A/N: This story was originally meant to be a take on James/OC and Lily developing feelings for him. I deleted this story a while ago due to the fact that I received some rather nasty private messages about it, so I decided to redo it and change the story completely.

I hope you enjoy this version of Always You a lot better than the first.

Dedicated to all of you who have followed my Jily fics since I started The Lily.

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to the amazing JK!

Their sixth year had started. James was dreading another school year of being stuck with the girl he liked but hated him in return. Okay, he had constantly asked her out during the last school year; only to be rejected. And okay, he had practically stalked Lily to the extent that he'd wait outside the girl's bathroom and serenade her which only made the other girls swoon to which Lily angrily replied that she'd rather date a troll and to ask one of his swooning fans out. But what Lily didn't realise was he was only that way because he believed himself not worthy of her affection and did those things in hopes of impressing her and maybe she'd return his feelings and make him feel worthy of her. Lily Evans was the perfect girl in his eyes; she was beautiful, loyal, intelligent, had the most amazing laugh and a heart warming smile that lit up like a summer's day. He had never been able to get her out of his head from the moment he set eyes on her when they first met on the train all those years ago.

"Oi Prongs."

James snapped out of his daydream and turned his attention from the blurry fields that they were passing to his best friends. The lunch trolley had stopped outside their compartment and Peter had already gotten off his seat to buy as much as he could. James chucked Sirius some galleons and asked him to get him some chocolate frogs, in hopes of collecting Morgan Le Fay, one of the few cards he had yet to collect.

"Thinking about Lily again?" Remus asked.

James shrugged, "I want her to see the person I am that you guys see."

Remus nodded and caught a chocolate frog that Sirius had chucked at him, "Would you like some advice?"

James sat up a little straighter and nodded eagerly, he'd happily listen to Remus(who they had called the sensible marauder due to his prefect status) if it meant getting somewhere with Lily.

"This year cut down the detentions. Hand in your homework to a good standard and on time, hex fewer people for your own amusement because she sees that as bullying. Don't constantly ask her out, have a mature conversation with her. You might become friends with her that way."

"So take a different approach to getting her to go out with me?"

Remus rolled his eyes and took a large bite out of his chocolate frog and swallowed it whole.

"Prongs, that's not what I meant. If you follow my advice and become friends with her, she might see you as more mature and see the James that we see. She has no idea what you guys do for me." Remus said quietly.

James nodded slowly, deep in thought that he didn't realise that his chocolate frog had made it's escape. Maybe Remus was right, if he followed Moony's advice there might be a good chance that Lily would reconsider her opinion of him; and after what had happened with Snape last June, she had a pretty low opinion of him right now.

"Cheers Moony, I'll give it a try."

Sirius snorted and finished his chocolate frog, causing James to turn and look at him quizzically.

"What's that supposed to mean Pads?" James questioned.

"Just that you're a total idiot the minute your eyes lay on Evans."

"It's not my fault she's so beautiful, if you guys saw her in the way I do then you'd be the same."

"But Sirius is." Peter chipped in.

James turned to Sirius and grinned and Sirius turned his attention to another chocolate frog. He knew what Peter meant, except Sirius didn't act the way that James did whenever his gaze went to Lily. Sirius had only ever properly had feelings for one girl and that girl happened to be Marlene McKinnon, Lily's best friend. Except, Sirius didn't handle it well, he dated one girl for about three weeks before he got bored and moved on to the next one; anything to distract him from his feelings for the McKinnon girl.

"Will you be acting upon your feelings for Miss McKinnon?" James teased.

Sirius shrugged, "Doubt it. She hates me just as much as Evans dislikes you Prongs. Except I'm a known 'man whore' around school so she's hardly going to think highly of me anytime soon."

"You've got it bad."

Sirius met James's eye, "Just drop it please and as punishment for teasing me about Marlene, I'm not swapping my Morgan Le Fay card." and he cackled.

The next thing Remus and Peter knew was that James and Sirius were wrestling over a chocolate frog card, with playful punches being thrown and kicks being aimed in the leg but actually hitting Peter. Remus chuckled and looked out of the window as they went past several green fields, this year was certainly going to be an interesting one if James followed his advice.