I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THIS STORY!

J K ROWLING DOES!

AND FOR ALL I CARE SHE CAN HAVE THIS STORY TOO

(Though why, I do not know.)

Chapter 1,"ICE COLD LAKE!"

It was peaceful out here, just rocking on top of the lake; there wasn't a care in the world. The sun was warm and peaceful; smiling at her like an old friend she hadn't seen for years. The soft breeze was whispering, "Relax, shh, just relax, and forget everything."

She turned over and felt like she was going to fall, something was tipping, and her fingers were cold. Slowly waking up, she noticed that her fingers were in ice cold water, and gave a tiny scream that sounded like a bark. She sat upright, startled by her surroundings. She was floating on her mattress, in the middle of a huge lake.

"POTTER!" she screeched at the top of her lungs. Everyone in the castle woke with a start, running through the doors to see why they heard yelling. She was standing on the mattress, shivering, with her bright red hair wet

A head appeared out a window in a tower.

"WHAT?" said a voice that sounded much like a boy's voice. It belonged to none other than James Potter, the famous prankster and very talented quidditch player.

"YOU'RE DEAD AS SOON AS I GET OFF THIS BLASTED THING!" roared Lily Evans. James couldn't see it, but Lily's green eyes were blazing with hatred and anger.

"Why? What'd I do?" he called, ruffling his already messy jet black hair by nature, his hazel eyes shined with confusion.

"WHAT'D YOU DO! WHAT'D YOU DO? I'M STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS ICE COLD LAKE! Whoa…whoa…whoa…." The mattress was starting to rock back and forth; side to side, and she eventually fell in.

It took her a few seconds to get back to the surface, but when she did, she was shivering in a wild fit.

"POTTER, I'M GOIN TO KILL YO—" the last of her words were drowned out due to the powerful force of the giant squid pulling her in, thinking that Lily was his new play-friend.

"JAMES! HELP! H-" she was starting to drown just as the professors came. Professor McGonagall (sp?) was pulling out her wand when Dumbledore, the headmaster, put his hand in the way to stop her. He had his reasons, however inexplicable they seemed at that moment.

James, who had just decided to ignore her because she liked to pin all the unfortunate mishaps on him, (pranks and things she didn't enjoy one bit) was halfway into his dorm window when he heard the pleas for help blending together with his infamous name. Out of curiosity, he poked his head outside the window again. His heart sank to a state of cold desperation as he saw Lily Evans, the girl he had loved since his first year at Hogwarts. He ran back to his dorm and snatched his Cleansweep 5 from his trunk, plunging to the lake at a full seventy-foot dive.

The squid was slowly pulling Lily down to what was sure to be the deepest depths of the lake; her hand was barely visible. James swooped down and pulled her out and onto his broom her wet clothes soaking through his own warm and dry ones. James dropped down to the shore of the lake, and got off his Cleansweep and lay Lily down on the grass. He noticed that she wasn't breathing. There was only one thing he could think of: mouth to mouth recitation.

He held her nose together, opened her mouth, and blew with all his might three times, worried every second that she might not live. Then he broke, and put his hands on top of one another and placed them in the center of her chest, and pushed down counting "one…two …three…." He repeated this three times before she started to sputter and spat out water.

Madam Pomfrey came over to Lily clutching a blanket in one hand and a bottle of pepper- up potion in another. She quickly wrapped Lily in the warm fuzzy blanket, which didn't stop her from shivering, then poured the pepper –up potion down her throat. Steam was starting to pour out of her ears, and her shivering slowly subsided.

James had to carry Lily because even with the pepper- up potion, she still couldn't walk properly and Lily's brain felt so numb that she didn't care that her arch nemesis was carrying her to the hospital wing.