Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the charaters or items they are all the wonderful J.K. Rowlings. I simply own the plot. Please reivew!
Chapter 1: One chance...
"Get away from me, Potter!"
"Oh, come on, Lily; give me a chance, please!"
"Never you arrogant bastard!"
"I'm not that bad really, Lily! Wait, wait!"
Lily stormed out of the Head's common room, tossing her layers of fire red hair over her shoulder before heading out into the deserted hallways, just to see in the corner of her eye; James still struck to the spot, standing anxiously in front of the portrait, which leads into the Head's dorms. Lily had barely walked five steps when James had come back to his senses and came up behind her catching her by the hand, gently tugging her closer.
"Lily, please just give me one chance," James asked still holding her hand, with hazel eyes that gleamed with hope and anticipation; "please."
"No, I will not be made into one of your pathetic little toys Potter!" She spat out his name as if it was poison on her tongue.
"Lily, what are you-" James started obviously confused, but before he could ask the redhead what she was talking about, she cut him off.
"No!" She screamed and took off running furiously towards the Gryffindor common room. James stood there stuck to the spot, unable to move.
What is wrong with me? Why won't she ever talk to me, all I do is complement her and want to show her how much I really love her, yet she screams and treats me as if I were dirt. Whatever let her scream at me… I'll just have to bug her even more. James thought to himself. Boy, I love the way her beautiful green eyes shine when she's angry. He thought again.
Lily's POV--
When Lily finally reached the portrait of the Fat Lady she happily realized James hadn't tried to catch her again. After all she didn't want anything to do with him. I can't believe Dumbledore made us both Heads this year! Why James? Doesn't he know I can't stand the prat. Lily thought. She told the Fat Lady the password, Hippogriff, and walked in. As she took her first step into the red and gold common room all Lily saw was a flash of brown hair and in only a matter of seconds she was sitting down in one of the comfortable armchairs near the fireplace, staring into her best friend, Natalie's, blue eyes.
"What happened this time?" Natalie asked her usual question as she returned to filing her nails. One look at Natalie and you saw a cool, calm girl who's loyal and has been with Lily through everything. But taking a deeper look you saw still further; a girl who could barely sit still, outgoing, playful, and a small troublemaker, a girl with a good strong heart and an even more competitive nature.
"Oh nothing…Potter just tried to ask me out again!"
"And you said…?" Natalie asked as if she didn't know the obvious answer to the question that was coming already.
"No, of course!" Lily cried as she stood up in anger from her seat.
"Didn't see that one coming." Hailey, Lily's blonde bookworm of a best friend, replied sarcastically from her armchair in the corner, where she was, of course, reading.
Then Natalie decided today she was finally going to try to get to Lily, what was her problem! She was going to ask her right now and get to the bottom of this never ending fight with James.
"What is your problem Lily Evans?!" Natalie demanded. "You have the hottest guy in our year drooling and begging for you, yet you can't even go on one date with poor ol' Jamesie. Can't you just admit the kid's head over heels in love with you and all you do is hurt and fight with him!" Natalie yelled, standing up to be on equal eye-level with Lily. "You obviously must love him back if you are spending so much time being near him and fight with him if he simply opens his mouth."
"What are you talking about?! I fight with him because I hate him and never want to get near the arrogant bastard. I wouldn't date him even if he was the last man on earth." Lily retorted back yelling.
"Whatever you say Lily. But, well I mean it's only what…? The 100th time James has asked you out after all. Why can't you just admit it?!" Natalie gave up bitterly.
"94th time he asked, by my count, and it's only the first week back." Hailey said, looking up from her book, her brown eyes gleaming as she smiled slyly.
"And may I ask what are you so smiley about Hailey?" Lily asked still mad.
"Oh, nothing it's just so obvious…"
"Hey! What! That's-" Lily started.
"Well, anyway…" Natalie cut her off before she could start arguing again. "It's your call Lily." She said.
"Thank you."
"Whatever. Just need your paws off Sirius, he's my Marauder." Natalie responded playfully.
"Ha-ha very funny Nat. You know I wouldn't dream of touching 'your man'," said Lily.
"Hey, hey don't you start eyeing Remus now, either because he's definately mine." Hailey added giggling.
"Fine just leave me here and go run off with Potter's little friends." Lily mock pouted. "I'm going to find myself a nice, cute, wholesome guy who is not just trying to make me into one of his little play things."
"Come on Lily don't be thick, you know over two-thirds those rumors aren't even half-way true." Natalie declared.
Before they could start fighting again Hailey jumped into the conversation.
"Well, you know, Tyler from Ravenclaw has been eyeing you lately." Hailey suggested. "And he's so cute with his baby-blue eyes and light brown hair. Plus, I've seen you flirting with him in the halls too!"
"We will just have to see if he can past…The Lily Test." Natalie teased while laughing.
