This is a series of romantic rainbow-coloured drabbles, a couple for every colour. I'm starting with red, followed by orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and finally violet. Hope you enjoy "Red"!
RED
James Potter and Lily Evans
Red had always been James's favourite colour. He wasn't sure where it stemmed from or how it began. It could have had many 'beginnings'. Red was the colour of James's first outfit as a newborn. The colour of the dyed bristles on his first toy broomstick were a fierce scarlet, and, when combined with gold, red represented Gryffindor, where James had first met his friends.
But what was most important, what it was that made red the primary colour of James's life, was the fact that red was Lily Evans's hair.
He had never met a girl like Lily before then. She was different to anything he had encountered, and as a young boy, he was natural curious. As he began to get older, his feelings also developed into a constant infatuation. She haunted his dreams, she haunted his classes and she even haunted his spare time, when she had an urge to follow Remus and prompt him to his Prefect duties. Yet it never bothered James that Lily was always there, because he never got tired of looking at her. Every time he looked at her red hair, it seemed to startle him. It was vibrant and colourful, never boring.
Then there was the day Lily hugged him for the first time. Her red hair was all over his face, but did it bother him? Not a bit. His friends seem to find his feelings hilarious, but James knew it was natural chemistry. He couldn't help it, and soon she wouldn't be able to help it either.
Lilies are meant to be white, but the colour just didn't seem to work on Lily. Even when she wore it, it made her look slightly frail. She was much better in greens, blues and, most especially, reds. He often liked to tell her how he felt and what he thought, especially with more original methods than words. One afternoon, he came back from Hogsmeade with a lipstick in his pocket. It was called Scarlet Kisses: For Former Gryffindors. Lily wasn't a former Gryffindor, but she certainly kept to the first half of the present's name. Lily was especially fond of the little gestures. A kiss on the neck from behind was enough to make her day. James loved the way Lily was so…bright. When he was miserable, all she had to do was slip her arm in his and suddenly he looked, and felt, a lot better. There were a noticeable couple; heads would turn when they walked into Madam Puddifoot's.
On the big day, the last day, Lily came to see James in his dormitory before they went down to the Great Hall. She was supposed to be getting ready, but she couldn't resist giving him a good luck kiss before the trophy giving. Maybe it was just coincidence, but James liked to think it was thanks to Lily, his favourite colour beautifully personified, that got him those three trophies. He made sure to thank her later that evening with a more expensive combination of red and gold.