Disclaimer: I don't own James or Lily, nor their friends, their teachers or their school.

I wrote this in Swedish first but wanted to translate it. Since I'm not that good on grammar and stuff I'd be grateful if anyone told me what wrongs I'm doing.

Chapter 1

There was a perfectly normal October morning at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The clock turned half past eight and in the Great Hall the students sat by the four long tables, eating breakfast. So did also Lily Evans and her best friend Mary.
It seemed to be a nice day – the lessons should start with Charms and then be followed by Defence against the dark arts and her favourite subject Potions before lunch. The weather on the other hand, wasn't much to celebrate. Every day the latest week had been rainy and chilly.
By the table in the front of the Great Hall sat half a dozen of the teachers, calmly eating their breakfast and sometimes looking up to see if the students behaved. It was quite peaceful in the room, but to Lily it wasn't going to stay that way. Just a couple of minutes later some Gryffindor boys entered the room. James Potter went first and turned his steps to Lily. He had that stupid smile stuck on his face and the hair was as untidy as always.
"Good morning, Evans!" he said happily. "A wonderful day, don't you think?"
"Well, it would be much better if I didn't have to meet you", Lily murmured so low that only Mary heard it.
James sat down on her right side, filled his plate with food and started eating.
"Did you sleep well?" he asked.
"Yeah, I did."
"Glad to hear it", he said, his mouth full of eggs and toast.
Lily couldn't help wondering who had taught him table manners – he wasn't even holding his fork in the right hand!
"The team's got practice later", James continued. "Come and look if you want to."
"Oh, may I? I just can't wait to see seven boys flying around chasing a ball!"
"Actually, it's not just one ball…"
"Nice to hear that you sound as charming as ever, Lily", Sirius said and sat down opposite her. "On which side did you wake up today? Up and down?"
Mary giggled and blushed when he met her eyes. Lily rolled her eyes and sighed. How was this possible that her best friend fell in love with that clown Sirius Black? He wasn't really ugly, but so insufferable and he didn't have any good manners. She found it strange that he didn't turned up in Slytherin as the rest of his family.

Shortly after that Lily finished her breakfast and left the Great Hall to go to the day's first lesson. It didn't start until a quarter later but she couldn't stand listening to James' babble. He was so full of himself! You'd have to search a long time for finding an idiot like him, Lily thought. Obviously his parents had told him he was the best boy in the world to many times. It wasn't getting better when she thought about having lessons with him and his friends the whole day. Remus was okay of course, he wasn't at all as disturbing as James or Sirius. Peter didn't say that much, but he'd never appear as especially clever. The more seldom he opened his mouth the better. His way of choosing friends said some things about him, Lily thought.

James sat down beside her at DADA class when he saw that the seat was untaken. She sighed – wasn't she ever going to get rid of him? With a bit of luck they wasn't going to do something practical that they, then she didn't have to work together with him at least.
"Your hair looks good today, Evans", he said.
"I know."
"How submissive you are."
"Sorry I can't say the same to you, not about the submission or the hair."
"Not? Oh, you're hurting me, Evans!" he said, smiling and winked at her.
"Potter, attention please!" professor Manson called. "Now I want you to split in couples and practise disarming charms on each other."
"I promise to be careful, Evans", James said.
She didn't answer him. They stood a couple of meters away from each other in a corner of the classroom. Other students had divided into couples and were standing here and there, wands pointed at the other one.
"At three!" Professor Manson said. "One, two, three!"
"Incarceros!" Lily shouted. Ropes shot out of her wand.
"Protego!" James answered. The ropes disappeared in empty air. Lily looked a bit disappointed; she hadn't counted on his quick protecting charm.
"Expelliarmus!" Her wand flew out if her hand and was captured by James. He smiled proudly and threw it back to her.
"Did you think of something else, Evans?"
"Oh, shut up, Potter!" she snorted.

They continued practicing for a while until the teacher asked them to take their seats again. He talked about the theory of the Fidelius Charm and gave them in homework to read chapter 4 for the next time they met. Lily hurried away to professor Slughorn's classroom in the dungeons. There she didn't have to worry about sitting with James, because she took a place in the front of the room and he never did in Potions.

