Summary: One year, thousands of notes and quite many detentions. Can James be still a little more irritating? Can Lily stand talking to him or even liking him? What's the secret behind Sirius' stomach muscles?

A/N: Thank you so much to my beta Beelsebutt for not letting me publish this story with all those mistakes still with it ;)

The inspiration to this fic came after I had read great book called "Where The Rainbows End" by Cecelia Ahern, so I have to recommend that book to all of you. Writing this fic also made me finally realize how lovely couple Lily and James really are!

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Love And How It All Began

Chapter 1

Evans,
will you go to Hogsmeade with me? This evening?
James

Potter,
listen to your teacher.
Lily Evans

Evans,
I'm not interested in the history but the future. Hogsmeade?

Potter,
the students aren't allowed to go to Hogsmeade whenever they want to. I'm sorry if you haven't noticed that within the seven years you have spent here, but there are special weekends for visiting Hogsmeade. Besides, you can go by yourself. I'm not interested.

Miss Lily Evans,
there are other ways of going to Hogsmeade than those in which Head Girl has gotten used to.

Potter,
shut up.

Evans,
was that "yes"?

Potter,
I'm trying to focus on learning. Professor Binns might put a question about this topic into the N.E.W.T. exams.

Evans,
there is still almost a year before them. Binns still has time to die before the exams.

Potter,
Professor Binns is already dead.

Evans,
that joke was exceptionally poor. Common room at seven?

Potter,
I'm going nowhere with you. Shut up.

Remus,
could you possibly be so kind and not give me those notes Potter is sending anymore? It disturbs my studying.
Lily

Lily,
okay. Sorry.
Remus

Remus,
no hard feelings. It's not your fault that your friend has an obsession and serious problems with concentrating.

Padfoot,
it's not working. Lily hates doesn't get it to her head what's the best for her.

Prongs,
bad luck.

What in Merlin's name should I do?

Well, what have you done until this? Besides trying to date her and tell her how much you love her?

What're you trying to say?

Prongs,
you've done everything you can. And you've done it for five years already.

Pads,
say it to Lily.

Prongs,
you should change the target. What's so special in Evans anyway? Quite a nice hair, if you happen to like red and want to wear sunglasses inside the house. I've seen much better tits and legs. And Evans is stubborn and thinks she knows it all. Someone should probably just hit you on your head so that you would realize it.

Sirius,
don't talk about Lily's tits.

Why? You think that I've never noticed them being there? Merlin, what else would I do when she's complaining to us about some stupid rules?

Cut it out. I want Lily and that's it.

You're gonna lose your rep.

Evans,
can I see you in the library after the classes? And by the way, don't go near Sirius, do you?

Lily Evans and James Potter,
you have gained a detention today 9th in September in this classroom. The reason for this manner is your unsuitable behavior during the class (sending notes). Please be there at the time.
Professor Binns

Potter,
do you happen to have anything inside your head? Like brain?! I got a detention because of you!! Do you still think that I'm going to go anywhere with you?

Evans,
how about after the detention?

Potter,
you're a hopeless moron. I'm not going to read your notes anymore.

Padfoot,
me and Lily are gonna have a detention together!

Prongs,
calm down. Binns will be there too.

Binns is already dead.

How is that supposed to affect?

No idea.

Prongs,
you should get your head examined. Evans will drive you crazy even tough she barely speaks to you.

James and Sirius,
you should concentrate on studying. Binns said that this topic is quite important for the exams.
Remus

Moony,
which exams?
Prongs

James,
N.E.W.T. Does it ring the bell?

Which bell?

The tiny little voice in your head, James.

There's almost a year before those exams, Remus.

Moony,
let Prongs be. I'll die if he starts studying too.
Padfoot

Sirius,
some studying could help you both. Besides, if James is still planning to get Lily, he has one more reason to study. Lily is too smart to fall for someone who doesn't care about his future or understand how important studying is. In fact, James should probably forget Lily right away. It could do good to his mental health.
Remus

Sirius,
what're you talking about?
Peter

Peter,
James' mental health.

