Unrequited love.

Two words that mean, to not return the same affection that another one has for you.

And this term would not be new to Lily Evans. A fierce tempered girl with radiant red hair and breath-taking green eyes, who has been dealing with this term for 6 years. She was not the one with the crush, yet she was the one being crushed on. By a person who she would rather throw off the top of the astronomy tower at Hogwarts than be his girlfriend, let alone be his friend. This person is none other than James Potter, a boy her age with untamable black hair and thin wired glasses framing his warm hazel eyes. James has been asking for Lily to date him since he first saw her. He's asked her out everyday since she's known him and she would reply in several different ways. Slapping him, yelling at him, insulting him and no matter what she did, he would still ask her out the next day, Not matter how hard the slap was or how loud she was yelling or how harsh the insults were. Little did she know that after 6 years of chasing her...that something would finally happen that would change her life and the entire wizarding community.

Lily Evans waited anxiously in Professor Dumbledore's office. She wanted to know why she had been called up there, on her first day back. She obviously hadn't done something wrong, but she's was still nervous. What if someone died in my family? she thought Oh no, I can't deal with that, even if it was Petunia. Or what i-- her thoughts were cut short, as she heard someone open the door. She turned around in her seat and saw Professor Dumbledore standing there. He walked gracefully over across the room and to his chair behind his desk.

"Now Miss Evans I'm sure you are wondering why you are up here, so early in the term. Am I right?" He began and Lily only nodded as a reply "Very well, your partner, Remus Lupin has asked to step down as Head Boy"

"But sir why wou--" Lily began until she saw Dumbledore hold up his one hand and she quickly stopped talking

"Mister Lupin has his reason, and so he's is now only a prefect once again. This left me with the dilemma of finding a replacement." As if on que, there was a knock on the door. Dumbledore smiled as he got up and walked over to the door. Lily watched him walked over and open the door, but couldn't see who was there. "Ah...yes. Right on time, please come in." Lily's mouth dropped when she saw who he was talking to. Her mouth was still a gape as she saw James Potter walk over and sit in the chair next to her. What is he thinking? She thought, He can't be Head Boy. He's not responsible enough.

"Jeez, Evans I know I'm gorgeous, but there is no reason to stare." James said smirking. Lily automatically closed her mouth and shot a glare at him, before turning to her Professor again.

"Yes, as I'm sure you have figured out Miss Evans, Mister Potter will be replacing Mister Lupin as Head Boy. I know the two of you don't exactly get along, but for the sake of everyone in Hogwarts, the two of you must work out your differences. The Head Boy and Girl must learn to cooperate and work together. You both are extremely intelligent and very powerful and I would not anything to go wrong this school year. Miss Evans I expect you to inform Mister Potter of scheduling, organizing things and stuff such as that. Before the two 

of you go, I have one last thing. The teachers and I have thought to do something different this year. So the two of you will organize a major event that will be held the day after examinations are over. It can be mostly anything you would like, but you still have to check with us before you start to advertise this. "Dumbledore finished looking at his pupils in front of him."If there are no further questions, then I suggest you go and see Professor McGonagall for you common room set up." Lily and James both got up and walked out of the headmaster's office. The pair walked silently as they made their way to their Professor. Lily was silently patting herself on the back, for this has been the longest she has not yelled at him while in her presence.

"So my sweet Lilykins..." He began slyly

"I am not now, nor will I ever be your 'sweet lilykins'" She said trying to control her anger. She hated him for doing this to him. He always brought out the worst in her, and she wanted to kill him for it.

"Oh but you will be one day...you just watch" He said cockily "One day soon you'll be dying to have me be your boyfriend"

"Maybe that day will be the day you'll stop being a conceited, arrogant, abhorrent pig-headed sleaze ball who needs to deflate your head and realize that you are not gods given creature to Earth" Lily snapped angrily "But then again, that day will never come"

"God Evans, you're so hot when you're angry" he smirked at her and Lily stamped her foot and let out a yell in frustration. She didn't bother to respond, but just walked faster to her professor's quarters. She didn't care if James was following or not. She could careless; it'd just prove her point of him not deserving this position. He wasn't even a prefect, how could be possibly become a Head then? Lily thought as she made her way. Within mere minutes Lily found herself in front of Professor McGonagall's door. Lily knocked a little too hard, not realizing that she was still angry from her fight with James. Lily heard the door knob squeak as it turned and out from behind the door came an old woman with a fairly large stereotypical witch's hat that has a feather on the side of it.

