! I had to help Professor McGonagall pass out schedules and you can't really expect Potter to write up those prefect -," Lily froze. She spun slowly around from her trunk and saw her three best friends giggling. All three were still in their bedclothes.

"Sorry, Lily." Alyssa said with a huge grin on her face. "It was all Brittney's idea. We knew it would be the only way to get you out of bed!" Lily turned to Brittney, who was looking around the room and pretending that she had no idea what was happening.

"Well, Brattney...please explain why you thought it would be humorous to trick me out of bed and make me believe that I had missed all of my duties as headgirl?" Lily stood in front of Brittney, who was clothed in light pink shorts and a black tank top. Brittney covered her mouth quickly to hide her laughter.

"Aw, Lils'," Brittney said with a grin. "You know I don't like being called Brattney, my sister could have come up with a cleverer name, couldn't she have?" Lily threw her hands up in the air and turned to Alyssa.

"You should have stopped her, Lyssa!" Lily said, as she fake pouted. "You know how seriously I take things..." Alyssa stepped forward and placed her hands on Lily's shoulders gently.

"Lily," Alyssa said, she looked genuinely sympathetic. "You know how much James likes it when you are mad, we were just trying to rile you up for him." Lily scowled and swatted Alyssa playfully on the arm. She turned towards her last remaining comrade.

"Lainy, please tell me that even though you were the initiator of this practical joke, that you at least argued with them that it wasn't right?" Lily pleaded. Alaina grinned and waved her hand in the air.

"Of course I did, Lily!" Alaina said, as though she was astonished that Lily could ask such a question. "What kind of friend do you think I am? I wanted to wake you up nicely with a nice spout of water, but Brittney and Alyssa preferred this way." Lily's eyes widened and she spun around to face Lyssa and Britt.

"I love you guys!" She squealed and hugged them tightly. "I defiantly owe you guys a big one!" With that, Lily speed into the washroom and locked the door behind her, leaving the three girls looking positively horrified.

"Hey!" Brittney cried. She quickly ran to the door and started to pound on it with her fist. "Lily Danielle Evans! You take longer than the three of us combined to get ready. Get your freckled butt back out here!" Lily laughed as she quickly got ready. She knew as much as she would have liked to take her time, she needed to go and find James. Lily did not trust him at all to make the appropriate prefect schedules.

Lily sighed when she realized she was finished. She had taken a total of twenty minutes to get ready, an outstanding record for Lily Evans. She did one last look in the mirror and inspected her hair. Then she opened the door and stepped back into the dormitory.

"All right girls, I'm-," Lily groaned as she realized the three girls had already left. Once again they had beat her at her own game. "Bugger."

Lily walked down to the Great Hall, alone. She had expected to find the Marauders trudging down the stairs to the Common Room, yet she had been disappointed.

"Disappointed?" Lily murmured to herself. She had to admit to herself that riding with the Marauders on the train to Hogwarts had been mighty fun, as long as she had avoided big-headed Potter. They had all been fairly decent, and even some of the jokes Sirius had made had been hilarious.

When they had arrived at Hogwarts, Lily expected the Marauders to sit in their usual spot at the Gryffindor table, about fifteen seats away from them. Instead, as the girls sat down in their normal seats, the Marauders followed. Peter had later arrived also, looking dreadfully confused as to why the Marauders were sitting with the girls.

Lily had not missed the looks that James, Remus, and Sirius gave Peter when he sat down. They were a mix of astonishment and loathing. Lily knew that Alaina had not missed it either because she was positive Alaina asked Sirius about it.

Once again, as Lily walked into the Great Hall, she was surprised to see the Marauders sitting with the girls once again. Lily also groaned as she realized the only open spot was between James and Brittney. She trudged forward, and plopped herself down in between the two of them.

"Good-morning, my dear. How was your beauty sleep?" Lily rolled her eyes, and Alyssa laughed behind her hand.

"Just fine, Potter." Lily sighed. "We need to write up those schedules for the prefects before they come over and ask for them." James smiled and helped himself to a fork-full of eggs.

"I already passed them out," James said with a look of immense pride. Lily was slightly taken aback. "I wrote them up last night. Prefects have their schedules for the next year. Yours is right here." James pulled a piece of parchment out of his pocket and slid it next to her.

Lily was shocked. James did work? Without anyone telling him to? Something was defiantly up.

"Thanks, James," Lily said with a sweet grin. She made sure she put extra emphasis on his name. A grin lit up his face. "Aren't you a dear?" Alaina kicked Lily under the table, a grin on his face.

"Mr. Potter, Ms. Evans?" Professor McGonagall had just arrived behind her. "Would you please help me pass out these schedules to students?" Lily nodded, and she and James stood up.

The remaining Marauders got their schedules and compared them. Peter, Sirius, and Alaina all had the exact same classes, with their electives being Care of Magical Creatures and Divination. Alaina started blushing as she realized this. Alyssa, Remus and Brittney too shared the same classes as all three were taking Ancient Runes and Arithmacy.

"They are taking the smart people classes," Sirius said with a grin to Alaina. "Us people with normal sized brains decided to take normal brain capacity classes. Except for Divination, I do say that class is defiantly lower-leveled." The remaining friends laughed.

"You are just jealous that there are people smarter than you, Black," Remus said with a grin on his face. "Its just a sign that people are better here than you." Sirius rolled his eyes.

"I am the best of the best, dear Moony," Sirius said, and Alyssa's eyes showed confusion at Remus' nickname. She made a mental note to ask Remus about it later, if she was able to make coherent noise when she was around him.

"Or the worst of the best," Brittney said with a smile. "Don't you agree with me Alaina?" She looked as though she was going to shake her head no, but then she smiled.

"No no, not the worst of the best," Alaina whispered, and Sirius grinned greatly. "The worst of the worst." Sirius' jaw dropped in fake astonishment. Lily and James had just gotten back from handing out the schedules.

"Ms. Riley!" He said in fake shock. "I did not know you had it in you to insult someone!" Alaina rolled her eyes and nudged Sirius gently with her elbow.

"I can do much more than that, Sirius." Alaina said with a grin. "Much, much more."