All was quiet. Not even the frogs were croaking their songs tonight. The wind had rested its perch in the trees, making the now brittle leaves stand still. The smell of winter was hinting in the autumn air.
Then through the quietness of the trees, a doe stepped through. She looked around her, eyes alerted, but body relaxed. The beautiful creature tip-toed down the small hill, her hooves not even making a noise on the sharp leaves. She bent her head, sniffing the ground, but it was a smell in the air that truly caught her attention.
Her head shot up gracefully, her ears popping up. Her eyes watched one small, dark patch of trees that looked innocent enough. But soon enough, her senses proved correct. A bigger figure emerged from the brush as quietly as she had before.
The alarmed eyes relaxed as they rested on the antlers of the animal. But once they met the large brown eyes of the stag that now stood across from her, she turned away, and trotted to a different patch of shrubs.
The stag cocked its head a little then inclined towards her ever so slightly.
She kept her head turned away.
He slowly approached her, as if he were the hunter that was trying not to scare her of. Once he got to the shrub, he reached his head down near hers, and nudged it as he also took a bite of leaves.
The doe sniffed at him, and trotted off again. The stag looked up, and inclined his head towards where she had been only moments ago again.
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"Potter, I said no." Lily Evans sniffed again, as she returned the book to its place on the shelf.
"I know you said no, but you didn't give me a reason." The messy haired boy replied form his casual position, leaning on the book shelf that Lily still thought was far too close to her for comfort.
"I told Alice it would be a girls' weekend." She said simply, reaching for the book entitled "Banshees and Their Beaus", when a hand snatched the book first.
"That's a lie." He whispered. She whirled to face the boy who was really starting to eat at her patience.
"Oh really? And you know this for a fact?" She crossed her arms over her chest and fought the urge to tap her foot as well.
"Yes I do. I talked to Alice. She said there was no such thing planned." James looked quite satisfied with himself for this.
Lily snatched the book from him, now really trying to push down the scream building in her throat. They were in a library after all. "So now you're stalking me through my friends to try and get me to go to Hogsmeade with you Potter?" She turned the corner into a different aisle of books when an arm blocked her way.
Her eyes widened as James cornered her. "No. I am not stalking you." He sounded almost hurt by the accusation, and Lily felt that damned guilt start whispering in her ear. "I'm trying to find the reason to why you keep saying no. And you know what Lily? I haven't found a single reasonably thing."
Lily rested a hand on his shoulder, pushing him away gently, the guilt still gnawing at her from that look. "Did you maybe think that it's because I don't like you very much Potter?" she asked, and added "I don't even know you." Her whisper sounded so unlike her, so harsh.
She slowly turned away from the boy, clutching her recovered book from him to herself. As she made her legs walk away, she heard him say, "That's what I'm trying to do Lily. You're the one not letting yourself get to know me."
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