A/N: I have dedicated this to my wonderful editor Midnight Filly, who is awesome. My story would have been nothing without her!

DISCLAIMER I do not own the world of Harry Potter, (though I wish I did) anything you do not recognize is mine.

"Come on Lily, why do you hate me?" asked James Potter, a tall, skinny boy with incredibly unruly jet black hair. His deep hazel eyes pleading for an answer.

"Simple, because you're a bighead conceited idiot" replied Lily Evans, her emerald eyes flashing as her red headed temper flew into action.

"What, you really hate me?" asked James, knowing he would not like her next answer.

"Yes Potter, I really do hate you" replied lily "I like Severus Snape more than I like you, at least he isn't arrogant and bullies people for no reason what so ever!"

"But Lily, Snivellus is an evil Death Eater who hates people just because of there blood. I'd never be that discriminative"

"Whatever Potter, I hate you. Get over it" she spat.

James looked shocked at her bluntness. "Well, if that's how you really feel" he practically whispered. He turned to leave before saying "See-ya Evans"

"Lily, you didn't have to be so mean. You obviously hurt his feelings' said Ellie a short blonde haired girl with baby blue eyes. She was the most boy crazy one in the group.

"Yeah Evans. That was low, real low" sneered Sirius standing up for his heart-broken friend.

"And why are you still here Black? You're no better than him." Lily shouted growing steadily more angry.

"What, me?" asked Sirius looking hurt. "Why do you hate me? We were fine when we first met… remember?"

FLASHBACK

It was a wonderful day, some would say perfect for a family picnic.

Sirius Black disagreed; it was too bad really, since he was one of the families on a picnic.

He sat on the rug cross-legged listening to his radio, letting his raven hair fall gracefully over his face, almost covering his deep grey eyes.

As his music spilled from the small black box his observed his area. It was a fantastic park, full of large trees, excellent for climbing, and a small river flowing peaceful causing a calm aura.

He watched as his little sister Abigail, who was only five; socialize with the other children in the park.

Oh great, he thought, she's already got mum's social skills.

His mum Imogene was a house wife and was always planning gatherings, parties and balls of some kind. His family was rich and he was incredibly spoiled.

'Nothing was too good for a Black' is what his father would say, an extremely nice man but very trusting, to trusting in fact. He couldn't admit his wife was using him for his connections and money he refused to believe she was lying to him.

Sirius didn't get on that well with his mother, he didn't believe in all the social rich people, snobbish, vain, nonsense.

No, he was just a normal kid stuck in a snob family. All Sirius wanted to do was grow up and become a famous quidditch star, but no, Sirius had to do something high up in society like become the minister for magic or a healer, or an auror.

Sirius didn't want to become any of these. Well he might not mind auror, but other than that. No, he thought those jobs would be very boring indeed.

Then suddenly something caught his eye, or more like someone. A girl with long auburn hair with sparkling green eyes.

She laughed as her little brother sprayed her with water. Then suddenly a pair of strong arms appeared around her waist.

Sirius felt a twinge of jealousy in his stomach as this boy preceded to lift her up and spin her about. All the time her laughing and playfully slapping his arms telling him to "PUT ME DOWN!".

When he finally did, her eyes wandered and vaguely met Sirius's who had been straight out staring. He quickly moved his attention to the floor in front of him as if it were an extremely interesting television show.

His concentration was broken when a mass of blonde curls was thrown at him in the form of his little sister. She was teasing him, "Sirius has a girlfriend, Sirius has a girlfriend!"

"I do not!" he snapped.

"Who? Where?" asked his mother. Abigail pointed her out "oh Sirius she is ever so pretty, you are finally turning into a fine little gentleman" gushed Imogene.

"Mum she's not my girlfrie…." Started Sirius but he was interrupted by his sisters shrieks of "she's coming over, oh my goodness, she's coming over"

"Mum just so you know I haven't spoken to her before and she isn't my girlfriend so don't go implying that, ok, ARE YOU LISTENING?" shouted Sirius '

"Yes dear, be sure to introduce me to her" replied his mother.

"Mum I don't know her name, I don't know her, how can I introduce you?"

"Erm, Hi, I'm Lily I was just wondering if, well um, you would like to join us over there. Because you looked rather lonely" interrupted a voice from above them, it was the girl and she was talking directly at Sirius.

"Uh, yeah sure, I'm Sirius Black, by the way, and this is my mother Imogene… "Hello darling, nice to meet you"... And my little sister Abigail". "Abbie for short", the little girl insisted.

Sirius followed Lily over to where she had been messing about before. She introduced him to her family.

