Chapter One, frustrations and confusions.

It was the first day of school, 1976. James Potter was boarding the Hogwarts express for the last time he would be journeying there as a student. Then he saw her, Lily, the love of his life ever since this day 7 years ago when he crashed his trolley into her…

flashback

"Hey! What was that for?" the small redhead asked, rubbing her arse as it was very sore from the hard impact with the ground.

"Merlin, I'm so sor…" James began but could not continue "sor…sor…sor…" he repeated mesmerized, lost in the emerald depths of her eyes.

"Pardon?" She asked

Her hair was so beautiful… he just wanted to touch it, but as he did, she pulled away, causing him to accidentally pull her hair.

"What did you do that for?" the girl asked, hurt at his actions. Before he could answer, she had stormed off, taking his heart with her

She's had it ever since

end flashback

He'd been such a moron. There's no way she'd ever want him… not after 6 ears of unrequited love that had been mistaken for torment. He sighed dejectedly… it was definitely time to move on, there and then he promised himself, no more Lily! No more love and no more torment, simple as that. He suddenly felt better, kind of anyway… he felt like a part of him was being repressed and trying to get out, but he could deal with a little annoying voice… how hard could that be? Right?

WRONG! the voice yelled in his head

'shut UP!' James argued

Help help I'm being repressed! (A/N gotta love Monty Python!)

'Shut it!' and before the voice could retaliate, Sirius had walked up

"Hey prongs! How was the summer?"

"Alright, my parents and I went vacationing in Greece"

"sounds like fun"

"It was"

Greece had done James good, he was tanner and his usually lean body from quidditch was muscular. He had grown up and now it was beginning to show.

Lily noticed it

She also noticed that fact that he had made no attempt to annoy her as of yet. 'Well the year is still young' she thought to herself. 'wait…did I just think James looked good a second ago? What's wrong with me?' she thought, confused. What was this feeling… being (god forbid) actually attracted to James Potter? 'bloody hell, what is wrong with me?' she whispered to herself, but just loud enough that a certain Lycanthrope heard (not that she knew yet that he was a lycanthrope)

"Well you do have a tendency to talk to yourself" Remus supplied happily, surprising Lily, she had not seen him behind her.

"And you should not sneak up behind people" she said

"And you should be checking out James?" He asked, he had been watching her for a few minutes, it had been rather amusing to witness actually, her jaw had physically dropped at the sight of him.

Lily blushed before recovering. "I was not checking him out!" she said indignantly.

"Riiight…" Remus replied rolling his eyes. "C'mon, lets get on the train, there's a prefects meeting 5 minutes after we leave." and with that he dragged Lily onto the train.

Lily slumped onto her bed in her new dorm. She had achieved the position as head girl… so she should be happy right?

'Wrong!' she thought to herself. 'Even being a Head student is ruined when James Potter is involved.'

1 hour earlier

Dumbledore stood at the head table, making his usual start of year speech "…and as always the forbidden forest is off limits to all students. Would Lily Evans and James Potter please stand?"

Lily did so, wondering why. She knew she was head girl (She had received her badge in the mail) but why would James stand? He couldn't possibly be head boy; he was not even a prefect! Granted she had seen him at the meeting earlier, but she just figured Remus had the Head position and James was filling in for the prefect… hell even that idea was ludicrous!

"I'd like to introduce you to this year's Head Boy and Girl" Dumbledore said proudly, his eyes twinkling.

Lily was shell shocked, how could that git of a marauder get Head boy? She had worked 7 years to get where she was, and that prat had coasted through school and was a troublemaker to boot!

She noticed him smiling at her just a few seats down across the table. She rolled her eyes and sat down (after the appropriate amount of customary applause) 'please don't ask me out please don't ask me out please don't ask me out' she thought to herself desperately. She wanted to get through this year with as little pain as possible. 'Please don't ask me out please don't ask me out please don't ask me out!'

"So… Evans seeing as we're living together, maybe you'll wanna go out sometime?" James said.

