Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don'y own any of the Harry Potter character
Understanding
James Potter was innocently (well as innocently as you can get when you're a marauder) sitting in the train compartment with the rest of his friends, Remus, Peter and of course Sirius, they were planning their back to school prank on the new first years. James was lying back lazily, watching his friends argue about their next prank on the new first years. "Right, I think we should sneak up there during the sorting and do something to their dorms," said Padfoot jumping up and down with excitement (and from the sugar high off of the twenty or so chocolate frogs he'd already eaten).
Moony rolled his eyes at the usual idiotic behavior from Sirius, "We won't know who'll be in what house though, what if my cousin's in ravenclaw and we've pranked their dorm?" "So, does it matter its only your cousin" replied Sirius, who was starting to get a bit annoyed that his friends didn't like his plan that he'd thought about for a whole 3 minutes.
"Not everyone hates their cousin Padfoot" Remus stated slightly annoyed now, Sirius merely stuck his tongue out at him. "Oy James, you've not said anything who'd you thinks right?" shouted Sirius, mouthing "me" at him, James started to say "I think…." But then something caught his eye, a flash of red to be exact.
He was out of the compartment and running down the train before Sirius could shout at him, the reason for all of this, Lily Evans. The pretty red head with the green eyes that he's loved for almost 6 years now, he didn't know why he loved her so much but after that first time she had shouted at him for annoying her friend, he'd been hooked. "Evans" he yelled down the train after her, she'd managed to slip through everyone and now she was almost at her usual compartment.
However, fate seemed to be on his side today and she was blocked by a big group of lost first years. Turning round her face was already red, she was furious and he'd only said her name, "what!" she screamed at him. He was frozen to the ground and he couldn't get any words out, automatically his hand flew to his hair and he mentally scolded himself, he knew she hated that. "Go out with me," he squeaked, "bloody hell could he have asked her out any worse" he thought, annoyed with himself. "No and I'm not going to so leave me alone Potter" she spat out at him looking at him venomously and with that she sauntered into the compartment with the rest of her friends. He stared after her feeling lost, he just didn't understand why she got so angry at him, he was only asking her out after all any other girl would feel flattered.
If only James Potter knew then that he was going to feel what it like to be Lily Evans.