I just want you to love me. Is that so much to ask?

"Lily!" the voice that cause Lily Evans spine to shiver and her stomach to be attacked by butterflies called after her as she left the herbology green house.
"Evans, wait!" it called again, sighing Lily moved to the edge of the path and waited. She tapped her foot impatiently as she waited for him to catch up. When he finally did he just looked at her.
"James, please tell me you did not make me wait just to look at me," Lily barked at him.
"No, I haven't seen you around at all lately, I miss you," he spoke honest and true to Lily, who averted her eyes and sighed.
"James, I can't do this now," she spoke, looking at him momentarily, before leaning forward to kiss his cheek and turned to walk away. Her sound of her feet in the gravel footpath allowed her enough distraction to pretend she didn't hear him whisper her name.

**

"Can you do this now?" his honey like voice whispered in Lily's ear later that night as she tried to study in the common room about 1.30, long after she had thought everyone had gone to bed. She raised her eyes to meet his and he dropped onto the loveseat, she placed her quill on the table and closed her book, and pulled her knees up onto the couch. He looked at her expectantly, and she looked back.
"Do what James?" she asked, and he sighed. He reached out to grab one of her hands.
"Tell me why your avoiding me like I have the plague," he emphasised. Lily gave a laugh, but there was no emotion in it.
"I'm not avoiding you James, I've just been busy,"
"But I thought I was your boyfriend, I thought you liked me," he whispered dropping his eyes for the first time to the floor.
"I do like you James! I do! You are my boyfriend," she rebutted.
"I swear, I've just been busy." James dropped her hand.
"Your always busy Lily, if I'm your boyfriend, you should make time for me, I always have time for you!" he was getting upset now, Lily grabbed his hand back.
"I don't know how to act around you James! I spent so long not wanting anything to do with you, now I want everything to do with you, don't you see how confusing that is for me?" she whispered. He just pulled his hand away yet again and folded his arms across his chest, and shrugged. Lily got desperate, and crawled across the couch to him, until she was practically sitting on his lap facing him. She placed a hand on either side of his face and kissed him hard on the lips. His arms found their way around her waist and he kissed her back. Lily pulled apart first.
"Tell me what you want from me, tell me and I'll do it, just tell me James!" Lily whispered passionately, and James kissed her.
"I just want you to love me, is that so much to ask?" was his only reply. Lily smiled, and bowed her head to meet his lips once more. James laid her on the couch and kissed her passionately leaning over her before scooping her into his arms causing her giggle to echo around the room.
"I love you Lily, always have," he whispered so softly she wasn't sure it had happened.