"Ah Miss Evans" she said looking at Lily and smiled she turned her head and her expression changed "...And Mister Potter?" she said with a little bit of a voice intonation.

"Yeah Moony had some personal problems and told Dumbledore that he didn't wanna do it, so I'm here in his place" He said smugly and Lily just rolled hers eyes.

"Very well, follow me and I will show you where the Heads common room will be." The professor turned to her right and began to walk away. Lily and James followed faithfully. They marched up many staircases and down many hallways. Lily was scared that she wouldn't remember the way back to it again. After a while of walking, Professor McGonagall came to a stop in from of a portrait of a very beautiful young woman. She has dark brown hair that came a little bit shorter than her breast and bright blue eyes. She was sitting on a rock looking out onto a lake of some sort and she has three red flowers laying on the rock. Lily looked over a James and saw him ogling and rolled her eyes...and yet she a strange feeling erupted inside of her, she just couldn't describe but she shook off the feeling. The women got up from her rock and walked over so she was directly in front of them

"Hello Professor" the women said, releasing her harmonious voice "Are these the new heads?"

"Yes they are, Artemis" Artemis turned to Lily and James.

"The two of you need to come up with a password for this month. The password will change monthly as well"

"Lilyk--" James started.

"No!" Lily said vivaciously "That password is way too obvious and anyone could get in"

"Then what do you suggest oh all-knowing-one" James said

"They're no need for names James" Lily said smirking at him and then turned back to Artemis "How about snitch?" She turned back to James "Is that alright with you?"

"It's fine"

"So snitch will be the password for this month." Artemis said and the portrait. Lily and James began to make they're way inside

"Miss Evans and Mister Potter" Professor McGonagall said, they both stopped immediately "I hope you'll find everything to your liking" They both nodded their heads and Professor McGonagall began to walk away. They took this as a sign that they were free to go in now. Lily gasped as she saw the room. It was exactly like the Gryffindor common room, only it had a different feel about it. It felt more...homey. Lily looked around, and saw pictures of her family on one side of the room and photos of James family she figured on the other side. Lily soon realized that she was the only one in the room and she figured James had gone to his room to sleep, and for once Lily couldn't agree more with his idea. Lily made her way over to the door closest to her and said the words: 'Lily Evans' on a gold plate that was attached to it. She traced the letters with her fingers slowly. This all seemed so surreal to her. She opened the door and revealed an almost duplicate room of her bedroom back at home. The only difference was this one was much larger than the one at her home. She found her trunk was already their and pulled out a pair of pajamas. She then climbed into her bed and curled up with her blankets. She was so glad to be back at Hogwarts.

The sun rays penetrated through Lily's window, causing her to wake up. Lily got ready for her first official day of school, and just like every year, she was the only one excited for it. She left the common room, not even bothering to check if James was up. She walked down to breakfast, and saw her two best friends Belle and Jasmine there already. She smiled as she walked down the long table and over to her friends.

"Hey guys" she said.

"Belle can you believe it?" Jasmine said "She actually survived the night with James!" Jasmine was usually sarcastic. She had long dark brown hair that came down to her mid back. Her hair was always straight and she had bight baby blue eyes. She had long muscular legs and she was very athletic as well. She was chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, so she was on pretty good terms with the Marauders. She was very outgoing and was easily one of the prettiest girls in Hogwarts.

"Oh Lily, please tell us how did you survive?" Belle said. Belle wasn't like Jasmine at all. She wasn't athletic at all; she was more studious and quiet. She was also dating Remus Lupin and she has been for the past year. They're one of the cutest couples of Hogwarts. She was a petite girl with short naturally wavy honey brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. She was a prefect and her grades competed with the Marauders and with Lily's.

