Disclaimer: I don't own anything but Charlie and Mel, everything else' is Jo's. Wish I did own it, but then again, I also wish that I lived in a mansion, with my sister showering me with gifts. But we can't have everything right?

A/N- this isn't the same person writing as last time. Its Sherin, last time Trisha wrote the chapter. So there may be different writing styles going on.

Chapter 2: Changing Times

"Bye Lils, have fun and work hard, okay?" Gloria Evans choked out.

"I will, and I will." Her daughter said smiling.

Her mother always said that when Lily went off to school. After her father died three years ago from a heart attack, Lily and her mom became very close friends and had more than just a mother-daughter relationship.

"And don't be so hard on James okay, for me?" her mother said with a smile.

"Arrgh, mom, I didn't need a reminder! And if he lays off of me, I won't make his conceited life miserable, and I shall resist the temptation to take a hammer and deflate that overly large head of his." Lily said with a malicious grin.

Lily told her mom everything, including everything about James Potter, ringleader of the "legendary" marauders at school and the boy she had grown to hate since first year. But ever since the day they met, he has been constantly asking her out.

Lily's mom laughed.

"Okay then, wish me good luck. Vernon is going to stay over for a while. I'll need to by the whole restaurant in order to fill up that man's stomach." She said quietly

It was Lily's turn to laugh.

"Okay then, good luck, have fun, and I have to go, or I'll be late!" Lily finished.

Mrs. Evans sighed. "Okay, bye sweetie."

"Bye, mom."

Lily ran through the barrier between Platforms 9 and 10 and arrived in front of the scarlet steam engine that would soon take her to her second home.

Lily closed her eyes and as soon as she did, they next second she found herself being tackled to the floor.

"LILY!" screamed the voice of her overjoyed friend on top of her.

"Let her breathe!" cried the voice of her other friend nearby.

"Oh, sorry."

Charlie Candon got off her, and Lily slowly got up. She had gotten used to it, since Charlie did the same thing every year. It was natural for her sporty personality. Once she got up, her sensitive friend, Mel Appleby asked her how her summer was.

" It was okay, but I only—"

"That's nice Lily, but we better hurry up if we don't want to share a compartment with the Marauders." Charlie interrupted with a fake sweet smile.

Mel and Lily rolled their eyes, but nevertheless went along. The last thing that they wanted was for them to get stuck in a compartment with the Marauders. That was Charlie and Lily's opinion. Mel had a crush on Remus and probably wouldn't mind, and their other friend, whom they still have yet to meet, Felicity Longbottom really didn't care and just went along with the girls' ideas, much like Peter Pettigrew did with the Marauders.

Once they managed to reach and empty compartment without any interruptions, (cough: Potter!) they plopped down on the seats and had a moment of silence until Felicity came in the door and sat down next to Mel.

"So, Charlie, how was Egypt?" Mel asked the fidgety girl.

"Wellll…."

Charlie continued with a sparkle in her chocolate brown eyes that hinted that she wouldn't stop talking for a while. (A/N- much like me)

But Lily wasn't listening. She was too busy mourning for her dad. Although it has been three years and she has gotten over it, she still had her moments.

Mel was listening to Charlie intently with a smile tugging at her lips.

Mel's real name was Melissa, but the girls shortened since she became the friend that they often looked to for advice. Her long, pin-straight, dirty-blonde hair fell loosely on her back and a strand of hair covering her soft, electric-blue eyes.

Felicity looked at Charlie, and was playing with her wavy, black hair, but her blue-gray eyes held a faraway look in them. Felicity wasn't in Gryffindor like the other girls and her twin brother Frank but she was in Hufflepuff and rarely hung out with them and when she did, she rarely spoke.

Charlie did not stop talking as was predicted. Her shoulder-length brown hair that tied up in a ponytail was swaying, as she acted out her story.

What would I do, without them? Lily asked herself

When Charlie got onto the topic of Quidditch, they knew it was time to change the subject.

"Hey Lily, don't we have a prefect's meeting?" Mel asked avoiding Charlie's eyes. Mel became a prefect this year along with Remus who was prefect since fifth year.

"Oh yeah, Lily became Head Girl this year didn't she?" Felicity asked slyly.

She grinned. "Yes, I did, and yes we have a meeting in three minutes." Lily answered.

" I wonder who is head boy?" Charlie asked hiding something.

"YOU KNOW WHO IT IS?" Lily screeched.

"Maybe." Charlie said grinning madly, unaffected by Lily's screams.

"ARRGGHH!" Lily knew it was no use trying to get it out of her because she wouldn't spill.

