First Kiss

Disclaimer, the Harry Potter characters don't belong to me I'm just using them in this fan fic for fun and no profit. Suing me would be pointless since I'm a mom; so always broke.

Chapter one. Trying to work up the nerve!

The sun was shining gently through the leaves of the large oak tree; the small stream gently flowing along its bed, it was a favorite spot of the young dark hair boy with a skinny face and a rather under-fed look.

He was waiting for his best friend and the love of his life. He was thinking back to the time she had invited him to the family BBQ. At the time he had no idea what that was since he own father never cooked anything whether it was inside on the stove, a cauldron above a roaring fire or on a grill outside. He had loved the taste of the food with a hint of smoke on it. Her mother had made many other dishes to go with the hamburgers and hotdogs he had cooked outside. The next time he was invited over Petunia had complained bitterly that she wasn't allowed to bring friends home. Lily though shouted at her that she could bring home friends if she had any. That part he loved and completely agreed with it. He was sure the girl had no friends and no guys at the school she attended showed any interest in her. He shuddered at the idea of what kind of guy would want her. He figured that the guy would have to be sick and desperate to want Petunia. He grinned pleased while he watched a few clouds slowly floating by, waiting to hear the sounds of footsteps. He was thrilled when he heard a soft step then a voice he loved so well.

"Hey are you there?" A soft gently voice came through the trees. Snape rolled over to see Lily walking over to him her dark red soft thick hair being gently played with by the breeze.

"Yeah over here Lily." Snape called to her. She trotted toward her best friend Severus Snape.

"It's a great day to have a picnic huh." Lily commented as she sat down next to him on the soft grass. She had a large wicker basket with her that she set down on the ground next to them.

Snape looked around the woods; worried he would see the horsy face of her older sister Petunia. She was always nosing around and trying to come between them whenever they went out together.

He was feeling a bit easier that Lily had not been followed by her snoopy sister Petunia. Snape looked at Lily closely to see her green eyes were sparkling with the sunlight as she talked on about making the lunch. He hardly took in a word of it. He was to mesmerize by her eyes.

"I couldn't believe Tuney she was all crabby and whiney this morning, you should have heard her talking to our parents." Lily shook her head as she laughed gently at the memory.

"She tried to tell them to forbid me to ever see you can you believe that."

Lily never noticed the scowl on Snape's face.

"I told her myself if she just went and made a few friends maybe she wouldn't be so hung up on my having a friend now."

Snape smile brightly at this, he was so grateful for Lily and her compassion for him.

"My parents totally agreed with me, they said you were a good friend and that I was lucky to have you in my life. We were both in school together and doing great. I really love potions best of all our classes there how about you?" Lily asked curiously. She opens the lid of the basket the sweet aroma of chicken, biscuits and chocolate wafted over him.

Snape looked surprised; he had not yet after two years at school really decided what he liked best there. He did enjoy being in classes with her and one of them was potions. The other three were Defense Against the Dark Arts, which he excelled at. Herbology and Transfiguration. Both of them seemed fine but nothing that made him look forward to it except that he was with Lily in those classes.

Snape smiled up at Lily from where he was still laying down.

"Yeah I like potions best." Snape knew it was now true he would devote his time to potions and become the best with Lily.

Lily looked at Snape lying next to her on the grass. "Time to sit up silly, it's time to eat, I'm starved I hadn't eaten yet today, with trying to get food prepared and telling Tuney to get a life and then sneaking out so she couldn't follow me to our new place." Lily shook her head in a bemused sort of way.

Snape smiled brightly at her as he sat up to eat the food she had brought. Snape knew that if it weren't for the Evans he'd starve most of the days. Snape chewed a bit too fast on a fried chicken leg in his haste to eat and fill his empty stomach.

"I take it you haven't eaten anything today or maybe even yesterday?" Lily asked gentle, she knew that his family hardly fed him, and were always fighting. Lily knew she was probably the only one he opened up to about his parents.

Snape looked sadden by his display of bad manners in front of her and being caught by the one person he never wanted to be caught by.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been such a hog but yeah I hadn't eaten much of anything since lunch yesterday. Mom was too busy trying to get some kind of food made when dad came home foul as always and threw the food out; he said something about it not being good enough for him. What a laugh like anything will ever be good enough for him. Mom then hit him with a spell that made his nose hair grow extra-long which only made him angrier. If we lived in a nicer place the neighbors would have called the cops on them as it is it seems like the norm there." He waved a hand around airily as though it did not matter.

Lily felt her heart hurting for him as he looked gloomily at his chicken leg.

"Hey Sev, don't stop eating, I understand." Lily placed her hand on his shoulder, and then let it drop down his back giving him a soft gentle rubbing. Snape smiled at her his eyes shining with pleasure.

