Author's Note: I do not own Harry Potter. If I didn't I wouldn't have to worry about paying back all the student loans I took out for college. *sigh* Wouldn't that be nice?

So, this is the first chapter. I hope you all like it!

Diagon Alley is the best place on Earth, Lily thought as she made her way through the archway that suddenly appeared before her. Maybe it was just the fact that she had been cut off from the wizarding world for two solid months over the summer holiday, but she felt a surge of excitement coursing through her at the thought of just being around other witches and wizards. Of course, her excitement could also be because she would be meeting up with her best friends, Hannah and Carrie, whom she hadn't seen in over a month. Her parents had insisted on taking a vacation as a family, seeing as it would be the last one before Petunia got married. Ugh, even thinking of Vernon Dursley made Lily shudder, so she decided to block all unpleasant thoughts out of her head for the rest of the day. She was determined to have fun before school started up again and she was swamped with N.E.W.T. prep.

Lily made her way down the cobbled street, looking at all the people milling about in cloaks, carrying their caldrons, owls, broomsticks, sacks of galleons and sickles from Gringotts, and books for the new term. A huge smile spread across her face as she realized that she was home. She was finally feeling like she fit in again. She loved being at her parent's home and spending time with most of her family, but she always felt a little like an outsider. Whenever she told her parents about things that happened at school, there were always so many things she had to explain. You had apparating lessons and Hannah splinched off a toenail? Butterbeer? Are you old enough to drink that? But here she was in the place that she belonged. The place that she loved with people that she was so happy to see.

"Evans!" a male voice bellowed from her right, interrupting her thoughts. She didn't need to even look to see who was calling her. Well, there was at least one person in Diagon Alley that she wasn't happy to see. She grimaced and kept on walking, pretending not to hear him.

"Evans!" he yelled louder, not taking the hint. Lily ignored him again, knowing it wouldn't do any good. Why did he have to be in Diagon Alley the one day that Lily was there? It was like the universe was playing tricks on her!

"Oi, Evans!" he yelled again, even louder. Lily's cheeks turned red as several people passing by stopped to stare at the two of them.

"What do you want, Potter?" she yelled back, whirling around to face him. All of her breath nearly escaped as she set her eyes on him for the first time since last term. She tried her hardest to keep it all together despite the fact that she was now looking at the most attractive guy she'd ever seen. Potter had always been attractive, but the summer had only improved him. Potter looked tan and muscular, and his dimples were showing as he smiled down at her. One look was enough to make a girl go weak in the knees. If only he wasn't such an arrogant toe-rag!

"Oh, good, your ears do work. For a minute there I was worried that you'd lost your hearing over the summer," he said, smiling at her. She glared at him in response.

"I wish I had, that way I wouldn't have to hear all the stupid things that come out of your mouth" Lily shot at him. He just smiled, which infuriated her further.

"Nonsense, Lily! If you had lost your hearing you wouldn't be able to hear me ask you out again," he said, arrogant as ever, standing in the middle of Diagon Alley as if he owned the place.

"Oh, how would I be able to live the rest of my life without ever hearing you ask me out again?" Lily asked sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

"It would be very tough, I'm sure. So, since I don't want to ruin your life, why don't I ask you to come with me to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor?" he said, attempting to be smooth. Those stupid dimples were showing again and Lily was disgusted that she had to shake her head to remind herself that she despised Potter before she said anything stupid.

"Oh, gee. I'm so sorry, Potter, but I already have plans. Too bad, because if I didn't…." Lily said trailing off just to mess with him.

"If you didn't?" James said with a warm smile on his face.

"Then I'd just have to say no without an excuse," she said, smirking back at him before turning around and stalking off in the direction of Flourish & Blotts to get her new school books.

"See you around, Evans," James called after her. She just kept walking, not bothering to respond.

Fifteen minutes later, Lily walked out of Flourish & Blotts with her new school books. The geek in her was dying to pour over her new books and look at what she would be learning over her last year at Hogwarts. She repressed this urge, however, and walked towards Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor where she was supposed to meet Hannah and Carrie. When she got there she saw them waiting for her at a round, metal table with a sundae in front of each of them. There was even a strawberry sundae in front of an empty chair across from Hannah.

