Summery- Severus always wondered why Lily never noticed what was right beside her, what he didn't realise was that James once thought exactly the same thing. Neither thought that she might ever return the feelings. Three part story from different points of view.
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Severus scowled, she was laughing with himThe boy Severus had loathed from the moment they met, the one he now hated now more than ever as Lily was going out with him. Potter had wasted no time telling everyone that Lily was finally his. That night Severus had tried to seek Lily out and ask her why she was now dating the boy who had once made his life a living hell. However, he had not found her and after he saw them kissing he didn't think he could bear to face her about it.
Severus hoped that Lily didn't know he and Potter still never missed a chance to hex each other. If she did know it would tell him that she no longer cared about him at all. It would mean that she was happy for her boyfriend (the boy she had once hated as much as Severus had) to attack her former best friend.
Best friend.He couldn't remember ever being as happy as when she had first said they were best friends. He had literally felt like he was soaring. When he had been younger he had always thought that at some point they would both simply fall in love, but she had never said anything that gave him the impression that her feelings for him were deeper than friendship.
He had often thought that maybe she realised his feelings for her, he had never told her, yet the resentment in his expression that he got even when she just talked to another boy, had maybe given her an idea that he cared about her even more than he let on.
He had literally felt his heart break the day he found out that Lily and James were dating. Wave's of anger and despair crashing over him. He had inwardly begged that she would realise he was the same attention seeking, arrogant prat he had always been, he had hoped that she might simply realise he was not the one for her. He was worried that with both her and Potter's adventurous natures, she might get into trouble, and then Severus would have lost her forever.
As much as he hated to admit it Severus knew that James loved her, yet he loved her more and had done for much longer. He had been her friend, the person who had told her about Hogwarts-about magic- they had spent their summers together, he had opened up to her in a way he had never done with anyone else, had she really never thought of him in any way other than friendship?
One thing Severus had always wished was that he and Lily had been sorted into the same houses, for if they had been they might never have drifted apart, maybe Potter wouldn't have even fancied her as much as he did if she had not been a Gryffindor.
He was brought abruptly out of his thoughts as he noticed Lily's vivid green eyes meet his own, he looked away quickly, not wanting to see hate or pity in her expression. He scowled to himself as Potter put his arm around Lily, and Severus swore to himself that he would prove he was worthy of Lily's love, no matter what it took, he couldn't let her marry him.