Chapter 1

Pillows and Eggs

"POTTER!"

It was like the parting of the Red Sea. No one wanted to get in the way of an angry Lily Evans. Her fiery red locks whipped around her face, her emerald, almond-shaped eyes flashing as she took long strides across the Gryffindor common room. She finally reached her destination and stood glaring down at a lump on the couch. For someone just passing my, it would have appeared to be just a huge stack of pillows, but Lily could see the clump of raven hair sticking out at one end. Smirking, she moved her hand so that it was hovering over it, preparing to yank…

"Not so fast, Evans!" Lily shrieked as two hands shot out from the pillow pile and grabbed her arm. "Oh god, why is your arm sticky?!" James Potter exclaimed as he quickly withdrew his hands. His shimmering hazel eyes were hidden beneath orange tinted glasses with bright green rims, his signature grin plastered on his tan, delicately featured face. "Evans, you do know that you're covered in eggs, right?" He could practically see the steam shooting out of her ears as she opened her mouth to reply, but she couldn't make a sound before they heard a strangled shout.

"NOOOOOO! Prongs, what did you do?!" Sirius Black waved his hands in the air before turning to Lily accusingly. "Look what you made him do! You ruined our mountain of pillows! I was going to call it 'Pillow Mountain,'" he finished, staring off into the distance.

"What?!" Lily asked incredulously, temporarily forgetting her anger. "That's so stupid!"

Sirius just glared at her, but didn't respond to her "rude" comment. James, on the other hand, was thankful for the temporary distraction as he crept away slowly from the now bickering duo.

"Potter! Don't even think about moving! I'm not done with you yet!" Lily whipped her head around, and James was instantly reminded of a fire goddess. Wow, he thought, Lils looks hot when she's angry. Wait… aw, damn; she's yelling at me… hehe, the prank worked! Stupid Sirius. "…and are you even listening to me?" Lily finished softly, her eyes soft, yet searing through his skull as though she had X-ray vision. Oh, god, he's probably thinking up ways to get me in bed with him! Lily thought, disgusted. Ugh! Perv. "Hellooooo?" She waved her hand up and down in front of his face repeatedly, but got no response. "POTTER!" the redhead finally screamed.

"It was Sirius!" James yelled frantically, exposing his friend as the culprit of the prank. Sirius gave him a pouty puppy-dog face, but James just shrugged it off.

"Yeah, right," Lily scoffed. Her eyes lit up maliciously as she fingered the goopy egg yolk in her hair. Smirking, she grabbed a handful of it and got ready to throw.

"Oh no. Please, Lily, d-" James tried as egg connected with his cheek. He turned slowly and glared at Lily, grinning mischievously. "Oh, you know what this means, don't you, Miss Evans?"

"Sorry, but I'm afraid I don't, Mr. Potter," Lily mocked him. Suddenly, James leapt over the couch and tackled her to the ground. "Ahh! No- please-stop!" Lily panted out while James was tickling her. They rolled around for a few minutes, Lily gasping for breath, James ignoring her pleas, until he finally realized he was now covered in egg, too. He immediately jumped up, whipped out his wand, and cleaned himself off. Lily was still lying on the ground, eyes closed, arms bent out at awkward angles, legs spread out, breathing heavily. James stared at her for a little bit before pointing his wand at her.

"Scourgify." Lily opened her eyes slowly as she felt the egg disappear. She muttered a quick thanks with a furrowed brow and started to get up. She suddenly grabbed her side with a grimace and fell back down. James quickly ran over to her. "Are you okay?" he asked quietly.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I think you just tickled me too hard!" Lily tried to stand once again, but moaned and fell back down. Her long, red hair covered her face, but James knew she was trying to hide the pain written clearly on her face.

"Do you need to go to the Hospital Wing?" he gasped, stooping and stretching his arms out, as if to help her. She jerked away from him and jumped up immediately, instantly regretting it as pain shot through her side.

"I already told you I'm fine!" Lily snapped, her anger building up. Her green eyes flashed as she gazed at him, his hazel eyes filled with concern. No way, this was James Potter! But it certainly looked like it was concern. She limped away slowly towards the Girl's Dormitory. Lily was only at the second step when Sirius started to throw his hand repeatedly. James noticed that he stuck his hand in his pocket and extracted a chocolate chip cookie. He looked between Lily and Sirius and his eyes widened as he saw Sirius throw his arm back.

"No, Sirius, don't!" James yelled at him, but it was too late- he let go of the cookie and it flew straight and true to it's target-Lily's head. She stiffened an the eleventh step. Slowly, she turned around to glare at the two friends. Narrowing her eyes, she marched forward quickly. Two loud SMACK!s rang throughout the common room. Lily Evans had just slapped two Marauders; Sirius on the right cheek, James on the left, and they had smacked heads in the middle."Ow! Damn! Do you think she planned it like that?" Sirius asked furiously at James, trying to rub both his head and cheek at the same time. Lily smirked and turned around to run off. Her friends, Eve and Amorita, scurried up after her to the Girl's Dormitories. Remus slowly walked up to his fellow Marauders, as he had watched the whole scene with Amorita and Eve.

"I wonder if Lily's okay," he thought out loud. "I wish I could go talk to her. Damn stairs," he muttered as an afterthought. His sandy hair fell smoothly over his pale face as he thought.

"Hey! We're your friends!" James inputted. He was astounded that Remus would care more about Lily-the girl he cared about- more than his best friends!

"Yeah, well, Lily's my friend too. You both know something was up with her," Remus pointed out.

"Mood swings!" Sirius sang. He danced around the common room a bit, making a few fourth years giggle hysterically. Meanwhile, the girls were having a little chat of their own upstairs in their dorm…

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