"Aw, you guys shouldn't have," Lily said, sitting down in the empty chair and placing her bag of books under the table. She picked up the spoon and began licking the hot fudge off of it. Mmm. Chocolate. Lily hadn't had chocolate in months. Petunia wouldn't allow any to come into the house because she was determined to lose weight before her wedding.

"Um, actually, we didn't," Carrie said nervously, looking over at Hannah. Hannah avoided the gaze of both girls, busying herself instead with inspecting her fingernails.

"What?" Lily asked slightly distractedly. She was melting in the delicious taste of strawberries and chocolate.

"I knew you couldn't resist my offer." Lily's mouth froze on her spoon as she heard the voice. She shot her friends a glare that clearly said they would talk about this later.

"Potter, why are you following me?" Lily asked through gritted teeth. Really, hadn't she had enough of him for one day?

"The better question is, why are you eating my ice cream?" he asked, smirking again and leaning against the empty table next to them. He probably thought he looked cool doing that. Stupid Potter.

"Your ice cream?" Lily asked, dropping the spoon onto the table and looking down at it as if it was diseased.

"We tried to tell you," Hannah said quietly. Lily just sent an angry look at her before turning her glare back to Potter.

"Relax, I didn't eat any of it yet," he said angrily.

"Oh thank God!" she said, picking up the spoon and digging back in. She picked at the piece of ice cream with the most chocolate.

"That doesn't mean that it's yours now," he said, rushing forward to grab it out of her hands.

"I already took a bite out of it. It's mine," Lily said, elbowing him in the ribs as he lunged for the ice cream. She was enjoying the chocolate and strawberry combination too much to give it up.

"I know," James said, his eyes lighting up. This couldn't be good. This was the same look he got on his face whenever he was performing a prank. Lily had seen that look way too many times to count.

"No," Lily said quickly.

"You don't even know what I was going to say. How do you know you wouldn't like it?" he said. He was standing awfully close to Lily now. She could just faintly smell the cologne he was wearing. It was slightly intoxicating and completely unnerving. Lily clutched the ice cream tightly in her palms so she wouldn't do anything stupid, like fling herself at him.

"Let me see. How do I know? Oh, maybe because it's something you thought of!" she said.

"I'm offended. I was only going to suggest that we could share the ice cream. I mean, I did ask you to have ice cream with me, and not even twenty minutes later you show up here. I think someone really wanted to have ice cream with me," James said. Lily, however, had a gleam of her own in her eyes. Hannah and Carrie cringed, wondering what she was about to do. With Lily, it was always an adventure.

"You know, you're right, James," Lily said in a sweet voice.

"I am? I mean, of course I am." He couldn't help feeling slightly on edge. The Lily he knew would never admit that anything James did was right.

"Yeah, I have always wanted to share an ice cream with you," Lily said, smiling up at him.

"Well, all you had to do was ask. Now, pass me the spoon," James said, reaching for it.

"Wouldn't it be better if I just fed you?" Lily purred. James's eyebrows went straight up under his hairline and he blushed slightly. Hannah and Carrie, who weren't being hammered with hormones, were able to see the direction this was heading, and sent warning looks at Lily, which she ignored.

"Um," he gulped, before composing himself, "if that's your dream, than I say you should go for it."

"Oh, thank you James," Lily said, "Open up wide!"

James opened his mouth and Lily started to bring it towards his mouth, but at the last second she turned it around and flung the ice cream into his face. It landed on his forehead where it instantly started melting down his face.

"Sorry, I guess I didn't feel like sharing after all," she said in an innocent voice.

For a moment James sat there in stunned silence, but it wasn't long before he grabbed Hannah's double chocolate sundae and started flinging ice cream at Lily. Lily tried ducking behind her chair, but the ice cream still hit her through the holes in the metal chair. Lily stood up and shot some more of her ice cream at James before grabbing Hannah and Carrie and making a run for it. But Evans had forgotten how fast James could be, because he loomed over her before she had even made it out of the outdoor eating area. Before she had time to react, he had dumped the remainder of Hannah's ice cream over Lily's head.

Fuming, Lily glared up at him as huge chunks of chocolate ice cream melted down her face. She was too furious to even bother wiping the ice cream out of her hair. James just smirked at her, shaking with laughter. Lily got angrier and angrier until she felt her body nearly go into convulsions. She wished that her glare alone could hex him. She made to reach for her wand, but Carrie grabbed her wrist.

