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Unconsciously, James Potter put a hand to his hair to make it lie flat. She had just rounded the corner. Sirius Black smiled to himself. Little Jamsie-poo has a crush on Evans. As if he hadn't known that. Everyone knew that.

James was still trying to flatten his hair but little did he know at every attempt he made to make it lie flat it just got wilder. It stuck up on the back of his head and even though it was messy it still looked great. He was making his way back to the Gryffindor commons before Lily Evans did so he could try and get some work before she got there. As soon as she set her stuff down in her favorite chair by the fire and got to work James couldn't concentrate on anything but her.

"Fizzing Whizbee," James muttered to the Fat Lady.

"Quite right dear," she said joyously, swinging open to reveal the commons.

James climbed through the portrait hole and was not surprised to see his best friend and fellow Marauder, Sirius, lounging on one of the chairs that were around the fire.

"Took you a while mate," Sirius said while flashing a model-worthy smile towards a couple of 4th year girls who giggled and blushed and immediately began arguing who he had sent the smile too.

"Yeah," James said looking for an excuse, "well- I - you see- I was a little pre-occupied."

Sirius raised his eyebrows.

"Shut up," James said sitting down in the chair across the mantle from Lily's favorite one and took out an essay he was doing for Potions.

James did some steady work for about 30 minutes and that's when the flow of traffic through the commons started getting heavy and James had trouble concentrating. Another 15 minutes of work, he thought, before she walks in and interrupts my thoughts again. Yesterday he had been writing out his opinion if he thought if Animagus's could transform while they were under or experiencing a lot of stress for Transfiguration and had started writing what he was thinking about Lily when she walked and started up her daily ritual again. She would enter the portrait hole with her friends and place her things on the ground by the legs of her chair, the left side of it, always. Then she would take out her supplies and start working. Today she was working on a star chart and James was trying to stay concentrated but he was failing miserably. He sighed and packed up his things. He grudgingly made his way to his dorm room where he sat on his bed resuming his work. After he was finished with the mountains of homework he made his way back down to the commons and watched Lily the rest of the evening until Dinner.

Even then she was all he could think about during dinner. While he and Sirius were shoveling their faces with food and Remus Lupin was laughing at them while taking rather large bites himself, but he could do that, he had a large mouth. James looked up at Lily in mid-chew. She had her dark auburn hair up in a messy bun and her dark emerald eyes shone in the candlelight. Taking dainty bites Lily laughed at one of her friends jokes, putting her hand to her mouth trying not to show the world the inside of her mouth. James guessed it was as gorgeous as the outside of her. He had mentioned this to her once and earned himself a good slap on the face. She had stalked away leaving a dazed James standing in the middle of the corridor. 'She touched me,' he murmured, a dreamy look in his eyes. 'Sure she did mate,' Sirius said, as he led his astounded friend to History of Magic. James laughed at the memory out loud with food still in his mouth. It went everywhere. Roast beef was for dinner tonight. Spaghetti was an optional side he could take. Stuffing both dishes into his mouth a good sized chunk of roast beef landed in Remus's hair and a noodle or two found their home on Sirius's nose.

Lily looked around at the sudden noise and her eyes landed on the Marauder section of the table. Emerald orbs flashing over James then hastily looking at Sirius and Remus, knew what happened. James suddenly looked her way. She scowled at him, the prat. No one was that uncoordinated. Were they? Then reevaluating the situation she shook her head while rubbing her left earlobe between her thumb and forefinger.

James looked at Lily. She was scowling at him. Must've noticed by sudden actions of spewing my friends with my dinner, he thought. She was kneading her ear lobe so hard it was turning red. I wonder if she knows she's so hot when she does that, he wondered.

Lily and James got up from the table at the same time to head up to the commons.

"See you guys later,"" James said his eyes flashing back and forth between Lily and his friends, "I'm gonna go up and…" but they never heard the rest of his sentence because he was already drifting away from them and towards Lily.

"He fell hard and fast for her," Sirius said to Remus.

"You can say that again Paddy," he replied. He should have known better.

"He fell hard and fast for her," Sirius said again.

Remus looked at him and took the roast beef that was still in his hair and flicked it at Sirius.

"Ruddy prat," Remus mumbled before turning back to his food.

A/N: It's my first story and reviews are definately appreciated!