"We'll get new classes when we go back in September." Lily hoped to change the subject it worked.

"Yeah I can't wait it'll be fun to see what they are like. I also can't wait to see what else we learn in potion, that class is so fun and Slughorn is such a cool guy." His eyes brighten with the prospect of learning new things.

"Yeah he is but I'm not sure I'll stay in his group this year, I really can't stand some of those guys there." Lily confessed as she nibbled on her own chicken leg.

"If you drop it so will I it wouldn't be any fun to be there without you." Snape told her earnestly.

Lily smiled sweetly at Snape. He continued to eat two more chicken legs and a biscuit.

Lily leaned over a little bit so she was resting gently on Snape's shoulder.

"I'm a bit tired it's been a long day already, I sure wish we could do magic now instead of having to wait."

"I know a way." Snape whispered. Snape watched as her eyes sparkled with interest, his heart beating in his chest.

Kiss her just do it just kiss her!

Lily was looking into his dark eyes her interest peaked at this idea.

"Really how tell me?" Lily asked. Lily sat up straight just as Snape leaned in more to her, with the intention of kissing her soft lips.

Snape sat back up right trying to cover his embarrassment as he tried to think of something besides kissing Lily.

"Ooh it's a spell I found in a book of my mom's that removes the underage magic restriction. I don't know if it's true or not I haven't tried it yet since at home with my mom she always does one stupid spell after another they don't know that I'm doing it too. But we can try it here and see what happens if no one from the Ministry come here to tell us were not allowed to do it then it should be fine."

Lily sat up straight. "Great tell me what it is." Lily had pulled her wand out from the basket ready to perform the spell.

Snape looked proud to show her something new as he pulled out his own wand.

"Ok it goes like this." Snape moved his wand in a large circle over his head then down the front of him in a small circle while saying. "Removbalis" Snape smiled at Lily who was looking very impressed.

"That's great let me try it." Lily moved her wand in the same manner while saying "Removbalis"

Lily looked around nothing felt different. "Do you think it worked?" Lily asked as she tried to decide if she felt different from before.

"Don't know let's try something." Snape waved his wand and said. Scrusifiy, at the ground near the garbage can; where a lot of papers were left there. The garbage quickly removed it's self as some soapy bubbles cleaned up around the can so it was sparkling clean.

Lily laughed and pointed her own wand at a different garbage can cleaning it up as well.

Both sat still waiting to see if anyone would show up when no one did they fell into fits of laughter as they lay back onto the grass laughing happily. Snape moved up onto his forearms looking down at Lily. She lay there with her red hair fanned out around her head.

Snape watched her lips as she laughed a little more her eye filling with tears of mirth.

"This is great!" Snape said quietly to Lily who nodded her head in agreement.

"Now I can show Tuney some interesting things since she never did believe me about not being able to do spells at home because of my being under age and she being a Muggle."

"Yeah that'll show her some really weird things!" Snape whispered. He was not too thrilled about showing that to Petunia since all she did was bad mouth him for being poor.

Snape leaned in closer to Lily his face hardly inches from her own as one thought continued to run through his mind. Kiss her just do it just kiss her!

A shout from the woods stopped Snape from moving closer to his desired destination.

"Sounds like Petunia; is looking for you again." Snape tried to keep the bitterness out of his voice, he never wanted to hurt Lily it wasn't her fault that her sister was a quandary and was always trying to keep them apart.

"I think it's time to find a new place to meet so she can't find us so easy." Lily said with resignation as she called out to her sister. "Petunia, I'm over here, what do you want?" Lily hoped she would just want to make sure nothing evil was happening like them kissing. Lily felt a panged of disappointment, she just knew this time they would kiss, Severus was so close to doing it and she wanted it so much but had no clue how to tell a guy to please kiss her.

Petunia came through the woods shot a dirty look at Snape and said in a tone of disgust.

"Mom wanted you to know a letter from that freak school of yours came today."

Lily's eyes lit up. "That's great, I bet it's our new book list, we should go get them and then we can plan on going to Diagon Alley to buy them. We need to stop and get ice cream too."

Snape felt himself caught up in her excitement. "Yeah he told me last time we were there he was making up a new flavor. Let's get to your home and see how soon we can go to Diagon Alley." Snape and Lily packed up their left over food completely ignoring her. Petunia looked on with a glare in her eyes that was soon replaced with regret.

"Come on Tuney, run with us." Lily and Snape who was carrying the basket for Lily ran on ahead. Petunia ran behind them. She of course was scowling at their back the whole way. She was extremely resentful her parents approved of their friendship when she wanted to have Lily to herself and not have to share with her with the Snape boy. She would never of course admit that if she just made some of her own friends it would help her loneliness she just wanted to continue to have Lily for her only friend who always did what her older sister told her to do.