A/N Update: Hey All! So I can't believe that I posted this story almost seven years ago and expected to have finished it before now. Between just starting college, college marching band, and eventually a sorority, I had way too many expectations…and writer's block is a real thing. But since I last updated this story I have graduated with my degree, I have a post-college job, and a post-college apartment with the required cat. I don't like to leave things unfinished so I finished the story! Yay! For a first story, I don't think this turned out too bad. Because I had no idea where I had taken this story, I reread it and was appalled at the blatant grammar errors I had made. I think grammar is one of the most important things especially living in this era where social media is very prevalent. So…I went through and hopefully found all the mistakes and fixed them. If not, I'm only human and an engineer who use numbers more than words. I also changed a few things but nothing with the story line was changed. Just awkward wordings and things like that. I did combine chapter 13 with another chapter I had written after the fact, they were both just too short. But all the chapters including the new one and the epilogue are now posted and the story is complete. I hope you enjoy the story even though it took forever to finish. Thanks for reading!

Also, I own nothing because I am not lucky enough to be JK Rowling. And I'm not a writer.

Chapter 1: Thinking

Lily sat watching the countryside pass by. Her friends, Alice, Mary and Emily, sat on the floor of the compartment playing some card game that Lily had no interest in. They had tried to get her to play but she refused saying she wasn't in the mood, so they left her with her thoughts.

For some reason, Lily had a strange sense of deja vu. And then it hit her, she had felt the exact same last year after the horrible incident with Snape. Last year was when Snape called her that awful name and their years of friendship went down the toilet. She felt awful about that but knew it was going to come to an end soon because of the people Snape called his friends.

Now all she could think about was how she and James Potter were never going to speak to each other again. She thought they were getting along great until he started protecting her against everything, which really annoyed her. Lily knew that she had started to fancy James but then they had that fight right before the end of term. She knew it was not the worst fight they had ever had, but knowing that she told him to never speak to her again was killing her. She felt guilty about it, really she did. All she could see was how hurt he was right before she walked away from him.

She could feel the train start to slow and got up to get her things. Her friends had just finished their game and looked worriedly at Lily but they never had the chance to ask because Lily told them she would write them this summer. They had never been apart for so long during the summer and knew they were going to miss each other. They hugged and Lily left the compartment before any of them could talk to her. They would see each other before they knew it and knew she would be okay.

Flashback to the fight...

"Just stay away from her!" James shouted at an angry, greasy haired Severus Snape.

Snape stormed off and once he rounded a corner James ran a hand through his hair and turned to look at Lily, only she wasn't next to him anymore. He looked down the corridor just in time to see Lily round a different corner.

"Lily! Lily, please wait!" he called after her.

After a moment, James had finally caught up to her. He grabbed her shoulder and spun her around. He was shocked to see how angry she looked. In all the years since they have been at Hogwarts, he had never seen her this angry.

"What? James, what could you possibly want?!" Lily shouted. She could feel the tears brimming in her eyes. She only cried like this when she was really pissed off.

"I-I, what's wrong?" James asked.

She looked to the ground before answering. "I don't think I can do this anymore."

"What can't you do?"

"Be friends with you anymore."

"Why?"

She heaved a sigh, angry that it had to be this way. She knew what would come next would hurt James but she had had enough.

"Because, you're always protecting me like I'm five-years old and I'm sick of it!" she shouted at him with more force than she meant.

"I-what?" James asked confused.

"At the beginning of the year, I was glad that you were always there when Snape cornered me. I was still hurting and didn't want to talk to him. But then as the year went on and he kept cornering me, you always showed up and I got really annoyed." She paused and then shouted "I can take care of myself!"

"Lily, I was only trying to help" he replied in a small voice.

"I know but you never gave me the chance to need any help! You always just took over like you did, just now!"

"I was being helpful!" he shouted at her. He was angry now.

"I never wanted your help!" she yelled.

James was stunned. He thought she always appreciated it when he showed up and saved her from Snivellus but apparently not. At the same time, he was afraid she might pull out her wand. So he made sure his wand was in his hand. He had been on the receiving end of many of her hexes and didn't want that again. Luckily, it looked like it never occurred to her to whip out her wand.

"Fine Evans, I won't ever help you again!"

"Fine Potter, don't ever speak to me again!"

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

He watched as she stormed off towards the Gryffindor common room, stunned. He couldn't believe that he and Lily weren't friends after a hard year of not asking her out and showing her that he was more mature. James slowly walked back to the common room to finish packing his trunk, seeing as today was the last day of term. As he walked through the portrait hole his friends Sirius, Remus and Peter ambushed him asking what was wrong with Lily. He mumbled something about not wanting to talk about it and headed up to the dormitory.

James watched as the countryside passed by and the day grew darker. He knew that they were getting close to King's Cross Station marking the end of another year. His friends, Sirius, Remus, and Peter, were playing an exciting game of Exploding Snaps. They tried to get James to join them but he refused saying he didn't feel well. They were worried about him but he couldn't bring himself to tell them anything.

He could only think of her, Lily. He knew that sometimes he could push someone too far and Lily was no exception. Ever since their first year, he had always pushed her too far just to get her mad because he thought it was funny. During their third year, he starting asking Lily out for dates but she always refused. Remus always said that it was the way he acted towards her and the way he asked her out. He suggested that James start showing that he could be mature and stop badgering her for a date with him. (Lily and Remus were Prefects together and James knew that she and Remus were good friends).

So he decided he would try. He had no idea that they would become friends in their sixth year only to have it come crashing down.

He noticed the train starting to slow just as Sirius was declared winner of the game. James told Remus and Peter that he would write and dragged his trunk off the rack. Unfortunately, he couldn't spend the summer with either Remus or Peter; they would be on vacation all summer long, but seeing as Sirius lives with him now he wasn't completely abandoned by his friends. They said good-bye and went their separate ways promising to meet up in Diagon Alley before the summer ended.