Two Lives

"Miss Evens. Please would you kindly tell me why is it these floors are not swept properly?" Lord Potter asked as he walked slowly into the cold kitchen.

Lily Evens a young sixteen year old girl with lovely red hair and emerald green eyes was on her knees scrubbing the cold hard stone floor.

"I am sorry Lord Potter" Lily said as she got to her feet but kept her eyes to the floor. "I had to get every thing done in an hour or I would be flogged." Lily said sounding a little chocked as though she had been crying.

Lord Potter was shocked by this. "Flogged by whom may I ask?" He lifted her head up slightly and wiped away the tears running down her checks.

"I dare not say my Lord because of his class in society." Lily answered as she trembled.

"I demand you tell me at once Miss Evens. I will have no female servant punished in this household" Lord Potter said starting to get annoyed with the girl in front of him self.

"Master James" she mumbled. Lord Potter placed his hands back down at his side stormed out of the room "JAMES" He called out to his son but got no response from him.

A shape shifted in the shadows and James walked out and towards Lily but she was unaware that he was there. He placed his arms around her waist and started kissing her neck.

"Warren. I have told you already im working." Lily said as she stood there and tilted her head to the side to allow him to get at her neck properly.

"Lily" A voice whispered behind her.

A young man walked into the room and stood there with a look of shock on his face.

"Cedric" Lily looked at him confused. "If your there then who is behind me." She pulled the hands off her waist and turned around to look.

Lily screamed. James put his hand over her mouth and told her to hush. If Lord Potter had come in and saw James hugging and kissing Lily he would be banished from the house hold. James roughly 6ft and had messy black hair and melted chocolate eyes.

Flash back.

"James Potter I will get you for putting mud in my hair" A voice yelled at the thirteen year old boy who was running away after putting mud in a thirteen year old girl's hair.

"Well if you catch me I will kiss you and if not I will put more mud in your hair." The boy yelled back behind him, Lily and James have been friends ever since the day Lily came to work for his father.

"You know James that does not work and made no sense. Admit it James you just want to kiss me" Lily yelled at him once she stopped chasing James.

"Made sense to me and maybe I do and may be I don't Lily or I just want to put more mud in your hair." James stopped and looked behind him to see Lily had stopped and was now sitting on the ground crying. He cautiously walked up to her. "Lily im sorry" James sat down.

Lily looked up and. Squelch. She put mud in his hair. "I do believe I have caught you James now you owe me a kiss." Lily Smiled as James gave her a kiss on her check.

Lily turned her head to talk to him but he had other ideas. He put his hands on either side of her face and puller her closer to him self then kissed her lips and got up and ran away before she could hit him for it.

"JAMES." Lily got up and ran after him she would have caught him if it weren't for the fact she could not go into his room unless invited by him.

James' door opened and to annoy her he stayed on the other side and did not invite her in but that did not stop Lily "You can't come into my room with out being invited Lily"

She just walked in "Well yes I can you opened your door to allow me in" She kissed him and before she could leave he shut the door on her.

"James what are you doing?" Lily asked a little shocked.

James walked over to her and pulled her close to him self. "Well Lily what im doing is hugging you."

"James where are friends nothing more." Lily said as she pushed out of his arms and walked to the door but before she left she said. "Please I don't want to hurt you or get hurt I just want to be your friend that is all." Lily walked out and went to her little corner of the house that she lived in.

End flash back.

"JAMES." Lord Potter called out to his son. "Oh where is that boy." He said as he walked around his home looking for James.

Lily walked through the front door with a bunch of flowers in each hand. "Excuse me, Lord Potter which roses would you like to have on the table the red ones or the green ones?"

"The green ones if you please. You can give the red ones to my son if you know where he is and he can do as he wishes with them." Lord Potter told Lily.

"Yes sir I will do as you have asked" Lily curtsied slightly before leaving to go down to the well where James was sitting.

