Love Me or Hate Me it's still an Obsession

Author- LilyHeartsJames :)

Dedication- I'm going to dedicate this to… uh… REMUS! Because he's obsessed with chocolate. Remember! A chocolate a day keeps the Dementors away!

Disclaimer- Well, of course I created Harry Potter and all the characters and places and things and… JK why are you advancing on me with that torch and pitchfork? You know ah… I was just um…creating a good uh… you know… okay, okay! Jk created Harry Potter characters, places and thingy mabbobies! Sheesh! Can't ANYBODY take a joke around here? CRIKEY!

Notes- Okay so I was VERY happy with my reviews! VERY happy so give yourselves a BIG pat on the back! Oh my golly gee goshness, I am SO proud of my new story! I've been thinking about a new chapter ALL night and on the way to school on the bus. So I hope you guys like it!

Well, I'll probably update AVON soon, but I've got an Agriculture test on Thursday and I'm planning on studying for it and if you's are wondering WHY I'm studying it's because I like Agriculture and it's one of my favourite subjects at school so I want to at least do okay and if I don't then at least I tried! And if you're wondering why I'm saying that I'm studying well… I don't study for much. Only the subjects I like lol. That's kind of bad but yeah. I have a history one coming up and I'll have to study for it. But the bad thing is I was away for two weeks last term and I didn't bother catching up on that work so yeah. I know, I know I deserve a big er… smack! But my science test was OKAY I mean better then usual I got 41 percent and I ACTUALLY bet one of mates who usually always gets better then me so that's a good thing!

Anyway that was COMPLETE ramble and I will not suffocate you with anymore. So forgive me dudes, just forgive and forget!

Chapter TWO

2nd September 1979

Lily groaned. She hadn't got to sleep until midnight due to patrolling. She had to patrol on her first night back. And she was tried. And what was worse was that she had to join forces with Potter and patrol with him and somehow managed to not kill him.

And even worse still it was a Monday. And Lily Evans did NOT like Mondays.

Firstly, she fell out of bed.

"DAMMIT!" she screamed and after she checked the time on her bedside clock which was nine twenty nine AM, she got back up, jumped into bed and covered herself with the doona so that no part of her body was visible.

Secondly, she was late.

"Bloody nine twenty nine. Class starts in one minute" she grumbled and snuggled deeper into her doona.

"HOLY COW!" Lily yelled and jumped back out of bed.

"Why didn't Potter wake me up? I half expected him to come bounding into my room at six thirty and jump on my bed!" she said as she scrambled out of her room and ran over to the door that as on her right.

"POTTER!" she yelled banging on his door.

She heard a muffled yell of; "Too tired, come back later" and then a loud snore.

She screamed in annoyance and barged into the room and immediately knew that Potter had made himself at home.

Clothes on the floor, posters on his wall, his bedside table was littered with complete rubbish and there was a humungous lump in his bed. After a few seconds she realized that the 'humungous lump' was in fact James Potter.

She walked over to his bed, and was about to pull back his bed covers when she saw his drawing pad on his bedside table.

And she began to feel curious and wondered what he had drawn on the train ride. And forgot all about being late for class.

So, feeling very curious and ignoring the words 'curiosity killed the cat' which were going through her head she grabbed the pad and opened it.

And the first picture made her jaw drop almost to the ground.

Here, in front of her very eyes was an exact resemblance to the castle.

And judging by the date, James had drawn this on the first night of sixth year.

Lily stared at it, and couldn't tear her eyes away. She hadn't known James was such a good drawer. The drawing took her by complete surprise.

She forced herself to turn the page, and when she did she spotted three boys that she knew and could name in under three seconds.

It was another picture drawn in their sixth year, on Christmas night and Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew were sitting around the fire in the Common room.

Sirius was toasting marshmallows, Remus was reading (which wasn't unusual) and Peter was pigging out on the marshmallow bag.

Sirius had an excited look upon his face, one with glee. Remus was frowning as he read his book, and looked very tired and much older then normal. He also looked weak. This wasn't unusual either. And Lily could never figure out why. And Peter. There he was, grinning happily and had a hand in the bag, about to pull out another one and stuff it into his mouth.

