AN: Ok so this is a new story obviously, and normally I would hold my comments till the end of the chapter but I felt as if I should explain some things first, that way when someone complains, it's in the story in black and white. Anyway, I feel as if it's pointless to explain that Lily's a witch, everyone knows and it really makes no sense to have to keep explaining it. However, if enough of you have problems with it, I'll rewrite this first chapter and add it in somewhere in the beginning. Thanks for reading.

Easter break was always the most boring. You don't have as long as summer; you don't have Christmas and New Year's Eve parties to look forward to like winter break. Sure you get two weeks of no classes but you are given an immense pile of homework. The only positive side was the opportunity to come home and see your family, but that's about it.

As for Lily Evans, she did decide to head home for the holidays, but looking back she would have been better off staying at Hogwarts. Her parents had been home long enough to pick her up from the train station, but then they had nothing but meeting since. Now they were out of town for business and they wouldn't return until after Lily had to return to school. The only one left in the house was her sister Petunia but they didn't get along well and Petunia was too busy planning her wedding to pay any attention to her sister, even if they only saw each other a little time out of the year. Petunia's fiancé was, in blatant term, fat and conceded. Vernon Dursley only cared about himself and if the conversation strayed from anyone but himself he made sure to redirect, whatever the topic, back to himself. She had only had one civilized conversation with him, and that had ended with him storming out of the room followed by a crying Petunia. It wasn't as if the man liked to discuss anything stimulating in the slightest; no he only cared about discussing selling techniques for his drill company and his sister Marge.

On top of him eating like one, the man is an absolute pig. The entire first encounter that Lily had with the bloke his eyes seemed to never leave her body. Now Lily didn't want to sound conceited, quite honestly it was disturbing, the worst part being that he did this while her sister was in the room the entire time. From that point on Lily had done her best to avoid him, she refused to go out to dinner if he was to accompany him, and would lock herself in her room if he was coming over.

Now, it's not like Lily hadn't been admired before, plenty of times actually. Most of the time she felt as uncomfortable as she had with Vernon, but one guy stuck out in her mind. He had never made her feel uncomfortable in his presence. Irritated? Almost every day since they had met, but he was always polite with his compliments making Lily feel flattered rather than disturbed. The biggest problem was his persistence. His friends made the perverted jokes, but those too didn't seem to bug her. . . Well that's not true, they annoyed her immensely, but it was more of the fact that they made the jokes when she didn't like the guy, not that they were making jokes about them being together, does that make sense? No, not in the slightest, but in Lily's mind it did.

James Potter, that was the guys name by the way. They had met on the Hogwarts Express six and a half years ago. But they never got the chance to be friends. At the time Lily had her ex-best friend Severus, and James hated him. They would fight and duel constantly, and being the good friend she was, she defended Severus, leading to her eventually hating James. But now it seems that she made a mistake.

Despite all her years of loyalty to him, Severus turned him back on her and insulted her in the worst way possible. Now Lily had a crush on her sworn enemy and it was too late to change anything about it. Every time she looks back at her encounters with James, she imagines what it would have been like to finally say yes to him, but now he didn't even ask anymore. You know that saying, it goes something like. "You don't know what you've got till it's gone." Yeah, well those old stories really need to be given more credit, and idiotic children like herself should listen more closely.

When James stopped asking her out, she started watching him more. He was sweet, nice to the younger students, a leader when something's wrong. He's unbelievably loyal to his three best friends, smart, and let's face it, he's hot, extremely so. James Potter could have any girl he wanted, and he chose me. She should have said Yes, merlin why had she been such an idiot?

Who knows if he'll ever ask me out again? That's when she experiences a revelation; she grabbed a spare piece of parchment and a quill. The letter was quick and simple.

James,
Before I lose my courage to send this, I need to know, for once and for all if you were serious all those times you asked me out. So, if you truly meant everything you ever said about me, then pick me up tonight at seven. I'll be waiting.
Love,
Lily
P.S. Until I know if this is real or not please don't tell anyone.

Lily watched her barn owl fly off until it was an unrecognizable dot in the sky. Unsure if she even wanted a response from him. Who was to say it really was all about the chase and not only did she finally say yes, but he didn't even get the satisfaction of asking her himself, and of course he's going to tell his friends, he would want to brag to them how he'd been right all along. She began to play with her necklace that she never took off, it seemed to calm her.

Lily tried to focus on her sister, who was on the phone in the room next to Lily's. She was saying something about the flowers being all the wrong colors and wondering what the neighbors would think if they saw the table cloths, apparently they were made of weak fabric and Petunia was worried if someone's knife slipped while cutting their steak they would cut through the cloth. Lily could care less about this wedding. Her sister worried too much, and with the amount of money she was spending on this wedding, there was no way her parents could afford Lily's wedding as well. Maybe that was her sister's plan all along. Bored and anxiously awaiting James's response Lily took to cleaning the house, starting with her room, she began to pack everything up for her trip back to school.

