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Lily climbed into the Thestral drawn carriage. Everyone at Hogwarts with a brain knew that the carriages didn't just pull themselves, Thesrals, were invisible creatures to those who had never seen death. They had white shining eyes, dragonish faces and necks, and skeletal black bodies. Lily had never seen one, but as bitter sweet as it seems… she wish she could. They sounded graceful and beautiful, but it seem ridiculously stupid to wish for that. Lily shook her head.

"Lils?" Maria asked, "Lils, you okay… you've been zoning out for like… the last 5 minutes." I looked up into Maria's beautiful chocolate brown eyes.

"Sorry Maria, I'm… thinking." I smiled at her. Maria Potter, she's elegant and beautiful. She has everything I don't. Her lips and red and plump, her face is heart shaped, her eyes are large and chocolate brown framed by thick long lashes, silky black hair framed her face. Maria Rose Potter was breath taking.

I, on the other hand, have wavy red hair, white-ishly pale skin with freckles scattered across my cheeks. The only thing about me that is, as you'd say, brag worthy are my eyes. They are big, round and forest green.

"Evans… why can Mary call you Lils and I can't?" James teased. I jumped when I heard his voice and turned sharply toward him. Since when was he here?

"Potter!" I exclaimed with my hand over my heart, "You'll be the death of me! I don't want you calling me Lils because you use that name with false admiration… it's insulting and sickening and frankly I loathe it!" That was the secret with boys, use big words and they'll just be clueless. Surely enough James tilted his head to the side, his eyes were looking into my soul again. I wanted to flinch away from his gaze but it was mesmerizing.

"Could you dumb that down?" he asked tilting his head to the side even farther.

"Maria!" I cried out, "kill me, please…no kill him!" I closed my eyes, "I'm going prematurely gray Potter, please." James head went farther to the side and Maria giggled.

"Lily Bug, you aren't gray… you're peach-ish white. Don't worry, the only gray people I've ever seen are in old muggle pictures and movies, I don't think you'll turn gray." James head was so far to the side now that it looked painful. Maria just burst out into laughter. I even laughed a little. James joined in laughing as well.

When the laughter died down and James' head was upright again he asked, "Why were we laughing?" James was completely serious, that's why it was so funny.

"James, she meant her hair, when women get old their hair turns white or gray, but it can be caused by stress or a traumatic experience." Maria explained to James. He nodded, I'm pretty sure most of that he understood.

"Mary- bary, what would I do without you?" James cuddled into Maria's side and Maria stroked his hair laughing. One thing I'm definitely jealous of is their bond. I want what they have… whether it's with a twin or a lover. It was really nice seeing James separated from the rest of the Marauders. If he had been with them, he would've pretended the whole gray thing had been a joke the whole time. Without the Marauders James was a completely different person, sweeter and truer to himself.

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"Ah, we're here! Hogwarts!" Maria called out to herself. "I'm already breathing easier." she exclaimed. I laughed and hugged her from behind. James had slipped off to find Sirius leaving the two of us alone. Now that he was gone I felt way less tense.

Maria maneuvered herself around in my tight embrace. Maria turned herself around facing me and hugged me back. "Does James really stress you THAT much Lils? He likes you, you know."

I brushed off the talk about James and kept walking. We were now inside Hogwarts great hall and we we're gonna have our feast. I couldn't help it, "Yummy feast!" I said side hugging Maria. She laughed and hugged my arms.

"I'm high on you." Maria said in a husky bad imitation of a mans voice. We both broke out in laughter and sat down at the Gryfindor table. All the food was out. I began helping myself as Dumbledore gave his welcoming speech.

James came into the great hall a few minutes after the new students had been sorted. He was covered head to toe in repulsive yellow powder and accompanied by Sirius, Remus, and Peter, all whom were covered in the smelly yellow stuff as well. James plopped down right across from me and Maria sat and grinned at me. I looked him up and down.

"What is that yellow shit?" I asked wrinkling my nose. James and Sirius laughed at my choice of words and then Peter joined in once he noticed the other 2 laugh. Remus kept his face down and snorted a little.

"This, m'dear was… a spell gone wrong." James said and he sprung into a full description of the spell and what was supposed to happen. "… so Sirius ended up reading soap as soup and he added dragon bane's SOUP, who knows what in the world that was, and since the cleanliness potion obviously called for soap as it's main ingredient and since we didn't have that ingredient it didn't come close to working and when we mixed it, 3 times clockwise, 7 times counter clockwise 5 times it exploded!"

I actual listened to the whole thing with great interest for two reasons, one he was talking about something somewhat intellectual and two, well, it was him talking. I looked at Sirius.

"You idiot! How do you mistake an a for a u!?" the foursome, and Maria, all started laughing even though what I just said wasn't that funny. I dug into my lasagna and kept my eyes away from James'.

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James ran to catch up with me after dinner.

"Hey Lily Billy! Wait up! Liiileee!" I kept walking. Lils, please don't ignore me." I turned around and raised my eyebrows. His gorgeous eyes stared into mine. His gorgeous eyes, they were a warm brown, but when you looked closer you could see the different colours that made them seem that warm brown. Yellow, was on the inside, and the outside was almost black, but the two colours blended together in the most perfect way. There were specks of purple and gray scattered around. I yearned to tell him how beautiful he was.

I didn't realize it, but we'd been staring into each other's eyes for, maybe a full minute… or longer. "Good Night James Potter." I whispered and left his alone in the common room, I ran up the stair way to my dorm.

When I got into my room, I opened my suitcase and dug through for my notebook, I was overflowing with feelings and need to write them down before I burst.

He tells me about his spell

I count the colours in his eyes.

This song about James was seeming pretty rough now, but it had definite possibilities, it needs to be written, edited, re-read, edited again, and so on… it would turn out perfect. I smiled and put my notebook under my pillow.

I closed my eyes and thought of instruments and tunes for it. Maybe cello? Or piano, or… oh! Guitar, this would be a guitar song. I started humming to myself, making up guitar tunes and I hummed myself to sleep that night.

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