"You can't catch me James" yelled a pretty red headed girl over her shoulder.
"Lily, you get back here now" James yelled back while chasing her, his raven hair flying in the winter breeze.
"Never" Lily shouted over shoulder again. Right after doing so a snowball hit the pretty girl smack dab in the face causing her to fall with an "Umhh".
James came and sat down beside her in the snow.
"Lily?" James tried
"Hum" She said trying to get the snow out of her eyes.
"I want to talk about us, you know as a couple" James blurted out and looking at the hurt look in the love of his life's eyes he wished he could take it back.
"Oh James, you know and I both know that there can not be anything between us. I want there to be but we can't" Lily said trying to keep eye contact with him.
"I just don't understand why" James said a little to loudly for Lily's liking.
"I'm dating Deven. Besides us dating would ruin our friendship, If we broke up we would probably never talk again and that would kill me." Lily said now looking down at the snow
James turned away from her, a look of confusion on his face "Lily I would never hurt you, and you know it"
"James, please just drop it" she said looking up at him with her green puppy dog eyes.
"Fine, I'll drop it. In fact I will never speak of my feelings for you again. Maybe this way I won't get hurt like you are scared to be." and with that he got up and stormed back up to the castle never to talk of his feelings again to the one girl he ever and will ever love.
"Tea time Miss" came the soft voice of Lily's assistant
"Huh?" Lily said while staring out of her office window
"I said it's tea time Ms. Evens" the assistant Laura repeated.
"I'm sorry, I do not know where my head is today" Lily said while taking the steaming mug of tea from the young blonde woman.
"Well Miss you best find it, because the press conference to discus the recent goblin rebellion is starting in half an hour" Laura said with a smile on her face.
"Yes, I will be ready. I promise you that I will have my head on straight and be ready" she said to the retreating back of the assistant.
"Ok I can do this" The red headed woman told her self
"Just put on a smile and every thing will fine"
But that smile Lily put on wasn't real, she knew it wasn't. She thought if she could imagine she was happy then she would be. Just the night before her boyfriend of three years, Deven Golson, asked her to marry him. Deven was a great catch, popular, famous, rich, and the minister of magic's son. What more could any girl want? Lily asked herself every night when she went to sleep and every morning when she woke up. She knew that there was more. There was Love; she knew that Deven didn't love her. But she wanted to believe that he did. She convinced herself that the reason he never touched her was that he didn't want to hurt her. When she saw him in Hoggsmead or Diagon Ally with beautiful blond bomb shells, she just told herself that he was business clients. And when her friends at work told her otherwise Lily would call them Jealous and walk away with her nose in the air. Sure she was happy, on the outside, But on the inside she was dieing.