blah *Thud* Lily Evans had just backed James Potter against a wall in apparent
anger.

"Potter just stay the hell away from me... and DON'T touch me" she huffed
angrily. Let go of him and walked away with her two friends Charlie Peterson and
"Ernie" Avi. They followed he only after apologizing to James for her hot
temper.
"Nah don't worry about it she'll come around" he said in an 'I'm so good
everyone bow to me" tone. Ernie burst out laughing on the scene but Charlie
quickly hurried him to Lily.

"FROG-BRAIN!" Lily shouted at the poor Fat Lady.

"Err sorry" Charlie apologized and rushed in after Lily, Ernie wasn't far
behind them.

"I-HATE-JAMES-POTTER!" Lily huffed as she plopped down into a big grey squishy
chair in front of the fire after three first years scurried away obviously
afraid she'd do what she did last time.... she had turned poor Greg Albott in a
mocking-bird.

"What did he do this time?" asked her best friend Louise Finnigan who had sat
down next to her.

Lily launched into the explanation... "I was walking with Charlie and Ernie to
Professor Binn's classroom to ask him about my grade. When Potter and the
Morons walk by. Potter grabs me around the wrist as I walk nicely by..."

"NICELY MY ASS" shouted Ernie looking astonished "You tried to kick him where
the sun don't shine he grabbed your wrist out of fear"

"Ahem ANYWAY" Ernie's mouth snapped shut "I tried to get out of his grasp but I
couldn't he pushed me up against the wall... so out of self defense I grabbed
his arm and twisted his arm and pushed him against the wall told him to '...stay
the hell away from me and DON'T touch me' and left.

"Err, wow" Louise said quietly, her velvety black eyes were opened wide.
"Sounds like Potter fancies you" she stifled a giggle and turned it hastily into
a sneeze. Lily let out a ferocious roar and stormed up to the 7th year girls
dorm.

Lily was sixteen soon to be seventeen. Tall, thin, freckles splattered all
over her face, red hair laying softly upon her shoulders it was obvious why
James would like her... to everyone but her. She changed into pajamas and
tried to sleep but merely twisted and turned in her sheets, finally drifting off
into a forced sleep.

In another dormitory James Potter was getting undressed to his bear skivvies.
He too glanced into the mirror to see himself, strong, well built with black
fly-away hair. He wondered quietly why Lily Evans hated him with such a burning
passion. "Who knows" he spat bitterly "who cares" and with that crawled into
bed and fell asleep.

The soft song of a bird awoke Lily the next day. He eyelids fluttered openly
and she looked up from where she lay. A bran-owl swooped by on his way to the
Great Hall to deliver a note. Being Sunday morning all the girls were still
sleeping even though it was well past nine o'clock. She got up yawned stretched
a little and changed into a pair of running shorts and a tee-shirt, she pulled a
burgundy sweatshirt over the tee-shirt she put her hair into a tight ponytail
which fell down to her shoulders. She grabbed for a tiny cd playing lying near
her bed. She had (with the help of Professor Telly) charmed it so it would play
in the magical world. She clicked it on and the raspy voice of Stevie Nicks
pounded in her head. She pulled on some old running shoes and started out to
the grounds to take her morning jog around the Quidditch pitch. She hurried out
of the common room and through the portrait hole.

James Potter woke a little before nine and put on a pair of sweats and a
tee-shirt, grabbed his broom and headed for the Quidditch pitch to practice a
bit. He headed for the shed just outside of the pitch and saw a figure running
toward him. When the stranger got closer he recognized the red hair and green
eyes. "Lily" he whispered to himself. He grabbed his broom and launched
himself high above her before she caught a glimpse of him. He noticed she was
listening to music and heard some of it. "Fleetwood Mac" he thought. She
stopped for a moment and stretched. James thought about the first day the
fiery red head had stomped into his life.

**FLASHBACK**
James pulled his cart up to the platform between 9 and 10 just like his parents
had said. He took a deep breath and crashed through the barrier. Once inside
he glanced around amazed. His eye caught Sirius Black his best friend. But e
also saw a red headed girl looking around anxiously. She was very pretty and he
felt his heart throb. Sirius clapped a hand to his back and looked to wear he
was looking.

"Ahh got your eye on Evans huh? Well let me tell you she's feisty that one.
You'll have to fight over her..." Sirius and Lily were neighbors from the
muggle world, Sirius was muggle-born but met James at Diagon Alley in July.
Love at first sight so to speak. They were very much alike, loved trouble and
loved getting into as much as possible.

"I see well oh well" James sad with in a downcast tone and stopped trying to go
after her rather spent his time bothering her.

*****

Lily was now doing sprints up and down the pitch. She was fast and agile
making for a good seeker. James was a beater with Sirius and very popular with
the girls. It was no problem with Sirius but James hated it. He liked the
attention but the one girl he liked and thought about most wasn't in that group
of girls so it was pointless. So girls stopped throwing themselves to often but
it didn't stop all of them. He did a flip to get off angry feelings of being
un-loved and headed down to talk to her.

"Why hello!' he shouted to her. She couldn't hear him and couldn't see him
because he was flying behind her. "LILY" he shouted again but nothing so he grasped her tiny frame and pulled her onto the broom and made her face him. She was angry to say the least. Fuming she ripped the headphones off and looked or rather glared up at him.

"Potter" she whispered James swore he heard her growl but he didn't care. He did the opposite of what she had asked and flew up. "PUT ME DOWN" she screamed.

"No" he said plainly and looked at her intently. "Why do you hate me?" he asked.

"Put me... wha-?" she looked at him bewildered.

"Why do you hate me" he asked again.

"Because your an arrogant bastard, your in love with yourself!"

"That's not why you hate me"

"Yes it is"

"Nope"

Yup"

"NOPE!"

"GOD DAMMIT shut up!" she said quietly. "Can you please put me down?"

"No not until you tell me why you hate me."

"How 'bout I make it so you can't have children will that work?" she hissed.

"Alrighty then back down we go!"

A/N hey this is the end to the first in my series... so should I continue or stop where I am? I really want to know so review please!