A/N: New story!!! All right!!! Now disclaim time! I don't own Harry Potter. Any characters that may appear throughout story you don't recognize by name are owned by me, obviously. Now enjoy reading first chapter, it may be short but I'm working on it -.

My Tutor Buddy James Potter

"Oh come on Lily, just one date, and you'll not be sorry," James Potter followed his crush, Lily Evans up the moving staircase that led up to the Fat Lady painting.

"Why would I want to go out with someone so cocky and immature?" Lily was flushed with rage from getting away from James. They were in their fifth year. It also has been about five years since James started asking Lily out.

"Because I'm so irresistible," James went in front of Lily and gave her a dashing smile.

"See? That's it, James." Lily shoved him out of the way when the staircase came to a complete stop and made her way up to the Fat Lady painting. "You're showing what I dislike. Flaming Phoenixes." She said to the painting and made her way in the tunnel with James following her.

"You know you can't resist though, and that's the truth of it." James slicked by into an armchair.

"As if," Lily went up the stairs leading to the Girls' Dorm. "If that happens then it would only be in your dreams."

"It'll be a dream I've been willing to live," James said before he can hold it in. Blah, he thought, smacking his head with the palm of his hand when Lily disappeared up the stairs. I have to stop talking before I think. He slumped in the armchair for a moment then straightened up and pulled out a roll of parchment from his school robes which he was still wearing. "Well, now that's 60 methods down, many more ways to win her heart," James said looking at his "Ways to Win Lily's Heart" list, which length was longer than his height.

"Prongsie boy still trying to win Evan's heart?" A voice that hung over the armchair across from James belonged to his best friend, Sirius Black. "Will it ever stop?" Sirius's body appeared when he slipped off a familiar cloak and rolled it into a ball. "Here Jamsie, I owe you one," he said throwing it at James, who caught it without looking up from his list. "One way to get alone time with someone without getting caught."

"How'd you get passed the Fat Lady without the portrait door opening?" James finally looked up from his list.

"That's still my secret that I'll never tell," Sirius winked draping his legs over one of the arms of the chair in a suave way. "So what's your next plan to get a date with the overachiever? I don't get why you go for her, I mean she's hot and all but why don't you drop her? There's plenty of fish in the sea."

"Well out of all the girls from Hogwarts, she seems like someone I'm really interested in," James replied, drawings lines through his previous attempts toward Lily from his list with a pen. "There's something to her that I really like, even though she doesn't like me much. But you know what they say, opposites attract, so I guess I'm just the first to like her first."

"True that…" Sirius said half listening and looked as though he was nodding off to sleep due to the warmth from the fireplace, but was jump started from a "Damn it!" from James. "Hmm! Oh sorry, I was listening!" Sirius sat up thinking James was cursing at him.

"No not you," James said throwing his list aside, letting it quiver its way to the ground. "It's my list. I thought I had more ideas to put into plan, but I used them all up. Well that's what happens when I use one different technique to another for each day, and…well using the techniques that I thought would really work if I tried harder, twice a week."

Sirius looked at his best friend and an idea boiled into his head after some moments later. "I know! You can tutor her!" James looked at his mate as though he lost his mind.

"Like you said and what we've both known for years now, she's an over-achie-ver," James said, empathizing the root of the sentence.

"Well not since last month," Sirius smiled smugly. "Alice, as the gossip queen she is, told me Lily's been discreetly slipping behind in Astronomy during our dating session last night." James's head perked up from his hands where he was running his hair in frustration.

"You mean…" James started to grin seeing the light in the end of the tunnel.

"Hey I told you I owe you one, here's your gift Prongs," Sirius rested his hands behind his back his haughty way. "Word has it from Alice; Lily told her that she's thinking of getting a tutor for it."

James was loss of words on how excited he was about his new way to approach her, and then finally to express his feelings, he got up and patted Sirius on the shoulder on his way up to the Boys' Dorm. "You're definitely going to be my best man when Lily and I tie the knot because of your greatness, Padfoot."

"Yeah Prongs I know I'm great, "Sirius said with a smile on his face when he again nodded off again in front of the fireplace.

End of Chapter 1