A/N: Next update! I hope everyone is enjoying this story- I particularly like this chapter. It has a lot of fluff, but some things that will be important later on, too.

I owe thanks to my reviewers, new ones and old! You guys are great! I also got a review wondering about what the French titles are. I think I explained in a chapter before what they meant, but I haven't since, so I'll translate now. Chapter four translates to "Never Again" or "Never Still", 5 is Four Gryffindors, Six is Christmas, and Seven is "Mrs. Potter and the Visitor." This one means "Time Passes."

Disclaimer: I think by now you know I don't own Harry Potter, so this shouldn't be needed again.

A week passed. And it was the last day before everyone had to return to Hogwarts. Lily sat on her bed, gathering all the things she would need. Nothing eventful had happened in the week. Alice and Sirius were still going out; James was still lunging after her; and Frank would get so annoyed with Alice and Sirius that he had left on his third day there. And Lily had spent the whole of her time there crying over the loss of Daddy.

She would sit on her bed, thinking of him. Of things he used to do. And even the funny things he did still made her cry. She had read a quote somewhere, probably on the tree, "Don't cry because it's gone; smile because it happened." And she tried to. She tried to smile that she had a Daddy for most of her life. But it only made her cry more.

As if on queue to continue her distress, Potter walked in.

"Get out," Lily hissed, throwing a pillow at his head. "Go join Alice and Sirius and form an ultimate threesome."

James sniggered. "Sorry," he replied, "I only wanted to talk to you. Apparently Miss Evans is too sensitive about herself to notice that everyone else-"

"I said OUT!" Lily roared. "You're such an obnoxious git, James Potter! Just go and do your stupid pot!"

James, obviously sensing that Lily was distressed, left the room. Shit, he thought, that should be a rule in every guy's life. Do not disturb any girl who has a severe case of PMS. Particularly if you're in love with that girl.

The next day the four returned to King's Cross station to venture back to Hogwarts. Lily was quite happy about that; she was tired of having to cater to everyone in her house; two of whom she didn't like that much. She hated having to spend time with obnoxious Potter. He was nice to her, true, but then he could be so dang pratty. And, Lily would constantly remind herself, he was so full of himself that he thought by hexing people he would get what he wanted. Oh, once Voldemort was gone she wouldn't be surprised if Potter was the next thing in the dark wizard news.

She bid farewell to her mum and Petunia, who had reluctantly gone on her mother's orders. And then she got on the train, heading straight to the prefect's section.

"Hello, Remus," Lily smiled. He nodded at her, as they got on. It wasn't required for prefects to attend this meeting, as a good deal of them stayed at Hogwarts for the holidays, but it seemed that everyone had managed to show up- perhaps Hogwarts wasn't such a popular Christmas resort. They all sat in front of Dorcas Meadowes and Elphias Doge, the Head Boy and Girl. Lily admired them a lot; for they had so much work to do and kept all of the Prefects in line.

"Prefects," said Dorcas, her voice crisp and clear. "Welcome back. As you probably have guessed, all of the houses have had their password changed, and we shall pass out papers regarding to your specific house." Dorcas flicked her wand, and a paper appeared in front of everybody. Lily picked it up. In gold, glittering letters read the phrase "Fortis Quad Fidelis."

"As you all know, you are to alert your fellow house members of the password change," added in Elphias. "Or you will have a lot of unhappy students come tomorrow morning."

A few prefects chuckled; some just smiled.But on the most part they awaited for more. Doracs caught sight of Lily and smiled.

"As we all know, Miss Lily Evans had a spot of trouble when she was on her night time prefect duty," Dorcas mentioned, in which everyone turned their heads towards Lily, as if they had totally forgotten. "To help ensure this doesn't happen again, all prefects will guard at night in pairs; the two prefects of the same house and year go together. If one of the pair is for some reason unavailable, either Elphias or I shall be in charge to go with the other." Everyone nodded, and then they were dismissed.

Lily didn't want to be with Alice; for obviously she was in the compartment with James, and such forth, so she walked into an empty one. It was nice being alone, Lily thought. She got to change without the discomfort of leaving the compartment, and could look at her pictures of her and Daddy alone- for once James Potter wasn't there to bother her. And when they stopped at Hogwarts, Lily got off the train, alerting all Gryffindors of the password change.

"Cool ,I love Latin passwords," remarked a fourth year, who was obviously bragging to all of his friends that he knew Latin. Lily shook her head. Boys. Always trying to impress.

At the welcome back feast, Lily stationed herself between Bridget White and a burly seventh year that she didn't know. Bridget was in her year, and she was the most intriguing person ever. With short, cropped yellow hair (it wasn't quite blond, like Alice's) and startling grey eyes, she wasn't exactly very pretty, but Lily called her a good friend, considering they shared the same room at Hogwarts.

"We missed you, Lily," said Bridget in a sing-song voice. She didn't say much else, but lifted a roll and began to butter it. Lily glanced at her nails. Once coated in what seemed to be dark red nail polish, they were now chipped and looked like Bridget had peeled some of it off. Lily still mustered a smile as she, too, reached for a roll.

As if stabbing the poor roll, Lily thrust the knife into it, spreading butter. She hadn't noticed she was applying it too aggresively until Bridget spoke up.

"Is it something that James Potter did?" Bridger asked, her rather immense eyes twinkling. "I don't know about you, Lily dear, but I certainly would have loved to have him at my house over vacation." Bridget smiled; flashing her beautiful pearly whites, as if encouraging Lily to speak.

"He's just- such an- inconsiderate jerk," Lily said, in between bites of her roll. "And if any girl has the hots from him, I pity her."

She hadn't noticed James Potter was in back of her.

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"Just give him a chance," Alice said to Lily when they were alone in the common room, "he cares about you. He's just a prat because he doesn't know what else to do."

Lily crossed her arms.

"All Potter is interested in is how to whoo a girl," spat Lily. "Isn't Sirius?"

"No!" Alice screeched almost instantly. "Sirius loves me. He loves me because who I am, and he loves me because I've got a great personality. And you should know that!"

"Oh, when do you guys actually talk?" questioned Lily, her eyebrows dancing across her face. Alice seemed to get annoyed.

"You know, Lils, just because you've never actually dated, doesn't mean that I can't!" Alice screeched. Her eyes seemed to burn a whole through Lily's stomach, and Lily jumped off her seat.

"All you guys do is snog! Snog, snog, snog. I mean, Sirius wouldn't be too hard to replace! Just buy yourself a trumpet and put a wig on it! It'll have the same purpose!"

And then Alice stormed away, back up to the room. Lily, however, stayed on the couch.

When will Alice see that Frank is so much better for her? Frank is constantly asking her out- he tells his friends how much he loves her, he'd talk to her and not just treat her like shit, like Sirius does by just using her as a sport for his tongue, besides, he's really good at Transfiguration…Oh, shit. Am I really being this hypocritical?

But Lily- even though everyone said she loved James on the inside- was sure that she didn't. She really didn't like him at all. But things could change, and seasons could change… and before she knew it, she was taking her first O.W.L.

A/N: I bet you can all guess who Bridget is? Haha. Give you three guesses :)

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