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The next morning Lily awoke to find her cat, Macie, sitting on her lap. "Macie, what do you want?" she asked the cat. Macie continued sitting on her lap, just looking at her. Lily finally sat up and pulled Macie off of her.

"Well, now that I'm up, I guess I should go take a shower," she said this aloud, although nobody but Lily, Macie, and Marissa's cat Lexi were awake.

After showering and getting ready for classes, Lily headed down to the common room. It was only 6:00, and classes didn't start until 8:00. She couldn't even go to have an early breakfast because it wasn't served for another hour.

Lily decided to grab her book and head down to the common room for a bit of reading. She sat down in one of her favorite chairs. It was tall enough to hide herself from lingering eyes, and comfortable enough to fall asleep in.

After reading about twenty pages of Gone With The Wind, she heard someone come down the stairs. She arched her head backward, looking toward the Girls' staircase. She saw no one, the person must be some guy wandering out of bed.

And then she heard it.

"Moony, what's the best way to get Evans to like me?" It was none other than James Potter.

Lily stayed in her chair for a moment, wanting to hear the response. "Well, Prongs, I honestly don't know. All girls are different," Remus answered.

Lily jumped up from her chair and pointed a finger at James, "You want to know the best way to get me?" she questioned.

James nodded, actually thinking that she had finally started to like him. Unfortunately, he missed the anger rising in her voice.

"You will never get me Potter," she emphasized on the 'never.' "And you want to know why? It's because you are too involved with yourself to understand the concept that I cannot stand being in the same bloody room with you."

With that said Lily stomped back up to her dorm. It was only 6:40 and Potter had already managed to get under her skin. She could just tell that her first day of classes was not going to be fun.

And she didn't realize how right she was.

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Lily's first class of the day was Potions, which was shared with the Slytherins. Not only that, but it was a double block of Potions with the Slytherins.

"Now class, first I would like to say welcome back to Hogwarts for you final year. You will be learning many potions, including death and healing potions. It will be a very serious year and I will not stand for any misbehavior in my class this year," Professor Rander told the class. And then added as an after thought, "You need to pass my class to graduate, which will not be easy for most of you."

"Jeez, who would think that she might actually say something nice on the first day of classes," Scarlett whispered into Lily's ear, Lily detected a great amount of sarcasm in her voice.

" Dalton, Evans, do you wish to share with the rest of the class?" Rander asked the girls.

"Sorry Professor Rander," they said in synchrony.

"That is nice, but you didn't answer the question," was the response.

They looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Looking at each other won't give me an answer any sooner you know," Rander said coldly.

Lily could hear the Slytherins trying to conceal their laughter.

"No Professor, I wouldn't like to share with the class," Scarlett told the teacher. Lily was amazed at this; Scarlett was holding her ground to the meanest teacher at Hogwarts. Scarlett wasn't even blinking, just looking the professor straight in the eye.

"Very well, ten points from Gryffindor each for being rude," Rander announced.

"Each?" Lily asked. Then she realized her mistake, she should not have said that. Rander hated it when people talked back to her, especially anyone that wasn't in Slytherin House.

"Actually, I think I'll make that 15 points each from Gryffindor," snarled Rander, "And you have Miss Evans' ignorance to account for the extra points taken off."

Lily's jaw almost dropped, she had just lost her house an extra ten points, along with the 20 points before her comment. That was 30 points in total. Now they were in negative numbers!

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Unfortunately for Lily her day didn't improve. She stayed quiet during the rest of her classes, not even raising her hand to answer questions.

She was having one of the worst days of her life. Lily remembered her thoughts the day before, 'this is going to be the best year ever.' It was only the second day there and she was already proven wrong.

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During dinner that night, Lily sat down and slopped food onto her plate.

"Lily, cheer up," Gracie told her. "It's not the end of the world. I mean, so you lost a few points. It's no big deal. I've lost plenty of points before."

"Not on the first day though," Lily complained.

"No, but I've lost them before."

"Gracie, you're not helping the matter," Zoë said, and Lily couldn't help but think that the response was her thoughts exactly.

"Listen Lils, I've lost one hundred points in one night once. Don't feel bad," Marissa added to the conversation.

Lily looked at her with interest, "Go on."

"You want me to tell the story?" Marissa asked.

Lily nodded her head.

"Okay. Well, it's not something that I'm proud of," Marissa began. "Last year, when I was dating Randy, you know that really hot guy that graduated last year."

"Yeah, we know him," Gracie cut her off.

"Okay. Well, we were out past hours one night. And we ducked into McGonagall's classroom. And we started snogging, and well, one thing led to another." Marissa was turning slightly pink by revealing the information. "And for some reason McGonagall came into the classroom. And she was very pleased at what she saw."

All four girls gaped at what Marissa had told them.

"You did it in McGonagall's classroom?" Zoë asked.

Marissa turned a brighter shade of red and nodded her head.

"What table was it?" Gracie asked, a look of horror on her face.

"I can't remember," Marissa responded.

"Oh my God! I could have been sitting at the very table. I could have fallen asleep where you did it! Oh my God, that's disgusting!" Gracie exclaimed.

"Shut up already. I don't want the whole fucking school to know about it," Marissa told her urgently.

Lily laughed, now that did make her feel better about losing points on the first day of classes. It disturbed her quite a bit as well, but it made her feel better about herself.

However that feeling did not last for very long. James Potter had chosen that exact moment to walk up to Lily.

"Hello Lily," he said, a smile present on his face.

"What do you want Potter," she asked irritably.

"Just wanted to say sorry about this morning, down in the common room. It was completely out of line."

"Yes, it was," she agreed.

Clearly this was not the answer he was hoping for. "And Lily, I'm very sorry about Rander. She's really an ass."

Lily looked at him, fury was once again in her eyes. "Is that why you came over here? To taunt me for losing all those points? Don't you think that I feel bad enough without you rubbing it in my face?"

"No, not at…," he began, but was swiftly cut off.

"Just leave me alone," she screamed at him and stomped out of the Great Hall.

James watched as she left, hurt was present in his eyes.

"Sorry James, tuff luck," Zoë said sympathetically.

"Yeah, story of my life," he responded.

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