UPDATED 19/02/2012- Hey! well I've changed the first two of the chapters so that the timeline runs more smoothly for the rest of the story:D Reviews are still loved and appreciated!:) Thank you and enjoy!

It was late into the evening, on a chilly night at the end of October. Inside the Gryffindor common room, sixteen year old Lily Evans was on the floor, in front of the blazing fire. She was in her flannelette pyjamas, leaning with her back against the sofa. In her lap was a book, which she was trying to concentrate on, but failing miserably at. After re-reading the same page multiple times, she tilted her head to listen to the conversation between Hestia Jones- a seventh year- and Alice.

"If Benjy doesn't get a grip and turn up on time, James will kick him off the team for sure," said Hestia, scribbling down notes into her potions book.

"I can't believe we have to get up that early though," argued Alice.

"Yeah it is early. I'll give him that," replied Hestia. "But if we get down to the pitch and have to wait for him in the bloody cold one more time, I swear I'll-"

"I don't get why you can't have practice later in the day," interrupted Lily, turning round to look up at the two girls.

"Because Evans," came a smug voice from the other side of the common room. "The team concentrates more in the mornings; there are no distractions, and first years don't come and irritate us. I thought you would have thought of that, being the cleverest in the year and all."

Lily scowled and climbed onto the sofa and peered over the edge. Sitting at a table in the corner was James Potter and Remus Lupin, who were half way through a game of exploding snap. James was smiling at her, ruffling his hair. Remus rolled his eyes.

"Listening in to our conversation Potter?" questioned Lily, standing up and grabbing her book from the floor.

"People in the corridors could have heard you," retorted James. He put down his cards, and leant back into his chair and folded his arms. "Nice pyjamas."

Lily glared at him. "Stop looking at me like that or I will personally rearrange your face!"

"Come on Evans, you can't be stubborn for ever. One day you will admit your hidden feelings and go out with me."

Alice looked up at Hestia and they both sighed.

"When that day comes Potter, pigs will have learnt how to fly. Alice are you coming?"

Alice wished good night to Hestia and Remus, hit James over the head, and hastily followed Lily- who was storming up the stairs.

"Lils, relax. If you show him that he is getting to you he will just carry on, just ignore him." Alice trudged up another step to the landing, which split off two staircases. One lead to the boys' dorms, and the other to the girls dorms.

"He's so annoying! An annoying, stupid, self-centred – Arrggh!" Lily began to shake the book in her hands with a considerable force.

"Lils, he's only warming up now. What has it been? I think about six weeks since we came back. Imagine what he'll be like after Christmas." Alice grinned.

"Merlin," said Lily under her breath.

As Lily and Alice talked, they didn't hear (or see) a person come down from the boys' dorm and stand watching them.

When the girls had left, Sirius pulled off the invisibility cloak and sauntered down the stairs to the common room, revealing James, Remus and Peter having a debated discussion about James' feeble attempts to win Lily over.

"Prongs, you must have out done yourself this time. I over-heard Evans call you, 'A stupid, annoying arrggh!'" laughed Sirius.

He slumped down on the couch next to Hestia, with his hands behind his head, sipping at a Butter Beer which he had got from the boys' dorm. James looked down into his knees and rubbed his eyes underneath his glasses.

"Oi stop moping, she will warm up to you eventually. You just need to be nicer to her- that's not such a challenge is it?"

'Yeah just say she looks pretty… or something along those lines.'

Hestia gave an odd glance at Peter with raised eyebrows; deciding not to intrude into the conversation, returned to her work.

'Seriously Pete, did you actually see Lily when James complimented her last year? She slapped him across the face and we ended up going to the kitchens for ice,' replied an amused Remus, who had moved to the floor and was leaning against the wall.

"All I want is for her to go out with me once, just once. That is not much to ask."

"Mate, if you let your ego try to get Lily you will never get her. At least try and act normal," said Remus.

'Prongs act normal around Evans? Is that even remotely possible?' said Sirius with a grin.

James wacked Sirius round the back of the head and began to climb up the stairs, hoping that maybe Lily Evans would soon be his.

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