Lily liked Peter, don't get her wrong but sometimes he annoyed her. For one thing, he would never leave James and Sirius alone. He was always following them. And for another, he always asked to copy her notes because he claimed that he 'fell asleep' in whatever class it was.

Lily turned the page and froze.

And here was the picture James had been drawing on the train.

It was her.

Lily stared at it, and saw that she was leaning the side of her face on the window and was looking bored. James had drawn everything just the way it was, the way her hair framed her face, the way she was frowning because she was bored and the way her eyes looked dull, because she was bored. Why would James draw her? What was so exciting about the way she looked? She looked bored and tired and she somehow looked lonely.

She looked at the label, and saw that James had labeled it as 'Foxy'. But underneath that her actual name was printed in James' messy handwriting.

She was about to turn the page when she heard a voice behind her.

"What are you doing?"

She jumped and turned around, forgetting she had his drawing pad in her hands.

"Nothing" she said stupidly.

"Why are you looking at my artwork?" James asked sitting up. His hair was its usual messy self, not the least bit tamed and he was squinting at her, obviously because he wasn't wearing his glasses.

Lily opened her mouth, shut it again and didn't know what to say.

He cocked his eyebrow, obviously wanting her to say something.

"Well… I kind of came in here to kick up the arse for not waking me up, and I kind of saw this and ah… I was kind of you know…"

James shook his head. "No I don't know"

"Oh bloody hell! I was curious okay?"

James smirked. "Haven't you ever heard the saying; curiosity killed the cat?"

Lily nodded. "I have but I kind of ignored it"

"Right. Well you DO know that my drawing pad is private. It says so inside the cover"

"I didn't read that" Lily admitted.

"And if anyone does ignore that then they have to go on a date with me"

"It says that?" Lily asked quickly, her voice evident with worry.

She opened the book and it said; "PRIVATE! Keep Out" in James' same messy hand writing.

"It does not!" Lily said glaring at him.

"You looked" he said and burst out into laughter.

"Shut up! That's not funny!"

"Yes it is because you believed me! Dude what if a guy looked in there? You actually think I'd write that?"

Lily blushed a bit.

"Yeah well dude, why didn't you come wake me up? It's nine… forty!" Lily said checking James clock.

She gasped and James rolled his eyes.

"So? And ah… you came in here with you're pjs on…"

"So? I didn't think of changing!"

"Someone was horny for James Potter" he said smirking.

"I was not! I didn't think of changing because it didn't cross my mind! I came in here to kick you're arse and that's all!"

"Sure, whatever you want to think" James replied.

Lily sighed frustratedly.

"Get dressed loser, we're already late"

"Okay love"

"And don't call me love"

"Okay…love" James repeated and Lily hit him on the arm.

"Arse" she muttered as she walked out and went into her own room.

She grabbed her things out of her wardrobe, turned out and screamed.

James had been standing behind her. And he was wearing his glasses this time..

Startled, he stepped back from her.

"What the HELL is you're problem?" Lily asked glaring at him.

"Oh. I just came to ask what we have first. You do know right?"

"Of course I know! We have… we have…" she trailed off, realizing that she didn't really know what she had because she missed breakfast and therefore didn't get her time table.

"You don't know do you?" he asked grinning.

"It's all you're fault! You should have woke me up!"

"Why didn't you just set you're alarm?" he asked sitting on her bed.

Lily put the hand that wasn't holding her clothes on her hip.

"Because I figured you'd come bouncing in and jump all over my bed"

"Figured I would or wanted me to?" James asked knowing it would irritate her.

"God you're such a tosser!" she screamed angrily.

He cracked a grin.

"Nice bras" he said nodding at her clothes.

She slapped him on the shoulder.

"Go get dressed!" she snarled and he stood up and shrugged.

"Okay"

He grabbed her bra and ran out and she screamed in annoyance.

"YOU SICK PERVERT!" she yelled and threw her clothes onto her bed and ran after him, chasing him all around the Head's dormitory, never being able to catch him because he was so much faster then her.

But then she got a plan.

And hid behind her bed.

James slowed down. He looked around the kitchen, suddenly fearful.

"Lily? Hey Lily where are you?"

No one answered.

"Foxy! Come out, come out wherever you are!"

He got no reply.

He shrugged and went into her bedroom and started to make noises.

"Dun nun, dun nun, dun nun, dun nun, dun nun!"

