The Head Boy
"Lily! Oi! Lils!" The clear and heavily Irish accented voice of Siobhan McPherson rung out through the crowd of people in King's Cross Station.
Lily grinned before turning to search for the source of the voice, there she was, Siobhan McPherson, her surrogate sister and one of two of her best friends in the world. Siobhan was part Irish part Scottish and had long dead straight raven black hair that hung almost to her waist. Her eyes were a deep sparkling violet-blue. Siobhan was fairly tall though with a petite frame.
Spreading her arms out to greet her friend Lily laughed, "God I've missed you so much!"
Siobhan returned the embrace warmly, "And me you my dear!"
Lily giggled, "Where's Miki?"
Siobhan rolled her eyes, "She just went through the barrier to go and bag us a compartment! Come on lets go!" Siobhan squealed as she pushed her trolley towards the barrier of platform 9 and ¾ with Lily following close behind her.
After stowing away their trunks Siobhan and Lily went in search for the third member of the Hogwarts "Trio". They soon found Michelle in a compartment sitting with Remus and Peter chatting away about their summer.
"Miker-doodles!" Lily exclaimed as she pounced on her friend giving her a big warm hug and then turned to greet Remus and Peter with hugs too asking them all how their summer had been.
Suddenly everyone in the compartment burst out singing, "For Lily's a jolly good lady, for Lily's a jolly good lady for making Head Girl de Hogwarts!" Two more voices joined in, "Hip, hip, Hooray! Hip, hip Hooray!"
Giggling Lily groaned, "You people are so silly!" as she turned to see that the two voices belonged to the two hell raisers of Hogwarts, James Potter and Sirius Black who were conveniently blocking the compartment doorway. On noticing them Lily's face fell as she muttered, "Well, I might as well go… meeting with head boy and prefects." And she hastily got up and moved towards the compartment door, to her surprise they both stepped aside, without a word and let her through. Lily turned to Michelle and Siobhan and quickly said, "I'll see you two soon." And disappeared.
James grinned and Remus and Sirius, "Right then… duty calls…. Cant be late for my first meeting now can I?" and left hastily in a swish of cloak.
Siobhan and Michelle turned on Remus with their mouths open in surprise, "Potter is head boy?!"
Remus chuckled in reply and nodded as Sirius plonked himself down lazily into the space between Remus and Peter muttering happily, "Aaah I think we'll be hearing screams soon, my lovelies!"
Michelle glared at Sirius, "Lily's going to flip!"
Sirius grinned, "Aye, that she is."
Siobhan groaned and eyed Sirius suspiciously, "Any other surprises you might like to share with us concerning the sanity of our Lily?"
Sirius chuckled and smirked, "Now, now, that information is highly classified! What's the fun in revealing surprises to their victims?" Sirius turned to face Michelle before continuing, "One thing though Amoretti, my biscuit, you're officially on the team this year, well, official off the bench… not that you were ever on it, whacking bloody bludgers by my seeking side, compliments from captain James, our very own head boy, dubbed leader of the infamous Marauders-"
Michelle squealed in delight, cutting Sirius off, as she threw her arms around Siobhan, "Woohoo! I'm officially on the team!"
And then she and Sirius launched into a fully fledged conversation about quidditch much to Remus' and Siobhan's dismay, because it was common knowledge that once Sirius started talking about quidditch, he never stopped.
Lily was almost at the Heads & Prefects compartment when she realized that she was being followed, whipping around to face her stalker Lily came face to face with James, much to her annoyance. He was removing his cloak smiling triumphantly at himself.
"And pray tell, what are you doing here, Potter?" Lily snapped irritably.
James sighed as he draped his cloak over his arm and replied, "For the exact same reason as you Evans. Now please, kindly step aside as I have a meeting to attend."
Lily frowned as she took in James' appearance, he was clad in his school robes, black trousers, white shirt, Gryffindor crest over his left breast pocket, Gryffindor tie loosely around his collar, WAIT- above his pocket… "NO! it can't be!" she whispered in complete and utter horror as she saw the head boy badge pinned above his pocket, shining brightly, mocking her, "You- you are head boy?!"
James grinned, puffing his chest proudly, "So it seems my dear… only Godric knows what Dumbledore was thinking! Anyhow I'm overjoyed to be working with you this year, Evans." he sang in mock happiness though his eyes gleamed with mischief.
