Chapter 13 – The Feast.

When all of a sudden James smiled "You know what, how about we go back an hour and pretend none of this happened. And we can call this truths for the whole Quidditch thing."

"You know I think that's a great idea." Lily smiled a large warm smile and James took her hand and they walked back up to the compartment.

Walking back into the compartment the conversation suddenly died, Sirius, Remus and Issy, were looking at the pair, wanting to know if they should get ready to finish the ride in silence or if Lily and James had made it back up again. But looking at the pair smiling it was evident that they had managed once again to put the past behind them.

Looking around Lily noticed that they were all in their school robes, then realised that she had yet to get dressed.

"Oh were going to be there in a minute and I haven't got my robes on!" Lily screeched rushing past James getting ready to rind her trunk to rummage in.

"Lils, I've got your robes here, quick go put them on." Lily ran out of the compartment and came back in five minutes later fully dressed in her uniform and pinning on her shiny red Prefect badge, just as the train started to slow down.

"Sirius this is all your fault!" Lily said looking up from robes towards Sirius.

"My fault. How is it my fault? Hold on what is my fault?"

"Its always your fault. Learn to live with it." Sirius looked at Lily quizzically and confused for a moment, before turning to look at Issy wordlessly asking if this was normal. Issy just smiled in return and walked towards her friend, linked arms then walked out of the compartment and step onto the platform at Hogsmead, shortly followed by the three guys.

Making their way through the thong of people, the five teenagers made their way to the horseless carriages, and took a seat in an empty one. Lily somehow found herself squashed between, Sirius and Remus, with Issy and James sitting comfortably on the other side of the carriage.

"Looking a little squashed their Lils." Issy laughed looking at her friend. In return Lily just shot a glare at her friend, wiggling around and some how managing to squash herself closer to Sirius trying to make herself comfortable.

"Why don't you just sit on my lap?" Sirius laughed as lily tried pushing him out of the way. But without Lily realising it Sirius lifted her up and placed her on his lap. "Now stop wiggling will you."

"I hope the sorting doesn't take to long I'm starving." James said aloud.

"What you just ate a mountain of food!" Issy looked at James bewildered.

"Were growing young men." Remus said laughing.

Before Long they were all climbing out of the carriage and walking up the stone, steps through the large wooden entrance doors and made their way across the entrance hall towards the great hall.

Once in the great hall Lily smiled the usually four house tables were there and students were already filling up the seats, talking to their friends, and yelling over to friends in other houses. Walking along the hall towards the Gryffindor table Lily could see students turning and looking obviously, the news of Lily being friends with the famous Marauders had spread extremely quickly.

"Just ignore them, they will soon all find something better to talk about." Issy said in Lily's ear as they took a seat near the middle of the table, and the boys soon joined them taking the spare seats around them.

Before long the students in the hall became silent as the great doors flew open, and Professor McGonagall walked down between the tables carrying a three legged wooden stool in one hand and a tatty looking hat in the other. Following her down were the many first years, some looking pale, other looking confident, and a few who were looking extremely overwhelmed.

Once the hat was placed on the stool at the far end of the table the sorting hat burst out into song. Singing about the different houses, which the students could be sorted into. Straight after the whole of the hall clapped until Professor McGonagall cleared her throat.

"Right when I call your name, you will come forward, and place this hat on your head. Right then Jordan Banes." A young nervous looking boy walked up to the stool took the hat and placed it on his head. Within seconds the hat shouted out Hufflepuff.

The Hufflepuff table erupted in applause as the young boy walked quickly over and sat himself down at the end of the table. Soon enough their was only one young girl left, walking up to the stool, and putting the hat on her head, the sorting hat took a moment before calling out "Gryffindor." The young girl smiled and rushed over to the Gryffindor table where she took the last available seat.

Dumbaldore got to his feet and once again the students in the hall became silent.

"I gather you must all be hungry, so lets eat." With a wave of his hand the four house tables became covered in plates of food. Straight away Sirius grabbed the closest plate of mash potatoes, and started piling it onto his plate, and then pushing that plate back, he grabbed the chicken legs and started to pile them onto his plate. Lily had stopped midway of putting a spoon full of carrots on her plate to watch Sirius piling as much food onto his plate as humanly possible.

"How much food can you fit on one plate?" Lily asked looking at Sirius with her eyebrows rose.

"Lily there is, nothing, nothing, more important then a proper meal." Sirius said looking over at Lily's plate, which only had a few carrots, and a pie on it.

"Lils you get used to his bizarre eating habits after a while." Remus laughed putting a fork full of mash potato in his mouth.

"I don't think anyone can ever get used to that!" Issy laughed looking at Sirius now put a large fork full of mash potato into his mouth.

Before long, everyone had eaten until there stomachs were full, and even Sirius couldn't manage to eat another spoon full of cake. The plates on all the tables then disappeared and Dumbaldore once again got to his feet, and the whole of the hall became silent.

"Mr Filch would like me to remind you that spells are not allowed in the hallways, the complete list of forbidden items can be found on his office door, if you wish to check, I do believe there are one hundred and ten items, to date.

I would also like to remind new students and some older ones that the forbidden forest is out of bounds to all students." Dumbaldore looked over towards the middle of the Gryffindor table.

"Now I am sure that you are all tired from you journey, and all wanting a good nights sleep, so that you can be refreshed for your lessons in the morning." Dumbaldore's eyes were twinkling as the students started to rise from the benches heading off towards their prospective common rooms.