Merlin.

I agree. Quite shocking it is. I guess I have to skip the next lesson. I've heard rumors that the bathrooms in the third floor have been okay almost a week.

Too much information, Pads.

Don't think too much, Wormtail. I didn't mean that. I was just thinking. Within past two weeks we've done nothing that would have changed Filch's hair into blue.

Have fun in the bathroom. What an earth is Binns talking about?

Lily,
I'm sorry about the detention. I just thought that Binns wouldn't notice anything. Merlin, he noticed nothing when we changed Andrew Abbot's hair into spaghetti during the lesson, how was I supposed to know, that he would me be more, well, living, today? Andrew even started eating his hair before realizing that, yes, it was his hair, do you remember? And Binns just kept talking. Peter claimed that you were laughing among the others, even though you tried to hit me with a pumpkin. You should learn how to aim better. I'm serious.
But for real, I'm sorry. Or, well, I'm not sorry but I don't want you to be angry at me.
James

Potter,
please tell Remus that next time, when he tells you to apologize me, he needs to make sure that you're at least doing it properly. That was the worst apology ever.
Lily Evans

Lily,
why're you smiling?
Alice

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Lily,
could we make a deal? For this detention, you forget to act like you would hate me, and I won't tell anyone about it afterwards?
James

Potter,
I'm not acting.
Lily Evans

Lily,
but there's no one else here! Well, of course Binns is here, but I'm pretty sure he's lost in the sixteenth century again, or something. Have you seen him looking at anything within the last ten minutes? Once Sirius tried to clean the dust of him. Well, he couldn't make it, because his hand just went through him, but I'm sure you got the idea. Binns isn't living enough to realize that you're trying to act like hating me. Why pretend?

Potter,
I'm still not pretending.

Lily,
why would you hate me?

Potter,
your shoe is on my robe. Back off. Now.

So?

You're irritating, Potter! You should look at the mirror sometimes! You aren't the centre of the world and you surely aren't the centre of MY world!

You don't even know me!

And thanks to Merlin for that! Besides, that's not the point. Come on, Potter. You've been disturbing me for the past five years in exactly the same way. I don't need to know you any better.

So you hate me, because I happen to like you? How is that any fair, Evans?

Have you ever bothered to think, why do you have that obsession? If someone hit me with a bludger and I lost my mind and thought I liked you, you wouldn't be interested in me for more than few days.

Wanna try?

No way! Potter, let me be, I'm not interested in you.

Have you someone else, then?

Should I have?

Evans! Tell me!

I'm quite sure Binns glanced at us just a minute ago. We should focus on sorting these papers.

EVANS!

No.

EVANS!!!

I told you already! No, I've got no one else in my mind. Nor have I you in my mind, so don't you even think about that. And now I'm going to take care of the rest of this detention as soon as possible. If you manage to get me into a detention ever again, I swear that you won't ever have any children.

Don't you want children?

Potter, I'm NOT going to have children with you, and if I ever have some, you won't be nearer than hundred kilometers away from them, and if your offspring tries to pick up any of them, I'm gonna take personally care of you going into Azkaban.

Minerva,
mister Potter and miss Evans are too busy with arguing to be able to take care of their detention. I suppose you should recognize the problem, since they both belong to your house. If I was you, I would probably just wait and see how things go. Intervening the lives of the young may cause many high risks, and, I should add, in the end it goes in vain because there won't be even hundred years before Potter and Evans will both be dead. Anyway, I thought that because you also are still young, you might want to offer your help for them to make them interact in more suitable ways. In addition, I would be very grateful if your students were able to value the detention a little more in the future, as it is done to make this school better for us all. Even tough I am quite sure that in the end every student ends up being whatever he or she will, no matter how hard we try.

Sincerely yours,
professor Binns

Horatius,
do you still think that James Potter has some serious issues with Potions?

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A/N: I'm glad you read this long! Any reviews would be more than welcome before the next chapter arrives :)