Hello everyone! I have another chapter for you! This one is longer. I have had exams all week so you are extra special lucky that I update because studying has been my main priority. But exams are over! Yay! And I am fee to write and type and edit all I like! The park I describe in the first part is a real life park that is in the middle of town where I live, so a picture of it may surface on my profile later on if I feel like it. But probably not yet. I will advise upon its arrival! Lol. Anyway on with the story…

A girl came to a park, it was in the middle of town but yet felt so peaceful and calm. The light was faint for the trees had created a canopy. Only letting in bursts of light every metre or so. The trees were grand and handsome; they looked wise, as if they knew a secret which she did not. Their twisted branches created the perfect climbing tree but people didn't dare mount them; they held a respect for the trees. For they had been there over one hundred years.

The floor was carpeted in autumn leaves that made a slight crunch sound under feet when walked upon. The wind blew through the hollow centre where she sat cross legged on a wooden bench facing a boy; one of the crevices of light was streaking against his hair. His eyes were the colour of chocolate and his smile was large and romantic.

The girls smiled back at him and then leaned forward to hug him, looking into his deep eyes hidden behind round spectacles; she then reached up and ruffled his hair...

"Lily, Lily wake up, we are going to be late for charms!" came the stressed voice of Marie.

How they could be late was beyond Lily, they had just woken up. They much of had at least 2 hours still to get dressed and eat breakfast at a quite leisurely pace. She continued to tell Marie this but she didn't listen.

"Marie stop stressing, you always do this, you say that we are going to be late, we rush around like lunatics then we get there a whole ten minutes early" said Lily through a yawn.

As if to prove her point Lily rolled over and picked up her clock. It read 8.30.

"See, plenty of time, charms doesn't start until 8.20, which gives us…… OH NO WERE GONNA DIE!"

Marie rolled her eyes as Lily jumped out of bed, grabbing the first thing that was hanging out of her drawer, throwing it on. She then grabbed her books off the desk and ran out the door Marie in tow.

"Professor Flitwick will be fine with it, I mean, its not as if we completely missed the class we are just a few minutes late, he will understand" Lily muttered under her breath. Causing a few stray students in the common room who had a spare to look her way, quite baffled at her peculiar behaviour, she was usually so calm and normal.

"Easy for you to say, professor Flitwick just looooves you, you his star student. I on the other hand am not, hey Im not saying Im as bad as Jade, but Im pretty bad. He hates me" ranted Marie, her hands flying into the air.

"In defence of Jade I am going to say 'HEY!' but anyway, you guys can't be that bad, you got into the NEWTS level for goodness sake." said Lily.

"Speaking of Jade, where are she and Madison? How come they aren't late, why didn't they wake us up?" inquired Marie, scratching her head in thought.

"Hmmm, don't know" murmured Lily

Lily had obviously calmed down, remembering that she was very well Professor Flitwicks favourite student and he would never give her detention or take house points, he would just usher her in without another word.

When they entered the room Professor Flitwick stop teaching and looked up at them. Lily was just about to open her mouth to apologise when he spoke. "Miss Wallington, detention Friday for failure to arrive to my class on time. Now sit down"

Marie looked absolutely scandalized and gob smacked, not because she got a detention, that she was used to, but because Flitwick had then smiled politely at Lily and motioned for her to take a seat. But then gave Marie a glare and she shot into her seat without another word.

"Now as I was saying, today we will be in pairs practising how to perform the 'Confundous Charm' on hedge hogs, is everybody with me?" Said Flitwick.

The class nodded and then edged towards the people they wanted as partners.

As they did Flitwick said in a rather loud voice "I will be choosing the groups for today, Marie Wallington and Milo Bledel, Jade Ventimiglia and Remus Lupin, Madison Gilmore and Scott Danes, Lily Evans and Sirius Black, James Potter and Paris Weil…."

Lily groaned and turned to face Sirius who was waving at her frantically, grinning like an idiot; she moved over to his table and put down her books. She took out her wand and asked if he wanted to go first.

His reply was: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" he looked very confused.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Have you by any chance been watching Alice in Wonderland?" she asked.

"Um….No, is that the answer you were looking for?" he asked.

