Why Can't I Have You?
Chapter I
She's so beautiful, he thought as he watched her on her backyard swing from behind a bush. Her unusually bright green eyes twinkling in the summer sun, her long red hair flying behind her, like flames, he thought as she swung forward giggling.
It wasn't the first time he had came there to watch her but he was afraid to talk to her because he thought she wouldn't want to talk to him, someone everyone thought was a freak because he made things happen, odd things, things they couldn't explain, so they shunned him out.
It didn't help that he walked around in weird clothes either; he had a huge tuxedo jacket on with jeans two times his size buckled with a leather strap, a white tee-shirt, some old dress shoes and an old withered black tie.
They had moved in about a week ago and he knew she had an older sister that hated her for some reason, he couldn't imagine why.
One day as he was watching her on her swing she swung up too high and threw herself off. He got up quickly waiting for the fall with worried eyes but when she didn't fall and hovered in the air for a moment drifting gracefully back down to the ground all thoughts of them not being friends, at that point, had gone.
"I know you're there", Lily said looking at the bush he was hiding behind, "Were you spying on me?"
"So you can do magic, too?!" he said coming out from behind the bush looking up from the ground at her.
"What do you mean 'too'? Can you do it?" said Lily no longer defensive but curious.
"Yes. … Watch"
He snapped his fingers and a white rose appeared from thin air he caught it and handed it to her, smiling timidly.
"Wow, can you show me how to do that?".
"It's not that easy, you have to practice a lot".
"Oh that's alright I'm patient. What is your name, may I ask?"
"Severus Snape, but you can call me Sev" he said bowing.
"I'm Lilian Evans. You can call me Lily" she said curtsying.
They both laughed at this.
"How old are you?" asked Severus.
"Ten. What about you?"
"I'm ten too. That means you're going to Hogwarts next year then?"
"Hogwarts? Where's that?"
"You mean you've never heard of Hogwarts?" he said shocked.
"No".
"It's the only the best wizarding school in England."
"Wizarding school? Is that what I am then, a witch?" she took a minute to process this, that would explain a lot, but witches didn't exist did they?
"Well yeah, didn't you know?"
"No I never really knew why I do all these weird things", said Lily.
"Well you should be getting your letter next year. And then after your first year at Hogwarts you cannot do magic out of school and especially in front of muggles or else you go to the wizard prison, Azkaban."
"What are muggles? How do you know all this?"
"The ministry of magic says so. Muggles are people who don't do magic. Your parents don't tell you much, they must be muggles".
"Oh, yeah, I suppose they are! I'm the only one who does magic in my family".
"Really? You're pretty lucky then" he said smiling at her.
"Wait a minute, how come you know that muggles exist but muggles don't know that witches and wizards exist, for real?"
"Well, they have to erase the memories of any muggle that has seen magic being done. The worlds are better off not clashing too much" said Sev.
Just then Petunia's voice was calling "Lily time to come in".
"Bye, see you tomorrow, nice meeting you, Severus, I mean Sev" she said smiling back at him while she started walking toward her house.
"Nice meeting you too, Lily".