"Guys, this is Sirius Black", "Hi" he muttered, "Sirius, this is my mum, Alana, my dad, Richard, my sister Petunia, and my two brothers, Harry and…"

"…Lucas, and as you can see my sister talks way too much" added Lucas.

"And as you can see, my brother is very rude!" said Lily angrily.

At this Sirius chuckled, nothing like a bit of sisterly/brotherly love! "Actually, it reminds me of my sister. She's only five, but talks like a parrot!"

They all laughed, except for Ben. "I don't get it" he complained.

"Well parrots talks don't they?" asked Sirius kindly.

"Yes, but not that often. You have to train them, you were trying to say she talks a lot" argued Ben.

"Yes, yes I guess your right" said Sirius, at this Ben smiled proudly; he had beaten someone older than him.

"I've been out-smarted by an eight year old, what will your lovely family think of me?" Sirius groaned. At this they all laughed.

END FLASHBACK '

"Why do I hate you? Huh! I can't believe you've forgotten" said Lily, growing even more aggravated.

"Have you really forgotten Black?" asked Alyssa

"Err… forgotten what?" said Sirius utterly confused.

That's when Lily looked him dead in the eye and saw that he didn't understand what they were talking about. He really has forgotten. She looked away feeling hurt.

"You really have forgotten! I can't believe you Black!" shouted Alyssa voicing Lily's thoughts. Her dead straight locks flying around as she shook her head in anger.

She couldn't stand when people hurt her friends. She could tell Sirius has really hurt Lily this time.

"Lily…I'm sorry but-"

"-Don't you dare speak to Lily" threatened Bell speaking for the first time that evening.

"I just want to know what I did. Maybe try to make it better" said Sirius

"Leave it Black, it's over now, it doesn't matter what you do, it's what you did that's hurting her." Said Bell, before Allie could completely lose it and hex him into oblivion.

"Fine, but whatever I did, I am really truly sorry." And with those parting words, he walked off to find James.

He didn't have to go because as he rounded the second corner he found James, sitting there with his head in his hands. "I give up Padfoot, I really do" he said.

It had been two weeks; James hadn't uttered a word to Lily, except the simple "yes" and "no" for schools sake.

He thought if she hated him that badly, he might as well get out of her way. James had only noticed how much of his time was spent on Lily when this had happened.

He suddenly had nothing to do, and grew bored, causing a large rise in the amount of pranks played. But not only Slytherins were targeted, unsuspecting students. Unsuspecting students, teachers, ghosts. Anyone was fooled.

One particular prank was during history of magic with the Hufflepuffs. All the girls were covered head to toe in green gooey slime, even Lily was affected, which came as a shock to the girls.

"You finally got pranked!" her friends exclaimed, not even caring about the gunk covering their hair.

"Wow, so this is what it feels like to be vulnerable from such things" said Lily. Usually James would have warned Lily or somehow made sure that she wouldn't be affected by the prank.

As much as Lily hated listening to James, when you have just been informed that at lunch all the pumpkin pasties were going to attack anyone that tried to eat them. You would avoid them to. But as they weren't talking she was left to fend for herself.

"I never knew Potter would be so useful to have a crush on me" she admitted. Then they all fell about laughing before performing cleaning spells on their hair.

"I can't believe James has ignored you for 2 weeks!" said Alice the group confidant, a small blonde pretty girl.

"Yeah, neither can I, good riddance I say though" said Bell a very down-to-earth naturalistic girl, extremely pretty with long cascades of brown curls.

She had a grudge against James, because he once dyed her hair bright pink which everyone thought very funny at first. But when they found out it wouldn't wear off for 64 hours they didn't find it so amusing anymore. Ok Scratch that everyone still found it hilarious except for Allie, who tried to kill James. Unfortunately for her, he escaped her 'evil clutches' as he called them.

"Yeah, I guess" sighed Lily. She had been confused for the past two weeks. Because all of a sudden she felt incomplete, like a part of her had gone missing.

James had taken up such a huge part of her life. Always being there, like an annoying fly that you can't get rid of. She tried telling herself that this was James Potter annoying jerk extraordinaire, and she should be celebrating.

But it never worked, she just felt different without him always there.

"What do you mean, yeah, I guess" said Allie, the more tom-boy of the group, not really tom-boy just not a girly girl like Ellie. "You hate the boy, you should be the happiest person here, but you look really down."

"Allie I don't hate him, it's just that…" Lily started but didn't get to finish because Allie interrupted her.

