When the scarlet steam engine, better known as the Hogwarts Express, arrived at the Hogsmeade station, it was raining Nifflers and Kneazles outside. Wind and rain slashing into the train violently, intimidating the students with wild shrieks of wind. Everyone was screaming and sprinting to the carriages as best they could, hands above their heads running for cover.

Lily, Remus, and Alice were the only prefect left, to ensure everything was going smoothly in the organized chaos, they were now faced with.

While Lily, Remus, and Alice were frantically running around helping people, the Marauders (minus Remus of course), Lauren, and Morgan were heading towards a familiar voice. Near the thrashing waves of the Black Lake, stood a half-giant game keeper of Hogwarts.

"Firs' Years! Firs' Years ove' here! Firs' Years!" Hagrid yelled cheerfully. His booming voice could be heard over the loudest of shrieks, from the wind itself.

"HAGRID!" James cheered, while running up to the half-giant embracing him, while Hagrid gave him a rib-crushing hug of a lifetime.

"How's the puppy Fang?" Sirius inquired, exited. He had an abnormal love for animals. Especially dogs. (A/N: I wonder why that is... Hmmm thinks in mock wonder)

"Eh' he's jus' thrivin'. Growin' like a weed, he is." Hagrid replied happily, bouncing on the balls of is feet.

"Firs' Years!" he bellowed again. "So James, I heard 'yeh made Head Boy this year. Shouldn't 'yeh be helpin' Lily?"

"Oh crap! I'll see you guys later!" James yelled over is shoulder, sprinting towards the carriages. He occasionally stopped, and chatted with people he knew, that realized no matter how fast they ran they were still going to get soaked. After about ten minutes he remember he was supposed to be looking for Lily. He ran around for the better half of five minutes without any luck.

Eventually he just gave up and sat down comfortably in an empty carriage. Soon it was filled with ditzy Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff girls in his fan club. Now he knew he should have just went with Remus when he told him to. He felt an immense amount of pressure on this theigh. He snapped out of his daze to find two girls, sitting on his lap twirling their hair around their fingers in a suductive manner.

"James? You know, I need some help in Transfiguration. Maybe you could... help me." A girl named Claudia said suductively. She was a blonde haired, brown eyed girl. She must have been the worst in their year he thought, but was to polite to turn her down in front of her friends.

"Erm, sure Claudia. Anything for you." Then smiled his signature cocky smile, the charmed the girls to be weak at the knees. Every girl but Lily.

"Aw! Thanks Jamie! You are sssooo sweet!" praised Claudia.

"You know James, if you ever just want to hang out, I'm always open." The other girl on his lap named Sophia said, while the other girls in their carriages glared jealously.

The carriage finally got to the school, after five torturous minutes for James. Once he stepped out he spotted a girl standing in the only dry spot in sight. His girlfriend Renee was looking through the crowd with raoming eyes, undoubtedly looking for a special somebody.

"Renee!" Her head looked around for the deep voice that yelled her name.

"James!" she squealed pulling off running towards him shoving through the crowd, in four inch heals, without any problems.

"I missed you ssooo much this summer. You never owled me!" she pouted.

"I thought you loved me."

"I do! I do! It's just I was really, really busy this summer. I got Head Boy, so my dad made me read his old handbook, seeing as I never follow the rules." He explained hastily. In reality it only took an hour. He never gave Renee a second thought over the summer. He was to busy causing mayhem with the Marauders, and torturing his little sister with Sirius. She was going into her fifth year this year.

"Oh, well you could have at least scribbled a short letter to me telling me that! I was so worried you like... died or something." she finished solemnly.

"If I died, don't you think I would have told you?" He joked lightly, stroking her cheek. She apparently didn't find the sarcasm.

"You know. You're right. I'm so sorry I ever doubted you, pookie." bringing him into another hug, then a sweet kiss. Now James didn't really like Renee all that much. At the end of last year he thought he couldn't leave school without a girlfriend. The thought of him going home over the summer without a girlfriend sounded foreign to him at the time. Now he thought it just sounded stupid replaying his thoughts in his head. Renee was just another one of his fan girls that he snogged with, then broke their hearts, as a tool to get over a particularly nasty fight that he and Lily would have.