Lily stood up, feeling bloated and tried, walked to the end of the Gryfindor table where the first years were starting to get up.

"Right first years follow me, I'll show you to the common room." Lily said looking around at the first years, then up the table to see Remus attempting to get out of his seat, then Sirius pushing him back into his seat once again. This continued till Lily yelled up the table to Sirius.

"Oi Sirius never knew you liked the opposite sex in that way!" Lily said this as Sirius had his arm around Remus's shoulder keeping him in his seat.

Instantly James roared with laugher as Sirius dropped his arm from around Remus's shoulder and looked murderously towards Lily.

"I like men, as much as you like prongs here." Sirius smirked.

"You like them quiet a lot then." Lily grinned for a moment until it registered what she had just said. Lily glanced at James who had stopped laughing, and now was looking at Lily a little shocked.

Looking around the great hall Lily could see people staring at her, some looking at her as if she had grown a third head, others with jealousy, and few who were just curious at what was going to happen.

"Well, follow us then, we'll show you to the common room and dormitories." Remus said looking towards Lily who was now blushing furiously and turning redder then her hair.

"Thanks Remus." Lily smiled as they walked along the corridor towards the portrait of the fat lady.

"Anytime."

"Right this is the portrait of the Fat Lady, which leads to the common room and dormitories." Lily turned to look at all the first years, which seemed to be trying to take in everything around them. "Willow." Lily said to the fat lady, who bowed and the portrait opened allowing the group to walk through into the common room.

Walking into the common room Remus told the first years where their dormitories were, before walking over to the couch where James, Sirius and Isabel were sitting, chatting in front of the fire. Lily stood where she was for a second, deciding if she wanted to join them, or run and hide in her bed until the morning, when hopefully everyone would have forgotten what happened half an hour ago, but going against her better judgment Lily walked slowly over to the group.

"Ah Lily there's a nice spot for you next to James. I knew you would like to sit next to him, since you like him an all." Sirius laughed watching Lily blush, as she walked past the seat next to James and sat on the rug, resting her back against the chair, where Isabel's feet would have been, but Isabel had her legs curled underneath her.

"You tricked me into saying that! If I had said that you couldn't like men, I would have hurt James's feelings by saying I don't like him. So what choice did I have? And now I bet everyone thinks that I like you, I mean really like you! Sirius this is all your fault!" Lily exclaimed after she had finished rambling. Sirius was looking shocked, and amused at Lily's little speech.

"So what your trying to say, forgive me if I'm wrong Lillian is that you don't really like Prongs, you just said it not to hurt his feelings." Sirius said this smirking once again, liking how easy it was to embarrass and wind Lily up, but most of all listening to Lily trying to talk her way out of it.

James was looking intrigued as to what Lily had to say; Isabel was trying not to laugh at Lily's predicament while Remus was looking at Lily with sympathy knowing that Sirius wasn't going to let Lily off lightly.

"No, I don't not like James, I just, I only like him as a friend that's all! And DON'T CALL ME LILLIAN." Lily shouted the last part at Sirius hoping that it might sink in.

"Who ever said anything about liking him more then a friend?" Sirius asked innocently, looking at James who was laughing and shaking his head.

"Ahhh I've had enough I'm going to bed." With that Lily jumped up off the floor and stormed off up the stairs to the girls dormitory.

"I think I'm going to go after her. Night." Isabel said getting up from the chair and walking up the stairs towards her dormitory.

"Well Padfood you do have the knack of making ladies leave." James laughed at his friend who picked up the cushion off the chair and throw it at him.

"Very mature."

Up in the dormitory Lily had already got herself changed into a pair of green starry pyjamas, and was vigorously brushing her teeth when Isabel entered.

"Lils, you know he was doing it on purpose." Issy said sympathetically to her friend who had now finished brushing her teeth and had thrown herself down onto Issy's bed.

"I know, he can just be so annoying at times." Lily sighed laying back looking up at the ceiling.

"Well I'm going to get changed, then your gonna tell me everything that happened over the summer." Issy smiled rummaging in her trunk, pulling out a pair of blue pyjamas with monkeys on them.

"So, how did you and James become such good friends?" Issy asked quizzicality, flopping down onto the bed next to Lily as their other dorm mates were lazing around chatting to one another.

"Well it was kindda what I said on the train, but well I was sitting in the park, by myself, when he came over, and well it just carried on from there. He made me face up to things that I didn't want to face up to. James was just there when I needed a shoulder to cry on, and was there when I wanted to do something and block out everything. He turned out to be the total opposite to what I though he was Issy, I feel bad now for all the things I said." Lily sighed still staring straight ahead of her.

"Well he did do some horrid stuff to you, so I wouldn't be feeling too bad. But Sirius and Remus don't seem that bad either."

"Sirius is alright, just likes to annoy me, and I have always got on with Remus, his lovely." Lily looked over at Issy who was smiling broadly.

"So does this mean that Miss Evans is becoming a Marauders groupie?" Issy laughed looking at Lily who was smiling.

"You know it looks like we are doesn't it." Lily laughed getting up from her bed and walking over to her own. "Well, I need my beauty sleep, don't want to be grumpy on my first day." Lily laughed getting between the sheets and closing the curtains around her bed.

"Night Lils." Issy yawned doing the exact same as Lily.

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Hey – First off so sorry I haven't up dated soon been sooooo busy, doing coursework. Thank you for the reviews.

Thanks Tanja for pointing out the spelling mistake because I did actually find that way of spelling it from a website, and I don't have the books to cross-reference anything at the moment.

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