Lily tried her best not to laugh.

"Where oh where oh where is Foxy? Where oh where oh where is Foxy? Where oh where oh where is Foxy? Where is she?" James continued hoping to hear a burst of laughter.

Lily giggled silently.

James walked past her bed and she pounced, startling him and causing them both to topple over onto the floor, him ending up on top of her.

Lily didn't notice at first because she was laughing.

But James did and stared at her.

Her laughter suddenly died down, coming to a shocking realization that HE was on top of HER.

"Oh crap" she muttered and James grinned.

She tried to get up, and ended up getting her hair caught on his glasses.

"OW! Bloody hell Potter! You're glasses are tangled in my hair!"

"Hang on, not to worry" he said and tried to untangle Lily's hair from his beloved glasses.

"Ouch! Ow! Stop pulling!"

"Well I'm sorry but there's no other way to get them out of you're big red mass of… hair! That is like a mop, might I add!"

"It is NOT like a mop! If anyone's hair is like a mop, yours is!"

"Are you discriminating against my hair?"

"Maybe I am! You discriminated mine!"

James didn't reply and tried to tug his glasses out of her hair.

"OW!"

"Stop yelling!" James retorted and she huffed.

"Well it hurts you dumbarse!"

"Yeah well maybe you should have thought about that before trying to squash me!"

"Me squash you! Ha! It wouldn't have even happened if you'd just gone and got changed like I told you to and left my bra alone"

"You can't boss me around Evans! You're not my mother!"

"Well you're mother should teach her son better manners and make sure he doesn't treat girls with disrespect and annoy the hell out of them!"

"I do respect you"

Lily laughed as James continued to try and pull her hair away from his glasses.

"There's only one solution" James said fearfully.

"What's that?" Lily asked and James sighed.

"We're going to have to cut my poor glasses free of you're untamable hair"

"Look who's talking! You're hair can't even lie straight, even if you used a bloody straightener! And you are NOT cutting my hair!"

"Well how else are we going to get them out?" James asked angrily.

"Hmmm, let's see. There's always magic! Honestly are you a Wizard or not?"

"Right" James said and started to stand up.

"ARGH! Stop pulling my hair!"

"Well how am I supposed to get my wand?"

"By taking off you're glasses you dimwit"

"Oh, yeah" James took off his glasses and jumped off Lily.

He ran into his bedroom and grabbed his wand from his bedside table and ran back in.

"Hurry the hell up Potter!" Lily said grumpily.

James kneeled down and waved his wand, setting his glasses free.

James grabbed them and Lily sat up, pushing her hair out of her face.

James put on his glasses and Lily snatched her bra off the floor.

"Jerk" she muttered and walked over to her bed.

"A 'thank you' might be nice" James said standing up.

"Whatever" she muttered. James glared at her.

"You know if I hadn't grabbed my wand, we'd still be down there and I'd be ripping you're hair out"

"If you hadn't stolen my bra it wouldn't have happened in the first place!"

"Well I'm sorry! It was a joke Evans, I was mucking around! Geez…"

He turned away and sighed.

"At least I still got us untangled"

"Yeah… and you managed to rip half my hair out" Lily said grabbing her clothes and walking into the bathroom.

James glared after her and kicked her bed.

"Bloody women!" he said and walked off into his room to get dressed.

-

James and Lily did not have a very good morning after that.

They were not talking to each other, they had been shouted at by Professor McGonagall for not showing up for Transfiguration until an hour later when they had walked around the castle, got a detention, were threatened to have their badges taken from them and were not allowed to go into Hogsmeade on the first weekend.

Lily was fuming, although McGonagall did have a point. Lily and James were Heads now, and they had to be role models to the younger students and showing up late for class was not a good start.

Lily was standing next to Jules in the grounds during break, telling her about her horrible morning.

Jules found it funny, until Lily glared at her with the famous Evans' glare.

"Oh come on Lils! You have to admit, it was funny!"

"Funny my arse! I've got a detention… with Potter! My first detention! I've never, ever had a detention before! I'm not going to Hogsmeade on the first weekend and Potter will be the only seventh year left so I'll be stuck with him! And I almost lost my badge which I've been working very hard for since I first arrived at this school!"

Jules shook her head.