If Lily found James a terrible moron, her friends did not. They seemed to like him more and more for every year.
"I think James is gorgeous", Mary said when they had gone to bed that night.
"You think everyone is", Susan giggled. "Last week you fancied Andy in Ravenclaw and the week before you were in love with Hufflepuff-Michael. But I agree with you, Potter is damn hot."
"He doesn't look better than anyone else", Lily said. "First, he really should get a comb and second, he…"
"You usually don't search for wrong in others, Lily."
"In his case I don't even have to look for them."
The other girls laughed and then Susan started talking about her Ancient Runes homework.

During Tuesday, James managed to tease Lily halfway to madness a couple of times, as usual. He started the day with putting a Bat-Bogey Hex on a fifth year student.
"Potter! Stop that immediately!" Lily called.
"Oh, Evans! Good morning, fair lady! I was just wondering when I would have the pleasure to hear your decent voice!"
"I've told you not to throw bewitchments at people all the time!"
"Well, if you go with me to Hogsmeade then I'll quit."
Lily cursed the day he was sorted into Gryffindor. He was hopeless, completely hopeless! Just a couple of hours later he persisted in sitting down beside her at Transfiguration and before night came he asked her about Hogsmeade two more times.
"I've told you, Potter, no!"
"Oh come on, you know you want to! Really Evans, it's not good to lock up your feelings like that! Just let them out."
"All right, I will let them out."
She pointed her wand at his direction and murmured an incantation that made his armchair fall over. After that she went upstairs to the dormitory to be alone. She knew that James, or any other boy, couldn't get up there. He tried once, but then the staircase turned into a chute that made him land on the floor beneath again.

The days passed on without James reaching any success and he became more and more frustrated. His tricks used to work on all the other girls, why was the one he really wanted so obstinate? It was Friday evening and he had just returned from a Quidditch practise. Quidditch always used to clean his mind but not tonight. He couldn't think of anything, or anyone, except Lily.
"What am I doing wrong?" he whined. "She won't give up!"
"And neither do you", Remus said and turned page in his Africa's monstrous magical animals and creatures. "Is it perhaps hard for you to see that she isn't interested?"
"She is, it's just that she hasn't realized that yet."
"I agree with you, Moony", Sirius said, grinning. "I don't think you'll be able to persuade Lily to go with you to Hogsmeade next weekend."
"You don't?"
"No", his best friend said self-confidently.
"You're wrong."
"Wanna bet on it?"
"Fine."
"Good. Let's see, dear Prongs… if you don't manage to make Lily say yes within a week, then you'll have to… fly naked through the Great Hall at next Sunday morning."
"Not completely naked!"
"Okay, you can wear your underpants, but don't choose the red ones with hearts that your mother gave you for Christmas. Besides, I don't think anyone would like to see you without clothes…"
"And if I win, you fly!"
"You won't win", Sirius answered. "But yes, if it makes you happier to live in the delusion of…"
"It's nice of you to support me", James murmured.
He put on his pyjamas and lay down underneath the quilt. It had been a long day and now all he wanted was to sleep. James was determined about winning that bet. He was kind of satisfied with his looks but he didn't want to give the whole school a naked show.
"Why don't you try singing a serenade to her?" Sirius suggested. "That's what Muggles do, I saw that on a movie at the cinema this summer."
"What's a cinema?" Peter asked.
While Sirius explained that to him James fell asleep. His watch showed at ten o'clock but he was tired and he didn't feel like sitting and listening to Sirius abuses. He would persuade Lily, just wait and see!

Lily spent the Friday afternoon doing home works, as usual. She really struggled to get good marks in her NEWT:s. Mostly she sat in the library or lied in her bed, because sitting in the common room while James was there was almost impossible. She couldn't concentrate on anything as he ran around and made noise or asked her about all sorts of funny questions about Muggles and stuff. He really knew how to get on her nerves.
When she fell asleep that night she was as convinced as ever about never going to Hogsmeade with James Potter.

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