Lily Evans and James Potter were two Hogwarts students that did not share the same feelings for each other. On one side we have Lily, a girl that hates James deeply for his thinking that he's better than everyone else on Earth, although, as we will find out soon, this isn't completely true. On the other side we have James, who likes Lily unconditionally for no reason at all. They knew each other for six years now, as they were on the second term of their sixth year, but despite the years and years they had been living together, they didn't know each other at all.

James had the terrible habit of asking Lily to go on dates with him whenever he had a chance. I say terrible because Lily never said yes, as she thought that it was unacceptable to be treated like one of those stupid girls that followed James around the school. And I also say terrible because James did this for the exact opposite reason, he through that if he asked her out long enough, she would realise he cared about her enough to be rejected ten times a day and keep asking. Fortunately, he figured his attempts to show his feeling weren't working and decided to stop asking her out all the time. In fact, James was starting to realise many things this year. As well as Lily.

We begin our story in the Hogwarts Express, when Lily and James are coming back to school after Christmas.

'Hey, Padfoot! Let´s go! We won't get a compartment if you take so long!'

'Relax, man, I'm coming. Aren't Moony and Wormtail here yet?'

Sirius and James were best friends since their first year. It's one of those things that doesn't have an explanation; they just saw each other and became best friends. Easy like that. Soon Remus Lupin was seen and the same thing happened. Peter Pettigrew wasn't so much that way, but they became friends anyway. Funny how sometimes these things happen. They called themselves The Marauders and had nicknames for each other: James was Prongs, Sirius was Padfoot, Remus was Moony and Peter was Wormtail.

'I think they're on that compartment.' James said as they approached a compartment full of little fairies flying around. They opened the compartment door and saw their two friends.

'Cool, uh? Got them for Christmas.' Remus said, and they spent the rest of the trip trying to catch them. They didn't succeed by the way.

The Hogwarts Express had stopped and they had already left it to get a carriage, with the fairies safely locked inside a jar. Lily was waiting for an empty carriage with her friend Alice.

'Was Vernon there again?' Alice asked

'Unfortunately, yes. I wish I had spent Christmas here, it would've been way better. 'Lily said miserably.

'Oh, Lily, cheer up! You won't have to see him and your sister for a long time now.'

It might have sound weird for anyone who was passing by, but this was true. Petunia, Lily's sister, treated her as if she was nothing but a mistake in the world's history. And her boyfriend, Vernon, wasn't any better. They both hated everything that belonged to the wizarding world, Lily included. Although, there is no way to know if Petunia really hated her sister, or if she was just jealous for the fact that Lily had powers she could never have.

James Potter didn't know any of this. He didn't know anything, he only thought he did. This is why he was so surprised to hear this. Lily for him was a perfect girl with a perfect life, whose biggest problem was the next exam. He had no idea, or at least hadn't given any through to, that Lily had a life outside Hogwarts and that it might not be that good.

'Hi, Lily! So you didn't have such a nice Christmas?' James asked.

'Potter were you eavesdropping on our conversation?' she said angrily.

'No, of course, not. I was passing by and I heard you saying, that's all!'

'Well… okay, then. I'll tell you.' Lily said. 'My sister and her boyfriend spent Christmas on our house, and they weren't very nice. Especially with me, to be honest.'

'But what did they do?'

'They insulted me a lot. And also, Petunia tried to hide my clothes so I wouldn't get on Hogwarts Express on time. She's crazy. She says I'm crazy, but she's the one who is.'

'I… err…I'm sorry.'

Lily giggled at James's apparent lack of sentimentalism. 'That's fine. Why do you wanna know about my holidays anyway, Potter?'

'I don't know. I heard you telling Longbottom about it and I just wanted to hear too.'

'Are you jealous of Alice, Potter?' she said teasing him.

'No! Well…maybe.' He said, and Lily immediately burst out laughing.

'I was joking, Potter, for Heaven's sake! What is wrong with you?' she said still laughing. 'Where's Alice? Where's everybody?'

