AN-This chapter is longest so far, although it's still not very long I hope you enjoy it.

Boarding the Hogwarts Express was always so much of a hassle. Firstly, the first years always felt some necessity to board the train extremely early and occupy all of the compartments. Secondly the seventh years walked around as though they owned the place and insulted or threatened anyone who tried to tell him otherwise. And thirdly? Moving on the train, while it was moving also was just difficult and irritating it was certain that Lily didn't like making anything more difficult than it already was.

Reaching into her back pocket Lily brought out a sweet flavoured with rhubarb and custard started to unwrap the clear plastic that kept the sweet safe. Ever since her first year her mother would give her rhubarb and custard sweets to remind her of home. The tradition started because she complained of a stomach ache on the morning of her first day off at hogwarts.

"I think I'm dying." Lily announced following her mother around the room and clenching her stomach "Like, really dying." she continued to the mother who was panicking about the packing (as she always did) and running around like a headless chicken.

"How so?" she sighed, picking up some more clothes and folding them into neat piles. The luggage was full but her mother was convinced there was more and began to pack another suitcase (this was now the forth suitcase she had moved onto - Lily was so shocked that she actually owned this many items).

"My stomach is going to explode" The red head said this with such conviction it stopped her mother in her tracks - not that she believed Lily was in fact going to die. "I swear." her eyes looked up at her mother almost begging her to stop the packing. "Maybe I just shouldn't go, you don't want me to die on the train there" she begged. Her mother laughed a short laugh and bent down in front of her so she was now looking into her eyes.

"We wouldn't want you to die on the train there now would we?" Her mother talked slow and serious like she was talking to someone who was five. Lily nodded acting along with the scene that was playing out. "Do you want to know something?" she looked down into her mother's eyes and nodded again "I think that you need to promise me something, yeah?" she questioned stroking Lily's arm affectionately. "Promise me that when you feel sick, or scared or anything you have one of these." She pulled out an opened packet of rhubarb and custard and handed one the of the sweets inside to her. The wrapper was untwisted and she put the containing sweet in her mouth - somehow she was felling better. From then on her mother gave her a new bag of rhubarb and custard sweets before she went on the train and then again when Lily asked for some more.

It's not that she was feeling sick or scared but she had the sweets in her pocket because it had swiftly become her favourite sweet above all of the strange and delicious ones that she discovered in her time in honeydukes. So, it had become natural to her to reach in her pocket and pull out one and keep it in her mouth until it had gone. And indeed it had. And she had no more sweets left in her back pocket to occupy her time before she found some empty compartment where she could sit and look out of the window waiting for the train to stop.

It was fortunate that when she finished her sweet she had just stumbled across a compartment. Not one that was empty, but one that contained Remus Lupin sitting alone in the corner with his head in a book as Lily often found him in the common room. Lightly she knocked on the door and gained the attention of the boy. His head appeared out of the book and he gestured for Lily to come inside. It was nice to see a face that she recognised and trusted - unlike all the new first year faces. Lily opened the door and stepped inside the compartment with slight hesitation. There was some sort of reason that the rest of Remus' little gang wasn't there; either because they had gone off to torment first years or they were indeed playing a prank on her right now and Remus had been reluctantly picked to be the bait. "There not...hiding, are they?" Lily pleaded, searching the room with her eyes from high to low to make sure they weren't hiding in any cracks.

"I don't think so," Remus laughed. "but they have been gone for a while" He wondered were in fact the boys had gone and began to think they too were hiding in the room under the invisibility cloak trying to listen to their conversation. "I'd be careful what you say, however." Remus scowled feeling around the chairs.

Opposite to him Lily sat letting herself relax back (however difficult that was on the tough train seats) and sighed slightly as she did so. "How was your summer?" Lily butted into the silence looking out of the window through the corner of her eye, so as not to make it obvious; she was still paying attention to Mr Lupin across from her.

"Ordinary, quiet and boring. And yours?"

"Long, and strangely exciting" She copied. Remus put his book down as to say 'tell me more'. Remembering what he said before however she watching the words she said. "I went to Italy with my family and had a very... good time." She thought it unwise to pause before saying the statement but had no other choice in case the boys were listening. Her summer had been better than good actually. During her holiday she had come across many lovely and kind people there (it was lucky a family friend had offered to take them in for the holiday) and was fortunate enough to find one person in particular. His name was Lucca and if Lily was attending ordinary school he would be in the year above of her. They became friends after the family they were staying with invited some other family to dinner. However, they didn't remain just friends and after a while it became something more than just a friendly acquaintance. Unfortunately her little smile after her last speech became obvious to Remus that it was more than good. Almost like he had seen that smile before.

"Good. " He said swiftly. It appeared that he had felt something or noticed something as he quickly spoke almost like he was annoyed "Lily - Lily close your eyes for a second."

"What? Why?"

"Because you were right."

"About what?"

"Please" he begged. Lily closed her eyes still confused by the whole situation. After a short while she heard a mumbled of voices and what sounded like punch on someone's arm before she heard. "Sorry" and she opened her eyes. Low and behold there sat James, Sirius and Peter huddled up in the corner. Remus had gone back to his book.

"So how good was this summer, Evans." Sirius sniggered.

AN- Sirius is my favourite

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