A/N: Well this is my first attempt at a James/Lily fanfiction. If any readers out there write J/L then leave a review with advice and criticisms. Anyway I hope you all enjoy it. Onwards…
Chapter 1- He's what?
It was 10.45 am on the first of September. That is when our story begins. James Potter had just broken through the barrier onto the station with his best friend Sirius Black. He stood at 6ft exactly making him one of the taller people in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He had untidy jet black hair which stood up at the back and due to many years of playing Quidditch had a well toned physique. He was, needless to say an attractive person and he knew it, it had made him arrogant to some extent, at least to some people, but this year he was changed.
Sirius Black was about an inch taller, also with black hair, but it was more tamed than James'. He may not play Quidditch for the team but he did stay in shape. He was undoubtedly the object of many young women's affections and he was aware of it. It was unheard for Sirius Black to be without a girlfriend for more than a week. Whenever Sirius was around James would not have the full attention of any girls who he was trying to 'talk to' but he was fine about it. There was only girl at the school he was really interested in. She was also one of the only girls who did not fancy Sirius but that came as a bonus. Her name was Lily Evans.
Lily Evans was in the Prefect's carriage at the front of the Hogwarts Express. She had long, dark red hair and stood at about 5ft 8. It was 10.45 and there were fifteen minutes to go before the train left. She had been made Head Girl and was awaiting the arrival of the Head Boy. She tapped her foot impatiently. He should have been there ten minutes ago so they could get their instructions off the driver. In her head she ran through the list of male Prefects in her year, trying to think of which one would be made Head Boy.
The door opened and a boy of average height with brown hair called Remus Lupin walked in. She looked at him. She wouldn't have picked him herself, mainly because he was friends with that troublemaker Potter, but she could think of worse people to work with.
"Where have you been, we should have gotten our instructions from the driver ten minutes ago" Lily scolded him. He gave her an apologetic smile.
"Sorry Lily, you've got the wrong person" Remus said mildly.
She stared at him in disbelief for a moment.
"What do you mean?" she asked, eyeing him suspiciously.
"I'm not Head Boy?" he said simply.
Lily stood there in shock for a moment. "Who is then?"
"Well, it's James" he said nervously.
"James, there aren't any Prefects named James" she said dismissively.
"Well he wasn't a prefect" Remus said. Before Lily could process what he said James Potter walked into the carriage.
"Thanks for showing me the way Moony" he said sarcastically before stopping and looking around. "Wow, you could have stayed here during these train journeys? Why did you come back to our crappy cars? All that's there is Padfoot playing tonsil tennis with some bird or Wormtail begging us for a game of chess" he stopped talking when he saw Lily, "Oh hi Evans" he said, grinning.
Lily stared at him with her mouth open for a moment, shock etched on her face. James chuckled "I know I'm breathtakingly handsome Evans but are you going to talk to us anytime soon?" he asked with a laugh.
She seemed to struggle with herself for a moment before she found her voice. "What are you doing here?" she breathed.
"I'm Head Boy, according to the letter I got" James said, presenting a letter in his hand before putting it in his pocket.
"You're lying, you don't even have a badge" she spat, pointing to her own badge pinned to the front of her robes, and she noted with distaste that he did not have his robes on yet. To her surprise he pulled out a golden badge with the Hogwarts crest and HB on the front. He gave it to her and on the back it read 'James Potter, Gryffindor, Head Boy'. She stared at it in her hand before he reached out and took it back, his hand resting for just a moment longer than usual.
"Wow Lily Evans is wrong for the first time! Can we use your memory for our Pensieve Moony? Mine may distort the facts a bit" James said with a grin.
"What; like you and Lily making out?" Remus joked. This seemed to alert Lily because she promptly made a disgusted face.
"So partner, what do we do first?" James asked putting an arm around Lily. She swatted it away angrily.
"If we have to work together then you will not refer to me as anything but my name Potter!" she hissed.
"Can that be omitted from the memory Moony?" James asked quickly and Remus laughed.
"Sorry Prongs, no can do, don't plan on living this down when Padfoot sees this."
"Secondly," Lily continued as if there had been no interruption, "We have to go and get our instructions from the driver, now come on!"
Ten minutes later James and Lily stood in front of all of the Prefects. Lily was talking to them giving them instructions while James and Severus were having a glaring contest. People were actually moving out of the way of their line of sight. When the meeting was over Lily disappeared before James could approach her. Remus came over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Maybe this year Prongs" he said consolingly. For the past few years James had been asking Lily out and every time she turned him down, she was the only girl ever to do so and she was the only girl he actually wanted to be with. Remus was perhaps the only one who could guess how much James liked her, apart from Sirius, but Sirius had a rather different take on relationships and was known among many of the men at Hogwarts as a player, and Peter, well Peter had yet to even kiss a girl so he didn't really count in relationship conversations.
James shrugged Remus' hand off and shook his head. "Let's go find Sirius and Peter" he said dejectedly and Remus nodded. They arrived at the compartment to see a girl leaving with a smile on her face and when they got in Sirius' hair was messed up and he was grinning. "Been making good use of your spare time then?" James huffed.
"What's wrong with you?" Sirius asked, noting his best friend's mood. James didn't answer; he just stared out of the window.
"Lily" Remus answered and comprehension dawned on Sirius' face.
"Ouch, turned you down already?" he asked cautiously. James was never in the best of moods after he talked to Lily, usually because she turned him down for a date, or insulted him.
"Didn't get the chance to ask, left before I could ask her" he said in a depressed monotone.
"Well don't the Heads have their own common room and dormitories?" Sirius asked and James nodded, "Great, just ask her there. Oh and can I borrow you're room next week?" Sirius asked
"Why?" James asked confused.
"Alyssa" Sirius said simply. James grinned and shook his head.
The rest of the train journey passed without incident other than James and Sirius destroying each other at chess and Wormtail singeing his eyebrows in a game of exploding snap. In the Welcoming Feast Lily purposely sat as far away from James as possible but when he walked into their common room she started to walk away but he grabbed her wrist.
"Look I know you don't like me but can we leave that out of our Head duties?" he asked quietly.
"Fine but stay away from me other than when you have to!" she said angrily and she twisted her wrist free and started to walk away bur James caught up and took hold of her arm and turned her to face him, but not roughly.
"Why do you hate me Evans?" he asked, trying to look her in the eye.
"Because of what you do" she said simply before pulling her arm free and walking up the stairs.
"When will you stop hating me?" James called after her. She turned around and looked him in the eye and he held the gaze.
"When you change" she said before turning on her heel and disappearing into her dorm. James stood there for a long time thinking of what she had just said.
"Well that makes things easier" he said aloud. "Great, now I'm talking to myself. See what you do to me Evans?" he said again. With one last look at her door he turned and went to his dorm. Just after he closed his door Lily opened hers and looked at the empty common room.
"Great, I'm hearing things" she muttered before closing her door quietly.
A/N: Well a short chapter just to start me off, I'll just write them as long as I can, but I won't stretch them by putting crap in them (any people about to flame me don't use that!) Anyway please review!