A/N: so this is a Valentine's day treat for you all! I'm so sorry I took so long to update, life is beyond crazy! This is a very short A/N for me…haha

Chapter 5: Beginning of the End

Lily woke up the next morning, and the first thing she saw was a mass of blue that made up her walls. For a moment she thought she had dreamed about the first day at Hogwarts, as the blue paint matched the paint of her home bedroom perfectly. Then it all came flooding back. James Potter was head boy. She had her own room and common room above Gryffindor tower, which she just so happened to share with James Potter. The very same James Potter was the James Potter she was attempting to destroy – not literally, however much she would enjoy that – with three other girls in her year.

Hopping out of bed Lily dressed for classes, then remembered that it was a Sunday, as September first had just so happened to fall on a Saturday, and instead dressed in a casual pair of jeans and tee-shirt.

She ran down the steps to her old dormitory, too excited to wait to tell her friends about her new room.

Finding that the door was closed and locked, she pounded on it, yelling,

"Guys, GUYS! Its Lily, open up!"

After much muted grumbling from the other side of the door Sally appeared to let Lily in.

Before Lily managed so much as a "hello." She had three voices shouting in her ears.

"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU LAST NIGHT??"

"WE THOUGHT YOU HAD DIED!"

"WHY ISN'T ANY OF YOUR STUFF HERE?"

"YOU'RE NOT LEAVING US ARE YOU?"

At the last one Lily laughed.

"NO. I'm not leaving you. My stuff isn't here because it's up one floor."

Sally, leaning against the door, spoke up.

"Uh hey Lils, remember we're at the top floor of the tower."

Lily shook her head.

"Nope, not after this summer."

The other girls exchanged looks, confused.

Before they could ask however, Lily explained in two words.

"Heads' rooms."

And she was trampled as Ariel, Sally, and Katie sprinted past and up the new set of stairs that they hadn't noticed the night before.

Lily followed her friends at a much slower pace, able to register the moment her comrades reached her new quarters by the scream that issued from their mouths.

When Lily eventually reached her common room, it was too see all three of her former roommates glaring at her with hands on their hips.

"Lily Evans I cannot believe you," started Sally, "You would ditch our amazing dorm room for this?"

"Yeah," continued Katie, completely serious, "Our awesome dorm room, that is so wonderful and cramped, and less spacious, and doesn't have this awesome fire, and as big a bed as you do and – "

She was cut off by Ariel. "KATIE! Shut it, not helping our cause! But really Lils, I can see why these rooms would be really useful."

She made it sound as if she were talking of school planning between the Heads and such, but the look in her eyes told Lily what plans Ariel was really thinking of.

At that moment they were interrupted by several boys tumbling out of James's bedroom on the other side of the common room. Their faces showed no shock at seeing the girls there, after all, they had screamed rather loud.

Sirius grinned. "Hello ladies, I see you have discovered the latest wonder of our magical school?"

Sally crossed her arms shrewdly. "And what gave you that assumption, Black?"

"Well I believe the rather high pitched noises that issued from your mouths a few moments ago would be sufficient enough."

Sally blushed slightly at his gaze and had no answer.

Lily turned around, heading out of the common room and back down towards the dorms.

"C'mon guys, let's go grab some breakfast."

James ran across the room to catch up, his partners in crime behind him. "Wait Lily! We'll come with you."

He rushed over to catch up with Lily, possibly forgetting what happened when a boy stepped on the girls' staircase, a rule which he and Sirius had discovered in third year. Four steps down he came to his senses and tried to run back up the stairs, but it was too late. His legs flew out from under him and he slid down the long slide to land in the Gryffindor common room. A moment later the seventh year girls and his fellow Marauders landed beside him, along with a couple fifth years.

"Smooth mate, real smooth," remarked Remus, brushing himself off. James grinned embarrassedly as the two laughing fifth years walked out the portrait hole. Looking up, James realized that Lily and her friends had begun to walk out already. He quickly caught up with them, leaving Lily no choice but to walk with the Marauders down to breakfast. She was surprised; James had not asked her out once in the several minutes it took the group to reach the Great Hall, today veiled in light sunshine. He didn't even mention it!

As the girls reluctantly sat down with the boys, professor McGonagall swooped down upon them brusquely handing out the new terms' course schedules. Lily grinned at the sight of hers, she had a lot more frees this year compared to the previous. She looked over Ariel and Sally's shoulders to see if they shared any classes. To her luck they shared almost all of them! As Lily was planning to become a healer she was taking Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Charms, Herbology, and Care of Magical Creatures. She knew that Katie and Jess James (from Ravenclaw) would have the same schedule as Sally; they were arranging to start their own band.

Once everyone had looked over their schedules sufficiently enough, Remus brought up a new subject.

"So what do you all think of our new DADA teacher?"

Lily looked up.

"What? Professor Fallon? The one who looks like Jesus?"

Everyone snorted into their porridge, but it was true. The new teacher had thick black hair that reached his shoulders, and a goatee that completely covered his chin without going longer than an inch.

"Quick!" exclaimed James. "When do we have him first?"

"Right after lunch tomorrow," said Peter.

"This is going to be an interesting year, I can tell already," laughed Katie.

After another half hour the ladies left, and James breathed a sigh of relief.

"Wot?" said Sirius through a mouthful of toast.

"I just managed a whole hour and more without Lily yelling at me. Maybe I actually have a chance."

Peter scoffed.

"Yeah keep telling yourself that mate."

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A/N: right so, there's chapter 5. Lily's room is blue in honor of my room which I just got painted this past week! And 'Mr. Fallon' is really Mr Lewison my religion teacher and equals life, not to mention he cracks me up. I wrote more than 75 percent of this in religion class just now actually as Lewy is out sick. And our chorale teacher is at some conference so that's why I'm posting this now! Aight you guys know what to do, click that bluish/gray-y/slightly purple button that means REVIEW and just –er-yea REVIEW! Oh and this took so long to update because I spent time writing an outline for the next few chapters, which will make updating easier cuz I won't hafta write off the top of my head like I usually do!

Happy Valentine's Day!

-Wicked