A/N: Hi so this is my first fan fic and I thought I'd start with a first person story and coming from James's point of view, at the moment I'm unsure of how long it will be overall. I don't really know if people would rather reading shorter or longer chapters, so just leave a review on mentioning which, doesn't take long, and on the subject of reviews, please review it will brighten my day and won't take long for you to do it. Thanks and enjoy
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I couldn't help but grin as I came down from the air and jumped off my broomstick, a mass of bodies pushed against me and cheering filling my ears, coming from every angle. All I could see was scarlet and gold; it was everywhere, filling the stadium. Gryffindor colours.
A pair of hands grabbed me from behind and before I could respond a pair of lips met my own, soft and luscious lips. Fireworks erupted in my mind as I slowly opened my eyes again, as oxygen became my main priority. I opened my eyes to see a shorter redheaded girl before me. I couldn't believe my eyes, Lily Evans, the girl I had loved since our very first year at Hogwarts, the very same Lily Evans to which I fell in love with at first sight had just kissed me, me James Potter. I must be dreaming.
I was. My eye lids fluttered open to reveal darkness, to my extreme disappointment I was not at Hogwarts, I had not just won the quidditch cup, and I most definitely did not just get kissed by the one and only, Lily Clare Evans. I had been having dreams like this over the summer ever since I got home from latest year at Hogwarts, my sixth year.
Ever since I got back from there, I couldn't stop thinking about Lily, my Lily-flower. I know it's pathetic, she will never go out with me, she will never be my girlfriend. She has said no enough times. So this year I have decided to use a new tactic, a new angle. Instead of constantly asking her out and getting turned down, rejected and my heart breaking into a million pieces over and over again. I, James Potter will try to become friends with Lily.
That is my plan, and this time it will work.
I let out a deep sigh and rolled over my face ending centimetres away from a pair of grey eyes and a curtain of black hair.
My best friend, my brother almost, Sirius Black let out a chuckle, which progressed into a full own bark like laugh for which he is known well for. "How was Evans tonight eh Prongsie?" Sirius chuckled again and launched himself onto the bed on the other side of the room. Sirius had been staying with me at my home, Potter Mansion ever since he ran away from his own house and family at the start of the summer. His mother was a witch, not just the magical kind, but a full on bitch, human form of the devil. We were due to head back to school in a matter of days where we would begin our seventh and final year in wizarding education.
I ignored Sirius's remark as I couldn't think of a good enough comeback and all that I could've come up with would have been weak, so I rolled over again and eventually drifted back into a deep sleep. Enjoying my favourite past time, dreaming of that gorgeous redhead with brilliant sparkling emerald orbs and perfect, soft skin.
I took the letter from the owl, knowing it was my annual Hogwarts letter. I tore open the envelope and unfurled the piece of parchment, with a clatter an object fell to the wooden floor, I bent down, feeling a sharp pain in my lower back from a quidditch accident from when playing with Sirius last week. I picked up the badge-like object with curiosity. Turning it over I stared at the two letters. The object again fell to the ground with a violent clatter. Head boy, how? What was Dumbledore playing at? I half expected a confetti cannon to go off and people to start pouring out of doors laughing at my stunned expression. But none of this happened; it was just me and the badge. How? I kept thinking to myself. Surely Dumbledore didn't think of me as responsible and all that muck. After 6 previous years of pranking, hexing and detentions, I had managed to scrape up the honour of head boy, how? After what seemed like years reality dawned upon me, with head boy comes head girl right? And who would be the first and really only possibility of getting that title, aha yes you got it. Miss Evans, my redheaded beauty.4 days later and I was making my way through Kings Cross station, pumped and ready for my final year, Sirius and my parents on either side of me. When suddenly and unexpectedly Sirius took off, charging forwards, pushing his trolley out in front of himself. Finally realising what he was doing I let out a small chuckle and waited, I wasn't going to warn him
. Otherwise I would miss out. With one last great lunge, Sirius sent him and his trolley careering into a large brick wall. Platform 8 ¾. I laughed at the hilarity of the spectacle as Padfoot looked up with confusion and terror. My father allowed himself a quiet smirk and a chuckle while my mum shook her head slightly and hid her face in her hands. Just to top it off, his trunk fell from the trolley, landing on Sirius with an 'oof'.
