A.N Sorry for the wait. I had tons of tests and projects all at once around this time (teachers are ruthless) and I had major writers doubt, where I thought what I was writing is stupid.

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Chapter 2. Confusion

Lily ran out of the great hall the newspaper still clutched tightly in her pale fists. Lily went to a little side corridor just out of the main entrance, and away from any stray prying eyes. She sighed and sank against the smooth cold stonewall of the corridor that supported Hogwarts, and un-crumpled the daily prophet.

Smoothing it out against the tops of her thighs she re-read the article about the Hogan's death. The paper explained their deaths exactly how she had seen them in her dream, except in her dream she had not known that is was more than a dream. Her eyes clouded with tears at the thought of their horribly tragic deaths.

Lily raised a trembling hand to comb through her ruby locks, and let out a shaky breath. Her thoughts were all jumbled up, and running into each other at every turn. Was it just a coincidence that she had the dream about someone's deaths? Should she tell anyone about it? And the biggest question Lily had in her mind was, will it happen again?

Lily hastily decided that she would tell no one about this, it was probably was just a coincidence, right? She clambered to her feet, stumbling just at the same time she heard her name being called out by Amanda.

She took a deep breath, brushed imaginary dust of her Hogwarts uniform and steadily made her way to Amanda, trying to look as normal as possible.

"There you are Lily, I have been looking everywhere for you!" Exclaimed Amanda when she saw her best friend emerge out of one of the side corridors.

"Do you have your potions book?" She asked innocently, looking at Lily's unusually pale face, which was turning slightly pink at the obvious perception of her potions lie.

"Um…well no. I just remembered that we don't have potions today," responded Lily quickly with guilt written all over her face. "I was just coming back to the great hall to - finish breakfast, I am still quite hungry. "

Contrary to what Lily just said she was not at all hungry, and she felt at this rate her appetite would never come back. She just hoped that her best friend would not pick-up on her river of un-believable fibs. Amanda looked straight into Lily's startling green eyes, knowing something was wrong with Lily. Lily looked down at her feet.

"Oh, okay, whatever you say Lily." Said Amanda clearly still not believing her.

Lily cringed inwardly at having to lie to her best friend who had stood by her side at every rough turn that had occurred in her six previous years of being at Hogwarts.

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Meanwhile, in the great hall there was much angst over where Lily had disappeared too, especially by the Marauders. Okay, well mainly James. If you looked over at them all seated in the middle of the Gryffindor eating table you would see one face contorted of worry, one of calm reasoning, one of annoyance that was otherwise occupied by numerous amounts of food, and one that was utterly unaware of his surroundings outside the mixture of food that was resting on his plate.

"Why do you think she ran out of the great hall, Moony?" James asked with a hint of desperation in his voice, panicking at the thought of not knowing where his love was for more than a minute.

"I really don't know…"

"I mean what if she was hurt. Maybe a family member died. Do you think that happened? Should I go comfort her? Was she crying?" James paused and flicked his hair back "Moony answer me!" James interrogated heatedly, barely breathing.

"James, I don't think any of that happened, and no you should not run after her because, you will probably make a fool of yourself and get slapped in the process. So stay here and finish eating your breakfast." Remus's reply was calm, firm, and exact. He always knew exactly what to say to James, he knew him so well.

"You really do sound like a worried little mother hen, Moony!" Commented Sirius having just finished a shovelful of scrambled eggs.

"How would you even know what a worried mother hen sounds Padfoot? As far as I know hens don't speak!" James commented only just having been distracted from his thoughts about Lily for a second, but long enough to hear the comment Sirius had just made.

"It's a muggle expression James, surely you knew that." Remus replied logically.

"Xaftl'!!" Sirius shouted.

"EW! Sirius, say it don't spray it!" James shrieked sounding very much like a disgusted girl, turning a few heads in their direction.

This outburst caused Remus to start sniggering at the idiocy of his friends. Sirius burst out laughing at James's voice, spraying even more food everywhere. This made James shriek louder causing even more heads to turn in the Marauder's direction, and for Peter to snap out of the trance his food had seemed to hold him in.

"I like rubber ducky's!" Peter said not really knowing what was going on, but wanting his say in it anyway.

"What?" James asked, laughing at his friend.

This statement also caused Sirius to stop spraying his companions with food and for Remus's snigger to turn into full out laughter. The friends then laughed in unison, spilling pumpkin juice over the table with shaking hands.

At all of this drama the people sitting around them rolled their eyes and got back to eating the food on their plates, for this was not an unusual thing that happened every single morning during breakfast. These were the famous Marauders, now laughing joyfully with nothing troubling in their minds.

Yet as James laughed along with his best friends, he still remembered Lily, and wondered what had happened to make her run out like a frightened deer. Whenever Lily was in trouble, he found it hard to concentrate on other things, like being happy. He needed his friends.

And so this was how the infamous Marauders started their first day at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

A.N Please tell me what you think, and I am sorry it is so short, but am really trying to make them longer but it is so hard! Sorry. And thank you for reading it.

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