Chasing Lily-Flower

Chapter One: A Very Long Train Ride

Lily's POV:

I don't know why, but for some reason I had been dreading getting to the station.

My summer had gone well, or at least not too badly. Mainly I hung around the house, watching TV and reading. Petunia completely ignored me for two months…not that I'm complaining. I can't wait to talk to my school friends again! And I can do magic again! I had to spend the entire summer actually walking over to the remote to get it. Hmmm…. Why was I dreading Kings Cross so much then?

"LILY!" screamed James at the top of his lungs, over the entire crowd of people.

Oh yeah, that's why. Oh god, I was so hoping he had found himself another girl over the break, he snogs enough of them! Why, oh why god has he chosen me? ME! What have I ever done, why do I deserve- oh crap he's here!

"Lily flower, how are you?" he asked with a huge, cocky grin.

"I was fine up until around thirty seconds ago" I said

"Oh, are you not feeling well now?" my god, he so oblivious! He actually thinks I'm sick! Can't he tell I'm just sick of him! The idiot still doesn't get I hate him, and I've only told him about 300 times!

"Oh look, there's Sirius! SIRIUS!" James shouts even louder than before.

"YEAH MATE?" The second idiot shouts back. What is wrong with these people? If you want to have a conversation, it would probably be a good idea to get within 20 feet of each other! Oh no, I didn't mean that, stay over there! Or better yet, Potter can go join him way at the other end of the station….ah, too late, here he comes.

"Prongs, Lily" Sirius says, all the while staring at me, or more precisely, my chest.

"Ow! Oh, sorry prongs." He says after James elbows him. I hope it was hard, but why the hell is he apologizing to James and not to me, who he was gawking at! James grunts something along the lines of never do it again and Sirius nods quickly.

"Well, if you'll excuse me…I'm just gonna…go over there now…" I say slowly as I attempt to back away, unfortunately, the train station is so crowded I end up tripping on some bloke's foot behind me, and falling and the ground. Hard.

"Oh! Lily, are you alright!" a voice says, and it's surprisingly sincere. I look up expecting to see James staring at me, but instead it was Sirius face just inches from mine. He grabs my arm and pulls me up toward him. This would have been a great time to not be the most uncoordinated and ungraceful person ever, but unfortunately that is a trait I can't escape, and just as I get back on my feet, I lose balance again, and fall against Sirius. He wraps an arm around my waist, to hold me up. Wow, this is…odd. James looks as though he trying to set fire to Sirius with his eyes. I looked up into Sirius's face, which is hard as I'm a good six inches shorter, 5'5 to his 6'1, and mutter something that hopefully sounded like thank you. He smiles down at me, then quickly realized what had just happened, and jumped away from me as if I was contagious. He looked over at James, his ghost white face a funny contrast to James's bright red. Well…this is awkward.

James's POV:

I cannot believe him! What the bloody hell was he thinking! Lily, MY LILY, fell over, and just as I went to help her, he pushed me out of the way! He was practically groping her, attempting to 'help her up' he kept insisting. If he wasn't my best mate, he would be in a body bag right about now. And now I have to sit with him the entire way to school! I've only just realized how small these compartments are. Remus and Peter look very confused, don't they? I guess they are trying to figure out why I'm glaring at Sirius, while he stares out the window blankly.

"So… how was everyone's summer?" asks Peter meekly. I turn my glare to him, and he sinks back into his chair, not likely to say anything for the rest of the train ride.

"Chocolate frog, anyone?" Remus asks. I was going to glare at him, too, but I decided I really did want a chocolate frog. He threw one over to me; I had to catch it before it attempted frog suicide and jumped out the window.

"Sirius? Did you want one?" Remus asked, hoping to get a reaction from Sirius, who hadn't spoken once yet.

"Oh no, Remus, Sirius is fine. He'll probably just steal mine later!"

"Don't worry! We have enough for everyone!" Peter said happily. God, he's stupid. As usual, everyone just ignored him.

"Shut up prongs! I didn't steal anything from you!" shouted Sirius, then he actually had the nerve to mutter "It's not like you actually have anything to steal" under his breath, like he thought no one could hear him. Does he have a death wish, or is he just that stupid!

"Didn't steal anything? WHAT ABOUT LILY!" I yelled at him. Remus and Peter just looked more confused, and Sirius looked almost scared.

"James, you know I would never make a move on Lily." He replied, but very quietly.

"Well, that would be a lot easier to believe if you hadn't all but made out with her at the train station!"

"Oh, please, stop whining! All I did was help her up!"

Sirius's POV:

I almost felt the need to mention that she had fallen over by trying to get away from him in the first place, but as he was now practically shaking with anger, I decided to keep that particular comment to myself.

"James, I'm sorry if my helping Evans off the ground offended you in any way. In the future, should a fellow student fall, I swear I will leave them on the ground to be trampled." I answered, slightly more coldly than I mean to.

"Would anyone care to fill us in?" asked Remus, with a very bemused expression. When no one answered him, he just started a conversation with Peter about something.

This is going to be a long train ride.

Lily's POV:

It's been almost an hour since the train left Kings Cross. Almost an hour since I had run into James, and fallen into Sirius. And every second since I had gotten on the train had been spent in complete silence. Now, that could be because I was alone in the compartment with Severus Snape, who divided his time between reading and staring out the window; or it could be because I kept staring off into space, thinking about Sirius. My thoughts were along the lines of: does Sirius like me? Why would he like me? He can't, his best friend likes me. Do I like him? NO! Lily, no! You DO NOT fancy Sirius Black! But what if he likes me? Why would he like me? And then it began again. Over, and over and just when I thought I had thought about it enough, I thought about it some more. And for some reason, one name kept popping back into my head; James. And I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I felt guilty. I hadn't done anything, I mean, it's not like we started snogging right there at the station. Plus, it's not like I owed James anything! It's not like Potter and I were going out, we weren't even friends! Then why was it, exactly, that I felt so guilty for Black helping me up. Maybe, just maybe, it was James's look when Sirius smiled at me, his face when his best friend's arms were around me, James looked devastated, like his heart had just been torn out, stomped on, then thrown under the train.