It was the end of their sixth year, James was sitting at the end of of the pond with his three best friends: Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Remus was talking about how he did on his exams, Peter was chasing a toad for some odd reason, and Sirius was doing odd charms with his wand to nearby insects. He (James) was listening to Remus talk but his mind was completely on a certain red-head with green eyes, and actually at that moment, Lily had just walked by him with a few girlfriends talking about the latest wizard singer.

Lily shot a quick glance at James, before heading off to her favorite place on the grounds, which was near an old oak tree and bench underneath it. He's cute, obnoxious but cute, thought Lily to herself as she passed him by.

James came back to reality when he caught sight of Lily, he excused himself from the boys, and hurried to catch up with her. Sirius, who had seen James get all excited about Lily, thought he should follow him so that he doesn't do anything stupid in front of her.

"Oiy, Evans, did you think you could just walk past me without saying hello!"

Lily twirled around, her friends started giggling when they saw James, "Excuse me?"

"You heard me," James replied coyly, "Hey, when are you ever going to admit that you like me?"

Lily rolled her eyes at him, then walked towards him slowly, "And why would I do that? Honestly, if you like me, maybe you should just ask me out one of these days, instead of insisting to bother me with such questions." She flashed him a smug smile.

James was taken aback for a second, he had never had a response like that from her. It was always snide comments towards him. He smirked, "All right then, do you want to go out with me Saturday... since we're all going to Hogsmeade on that weekend, I was thinking maybe we could grab a butterbeer then."

She blinked, her cheeks turned a slight shade of pink, but not enough for James to notice them. "Well, if you insist, James, I think that's a splendid idea." She was about to turn to turn to talk to her friends, when she felt someone grab her hand.

Startled at first, and to her surprise, it was James. "Wha..."

He turned her around to face him, put his hand on her cheek, and kissed her on the lips.

Now it was Lily's turn to be taken aback for a minute, she didn't know what to say. A bit shocked. He sure is a good kisser.

"Couldn't resist, sorry," James winked at Lily, before turning to join Sirius who was a few steps behind him. Sirius smiled, he knew that was inevitably coming. Remus and Peter who were sitting a little ways away had their jaws dropped when James had kissed Lily. Sirius put his arm around James in a congratulatory sort of way.

Lily watched for a second sort of in a daze at James walk away, then turned around to gossip with her friends about what had just happened.