"You take things too seriously Lils"

Lily sighed. "Thanks Jules" she said sarcastically.

The bell rang and they headed in for class, Lily, Remus and James heading for Potions and Sirius, Jules and Peter went to Divination. Jules and Sirius took the class so they could sleep, but Peter was pretty good at it so that's why he chose it.

Lily and James sat either side of Remus, leaving him in the middle and feeling uncomfortable.

He was stuck in the middle, stuck between two friends and was stuck sitting there in silence.

Remus was relieved when Professor Slughorn walked in, beaming at everyone and said; "Welcome back everyone! Today we'll just be taking board notes and talking about you're NEWTs which are coming up at the end of this year".

Almost everyone groaned, James being one of them.

Lily rolled her eyes and began to take down the notes, and Remus glanced at James who was lying his head on the desk and preparing for a snooze.

"James!" Remus whispered poking him in the ribs. He shot up quickly and looked at him.

"What?" he whispered back.

"We're taking down notes. You'd better too, because I am not lending you mine"

James scowled at him and Remus gave him an apologetic look. They both began taking down the notes.

-

Potions wasn't any better then their horrible morning.

It turned out they didn't need to write down much, there wasn't much to say about the NEWTs except that they needed to be prepared, they needed to read their notes, and they needed to revise.

So there was time to spare to do a little potion.

And Slughorn teamed everyone up, and made Lily work with James.

Slughorn went from one of her favourite teachers to one of her unfavourite teachers.

Lily and James didn't say much, except when they asked each other which ingredient they needed to put in next or whether the ingredient was chopped up enough etc. but other then that they didn't talk much at all.

When the bell went, they packed up as fast as they could, dumped their sample on his desk and were about to leave when Slughorn called them back.

Remus left, and gave them small smiles.

They walked up to the desk and he smiled at them.

"You two worked very well today" he started and James sighed and sat on one of the desks.

Lily remained standing until Slughorn pointed next to James and told her to sit down.

She sat there, leaving a lot of space between them.

"Professor McGonagall told me about this morning. Is everything alright?" he asked and Lily and James glanced at each other before Lily said; "Everything's fine Professor".

He nodded.

"Well, ah, there's going to be a Slug-club party in a couple of weeks and I'm hoping that you two would be there. Invitations are going out next week but I decided to tell you both sooner"

"Why?" James asked frowning.

"Because I need you two, as Heads, to open the dance"

"And how exactly would we do that?" Lily asked also frowning. She pictured herself as a cartoon character, being handed a pair of gigantic scissors and being told to cut a ribbon that was in front of the door leading to Slughorn's office but found chasing James with them much more tempting.

"You two would dance" Slughorn said patiently and Lily's jaw dropped.

"What?" she asked, a little too quickly hoping she'd heard wrong.

"Dancing, you two would open the party by dancing"

"What like the chicken dance?" James asked grinning.

Slughorn smiled and Lily tried not to but ended up grinning. She rolled her eyes.

"No, the waltz. You two will waltz"

James laughed loudly, obviously thinking Slughorn was joking.

"You're kidding right?" James asked after seeing that Slughorn wasn't laughing.

"I'm being serious James m'boy! You two will do the waltz and then everyone will join you and-"

"But I can't dance!" James said quickly.

"Well I'll have Lily help you with that"

Lily laughed this time. "Oh ah, I can't Professor. You see I ah, have a lot of… homework to catch up on and patrolling duties and-"

"Would you rather help James or have him crush you're toes?" Slughorn asked smiling.

Lily sighed. 'I don't exactly have a choice do I?"

Slughorn shook his head. "No Lily m'dear I'm afraid you don't"

Lily groaned.

Dancing lessons with Potter, detention with Potter and staying back while everyone else (except for the first and second years) went to Hogsmeade. With Potter. What fun. And also there's the patrolling and sharing a dorm room with him. This was going to be the best year at Hogwarts she's ever had… Sarcasm… take note of the sarcasm.

-

Lily's day just got worse and worse.

During lunch, she'd spilt her pumpkin juice on herself when Jules accidentally knocked her hand when she bounced in her seat excitedly when her crush, Jacob Wood (who was in Ravenclaw) walked past and winked at her.

