Lily sighed. Turning to James she checked him up and down. He had on a suitable outfit, nothing horrible, yet it wasn't fabulous. His tie was loose and hanging. She grunted.

"Fix it." she said looking at his tie. "Your not messing this up for me. Just because you were the only one I could get to come with me, doesn't mean..." but the rest of it was a mere mutter.

James rolled his eyes and fixed his tie up. Putting his pointer and middle finger between his neck and collar of the shirt, he loosened it so he was a bit more comfortable. Clearing his throat, he continued walking when they reached the apparation point.

When they apparated into the APHall, which was short for Apparation Hall, they were met by many other Wizards and Witches of the Magical Law Enforcement group. James, having been working for the Ministry as an Aurour his whole life, practically, since he was out of school, recognized many people and found it easy to be there all of the sudden. On the other hand, Lily was nervous. She'd be getting her promotion today, and she knew people, but not like James did. James was an Aurour, and the best one yet. He got tons of attention from the Ministry, as if girls wasn't enough, and she was pretty new game. She moved a bit closer to James as some important looking people passed by and brushed her shoulder. A women with hair that fell down to a bit below her shoulders, and a pair of thin set glasses and a friendly gleam in her eyes smiled back and walked back over to them.

"So sorry about bumping into you like that. Hello James--Oh, excuse me, I'm Madam Bones, simply Amelia if you must." Amelia said with a kind hearted smile towards Lily. With a look back at her fellow employers, she gave them a quick smile, rolled her eyes at the 'highly important looking people' and walked back over to them.

After some amount of introductions, Lily started to relax, and began moving a bit more away from James as she did so. When she finally came to meet her new boss, she let out a long sigh. Micheal McConnell. He was pretty high in command for the Magical Law Enforcement departmentals. He was a bit heavy, and stood somewhat tall, with a thinning spot in the center of his head, while the rest of his hair showed as grey/black. She yanked James by the cuff of his sleeve, and walked over to Mr. McConnell.

"Ah, Lily. I've heard great things about you from your former employer, or trainer, your very good at what you do. I've also heard a bit about you being skilled in serious magic, almost became an Aurour. Well, were lucky to have someone like you with us." the slightly thick boned man said with a chuckle.

Lily gave a smile and took in a sharp breath. "This," she said motioning a hand slightly to James, from the 2 feet distance that was in between them, that--ahem--she had put there. "Is my friend, James Potter." she said dropping her hand back. She shook Mr. McConnell's hand. "Its a great pleasure to meet you Mr. McConnell." she said as she let go of his hand.

"Oh no no no, the pleasure is all mine my good friend. Ah yes, James, Mr. Potter, your parents were very skilled and I see they didn't just throw that skill down the drain. I've heard great things about you too." he said as he shook James' hand as well. "I hope you two have a great time then." he said with one last smile and gave a hearty laugh as he saw a collegue of his and walked over to the thin lanky man he'd seen on the other side of the room.

Lily wandered here and there, James tagging along, sometimes going off to talk to other people. Lily noticed one particular time when he'd gone off to talk to a blonde, in a rather form fitting dress that, in Lily's opinion, was shorter than it should've been. Her eyes narrowed as she saw her twirl her hair like a little girl and giggle at whatever mark he'd just made. He'd done this with two girls, and Lily was about to kill him, when the night ended.

James and Lily said goodbyes to many, Lily particularly stopping to say goodbye to Mr. McConnell, and James saying a good goodbye to Amelia Bones, for she was a good, dear friend of his.

They headed to the APHall to go home.

Lily turned towards James, biting back her anger as she spoke. "Why did I invite you? I knew you'd turn up to be some sort of stupid dumb..." she went on under her breath. They had been snipping at each other ever since they got to the apparation point in Lily's town.

James' head jerked towards her as he too entered her house and they both stopped in her kitchen. He let out a breath and spoke. "Lily. I was being myself, and you said yourself I wasn't your date. I knew I wasn't going to get closer to you than to have you introduce me and Lily, that was even about a good 3 feet away! I'm not going to ruin my night, and not talk to other women. There were tons there, and I had every right!" he said wondering how she could get so mad about this when she hated him.

Lily glared at him. "Potter, you were there as my so called 'date' and that means you act like one. I may have said, "and this is my friend, James Potter," but that doesn't mean your inquired to not be my date! You were there, not for flirting purposes! Your the dumbest git I've known Potter. The dumbest." she said in a small of 2 breaths, and one very very short one to say his name in the beggining.

James couldn't take it. She'd always refused him, hated him, didn't want to touch him and never cared about who he flirted with or was with. And now, when she hates him, she's telling him that he can't flirt with other women, at least not around her. He let out a frustrated sigh, and then groaned loudly with more frustration. He managed to say most of his next part without much yelling.

"Lily! Your a kiss up girl, whos always gotten straight good grades yet still manages to look like you do. Beautiful. You're a goody-two-shoes, and always turning me down. You shove people off like peices of dirt that fell onto your shoulder. You really. Really expect people to let you walk all over them, or do you just expect me to since I'm the one that even trys on you Evans? You've been nothing but horrible to me, and even after your friends give you advice to be nicer to me, oranyone Evans, you just shove it off like their advice just isn't good enough for your problem. You don't want me at all, you hate me, and you couldn't want anything less to do with my life. You don't act like those girls who really desire me, which, Evans, may be pleasent at various amounts of times..."

Lily's eyes narrowed at every word he said. Her face went from her usual distaste for him, then to anger, then to her boiling red-head temper, and then she went complete flushed with anger. That is, until she heard what he said after.

"...and that, Lily Evans," he said taking a shuddering breath, for tears were actually threatening to fall from his eyes, and he blinked them back for they had started stinging, "is exactly the reason why I am so in love with you. You aren't like those other girls; you actually want to resist me, and your not swooning over my every smile and trait!" he said as a tear actually fell loose but he blinked hard enough it smeared into a wet blur below his eye. He put much emphasis on trait.

Lily stood there, unable to think. With his last words, James turned on his heel and walked briskly out of the room, and then out of the house. As he walked down the street he promised himself he'd give up. He wouldn't try anymore if this was what she was going to do. And when he and Sirius had problems, they went to drink it off. Guarded drinking, not too much, just some. But he was complete out and needed more. So he headed off to his Manor, once setting foot inside, threw his traveling cloak onto the ground by the front door, slammed it shut, and grabbed a Firewhiskey.

With a shuddered sigh he sat down infront of the fire and began to think, taking long hard swings of his drink as he did. What had he done so wrong, for her to hate him like she did? He whipped away a trail that had apparently blazed down his cheek while he was furiously walking to the nearest apparation point from Lily's house. What? Why couldn't he just know why?

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So how do you like it? I like it a lot. Pretty proud of it. First chapter, and I deffinetly will make its rating worth the stories while. This is simply a beggining. It'll get muy interesante. Lol, reviews? ) I love 'em.