Hi there im back with my second fic as im a bit stuck on my first one im writing this for 2 reasons.
1. To Show I havent stopped writing
2. I love Lily/James and I wanted to write about them.
Soo Read and Review please
Oh and I dont own anything, yeah some woman called JK Rowling owns that, if anyone knows who she is tell me.
Here we goooooooo
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~James Potter~
James Potter sat with his head on the desk listening to Slughorn drone on about some sort of cure for a love potion. Beside him sat his best friend Sirius Black who seemed almost asleep with the lecture they where being given. In front of him sat the girl he had loved since his first year at Hogwarts, Lily Evans.
The red head sat scribbling notes on a piece of parchment, although scribbling isn't the correct word for how Lily Evans writes, its more quickly yet neatly writing them down. It was during these lectures that he wondered why he took this subject, not even being in Lily Evans class made up for this torture. Lily was the only reason James took this subject, he had only scraped the grades to take it on after his O.W.L.S. In fact he was sure if it hadn't been for the notes he had stole from Lily he would never have got into a N.E.W.T class.
It wasn't that James was stupid, potions just wasn't his strong point he did much better in Defence Against the Dark Arts and other subjects that James thought mattered. As Slughorn came to the end of his lecture James had to hit Sirius to get his attention, James nodded toward the door and they stood up and left. They where second last to leave the class with Lily still sitting writing down the last of her notes on her parchments.
James nudged Sirius "Wait for Evans." He said grinning. The pair stopped and leant against the wall waiting for the red head girl to leave the classroom. When she finally did James and Sirius began to follow her James spoke, in the same smug voice he usually spoke to Lily in "So Evans thought about taking me up on my offer?" he asked.
"If you mean the offer to go on a date with you no I haven't." said Lily walking faster to try and get away from Sirius and James. James sped up so he could keep up with Lily.
"Why not, you need a bit of love in your life." He said winking at Sirius.
"Maybe your right, maybe I do need love in my life but I would rather date the whomping willow than you James Potter." Lily snapped.
"Woah, sorry Evans." James replied not sounding the least bit sorry at all.
~Lily Evans~
Lily Evans marched up the corridor, she could feel tears in her eyes. She loved James Potter but could never admit it until he stopped acting like such a jerk. James had flirted with her ever since they met in first year but he only asked her out in their fourth year at Hogwarts. Of course Lily had said no, James was so big headed and always thought he was best, going out with him would only make it worse. But all the same Lily still longed for James to know she loved him.
Lily headed to the common room as she approached the portrait she spoke the password and it swung open for her. As she clambered in she noticed Alice sitting reading. "Hey Alice." Said Lily sitting down beside her.
"Hi Lily." She replied "Have you been crying, whats wrong?" Alice asked. Lily just shook her head in reply. "Its him again isn't it Lily?" Lily nodded her head and said
"It seems like he was born to torture me." Before getting up and walking towards the girls dorm. Just as she was about to open the door leading to the staircase James and Sirius walked in. Alice stood up and stormed towards them. She pointed a finger at James and yelled
"You, You rat you better leave Lily alone or I wont hesitate to hex you from here to China!" James stood looking shocked. Meanwhile Sirius and fallen into a chair laughing. Alice turned to him.
"And don't think I wont forget about you Black!" she yelled. Sirius stopped laughing immediately.
With that Alice walked over to Lily and they both proceeded up to the girls dorm.
~James Potter~
"Blimey Mate." Said Sirius standing up "If ever I have seen an over reaction that was one." He walked over to James who was still standing at the common room entrance shocked. "I mean she has put up with you for years so why is Alice only going of at you now?" he asked. James shrugged his shoulders and sat down.
Sirius, who was now worried about his friend sat next to him. And asked "Is something wrong mate?"
James shook his head and said "What do you think its like in China?" both him and Sirius descended into laughter. They stopped only as the common room door swung open and Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew appeared. "Hey James, Hey Sirius." Said Remus sitting down next to them. "Whats up." He said noticing the huge grin on Sirius and James' face.
"Alice just went of at James for asking Lily out again." Sirius said rolling his eyes.
"Woah, James you ever thought Lily is seriously sick of you asking her out, not like haha its never gonna happen sick but sick to the point its upsetting her?" asked Remus with a look of concern on his face.
"But Lily was never one to be upset about that sort of thing." Said James
"That is true, maybe I should speak to her for you." Replied Remus.
"I dunno Remus, maybe your right, maybe I should stop asking her out." James said hanging his head. Sirius gasped.
"Did I just hear what I thought I heard, James Potter agreeing to never ask Lily Evans out again." He said sounding shocked.
"I never said I wouldn't ask her out again, I will just give it a few weeks." James defended.
"Better." Said Sirius "But still not quite James." He joked.
"You know Sirius, maybe James is right. Maybe he should leave Lily alone, I mean you have been more or less harassing her for three or four years, maybe its time to move on, have you ever thought she likes someone else?" said Remus.
"Who?" asked Sirius. "You?" at this both he and James keeled over laughing.
"I didn't imply she liked me Sirius… god you are both so hopeless." Remus said walking away to the boys dormitory.
~Lily Evans~
Lily sat with Alice on her bed, they had been talking about James since they had left the boys in the common room. Lily had only just managed to find the courage and tell Alice how she felt about him.
"So… your really serious." Said Alice
"Alice, you know me, I wouldn't joke about this. Its James for goodness sake." Replied Lily.
"I suppose so, but I just cant believe, after all these years…" said Alice stopping mid sentence for no reason other than she was lost for words.
"I found it hard to believe myself." Said Lily.
"So, what are you gonna do about it?" asked Alice. "Are you going to ask him out or what?" she continued
"I would never ask him out Alice, it would give him too much confidence, and he has way too much of that already." Lily replied.
"So what are you going to do, you cant ignore it." Said Alice
"I know that, but I cant give him the satisfaction of me asking him out." Said Lily "I have to get him to ask me out, but do it while not being a jerk."
"Oh, and how dyou plan to do that Lily, James Potter is the definition of jerk." Alice said.
"I know that Alice, if anyone I would know that remember." Lily snapped unintentionally
"Sorry, didn't mean to annoy you." Alice said sounding hurt.
"Im sorry Alice." Lily replied apologetically "Look its late we should go to bed."
"Yeah." Said Alice.
With that Alice got up and walked over to her bed and Lily climbed into her own bed and they fell asleep almost instantly completely unaware of events happening in the common room.
~James Potter~
The embers in the fire where dying slowly as James and Sirius sat talking about Lily and how hurt she seemed. They avoided Alice as neither could keep a straight face when she was mentioned.
"You know Sirius, maybe Remus was right maybe I should leave Lily alone." Said James staring into the dying fire.
"James, firstly that dosent sound like James Potter at all, I think your going soft." Said Sirius "Oh and secondly if you can stay away from Lily for the rest of this year I will empty all my savings into your bank account.
"I wouldn't stay way from her for money, id stay away from her to see her happy." Said James. "Sirius, I love her."
"Something is seriously wrong with you James, in the morning im taking you to madame pomfrey." Sirius gave a long yawn. "But just now im heading to bed."
Sirius then got up and left leaving James staring into the fire.
"Ill stay away from her, I wont bother her ever again." James said to himself before getting up and following Sirius.
