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Chapter 3 - New Beginnings

Lily climbed slowly into the carriage careful not to jolt her protesting ribs, the boys were joking between themselves happily, as soon as she sat down the conversation swelled effortlessly to include her. For the entire journey to the school, they talked about pointless things, teachers and pranks the boys wanted to play. Though she disagreed vehemently with the pranks the boys pulled, she couldn't help but admire the time they spent planning.

"I reckon we should get someone new this year, we've spent too much time pulling pranks on Slytherin's and Slughorn," suggested Remus.

"Like who?" asked Peter.

Lily smirked to herself; she had a suggestion, one they would never manage. "McGonagall"

Sirius, Remus, James and Peter started at her open mouthed. She couldn't help her self she burst out laughing.

"WHAT," shouted James. "We'd never manage that"

"Well maybe we'd be able to find way," said Sirius a mischievous glint in his eye.

"What Sirius are you mad? How do you suppose we're going to manage that?" asked Remus.

"With a lot of planning. Alright you're on Lily," Sirius smiled shaking Lily's hand.

James looked at him in astonishment, first Lily suggested someone to prank and now Sirius thought they could actually prank McGonagall. What was going on here?

Lily mentally kicked herself, what was she doing she had just basically made herself part of the marauders. What happened to the plan of staying away from everyone? What if they figured out her secret? She would be humiliated. She was going to have to be extra careful now, though if she was friends with the marauders then all the girls would stay away from her. That would make things a bit easier; she would just have to make sure the boys didn't suspect anything but then again why would they? The mask she had in place now was perfection, they may have suspected today but she could just say she was going to miss her parents and she was sad because her and her sister didn't seem to be able to get on anymore.

The rest of the carriage ride passed in a blur and before Lily knew it they were in the entrance hall. As she approached the entrance hall her heart quickened, she was finally home. Her happiness didn't last long as she entered the great hall Lily noticed that instead of the usual house colours the great hall was dressed in black; a reminder of what had been lost over the summer. Four Hogwarts students had been killed over the holidays, to the world they were just names but to the Hogwarts students they were friends and peers. The black also served to remind Lily about her personal loss not that anyone knew about that or was going to find out.

Walking towards to the table she went to take her usual seat at the far end away from everybody else.

"Oi Lils where are you going?" asked Sirius picking her up and throwing her over his shoulder. "You're sitting with us."

Lily screamed as he picked her up and it took a few seconds for her to realise she was with friends and not at home. She opened her eyes and started to giggle at the looks on everyone's faces, pure shock. Sirius Orion Black was associating himself with the nerdy outcast Lily Marie Evans; this wasn't how things were meant to be.

Sirius sat her down next to James and then settled himself next to her. He looked around and noticed everyone staring looking at James and Remus he smirked, lets have a bit of fun. He lent over and kissed Lily on the cheek turning her bright red.

"Lilykins I love you," he stated.

"No I love you," shouted Remus.

"But I thought you loved me," cried James.

"I…." Lily couldn't speak; she didn't know what was going on.

The boys had now started arguing between themselves about who loved her more and who she loved. The argument was only halted by the entrance of the first years, there were only a handful of them this year, 20 at most, people were too scared to allow their children out of their sight. Looking around her she noticed that a lot of the tables were now half empty in contrast to the overflowing tables of last year, many students had not returned. There were two main reasons for this, one, the fear of Voldemort, two, they were deatheaters. Lily could see the parent's point of view wanting to keep their kids at home but she wondered why they didn't realise that they were probably safest at Hogwarts where Dumbledore and the other teachers could protect them.

Lily felt a tap on her shoulder, startling her from her thoughts, looking around she realised that she had been so absorbed in her thoughts that she had missed the sorting and the feast had started. The boys were looking at her with concern in their eyes.

"Sorry," she smiled. "Got lost in thought"

Sirius watched her closely; he was determined to figure out what or who had broken her and break them. He looked around him and realised that everyone was still staring at Lily, the marauders fan clubs were glaring at her, she would have to be protected at all costs.

"So Lily what classes are you taking?" asked Remus, he had noticed the same thing as Sirius.

"History of Magic, Arithmancy, Potions, Ancient Runes, Transfiguration, Charms, Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology and Astronomy," listed Lily.

"That's good," said James.

"Why?" Lily asked confused.

"You can sit by me in History of Magic, Arithmancy and Ancient Runes," stated Remus smiling.

"Care of Magical Creatures and Astronomy with me," added Sirius winking at her.

"Herbology with me," said James with a bow. "And the rest you can have with all of us."

She smiled "Sounds great."

With this the feast ended and this year Lily took the hand Potter... no James offered out to help her up.

This was going to be an interesting year.