"Come on Lily, we have to get a move on," Mel said chuckling.

"Coming." And with another glare at Charlie they both left the compartment.

"Mel, do you know who it is?" Lily asked once outside.

"Honestly, no. But I wish I did."

"Maybe its Remus. He's responsible."

"Maybe."

At last they reached the meeting place. They opened the doors and stepped inside to find a few prefects sitting already.

Five minutes later, the Head Boy still was not there. I guess I had better get this show on the road.

Lily announced to the prefects, " I guess, we have to start this meeting without the Head Boy. First of all, I am the new Head Girl, Lily Evans…." Lily continued explaining the duties of the prefects all by herself. By the end of the meeting, Mel knew that it wasn't safe to speak, since Lily was pretty pissed.

She could tell that once she found out who the Head Boy was, she would give him a piece of her mind.

She did. Once the train stopped, Lily and her friends found an empty carriage. Lily was about to file in Charlie and Felicity about what happened at the meeting, when none other than James Potter and his partner in crime Sirius Black interrupted them.

Lily chose to ignore them and continue, for if she didn't then…who knows what would happen.

She proceeded to tell the girls about what happened, when she noticed that Charlie started giving Sirius dirty looks. She hated him as much as Lily did James, but what was different was that Sirius and Charlie both agreed that Lily and James should get together.

And their wish may come true, because as Charlie knew, Lily blew up when she learned that James Potter, THE James Potter, was Head Boy and was required to work with Lily for the rest of the year.

I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT—THAT THING--- WAS MADE HEAD BOY! THAT, ARROGANT, LITTLE---PRAT! Lily continued to mentally scream, but showed none of this on her face.

This scared her friends, and they agreed that they would keep quite, for they knew that at some point, Lily would speak.

The dinner was quite uneventful, except for the fact that Lily and Charlie both had to endure sitting in front of their enemies. Which was quite entertaining for both Mel and Remus.

Once, dinner was over the girls went up to their dormitory, and once they changed, each girl sat up on their bed, and waited for Lily to come back from her meeting with Dumbledore. That came pretty quick.

"What happened? Did James ask you out again?" Charlie rushed.

"We had a meeting with Dumbledore, and no, surprisingly he did not." Lily said while making her way to the bathroom to change.

Mel and Charlie exchanged looks.

"She has seen the light!" Mel whispered quietly.

"Finally!"

"Why, what happened?" Alice Brennan asked walking into the room.

Alice shared the dormitory with the girls, and was a very close friend of theirs, and therefore knew about Lily and James, just like the whole school did.

"Lily and James are Head Boy and Girl, and they just had a meeting with Dumbledore, and James forgot to come to the prefects meeting." Mel summarized.

"Oh. Okay, then. Where's Lily?"

"In the bathroom, changing."

"Okay."

Alice fell on her bed, and then sat up. Silence.

"Sooo, Alice, how's Frank?" Charlie asked grinning. Alice immediately turned crimson, and muttered something incomprehensible.

"What's that? I couldn't hear." Charlie loved teasing Alice about her crush on Frank since the third year.

"I said he is fine. I haven't talked much to him." Alice said now smiling.

"Oh, okay then."

Alice got up and examined her reflection in the mirror. An unusual girl looked back at her. Alice twirled around, admiring her dyed dark blue hair that had silver streaks in it, that matched her deep blue eyes. Her pretty, round face held a soft look and once Lily came back out, she sat back down.

"So Lily, how's James?" Alice asked tenderly.

"Fine, still a troublemaker no doubt." Lily said mindlessly.

The three girls exchanged looks.

"Ok, spill, what happened?" Mel asked.

"Nothing, James just asked me if I was going to stay in the Heads Room, and I agreed to, but if anything goes wrong, then I'll come back here."

The girls looked at her astounded.

"You – you just called him James!" Charlie screamed.

" I what—no! I mean Potter! Gosh, Charlie, I have to work with him for the rest of the year! I have to call him James!" Lily complained.

But Charlie didn't care. "And you agreed to live with him for the rest of the year!" Charlie exclaimed.

"When did I say that! I have my own room; we just share a common room! And if he hits on me just once, I am coming back here." Lily repeated.

"I cannot believe it!" Charlie said.

"Charlie, calm down! Lily has a right to stay in the Heads Room if she wants to." Mel reasoned.

"Thank you. Now if you don't mind, I am quite tired, and we have classes tomorrow, so I am going to go to bed." Lily said rather sharply.

Sheesh! All I said was that I was going to stay in the Heads Room, and Charlie got so worked up. It's not like I like James or anything, right?