"Lily, you can't hex him in the middle of Diagon Alley," Carrie said. Her voice shook as she tried not to laugh. Lily couldn't believe this.

"Breathe, Lily," Hannah said, stepping in front of her and attempting to block her vision of James. Lily did and she calmed down enough to realize that they were right. Hexing James in the middle of Diagon Alley was probably not the best idea, especially since she would be looking for a job in the wizarding community after this year at Hogwarts.

"Potter! You better stay away from me at Hogwarts because I'm Head Girl this year, and I can make sure you have detention every night for the entire year!" Lily bellowed at the infuriating boy.

"You're Head Girl?" James asked, smirking again.

"Yes, Potter. Are you surprised?" she asked.

"No, just very excited," he said.

"I'm not going to get you out of detention, Potter. And I will not turn a blind eye whenever you step out of line. I will get you for every little thing you do," Lily warned. Potter just smirked down at her.

"You just want an excuse to follow me around," he said, grinning arrogantly at her.

"Please, Potter. I would rather kiss Filtch than spend thirty seconds following you," she yelled.

"Eww, Evans. I never knew you had a thing for the grungy old men. No wonder you always turn me down!"

"Potter, get out of my sight!" Lily screamed. She looked around to see that everyone in the ice cream shop's outdoor seating area was staring at them. She blushed and attempted to cover her face with her long hair.

"For now, alright Evans. I'll go. But only because I have a feeling that you'll be seeing quite a lot of me pretty soon, so you better get used to feasting your eyes on me," he said, smiling wider before walking away, laughing to himself.

"How'd it go with Evans, mate?" Sirius asked, shaking with laughter as he stood outside of Quality Quidditch supplies. So he had seen everything, James realized. There would be no end to the teasing that was about to come.

"Great, Pads. We're eloping tomorrow," James said, falling into step with Sirius as he walked into the Quidditch shop. James eyed the SuperNova in the display window, wondering if it really was as fast as it said it was. Maybe he would just have to test it out.

"Really? Is that why she flung ice cream at you?" Sirius asked.

"Well, she was just so excited she forgot the spoon was in her hand," James said.

"You're delusional, Prongs, but I'm glad to see you're not taking the rejection too hard," Sirius said, looking at the Beater bats.

"With the amount of practice I've had, how else could I take it? Besides, I'm going to win her over eventually," James said confidently.

"And what give you that idea? She despises you!" Sirius said.

"Which is partially your fault!" James said.

"Oh, come on! I bet she doesn't even remember that!" Sirius said, laughing as he remembered Evans's super red face. She looked like she was about to blow steam out of her ears.

"We're talking about Evans here. She remembers everything, and she wouldn't soon forget climbing into bed and finding a blast-ended skrewt in it!" James said.

"Oh, come on! It was a great prank!" Sirius said, chuckling again.

"Maybe for you! You're not the one who woke up with screaming mandrakes all over your bed! I passed out and had to be taken to the hospital wing!" James shouted.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot about that," Sirius admitted.

"But all that is behind me now, because I have figured out a way to win Evans over," James said.

"And how in the world are you going to do that?" Sirius asked.

"Well, what would you do if I told you that Dumbledore made me Head Boy?" James asked, turning to look at Sirius to see his reaction.

"I would say he had finally lost his mind," Sirius said, smirking at James.

"Well, maybe so, but I wouldn't say that to him," James said, smirking and fluffing his hair.

"You're serious? You're Hogwarts' new Head Boy?" Sirius said, a stunned expression coming over his face.

"No, you're Sirius!" James shouted. It was lame, but it was a habit.

"Good one, Prongs," Sirius said, rolling his eyes, "now get back to this insanity where we've entered an alternate universe and you were made Head Boy."

"Do look so shocked! Is it really that hard to believe that Dumbledore thought me the best candidate for the job?" James asked.

"Um, yeah. I can think of at least a hundred guys who would be picked before you. And half of them aren't even seventh years," Sirius said.

"Oh, shut up Padfoot. Regardless of my qualifications for the job, don't you see how great this is?" James asked.

"Of course I do. I mean, no more detentions for us, we can have all the parties we want, and we don't have to worry about being caught after curfew. We'll practically be running Hogwarts!" Sirius said.