"Come on guys I can't be that bad." Lily protested. "I just want my special guy to be…perfect. Is that too much to ask?" And with that they all laughed.
Once they stopped Hailey asked, "Hey guys have either of you seen Rachel around?"
"No…" They both replied; neither had seen their curly haired friend anywhere.
Just then Rachel came running into the common room out of breath, yet her mysterious gray eyes shining even through her curly black hair whipped in front of her face.
"Hey guys. What's up?" Rachel said quickly trying to regain her breath.
"Umm…nothing. Where have you been?" Lily asked her.
"Oh doing stuff, just normal, everyday stuff. Oh and Lily it's almost curfew you should be getting back to the Head dorms." and with that Rachel walked toward the 7th year girls dormitories.
"Wait! Rachel what are you doing?" Hailey called out.
"Nothing, I'm just... really tired…I'm going to bed early, Night' everyone." She said standing at the foot of the stairs.
"Night' Rachel." They all answered watching her climb up the stair case.
Once Rachel was out of ear shot Lily whispered "What's up with her?"
"I don't know she has been kind of jumpy lately" Hailey said.
"Well, I'm sure she'll be fine in a few days, it's probably nothing." Natalie replied. "But Lily, she was right about one thing, it's almost curfew you better get back to your room."
"Okay, goodnight guys. See you at breakfast."
"Night." They called as Lily slipped through the portrait hole and into the hallway back to the Head's dorms.
James POV--
James stood there only a second longer and decided to walk to the 'clubhouse' which was a secret room he and his best friends: Sirius, Remus, and Peter discovered in their 3rd year while making the Marauder's map.
Walking through the portrait of dogs playing a muggle game of poker James was met by Sirius, the most hyper guy out of everyone he knew.
"Hey James. Let me guess Lily troubles again." Sirius asked bored as James sat down next to him in an armchair by the fire.
"Yeah, what is this the 100th time she has rejected me?"
"94th by my count." Remus stated looking up from his book he was reading in another armchair.
"Oh, shut it." James said and he threw a pillow at him.
Sirius looked up at him with his mysterious gray eyes. "James, mate, there are thousands of girls at Hogwarts wishing they could be with you. Why do you have to be in love with the one chick that hates your guts?!"
"Because that's just it! All those girls follow me around because of all those stupid rumors, or want my family's money. And like some people I don't just get together with a girl because I'm bored or just feel like it." He said staring at Sirius. Then James added
"Lily's different; she's beautiful. Have you ever seen her almond greens eyes, how they twinkle in the light, or her fire red hair how it contrasts against her fair skin, the way her whole body looks and her soft lips how they appear when she smiles? I love the way she looks when she's thinking about something, the sound of her voice, even when she yells, when she laughs…"
Sirius had, had enough "Okay I get it, snap out of it lover boy. And no sorry I don't watch her every move every second of every day since the moment we first saw her together on the first day on the Hogwarts Express. Just talk to her more, smile, make her laugh, be nice to her." He snapped as he suggested these things as if it were obvious .
"Can't you see Sirius…I love everything about her." James continued barely hearing him. "And you're right; I'm going to do anything and everything I can to get her."
"Mate; you are one seriously messed up little man, Prongs."
"Thanks Padfoot, I see you care. Remus, do you have anything to say?"
"Nope, sorry James. Ummm…follow your heart that usually works right?" Remus added in from his armchair.
"Uh…ya, sure thanks, Moony." James said oddly.
"Hey do any of you guys know where Peter is?" Sirius asked randomly. But the strange thing was none of them knew the answer to this question. Just then, as if on cue, Peter came running into the 'clubhouse.'
"Hey guys," he stuttered, his brown hair a tangled mess from what looked like running. "How's it going?" he asked.
"Umm…Hey Wormtail, nothing James' just is having the usual Lily issues." James rolled his eyes at this. "Where have you been?" Sirius asked suspiciously. Peter was always the one tagging along everywhere. It wasn't like him to come so late.
"Oh nothing…just came to see what you guys were up to. Well, anyways I'm tired and it's almost curfew I think we should be getting back to the dormitories." He blurted out quickly as if he was out of breath.
"Yea, I guess your right." James said.
They all got up and headed out to the hallway towards their rooms. The four boys parted half way as James turned left to the Head's common room portrait, and the others kept going to the Gryffindor common room.
James gave the password and walked into the warm Head-common room. He could hear Lily stirring in her sleep, wishing he could be there next to her. James walked into his Head-Boy bedroom, full of posters and painted in Gryffindor colors, and stripped into his boxers.
James crawled into his bed and set his alarm. Through out the night James could barely sleep, Lily kept plundering though his dreams, Sirius and Remus too with their advice too.
He couldn't take it any more and looked at the clock. It was 4:43 am much too early, but he couldn't fall back asleep. James crept out of his bed, showered and changed in his bathroom. He decided to take a walk by the lake before classes to clear his mind.
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