But even cleaning her room didn't last long enough to get her through the day. So instead she focused on deciding what to wear on her first date with him. In the end she chose long faded dark blue jeans that fit her in the best way, she also decided on a lime green spaghetti strapped tank-top layered with a neon purple tank-top of the same style on top. One top of that she had a jean jacket and she even took the time to pack, unpack, and repack her purse to make sure she had absolutely everything she wanted or needed. When she was finished she grabbed a book and went to sit on the front porch. The last thing she needed was for him to ring the doorbell only to be bitched out by her sister.

Miles away an owl carried a letter in through an open window, delivering a letter to a woman stirring a pot in the kitchen, preparing lunch for her two sons. She detached the letter from the owl's leg and fed it a biscuit to which the owl happily began to eat on the windowsill. She read James Potter scrawled across the envelope in neat handwriting. She set the letter to the side as she got out plates.

"Boys, food," she yelled up the stair and not seconds later a boy with curly black hair came running through the door, managing to skid to a stop before hitting the counter. His brother came in at a normal pace, laughing at the antics of the other boy. "James darling, this letter just came for you." She handed the letter to the second boy before dishing out food.

James Potter took the letter from his mother and proceeded to sit at the table, awaiting food. Sirius Black sat across from him excited at the very thought of eating. James and Sirius were brothers in every way but blood. They meet on the train the first day of school and a bond was created that no one could explain, but when you look at the two of them, you couldn't deny that they were meant to meet. Sirius Black had gray eye and curly black hair, at school he was the player and every girls deepest desire. James Potter was tall and well built with muscles that only can be developed from years of Quidditch. James had hazel eyes and unruly black hair that couldn't sit flat in the back. The two boys, when accompanied by their two other friends, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, made up the talented group of pranksters known as Marauders. They were the envy of the school, on top of fame and good looks James, Sirius, and Remus were three of the top four students in the school. Peter never seemed to show the same potential as the other three but his friends never judged him for it, they just helped him and accepted him for what he could do.

The summer before Sirius's fifth year he ran away from the vile home he had been living in all his life, and he immediately ran to the Potter's house. They had always welcomed him, and from the moment he moved in the Potter were more of a family to him than his parents had ever been.

James read the letter at the table and could only stare at the words in front of him before he started to grin like a bloody fool. His mom gave him a strange look but let him be; Sirius however, wasn't as kind. "Prongs, what has got you grinning like an idiot?" He barked from across the table. James however didn't answer; Sirius got up and attempted to take the letter away from him. James suddenly snapped into the land of the living, he jumped out of his friends reach, tucking the letter into his pocket and headed for the stairs on the way to his room.

"Sorry mate, can't talk." He was halfway up the stair before he turned around. "And we're going to have to cancel our plans our plans for tonight, I have a date." He exclaimed before running up the stairs two at a time.

James apparated into Lily's backyard as to avoid being seen by any muggles. He then walked around to the front where he found Lily herself immersed in a book. He took a moment to just watch her, the way she fixed her hair every time she finished a page, her eyes intently took in every word she read, she even laughed at a section written on the page. Her right hand never left her necklace except when she needed to flip the page of the novel she was immersed in. In one of those moments in which she wasn't holding it he was able to see that it was a simple silver key hanging on a long chain that easily slipped into her her shirt and wouldn't be seen.

"Um . . .Lily" He called out, not wanting to scare her. She jumped, but only slightly in surprise. When she saw who it was she couldn't help but smile. It's was then that James knew that the letter hadn't been some kind of joke, he had originally had some suspicions but hadn't wanted to ruin what could have been his only chance. But he knew that her smile showed only true happiness that he had arrived.

"James" She breathed, "Didn't think that you would actually show up." She stood up and straightened her jacket and put her book in her bag.

"You're kidding right? I was worried this was going to be some joke from my friends." James laughed. He held out his hand and she quickly took hold. They walked down the street until they came to an ally between a candy shop and an accessories shop.

"Where are you taking me?" Lily questioned, looking at their surroundings.

"That is a secret I am not yet prepared to divulge. So if you would be so kind as to trust me, I would ask that you firmly take hold of my arm and not let go until your feet once again hit the ground." He smiled mischievously at her before she grabbed onto her arm. An unpleasant sensation took hold of Lily as she was transported through space until her feet did firmly touch the ground. She didn't let go of James as she regained her sense of balance and rediscovered what was up and what was down.
The first thing she noticed of her new surroundings was the fact that she could hear little children screaming in glee. Then she noticed all of the colorful lights and the constant noise of talking, laughing and screaming. From where the two were standing a cart full of people rushed past them as the rollercoaster shook from the cart moving at such a fast speed. It took a few seconds but Lily was able to come to the conclusion that, for their first date, James had chosen an amusement park.

"I thought that, since you didn't want anyone to know about this, I thought it would be best to choose a place in which no one would recognize us." James whispered in her ear.

"It's brilliant," She smiled in response.
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Quotes: Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. -Ambrose Redmoon