This is my James/Lily fanfiction. I also have a Snape/Bellatrix, a Harry/Ginny and one about the four founders of Hogwarts. Please read and review.

While Lily Evans was the prettiest girl in Hogwarts, her best friend, Alice Aldridge, was the reality. Half of the male population of the school had been with Alice in one way or another since she was eleven, when she was first found in the second floor broom closet with a boy. Alice was pretty enough, with long, straight dark hair and big, hazel eyes. What the boys liked most about Alice was that she wore her v-neck sweaters lower than any other girl in the school and her skirt higher than anyone else as well.

"Hey Lily," Alice said, sitting next to Lily Evans by the lake. It was a sunny afternoon late in June, and the older students gathered at the lake during their free periods. Alice lit a cigarette and took a long drag.

"Stop smoking those, Al!" Lily said, coughing. "They're so gross."

"Then stop supplying me with them," Alice said, blowing a ring of smoke in Lily's face. Lily groaned and stuck her nose in "Hogwarts: A History".

"Lily," Alice said quietly, with a smug smile on her face.

"What!" Lily snapped.

"James is looking at you," Alice said.

"I don't care. He's a jerk," Lily said, trying to read.

"He's really cute. He definitely likes you," Alice said.

"No he doesn't. You heard him; he called me a 'prude bookworm'."

"Oh Lil- give it up, that was when you were like twelve. You're sixteen now," Alice said. "Plus, James is really nice sized," Alice smirked.

"What do you mean?" Lily asked, looking up from her book.

"Jesus, you really are prude," Alice said, taking another drag on her cigarette.

"I am not prude!" Lily exclaimed.

"Yes you are," Alice said. "No offense or anything. I mean the only time you've kissed a boy was with Remus Lupin, during prefect duty a few months ago."

Lily ignored Alice; instead she was looking at something else. Lily sighed, "They are the perfect couple." Frank Longbottom, tall and handsome, was kissing Leah Ethan down the neck. Frank was the valedictorian, while Leah, dumb as a dog, had Farrah Fawcett blond hair and blue eyes. They had been together since first year, and they were now in their seventh year.

"I wonder what it takes for them to stay together like that," Lily said.

"She must give really good blowjobs," Alice responded.

"What was that?" Lily, a hopeless romantic, said in a trance.

"Oh-nothing," Alice replied hastily.

"Oh my god, Lil!" Alice gasped.

"What?"

"Ohmigod! I forgot to tell you what I saw two periods ago…before the OWLS," Alice said.

"What?" Lily sat up straight, hungry for a new piece of gossip.

"Ohmigod! Ok, so Frank, Frank Longbottom was in like potions or something, and Leah had a free period," Alice paused for breath. "So anyways, I was flirting with Roger Ashwood, you know, that hot seventh year in Ravenclaw, and then he was like 'hey Alice. You want to go to the broom closet?' and I said ok. So when we got to the broom closet, we walked in on no other but Leah Ethan and Sirius Black! They were making out!" Alice explained.

"Oh my god!" Lily gasped, eyes wide. "Wait…aren't you going out with Sirius?"

"Well not anymore, obviously, as we were both cheating on each other," Alice said smiling, as she put out her cigarette with the rounded tip of her pumps.

"Are you upset?" Lily asked, concerned.

"No, not really, no. He just looked good on my arm."

Lily laughed. "Wow, I wonder when Frank will find out!"

"I think that's happening right now," Alice said, turning her head to look at the scene that was taking place. Roger Ashwood, the seventh year Ravenclaw, had taken Frank aside. Leah sat with her friend Bonnie, looking thoroughly nervous. Alice was smiling smugly. A dark look had come across Frank's face and he turned and stared at Leah with killing eyes.

"I…I'm sorry," Leah said, running after him.

Frank turned around. "Your apologies are meaningless, Leah. It's over- and don't act like this was the first time!" Frank said hastily, rudely.

"So I guess they weren't as happy as everyone thought," Lily said, lighting herself a cigarette.

"I guess not," Alice responded, taking a drag of the fresh cigarette.

Lily smiled at Alice. "Be careful or you will become a chain smoker like Petunia!" Both the girls laughed wildly at this.

"Eww! I never want to be like Petunia! She's such a bitch!" Alice exclaimed.

"I second that," Lily said.

