Best friends
Severus has never spoken to Lily since he called her ''Mudblood''. The silence between them has been running for a month now. He felt so miserable and regrets that this word has slipped out of his mouth so much.
Every time he looks at her in class she turns around and starts a conversation with James.
He still hated James. Even though he had stopped hanging out with Lily, he keeps on bullying him. He was quite uncertain if it will ever be over.
Today was Monday and they had potions in the morning. Together with the Gryffindors. Like every day since the fight with Lily he walked alone on his way to potions. He has stopped hanging around with Mulciber and the others as well. Basically he spends most of his time alone in the library or in his bed.
"Hey, Snivellus!", called James just as Snape rounded the corner. He hated this name, but didn't replied. He walked past James, Lily, Pettigrew, Sirius and Lupin as usual. One month ago Lily would've protected him, but now she was laughing with them.
"Come in!", shouted Slughorn from inside the classroom, so they all entered. "Sit down, and put out your potion books!", he said. Snape puts out his book. It was full of little hints and notes, he's written by himself. Only Lily knows that he's written in his book and only she knows about his secret name. The half-blood prince.
After potions they had a free lesson. He decides to go down to the lake, because it was beautiful weather. He stepped down the stone steps and saw James with his friends and Lily at the river. His fists were balled and at the moment he saw that Lily had just kissed James on his cheek. He broke into a run. He screamed "You swine!" and pushed James onto the ground. They were rolling on the ground and trying to hit each other. Snape couldn't believe that Lily has kissed James. It couldn't be true!
She was used to hate James!
Suddenly there was a hand pulling at his shoulder. "Stop! Mr. Potter, Mr. Snape. Detention for you both!" It was the voice of Professor McGonagall, head of the Gryffindor house. Snape stood up quickly and nearly toppled again. James stood up, too and smiled. "Tomorrow, at 5pm, in my office!", she said. After giving them a reproachful look, she hurried back to the castle.
Snape hated detention, and the fact that he has to sit for two hours in the same room with James doesn't made it better at all.
"What was that for?", snapped Lily. It was the first thing she said to him after one month. "Why have you kissed that jerk?!", replied Snape as nasty as she had spoken to him. "'Cause I like him!", she answered. "Oh, suddenly?! I thought you hated him? And now you're best friends?", Snape nearly shouted the last two words. He didn't meant to be nasty to her, but he was full of anger about everyone and everything. "Well, he isn't as bad as I thought.", replied Lily and gave James a very meaningful look. That was enough. Snape turned around and ran away.
Lily loves James?! That has to be a nightmare!
It was obvious that this wasn't a dream. He didn't wake up. He keeps on running until he reached the dungeons. But instead of entering the Slytherin common room he turns around the next corner and crouches down in front of a big window. His fists were still balled and he had blood on his nose. James must've hit him there. But he doesn't care about the blood...he still sees this one scene in front of his eyes. Lily kissing James. As longer as he thought about Lily the more tears were flooding down his face.