I
They meet for the first time when she's seven, on one of the hills near her house. He's quiet, but funny and sweet and he helps her find her glove which has blown off her hand in the wind and tangled itself in a gorse bush. Soon enough though, her family catches up and the boy melts into the shadows without even telling her his name.
II
They meet for the second time when she's eleven. She's taking an art class in the muggle village closest to her home. They find out each other's names, but don't communicate until the last day where their eyes meet above the teacher's demonstration and he raises an eyebrow, as if to say 'do I know you?' She can't raise one eyebrow, but she shrugs as if to say 'do you?'
III
They meet for the third time when she's fourteen. She's been through three years of Hogwarts now and pretty much forgotten him until she sees him on the bench outside the supermarket chugging blue rasperryade straight from a glass bottle. She's more confident now and sits herself next to him on the bench, pulling a headphone from his ear, 'remember me?' she asks and he pauses for a second, placing her, 'Lily Potter' he says carefully (she likes the way her name sounds in his voice) 'Lost any gloves lately?'
IV
They meet for the fourth time that Christmas Eve in the church in the village. He's singing in the choir and she can't watch anyone else. She corners him after the service and arranges the fifth time. They hardly know each other, but she figures fate must be trying pretty hard to bring them together and it would be a crime against the universe to ignore it.
V
They meet for the fifth time on New Year's Day on the hill near her house. They have a picnic in the snow and they sip hot raspberryade and soup and eat mince pies still left over from Christmas and they talk for hours and she goes home with only one glove.
VI
He doesn't see her the sixth time, but she sees him – kissing another girl on the top of their hill. She's not wearing any gloves – it's the first day of the summer holidays – but if she was she's through them at him. Instead she runs off in tears, not sure why she's so upset, but knowing she has no right to be.
VII
They meet for the last time decades later when she accidently crashes his funeral. It's the first time she meets his family and it's horrible. She didn't know him, not really – she has no right to be here, but she's oddly transfixed, hearing about a life which almost mirrored her own, staring at the front of the church where she once saw him sing.
She visits his gravestone when it's put up, leaving a bottle of raspberryade and a single glove.