Lily's 4th year

Lily Evans was in her 4th year at Hogwarts. She was working hard, trying to get prefect the next year, when she started to fall for him. He had black hair and dark eyes, and that kind of hurt look that you could only see if you looked closely. He was shy, and when people tried to talk to him, he would just be mean, but it was just a front. Just a front so people wouldn't find out the real him. He was somewhat of a teacher's pet, for the same reason. People aren't friends with people who would tell on them for any slight rule they broke. Sereves Snape came from a bad family. They were dysfunctional. He had told her many of his family problems. It didn't sound good. But he wasn't worrying so much about them now because he was at Hogwarts, with Lily, and without them.

At first she had hung out with him because she felt sorry for him, but she really grew to like him-and love him. He was, after all- kinda cute. It wasn't until afterwards she found out some of the things about him weren't true.

He grew the courage to ask her out one day when he overheard her and her friends talking. "Lily! One said, "Why don't YOU just ask him out? We all KNOW you like him!" "I know, but I want HIM to ask. I might be getting him wrong anyway" So, that night after dinner, Sereves asked to talk to Lily outside the castle- they talked- and they sort-of asked each other out.

But Snape wasn't the same person she thought he was. He started getting her to go further- further then she really wanted to go- and she would have broken up with him, but she kept rationalizing reasons not to. ' What if he's to hurt by it?' 'What if I change my mind after it's too late?' What if…'

It had started with flirting-but led to more, until one day- the question came.

"Lily, Do you want to go all the way?"

"Sereves, I- I really don't know. What if I get pregnant? What if we get caught? Where would we do it at? I'm sorry, Sereves, I can't."

"It's alright Love, I still love you. If you change your mind, tell me, and together we can find answers to those questions, but for now we won't worry about it."

He gave her a hug and a kiss and they went off to bed.