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First Year

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Lily sat on the train nervously biting her nails. She was a witch! She was going to a school to learn magic! In all of her life Lily would never have imagined that this could happen to her. She wasn't special or gifted or unique. She was just Lily. Just Lily was a witch. As the whistle blew a girl joined her compartment followed by a skinny little boy. "Hi I'm Alice and this is my best friend Frank. We're first years. Who are you?" The girl's honest curiosity and friendliness made Lily relax immediately.

"I'm Lily. This is my first year here too." Alice immediately brightened up and started asking Lily a whole bunch of questions about what house she wanted to be in and if she knew anyone yet. Right after Lily finished explaining that she didn't really know a lot about the houses and that she had just figured out she was a witch the compartment door slide open. Standing in the door way were three boys. The two in the front looked like they could be brothers if one of the brothers had really bad bed head while the boy standing behind them had sandy blonde hair instead of black. Lily may have been comfortable with Alice and Frank now but she was still shy around new people. She quickly picked up the book Frank had leant her about Hogwarts and started reading.

Apparently the messy haired boy named James knew Frank and had come to introduce Remus and Sirius to him. They were really funny and it was hard for Lily to focus on reading with them in the compartment.

James looked over at the red-headed girl named Lily for the third time since he had entered Frank's compartment. She refused to make eye contact with him or even talk to him. This was very unusual for James who was well liked by everyone he knew. Why didn't she want to talk to him? Naturally, being an 11 year old boy, he tried to get her attention by making fun of her. "Doesn't your friend do anything but read Alice?" If she wouldn't talk to him he would make fun of her until she did.

Alice, of course, was ready to back up her new friend. "She does plenty of stuff. We played cards and talked about which house we were gunna be in and …"

James saw this as another opening and continued to pick on her by saying, "Little miss bookworm over there will probably end up in Ravenclaw."

Lily had had enough and snapped the book shut: her sister picked on her all the time and she wasn't going to let this stranger do the same. She turned to James and said, "Just because I prefer this book to the useless noise coming from you doesn't mean I'm a bookworm. I bet I'm ten times more entertaining then you!"

James was flabbergasted. He honestly didn't think that the small little girl in the corner would talk back, but she did which meant he had gotten her attention. Not only did she talk back but she insulted him. He smiled. He had gotten her to talk to him. He looked over at Sirius and said, "I like her" as if Lily wasn't there at all.

Lily's mouth dropped open. Was he serious? She stared at him while he just smirked back at her with a triumphant look. She wasn't aware of what they were playing or how he had won, but he had and she had somehow lost. She went back to reading her book with a huff. He wouldn't win again.

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James was ecstatic; he had been sorted into Gryffindor. He had been sorted into Gryffindor with his new friends and Lily. They were all sitting down eating the feast and horsing around when Sirius came up with the idea to jinx a cupcake and give it to someone to eat. James agreed right away and thought up the perfect jinx to put on it. Remus took a little convincing, but he was finally swayed when the boys reminded him that it was a harmless jinx and no one was going to get hurt. All that was left was to pick the target. Of course, James chose Lily.

James scooted a little ways down the bench until he was next to Lily. "Hey Evans want this cupcake?"

She looked at the red frosted cupcake in his hand before asking "What did you do to it?"

"What? Nothing. Promise, I just thought you would like it and it was my way of apologizing for what I said on the train" She looked suspiciously at him for a moment before saying no and continuing on with her meal. "Are you scared Evans? C'mon just try it. I dare you."

"No. Now go away."

"I double dog dare you!" He saw her look out of the corner of her eye at him and he knew he had her. Hook, line, and sinker. The gauntlet had been thrown and if she said no now James would win again. He fought off his smirk when she turned to face him.

"Fine" She grabbed the cupcake and took a bite. "Happy?" James couldn't even respond due to his laughter. Now instead of the pale skinned freckled girl there sat a girl whose skin was as red as her hair. At James' laughter more and more people in the great hall took notice of Lily's new coloring and in that moment two legendary Hogwarts tales were born: the marauders and the Potter/Evans feud.

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A/N: This is the first chapter to my first chapter fanfic. I hope you enjoyed it. I should be updating it weekly or biweekly but I am starting school again on the 25th so the chapters might be a little late. The story will be around 7 - 8 chapters. I haven't really decided yet. Please review so I have incentive to write quickly. :grins cheekily as she shamelessly seeks reviews: