"Alice!" Called out Lily, glad to see a friendly face.

Turning around, Alice saw Lily running towards her. "Lils! Hi! How were you holidays? I haven't seen you in ages!!"

"They were good, would've been better if you were there, but still good."

"Seen much of someone by the name of James Potter"? Alice asked, with a wicked gleam in her eyes.

Lily looked up sharply. "You have no idea."

o.O.o.O.o

"Moony! Over here mate!" Yelled Sirius gesturing wildly towards their compartment.

"Guess what guys?" announced James excitedly

"What?" asked Peter just as excitedly?

"I am finally over Lily Evans!"

There was a stunned silence.

Breaking the silence Sirius exclaimed "Whoa! Took your time! I always knew that girl was no good. "

"C'mon guys, she's actually not that bad" This was Remus.

James and Sirius gave him a look.

"Well… congratulations." giggled Peter.

James beamed "Thanks Pete!"

"So…who's the lucky girl?"

"Padfoot, just because he's over Lily, it doesn't mean he likes another girl."

"Actually" Interjected James beaming "I do happen do like someone"

"Who? Who?" asked Peter excitedly?

"Dandelion Evans!!"

There was another stunned silence, which was extremely unusual.

"Uh… who?"

"Evans?!?!"

"I thought Lily only had one sister."

"Dandelion Evans!! Lily's twin sister!" exclaimed James waiting expectantly.

"Dandelion?!? What kind of name is that?" Sirius burst out laughing.

"Erm. Lily doesn't have a twin sist.."

"No wait! Just listen. Okay. So. This is what happened.

o.O.o.O.o

It was a normal day in the Evans household when out of the corner of her eye Lily saw a young man walking past her window. A handsome young man might I add. She did a double take. Not only was he good looking, he had messy black hair. She snuck another look. She froze. What was James Potter doing walking down her street?

"Lily" Her mum called "Our new neighbours are finally moving in!"

"Cool, do you know who they are?" And then she froze. Again. She already knew the answer to that question. And the answer was. James Potter.

"Um I'm not sure honey, I think its Porter or Putter or something."

"Okay, thanks mum."

"I'm just going out to do some shopping; I'll be back in around half an hour"
"Okay."

"Oh and can you please wash up?"
Lily groaned "Sure."

Washing the dishes Lily thought about the new situation. James Potter living next to Lily Evans? That would not mesh well. The door bell rang, giving her a fright and, she dropped the plate she was washing on the floor. Unfortunately for her, it was her mum's favourite plate that she used only for special occasions. Muttering in frustration she went to answer the door. Looking out the window to check who was there, she saw James Potter standing outside casually holding a plate of cookies and might I say, looking quite handsome. Crap! Thought Lily, suddenly feeling rather flushed, what am I going to do? Maybe I could just pretend I'm not home…no, damn that won't work, he probably already heard me break the plate. Gah! What am I going to do?

Full of doubt she rearranged her hair a bit so most of her hair was covering her face. Opening the door she pasted a strained smile on her face.

"Hi."

"Hi, I'm James Potter, your new neighbour... oh and here are some cookies my mum made for you." Just as he finished his speech a light breeze blew over moving Lily' s hair back into place.

His eyes bulged.

Oh God. Here we go. Thought Lily, bracing herself for the worst.

"You look like Lily Evans, you sound like Lily Evans, but you can't be Lily Evans."

Lily could think of nothing to say to that.

"Oh sorry, that was random. Um, you just look a lot like a girl at my school."

Lily's mind was working; he doesn't think it's me!

There was an awkward silence.

Lily giggled a bit nervously, "Heh well yeah, she's my sister. We're twins actually." Lily stopped talking, knowing she was just digging herself into a deeper whole.

Just then Petunia came down stairs and looked at Lily and James standing in the doorway.

She stopped. She stared. And then pushing Lily out of the way she walked towards James. "Hey big boy" James looked between Lily and Petunia and Lily stifled a laugh, silently backing away.

"Uh… hi." Said James awkwardly.

"Lily!" yelled Petunia "Who might this be? Introduce me!"

Lily knew saying she was Lily's twin was a bad idea. "Uh Petty dear, I'm …, I'm not Lily and this is James Potter, our new neighbour"

Luckily Petunia was too distracted by James. "You're not Lily? What kind of crap are you making up now? Whatever, I must be off, going shopping with a few friends." And giving James one last glance she strutted out the door.

Breaking the silence James asked "She's your sister?"

"Heh yeah… that's Petunia" and adding a bit too quickly "Lily's in France right now… with a friend" Nodding for the effect.

"And you are?"

"I'm um… "Racking her brains for a flower name she blurted out. "Dandelion." Lily clapped a hand over her mouth blushing furiously. Out of all the flowers, she picked Dandelion?! What sort of name was that?

"Dandelion?"James asked.

"Yes" Answered Lily, furious with herself "My name is. Dandelion." She managed to choke out.

James didn't know what to say "That's a…unusual name."

"Thanks, I think. Do you want to come in?"

Unfortunately for Lily, in order to serve the cookies, she had to enter the kitchen, which had the broken plate lying in pieces on the floor.

"Oh!" said James whisking out his wand "I'll have that fixed in a moment!" And then realising that she was probably a muggle, he stowed it away in his pocket grinning a tad sheepishly. "Uh, sorry 'bout that."

"Oh no matter, I was just going to do that, except I'm not 17 yet."

"Oh!"Said James again, thoroughly relieved fixing the broken plate instantly.

"Thanks, my mum was going to kill me!"

"All in a days work!" Grinned James, suddenly looking at his watch. "Crap, mums going to kill me! Well nice meeting you uh Dandelion."

Lily blushed pretending that she didn't care her name Dandelion "Thanks, you too. See you!"

Phew! Thought Lily leaning on the door. I sooo want the ground to open and swallow me up.

What was I thinking?