Renee saw the dazed look her boyfriend had in his eyes, and decided to break his thoughts. She pulled him into a petty, passionate kiss. To her pleasure his eyes snapped into reality at the feel of her lips on hers.

'Her lips taste really good' James thought. They're so glossy, and they taste like cherry chap stick. While they stood rooted to the spot kissing, things got more heated for Renee. She started running her hands through his hair, and she was giving his little kisses down his jaw line. Suddenly he pulled away.

"Come on. Lets go up to the feast." He said. "I'm starving. I didn't even get a big breakfast. Lily woke me up five minutes before we had to leave. Five minutes!" he exclaimed trying to keep walking. There was a problem though. Renee was clasping his hand very tightly and was just standing by the steps, with a stony expression.

"You were at Lily's house. Lily EVANS? Doesn't she hate you? Because last time I checked you guys ended the year in a duel. Remember that? You lost. She cursed your head to be inflated five times it's normal size." Renee said icily.

"Erm, no I didn't mean Lily Evans. Psh. Why would she let me stay at her house she hates me, like you said." James replied nervously.

"Lily who then? I only know one Lily, in this school, and that's Evans."

"My Aunt Lily." he said as if it was obvious. Then again, he was a world class liar.

"Why don't you call her Aunt Lily then?" Renee countered.

"Well you see, that makes her feel old. She's very sensitive about her age."

"Oh, I guess that makes sense." Renee said reasonably, soaking up the lie.

"Ok lets get to the feast, I'm starved." James said, with relief washing over his face.

Alice, Remus, and Lily were walking up the windy path of Hogsmeade trying to get to Hogwarts. All of the thestrals left with the carriages ages ago. They unfortunately weren't done checking the train for stragglers, so they missed the carriages and had to walk, in the the cold freezing rain.

All of their teeth were chattering from the cold rain, and the wind that made it even worse. Remus being the gentleman he is, lent the girls his jacket, even though it didn't help much. To them it felt like Remus' large jacket was plastered to their skin, as another layer.

"I am s-s-s-sooooo c-c-c-c-oolllddd!" Alice complained, through her chattering teeth, and quivering chin.

"S-s-s-s-soooo are we." Remus and Lily shouted back over the wind.

"Well then.." Alice countered.

"Why didn't James come and help us? I mean he did amazing at the meeting, and then he just ditches us." Lily asked still perplexed about the confusing thing we call reality.

"I'm not sure..." Remus said slowly.

"Maybe he forgot." Alice shrugged warily. Apparently this was the wrong thing to say to Lily, who was tired, hungry, irritated, cold, and wet.

"FORGOT!? FORGOT!" Lily shrieked shrilly. "He can't have forgotten. Remus specifically went up to him and asked, and I quote 'James do you want to come patrol with me, since your new.' He didn't accept. That means he just deliberately left his duties to go wreck havoc with PEEVES! I mean..." She would of continued her rant on James out loud, but Alice and Remus both had their wands out pointing at Lily.

Lily being so annoyed at James just kept walking, thinking that her fellow prefects could hear her, while in reality she had a silencing charm. It took her until they reached the oak front doors to realize she was silenced, in which she discreetly pulled out her wand, and did a Full Body Bind curse on them, while they were laughing at the look on her face.

It was Lily's turn to laugh as they went rigid on the spot, and toppled over onto the wet hall. She muttered 'Finite Incantum' and her friends were back to normal, laughing along with her. They walked into the Great Hall right smack dab in the middle of Dumbledore's Start of Term Feast.

They walked in dripping wet in water and mud. From head to toe they were doused in mud. Each step they took, a big muddy footprint was created. When they lifted their feet up their trainers made an odd squelching sound.

Since they had to walk all the way to the other side of the hall, there was a fair amount of puddles. Alice accidentally slipped on a puddle, and grabbed onto Remus for support. BUT Remus also slipped on the same puddle as Alice did only seconds prior. Of course his immediate reflexes told him to grob onto something close to him, also he wanted revenge for the Body Bind Curse. Unfortunately for Lily, that one thing near Remus was her left arm. She then fell ontop of all of them. They ended up in a mini-dog pile in the middle of the crowded hall.