Lily sighed and decided she would just start herself; she drew her wand and began. As she spoke the charm the hedge hog began to walk around in dazed circles aimlessly, then it fell over and started doing a sort of hedgehog giggle. She smiled, it reminded her of Gloria Marie's pet gerbil, she was always giggling and bumping into things. But under that was quite a smart gerbil.

"I'll take that as a no, well it was a 50/50 chance, and I took that chance, it's not really my fault. 50/50 was a good fraction, I very well could have been right, I mean it was very close, I just got unlucky that's all…." Blabbered Sirius.

Lily rolled her eyes said the counter charm and then charmed the hedgehog again, and again and again and again and, well you get the point. It was soon the end of the class, and Sirius had only performed the charm once, and it was aimed at Milo not the hedgehog.

Professor Flitwick signaled for the class to be silent and began to speak. "Very good class, you all are on your way to mastering the 'Confundous Charm'" He then dismissed the class; everyone began to walk off when he called out:

"Mr Potter, Mr Black, Mr Lupin and Mr Pettigrew will you please stay after class, to the rest of you, don't forget your assignment, 2 rolls of parchment on my desk Friday" chimed his high-pitched voice.

Lily stood and filed out the classroom with the rest of the students, catching Remus' eye and mouthing "See-ya later". He gave a small wave and then directed his eyes back to Flitwick.

"You boys, you know I hate to punish you, your top of the class, but if you keep on slacking off I will need to report you to Professor Dumbledore." He squeaked.

None of the boys looked in the least worried, probably because they had been up to Dumbledore's office so many times; they called him by the first name, and the only thing they did up there was inform him of the latest prank and eat a couple of lemon drops.

"So Lily have you finished your assignment yet? Because I'm having a little trouble with the conclusion and…" started Jade.

"Nope, you are not copying mine." interrupted Lily.

"Not copy, paraphrase. Anyway I let you do the same with Transfiguration! That's no fair" Said Jade, she held a scandalized look on her face.

Lily wildly looked around to see if any of her teachers had been listening, luckily for her, there had been no one. If McGonagall had heard, or some other teacher, it would put her chance of becoming Head Girl next year in jeopardy, and she just couldn't risk it. She wanted so badly to become Head Girl, she loved that she would be in authority, and the younger students would look up to her and the older students would respect her. Also she would prove to the Slytherins that she was just as good as they were. Maybe even better wink wink.

"Jade, be careful. If McGonagall had rounded that corner just then, my hopes and dreams of becoming Head Girl would come crashing down!" Lily whined.

"Okay Miss paranoid, anyway can I paraphrase?" Jade asked.

"Hmpf, As long as you paraphrase, don't forget!" ordered Lily.

Jade rolled her eyes. A look of disapproval was etched on Madison's face throughout the whole exchange.

"You shouldn't be copying at all, how many times do I have to tell you, your only hurting yourself!" she ranted "I mean, Lily when you're a healer your not going to be able to ask one of us in the middle of a procedure, what to do. And Jade when you're an author, you won't be able to ask for us, when in a interview and you're asked for charmed copies of your autograph. If you don't learn it, you won't know it!"

Lily had zoned out somewhere between the 'shouldn't' and 'copying', she had heard Madison's speech so many times, it had not meaning anymore. Madison always stuck to rules, it was like they were embedded into her brain and where not able to be violated even if she wanted to, this was all a part of her dream to become a lawyer.

Lily let her mind wander whilst her friend blabbered on about the importance of rule abiding. She thought about how she had patrol with Remus tonight, and how pointless they were. She always felt bad when she caught the student out late because she knew that she did exactly the same on the nights that she didn't have patrol, she was just smart enough not to get caught. But one of the good things was that she got to patrol with her boyfriend, so she never really got that bored because they were either constantly talking or doing other fun things. This didn't really help the amount of people they found though. Not that they really cared, Lily being Lily and Remus being a Marauder, they weren't really bothered with people having a little fun.

Lily was just thinking about a particular night when they had stumbled upon Dumbledore in his blue and white striped pyjamas and slippers, on his way down to the kitchens to grab a midnight snack. He had simply greeted them with a brief wave of the hand and went off humming to himself to the tune of "ferishaca ferishaca domevu, domevu" when Madison interrupted her thoughts.

