Well... a sweet James and Lily oneshot. Because she turned him down so many times, it just wasn't fair.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of this.
James lazes around the common room, for once alone. Sirius's in detention, Remus's studying, and Peter's where ever. He can see Lily sitting over at a table, laughing with Alice and Marlene, her ginger hair trumped in brightness only by 7th year, Molly Weasley's. And yet, when he sees her, he feels nothing.
No sudden desire to snog her or even just try to ask her out again. Just emptiness and maybe even, (is it?) jealousy. Because she can just stand there as he pours his heart out to her without any emotion in her beautiful green eyes and calmly say no. But he's had it with her cold silence and the longing he feels for her. Felt for her, because its gone now.
He still watches, though, as she breaks away from her friends, giggling, and lopes toward him. She grins at his confused expression.
"You could say I've had a change of heart," she explains, lowering herself onto the couch beside him, "I'm not going to make you ask this time if you'll give me the honor of saying it. Will you go with me to Hogsmeade this weekend?"
She beams at him, proud of herself but he knows what he has to say. "No, I won't follow you around like a lovesick puppy anymore, just for you to go with me when you can't find any other boy to take you. So, no, I won't go with you, Evans."
She looks flabbergasted, her mouth slightly open and she swallows several times before squeaking out, "But... but..."
Her cheeks are a rosy pink and James doesn't want to say this, but he has to. "I, James Potter, am my own person and I plan to stay single at least for today. Sorry, but I can't pretend to be someone I'm not and I'm over Lily Evans. I'm only a 6th year, after all, and I should be able to pull a few pranks, hang with friends, and occasionally study without having to worry about a girlfriend."
And with his last words, he makes his way up the stairs to his dormitory and it soon makes it's way through the school that James had turned down Lily Evans and for the first time, missed dinner over it. It took one or two weeks before the gossip shifted, although James was the center of this as well. He squeezed his new girlfriend's hand, unable to stop smiling. He could never turn her down for long. He wondered a bit why she asked him out, or as he liked to think of it, finally said "yes". Maybe she did have a change of heart as he grew more mature, perhaps she felt bad for him, or it might have even been a dare from her friends although he preferred not to think about that. She never spoke about her reasoning and it was the one thing James didn't ask about. Lily's best kept secret.