At that point, Lily Evans lost it; and without warning the Shepard's pie that was (until recently) on her plate was in that messy black hair of his. If it had not been for the potatoes, he might have seen her storm out of the hall to where she knew her rooms were (as prefects meetings were usually held in the head common room.)

"Password?" the painting asked. It was a portrait of a young girl in a burgundy satin dress, her hair back from her face and put into curls at the back of her head.

"Um… I'm not sure…" Lily started

"No, I mean what do you want for a password?" The girl asked.

Lily thought about it… since she was still steamed at James, she decided to pick one that was sure to piss him off.

She smiled "James Potter is a stupid git" short, easy to remember and to the point… Perfect!

present

So now here she was, alone in her own dorm, even if James did get up the nerve to invade her space after she pied him, he would never get in right?

"James Potter is a stupid git" she heard a male voice say.

'It couldn't be... could it? Am I that predictable?' She thought as she opened the door to the common room.

James saw the look of surprise on her face as she laid eyes on him. "Yes Evans, you're that predictable" He said smirking as he went to the dorms.

"Hey Evans! Why is there only one door?" He asked from down the hall; she turned and saw that he was right… she had never noticed it. Granted, there was space for another door but why only the one?

She saw him enter the room but did not follow, trying to process her thoughts until they were rudely interrupted by James' voice calling "Oi! There's only one bed too!"

"What do you mean there's only one bed?" She asked. Surely there must be some mistake…

James stepped out of the room "I mean there is only one bed… it's a big bed, but there is only one of them!" 'Not that I'm complaining' he thought to himself.

"What are we going to do about this?"

"Well… when in Rome…"

"James, if you even THINK of finishing that sentence they will have to gut the Squid to find you!"

"Alright… so we go see Dumbledore" He suggested.

"Right… Dumbledore…why didn't I think of that?"

"Because you were too busy fantasising about sharing a bed with me!" he called just before fleeing the room and the fury of Lily Evans.

When she caught up with him, he was already seated in the headmaster's office.

"Now, Mister Potter, Miss Evans, What seems to be the trouble?"

"Well, we got up to our dorm and there is only one bedroom and one bed" James began.

"Oh dear…" Dumbledore said worried

"What it is Professor?" Lily asked cautiously

"Well, the head room was designed by the Founders to customise itself to the students occupying the dorm. For some reason it seems to think the two of you should be sharing a bed."

"So we'll just go in there and duplicate it and widen the room, no problem right?" Lily suggested.

"If only it was that easy my dear… but when it comes to the actual structure of the school, the school decides for itself. If I had my way, the staircases would not move… well they might have escalating steps, but they would not switch direction or have trick steps. Have you never thought why we had not fixed those before?"

Lily blanched visibly. James was doing a good job of trying to look distressed, but Dumbledore could tell he was happy.

He continued "I've never been one to question what the school thinks is best, and I'm not about to start now. There is a reason for you to sleep in the same bed; it may not be clear to us now, but we can only hope it will reveal itself in the future. Now I do think its best that we all go to bed. It's late and (if I'm not mistaken) you both have classes to attend tomorrow" and with that James and Lily left the office.

Lily sighed defeated. "C'mon James, lets go to sleep" she said upon entering.

"Alright" he said and moved towards the bed.

"What do you think you're doing?" Lily asked

"Going to bed"

"No… you're sleeping on the couch"

"WHAT! No way!" James protested

"Tough cookies Potter. Etiquette dictates that because I'm a girl, I get first pick, unless you REALLY want to piss me off."

At this James decided he was too tired to really continue this argument. He slumped onto the couch and summoned a blanket to his use.

"Whatever Lily… Goodnight" He said before he turned out the light and watched Lily disappear into the bedroom.

Lily was happy, he had given up on the bed so readily. So why did she feel a slight pang of regret when she lay down into the king-size alone?

A/N: i know this was posted differently before, but I am deciding to take this in a slightly different direction. the chapters will all be in different POV's and there really is no central ship.