"Oh put a sock in it the two of you" Lily said sitting down next to Belle. "It wasn't that bad"

"Dost my ears deceive me? It wasn't that bad? Lily what has he done to you?" Jasmine asked

"Nothing, but he didn't really say anything to me last night at all. I mean he was still his usual obnoxious self, but he wasn't as bad as some other days" Lily said buttering her toast and then taking a large bite out of it. The girls continued to converse about how last night came until the saw the Marauders come in.

The Marauders. A name known famously around the grounds of Hogwarts. Guys wanted to be them and girls wanted to be with them. And together they created the greatest amount of mayhem in the history of Hogwarts. The "leader" of the group was James Potter, a boy with untamable shaggy raven colored haired and glasses framing his hazel eyes. He stood at a good 6' 1'' and was captain and chaser of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He was extremely good looking and usually had a different girlfriend about every two weeks. He was naturally good at wizardry and he was also known for his parents Harold and Emma Potter, famous Aurors. James' best friend and co-leader of the Marauders was Sirius Black. Sirius was 6' and had elegant shaggy black hair that framed his face and made his stony gray colored eyes stand out more than ever. He was the ladies man of the group. He usually had a new girl every few days or so and thought that they were only good for a snog or a shag. He like James was naturally good at wizardry, and almost never paid attention in class. Remus Lupin, the third Marauder of the group. He was 6' tall and had short shaggy brown hair. He had sky blue eyes, which always seemed to have a pained expression in his eyes. He was very studious and was always very attentive in classes. He wasn't exactly as 'hot' as James or Sirius, but he certainly was very good looking and many girls were jealous of Belle. The fourth marauder confused everyone. Peter Pettigrew was a short plump boy, who had beady watery blue eyes and was very shy. He wasn't smart like the other marauders, and he rarely ever had a girlfriend. Everyone never understood why he hung out with him, but they didn't dare to ask why. (A/n: I don't particularly like the part of Peter, so I won't write about him that much, but he will be here and there.)

The marauders walked down the pathway between the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw table, as if they were on the cat walk. Strutting, making sure their presence didn't go unnoticed. Girls giggled and boys glared as they made their way over to Lily, Jasmine and Belle. Remus walked up to Belle and sat right next to her.

"Hey hun" he said as he gave her a kiss on the cheek. Sirius sat next to Jasmine and James was on the other side of her and across from Lily.

"Hey" she said back "How's your morning been?"

"Ehh...okay. I had to wake up the two nimrods up. Surprisingly though, James was ready by the time I got them up" Remus said filling his plate up with food. Lily was in shock and looked over at James. James just shrugged his shoulders and continued eating.

"My god Sirius, can you please eat like a civilized person for once?" Jasmine asked in horror of the seeing him eat.


"What?!"He said swallowing his food "We sit with you almost everyday, and you're still not used to it? You need to just get over it"

"Or maybe you can for once act like a gentlemen"

"I am very much like a gentlemen!" Sirius said appalled at the statement.

"Oh please, tell me your ideas of what a gentlemen is"

"Well fi--" Sirius began to explain, until he saw Professor McGonagall come over to them. She handed each of them their schedule, and they all compared at once. They all had most of the same classes except Lily and Sirius had Divination and Peter wasn't in any of their classes (he didn't do well on his OWLS) Lily was quite displeased when she found out that she had almost all of her classes with James, they only thing that made her not totally outraged and furious was that her friends were with them too. Remus and Belle went back to talking/cuddling, Jasmine and Sirius went back to talking about what a gentleman was and Lily and James went back to eating. Lily glanced up at James and studied him for a minute. He hasn't said anything all morning Lily thought; we should probably talk about that one event tonight and agree on something.

"Potter" Lily said, James lifted his head and looked at her. "Can we meet in the library after dinner tonight, so we can talk about that event Dumbledore was talking about"

"Alright" He said "See you at like 7ish?"

"Yeah" Lily said. The bell rang and all seven got up and began what they thought would be an easy year at Hogwarts...

7:49 read Lily's watch. Where the heck can he be Lily thought to herself as she was waiting for James to come the library. She got out of her chair and began to look around, she found a book that sounded interesting and brought it back to her table, she opened up the front page and began to read. Her reading was interrupted by someone bursting through the library doors. Lily shot her head up from her book and looked over and saw the one and only James Potter. He searched frantically for Lily and when he found her he ran over to her.

