Lily woke up to the sound of Marlene's snore's and glanced groggily at her alarm clock - which her parents had bought her at the beginning of her first year - to see that it was six in the morning. Her black cat midnight was curled in a ball on her pillow she noticed fondly and she reached out to stroke the small cat who rewarded her with a purr. She didn't feel tired so she just lay there for a while thinking about how much healthier she felt now that she'd got the whole Severus situation off of her chest. Marlene, Alice and Hestia had led her up to her dorm and Alice had tucked her in bed just like the mother hen she was, whispering to Lily that she would always be there for her. Lily smiled thinking about how Marlene had stayed awake with her while she fell asleep and told her silly jokes while Hestia played with her hair and pestered Alice about how far she'd gone with Frank, only stopping when Alice had threatened to tell Sirius that Hestia was still a virgin and had been saving herself for him since fourth year. Lily and Marlene had laughed at this whilst Hestia just stuttered and turned an unhealthy shade of red.
Finally at seven Lily crawled out of bed and headed for the shower. The hot water relaxed her and she idly thought about how Alice had told her that Potter had not once stopped looking at her while she'd been crying. She didn't understand that at all. Surely watching her howling like a banshee to her friends wasn't something that made Potter hard. Who knows when its comes to that boy she thought violently, thinking about the time he'd baked her a cake of his own face for her birthday last year with the words, 'from your future husband' carved in the icing. Hestia had found this hilarious, as did Sirius until she smashed it on top of his head. After shampooing her red hair three times to try and avoid getting out of the shower she finally heard Alice waking up Hestia and Marlene and decided it was time to get out. Wrapping a towel around her she trudged back into the dorm with her hair dripping down her back.
"Morning Lils," Marlene mumbled as she trudged past Lily into the bathroom.
"Morning Marls," she replied, laughing at her friend's miserable expression. Marlene never had been an early bird.
"Morning Lily," Alice and Hestia chorused, being much better morning people than Marlene. She grinned back at them both and quickly dried her soaked locks with her wand, deciding to leave them down and curly today. All three girls then got dressed whilst listening to Marlene mutter grumpily to herself from the bathroom about how getting up this early should be illegal even though it was now nearly eight and they were going to be late for breakfast.
"Hurry up Marlene!" Hestia called. Her, Alice and Lily were now all fully ready and sat on their beds waiting for their less punctual friend to muster the energy to throw her robes on.
"I'm coming," Marlene snapped, appearing out of the bathroom with her hair in a messy bun and no make up on.
"You know what, you three just go down to breakfast and I'll meet you there okay?" she said to her friends as she scooped her uniform from the day before into her hands and once again disappeared into the bathroom. Lily just shrugged at the other two and they made their way out of the portrait hole and into the Great Hall which was already buzzing with conversation. The three of them took their seats and began filling their plates with food.
"So Alice, are you going to Hogsmede with Frank next trip?" Lily asked through a mouth full of pancakes.
"Yep," replied Alice cheerfully, her pixie face lighting up at the prospect of spending a full day with the guy she loved.
"I'm so jealous," moaned Lily. Alice smiled at her comfortingly.
"You'll find your Frank one day Lils," she said softly and then turned bright red as she realised what she'd just said.
"Aha! So you admit it! You are hopelessly in love with old Frankie!" Hestia crowed loudly, causing Lily to laugh and Alice to bury her head in her hands.
"Keep it down Hest!" Alice hissed from between her fingers "I don't think the rest of the school heard you!" she snapped sarcastically.
"Ooo, easy tiger," Hestia giggled causing Lily to laugh even harder. Alice's stern expression dropped then as well and she started laughing just as hard as Lily.
"Something funny ladies?" a voice drawled behind Lily and she didn't have to turn round to know who it was because Hestia's face had lit up across from her. Sirius Black, Lily thought bitterly resisting the urge to bang her head on the table and where there's Black there's…
"Evans you look stunning today," Potter.
She didn't look at him as he took the seat next to her but she felt his gaze. Alice looked uncomfortable as well and gave Lily a pitying glance as Black plopped down on the other side of her. Merlin must hate me, Lily thought savagely as she watched Sirius flash his thousand watt smile at Hestia who looked like she was about to melt into a puddle next to Alice's feet. Looking back at her pancakes she began stabbing at them violently and Potter chuckled next to her, pressing his leg into hers. She tried her best to ignore him and the flirting Sirius and Hestia and instead focused on Alice who had begun to ask Lily what she wanted for her birthday which wasn't until January.
"I was thinking of getting you something really special, you know because you're coming of age and everything," Alice was saying quietly. Lily smiled at her kind friend and did her best to pretend that Potter's hand wasn't currently travelling up her leg, slowly but surely.
"You don't have to get me much Alice, you know that," she murmured back as she gripped Potter's fingers and twisted them under the table causing him to yelp loudly.
Hestia and Sirius snapped out of their conversation and gave Potter a strange look while Alice just looked confused. Lily on the other hand felt extremely smug and turned to him with a dazzling smile.
"Something wrong Potter?" she asked silkily, trying not to laugh at his shocked expression. It didn't last long however and his trademark grin was soon plastered back onto his stupid face.
"No not at all Evans and have I told you that your hair looks gorgeous today?" he drawled reaching his hand out to touch her hair. Lily slapped it away and then saw Marlene galloping towards them looking as fresh as a daisy with her long brown hair now straightened to perfection. She looked slightly confused at the seating arrangement – she was probably looking for Remus to pop up any second - and sent Lily a questioning glance. Lily just grimaced in response and stamped on Potter's foot as he had now begun to play with her knee high socks she wore everyday with her skirt. He didn't yelp this time and just smirked at her before planting a swift kiss on her cheek and getting up; which was probably a good idea because Lily was beginning to resemble an enraged bull.
