Chapter 1

A/N: This fanfic is gonna be based on Taylor Swift's song "Sparks Fly" off of her album Speak Now. Each chapter will be a verse from the song. I don't own Harry Potter, anything to do with Harry Potter, Taylor Swift, her song "Sparks Fly", or Speak Now. I don't own anything, I'm a kid!

The way you move is like a full on rainstorm

And I'm a house of cards

You're the kind of reckless that should send me running

But I kinda know that I won't get far

How did this happen? Lily Evans thought to herself as she watched James asleep on the couch. How did I let myself fall for him? We've just become mates and I'm already in love with him. In love? Am I in love? No, I'm just infatuated, that's it, Lily thought to herself as James made a noise in his sleep and turned over, facing away from Lily. The loss of James sleeping face broke Lily's thoughts. Lily composed herself and got up, conjuring a blanket on James sleeping figure and walking towards her room. She stopped at the couch James was sleeping on and pulled of his glasses and set them aside. She looked at the books he'd been reading, and closed it and put it next to his glasses. She took one last look at his face and smiled at the boy. He looked years younger, like a 5th year before their OWLs. He looked peaceful and happy, and for some odd reason this thought brought joy to Lily. Only because he's become one of your best mates and you want him to have a nice life. That's it. That could be the only logical reason.

Lily walked to her room in the Head's dorms and closed her door gently, not wanting to wake James. She changed into her nightgown and lay on her bed, staring out the window as she recalled earlier that night.

James walked into the Head's common room with his glasses askew and his hair untidy. His tie was coming undone, his shirt untucked and his robe off and in the crook of his arm which was holding his books. He looked like the poster image of a 7th year learning the load of their year. Lily sat on the couch with a book in her hand reading as James walked in and plopped beside her tiredly.

"Long day?" Lily asked, checking the time. 9:29 PM, she thought.

"The longest. We have all that homework in our classes which I still haven't managed to finish, and I had quidditch practice. I swear, one day I will kill Sirius." James said as he slipped his shoes off and put his feet on the table, trying to relax. Before, Lily would have yelled at him to get his feet off the table, but now she has the urge to make him as comfortable as possible.

"Kill Sirius? What did he do this time?" Lily asked, raising an eyebrow. James turned to her and gave her a small smile at her question.

"He decided to take it upon himself to be captain when I'm late. So when I was late today from doing homework in the library, he decided he was going to make the entire team do 200 laps around the quidditch field. I got there when they got to 63 and they could barely move. So the entire rest of the practice they were sluggish and tired which did not help at all. I could kill him. I could snap his neck, and feed him to some animal in the Forbidden Forest. No one would think it was me, being his best mate and all. They would never figure it out." James said looking at Lily with his best serious look. Lily laughed at his joke and patted his back.

"Oh James, we may be friends, but if you kill the love of my life, Lord knows what I'll do." Lily said melodramatically, trying to cheer him up. It worked because then James roared out with laughter.

"You? Sirius? Blimey, Lily, good one." James said in between laughs. Lily looked at him seriously.

"It could happen." Lily said and added a small smile to let James know she was joking. James laughed some more.

"Bollocks, Lily. I don't think you could stand one day of being Sirius' girlfriend, not that anyone would blame you, he's kind of off his rocker..." James said, his laughter slowing down. Lily looked at him with mock offense.

"Why James, what would poor Sirius say if he knew his best mate was speaking about him that way?" Lily asked.

"He'd probably agree with me because he knows it's true." James said with a smile and a shrug. He got up and grabbed his bag and pulled out his homework. Lily smiled at his sense of responsibility and went back to reading her book, leaving him be. James and Lily sat in silence, every so often Lily would let her eyes wander over to James to see his eyebrows furrowed in concentration, the nervous clacking of his pencil against the table as he shook it in between his fingers. At one point Lily left her eyes gaze at him for too long because he looked up and caught her eye.

"What? Is there something on my face?" James asked hastily as he looked at her confused. Lily snapped out of her trance and sat up straight.

"No, I'm just really hungry." Lily answered quickly. James shot her a look of disbelief with a smug smile.

"For me?" James asked awkwardly. Lily blushed and let her hair fall.

"Don't give yourself that much credit, James. I was just staring at you because I know you know a way to the kitchens and I was wondering if we could get some food. But me, being the nice person I am, didn't want to bother you whilst you were doing homework." Lily said eloquently. James' eyes brightened at the word food.

"Food? Brilliant, Lily, absolutely brilliant! That's exactly what I need right now. C'mon, let's go get some!" James said as he hastily got ready to go. Lily jumped up, realizing how hungry she was. James led her out of their common room and they started for the kitchen. They walked in silence before Lily decided to break it.

"So, when did you first find the way to the kitchens?"

"Oh that's a great story. I think it was towards the end of first year, Sirius, Peter, Remus and I were sitting in the common room bored out of our minds. Remus was helping Peter study for his Defense Against The Dark Arts exam and Sirius and I were, for lack of a better term, slacking off." James said with a smile at the happy memory. Lily smiled too, remembering how James and Sirius were so lazy that year. That's surely changed about James, Lily thought before she quickly pushed it away as James began to speak again. "Anyways, Sirius and I were growing restless, and I'm pretty sure Remus was too because Peter just was not getting it. So we decided we were going to go exploring. So we pulled out the invisibility cloak and we-" James said before Lily spoke up.

"Invisibility cloak? You're lying!" James looked at Lily with a look of horror on his face as he realized what he'd just revealed to her. Then he relaxed with ease.

"Oh, you'd find out anyway. Or maybe not, but who cares. Yes, I have an invisibility cloak. It's been passed down in my family, and my father gave it to me before I left for Hogwarts when I was 11." James said, looking at Lily.

