Summary: Lily Evans builds up the courage to see her oldest friend again in the attempt to rebuild their friendship. Of course this friend is in fact her boyfriend's worst enemy. Until one night changes all. Will this change everything as we know it?
Author's Note: My very first Harry Potter fic, and actually one of my first in a long time… (I've got a new account now) I'd like to think I have gotten better since my 14 year old self… But the only way I'd be able to tell is by reading reviews (yes that is a hint to leave one…)
Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter, if I did I'd be rather rich and whatnot. So yeah…
Chapter 1 – Lilies and Snowflakes
It was a cold November morning, and Lily Evans looked around the area she had grown up in. It hadn't changed one bit really. It still had the same rows of terraced houses, the typical two up, two downs with their faded red bricks, only now they were occupied by different people, strangers. She smirked at the muggles across the road, who had put their Christmas decorations up so early. She stared at the house in front of her. She always found it strange how he had still lived there, even though it held so many bad memories for him. Lily's attention was diverted to a snowflake twirling from the white sky, the first one of the year, it floated delicately in the air and hovered lazily before falling gracefully to the ground. Lily gazed at it intently, entranced by its beauty, she always marvelled at how beautiful snowflakes actually were, it was almost like they had their own magic about them, so pure and white, dancing through the sky to their own slow melody.
She strolled into the front yard and knocked on his door nervously, she hadn't spoken to him in four years, ever since he'd called her a Mudblood at school in front of everyone, and now she was here to make amends with him.
"Lily.." Severus whispered "I can't believe you actually came, I thought it might have been a wind up or something." He sounded genuinely happy that she had kept to her word, something he totally wasn't expecting, or for it to be even her.
"Why? Who would do such a thing?" Lily asked, until it dawned on her, something sinking through her stomach "…Oh" Of course, he was on about James, her boyfriend of two years, or maybe even Sirius, his partner of crime.
"I couldn't be gladder, thank you so much for coming Lily, I never thought we could talk again… I'm so sorry, I should never have said that to you at school" Severus said, his voice overflowing with emotion and his dark eyes glistening with sorrow.
Lily stared at her oldest friend, could she call him that? With nothing but pure compassion in her sparkling green eyes, making them look more like emeralds than ever, she spoke softly "It's okay. It's been three years now, far too long to go without speaking to my oldest friend" Severus smiled, brightening up his face as a dark cloud seemed to lift from his chest, "Though call it me again, or to refer to other muggles as that word, then we can never be friends again, okay?" Severus nodded ferociously.
"C-come in if you want?" He offered, mentally kicking himself, why is it he oozed confidence, to the point of being patronising, yet with her around he turned into a stumbling, stuttering idiot. "It must be cold out there, I'm sure I saw a bit of snow."
"Sure!" Lily replied excitedly, "I'd love to"
Severus stared at her; she was still just as beautiful as ever; even sat in his cold and ugly living room filled with memories that were just as menacing. Her radiance seemed to light the room up and her hair was as red and as luscious as he recalled, God she was more perfect than he had anticipated or ever remembered. She was wasted on Potter , the arrogant arsehole who had no concept of romance, or true love.
"So.. You still in contact with anyone from school? How's Jessie and Maria?" he asked, remembering Lily's female friends from school and how much of a mis-matching trio they had been. Jessica Harding was the airhead from Hufflepuff, who luckily for her had a lot of looks to make up for the lack of brains she owned. With blonde hair and the brightest blue eyes, with a figure to die for, she was often known for her stupidity for the glaringly obvious. She did however, excel at Muggle Studies and even Care of Magical Creatures, providing the animals weren't too big and scary. Maria Yorke was a Gryffindor, just like Lily had been. She was the total opposite of Jessie, with raven hair and dark eyes, that were probably even darker from reading late at night, a total bookworm, she was also a gifted witch in Astronomy, Transfiguration and Arithmancy, achieving O's in all her OWLs and NEWTS. And obviously Lily, lovely Lily with her long red curls and her curvaceous figure that had all the hormone raged teenage boys panting at her feet. Her skin was white like porcelain, the typical English rose, with a sprinkling of freckles across her adorable button nose. Her teeth were white, not perfectly straight, but her smile was still known to brighten the mood of anyone she encountered. And Merlin, those eyes! The brightest green Severus had ever seen, and of course the most beautiful. The eyes that had haunted him for nine years, and probably would for the rest of his life.
"Well I'm with James, obviously, so I still see Sirius alot, and Remus and Peter too. I don't really see Jessie and Maria anymore… Jessie's on a fast track course to be a nurse at St Mungoes, she really wants to work with the Muggles and Maria's a librarian in Diagon Alley, did you know her and Richard Blakely are engaged now? "
"Really? As in the fat Ravenclaw kid in the year above us?" Severus laughed "Wow, I never would have pictured them two together" He felt his heart lift a little and started to feel strange, was this optimism he was feeling? Maybe mis-matched people really were better for one another. Did opposites really attract? Would someone like Lily Evans, the beautiful, radiant and plucky Gryffindor, ever fall for the disgusting, loathsome and cowardly Severus Snape? Unlikely, but one could dream.