After finally making it through the magical seal of platfor was here. Back in the magical world, waiting for the scarlet coloured Hogwarts express. Sirius had eventually recovered and was back to his normal or actually not so normal self. I craned my neck above the growing crowd, looking for one person in particular. Sirius sniffed out Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, completing the Marauders, we were rejoined for our final year, and I was determined to make it our greatest.
I looked around myself and finally found her, standing beside a tightly knit group of girls. She was standing with who must have been her family. I studied Lily for a good couple of minutes, trying not to make it look to suspicious or anything, somehow, if possible she had managed to get even more beautiful than I could remember from the end of last year, or maybe it was just my memory.
But who actually cares, she was hot! Absolutely radiant. No doubt about it. After boarding the train and saying goodbyes to my parents, the Marauders set-off down the corridor of the train to find an empty compartment to start making plans for the welcoming feast prank to which we did annually and other possible ideas for pranks throughout the year. But since I was head boy I would have to cease up on the pranking, for the time being anyway.
After saying goodbye to the boys, I headed back up the train to the heads and prefects department, making sure I was 15 minutes early so that I could plan the meeting with the new head girl, whoever it was. Looking into the compartment I noticed the lights off and nobody inside, I slid open the doors and turned on the lights, I slumped into the nearest chair and waited.
5 minutes before the meeting was to commence, I started to become agitated and increasingly more nervous. A click came from the doors, I spun in my chair and looked up from the table, and there standing in the doorway was Lily.
A smile crept onto my face as relief flooded through me; this was the chance I needed to prove to her I wasn't foolish or childish like 1st second or 5th year to be accurate. Lily stood there for a moment, a mixture of emotions crossed her mind, ranging from shock and astonishment, "Get out of here Potter this is the prefects compartment, for you know, prefects and the two heads?"
so she finally found her voice. "That's why I am here Evans" I said while moving my shirt revealing the large badge displaying my title and authority. "Oh god no" she said inaudibly, "I'm sorry what was that" I enquired with my famous lopsided grin. "Oh err nothing" she said obviously looking flustered. "Right well, we better get down to business right?" I said with a slight smirk "So um, what do I actually do?" I asked. "Okay so basically I'll explain what we have to do now for the meeting then we can arrange to meet later on some other day where I'll explain the rest of your head duties" Lily said.
"Okay sweet that sounds good" I said with a slight nod of my head to show I understood. "This better not be a prank Potter, any questions?" "Well yes actually, I was thinking now that we're heads and everything that maybe we should call each other by our first names? Oh I can assure you, It's not a prank, I was surprised myself at first" I needed to make that first step to be able to call her Lily and hear her call me James. "Right well ah yeah I'm okay with that I guess, just don't screw this up, I've worked my arse off for this and I'm not about to let you ruin it in an instance" she said with an almost suspicious look in her eyes. I shook my head slowly "trust me; I'll do all that I can to help".
"Yes right, well for this first meeting we will just sort out temporary patrols for the first week before we set-up set patrols later on in the week. Then we will just go over our plans for the year and introduce the new Prefects, and of course ourselves". She finished with a sigh, "you okay?" I asked.
"I'm sorry" she said " but I just don't know why Dumbledore choose you for this, I mean you weren't even a prefect" I sat there for a little, contemplating her reply " To be honest I don't know why either, but still, I'm going to show him he made the best decision in choosing me".
"Well I hope you do" she said with an unknown look in her eyes. And to save me from answering, the prefects began to file in.
A/N: There you have it, fair warning, the starts of my stories aren't good, but the stories do get better so please keep reading, and review!