"James. I mean Master Potter." James turned around to look at who had just called him. "Your father requested that I give you these roses to you and that you can do what you want with them." She bent down and handed him the roses and became lost in the depths of his brown eyes. Lily stood up and started to walk away when a hand grasped hers.

"Please stay with me I do not wish to be alone at this present time." James pulled her to the ground but she did not hit it instead she was sitting in James lap. Lily squirmed as he put his arms around her waist so she could not escape.

"Please Master James let me go and I will stay with you" James leaned his head on her shoulder. "Master James what is wrong?" Lily asked a little shocked by this.

"It is just I have feelings for some one but I am unable to tell her how I feel. How do I do it with out hurting her?" he asked now looking into Lily's eyes.

Lily thought for a minute. "Well you could leave gifts or invite her to the ball. You can even." Lily paused to stop her self from smiling.

"I can even what?" James asked but seeing the look in her eyes he nodded and understood what she meant. He leaned forward and gave her a kiss on her check. "Thank you"

They sat there in the grass by the well and looking out into the garden James was watching Lily out of the corner of his eye. He just watched the way the wind blew the hair out of her face and it trailed behind her.

Lily was in the ball room preparing it for the Christmas ball that night. She swept the floor, cleaned the windows and put the food out. An hour later she had finished putting every little detail together and then went to her room. James had asked his father to give her a room to her self because she was the only female servant in the whole house and because no one ever used it anyway.

Lily walked into her little room that is furnished with a four poster bed but no drapes on it, a small desk and chair in the corner and she also had an oil lamp hanging up beside her bed. There on the end of her bed was a box and a bunch of roses. In the roses there an invitation to the ball and in the box a lovely green dress as well as a white mask.

Later that night Lily put her hair up in a bun with some tresses hanging down through out it she painted her lips a rose crimson she wore no other make up on her face at all. She made her way down the stairs and stopped when every one stopped what they were doing and looked at her. James looked up from talking to his father and smiled because he recognized the dress at once. He walked over to the stairs and offered his hand Lily took it. He felt her trembling as he walked her over to the wall to talk.

"Ah I see you got the dress." James said as he leaned against the wall and slid his arm around her waist.

Lily leaned her head against his shoulder. "Thank you." She said with a smile.

"No problem." James said as he kissed her hair. "Come on lets go for a walk." He moved his arm from her waist and took her hand.

"For a walk?" Lily asked as she held his hand

James led her to the garden near the well and he leaned against the stone of the well with Lily leaning against him.

Lily began speak. "I used to have this dream where I would be next to water fall in a small field of flowers. There is a man there but I am unable to see his face." Lily raised her hand and covered her mouth because she had just told him her dream.

James laughed "you don't have to be ashamed of telling me about your dream." She turned her head but before she could reply he was kissing her softly. Lily did not want it to stop so she deepened the kiss. Once they pulled away from each other she licked her lips James could not help him self he leaned forwards and kissed her again and ran his tongue over her lips. He pulled away once he realized what he had just done but Lily just leaned onto him and licked his lips not knowing what it did to him but she sure felt it.

James pulled of her mask and kissed her check Lily closed her eyes as he moved from her check to her neck as he pulled of his mask. Lily opened her eyes and kissed him she looked into his eyes. Brown! She pulled away and looked at his face.

"James" she gasped out. She pulled his arms off her self and got up and started to walk away.

"Lily wait." He touched her arm but that did not stop her she just ran. She stopped before the door and looked behind her at James just standing there in shock.

"I'm sorry." Lily whispered before walking though the door and into the ball room. She had let her feelings slip and so did he. James looked at her hair and saw it a rose not just any rose the rose he gave her.

James walked into the ball room and looked around for her and saw her laughing while she danced with Master Sirius Black. James walked over and put his hand on Sirius' back.

Sirius turned around and did a slight bow "Master James. My friend." he said as he took James' hand. Lily realized that they were friends and she let go of Sirius and she ran towards the stairs James ran after her and grabbed her hand.

