A/N: hey guys! Thanks all for reviewing!
Disclaimer: I forgot to put this in the first ch, but here it is now. I don't own anything. It all belongs to J.K. Rowling. I only own characters you don't recognize from the HP books.
Well heres the second chapter…enjoy!: ________________________________________________________________
"Lily!" yelled Mrs. Evans from downstairs. "Hurry up! Rachel and Sarah are here and we need to get to the train station!"
"Coming Mum!" replied Lily, closing her neatly packed trunk. She grabbed her owl, Tawny's cage, picked up her trunk, and made her way downstairs. As she entered the kitchen, Lily glanced around once and instantly knew they had to leave as soon as possible. There sat Petunia, her older sister, in all her glory, looking as if she would blow a fuse at her for bringing her two "freak" friends into the house. No good could come of this situation and Lily really wasn't in the mood for a confrontation. She was too excited about going back to Hogwarts for her seventh year.
"Morning everyone." She greeted. "Rachel! Sarah! I've missed you! You guys look great!" Sarah summers, Rachel Green and Lily Evans have been best friends since they were four years old. Sarah's parents are muggles like Lily's and both their fathers work together at the insurance agency. Rachel's mother and Lily's mother are childhood friends and Rachel's father works with James' father at the ministry of magic. So the four families have been great friends for many years. Naturally, the girls befriended James' friends since you rarely saw one without the other.
"Thanks Lil!" Rachel replied, giving her a hug. "So do you! Did you do something to your hair?" Rachel was the fashion maniac of the group. Any advice you needed, Rachel was the girl to go to. She had long brown hair that fell past her shoulders in layers and large brown eyes. Rachel was slightly taller than Lily standing at about 5'6". Though she loved looking good, she loved quidditch even more. Rachel was a chaser on the Gryffindor house team. She was slightly boy crazy, but nothing too drastic.
"No Rach, it's just the same as when you saw it two months ago!" laughed Lily. She had definitely missed her friends. "Sarah!" she exclaimed, throwing herself at her other best friend.
"Hey Lil!" Sarah said, returning the warm hug. "I've missed you too!" Sarah was the caring and sensitive one of the three friends. Not that the others weren't, Sarah was just more so. She was always willing to listen if you had a problem and never refused a chance to help someone in need. Sarah had shoulder length blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She was the shortest of the group standing at 5'3".
"Lil! Oh my gosh! What's that!?!" gasped Rachel, pointing to a silver badge on top of Lily's trunk. She went over to pick it up before Lily had a chance to reply. "Lily!! You made head girl and didn't tell us!!" Lily just smiled sheepishly.
"Um…sorry? I guess it just slipped my mind…"
"Slipped your mind my arse" Rachel said indignantly "you just didn't want to tell us…though I don't know why, this is bloody awesome!! I'm not really surprised though, you are the smartest witch in our year, and you've been prefect since fifth year…. Anyway, congratulations! " She said hugging Lily once more.
"Yeah congratulations Lily," Sarah said, also hugging her. " This is great. Do you know who the head boy is?"
"No…it'll probably be Remus though. He's smart and he's been prefect with me. It's either him or one of the Ravenclaw prefects." Answered Lily.
"Hmmm…ya you're probably right."
"Ok, as much as I love to see you freaks having a good time, I would love it even more if you just left and went to that freak school of yours" said a very annoyed Petunia. Petunia had always hated the magic world. Perhaps it was because she felt left out that Lily was part of this new and exciting world, and she wasn't. Whatever the reason was, Petunia had always been cold and hostile towards Lily and her friends ever since she found out she was a witch.
"Ugh, whatever. Let's go get my mum guys. We don't want to miss the train." Lily said, turning around and walking out the door. Rachel and Sarah shrugged and followed her out the door.
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"You girls are sure you have everything you need, right?" Asked Mrs. Evans.
"Yes mum, we have everything we need" Lily replied with a roll of her eyes. Honestly, she had been going to Hogwarts for six years, you would think her mother would be used to it by now.
"Ok, well have a good year and I'll see you at Christmas. And don't get into any trouble. And make sure James and his friends stay out of trouble too." She said, hugging each of the girls.
"Don't worry Laura" Sarah said, referring to Mrs. Evans. "We won't get into trouble. "
"Yeah, we won't get into any trouble, but there's no saying what James and co. will do. Not even Lily as head girl will be able to stop them." Rachel added. "Don't worry though. They've never hurt anyone before…not fatally anyway"
"And they've never done any damage that couldn't be repaired before" Lily added as an after thought. Just then, the whistle of the Hogwarts Express blew, signaling that it was time to board. "Ok mum we have to go. Bye! Love you!"
"Bye girls! Have fun and be good!"
"Bye Mrs. Evans! We will!" Rachel and Sarah yelled back.
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"Lil! Sar! I found one!" Rachel bellowed, indicating an empty compartment near the end of the train. Rachel and Sarah made their way down and into the compartment. After storing their trunks above the seats, they all sat down and started catching up.
" So Rachel, how was Aruba?" asked Sarah.