"Hey, Evans," a voice behind them said. "It looks really sexy when you smoke."

"Oh shut it Potter! Go away!" Lily said rudely.

"Excuse me," James said, nudging his friends and they all walked away.

"Ugh, they're so rude!" Lily said.

James POV

Lily Evans was the most beautiful creature on earth. Sometimes, when I closed my eyes to go to sleep, she appeared in my mind. In my dreams, I could feel her golden red hair, soft in my hands as I crushed her mouth against mine. But when I woke, my Lily, the one I loved, the one from my dreams, was gone. Instead, the real Lily was there; at breakfast reading the Daily Prophet; at Potions, busy being the best in the class; in the common room, laughing with Alice Aldridge, always hating my guts.

I had no idea what I could do to make things better, to make her consider me as a real human, not stupid, jerky James Potter, the rich boy. Last year for Valentines Day, I had bought her a beautiful necklace; it was encrusted with rubies and would have emptied anyone's vault in Gringotts if their last name was not Potter. But I never gave it to her. Instead, I had thrown it in the murky water in a puddle in Hogsmeade. I watched as it had sunk to the bottom, disappearing into the dark. Then I looked at her, laughing and smiling and talking to other boys. My heart sank with the necklace and for awhile, I felt as it would never surface again.

Sometimes, in Divinations, I tried really hard, in the hope I would see a future with Lily and myself, but I, and Sirius, and Lily, all saw premature death. I knew divinations were rubbish. But if I was to die prematurely, I would want to do so next to Lily, with my hand in hers.

I sighed at my ridiculous daydream, but no matter where my mind led me, it would always return to Lily and her green eyes.

I was not satisfied with any other girl but Lily. I had slept with countless amounts since the end of my third year, but Lily was never one of them. I remember I screamed at Sirius in rage when Remus had made out with Lily a few months ago, and Sirius set me up with this hot little fourth year named Roxanne who gave me the best sex I ever had. But Roxanne was no consolation for Lily.

Lily's POV

No one knew how badly I wanted James Potter. I would lust after him and his conceited ways, and secretly I would swoon over the way he would carry around that stupid Snitch and ruffle up his messy hair. I was like every other girl in the school, wanting James Potter to take their virginity. I would never let him though, he was not for me. He was too rich and rude and I could never be with someone like that. But oh- he was so good looking. My heart would beat faster and stronger when I would see him, or hear his voice, and butterflies would form in my stomach whenever he spoke to me. He was not for me. He had had countless girls, and I had only been kissed once. No, he was not for me. James Potter would marry some pretty slut, like that Roxanne girl, and although I hated to admit it, someone like Alice.

Eileen Bryant and Jody Campbell, the other two in our dorm, came and joined Alice and I. "Hey Lily," Jody said to me, smiling, "James is looking at you."

Secretly, my heart lifted joyously and all I wanted to do was scream in delight and grin stupidly and hugely, but never, never, would I let anyone know of my girlish crush. "Shut it, Judy," I said. "He's a jerk."

We were now dangling our feet in the water in hopes of cooling down amongst the hot day. "Oh you so love him, Lily," Eileen said smiling, "Come on...admit it."

"I know! That's what I always tell her!" Alice said.

"Well, a change of topic," I said. I didn't want to discuss James. I didn't want my secret getting out. "How did you find the OWLS?"

"I failed," Eileen said, putting her head down.

"Oh- shut up Eileen!" Alice said hastily. "You're the best in the year."

"Well not at potions," Eileen said, "I'm not as good as Lily in potions."

"I don't think Slughorn is even as good as Lily in potions," Jody said, laughing.

"Oh, that's not true," I said, but I turned my head when I heard laughs and cheers in the distance. My heart stopped when I saw Severus Snape's mouth full of pink soap bubbles. He was choking- I had to do something! Then I saw James, Sirius and Remus. Those disgusting jerks.

"Leave him ALONE!" I yelled at them. James's face was pink with laughter and I just wanted to go up to him and kiss him, but I had to make a stand, and Snape! That poor boy!

James messed up his hair again, driving me crazy. "All right, Evans?" he said. His voice was different know, deeper, more mature and I loved hearing him talk like this. But I couldn't let this torture of Snape go on.

"Leave him alone," I said again, this time more quietly. He wasn't who I thought he could be, he was worse- inhuman. Snape was innocent, just a sad, innocent boy. "What's he done to you?" I asked James, but I knew the answer. Nothing.

