A/N: I've read countless Jily fics - a few admittedly similiar to this one - and I just thought that I'd have a go at writing my own. All the chapters will be rather short (approx. 200 words) and will be based around James' attempts to woo Lily. I found the majority of the chat up lines on the internet, so please bear that in mind. The chapters are in chronological order and take place within the constraints of their seventh year, and I'm not entirely sure how many chapters there will be.. This is in response to the OTP Boot Camp Challenge, and there should be 50.. but we'll see. I'm rambling now anyway.. Oh, and anything you recognise as JKR's is JKR's, so I shall not be taking any credit.
I, Lily Evans, am done with one James Potter. Completely and utterly done. Just when he becomes the slightest bit tolerable, he goes and ruins it for himself. I wish he'd just stop with those bloody chat up lines.
If this is his brilliant attempt to woo me, he's certainly not succeeding.
"Hey, Evans!" James called from across the common room, beckoning one of his long fingers.
Oh good Godric.
I simply stared him down until he stopped beckoning, hoping he'd go away. A stupid thought really, thinking James Potter would give in. I must be barmy.
But you know what he did? He came over anyway. Even after I'd given him the cold shoulder. Could the boy not see I was obviously engrossed in a conversation with Marlene? Admittedly we were discussing how much I loathed him, but it was a topic that really couldn't be interrupted.
Manners, that's what he needs.
"Lily, were you arrested earlier?" he asked.
What is he even on about? I swear to Merlin he's mental.
"Er.. what?"
"I said 'were you arrested-'"
"I heard what you said, Potter. What are you getting at?"
He stepped a little closer, and shrugged simply. "It's got to be illegal to look that good."
That boy left a bitter taste in my mouth. Wait, no, not bitter. Acrid.
So, naturally, he only had himself to blame when my Transfiguration book happened to collide with the side of his head.