Him

James/lily

James POV

"Hey Potter" a sweet voice filtered through my foggy mind. I looked up from staring at the fire to meet beautiful green eyes.

"Hey Evans" I replied, smiling as she took a seat next to me.

God, she's so beautiful. I studied her, just for a second, losing myself in her total perfection, just for a second before I had to pull myself back to reality; we were friends, that was the deal. No flirting. No showing off. No arrogance. Nothing more than friendship. I promised that to her, break any of the rules and I'd lose my chance at all with being with her, even if I'm only with her in a platonic sense.

But still I've been in love with her for two years, it's hard to just let go like that. She smiled at me, with that god damned smile that makes me lose all sense of reason.

"So Jamsiekins!" she started. I raised an eyebrow at the nickname but chose not to comment. "Got your date for tomorrow night?"

Ah, Tomorrow night. Valentines Day. To be honest, I didn't want to ask anyone out. For the last two years I'd always asked Lily out, got turned down, and made out with the nearest member of my fan club to try and make her jealous, but this year things were different. I couldn't ask Lily out because we're 'friends' now, and I didn't have the heart to ask out another girl.

I'd grown up a lot in this last year, and I realised how stupid it was to go out with another girl just to get Lily jealous and I don't think I'm ready to move on from her just yet. Maybe in another month, year, lifetime I'll be over her.

"Nah, probably stay in with Padfoot again actually. How about you?" I replied, instantly regretting saying that. I really don't want to hear that she's going with someone else. Her cheerful disposition changed immediately and she made a face at me.

"Nah," she said simply, looking away.

"Really? Didn't Enrique ask you out? Or wait, didn't Chad ask you out too? Tyson did too didn't he? And like loads of other guys," I asked.

"Well… yeah, but I didn't want to go out with any of them. I kinda well… I kind of like someone else," she blushed and turned to face me.

"Really?" I asked fake interestedly, when inside it was killing me, but still there was nothing I could do about it.

"Yeah," she replied absently before letting out a loud moan. "God why can't I get him out of my head?" her green eyes grew brighter as tears started to fill them.

"No, don't cry," I called out pulling her into my arms. "Do you…err…wanna talk about it?" I asked rather lamely. She snorted.

"Sorry I'm being stupid, it's just I can't stop thing about him…and I don't think I've got a chance with him," she said to me.

"Are you kidding? He'd have to be insane to turn you down!" I said to her. "Or gay," I added as an afterthought.

"I seriously don't think he's gay," she giggled. I smiled.

"Tell me about him," I tell her, causing her eyes to light up again.

"Well he's sweet, caring, kind, all the usual things. He's funny I've never told him that, but god, he makes me laugh, even if I don't laugh out loud a lot of the time." She smiled fondly at this. "He can be damn irritating sometimes though."

"Really, like how?"

"Like, he plays pranks on me all the time." She rolled her eyes and something clicked in my brain.

"Hey is it Sirius you like?" she turned to look at me.

"What? 'Course not! Plus I told you, this guy's not gay."

"Sirius is not gay!" she raised an eyebrow at me.

"Yeah right." I shrugged. I didn't think he was gay, Remus maybe but…I never thought Siri was, anyway I waved these confusing thoughts away and tuned back into what lily was saying.

"Anyways, he's brave too, always stands up for people. Really intelligent as well, though you wouldn't guess it. Oh, handsome also. God he's fit, loads of girls fancy him. Another reason why I might not have a chance," she paused to sigh. He sounded like a good guy, whoever he was. I just needed to ask one thing, the most important thing, to test whether he was good enough for her.

"Does he play Quidditch?" she laughed and rolled her eyes.

"Trust you to ask that question. Yeah, he does. He's really good at it too." I thought a moment.

"Is it Max?" she shook her head.

"Oliver?" another no.

"Ichigo?"

"Who?"

"The orange haired Japanese dude."

"Oh, no."

"Tala? Bryan?" another no.

"Remus?"

"I told you, he's not gay." I chose to ignore that comment.

"Snape?"

"Christ, No!"

"Didn't think so. Erm…Gary?"

"No! God Potter, are you that dense?"

"Yes."

"Do you really not know who it is?"

"No I don't!" I cried out "tell me!"

She laughed. "James! I'm talking about you!" huh? Must've heard wrong.

"What?"

"James! Listen carefully. I-fancy-you!" I heard her that time. "Look James, I understand if you don't feel that way any-" I never let her finish that statement, I wasn't wasting this moment. I crushed my lips against hers, pulling her onto my lap. She smiled against my lips before returning the kiss.

We stayed for what seemed like hours like this. That is until Sirius came downstairs and started screaming.