Lily flicked her wand at her shirt and it cleaned and Jules just sighed as she watched Wood leave the Great Hall.

Lily rolled her eyes, and looked down the table at Sirius who smiled at her. She smiled back and felt Jules tugging on her shirt.

"Isn't he gorgeous?" she asked happily.

"Who?" Lily asked stupidly turning back to her best friend.

"Jacob Wood of course! I am SO asking him to Hogsmeade next weekend" she said grinning.

"Since when have you been interested in boys? Lily asked frowning.

"Since she stopped being interested in girls" Sirius said sitting across from them. The rest of the Marauders followed him, and James sat next to Lily to her annoyance.

"Shut you're face Black" Jules said turning to glare at him.

"It was a joke Julianne" Sirius said using her full name which she hated.

"Oh hush up! Why don't you go have a snog with Peter?"

"Ew" Sirius said moving away from his friend.

"Well? Why don't you?"

"Number one; he's my mate. Number two; he's like a brother to me and number three; that's just… wrong"

She rolled her eyes.

"You are wrong Black"

"What's that supposed to mean?" he asked glaring at him.

"It means what I said" Jules said turning away from him and watching the doors.

"Bitch" she muttered and Lily stared at her feeling confused.

"What was that for? What the hell did I do?" she asked staring at her best friend.

"Huh? No not you Lils! I wouldn't call you a bitch. I'm calling Wood's girlfriend a bitch" Jules replied smiling at Lily.

Lily nodded.

"Wood has a girlfriend?" she asked frowning.

Jules nodded and glared at the girl.

"Well, then why do you like him?"

"DUH! He is gorgeous! God, Lily even you should know that!"

"What's that supposed to mean?" James and Lily asked at the same time.

"It means what I said" Jules repeated and turned back to look at Wood who had came back into the Hall, holding hands with Regina Codes.

"ARGH!" Jules said frustratedly. "Why does he have to be with her?"

"Because… he probably likes her" Lily said and Jules groaned.

"Not helping Lily"

"Oh, right sorry. He's probably with her because… he likes her"

"LILY!" Lily ducked the spoon Jules threw at her and it hit James in the head who hadn't seen it coming.

Jules clapped a hand to her mouth as James turned his head towards her.

"Oi! What the hell was that for?" he asked grumpily.

"Mistake! I meant to get Lily" James looked at Lily who straightened up properly.

"Oh nice" he said and Lily rolled her eyes.

"Hi Jules" said a voice behind her.

She turned around and there was Wood, standing there and smiling at her.

She grinned.

"H-h-hi" she stuttered.

Lily rolled her eyes again and turned away.

"Hi Lily" he said looking at the red head.

Lily looked up and gave him a small smile.

"Hi Jacob"

"Jake" he corrected.

Lily nodded. "Jacob" He grinned and shook his head.

"So, are how are you?" he asked her.

Lily shrugged.

Jules was watching Lily jealously which she noticed.

"Ah… I have to go to er… the bathroom" she lied and stood up.

"Oh. I can walk you" he said Jules glared.

"NO!" Lily said loudly.

People looked over at her.

"You sit" she commanded.

"No really I don't mind" Wood said smiling at her.

"Sit" Lily said dangerously.

He looked as if he was going to refuse so she pushed him down into where she was sitting previously.

"Stay" she said and turned and walked out.

"Is she okay?" Wood asked looking after her.

"She's allergic to boys. She has Androphobia" James said quickly and Wood frowned.

"Ew" he muttered and turned to Jules and started talking to her.

James smirked.

Now his Lily was safe from other guys and Jules got to talk to the guy she liked. As far as he could see, it was a win-win situation.

Lily stood outside the Great Hall for a few minutes, peaking in. She saw James say something to Wood and then he got a disturbed look on his face and turned and began to talk to Jules.

She sighed with relief. That got him talking to the RIGHT girl.

She walked into the Hall and practically pushed James up the bench and sat down.

James looked at her.

"You right?" he asked frowning. She nodded.

"Hey Lily. I'm so sorry to hear about it" Wood said giving her a sad smile.

Lily frowned.

"About what?" she asked curiously.

"About you're Androphobia"

Lily sat there for about three seconds and then looked up.

"I'm not scared of guys!"

"But, Potter just said-"

Lily glared at James who gave her a small nervous smile.