"Oh. My. God. I have never seen that many hot guys in one place before. Honestly! I didn't know which way to turn my head!" Sarah and Lily just rolled their eyes and laughed at their friend's dreamy look.
"So, in between looking at all the hot guys, did you happen to notice anything else about the place?" asked Lily.
"Shut up. And yes. The beaches are incredible. The water really is clear blue and the sand really is pearly white. I could look at my feet while standing in the water! Quite cool actually. And the hotels were absolutely gorgeous. I'd love to go back."
"Sounds wonderful" Sarah said jealously. "I was stuck in America with my snobby cousins and crazy aunt. I didn't think the summer could end soon enough."
"Awww, that sucks. Well it's over now and you can spend all your time with us!!" Lily exclaimed. "At least you got to go somewhere. I was stuck here…with Petunia going on and on about some guy she's dating." She said with disgust. "Honestly, who would date that horse of a girl!" she shuddered. Rachel and Sarah were laughing at what Lily had said when she suddenly remembered something. "Shit! I have to go to the heads compartment! The head boy and I have to lead a prefects meeting. I'll see you guys in a bit" and she ran out of the compartment, hoping she wouldn't be late. Lily hated to make a bad first impression.
She reached the compartment only slightly out of breath. She pushed back her hair, took a deep breath and slowly opened the door. Nothing could have prepared her for what she saw. Sitting in a chair, with his feet propped up on the table, sat none other than James Potter.
"James?!?" she exclaimed, utterly confused. "What are you doing here? This is not the time or place for a prank! We haven't even gotten to school yet! Don't even…"
"Lily!!" James interrupted "Stop! I'm not playing a prank! First, I know this isn't the right place, second, I NEVER play pranks without my friends, and third it's really nice to see you too!!" he said, crossing his arms over his chest.
Lily sighed, walked over to James and hugged him. "It's nice to see you too. How was your summer? I hope you and Sirius didn't give your parents too hard of a time."
James, returning the hug said "hey! I resent that! I'm an absolute angel! I don't cause trouble…I merely make life interesting!"
Laughing, Lily pulled away. "Mhmm. Suuuure you do." She said teasingly. "I still don't know what you're doing here. I'm supposed to meet the head boy here and organize the prefect meeting."
"Well let's get started then" James said with a twinkle in his eye.
"You mean…You're…What was…How did…what! That doesn't make any sense" a completely bewildered Lily said. "You can't be the head boy. You weren't even a prefect! You're always in detention! I bet you're responsible for most of the gray hairs on McGonagall's head!" she cried.
" Wow, I never knew you thought so highly of me, Lily." James smirked. "But yes. It is my grave duty to inform you that I have indeed been appointed head boy. He said, taking on the persona of a reporter. " Believe me Lil. I was thinking the same things when I first found out. But I guess it could be cool." Lily opened her mouth to say something but never got the chance.
"And don't worry dear Lilykins. I promise not to make you do all the work. I'll do my half of it. I'll prove to you and all the teachers that I, James Potter, am capable of responsibility."
"Well. I never thought I'd see the day when you vowed to be responsible." Lily said, sitting down. "But ok. I'll take your word for it. But don't think for one second that I'm going to let you slack off. You may be one of my best friends, but you still have to work."
" I promise. I won't let you down." James said, also sitting down.
" Good. Now what do we have to do?" Lily asked, looking around as if the answers were somewhere on the walls.
" What?!? You mean neither one of us knows what to do? Oh no." he said putting his head down on the table.
"Merlin you're such a baby" Lily said rolling her eyes and getting up, effectively missing the glare sent to her by James. " The instructions are all right over there in that binder on the table." She picked it up and brought it over to James. Opening it, she saw that it had all the things they had to talk to the prefects about and the different duties they had to assign.
" Come on" she said. "Let's figure this out and go talk to the prefects. I want to get this over with so I can get back to Rach and Sar."
"Ok lets go." James replied, getting up. "I have to get back to Sirius, Remus and Peter too."
Forty-five minutes later, the meeting was over and all the prefects were leaving the compartment. "Hey Lil, you wanna get Rachel and Sarah and come sit with us? We haven't seen you guys all summer." James asked, opening the door for Lily.
"Ya sure. I'll go get them." She said, walking down the hall.
Once the girls reached the boys' compartment, they were all greeted warmly. Sirius jumped up and gave each of them bone-crushing hugs.
"Ow Sirius! I can't breath" choked out Rachel "I know you're glad to see me and all, but killing me is no way of showing it." Sirius let go of her and she instantly began trying to recover her breath.
"Please forgive me my fair lady, " Sirius began, dramatically. "I have missed you so and find it hard to control my emotions." He said, pretending to take off his hat and bow.
Rachel simply slapped him on the arm and gave him another, gentler hug, which he gladly returned. The rest of the train ride passed without anything interesting happening. They boys and girls talked together for a while, until the boys began planning a prank and the girls began talking about their own things.
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A/N: hey guys! Well here's the second chapter. review w/ comments/suggestions! And I'll get the next chapter up soon.
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