James' father looked up from talking to see James chasing a young girl and saw the girl started to go up the stairs she turned as James grasped her arm. "Lily" He whispered. "My son is in love"

Lily twisted her arm in his firm grip. "Lily im sorry" he said as he tightened his grip on her.

"LET ME GO JAMES POTTER" Lily yelled at him.

Smack.

James had let his temper go on Lily

"It is Master James to you." He scowled at Lily pointing his finger at her.

Lily turned and looked at him with tears running down her checks and blood dripping from her lip where he had hit her. "No James if you were sorry you would not have hit me just now." She trembled and looked at him and he looked back and let go now realizing he had now caused his best friend to tremble and fear him.

"Lily" he whispered. Lily ran up the stairs and to her room James was close behind her she shut her door. James opened the door and stood there as he saw her pull out her hair and cry on her desk for a little bit then James knocked on the door.

Lily looked up and wiped her eyes and said. "What can I do for you James?"

"Please forgive me." He walked over to her and kissed her on the check.

"Get out James" she demanded. "I do not care if you hit me again then I will truly know you don't care about me any more."

Sirius walked into the room and over to Lily. "Lily would you like to accompany down stairs for a dance?" Lily stood up and walked out of the room with him and left James there to think about what she said.

Flash back

"James you take care of Lily she is going to live here and work for us but you can play with her" Lord Potter told his son.

"Hello Lily im James" He said as he took her hand and kissed it.

Lily pulled her hand away a little shocked by this. "Hell… hello James."

"Do you want to go play with me" James asked as he grabbed Lily's hand and took her out side to play with him. They went to the barn and played hide and seek Lily won because she was very good at hiding. Then James said "how about we play catch and kiss."

"Ok" Lily said with a smile. James was up first and he had to try to catch Lily which proved to be harder that it appeared because she kept climbing on things to get away from him.

"Not fare I rule no climbing on any thing" James grumbled.

"But you a faster runner than I am James." Lily said as she jumped off the hay stack.

"That is the whole point" James said as he now had Lily cornered he walked up to her and trapped her. He kissed her and to her surprise she wrapped her arms around his neck as he turned around so that he was leaning against the hay instead of Lily. Lily Pulled away

"Thank you. You just made a way for me to get away" she said as she ran.

James was shocked by this and then he ran after her. "I will get you Lily Evens" he caught her again and kissed her as he did he put his dirty hands onto her clean nearly dress.

James thought back to that day and what he did. Then he thought back to when they were thirteen and what she had said to him she did not want to hurt him or get hurt and he had just done exactly that he had hurt her.

Later that night "Lily would you take some water to James and tell him good night" Lord Potter said to Lily as he walked past her room.

"Yes sir" Lily answered. She groaned as she got up of her bed and touched her lip.

"Sir" she said as she knocked on James' door. The door opened and James stood there with nothing on not expecting it to be Lily at his door. He blushed and shut the door but soon opened it with his pants on.

"Yes Miss evens?" James asked as Lily looked at the floor trying to hide her smile.

"Your father asked me to get you some thing to drink would you like to follow me please?"

Lily started to walk away when James ran past her and tagged her and said "Now you got to try to get me for once and kiss me."

"James Potter I will not kiss you because I can't run as fast as you" Lily yelled after him.

James stopped at her words. "But you will kiss me?"

Lily just walked past him trying to ignore that question. "I will neither confirm nor dismiss that." James walked in front of her she did not know this until she almost fell backwards but he caught her and pulled her into his arms.

"See you caught me. I want my Kiss." James said as he smiled at her.

"Oh James will you ever learn." She whispered as she kissed not his check nor his lips but his neck. James was shocked by this and let her go. She walked to the kitchen with a smile on her face. James followed still shocked by her kissing his neck.

"Lily can we please be friends again?" James asked with hope in his eyes.

"Yes" Lily answered quietly. A she got James a drink and kissed his neck as she left him there by him self once again.

(A/N Hope you like this story I fixed it up a bit so there is a little new stuff and some old stuff is gone. Off now until the next chapter)