Lily/ James!

This is my first Fanfiction. I hope you all like it. It will be multiple chapters so stay tuned! Thanks for Reading! ~HarryPFan101

I remember my first Christmas. The crinkling of wrapping paper and the Christmas Songs being sung and my mom and dad decorating the Christmas tree. Mom and Dad. Wow I wish they were still here.

This past summer, I was at Diagon Alley with my friends and my sister was with her whale of a boyfriend, Vernon, when my house was attacked. My mom and dad were at home when Voldemort arrived. He tortured them so they would give up information about me but they refused. He killed them after torturing them to insanity. Petunia decided to go off and spend her summer with Vernon and I was left to my own devices.

I was walking down the street when I heard a yell. I turn around to see Potter. James bloody Potter was walking down the street toward me.

"What do you want Potter?" I spat, "I'm not in the mood."

"Maybe I just wanted to say hi," he replied giving me a smirk.

"Potter I am not in the mood! I just went through a really hard time and I just needed to clear my head," I replied starting to cry.

"Evans what is wrong?" He asked placing an arm around my shoulder.

"I don't think you want to know why," I replied.

"Lily I want to know," he pleaded. "Fine if you must know," I said sobbing. "My parents were murdered last week by Voldemort and then to top it all off my sister decided to spend the rest of the summer with her boyfriend, leaving me alone. James I have nowhere to go I am all alone and I just can't take it anymore."

"You called me James," he said in a daze.

"Potter did you hear anything? Maybe I shouldn't have told you!" I said as I shrugged off his arm and started to walk down the road.

"Lily wait!" He yelled and two seconds later he was next to me. "Lily you never called me James before and it took me by surprise. I am really sorry and I know how it feels. And I want you to know I am here Lily. Not just as a person who loves you but as a friend," he replied panting.

"Potter we are not friends. And how would you know what it feels like?" I questioned. "Lily," he said slowly as if in pain, "my dad was killed last summer when he was on a death eater raid. I know what it's like to lose someone."

I felt the feeling of sinking regret and knew I really should not have yelled at him. "Potter I am so sorry I didn't know. Is it just you and your mom now?" I replied.

"Yes Lily it is and it gets lonely sometimes. Sirius is around but it is not the same."

"For the last week I've had my aunt but it is not great. I don't have any people I can actually count on to tell me the truth and not treat me like a fragile little kid," I said. "My friends don't know and even if they did, they would probably be too busy to help me out..

"Lily it gets better after a while. You just need someone to count on. I could be that person if you want," he said" Ok Potter I guess. Since you know what I am going through." I paused. "But that does not make us friends!" I added as an afterthought.

"Well since we are starting off on a new foot, I think we should use our names. And mine is James, not Potter," he answered holding out his hand as if to shake mine as if we were meeting for the first time.

"And I am Lily not Evans," I said shaking his hand in my own.

"Well since we are "acquaintances", can an acquaintance ask an acquaintance to dinner?" He said.

"Sure P-James. That would be great thanks," I replied catching myself before I could say Potter, geez that was becoming a habit.

He led me down the street a ways, arriving at a large house at the end of the block with a gate out front. You could barely see it through the trees but I could make out an outline of a large grey house, from where I was standing it could have been a castle.

"James is this your house?" I asked in disbelief, could he really live this close to my Aunts I thought.

"Yup, Why? Did you think I didn't have a house Lily?" he said opening the gate and letting me in. Just then the door opened and out came Sirius Black.

"Lils!" He said running over to me and picking me up. Then I heard a voice say "Sirius put the poor girl down!" I knew that voice.

"Alex!" I yelled and as soon as I was let down I ran over to her and gave her a big hug. "What are you doing here?" I asked. Just to clarify who Alex is because you are probably like who the heck is she? Well she is my best friend. She is slightly crazy and has long dark brown hair and glasses. Her grey eyes tend to become stormy when she is mad especially around a certain Sirius Black. She is a 7th year at Hogwarts with me and trust me when I said we have, well had in my case, a mutual hatred for James Potter. And to see him at his house well that was a surprise.

"Well I am sort of James's sister," she said.

"What you're James's sister! How could you be? You almost hate him as much as me, and you have always told us, that you're his cousin," I said.

"I didn't want to be known as the Twin of James Potter so I said I was his cousin," she replied scathingly. "You're his twin?" I replied unbelievingly.

"Mhmm," she said.

"James you didn't tell me?" I said rounding on him. "It wasn't my place." he said simply as though we were talking about weather.

"Wait, you guys are actually being civil?" Alex and Sirius questioned at the same time.

"We have called a truce and now we are "acquaintances"." I clarified.

"WHAT!" they both exclaimed.

"Yeah it is true." James agreed seeing their shocked faces.

He smiled over at me and I smiled back.

Sirius turned to me and asked, "Lils why are you here?"

"I'm here for dinner actually." I muttered.

"Really? Yay!" Sirius said jumping up and down.

"Yeah, James invited me," I said.

"Shouldn't we go in, it's time to eat," James said. He led us up the path and into the house. When I finally saw the house instead of trees, it was large it actually did look like a castle. It was huge.

"Woah!" I said as I stepped into the foyer and stepped back in shock.