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"Get in here Potter!" a sharp voice interrupted his thoughts "If you're want to be Head Boy your going to have to attend the meetings!"

James followed Lily into the compartment and sighed. 'This is going to be one hell of a year.'

Chapter 3: Maybe

"Lily Potter. Lily Evans-Potter. That sounds nice. But what if she wants to keep her last name? Then she'd still be Lily Evans. Bugger."

James stared blankly at Lily, his eyes glazed over and a stupid smile on his face. Remus nudged him in the ribs but he didn't notice.

"You will patrol the corridors regularly, and always with a partner. Most likely, you will be paired with the other prefect from you own house. Do you have any-" Lily paused and crossed her arms "James?"

She waved her hand in front of his face. Nothing. One of the new prefects giggled and Lily smiled at her briefly.

She snapped her fingers in his face a few times "Potter. Hello? Earth to Potter? Are you there? Hello?"

She tapped his face lightly with her hand and he immediately grabbed her wrist, coming out of his trance. She yelled and the Prefects laughed.

Lily yanked her hand away from him and turned back to the 15 year olds surrounding her.

"As I was saying, do you have any questions?"

They all muttered "No" or shook their heads and Lily said cheerfully, "All right then! You can go."

The small room filled with the sounds of shuffling feet and quiet chatter, though moments later it was completely empty except for James, Lily, and Remus.

"Why do you even bother coming to these meetings Moony?" James said "Everyone besides us three were fifth years." He leaned back and put his hands behind his head.

"Well," Remus said slowly, "That would be because none of the other sixth or seventh year Prefects are responsible enough to show up for the meetings."

Lily smiled at him and said, "I'm glad you came."

James snapped his head and stared intently at Lily. 'She doesn't like Moony does she?' he thought frantically.

"What about me?" he asked, his hand jumping to his hair, "Are you glad I came?"

She rolled her eyes again. "Not really."

His heart lifted and sunk simultaneously. She didn't like Moony, but she sure as hell didn't like him either.

"Oh," he looked at his hands, "Sorry."

Again, Lily was surprised. Just as before, she had expected him to say something stupid or big-headed, which usually made her mad. And again, he was polite.

Lily stared dazedly at James until Remus said "Uh, I'm going back to our compartment ok?" He got up and left the room leaving, Lily and James alone.

Lily snapped out of her daze and turned to leave but James stopped her. "Lily?" He asked timidly.

She looked at him and he said "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

Lily hesitated. Usually James was crazy, loud and obnoxious but today he seemed different. In a good way.

"Sure," Lily murmured

She sat down opposite James and there was an awkward silence.

Then James tried to clear his throat and said "Why do you hate me Lily?"

Lily twisted her hands in her lap. "I don't hate you."

"You don't?" His voice sounded hopeful.

"I don't. You're just really annoying sometimes." She said bluntly

"I'm sorry." He said, "If I stopped being so annoying would you give me a chance?"

Lily crossed her arms. "Maybe." She said

"Maybe?" he asked hopefully

"Maybe." She said again, this time smiling.

James stood up. "We should get back. They'll be waiting for us.

When they returned to their compartment Emily, Remus, and Sirius had changed into their Hogwarts robes and uniforms. Emily's nails had been clumsily painted and now Sirius was separating her hair into pigtails. She grinned when a smiling Lily and James opened the door. Remus looked up and continued to pick lint off his robes and Sirius ignored them completely. He was very concentrated on Emily's hair, his tongue poking out from between his teeth.

"Hi guys," Emily said cheerfully, "You should probably get into your robes; we'll be arriving any minute now.

"All right. I'll just go to the loo and change there." Lily grabbed her bag and slipped out the door.

James collapsed into a seat.

"Oh my god, Moony, it worked! It worked, it worked!" he cried, his hands in the air.

"It worked?" Sirius said excitedly

"What worked?" Emily asked curiously but her voice was lost amidst shouts of "It worked!" from Sirius and James as they pranced in circles around her.

She crossed the room to sit next to Remus and looked bewilderedly him.

"I told James that if he asked Lily to be friends she might like him more," he explained

Emily gasped "Really? Oh James that's wonderful! I knew she'd come 'round!"

She then proceeded to dance around with James and Sirius.

When Lily returned to the compartment, now robes and uniform clad, she found her friends up and getting ready to leave the train. James had, at some point in time, gone to change as well and was now retrieving his trunk from the overhead bin.

When Lily reached for hers he grabbed her forearm. "Allow me," he said in a rather debonair tone of voice and gave her a mock bow. She giggled and he smiled broadly back as he placed her trunk on the floor.

Behind both of their backs, Emily and Sirius grinned at each other.

Unknown to any of them, it had started raining, harder and harder and they neared Hogwarts. It happened so gradually that none of them noticed.

But when they dragged their trunks to the door of the train they noticed; they definitely noticed.

By then it was pouring so hard that first years were practically being driven into the ground like railroad spikes. James laughed at the thought.

Lily had grabbed her coat and was now bundling herself up very tightly and waterproofing her trunk; Emily on the other hand was staring unhappily out into the rain.

"Well, this sucks." She whined. "None of us have umbrellas! How will we get to a carriage without getting completely soaked?" Sirius laughed.

"This is how, darling Emily!" He then made a grand sweeping motion with his wand, said, "repello unda" and stepped out into the rain completely dry. Rain droplets were rolling off the invisible umbrella of air that was now floating above his head. He let out another bark like laugh.

Lily laughed too. "Oh I forgot you were in advanced charms with me. I forgot about that spell too." After stowing her trunk on the rack beside the door, she imitated him and started walking towards the carriages.

"Wait!" James called after her. She turned and he ducked down to join her in her little dry patch, and they shuffled off towards the carriages, trying not to trip on each other's feet and blushing profusely.

A/N: okie Doke. Chapter 4, coming right up!