Mixed Feelings.

A/N: Hey everyone! :) My name is Melissa, just thought I would give you some background knowledge on the story, and some things I would like to remind you.

First, the story.

So this story is about the mixed feelings everyone experiences as they find themselves falling for people they're either not supposed to fall for, or never thought they would. Featuring relationships between Lily/Sirius, James/OC, Sirius/OC, and Lily/James, and there will be more relationships in the background.

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Disclaimer: Someday I dream to have part ownership of the Harry Potter series, but sadly, that day has not come yet. Anything you recognise does not belong to me. *Tear*

Chapter 1– Hidden Love

Lily Evans walked down the girls' stairs to the Gryffindor common room only to be greeted by a mess of black hair, James Potter.

"Hey Lily!" He exclaimed at the sight of her.

"Hi James, what's up?" Lily asked narrowing her eyes slightly, wary of what the answer may be. See, over the summer and the past month or so, James had been making an effort not to annoy her, and it was working. They now got a long perfectly fine, but Lily was still cautious around James. They were friends now, but not good ones.

"Actually, I'm looking for your sister, Emily. Have you seen her? I want to ask her something." James replied, looking up the staircase as if Lily's fraternal twin sister would appear at the top at any second. Lily frowned slightly, what was he getting at? Lily quickly thought back to when she had last seen her sister, in the dorm. Where had she said she was going? Oh yeah, now she remembered, the Quidditch Pitch, where else?

"Yeah, she said she was going to go down to the Quidditch pitch to practice, left about half an hour ago." Lily supplied, before walking past James to reach the portrait hole.

"Thanks Lily!" James exclaimed before racing around her and running out of the portrait hole, slightly stumbling as he crouched down to get through. Lily shook her head, smiling slightly. James had done a lot of growing up, and she welcomed it, but there was always a childish, energetic and immature boy underneath his new personality. It was slightly amusing now to watch, now that they were friends and he had stopped asking her out every day, not to mention embarrassing her usually in front of the entire school. Lily herself climbed out of the portrait hole, making her way down the first staircase of many, on her way to the Great Hall for lunch. She heard some footsteps behind her, and looked back to see the other Marauders, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.

"Hi Evans! Fancy a quick smooch? I'm running a little low, and I could use a pick-me-up. Especially when it would be with a smoking hot girl, no scratch that, woman, like you." Sirius Black corrected himself and winked at her before running down the stairs to catch up with her, putting his arm around her shoulders when he did.

Lily smiled, she and the other Marauders had become quite friendly recently too, and she didn't mind Sirius' antics anymore, they were all in good fun after all.

"No thanks, Sirius, I'd rather snog a quaffle," Lily replied, smirking as she watched Sirius' smile falter, and then she watched warily as it then turned into a mischievous one, "Hey what are you doing?" Lily exclaimed as Sirius picked her up and started running down a hallway.

"What do you think? I'm taking you to the Quidditch pitch, so that you can snog a quaffle." Sirius replied, still running. Lily just laughed and hung on tight. After a few turns and a few staircases, they made it out onto the grounds, where Sirius put her down, grabbed her arm, and started running again towards the quidditch pitch, pulling Lily along behind. Honestly, where did that boy get all his energy from? Oh, don't answer that Lily thought, thinking back to mealtimes and the disgusting thing that was Sirius Black. Lily laughed again as Sirius pulled her into the Quidditch Stadium, onto the pitch itself. But Lily stopped laughing abruptly, as she saw something in the air that made her stomach go all funny. She saw two people on broomsticks kissing. And those two people were none other than James Harold Potter, and her twin sister, Emily Louise Evans.

"What's wrong?" Sirius asked, scrunching up his eyes in concern, before turning around to follow her gaze, "Oh. That is something to be shocked by." Sirius observed for another few seconds before he said, "Come on Lily, let's go get some lunch," and guided her by the small of her back up into the castle again. "You know, you don't have to make out with a quaffle, for now, I'll let it slide." Sirius chuckled, trying to get Lily's mind elsewhere.

