I walked down the corridor, my best friend Severus Snape beside me. We were discussing the homework our potions professor had given us. I was having real difficulty with it, but Severus had a certain knack for potions, so was taking me through it step by step. We were in our third year, so even though I had been doing potions for a while, it still wasn't my forte. We were both carrying large stacks of books for transfiguration, which was our next lesson. I heard someone coming up behind us, and before I knew it, James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin came zooming past, with poor little Peter Pettigrew trailing behind them. As they ran past, James knocked into Severus, making him drop all his many books, sending them all over the floor. I helped Sev pick his books up.

I hate them. They're so full of themselves, so obnoxious and selfish. Especially James, it partially makes me ashamed that I'm in the same house as him. The others aren't that bad, they mostly just follow James' lead. And Remus disappears sometimes which is strange.

The next day, when we were in History of magic, we were with the Ravenclaws, meaning that Sev wasn't in the class. I was chatting to some Ravenclaw girls, when I heard someone shout my name across the room. I looked round to the back of the classroom to find James smiling at me, with his gang around him sniggering.

Pretty much all the girls loved James apart from me. Fair enough, he was incredibly handsome and I guess some girls found his cheekiness attractive. I turned to face him "What do you want, James?" I said in a tone of disgust. "Oh, I was just wondering when you were going to ditch that horrible kid Snape and come hang out with some people of the cooler variety?" he said casually.

"Severus is my best friend, and nothing will change that."

The thing is though; I was wrong, very, very wrong about that last statement. It was fourth year when he said it, called me a mudblood. I had been hanging out with James more and more since the first time he had talked to me in history of magic. He had won with me over with his charm I guess. Sev didn't like this at all, he always tried to give me reasons why I shouldn't be friends with him, but nothing he said convinced me, as I had found that James and his friends were actually very nice. I guess that day Sev was just tipped off the edge, I wasn't seeing him very much, and he had started hanging out with some really freaky people.

I was walking down the corridor with James, we had gotten pretty close I suppose, and we were laughing at something Sirius had done the previous evening in the common room. Sev confronted me, he asked if I wanted any help on my recent potions essay as he had a free period, it was a very kind service to offer, but I had to decline as James was taking me to my lesson. I refused and told him why, and he just flipped out. "You have forgotten about me, Lily, you don't even see me anymore! You have chosen him instead of me, I get that now. Anyway, I don't need you, you're...you're... just a filthy mudblood!"

I ran off, James shouted at Severus, "You know Snape; I knew you were always no good, but I never thought you would be that cruel." before running off to find me.

I sat down in a deserted corridor, sobbing my eyes out. I couldn't believe he had said that to me. I was so upset; whatever friendship we still had left was gone now. I would never forgive him. The reason why I was most upset though was because I had lost him, he had other friends now, and I couldn't be friends with him anymore after what he had said to me. I sighed and fresh tears fell into my lap as James came round the corner and sat down beside me. He put his arm around me and pulled me into a hug, which was nice of him. I would have been blushing right now, hugging a boy! Especially being James, but I was so upset that it just felt nice and comforting. "Don't be like this Lily, you're ten times better off without him, you have us now, we would never say anything like that about you would we." I couldn't help agreeing as James pulled me out of the hug, I must admit I missed the feeling of his arms around me. He walked me back to the common room.

By fifth year, I still hadn't really got over Severus Snape, I still saw him in the corridors, with his new Slytherin friends. It still upset me thinking about what he said to me, but I had other things on my mind like O.W.L's, which were taking their toll on me. The other thing on my mind was quite obviously James Potter. We were pretty good friends now, and the million times the girls in my dorm asked if I liked James I denied it, though truthfully I did, and was pretty sure James felt the same way. I just didn't knowhow, or when to make a move, and I mean James had been pretty suggestive sometimes, I think we were definitely heading that way.

It was summer of our fifth year when that day came, we were all sitting down by the lake, James, Sirius, Remus and I, and some of the Gryffindor girls. It was a Saturday, blissfully warm and I wore a flowery print summer dress with my long red hair down for a change. It was getting to five o' clock, so the girls decided to get going as they wanted to finish their potions essay now, so they wouldn't have to do them on the weekend, which I could fully understand. Also, Remus and Sirius said that they wanted to go steal something from Filch's office while he was still in Hogsmeade, so that just left James and I. There was a pleasant breeze that cooled me down and brushed through my hair. We were both sitting with our backs up against a large oak tree, looking out into the lake. "You look really beautiful today, Lily." said James confidently. "Thanks James, that's really nice of you." I answered back meekly.

"Lily, I'm just going to say it, I love you, ever since I saw you, I knew you were someone special, and then I got to know you, and I just fell in love so much more, I was such an idiot when I first met you, and I hope you understand that's just because I was trying to impress you, I love you Lily, plain and simple."

And then he kissed me and it was like nothing I had ever experienced in my life. It was beautiful and perfect, and because it was with James it just felt right, so human and natural. He pulled away and we smiled at each other and laughed. "You know what James Potter, I think I may well be in love with you too."