"Don't hate him? You must be forgetting two weeks ago…."

flash back

"Come on Lily, why do you hate me?" asked James Potter, a tall, skinny boy, with incredibly unruly jet black hair. His deep hazel eyes pleading for an answer.

"Simple, because you're a bighead conceited idiot" replied Lily Evans her emerald eyes flashing as her red headed temper flew into action.

End flash back

"Ok, so I said I hated him then, big deal, these Two weeks have been a rude awakening for me. I really just want everything back to normal or at least him to stop ignoring me completely"

"What, so your telling us you miss, James potter?" asked Alice.

"Yeah, I guess so" replied Lily. "Well, no… Just, well…I feel like… oh, I can't describe it. I just feel really lonely even though I'm constantly around other people"

"The boy you have declared pure hatred for, for five years?" asked Bell

"Yeah" said Lily.

"Oh my god!" shrieked Ellie "really? This is just some silly joke isn't it Lily, because, I mean, you hate him!"

"No Ellie, this isn't a joke" said Lily. "But I am very confused myself"

"And, erm, Lily, maybe you should talk to…."

"If you are going to suggest she talks to Black, I would shut-up right now Alice!" interrupted Allie "He deserves what he's getting."

"Actually Allie, I think Alice is right. I need to talk to both the boys about what has happened. Sirius needs to know what he has done."

Insisted Lily, quietly, but firmly. She had been thinking about the entire situation non-stop and had realized that Sirius may not have even realized what he was doing and that was why he couldn't remember.

Because he actually doesn't know that he did anything at all.

"But Sirius is a jerk!" yelled Allie.

"Allie, calm down, it is Lily's choice after all" ordered Bella

"Fine, but don't expect me to talk to him" retorted Allie.

"Yes, Allie that's fine, we can both have our own opinions" said Lily

"But right now we need to finish that potions essay for tomorrow"

"Um…guys?"

"Yes Ellie"

"What potions essay?"

"You know the one on the wolfsbane potion" said Alice a matter-of-factly.

"Oh crap" said Ellie, then she took off, out of the room and down to the library.

Meanwhile, back at the boy's dormitory:

"Prongsie old pal, uh, I know Evans hurt you and all, but why don't you just speak to her?"

Sirius said cautiously, incase his best friend would explode with anger, or even worse cry.

Anger he could deal with, crying he couldn't. Sirius Black couldn't comfort anyone if his life depended on it, and James had been very touchy about the whole Lily situation.

"Why should I even bother, you heard it from her own mouth, she hates me" replied James dejectedly.

"Okay, well this might sound weird but maybe she doesn't hate you maybe its all an act, playing…hard to get you know?"

"What Padfoot is trying to say, is, you have seen what Lily looks like lately, she looks lost, almost incomplete.

She isn't used to you not being there by her side. I think right now she would appreciate any attention from you" said Remus.

"Yeah, I suppose" said James.

"Even if you do act like a bigheaded, conceited jerk" concluded Sirius

"Gee, thanks Padfoot, I feel so much better" laughed James

"You're welcome, anytime Prongsie old pal"

"Padfoot?"

"Yes Prongsie?"

"Call me Prongsie one more time…"

"Okay Prongsie"

At this, James jumped across the room and tackled Sirius to the ground.

"Ouch, what was that for?" asked Sirius, clutching his arm that James had landed on.

"I was being sarcastic you loon."

Sirius hadn't told the other marauders about his own "Lily situation".

He didn't want them to worry, and, to be completely honest he was kind of embarrassed that he had forgotten something Lily hated him so much for.

But just as much as he was embarrassed he was confused. He really couldn't remember anything he could have done to hurt Lily, was it recently? Was it ages ago? Was it really serious? No pun intended.

Or was it just the girls being silly?

He decided that he needed to talk to Lily about it, soon, really soon. Well, really soon is right now. He thought.

Here it goes. He departed the boy's dormitory with the excuse he had to finish his potions essay, which was due tomorrow, and headed towards the girls dormitory hoping Lily would be there.

As he performed the charm to allow himself up the staircase, Eleanor came running down chanting: "oh no, going to die, oh no, going to die". What was that about? He thought, before entering.

There was a knock on the girl's dormitory door. Lily hopped off her bed to open it, and came face to face with an extremely nervous looking Sirius: "Lily we need to talk"

A/N (So there it is the first of many to come I hope. I think I have pretty much grown out of my other story "The Boy Who Was Like Any Other" so if you are a reader of that I am sorry but I will probably not continue with it. Although I will leave it on the site as a showcase of how my work has progressed. )

XXSophieXX - pls review i need reviews or i dont continue because i think you hate it!