Lily

I sat down in the corner of one of the plushy blue benches in the compartment and stared out the window. Alice plopped down beside me, flipping her short black hair out of her piercing black eyes.

"Hey Lily!" she exclaimed excitedly. Alice was always excited. Though on this occasion I agreed with her being excited. We were finally going back to Hogwarts! Finally!

"Hi Alice! Seen Frank yet?" I smirked. She blushed and hit me lightly on the arm.

"Shut up," she muttered under her breath, then added something about castrating girls.

"I don't think you can castrate girls, Al," I told her.

"Hi guys! Wow, thanks for finding me outside, I mean, that was really sweet of you! I would have done the same thing for you. I mean, since it only takes about five minutes," cried the blonde girl in the doorway.

"Sorry Jayne! We figured you could find your own way! I mean, we are in our sixth year!" I apologized. She smiled.

"Whatever. It's not like I'm really mad," she brushed it off. That was typical Jayne; she never took life to seriously.

"So, how was your summer?" she asked us.

"Great! I didn't see Potter at all!" I giggled.

"Well then, it's time for you to submerge yourself in my awesomeness again, Lilykins!" a deep voice interrupted from the door.

"Figures you'd be here to ruin my good mood," I spat at him.

"Aww! But Lilykins! Does that mean we can't snog behind stairwells and skip class again?" he pouted. I rolled my eyes.

"In your perverted dreams, Potter," I snapped at him. God, he really irked me. He was just so, confident. But I wasn't jealous. There is no way in hell that I'm jealous of James Potter.

"You'll be there in my perverted dreams baby," he smiled at me. I rolled my eyes.

"Sirius!" Jayne shouted in my ear.

"Hi Jayne!" Sirius called from behind James. Jayne jumped off the bench and hugged Sirius hard. He smiled and hugged her back, letting his hand drift down to rest on her ass.

"Sirius! Bad!" she scolded him, smiling. He pouted at her.

"Well, since I've been so bad, maybe you could punish me. I know this really secluded compartment with curtains you can snap closed…" he trailed off. She stared hard at him.

"Hilarious. Really, you're a riot a minute."

"I never joke with you baby!" he laughed right back. I noticed that James had sat down across from me, and that Jayne was sitting on Sirius' lap while Remus, Peter and Frank stood in the doorway looking really awkward.

"Hi Frank!" Alice said brightly.

"Hi," he mumbled back, blushing a little. Aww! They liked each other! I can feel a year of matchmaking coming up!

"…yeah, see how Lilykins is just awed speechless by my glory!" I was jolted out of my daze by James' voice.

"What?" I asked incredulously. "Why would I be awed speechless by you?"

"What girl wouldn't want this?" he asked, gesturing to his body.

"Um, me!" I said. He pulled his feet up and rested them on the bench beside me, blocking my way out. Just then, the trolley full of sweets and candies came by. Just my luck.

"Oi! Potter! Move your big feet!" I called.

"And why would I want to do that, Lilykins?" he asked, smiling sweetly.

"Because I will castrate you with a spoon if you don't."

"I doubt that. How 'bout this? I'll move my feet if you go out with me."

"Again, Potter? You know she won't date you," the nice old lady pushing the trolley said. I smiled triumphantly and started to step over his legs. When I was almost over, he pushed his knees up, making me fall onto his lap where he embraced me and held me tightly.

"Potter! Let go of me this instant!" I screeched at him.

"Nuh uh! I lurve you too much!"

"If you really loved me you would let go of me!"

"You're right. But if I really really loved you I would shield you from all evils! Which means I'll never let go of you!" he giggled. I scowled, then smiled as I was overcome by a wonderful idea. I leaned down until my mouth was almost touching his ear.

"You know what James? You're totally right. And I'm perfectly content to sit here until we reach Hogwarts. Though I'm sure you can find a secluded compartment…" I whispered lowly. It did the trick, James was so surprised that he loosened his grip on me just enough for me to slip out.

"Ha! I tricked you! I'm free!" I laughed at him. He scowled at me.

"You know Lilykins, I do know a nice separate compartment. I would love to show you," he smirked at me.

"Oh ha, ha," I said without emotion as I bought a pumpkin pasty and five chocolate frogs from the candy cart. "Thank you," I told the lady. She smiled at me. I smiled back and turned around and glared at the brat because he was resting his feet on my seat.

"Move your damned feet Potter!" I screamed at him. He smiled lazily up at me.

"Maybe if you weren't so rude we could get along Lilykins."

"Why do you even call me that?" I asked angrily, referring to 'Lilykins'.

"Oh come on. You know you love it. Besides, you're my Lilykins!" I sneered at him and kicked his legs.

"OW! What the bloody hell was that for woman? You could have just asked!" he yelled at me.

"I already did, dipshit!" I yelled back.

"Didn't have to kick me so bloody hard," he muttered as he lowered his feet. I smiled and sat down, opening my pumpkin pasty.

I looked around the crowded room and saw Alice and Frank sitting next to each other not saying anything, just looking really awkward; the opposite of Sirius and Jayne, who were flirting and Jayne was still sitting on Sirius' lap. Peter was stuffing his face with candy and Potter was just staring at me.

"Do I have crumbs on my lips?" I asked him curtly.

"Huh, what?" he responded eloquently.

"You were staring. That makes me think I have crumbs on my lips or something."

"You could have my lips on your lips, baby."

"Oh my god, Potter! When will you just give up? I'm not going to go out with a pathetic little asshole who's asked me every day at least once for the past six years if I would date him!" I screamed at him. I subconsciously noticed that the room had gone silent, but I didn't pay it any attention.

"Why can't you take a hint? I. Don't. Like. YOU! Get it through your thick skull!" He looked slightly hurt, but this was James Potter. He didn't let anything anyone said bother him.

"Well if that's how you feel about it," he whispered, looking a little pale, but again, this is James Potter!

"Yes, that's how I feel about it!" I snapped. He bowed his head.

"I'll go talk to Snivelly then. I'm sure he won't mind the company of another pureblood, I mean, since he was the best friend of a filthy little mudblood for so long," he spat at me. I paused. Had I really hurt him so bad that he would call me a mudblood and use my broken relationship with my best friend? He jumped up and stormed out, slamming the door loudly.

"I'd better go talk to him," Sirius excused himself. Jayne nodded and everyone just sat there looking really awkward.

"So, ready to get back to the magical world?" Alice asked, trying to break the silence. I snorted in a very unladylike fashion.

"Seriously, Lily! Just give him a chance! Why do you hate him so much anyway?" Alice exploded at me. I was actually scared, Alice never raised her voice. "You might find out that he's a decent guy if you would give him a damn chance!"

"There's no point in even trying anymore is there? He'll never talk to me again!" I yelled back at her. Strangely I felt a tinge of sadness at realizing that. James and I would never bicker again. What's the point in thinking about it? I didn't think while I was yelling at him, I don't deserve to now.

A/N: Yeah, this is the first fanfic I've tried, so please be nice!