Chapter 1

"Severus Snape!" Lily Evans' voice floated everyone's head in the corridor.

Several students, including Snape himself, looked back up the grand staircase at the angry red head who had yelled his name. Snape hitched his bag back up his shoulder and called back to her, "What is it, Lily?"

Lily Evans sprinted down the stairs, glaring at Snape the whole way. By the time she reached him, it seemed that every student inside of Hogwarts was staring at them. Lily glared at them all and commanded,

"Get out of here, or I'll take five points from every student standing here!"

Everyone scattered into the Great Hall for lunch. Strictly speaking, as a Prefect, Lily didn't have the power to take House Points away, but nobody but other prefects and the Professors knew that. Severus sighed and asked again,

"What is it, Lily?"

Severus' brain was cloud with confusion. He couldn't imagine why Lily could be mad at him. Lily grabbed his arm and dragged him into an empty classroom. She slammed the door shut, turned on her heel, and burst out angrily,

"How COULD you forget that you were supposed to meet me in Hogsmeade yesterday afternoon, Severus?" Lily's face was beat red and her green eyes were filled with tears. "I looked like a full the whole time and that filthy, toe rag James Potter, and his friends kept making fun of me."

Severus' black eyes opened in shock. He had forgotten that he promised to meet Lily at Hogsmeade. He had got caught up in a new potion he had found in an advance Potion book he had gotten out of the Restricted Section in the library.

"You did forget me, Sev." Lily whispered, tears spilling over.

"No, Lily Flower. I could never forget you. I-I just had to double check my Potions essay and I lost track of time." Severus said quickly, taking her into his arms.

He didn't want to screw this relationship up. It took him the best part of their five years at Hogwarts to get Lily to like him this much. He had loved her since the first day he saw her in the park when they were kids.

"Oh, Severus, you've been done with that essay for two weeks." Lilly scoffed, tears still falling onto her cheeks.

Severus took Lily into her arms and said, "Lily, I know, but I've been going over and over it since I finished it just to make sure it's perfect. I like showing off for you."

Lily looked up at him and through her tears, she smiled and blushed.

"Really?" she asked hoarsely.

"Yes, really, my Lily Flower." Severus smiled down at her, glad to see her happy again.

They both jumped and whirled around when they heard someone scoff behind them on the stairs.

"Well, well, well. Look at this, Prongs." Sirius smirked, looking at his best friend. "The grease ball somehow convinced Evans to touch him."

James Potter laughed annoyingly and said, "Padfoot, he probably slipped some potion into his Pumpkin Juice this morning at breakfast. There's no other way that someone with come within 30 feet of him."

Lily snorted and responded quick as spitfire, "You must be confusing Severus with yourselves, you disgusting toe rags."

Severus laughed and wrapped his arms around Lily's waist and smirked at James with glee in his eyes.

"Oh, is that what you were thinking the whole time you were staring at me in Hogsmeade today?" James jeered.

"You wish I had been staring at you, James Potter. You aren't worth a pickled toad and I wouldn't even think about looking at you." Lily snipped back, fighting fire with fire.

James' jaw dropped and for once in his life, was totally silent and had no comeback. Sirius grabbed his arm and dragged him into the Great Hall to save him from further embarrassment.

"Let's go get lunch, Sev." Lily said, grabbing his hand. "Then you can look over my Potions essay to make sure it's perfect."

As they walked into the Great Hall, Severus answered, "I'm sure it's already perfect, Lily Flower. You're a genius when it comes to Potions."

Lily blushed and Severus smiled at how pretty she was.

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