The first time I really met James Potter was in Honeydukes candy store in first year. He turned around and looked me once over before saying, "Hey, aren't you supposed to be on the shelf? Cause you looking pretty damn sweet from my point of view." I slapped him.
I never really talked to him again until about third year, when we were made lab partners during Potions. Professor Slughorn made a very bad choice that day. We were constantly bickering and screaming at each other. (okay, okay, it was mostly me!)

My family didn't really like him either. But I supposed that was mostly my fault. When I would come home for vacations I would sit at the dinner table, stabbing my meat and chewing with vigor, while telling stories about how horrible of a person James Potter was. Petunia always sarcasticly said, "Oh, he's perfect for you Lily!"

Yeah, I thought, that's about as likely as Remus marrying Tonks!

He started pursuing me in the third year too. For the next two and a half years, he was the most insufferable jerk I had met in my whole life. He asked me out constantly, put my friends down, and expected me to fall for him. I didn't.

When I really started talking him and becoming friends with him was during our sixth year. He was good friends with Remus, and I was good friends with Remus too, so we just started talking. He was still a prat, and we didn't really hang out, but that was when I realized that he wasn't as bad as I thought he was all those years.

Then seventh year, well that's when our story really begins.

And I'm here to tell you that story.

The story of how I became Lily Potter.