A/N: I know it's a filler, but I'll have to do… for now at least. Yes, I know this isn't one of my best ideas, but I promise… or I hope is more like it… it will get better. ~TS

Disclaimer: Oh my Marauders… why would you guys think I'm trying to take credit from JKR? Because I'm not, ok? There I said it. Now on with the story!

A slight breeze blew through the street as I trekked to Taylor's house, which was only a couple of houses away. I could barely contain my overflowing excitement. I was actually going to Hogwarts! Everything Sev had ever told me about the wizarding world came flooding back to my ears. 'Magnificent, extraordinary, magical…' Words like no other danced around inside my head.

My stomach did back flips while my heart leapt into the air. The magical world never seemed as real as it did right now. I was a witch, and I was actually going to Hogwarts!

Before I knew it, I was walking up the Lutgen's driveway, and stepping onto their porch. However, afore I could raise my hand to ring the doorbell, the screen door swung open to reveal an ecstatic Alex Lutgen, who is Taylor's older sister.

"Lily," Alex exclaimed, engulfing me in a bone-crushing hug. With her big brown eyes shining behind her glasses she continued, "How've you been?"

"Same as always, Alex," I smiled at the enthusiastic fifteen year old, "and you?"

"Good, great, AMAZING," she sang, "and, by the way I've got to speak to you and Taylor privately after the others leave."

"Others," I asked as Alex's gaze shifted behind her to the back porch. As soon as I figured out what she was looking at, I nodded. Taylor was animatedly talking with my other two best friends, Evelyn and Caitlin. "Oh," I mumbled to myself.

Alex looked to me before giving a lopsided smile and heading towards the spiraling staircase across the room. I, on the other hand, made my way to the porch where Taylor was continuing to chatter madly.

"Hello," I said politely as I stepped through the screen door that separated the inside from out.

"Ah look here girls," Taylor tilted her head and smiled, "Lovely Lily, here, has decided to grace us with her presence."

I shook my head at Taylor's sarcastic comment and settled myself into a chair directly in-between Caitlin and Evelyn. "Ah yes," Taylor placed a hand on her upper chest, "Take a seat. How stupid of me. I didn't even ask the princess if she'd like to sit."

"Oh shove it, Tay," I playfully shoved her shoulder.

"You'd better watch it, guys," Taylor warned Caitlin and Evelyn, "The princess is getting violent." This caused Caitlin and Evelyn to nearly fall off their chairs in a fit of laughter.

"I'm just kidding around, Lil," Taylor suddenly got serious, "You know that right?"

"As long as I've known you," I replied, "You'd better believe it."

"Good," Taylor smirked before giving me a meaningful hug.

"So, did you get your letter too," I asked Taylor who was digging through a cooler which was sitting off to the side.

It was then that Evelyn stepped in, "Oh, you're going to that boarding school with her?"

"No," Taylor's drawled, "She's just asking because she's so excited for me."

Looking slightly taken aback, Evelyn folded her hands neatly and looked down into her lap. "You didn't have to be so mean about it," she whispered.

"She didn't mean it that way, Evie." I soothed, putting an arm around Evelyn's sagging shoulders.

"She still doesn't have to be sarcastic about everything," Caitlin interrupted.

"Well," I sighed, "she's Taylor. What do you expect?"

"True guys," Taylor shrugged, "I'm me. What do you expect?"

While I rolled my eyes, Evelyn and Caitlin giggled at Taylor's antics. "This is why I thank God everyday that there are not two of you," I shook my head.

"Why not, Lils," Taylor's eyes bulged, "Life would be much more exciting!"

"Maybe even a little too exciting for my liking," I narrowed my eyes at her.

"Nah," Taylor said, "That's quite impossible."

"You wouldn't be as unique as you are right now," Caitlin popped in unexpectedly.

Taylor did a double take before staring into space. "That's right," she gaped at an open space across the porch, "If there was two of me, I wouldn't be special anymore."

"I highly doubt that, Tay," I assured the blonde girl in-front of me, "I mean… you're you, for heavens sake!"

A sly smile etched its way onto Taylor's mouth, "Too true, my friend," she whispered.

"I wish you would've told us you were signing up for a boarding school," Caitlin sighed, changing the subject, "Then all four of us could've gone together."

"Well, the thing is," I started uncertainly, "we didn't actually sign up, per say, it's more like… they picked us."

"Well that's cool, I guess," Evelyn smiled at both Taylor and me, "So when's the start of you term?"

"September first," Taylor answered proudly, "and as far as we know, we get breaks for Christmas and Easter, so be expecting us around that time."

"Evelyn," I interrupted the on going conversation causing the girl beside me to turn her head and make her sandy brown hair fall into her turquoise eyes.

"Yes," she asked quietly.

"Did you decide to drop band?"

"No," she sighed sadly, "my parents wouldn't let me. They say I can quit after my senior year, though."

"I'm glad you didn't quit," I disagreed, "You're quit good at the clarinet, you know."

Blushing, Evelyn tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear, "Thank you," she whispered appreciatively.

"You're welcome."

As soon as the words left my mouth, the grandfather clock inside Taylor's house chimed out, dong dong dong. Three o'clock.

"Oh, dear," Evelyn stood up from her chair, "I must be going or my mother will have a fit!"

"Mine too," Caitlin agreed copying Evelyn's movement. Before a moment had passed, the girls were walking down the street together towards their houses, which were three blocks away.

"Well," Taylor started, flinging her beautiful blonde hair over her shoulder, "It's time to go see Alex."

A few minutes later, my feet were prodding the hard wooden stairs that led to both Taylor and Alex's bedrooms on the top floor.

"Do you have any idea what Alex is going to tell us," I asked Taylor who was only a couple feet in-front of me biting her bottom lip and clenching her fists subconsciously.

"I have no earthly clue," she answered truthfully, "but it must be important for her to need to see both us as soon as possible."

As we reached the top landing, Taylor knocked thrice on a wooden door that had multiple carvings reading 'Alex's room…KNOCK FISRT!'

Suddenly, a distant voice could be heard from inside the room. "Come in," Alex said, enticing Taylor to turn the brass knob.

Sitting at her desk in the corner, Alex was scribbling away on a piece of paper that seemed to be a letter to someone important.

"Ah, hello girls," she greeted us dreamily, "I bet you're wondering why I've called you here."

"It's like you read our minds," Taylor replied, sitting down on the corner of Alex's bed. Alex, in return, plainly smiled.

"Take a seat, Lily," Alex gestured with an outstretched hand to a spot beside Taylor.

Doing as I was told, I parked myself directly beside Taylor who was already looking quite bored.

"I've got something to tell you guys," Alex started.

"Like we haven't figured that out," Taylor mumbled, rolling her eyes from beside me.

Alex, who pretended not to hear Taylor's snide comment, continued, "As I was saying, I don't know how you're going to take this, so I will just come right out and say it."

The words that flew out of Alex's mouth after that hit me like a ton of bricks. It must've hit Taylor even harder because she was making a weird face that plainly said 'I don't get it.'

"You're a what," I whispered.

A/N: Wow! What a great cliffy right there! What is she? Leave your guesses in your reviews! I desperately want to know your opinions. I'm already started on chapter three, so I have no clue when it will be up, but I'm hoping it will be very soon!