"That actually wasn't what I was thinking. What I was thinking is even better! Do you know who the Head Girl is?" James asked, a beaming smile coming over his features.

"From that idiotic smile on your face, I'm guessing that it's not Snape," Sirius said, laughing.

"Funny. No, Evans is the new Head Girl, which means she'll have to live with me!" James said.

"Don't count on it Prongs. Once she finds out that you made Head Boy, she is going to hex you into oblivion before she allows you to share a common room with her," Sirius said. They had looked at everything in the Quidditch store so they turned towards Flourish & Blotts to pick up their books.

"She'll come around," James said.

"Are you sure about that?" Sirius asked.

"Once she realizes she'll get to see me walking around in a towel, she'll give in," James said, smiling arrogantly.

"Not everyone wants to see your scrawny chest!" Sirius said, pushing James.

"Are you kidding me? Scrawny? You must be talking about yourself!" James said, pushing Sirius back. Before long they were wrestling in the middle of the book store.

"Boys! Get out of my shop!" called the manager of the store from above them. He was wearing a rather angry expression on his face.

"Sorry," the boys called as they got to their feet. They grabbed their purchased books and walked out of the store. As soon as they got outside they burst into laughter.

"Some things never change," Lily called as she walked by with her two friends, shaking her head at the two boys. James saw her curly, red hair bouncing around her shoulders and her beautiful green eyes twinkling. He was once again struck senseless.

"Yeah, Prongs is still just as in love with you as he's always been!" Sirius said.

"Shut up, Padfoot!" James said, smacking Sirius on the back of his head.

"Great, now I'm going to be sick," Lily said, pretending to gag.

"Hey, Evans, how would you feel about living with Prongs?" Sirius asked.

"Never! I'd rather live outside and freeze to death than live within ten feet of him!' she said, shuddering.

"I told you, Prongs," Sirius said, smirking at James.

"Shut your mouth, Black!" James said.

"What's going on here, Potter?" Evans asked, her hands on her hips and looking very stern.

"Nothing, Evans. See you on the train," he said, grabbing Sirius and steering him away before he could get James in any more trouble with Lily.

"That's not all you'll see of him. You'll get to see his scrawny chest a whole lot over the next year," Sirius called back loudly. James smacked Sirius in the back of the head again and dragged him away.

"Remind me to kick you off the Quidditch team as soon as we get back to school," James muttered angrily.

"What do you think Black meant?" Lily asked for the billionth time as she sat on her bed painting her fingernails, her best friends sitting around her. After they had finished shopping they had gone to Lily's house to spend the night.

"We don't know, Lily. Who knows what goes through his brain," Carrie said as patiently as she could.

"But he and Potter must have something planned. I mean, do you think Potter's going to slip me a love potion or try to make it so I can't walk more than five feet away from him?" she asked.

"Maybe Potter's the new Head Boy," Hannah suggested. All three girls burst out laughing as soon as she said it.

"Dumbledore would never make Potter Head Boy!" Lily said, laughing just thinking about it.

"Never!" both girls agreed.

"So what are they planning?" Lily asked, almost to herself. Honestly, she didn't object to seeing Potter without his shirt on. Judging from his gorgeously muscled biceps, she knew that wasn't something she would mind seeing, but she wouldn't want anything to happen because she saw his bare chest.

"Lily, just forget about it. You'll make yourself go crazy if you keep thinking about it," Carrie said.

"As if she isn't crazy already," Hannah said.

"Hey," Lily said, throwing her pillow at Hannah.

The girls erupted into a spontaneous pillow fight and before long they were laughing and squealing so loud that Lily's mom came up to make sure everyone was ok. The girls all forgot about Black and Potter and their cryptic statements. Or at least two of them did. Lily still caught herself thinking about Potter without his shirt on several times over the evening, so she wasn't surprised when she found herself thinking about him right before she went to sleep. She really needed to get a grip on herself. It was a waste of time for her to even dream about Potter. He was a conceited, brainless toe-rag and no amount of muscles or dimples would change that fact.

Author's Note: I hope you all liked the first chapter! Read and review on your way out and I will have the next chapter up really soon! I have the next two chapters written, I'm just going to edit the next one a bit and post it later tonight.

Happy FanFicing!

Love,

LittleMissKrissy