James sighed with relief, he was exhausted he always was after Quidditch practice and now he was going to enjoy a delicious lunch with his friends. Making his way into the Great Hall James spotted Remus, Sirius and Peter sitting talking, making his way over he swung his legs over the chair and sat down. "Afternoon all" James proceeded to grab anything resembling meat and either placing it on his plate or forcing it into is mouth, he was famished after all the flying. "How was practice James?" Peter pipped up you could tell by the look on his face he was deeply interested, "It went well I think we seem to be in tip top shape for our game against Ravenclaw coming up next week" This sounded promising and Peter squeaked with excitement, as did a few people listening to their conversation, it was good to see people interested in Quidditch like he was. As he continued to eat he found himself watching the entrance to the great hall as people entered to get their own lunch, the other three were talking about Gryffindors chances in the up coming game something that he would usually be avidly chipping in at.
Then there she was the young girl who seemed to hang around with Severus Snape poor girl, he was an awful drag and the two of them were arch enemies James had met the girl before on the Hogwarts Express, but he had not really caught her name then. She was very beautiful in fact, but he did not know her name which was frustrating "Uh Sirius, whats the name of that girl there" Nudging Sirius he pointed to Severus and the girl entering, Sirius greeted him with eye brows raised and a gleeful smirk following his finger he looked the girl up and down nodding. "Ah her, and why would you be so curious as to who she is?" He exchanged glances with Remus and Peter who were doing their best not to laugh as well. "No reason, just curious" James immediately jumped on the defensive which did him no favours with his friends, Sirius pulled James's head into a headlock "Aww why is ickle James so curious?" Sirius liked teasing James he was easy to work up and annoy, also he had not really asked about any of the girls before now and it made Sirius curious as to why this particular girl had captured his attention.
"Get of Sirius" James laughed as he pushed Sirius of him with great difficulty, he was a lot bigger than James but he managed it .. Just. "I'm just curious since she is in our house" The excuse was pretty rubbish that he knew but it was the first thing that came to mind. "Awwww James is in LOVE, isn't he awwww" Sirius made no effort to keep his voice down and proceeded to tickle James, for this he was greeted with a gentle yet forceful punch "Oh get off Sirius" Pushing him away James glared at him, though he was not really angry with him he just hoped it would get Sirius to stop. "Her name is Lily Evans" Looking up it was Lupin who replied nodding in the direction of Severus and the girl, "She has quite a few friends in Gryffindor, but her best seems to be Severus" Turning back to look at James, Remus grinned at the look of wonder and amazement on his friends face which made him roll his eyes, looking to Peter he noticed that he like Sirius was sniggering.
"Lilly" James repeated softly so that Sirius would not hear and tease him even more, she was very beautiful it made him wonder why on Earth she was friends with Severus that toad was horrible and did not deserve such s beautiful friend. Meanwhile his friends Lupin included where all laughing quietly, none of them intended to let James live this down they all now had something to tease him about which meant life would be very interesting in deed. Looking back at his friends James sighed "seriously I'm just curious" they all just rolled their eyes at him and sniggered into their lunch, "Oh why am I friend switch you lot" James vented to the air to which Sirius laughed "We are the only ones who will put up with your massive ego" All four of them laughed their heads off at this comment.
Further along the table Lily found her friends and sat down next to them collecting some salad form one of the bowls and putting it on her plate, "so what we giggling about today?" There seemed to be an important topic of conversation and since she had been down in potions with Sev she had missed out on it. "oh you won't believe who has been talking about you" Mary smiled turning to her so did Julie and Katlyn, Lily sighed what had people been saying about her now, was it another insult about Severus or what "Who?" she asked without even a not of curiosity in her voice, all of the other girls started giggling "James Potter, you know the Quidditch star who is like amazing" Lily raised an eyebrow at them "Right, and what has he been saying?" Lily knew it was going to be some stupid insult, "Well he wanted to know who you are and then his friends were teasing him" Lily rolled her eyes and turned back to her lunch "But we think he you know has a crush on your or something"
This made Lily stop eating and look at them again, "Right? and you expect me to believe that" the group of girls started giggling again "Oh but it's true, you are so lucky maybe you could introduce us" Glaring at them Lily sighed again "I have no interest in James Potter, he is all yours" at this all her friends started giggling again "Ladies, he is an arrogant, self centered, annoying guy" Mary laughed again placing her hand on Lily's shoulder "Yea but he has a crush on you and it is SOOOO cute" moving back to her lunch Lily blocked out all of their giggling and gossip it was of no interest to Lily at all, the possibilities of James Potter liking her where like a million to one and she did not like him besides he bullied her best friend how on Earth could she like him!