"Well, it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean…" James suddenly made me sick. Everyone laughed, except for me. Any thought of lust I had prior to this moment was gone, vanished.

"You think you're funny," I stepped towards him, "But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone."

"I will if you go out with me, Evans," James said to me. Five minutes ago, I would have been on cloud 9, but now I was just plain sick. "Go on," he continued, "go out with me, and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again."

"I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid," I said quickly before I could change my mind.

"Bad luck, Prongs," Sirius said to James. Everyone looked from James to me, from me to James. I was humiliated to be associated with him. Snape pointed his wand at James and a gash appeared on James's cheek. His robes were spattered with blood, and silently I was grateful to Snape. Before I could smile, I saw Snape hanging upside down, his legs and underwear displayed for everyone to see. Again, everyone laughed except for me. This was awful. The embarrassment Snape must have felt.

I was furious. "Let him down!" I said.

"Certainly," James replied, and I breathed with a sigh of relief.

"Locomotor mortis!" I heard Sirius say. Snape fell back once again and I pulled my own wand out and pointed it at them.

"Leave him alone!" I shouted at them. They were being so cold.

"Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you," he said, giving me a sideways glance. It was the look. The look that Alice and Eileen and Jody all talked about. The look that said "I want to get in your pants, Evans." I returned a cold look and he winced. He was obviously not used to being denied.

"Take the curse off him then!" I shouted at James. I was raging with anger. James sighed and took the curse off Snape. I nodded in approval.

"There you go," he said in a bored tone of voice. "You're lucky Evans was here, Snivellus…"

Snape cut in and said, "I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her." I hated it so much when people used that word. It made me feel so degraded.

But I knew I was a bigger person than Snape. "Fine," I said to him. "I won't bother in the future. And I'd wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus."

"Apologize to Evans!" James pointed his wand at Snape, but I didn't care anymore at Snape's well-being.

"I don't want you to make him apologize. You're just as bad as he is," I yelled at James, handsome James.

"What!" he said. "I'd NEVER call you a- you-know-what!"

He was just as bad as Snape, but in different ways. Mainly, I was resentful that James had asked out every other girl in the school except for me and Moaning Myrtle. "Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can- I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK!" I walked away from him, from everyone, from everything.

"Evans!" he called after me, "Hey, Evans!" But I ignored him, quickening my pace to a furious run.

James's POV

Defeated, I walked back to the dorms alone. I got into my bed and cried. I would never have Lily; she has never, and will never love me. I made such a fool of myself in front of her. How was I supposed to know she had a rubbish sense of humor? No…she didn't have a rubbish sense of humor; she was the only one of us with a good head on her shoulders. At that moment, I loved her so much that my hormone laced heart overwhelmed me.

This was the first time I had cried in a long time. It was the first time I had cried since Grandmother and Grandfather Potter got eaten by sharks on holiday in Bermuda. It was a shock, but right now, this felt twenty times worse.

"Hey mate," Sirius said, "Jesus Christ! Stop crying. You're like a fucking girl."

I wiped my eyes and sat up. "James, I would like you to meet a friend of mine," Sirius said.

A fourth year with big breasts and long blond hair appeared in the doorway. "Hi James. I'm Veronica," the girl said brightly.

"I'll let you two get acquainted," Sirius said with a smile as he closed the door.

My shirt was off and I saw her eyeing my muscles. The awkwardness was killing me, but not as much as Lily was. "Are you going to fuck me or not…Veronica?" I said. She came over to me and unbuttoned my pants. I tensed as her cold fingers touched me and her mouth came to my cock. I closed my eyes and pretended it was Lily, and I came hard.

It was five in the afternoon when I woke up with Veronica in my arms. She was snoring quietly and I pushed her off of me. I hope she would wake up soon and leave. If I had awoken with Lily in my arms, just once, I would be the happiest man on earth. But twice would be cool.

I heard the door open silently, expecting it to be Sirius or Remus or Wormtail, but it was not. "James," the voice said pleasantly, "I came too…whoa." Lily's face appeared in the doorway and looked from me to Veronica. She looked kind of appalled and disgusted. She left the door wide open and walked away hastily. I threw on my jeans and went after her.

"Lily," I called, but she had disappeared.

A/N: Please review.