"So that's how you pulled off all of your pranks." Lily remarked in disbelief. James smiled at her response.

"Lily, are you insinuating that I, James Potter Head Boy, am a prankster?" James asked, mockingly heartbroken. Lily laughed and shoved James gently with her shoulder.

"Oh, James Potter, don't you give me that. We both know you weren't the best kid at Hogwarts in your early years." Lily commented lightly. James laughed at her as they continued to walk.

"Yeah, well, what can you do? Anyways, back to my story, So we were walking around the castle when we spotted a house elf! Can you believe it? I mean we always knew there were house elves here, and its not like we'd never seen one before I mean c'mon I have two, but it was just the fact that there was a house elf wandering Hogwarts. It excited is, and we decided that we were gonna follow it and see if we could find where they slept and stuff. It lead us to the kitchen and we learned how to get in by watching. Anyways, when we pulled off the invisibility cloak inside the kitchen, they were a little shocked at first, I mean it looked like we had come out of thin air, but then they warmed up to us and fed us. It was awesome. We went back full and happy. Almost got caught by a teacher too, but we didn't. And that's the story." James finished as they reached the painting of the bowl of fruit. James winked at Lily and went up and tickled the pear and the door swung open. He helped Lily through the portrait hole and Lily couldn't believe her eyes. There were so many house elves, cooking, cleaning, all of them doing something. James chuckled at Lily's wide eyes and went up to a house elf.

"Klink!" James said happily. The house elf turned around and smiled when he saw James. Klink looked at Lily as she awkwardly waved, not knowing what to do in the situation, and smiled even wider. He grabbed James' hand and Lily's hand and lead them to a table where he sat them down.

"Mr. Potter, Ms. Evans! Klink is very pleased to meet Ms. Evans. Mr. Potter talks about Ms. Evans to friends all the time, and Klink finally gets to meet Ms. Evans! Milky, bring food for Mr. Potter and Ms. Evans." Klink said excitedly gesturing to Milky to bring food. James sighed exasperatedly.

"Klink, how many times have I told you? Call me James." James stated. Klink stared at James in shock as Lily grabbed Klink's hand and shook it. He looked at his hand and back at her, confused.

"Nice to meet you too, Klink. Thank you so much for everything you and the house-elves do for us." Lily said sincerely.

"Oh no problem, Ms. Evans. Klink and other house-elves love to take care of student's things. Hogwarts safe, Hogwarts nice." Klink mentioned sadly, James and Lily both understanding what he meant. Just then Milky brought small cakes and tea for James and Lily. They both thanked Milky and Klink who had to go back to work and ate the food quickly. They said their goodbyes and left the kitchen.

"That was brilliant! They were so sweet and kind, I just wanted to pick them up and hug every one of them!" Lily said happily. James stared at her with a grin. "What? Did I say something wrong?" Lily asked as James stared.

"Wow. Just the way you're reacting to them, it's just really nice." James said, staring straight ahead.

"What do you mean? Who wouldn't love them?" Lily asked confused as to James' behavior. James looked at her and spoke.

"Well, in the beginning of the year, I took Daisy Hookum here after she and Tilden broke up." James said as Lily's heart sank. Are they dating? She thought sadly, but tried not to let it show. "I didn't like her or anything," Lily's heart grew twice its size at those words, "but she was really sad and I wanted to cheer her up. Anyways, I brought her hear, and well, apparently the house-elves she has at home aren't the nicest because the way she treated the ones at Hogwarts was pathetic. She was rude and inconsiderate. It took all my self control not to yell at her. Anyways, total disaster and I'm just glad you weren't like that." James finished.

"Wow, I never really cared for her but now I really don't like her. Who could be rude to those sweeties? Ridiculous." Lily said. James was about to speak again when they heard footsteps. They stopped, dead in their tracks and listened intently to the footsteps. They seemed to get closer and Lily tensed up. Her heart started pounding and the adrenaline started pumping through her veins. Only James Potter could convince her to break the rules. James grabbed her hand to calm her down and Lily melted into the touch. They listened and heard the footsteps stop and turn around, walking away from them. As the footsteps disappeared, Lily breathed a sigh of relief.

"Blimey, that was close! What would he have done if it was a teacher? We would've gotten detention and it would've been terrible! This was a bad idea! We shouldn't be out roaming the corridors!" Lily rambled as James squeezed her hand to calm her down. Lily had forgotten that he was still holding her hand and smiled inwardly and the feel.

"Lils, it's okay. Worse comes to worst, I would've taken all the fall. I'd have told them I confounded you or something, it's fine. Don't worry about it. I would never purposely let you get in trouble." James said with a smirk as they started walking again, not letting go of her hand. Lily laughed.

"Confunded me? James if you tried that I would cast a counter curse so fast it would make your head spin!" Lily said indignantly. James chuckled.

"Oh we both know you could take me any day, but they don't know that!" James said matter-of-factly. Lily nodded at his words because they made sense. They reached the common room and walked inside silently, Lily still reveling at the fact that they were still holding hands. James awkwardly coughed and let go, avoiding Lily's eyes as Lily did the same. He walked over to where his homework was and sat back down. Lily walked over to her previous seat and did the same, but she decided not to let it get awkward.

"How much do you have left?" Lily asked, referring to his homework. James looked up at her, stared at her for a second and smiled. He got up and grabbed a small book and went to lie down on the couch.

"Not much, just got to read this book and I'm free!" James exclaimed causing snicker from Lily. They both sat in a comfortable silence, reading their respective materials.

Lily snapped out of her daydream and sighed. You're in love with him, no use in denying it. What are you going to do now? She thought as she slipped under her covers and fell asleep.