Lily stared gob-smacked after James as he pushed his way past her into the Heads and Prefects compartment. In a fit of fury she stalked into the compartment after James and lashed out, "What is the meaning of this!? I demand that you stop your prank and go and return the badge to the proper head boy this instant, and it could only be Remus, Christ, I'd rather Snape or Malfoy next to you!"
James turned around slowly to face Lily, his eyes flashed in anger and hurt, when he spoke his voice was controlled and deep, "Well Evans, I suggest you live with the fact that I am head boy this year or resign your position if you must, because I'm not." Seeing Lily's incredulous look James continued, a smirk spreading his face mockingly, "Now, if you'd care to behave in a civilized and appropriate manner, I believe this first meeting requires a sense of maturity and dominance from the Head Girl as well as myself. If you fail to meet those standards then I myself am shocked you got the position…" his voice trailed off as he raised an eyebrow at her, taunting her to contradict him, daring her to rise to the challenge.
Lily opened her mouth a few times and snapped back at him, "Well I'm sure that it is required from head boy as well, and considering your past behaviour I highly disagree that you are fit for those required standards." she replied lamely.
James grinned, "Touché darling, because at the moment, neither are you."
Lily's eyes narrowed in fury as James sat himself down comfortably in a sofa and smiled at her sweetly. Lily ignored him and haughtily sat down in one of the sofas as far away from him as possible.
James watched Lily out of the corner of his eye and smiled to himself, she would not get the better of him this year. She had changed slightly, become more courageous, more dominant, easier to vex and provoke, normally she said nothing to him when it could be avoided.
Soon the Heads & Prefects carriage was complete with all the prefects. Richard Hunt and Amelia Grail from Gryffindor, Nathan Bentley and Leigh Thompson from Ravenclaw, Bernard Bow and Sandra Frill from Hufflepuff and Regulus Black and Bellatrix Black from Slytherin.
"Right then, I take it that we are all here and this meeting is ready to start." James said with a smirk on his face on getting the first word of authority in.
The prefects all nodded Regulus and Bellatrix sneered at Lily, Sandra was staring dreamily at James and the rest were looking stern and serious.
"Ok, well I suppose we should formally introduce ourselves, I'm James Potter, seventh year Gryffindor and will be ordering your lazy arses around for the rest of my short life at Hogwarts, and you are?" James grinned at Sandra.
Sandra blinked, "Oh, me? I'm Sandra Frill, Hufflepuff."
Everyone introduced themselves until it was Lily's turn, "Lily Evans." she said curtly. The meeting droned on in Lily's ears she wasn't even listening. Finally James sent the prefects off to patrol the train and told them to do so every 20 minutes. Lily found herself once more alone in James' company.
"Evans, in our next meeting I would be grateful if you contributed." he sighed.
Lily snorted a laugh, "What, and agree on your egotistical commands and attitude? Think twice before you ask me to submit my opinions on your behalf."
"Then resign, I wont work with an immature little girl who wears shoes too big for her. You're being petty." James growled.
Lily stood abruptly and stormed out of the compartment. James sighed and pulled out a mirror from his pocket muttering, "Sirius Black" into it.
"What happened Prongs?" Came Sirius' voice a few moments later as his face appeared in James' mirror.
"Is she back in the compartment?" James asked, not bothering to answer Sirius' question.
"Yeah, I'm outside now so they cant see me talk to you, she's pissed mate, a banshee couldn't compete and would be embarrassed by Evans' fury." Sirius groaned, "Moony's handling it though."
"Good, anyway I'll stay here, it'll be safer that way." James grinned and Sirius who smirked back.
Shoving the mirror back into his pockets James massaged his temples. The whole meeting Lily had been biting her lip and frowning. She wasn't even listening to the compliments and praises he was giving her for being Hogwarts head girl and that he and she would be working hard together as a team to meet all that was required of them.
The blood red hair… the large innocent emerald eyes… her soft touches… pleading moans. Her soft lush lips parted repeating his name, "I love you, oh… dear Merlin, I love you so much."
No, he wouldn't think about her. Lily, she had to be banished from his mind because it wasn't her he wanted to be thinking about, at least not like this. Dreams and fantasies to replace her… too close in likeliness for comfort. Chasing Lily away from his mind by insulting and being rude to her seemed to be tearing at his heart, but how could he welcome and embrace the very thoughts that caused him so much grief and guilt?
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