"Are you even listening to me?" She exclaimed "I don't know why I bother" she sighed, and then fell silent knowing no one was actually paying any attention.

"Hey, where were you guys this morning" asked Marie. "We were late for class because you didn't wake us up"

Jade looked up from Lily's assignment which she was now reading adamantly "you guys were still asleep? We thought you had gone already. You know because you're always up early."

Lily looked thoughtful for a moment. This was true. Lily and Marie were always the first awake no matter what. They were just early birds and that was that. She then also remembered the pumpkin juice Sirius and James had so kindly poured them out last night, which was extremely out of character. But they hadn't noticed at the time. It must have had timed, sleeping draught in it. So it only activated when they were just about to go to bed.

"The Juice! It was charmed!" Lily cried out.

Jade and Madison gave her a "No duh" look.

"You guys actually drank that stuff, no wonder you were late it was obviously tampered with. You MUST remember rule number one on the list for Hogwarts students 'Never consume anything given to you by a Marauder, especially James Potter or Sirius Black, it's the first one in the book." Said Madison efficiently.

Marie then gave her a disgusted look. "And you expect ME to read that rubbish. A rule book for chicken pie's sake" she was completely horrified at the thought.

"I guess not" Sighed Madison as she opened the door to Defence against the Dark Arts.

They all sat down in a row and listened as there teacher droned on and on, They were all taking notes frantically as they could be sure that at any given moment the professor, Professor Marohasy, would start a pop quiz, that if they failed they would be nominated for learning support. But not just that, Marie absolutely loved Defence against the Dark Arts as did Lily. The others didn't mind it, as it was quite interesting but none as readily as Marie or Lily. Marie especially as she wanted to become an Auror when she left school, she loved investigating.

Lily wanted to be a healer; she had ever since she came to Hogwarts, even before that she wanted to be a muggle doctor. She loved helping people, she was one of the most caring people in the world.

Jade wanted to be an author, which was quite obvious as she was reading and writing constantly. She had already written two novels and was now starting on her third. Her first was "An Aethonan's Journey" a book about a particular winged chestnut horse species. And her second was "Destinies path" which was about two centaurs.

Madison wanted to be a lawyer; she loved crime stories and always had an inclination to abide by the rules as lily and Marie too well. She always caught them out.

The class finally came to an end and they went to eat lunch. When they arrived The Marauders where already there. Sirius stuffing his face with food like there was no tomorrow. James was reading a book not really paying attention to what was going on around him. Which disgruntled the girls which where trying to get his attention greatly. Remus was eating a turkey sandwich and looking quite awkward at the attention he was getting as well. But as soon as Lily entered the room, the girls backed off and Remus sighed with relief.

"Thank goodness you're here!" Remus cried "I thought the one in the blue t-shirt was going to pounce" he added in a smaller voice.

Lily chuckled and took a seat next to him. "Your welcome. How was Defence? Did you guys get any work done?" she said stealing a bite of his sandwich.

"Yes we did." he replied. "Actually correction, I did. Sirius, James and Peter are going to copy later"

Lily looked happy that at least Remus had done some work and then went on to finish his sandwich. Remus chuckled at her and grabbed himself another one.

"Hey, are we heading down to Hogsmede one the weekend guys? Or does anyone have other plans?" asked Madison to the group in general.

Everyone then chewed on there food thoughtfully for a moment then all answered.

"Yep that's fine" said Marie, Remus and Peter.

"No can do, sorry, I have a hot date with Cindy Parker" replied Sirius smugly.

"Me and Jade have some shopping to do, but we can come afterward. You see I'm going to show her this cool bookmark I found"

"Jade and I" said Jade

Everyone had answered except James; who was still buried in the book.

"Since when does he read?" asked Madison.

The girls all nodded their heads as if they had been thinking the exact same thing. The boys however begged to differ.

"He reads all the time, he's your average bookworm" said Peter. At this comment Jade squealed in delight.

James took this moment to look up from his book and talk to the group. "Can't come, gotta do some shopping. Nice to know Im being talked about by the way. And I am offended that you are so surprised that I read" he finished in a playful tone.

Lily was devastated. She never thought James Potter even could read. She wondered what he was reading. Probably something stupid like a Quidditch broom catalogue. Just at that moment the front cover of James's book came into view. It was Charles Dickens 'Great Expectations'.

