A/N: Hey guys ^^ This is my first fanfic, I hope you all enjoy it! I'm planning on making it pretty long I think, so if you do read it you might have to wait a while for other chapters becuase I'll be studying hard from now until next June, so I'll write whenever I have time. Please leave any constructive critisism or ideas in a review!
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters, locations, spells or any other Wizarding-World terms and doo-hickeys that you recognise. That's all Queen JK's doing.
"He's looking at you again." Snape eyed the messy haired teenager across the hall. The eyes behind those round glasses quickly averted to the scrambled eggs and fried toast on his plate and he hastily continued eating, trying but failing to ignore the fact that he had been caught, again.
Lily sighed. "I wish he'd stop; it's really annoying. It's creepy too... But then, what else could you expect from an idiot like him?"
Snape chuckled. It had been well over three weeks now that both Lily and Snape had noticed that James Potter's interest in Lily had greatly increased. He was constantly trying to catch Lily's eye, make small talk with her and, much to Snape's amusement, flirt with her. Well, that's if you could call it flirting. "Come on, Lil, you can't hate him that much… look how popular and clever and talented he is!" As much as he was joking around, Snape knew what he'd said was true. James was talented and popular… but ignorant, selfish and shallow too, Snape hated the way James treated other people, he always looked down on others and spoke to them like they were dirt. The only people that received any of James' respect were his select few friends, and now, apparently, Lily.
"He's such an idiot! What do you think goes through that thick head of his, Sev? …You reckon that he thinks that because he has a group of stupid fourth year girls run around after him, giggling and obeying his every whim, that I too will run to him with open arms, batting my eyelashes like a love sick fool? He's an arrogant pig! I hope his fat head weighs him down and he falls off of his broomstick"
Lily hadn't always loathed James. In fact, yes, she did used to like him, and she did used to think he was good looking, kind and clever. They hadn't really been friends, but she knew him well enough. Yet ever since she'd caught him trying to spike Snape's Butterbeer with a very potent vial of Doxycide that her suspicions began to rise that maybe James wasn't the nice person she thought he was.
Three days after this, when Lily witnessed James using the Levicorpus jinx on Snape, she firmly decided that she hated James. She couldn't understand how a person could be so selfish, so arrogant, so… so stupid. Of course, Lily forgave Snape for the incident with the 'M' word… she knew he didn't mean it, and she knew that he was genuinely sorry for saying it… after all, lily thought, he's my best friend. It was probably just the influence of those dickheads Rosier and Avery that he'd been talking to.
Lily didn't know why her hatred towards James had caused him to react in this way; it seemed that he was positively thrilled at the thought that she had begun giving him any attention at all, even if it were negative.
Snape checked his watch. "Hey, we better get going, first lesson starts in a few minutes."
Snape got up, picked up his own things along with Lily's and stood waiting for her to get up too.
"Thanks, Sev" she smiled as she took her bag from him. They exited the Great Hall and made their way up the moving staircase.
"What lesson have you got now? I think I have Charms, so where do you want to meet up afterwards?"
"Let me check" Snape murmured, and he awkwardly bent down to get his timetable out. As he took it out, most of his books fell out of his bag too, along with a small box.
"Fuck." He felt himself go red as he flopped to the floor and scooped everything up and threw it back into his bag, ignoring the hysterical laughter from James and his friends as they watched from the floor above. He got up, flustered, and looked at the piece of paper in his hand.
"Well, looks like I have Defence Against the Dark Arts, with those bastards up there."
Lily scowled up at them and stuck up her middle finger. James' smiled dropped slightly as he turned and disappeared out of sight. "Don't let them bother you, Sev, they're just jealous."
Snape scoffed. "Jealous? Of what exactly!"
Lily smiled and put her hand on his shoulder. "You have character, Sev. Personality, depth… They're just pompous idiots that think they should be treated as royalty because they stand out from the crowd a little. Trust me, Sev, you have everything over them, it's just that it's only us that know it." She gave him her usual quick but tight hug, and ran off down the third floor corridor, leaving Snape with a warm feeling in his stomach.
He wondered how he was ever lucky enough to be friends with somebody as amazing as Lily… and how impossible it would be for him to express the longing that lay in his heart for her.
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A/N: What did you think? It's a bit slow and nothing exiting really happens, I know, but I just wanted to get across Snape, James and Lily's feelings about eachother in this chapter ^^
