a/n: hey yall! this is my second fanfic, but unlike the other one it will be LONGGGG! yes. i cant wait to get on with it. i have big plans, big adventure, and big drama! hope you enjoy reading this story as much as i enjoyed writing it.

disclaimer: i dont own harry potter(praise to JKR) and anything you dont recognise is mine.

summary: Follow the Marauders and Lily in their final year at Hogwarts. Lily faints to cheating boyfriends, there's too much drama for these Gryffindors to handle. Will Lily overcome her pride, will James deflate his head, and will Sirius ever be Serious?L/J

Out of Her Head

By: Paddy and Prongsie

Chapter 1: A Scarlet Steam Engine

Sunlight danced across the face of Lily Evans as she walked across the bustling platform of 9 ¾. Her emerald green eyes were alight with anticipation of a new year and her auburn spirals fell gracefully down her back. She smiled widely as the spotted a scarlet steam engine that let off a large bellow of steam. She sluggishly heaved her trunk across the platform while excitedly looking for her friends.

Lily Evans. She was a normal seventeen-year-old girl with a normal loving family and normal caring friends. Or so she considered. She was anything but normal. The reason: Lily Evans was a witch.

A witch. At the tender age of eleven she had discovered her magical talents and the secret world that came with them. When she first received her acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry, she could hardly believe it. She had almost fainted in excitement. Lily grinned to herself remembering the first time she discovered she was a witch.

She snapped out of reverie and gazed affectionately at the red train that stood tall and proud before her. The Hogwarts Express, her ticket to her home of the past six years. She frowned suddenly realizing that this was her seventh and final year at Hogwarts.

She suddenly smiled again realizing that this was to be the best year ever. She was Head Girl, was of age in the wizarding world, and got her own dorm room away from all the snobs residing in the Gryffindor Girl's Dorm. She loved her friends and would miss them, but she just couldn't help in relishing in all the privacy she was going to have.

She was pulled from her thoughts when she heard someone yelling at her and waving their hand in front of her face.

"Lil-ee! Hello!" rambled Emmeline Vance, Lily's best friend and fellow Gryffindor.

Emmeline Vance was short and slender with dark brown locks and suede baby blue eyes. She was, unlike Lily, the spontaneous and outgoing girl of their group of four friends. She was popular and envied by the girls of Hogwarts and wanted by all the males of the school. She was a girl that definitely made heads turn. Although she was always getting requests for dates and things of that sort, she was notorious for her short-lasting relationships. She considered herself not fit for dating. That fact did not stop her from having a fling every now and then.

Lily was the studious, rule abiding one in the group. She was slightly taller than Emmeline with red, curly hair and forest green eyes. Lily had straight O's and was Prefect for three years, finally becoming Head Girl in her last year. She was in no means fat, nor skinny. She was curvaceous in all the right places and gifted with a healthy looking figure. She may not have the attention of nearly all the guys that Emmeline did, but she had her fair share of admirers. She did not really care for guys though because she was always in the library, doing homework, or always had her head buried in a book. She'd had boyfriends before, but it just was not her forte.

"Emmy! I've missed you so much!" exclaimed Lily as she jumped on her unsuspecting friend and crushing her in a hug.

"Lily…can't breathe…need air," gasped Emmeline while trying to pry her friend from the death grip. Emmeline composed herself and smiled at her giddy friend. "Oh Lily, I've missed you too. How was your summer? Better than mine I hope."

"Ha!" Lily laughed dryly. "Nothing can be worse than spending a summer trapped in the same house with the sister, who I swear is the child of Satan."

"Petunia that bad?" asked Emmeline with a look of sorrow for her friend.

"Urgh. She drives me so mad. Just because she is scared of a freaking, harmless owl, my parents forbid me to use them. I was separated from the wizarding world for the whole summer. It was miserable and to top it all off, I had to endure my sister and her pig of a fiancé, Vernon. God, he's fat and such an oaf," Lily complained.

"Aw Lils, he can't be that bad. I know your sister is annoying, but it can't get much worse than that," Emmeline sympathized.

"You have no idea! They are getting married next summer and I had to suffer through all the wedding plans and whining that everything has to be perfect," Lily said.

"I'm sorry. I would have invited you to my house, but we went to visit Ryan in Romania. He's studying dragons. We stayed there the whole summer. It was so hot. Plus, there was nothing to do there," Emmeline groaned with exasperation.

"It's oaky Emm," Lily smiled. "Where is Alice? I have yet to see her."

"I don't know. I apparated here directly from Romania. I haven't heard from them all summer," said Emmeline.

"Let's go look on the train," Lily decided as the turned to walk towards the train. Just was she was fully turned around, she heard a squeal. She squealed back at the sight before her.

Running toward her was her other best friend in the whole entire world; Alice Thompson..

"Lily!" squealed the ever bubbly, Alice.

Alice Thompson was a bubbly, sweet girl with a carefree outlook on life. She was the nicest of the girls. She was the motherly type that remembered everyone and their problems, whether they wanted her to or not. She had short, light brown hair with dark brown eyes. She had intelligence and brains, but was nowhere near Lily's level. She was head-over-heels in love with her boyfriend, Frank Longbottom, a fellow Gryffindor and a clumsy, accident-prone lad from Ireland.