"What took you so long?" Lily said frustrated

"I wa--" James began to explain

"You know what don't even try to explain. I don't know what kind of excuse you've concocted but I don't wanna hear it. It's probably something like 'I was snogging this blonde bimbo and I accidently shoved my tongue too far down her throat so I had to give her CPR and then I had to go give CPR to every other girl that were 'choking' and by doing my good deed of the day, I ended up being almost an hour late." Lily said trying to keep her voice down, but couldn't, causing her to get yelled at by Madame Pince. "Come on, we're already far behind because of your lack of responsibility" Lily spat sitting down in the chair." James took a seat across from her.

"I'm not as irresponsible as you think I am" he said defensively. Lily opened her mouth but James spoke too quickly "I'm sorry, I'm not like you." He paused. "You know what, I'm not sorry that I'm not like you. If I were like you I'd be this uptight sticker for the rules and if someone is late I'd yell at them even without hearing an explanation from them first. For your information, I had to break up a fight that was happening between a Gryffindor and a Slytherin. I had to take them to Dumbledore and by the time I had gotten there, it was 7:15 so I ran down here trying my best to not be as late. But apparently, my best isn't good enough for you." Lily felt bad. She'd just yelled at him for doing his job. Why is Potter always like this? She thought. Lily sighed and didn't want to talk about the situation anymore.

"So what do you think the event should be?" She asked changing the subject.

"I don't know, maybe a dance or something?" James said coolly leaning back in his chair, balancing on two legs.

"Nah...dances are to cliché and obvious. Let's do something that's never been done at Hogwarts" Lily said

"What do you want? Some kind of talent show or something?" He said jokingly. Lily had to admit that wasn't a bad idea. She's never heard of anything such as a talent show at Hogwarts before.

"I like it..." she said softly

"Are you serious?" He put all 4 legs on the ground "Evans, I was kidding."

"Well I'm sure you were, but I really like the idea of a talent show here at Hogwarts"

"How would we be able to tell what's actually talent and what's just magic?"

"I'm not sure about that, but I'm sure if we asked Dumbledore he could figure out a way too"

"Who would be the judges?"

"The professors obviously, and they'd vote on their favorite act and whoever gets the most votes wins"

"Alright, let's do a talent show then"

"Okay, we're going to need a tryout date?" Lily said thoughtfully

"How about the saturday before winter break?"

"Alright and then the actual show will be a couple days after exams end" Lily took out a piece of parchment and began writing all this down.

"Are you going to tryout?" James said as he watched Lily write

"I don't know, I might but probably with Jasmine and Belle" Lily said still writing

"What talent?"

"Singing more than likely" James couldn't help but laugh at this "What's so funny about that?" Lily said defensively, glaring at him a little bit

"It's--it's nothing. It's just...I don't exactly imagine you as a singer"

"Just because you can't sing, doesn't mean that other people can't sing"

"What makes you think I can't sing? I happen to be very good at singing."

"Oh I'm sure you are" Lily said in a sarcastic voice

"Are you willing to bet on it?" James asked slyly

"What's the wager?"

"If I win, then you'll have to go on a date with me. But if you win, then I'll leave you alone for good"

"Well that's not a very good bet, by the times exams come, there'll only be a few weeks of school left. And I'd would've had to deal with you all year and then after those few weeks you'll be out of my live for good"

"Hm...you're right."He paused and thought for a moment "Alright, let's do this: If I don't get past the tryouts and you do then I'll leave you alone for the rest of the year and only talk to you when it comes to Heads' stuff, but if we both or if I make it and you don't then you'll have to go out on a date with me"

"That's not fair either, you have two ways of winning the bet"

"Well, if you're so confident that I'm not going to make it, then why does it matter?" James said slyly. Lily looked at him with a glare. He can't be good at singing, no one can be good at everything Lily thought

"Alright you're on Potter" Lily said. James held out his hand and Lily slipped her hand into his and shook they shook hands.

"You're going down Evans" he said

"Only in your dreams Potter" she replied.