'That's what you get when you laugh at me. The carriages just left.'

'Good. Now I'll have to walk all the way up there. This is all your fault, Potter! Why haven't you told me the carriages were leaving?'

He did not answer Lily's question, but we all know very well why James didn't tell her that everyone was leaving, and that if she didn't stop talking to him, they would be left alone.

They started walking towards the castle and telling each other tales about their Christmas holidays. After fifteen minutes they were in front of the Great Hall doors. They didn't seat together obviously, but for James those fifteen minutes of conversation were good enough for the first day of term. It was good for Lily too. Everyone thought she hated James Potter but she didn't. She may try and hide this from herself for ages but she knows that what she feels for Potter isn't hate, neither love if you ask me but there is some sort of liking. If there wasn't she wouldn't be having a conversation about something so stupid for fifteen minutes with him. But they didn't talk to each other much, most of the times they did, it was about schoolwork or going out (this one was more of a yelling kind of conversation, if you know what I mean) for James's unhappiness.

It had been a week or so since the start of term and James and Lily hadn't talked to each other at all. It was odd, Lily thought, because James never lost an opportunity to ask her out and still he hasn't said anything, but maybe he just hadn't found an opportunity. Maybe that was it, Lily thought. But that wasn't it. James was controlling himself the best he could to not ask her out every five minutes, even though Lily was looking so good this last couple of days in James's eyes. Thing were getting complicated and he knew that the time was coming when he would have to talk to her, he only hoped he wouldn't say something completely stupid and mess up things. Lucky was on his side as two weeks after their Christmas conversation James found Lily sitting under a tree alone, looking at the Black Lake, after his last class of the day, which Lily hadn't attended.

'Lily? Why are you here?'

'It's none of your business, Potter!'

'Lily… are you crying?'

'Go away, Potter!'

'What happened?'

She didn't answer. James didn't know what to do, but he knew he had to stay there doesn't matter what she said. So he sat beside her and stood there. Lily didn't want him there, she wanted to be alone. But did she? Not even she knew this. Potter wasn't her favourite person on Earth, but who cares anyway? She knew very well she was one his favourite people and that's all you need to know to let somebody stay.

'My sister is getting married.' Lily said after a while.

'That's good, isn't it?'

'She didn't invite me to her wedding.'

'Ohhh… I'm sorry, Lily.'

'My mom tried to convince her to let me go, but she said I'd just ruin it. Ruin it! How could I ever ruin my sister's wedding?!'

'Well, I don't know. But only for what you told me about her, she seems very jealous of you. Maybe she thinks everyone will only look at you when she walks down the aisle.'

'That's stupid.'

'Not really. I would look only at you.'

Lily smiled because she knew he wasn't trying to sound cute or anything, he was being honest, he was saying the truth, how he really felt. That was a side of him Lily had never seen, as cheesy as it may sound. He came closer and hugged Lily. She burst into tears. They stood there for a while, but Lily finally stopped crying and realised what she was doing. She let go of James and wiped off her tears.

'What were you doing here anyway?' she asked.

'Quidditch practise.'

'What? Did you miss the quidditch practise to stay here? But you're a captain, you can't do this.'

'Nah, Sirius's there. He must be having fun playing captain anyway.'

'Look, Potter, thank you for helping me tonight but nothing's changed, okay? I still don't like you and I still won't go out with you.'

'I knew you'd say that. If you wanna cry on my shoulder every day and say that hate me afterwards, I don't care. As long as you let me stay there.'

That's when it all started. Every night after that day, Lily sat under the same tree waiting for James. At first she used excuses as 'I have to study Astronomy' or 'The common room is too crowded' to explain why she was there, but after a while she stopped lying and Potter stopped asking. He, by the way, fixed all the dates for the Quidditch practises for the weekend so he would be free at night. They only talked during those meetings, which were fairly secret because none of them told anyone about it and whenever someone asked where they were going, they lied. Obviously, their friends started to notice that Lily and James disappeared every day at the same time, but we'll continue with this story later…