"Ali! Where have you been? How was your summer?" Lily asked as she enveloped her friend in a group hug. She pulled a very reluctant Emmeline(she was afraid to be choked to death again) into the hug as well.

"Lily, why didn't you write this summer? I sent you an owl asking you if you wanted to come stay at the summer house in Italy," questioned Alice. "Emmeline went to Romania and owled me to tell me she couldn't come, but then ended up on my doorstep 2 weeks before school started. I wish you could've come."

"My sister is scared of owls so my mother forced me to go to the ministry to stop all of the owls. I hate Petunia! She drives me to insanity. I can't wait until she gets married, then I won't have to put up with her whining and shrieking about me being a 'freak,'" sighed Lily deeply. "Anyway, your summer sounds a lot better than mine and Emmy's were."

"Yeah, mine sucked eggs. So, Alice. How's our dear Frankie? Any wedding plans in the future?" questioned Emmeline with a suggestive raise of her eyebrows and a smug smirk on her face.

"No, but he did give me this," Alice said sticking her left hand out. She tried to suppress a wide grin, but failed miserably.

"A promise ring!" Lily gasped, pulled her friend's hand closer, and gawked at the deep blue sapphire set in white gold. "It's gorgeous."

"He said he got it for me so I could look at it and remember his eyes," she said while admiring the ring herself.

"Who knew Frank had it in him to be so romantic?" Emmeline snorted.

"You're just jealous you don't have a boyfriend who can by you romantic gifts," Alice snapped.

"I'd rather be single and have no commitment than be taken and showered with gifts to prove my love," Emmeline challenged.

"Guys, can we please just get one the train to get a compartment before they are all taken?" Lily said as she stepped between the two feuding girls.

Alice glared at Emmeline one last moment before turning abruptly and stalking towards the Hogwarts Express. Emmeline mumbled something about love sick girls being like lost puppies before quietly following behind Alice.

Once on the train and after finding a compartment, the girls started to talk about insignificant things that happened over their summers and about the recent mysterious attacks on the wizarding and muggle worlds that had recently arisen. Emmeline and Alice seemed to have blown off most of their steam seeing as they were giggling girlishly with each other over the story of when Frank met Alice's parents and everything going horribly.

"Guys, I have an announcement," started Lily. This caught all of the girls' attention. "I was made Head Girl!" she exclaimed and proudly pulled her badge from her bag. All the other girls hugged her in congratulations and admired the shiny, golden and maroon Head Girl badge.

By the time they had all settled down, the train had started to pull out of King's Cross Station to head to their home, Hogwarts. With an almighty lurch and a final bellow of steam and a blowing whistle, they were off for another whirlwind of adventure and their final year as students.

A thought suddenly dawned on Alice and she shared her thought with the other girls. "Who is Head Boy? Do you know Lily? Did it say in your letter?"

Lily scrunched up her face in pondering because the thought had never crossed her mind. She had been to high in excitement to think about it.

"No, I don't know," she finally said. "I'll find out soon though. I have to go to the Head's Compartment in ten minutes for the Prefects meeting."

Alice smiled to herself in secrecy. She knew who Head Boy was…

For the next ten minutes the girls made small talk. Finally it was time for Lily to make her way to the Head's Compartment and meet the Head Boy.

While walking the length of the train,(she grimaced at her mistake of sitting in a compartment in the back of the train while the Heads' was at the front) she wondered who Head Boy was. She hoped it wasn't a Slytherin. She hated them because they were so prejudiced against her even though she tried to be nice to them. They were a vile, disrespectful house. She involuntarily shivered.

She hoped it wasn't any of her ex-boyfriends. They were all jerks and boy, would that be awkward to have to work with one of them the whole year. She especially prayed it wasn't Ryan Finley. He was a pervert who had cheated on her with her own house mate and arch enemy, Kylie Williams. The worst part is that she had found them one night during fifth year while on a walk around the castle for her Prefect duties. She found them in a broom cupboard, snogging each other senseless.

She also hoped it wasn't a Marauder. She prayed to Merlin it definitely was not a Marauder. She would have to resign immediately. Though she could stand one of them.

She came to the conclusion that the best person for the job was Remus Lupin.

As she finished her thoughts she reached a sliding, oak door with gold lettering on it the read Head's Compartment. She took a deep breath and hoped to Merlin it was no one else but Remus. She composed herself for a second then grabbed the handle. She slid the door open to reveal the last person she would expect.

She gasped with surprised and screamed at the top of her lungs. She was sure the people on Mount Everest could hear her. She fainted one the spot.

The boy ran to her and picked her up with ease. Her set her down gently on the cushioned bench that furnished the compartment. Seconds later she was coming to. She gasped all over again. It was not a dream. Looking down at her were worrisome eyes that were…

a/n: im so mean...only the first chapter and already a cliffy. ha. no jk! i will not do the often, this one was just too tempting. next update might be by saturday. if not it will have to wait a week for im going to camp!

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