It must have worked, because Lily laughed and said, "Oh how gracious of you! I am forever in your debt," before curtseying to Sirius.

Sirius laughed himself, and they walked all the way back up to the castle in a comfortable silence, Sirius' hand never leaving Lily's back.

"Here you go, milady." Sirius bowed, before opening the door to the Great Hall for her. Lily just looked back at him and grinned in return. You know, he was kind of funny. Strange, Lily mused. She definitely hadn't seen his humour in that way much before, it still took some getting used to. Sirius caught up easily with his long strides, and quickly guided her over to the Gryffindor table, and over to Remus and Peter, the other two marauders. Dinner went well, as Sirius, Remus, and Peter were successful in keeping Lily distracted from the fact that Emily and James had never come into the Great Hall and ate dinner with their humour, and Lily trudged happily back up the stairs to the Gryffindor tower afterwards, feeling bloated after the good meal. Lily, Sirius, Remus and Peter all climbed through the portrait hole and were greeted by the cosy common room and the warmth coming from the fire. Lily yawned; it had been a long day, before saying good night to the boys and crossing the common room as the three marauders sat by the fire and set up a chess board. Lily slowly dragged her feet up the steps, slowly making her way up to the seventh year girls' dormitory. She was so exhausted for some odd reason, and she decided she was going to turn in and have an early night for once. Usually Lily would be up at all sorts of hours, studying and doing homework in the Gryffindor common room by the fire. This was her NEWT year after all. Then again, it was only October. Lily reached the top of the staircase and turned towards the Seventh Year Dormitories. Finally. Lily opened the door and stumbled into the dormitory, not quite looking where she was going. She stopped short as she looked up though, discovering she wasn't alone in the room. Lily met the eyes of her sister, a million questions running through her mind. She had gotten that feeling in her stomach again upon the sight of her twin, and was even more confused by it than before.

Lily felt her lips moving before her brain had registered what she was going to say. "Why?" Lily heard her questioning voice fill the otherwise silent room.

"Hi Lily, I'm really sorry I missed you at dinner, there's something I need to tell you, but judging by that look on your face and what you just said, it seems you already know. I guess I should expl-" Emily got cut off as Lily spoke.

"We're best friends and sisters, and you didn't tell me anything was going on between you and James." Lily said coldly, looking defiantly at her sister, daring Emily to contradict her with her eyes.

"I know, I'm sorry, but with all of your past history, I didn't want to say anything, I thought it would be better if I didn't tell you how I felt about him. You're friendly now, but not good friends, hardly even friends at all, I reckon. It's just he's so sweet, Lils, and so nice to me. He treats me well, and he makes me laugh. He makes me happy, Lily. And I didn't know how to tell you that, but I'm going to Hogsmeade with him tomorrow, and I would love it if you accepted the fact that I am dating James Potter, and I would love it even more if you were happy for me," Emily looked at Lily once more, before she made her way across the room, sidestepped past Lily, and walked out the door. Lily stood there, frozen, not moving, just surprised at her sister's little speech as she thought about what had just happened for a few minutes. With a jolt she realized why she was in the room to begin with, and finished crossing the dormitory to her bed. She collapsed on top of it, too tired to change, and no more than 10 seconds after her head hit that pillow, she was out like a light, too exhausted from the day's events to care that she hadn't taken her shoes off and too stubborn and proud to acknowledge the feeling that she got in her stomach thinking about her sister and James together as she slowly drifted off to sleep.

A/N: I hope you liked it! I know it's a bit short, I'm sorry, but I published this as a sort of test-run. I have a bit more of the story finished, but wanted to see how much of a response I got, and I also published it as a sort of encouragement to me to keep writing, I've been dying to post some of it! You know what also works for an encouragement? Reviews! If you like the story so far and want to read a bit more, please review so that I know if you're interested! I'll be much quicker at writing/updating that way!

Thanks! Melissa :)