"Come on Pads, we have to meet Mooney and Wormy before we go to potions." He called out to his friend as he sauntered off; passing more than a few girls that stared at him longingly.
Sirius got up grumpily, bid the rest of the girls' farewell and reaching over to take Hestia's hand and planted a kiss on it. Lily tried to trip him up as he went past but he just skipped along and sent her a wink before catching up with Potter and disappearing out of the Great Hall.
"Well where was Remus?" Marlene said grumpily, "I've spent all of this time getting ready and he didn't even show up!"
Lily laughed at this and patted her on the back.
"How did you know the marauders were even going to join us Marls?" Alice asked.
"Well its obvious, now that Hestia's sort of dating Black their going to be round us all the time aren't they," Marlene stated, sending Hestia a grateful look although she didn't seem to be paying any attention and was just staring into space with an extremely dreamy look on her face.
"WHAT!" Lily shrieked.
"Merlin Lils, what have I told you about shouting like that!" Marlene groaned while Alice chuckled at Lily's furious expression.
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James smiled at Lily as he entered transfiguration with Sirius and got a dirty look in return. He didn't mind, she looked hot when she was mad. He was also still buzzing from the kiss he'd managed to plant on her perfect cheek this morning.
As he took his seat next to Sirius he winked at her, making no attempt to hide the grin on his face. They were sat right across from Lily and Marlene and James couldn't help but feel smug that he had snagged the spot. He knew the dope Jordan Bell would have probably wanted to sit here. Remus had filled James in over the holidays that he had overheard Bell telling his mate Gregory that he fancied Lily and was planning to ask her to go to Hogsmede with him as soon as they got back. Well James wasn't having any of that. Every male student at Hogwarts knew that Lily Evans was his and the few idiots that had tried to become her boyfriend over the last few years had always ended up in the hospital wing. There wasn't even anything special about Bell and he was no where near as good looking as James so he was sure Lily wouldn't give the berk the time of the day.
Sirius nudged him then and the two of them played magical hangman for the rest of the lesson while McGonagall droned on about transforming cups into cats. It wasn't like he or Padfoot needed to know any of this. They were both top of the class thanks to the fact that they could transform into a stag and a large black dog whenever they wished.
When the lesson finished he jumped out of his seat at the same time Lily did and sent her a grin when she scowled. The grin was wiped off his face however when Bell popped up in front of him and began to talk to Lily. Any minute now she's going to blow, he thought smugly but after five minutes of walking to defence against the dark arts he realised that his one and only love didn't seem to mind Bell at all and had even smiled back at him, James noticed in disgust. By the time they actually reached their classroom he was fuming and Sirius was looking at him curiously.
"What's up mate?" Sirius asked, ignoring the two fourth years that had just walked past gushing at him.
"That slimy git over there," James ground out. Sirius looked to the front of the class were Lily was sitting. Bell was sprawled out over the desk in full flow of some shitty joke. Sirius grinned and rubbed his hands together excitedly.
"That can be fixed my good friend," he whispered dramatically. Getting his wand craftily out of his pocket Sirius pointed it straight at Bell from under the table and suddenly Jordan had sprouted an elephant trunk that flopped onto Lily's table causing her to shriek. James and Sirius burst out laughing and watched as Bell stumbled out of the classroom followed by a concerned looking Professor Clay. Lily turned in her chair and gave both of them a dark look while Marlene tried to cover up her laugh from her friend. The rest of the day was uneventful for James apart from the run in with Bell as he exited the hospital wing which had cracked both him and Sirius up because the prat wouldn't even look at them and had scurried off at a hundred miles an hour.
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Lily waited for Remus in the common room with a smile on her face. She'd just sent James running with a well aimed hex to his backside. Tonight it was hers and Remus's turn to patrol and she was looking forward to it. Lily had been so proud last year when she'd received her prefects badge and the thrill of being able to take points away from snobby Slytherin's never faded. Midnight appeared out of nowhere and started to purr around Lily's leg clearly begging for food.
"Sorry cat but duty calls." Lily said fondly. Midnight gave her a disgusted look and trotted off.
"Hey Lils are you ready to go?" Remus called as he walked towards her smiling. She beamed back waving him over and together they walked out of the portrait hall. They walked around the halls in comfortable silence for a while.
"So Lily are you including me in your acceptance speech for your head girl badge?" Remus asked her teasingly and Lily rolled her eyes.
"Oh sure Rem, am I going to be in yours?" she replied.
"Well since I don't think Hogwarts wants a werewolf for a head boy I won't be making one will I," he said. It always bothered Lily when he talked like this because Remus was one of the best people she knew and the school would be lucky to have a head boy like him. She had known about Remus's condition for a year now. He'd told her after they'd become close during their patrols last year and she was glad he had. Remus always thought the worst of himself and he needed someone like Lily to help him realise he wasn't a monster.
"They'd be lucky to have you Remus, you know that right?" Lily said softly, looking at the sandy haired boy next to her.
"Thanks Lils. You know I get why James's is in love with you." He said grinning as Lily slapped him round the back of the head.
And that's chapter 3! I wanted to make it a bit longer than the first two and show more about my beloved characters (JK Rowlings) personalities. I still feel like I haven't really shown the strength of the boys friendships but I'll be focusing on that in the next couple of chapters. I also want to include Snape more because he was a big part of Lily's life and I don't think he should go without a fight! Anyways that's all for now folks, choooow:D