"You're reading Charles Dickens?" Lily blurted out before she could stop herself.

Everyone looked t James and then Lily before shortly stuffing their fingers in their ears and shutting their eyes lightly ready for the shouting. They waited and waited and waited some more but none came. No shouting noises. Madison peaked open one eye to see that Lily was genuinely smiling at James, and him right back at her. This was the weirdest moment in Hogwarts history. Everyone then removed their fingers from their ears and stared in shock at the pair.

They were having a conversation. A civilised one.

"So, have you read much others from Dickens?" asked Lily.

"Yes, I think this is my favourite so far, though I did enjoy Oliver as well." He replied.

"Ahh, yes I would say Oliver is my favourite" said Lily "oh but then there is a Christmas carol. Now that was a good book. You know there are movies for those now. You can borrow them sometime if you like. I have them at home."

"That would be great, thanks" James said.

And then the conversation ended and everyone was left standing gob smacked. Lily and James looking weirdly at her friends to see if they were aright. Jade and Marie were fine. Madison on the other hand, had fainted. Marie was fanning her face trying to get her to wake up.

When Madison had woken up Marie, Lily and Jade had been successful in convincing her that McGonagall was furious that she had fainted in the great hall. Such a public place. She had been worried all week and was avoiding the transfiguration professor. She had been worrying all week. She carried on worrying about it whilst they were walking down to Hogsmede.

"So, what did she say about it. Did she take points, because I can earn them back. But if it's a detention…oh I couldn't stand that. It would ruin my reputation. It would go on my records. This way ill never be a lawyer they won't let me in!" she blabbered.

"Yes that's exactly what they are going to be like: 'Madison Gilmore may never be a lawyer because she fainted in the great hall one time in her 6th year! Oh no.' not going to happen. Don't stress anyway we made it up" said Marie.

Lily hit her lightly on the arm. "You shouldn't have told her today. You have to spend the afternoon with her now. And she is angry."

Marie looked confused so Jade decided to clear up the confusion. "Lily is dragging me Lily glares I mean taking me on a very enjoyable shopping trip." Lily through leaves at her from the ground and ran off in the direction of Hogsmede.

Jade laughed. "As if I'm going to get involved in this kind of nonsense I mean…."

Before she could finish her sentence Lily was pulling faces and shooting more leaves at her from her wand this time. This meant more force.

"Oh if that's how you want to play it, now it's on!" she yelled and ran after Lily. Madison and Marie in there wake getting ready for a leaf fight.

"I soooo one!"

"No it was me; I got the most people leafy!"

"That's only because you cheated and used the binding spell, none of us could get away"

"Oh yeah"

"I propose we all one!"

Then the girls paired off so Lily and Jade could get on with their shopping and Marie and Madison could go meet up with the boys for a nice warm butterbeer to warm themselves up on a cold winter's day.

Lily and Jade headed straight towards the bookstore. Once inside it felt like a heater had flown through their body, and they felt quite comfortable to browse without the nuisance of shivering. The looked around at the books for a long while picking up a few on the way. but after this Lily was frantic to show Jade what she had dragged her in the shop to look at in the first place. It was quite hard to get Jades attention off of the bookshelves and onto the counter, but when she did she got a good reaction.

"Wow, it's gorgeous" said Jade in an awed voice.

"I thought you would like it. Happy birthday!" said Lily.

"What? My birthday isn't until July 6th" exclaimed Jade.

"Yeah but they run out quickly, and I don't want the chance of missing out on one as it is perfect!" replied Lily.

They both smiled down at the counter admiring the two bookmarks laying there. They were long pieces of silk ribbon attatched to a silver butterfly jewelled with emeralds and diamonds. The ribbon was white and there were pearls at the bottom. They were simply beautiful.

"Wow! Thanks so much Lily, but….why are there two?" Jade said.

Lily picked up the Bookmarks one by one. "One for you and one for me"

The girls both laughed, Lily paid for the bookmarks and they walked out the door into the freezing cold, and headed to 'The Three Broomsticks'.

