The soft breeze ruffled the pale yellow curtains of seventeen-year-old Lily Evans' bedroom. It was a normal bedroom at first sight, but anyone who cared to look close enough could see that it was anything but… You see, Lily Evans was a witch, and she attended the most infamous wizarding academy in Europe, actually, in the entire world, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In odd places there could be found a book of spells or hexes, or if you even looked closer you'd see some fallen feathers from her most prized friend and pet, Moira, an owl.
A relatively tall, slim girl with dark auburn hair and dazzling green eyes, clad in bell-bottoms and a blue blouse walked into the room. With a sigh she plopped herself on the bed adjacent to the window, she was expecting Moira to return.
Lily perked up when she heard a soft 'hoot' echo through her room. Moira was back, though she wasn't alone as expected.
"That's odd," thought Lily to herself, "I already received my school letter."
Even though the accompanying owl struck her as odd, she accepted the letter it bore and it graciously accepted the treat, which Lily had offered it.
Moira, growing rather impatient, hooted in anticipation as Lily strode over to take the letter, which she bore. Lily gave Moira a treat and the owl flew out the window again, this time not on assignment, but to explore the neighborhood.
Opening the letter that came from the school first Lily nearly fell down. As she read the letter she became filled with intense joy and as she read on, intense dismay.
You see, Lily had been made Head Girl! The only draw back was, she would have to work along side the arrogant, pig-headed, ass, James Potter, whom she absolutely despised.
"Ooo, how could they?" Lily cried. "I can't believe it, I have to work with POTTER!" the last word in the phrase dripping with sarcasm.
Tossing the letter on the bedside table she picked up the letter, which Moira had delivered. As she read the envelope she immediately recognized the writing, it was that of her boyfriend, Joshua Lamour.
Barely able to contain her vast amounts of joy she hurriedly ripped at the envelope. Shaking open the letter she began to read, and as she read on things went downhill until it ended and left her crying.
Dearest Lilian,
I do realize that we have been going together for quite sometime, and that's exactly what I wanted to tell you about. You see, I feel as though I have not experienced life, as of yet, to it's fullest extent. Therefore, I am leaving you. I will not been in correspondence for some time, so do not expect to hear from me. Good day.
~Joshua M. Lamour
"HOW COULD HE?" cried Lily as she wiped tears away from her delicate cheek.
"Keep it DOWN!" a voice called from the hall.
"Shut up, Petunia."
~**~**~
Meanwhile, a certain, James Potter, was just as miserable as Lily. He had just received his letter, and as the two had a mutual hatred, he fell into despair, or was it the fact that his girlfriend had just left him, for…well, oddly enough for one, Joshua Lamour.
"Hey Prongs!" Sirius screamed as he slammed the door shut.
"Hey Padfoot," James returned dismally.
"What, aren't you glad to see me?" Sirius put on a fake pout.
"It's not that, it's just, oh, hell just read the letters," said James, pointing to the letters on the floor.
Sirius picked up the letters and read both.
"Hey, you're Head Boy, that's great!"
"Yeah but look at who's Head Girl."
Sirius read further down the letter.
"You know bud, she's not that bad."
"And just exactly how would you know?"
"Well, actually, she tutored me in Transfiguration last year."
"What! And you didn't tell me?"
"Chill!" Sirius read the next letter. His jaw dropped. "Shit James, Maggie left you…for LAMOUR! Ugh!" Sirius made a sour face. "Hey, the up side is that now Evans is free for the taking!"
"Are you off your rocker? Don't look at me like that, it's bloody frightening!"
"Oh, come on James, she's hot, she's smart, she looks like she be great in bed…"
"God, you are perverted! Moony and I really have to find you a girl to get your mind out of the gutter."
"Yeah, anyway, what about you and Evans, I mean you'll be working awfully close…" Sirius broke off into a fit of giggles, which quite unnerved James. Luckily Remus and Peter, otherwise known respectively as Moony and Wormtail, entered the room, coming to James' rescue.
As soon as Sirius noticed that the two had entered he plunged into a full account of James' situation, adding his own touches here and there.
~**~**~
Two weeks later Lily stepped between the barrier of the Muggle world and the Wizarding world. As she stepped onto Platform 9 ¾ the ever so familiar sight of the crimson Hogwarts Express greeted her.
An hour later Lily was sitting in the next to last compartment, as the train started to move. Lily was sitting with her friends Sarah and Marie the latter were sleeping already.
Sighing Lily pulled out a book. Just as she got to the bottom of the second page and announcement came over the loudspeaker.
"Would Lilian Evans please report to the Head Student Compartment at the head of the train, immediately."
Lily gathered her things and sighing made her way to the first compartment, where James Potter greeted her ever so ungraciously.
"What's your problem?" she asked icily.
"What do you think?" he asked in return.
"Fine, be that way!" Lily whipped out her book once again and began reading.
"I don't know why we have to sit up here anyway!" said James all of a sudden.
"I know, I'd much rather be with my friends."
"Yeah, all we have left are our friends considering that now our ex's are dating."
"What?"
"Didn't Josh tell you why he left you?"
"How'd you know that Josh left me?"
"Maggie left me for Josh, that's how a know."
"I can't believe he didn't tell me! The bastard! Why are you being so nice all of a sudden?
"Well, quite honestly, I'm bored."
"I see."
"Hey, you want to play Chess?"
"Just how badly do you want to loose?"
"Me loose? Ha, in your dreams!"
"We'll see. Hey, you want to put 5 galleons on it?"
"You're on!"
The two managed, somehow to not kill each other on the way to Hogwarts, though the only thing keeping them from that was that each was rather good at chess and not allowing the other many pawns.
"Check!" cried Lily after the game had been going for several hours.
"Blast! I should have seen that!"
"Check Mate! I win!" Lily jumped up. "Oh and, pay up!"
"Fine, fine, here!" James threw 5 large gold pieces at Lily. "I can't believe I just lost!"
"Why because I'm a girl?"
"No, because I had never lost before!"
"Really?"
"Yeah," James crinkled up his nose, which in Lily's opinion made him quite handsome. Wait, what was she thinking! This was James Potter, the one she hated! Or did she?
James just shook his head, 'I lost' he thought to himself. He chanced a glance at Lily; she seemed to be having a great internal struggle. 'Hey she looks cute like that! Maybe Sirius was right. Wait, what am I thinking? This is Lily Evans we're talking about!'