Remus being the Marauder he is abso-bloody-lutely loved the attention he was being given. So he did a very Sirius/James like thing. He started encouraging the applause by waving his arms up, and putting his hand to his ear, signaling they weren't screaming loud enough. The crowd obliged. Even some of the teachers joined along. Sirius' loud, deep, bark-like laughter rang throughout the hall. It was causing the whole school to go into an anewed wave of laughs.

Alice, and Lily timidly got up, more than intimidated by all of the attention, and tried to cover their faces with their hand, as if they could become invisible. Unfortuneatly on their part Remus grabbed both of their hand, laughing all the way at their mortified faces, and made them bow to the student body. (Not respectfully, but in a way that says 'The musical finished, and the cast had to take a bow' kinda of way) This earned him a playful punch in the arm from Alice AND Lily. Both taking a shoulder, they dragged him towards the Gryffindor.

Still wet they finally made it over to the seats that were aspecailly saved for them, courtousy of Lauren and Morgan.

Lily automatically rounded on James, seeing as his was sitting right across from her.

"Why weren't you helping with our Head duties after we got off the train." Lily asked in a hoarse whisper (Professor Dumbledore started talking again).

"Well as soon as I realized I was supposed to help, I came looking for you guys. I looked for about ten minutes and couldn't find you!" he whined innocently, with puppy dog eyes. They had nothing on Sirius', but they were cute.

"Yeah, sure. You don't need us to be a rolemodel James. All you had to do was help people get into the carriages, and make them calm the bloody hell down, so other people could actually get to the carriages!" she practically cried.

That got James mad. How was he supposed to know what to do! I mean he was new to this. Wasn't he? He wasn't a prefect was he? He was a total prankster at heart wasn't he? Yeah he was, no he wasn't, natrually of course he thought, answering all his questions.

"Well ssoorrryy if I didn't know that! I wasn't a prefect was I? No I wasn't. I'm new to this if you haven't noticed. I am a bron prankster. Just ask my sister!" He countered thoughtfully.

"You have a sister?" Lily asked anger forgotten, curiousity replacing it.

"Yeah. She's starting her fifth year this year. Her name's Amber."

"Oh I never knew that, you don't talk about her much." Then she remembered her anger.

"Oh yeah, well that's no excuse. Don't go play all innocent with me! You ran that meeting like an old time pro." she countered the original arguement.

"Eh." Lily said cutting off his retort.

"I don't want an excuse. I just want you to try better next time" she finished solomnly, dissapointment showing in her huge pools of emerald, that were her eyes.

"But,"

"Zip,"

"But,"

"Ah,"

"But! Just lis..."

"ggggrrrrrrrr" Lily growled with a hint of malice. The tips of her red hair igniting with flames, due to her anger, as they always did. James always thought it was cute, until one day after a particualarly loud shouting match, she flicked her hair over her shoulder and it slapped him in the face. He eye-brows, and eye-lashes didn't grow back for months. She chuckled at the memory.

With that she turned around in her seat to start up a conversation with Morgan. James just sulked in his chair waiting patiently for the feast to be over.

SUddenly after shivering violently along with Alice and Lily, realization hit Remus. A Drying Charm. 'Well duh' he thought. I can't believe between the three of us we didn't think of that! silently reprimanding himself, for his stupidity. He silently waved his wand at the three of them making them dry.

"I can't believe we didn't think of that!" Lily and Alice cried in unison.

"I know! I mean you're the smart one Lily." Remus said going along with them.

Lily just glared, she hated being called the smart kid. In Muggle elementary school, she used to get teased by the other kdis for being so smart.

For about five minutes on their way to the common room they had a heated arguement, about who's fault it was they were going to wake up in the morning with an magically uncureable head cold.

Once they got to the common room, and said the password 'Devil's Snare', Lily remember her meeting with James and Dumbledore.