They entered at sat down at the table with there friends. Lily snuggled up to Remus and stole his butterbeer. As soon as the drink touched her lips she felt an overwhelming warmness soar through her body. She really just wanted to get back to the castle so she could put her warm bed socks on sit down in the common room by the fire and read her new book. Then read and reply the letter from Matthew which would surely arrive.

But this was the second best thing. She was in the arms of her boyfriend. Amongst her friends, drinking warm drinks on a stunning winter's day. Feeling breezy and content.

"Hey Jade, Marie tells me you have a fox, is that true?" asked Sirius.

"Yep, his name is Merlin."

"Cool! I've always wanted a fox, can I see him?" Sirius asked eagerly.

"Um, okay" Jade said uncertainly.

'Wahoo" said Sirius whooping for joy and punching the air.

"And don't forget me! I have an owl, her names marshmallow" said Madison

Everyone laughed into there drinks except Joe and Marie. Because Joe was being protective of his girlfriend. And Marie because she loved the name Marshmallow and really didn't think it was that funny. Probably because she once had a dog named the same.

"What's wrong with marshmallow" she demanded, that's a good name"

Everyone tried to keep a straight face but failed miserably.

"Don't worry Marie, I still think it's a good name" said Madison nicely patting her on the back "otherwise I wouldn't have named my owl it"

At this Marie looked happy. Lily changed the subject.

When they were back at the castle Lily changed into her Pyjamas and slipper socks. She ate a load of chocolate as she had been told once that it helped with everything from confrontations with dark magic to minor head aches. So she was sure it would help her warm up.

By the time she had finished this an owl came flying through the window. The letter it held read:

"Dearest Hannah,

You asked for a long letter, you got yourself a long letter. Today was quite eventful for me. With the Hogsmede trip and all. I spent the day with my friends at 'The Three Broomsticks' It was quite fun. My best friends and I spent the afternoon in the company of a group of girls that are quite a laugh. I never thought of them to be the type of people I would hang around until last year when my friend became enamoured with one of them. Eventually they got the act together and started dating and that means that we spend a lot of time with her group.

My brother is getting along fine as you said I can't really help so I have tried not to worry about him much, but it's quite hard with the situation. I don't think it's really his opinion; he's being pressured into what he has said to me. My parents have complete control over him, its quite sad really.

But anyway, I much rather talk about something else. Like how your quest of trying to convince everyone you are the best person for Head Girl is going. Have you broken any rules? Actually that's a stupid question. How about, have you caught breaking any rules? I'm not really sure what you see in the position, I would rather eat my own head than become Head Boy, but that's just my opinion. I bet you would be great at it, your smart and a great person to talk to and you always have great advice. You're a shoe don't worry about it. Just enjoy the cold weather while its here because it has been said this coming summer is going to be the hottest yet.

Okay now I'm really just trying to fill in space on my letter which I promised would be extra long, but it turned out pretty lousy, by commenting on the weather. And then the lousiness of my letter and then the lousiness of my commenting on the lousiness of my letter. Okay ill stop now and just admit, my letter isn't as long as I wanted it to be. But it is longer than last time.

Well better fly.

Matthew. (Or so you think) :)"

Lily then fed the owl whose real name she didn't even know because that was too much to give away. But she called it 'Owly'. Okay so she wasn't very good at thinking of names, but that didn't matter it was only an owl anyhow.

The bird chirped and waited for her to write a reply. She looked at it doubtfully. No way am I going write a letter now, have you seen the bags under my eyes. Im going to eat dinner then go to bed she thought.

She grabbed her jumper and pulled it over her pyjamas. They would have to do for now. Anyway it was only dinner. She walked down the stairs grabbed Marie, Madison and Jade and headed down to the great hall. When they entered Lily realised it was a marble floor and took full advantage of it. She took a run up and power slid into the hall and right up to her seat in between Remus and Sirius.

Sirius started clapping energetically and whooping. He then conjured himself a pair of socks out of thin air and started to power slide up and down the hall. Because Sirius had done it everyone started doing it and the great hall had turned into a makeshift arena. This disgruntled Lily as they had pushed the tables to the sides and were sliding in the middle which meant she couldn't eat anything. It was her fault if she hadn't power slid she could be eating now, and would have been in bed sooner. She sighed and turned on her heal out of the hall and down to the kitchens.

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