James and Lily, Jily

I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. All rights go to J. .

It was a cold winters day at Hogwarts and James Potter was outside with his friends wearing nothing but a short sleeved t-shirt and a pair of scruffy jeans. He was lying in the snow lazily, laughing at a joke Sirius had told. Remus shuddered.

"How can you stand it James? You must be absolutely freezing!" he said, wrapping his warm winter jacket tighter around him. James laughed. "I'm used to the cold Moony. I am perfectly warm." He grinned.

Suddenly Sirius noticed two girls go by and wolf whistled. "Look who it is Prongs, it's Evans and her little friend." He grinned at his friend, who looked over and promptly began checking his hair, making sure he looked ok in case Evans were to look over even for a fraction of a second.

As the two girls walked by, huddled up tightly in their winter coats, Lily caught James' eye and gave him a disgusted look. "How can you even bear to come outside wearing just that? Do you actually want to freeze?" she asked.

James wiggled his eyebrows. "Ooooh I didn't know you cared Evans." He grinned at her and her friend. Lily sighed heavily. "I don't." she said, before taking her friends arm and walking off, her head held high.

James sighed and sat down on the cold floor again. Sirius patted his back. "Bad luck mate, maybe next time though." He said, rather unhelpfully. Wasn't that what everyone always sad? Maybe next time? But it never happened. She never smiled at him or said anything nice to him, so what was the point in even trying?

Peter, who had been very quiet for the whole time, piped up and said "You know Prongs, you could always try a different approach to things... Instead of flirting with her, you could try doing something romantic or..." Peter faded away as everyone stared at him.

Again, James just sighed, saying regretfully "It's a good idea, but Evans has made it very clear that she has no interest in me whatsoever so what's the point in even trying anymore?"

Suddenly James felt a cold breeze on his arm and shuddered. The cold then took over and he was shivering badly. He got up silently and walked off, leaving his friends sitting on the ground, watching after him.

Meanwhile, Lily had gone off with her friend Alice. She was angry at James, no not angry, frustrated. Alice smiled at her sympathetically "Why won't you be nice to him for once?" she asked her friend. Lily didn't reply, she just snorted angrily.

Alice sighed. They walked into the cloakroom where they hung up their jackets and scarfs and changed into some dry shoes, before heading towards the Gryffindor Common Room. The Fat Lady smiled at them "Had a nice time out girls?" Alice smiled and nodded holding up a bag of sweets from Honeydukes. Lily just grunted.

The picture smiled happily and asked "Password?" Alice and Lily looked at each other, neither of them could remember the password. They both suddenly burst out laughing. They appologized to the Fat Lady and sat down either side of the painting, waiting for the next Gryffindor to come and let them in.

It seemed as though none of the Gryffindors were coming anytime soon and the girls had been sitting by the picture for almost an hour already. Then finally they hard someone coming and stood up eagerly.

It was James. His cheeks were stained with tears, although he did his best to hide it, after all, James Potter didn't cry. The girls however noticed.
"Why are you crying, Potter?" Lily sneered. "Miss mummy and daddy? Sad you can't see them over the holidays?" She was in a bad mood and was showing a side of her that not many people had seen before.

She had just had enough of James always flirting with her and being mean to Severus and loads of other people and she knew of his reputation as a heart breaker. She was, afterall, friends with many of he girls James had dumped ruthlessly.

James didn't even look up at her, he just muttered the password letting the girls in and walked off to his dorm. Lily and Alice sat down by the fire and Lily forgot her anger as they chatted and laughed together, she forgot all about James for a while as she laughed at a joke Alice had told.

Ok ok! I know what you're thinking!

"Lily isn't MEAN!"

I know. But I think it's unfair that James is always making Lily cry, so I thought I should change it up a bit. I promise it will get better!

James: "Yeah, it'll be ok... Right Lils?"

Lily "Don't call me Lils, Potter. We still hate each other right now, remember?" *sighs*

me: "Yeah, sssh James!"

James: "Sorry Fiona"

Me: "It's ok, James." *hugs James*

Lily: *gives me evil look that you don't see*

Me: *lets go of James and walks away grinning*

So anyway... Thanks so much for reading! Please review, favourite and follow as I will be putting up another chapter soon!

Love you all!

Fiona xxx