A/N So this is for anyone who read "Suddenly" and said they'd like to see it as a full-length story. I liked the idea, so I decided to elaborate. It won't be the same, of course, but it'll basically be the same idea. So...yeah.

Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns everything except Sirius and Remus, who I stole so they could have time alone to snog.

His friends were tired of hearing it, but he couldn't help himself. She meant everything to him, but she didn't even care. He couldn't understand why she wouldn't go out with him.

"I mean, look at me!" He threw his arms wide, distressed by yet another rejection from his lovely Lily. "I'm captain of the Quidditch team, I make everyone laugh, I'm nice -" A loud snort came from the direction of the bathroom, and James sighed. "Well, I am when I want to be. I get good marks -"

"Mostly with my help, since you never study."

"- I don't hex people for the fun of it anymore," he continued, pointedly ignoring Remus's input, "Well, except Snivellus, of course, but who could blame me?"

"Evans, apparently." Sirius emerged from the bathroom and flopped down onto Jame's bed, idly flipping through an old Quidditch magazine.

James turned to look out the window and sighed again. "Why does she hate me?"

"Look, Prongs," Sirius began, not bothering to look up, as he had recited these same words to his best friend thousands of times before, "she doesn't hate you. She just thinks you're an 'arrogant toerag', as she always says. So stop acting like such a prick around her."

"And stop hexing Snape," Remus added. "Even if she doesn't see you do it, she hears about it. News travels quickly around here."

James groaned and fell onto his bed next to Sirius. "It won't matter, she'll always hate me."

"She doesn't hate you. How about trying to stop being such a twit around her, then try to become her friend? Just friends, mind you, unless she ends up wanting to be more."

"Which is unlikely." Sirius swore as James thwapped him on the back of his head, earning him a look from Remus, who was always reminding him to watch his language.

"It's hopeless," James muttered. He groaned loudly as he realized that no one was listening to him anymore and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him, hearing Sirius yell, "OI!" as he did so.

As soon as his foot came in contact with the Common Room floor, he saw a flash of red from an armchair near the window. The conversation he'd had only moments ago in the dormitory with his mates temporarily fled from his mind. He grinned and walked over to the red-haired beauty, plopping himself down on a similar armchair across from her.

"Morning, Lily-love!"

Silence followed his greeting, and she did not even bother to glance up from her book. He told himself that she was only ignoring him because she was trying to study, not because it was him, and tried again.

"Lovely day, innit?"

He heard a soft snort from her direction. "It was."

He frowned, not understanding her hatred toward him. "I was only being poilte."

She was silent once again, but James was not the type to give up quite so easily.

"Wanna go for a walk in the grounds?"

"Sure," she replied, and James's face lit up. "Make sure no one steals my chair while I'm gone, alright?" She rolled her eyes in his direction and got up, leaving him open-mouthed and heart-broken.

A/N Reviews? No new chapter until I get some. Nice ones, mind.