A/N I've been trying to write an LJ fic for a long time, so here it goes…..
They say that a first impression is important. I once believed that the first impression was so important, it was the only impression. If I didn't like someone, I never would like them. If I liked someone, I wouldn't ever not like them.
I'd never really thought that people could change. I mean, a person is a person, aren't they? And they're going to be that person as long as they live, right? So it was crazy to think people could change, especially me.
If I had to name the worst first impression I had ever gotten, it would be the first impression James Potter gave me. I hated him. And by Lily law, once I hated someone, I would always hate them. But I had forgotten one thing: I belonged to a world where people flew on broomsticks and changed into animals. And in this world, where the laws of physics were defied in an instant…Lily law didn't stand much of a chance, either.
What I didn't count on was myself actually changing. Me, James Potter. I was a ladies man, a trickster, and Quidditch star, among other things. I was going to stay youthful and careless forever, and that was that. It was James Potter code not to care, and not to change. But hell, in a world where things are changed with a wave of a wand, James Potter code didn't stand a fighting chance.
James Potter somehow managed to, after years of annoying me, take my heart and turn my life topsy-turvy, and his impression along with it.
Lily Evans somehow, after years of rejecting me, managed to initiate a transformation that changed me from the ladies man, careless trickster, and insufferable prat (as she so eloquently put it) into someone else. Someone who was thoughtful and sensitive. And as for being a ladies man, I became a lady's man. And that lady was Lily.
Yes, I fell in love with James Potter.
Yes, I fell in love with Lily Evans.
And you know what?
We still are in love.