"Wow, you know I have to go to the bathroom" James said standing up and hurrying out.

Lily jumped up and ran out after him.

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU POTTER!" she yelled and Remus groaned.

"You just had to mention that didn't you?" Sirius asked Wood who frowned.

"It's not my fault! Potter shouldn't lie"

"Geez" Remus muttered and got up and hurried out, hoping to separate the pair before things got out of hand.

Peter followed him out, and Jules sat there smiling at Wood. "So, what's you're favourite Quidditch team?"

Sirius rolled his eyes, grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the Hall before she heard Wood's answer.

-

When Lily entered Herbology that afternoon she wasn't talking to James… again.

Jules was sitting next to the wall and Lily sat beside her.

Just when Lily was thinking the day couldn't get any worse, James sat next to her.

She stared at him and he smiled at her.

"Hiya Foxy" he said and she glared at him.

"Why don't you go sit next to you're friend… Frank" she said nodding over at the front row where Frank Longbottom was sitting with his girlfriend Alice Martin.

"No room" James replied as some one sat next to him.

"Well why don't you sit next to you're other friend; what's his name" Lily said nodding at the boy with braided hair.

"Jimmy. Nah I don't talk to him anymore" James said and Lily sighed.

"Looks like you're stuck with me Evans"

Lily groaned and looked at Jules who was carving her initials on the table.

"Sap seats with me please" Lily begged.

Jules looked and saw James sitting there.

"Um, nah I don't feel like it" she said and Lily sighed frustratedly.

"I hate you" she muttered and Jules grinned.

"Love you too Lily" she said and Lily glared at her.

When Professor Sprout entered, for the first time that day Lily put her head down on the desk and went to sleep, unaware that James was drawing her in his drawing pad.

-

Later that night in the Common room, Lily walked over to James.

"Hey Potter-"

"You've come to remind us about our date. Aw, how thoughtful" James said cutting her off.

She glared at him.

"No, I came to ask what time we have our detention"

James checked his watch.

"Ten minutes"

"And what's the time?" Lily prompted.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" James asked smirking.

"Potter if you don't stop annoying me I swear I'm going to thrust that quill up you're big fat hairy-"

"LILY! I need help with my homework" Jules called over to her.

Lily glared at James, turned and left. She walked back over to Jules to help her.

"I'll pick you up in eight minutes love" he called over to her. She glared at him and turned away.

"Two dates with Evans in one night. Detention and patrolling. Today is the best day of my life" James said grinning.

"Detention and patrolling with Potter, this is the worst day of my life" Lily muttered scowling.

Jules grinned and shook her head.

-

Hours later, Lily and James had completed their detention (cleaning out the broom cupboard that Filch hadn't cleaned in twenty years) and were now doing their patrolling.

"So Foxy, how was you're first day back?" James asked as they walked along in silence.

"Fantastic" Lily snapped sarcastically.

James shrugged.

"Mine was awesome thanks for asking. I was late to class and got to hang out with you all morning until McGonagall found us, I got to go with you to potions and I got partnered up with you, found out you need to give me dance lessons" (Lily groaned as she remembered) "I sat next to you in Herbology and I drew some pictures, then I-"

"What did you draw?" Lily asked cutting across his speech.

James acted as if he hadn't heard her and kept going.

"Then I got detention, with you and now I'm patrolling… with you and-"

"Potter! I asked you a question now answer me" she demanded.

"Yes 'mam" James said saluting and Lily rolled her eyes.

"I drew you" he admitted.

"You what?" Lily asked, half hoping she'd heard wrong.

"I drew you when you fell asleep"

"Can I see it?" she asked looking at him as they walked along.

James grinned and shook his head.

"I er, I don't know if you know, but my drawings are private. This morning, this girl went and looked at them without permission, so no, no you can't see them"

Lily groaned.

"Oh come one! Please?"

James shook his head again. "Nope"

Lily pouted and James just smiled.

"So, did you like you're day or did you hate it?"

"Hated it" she said and he glanced at her.

"Why?"

"Because you're a prat" she replied and he sighed.

"I think you're pissed because I won't let you see my drawings"

Lily didn't say anything.

"Okay! I'll show you"

"Really?" Lily asked looking up at him.

"No, I was just joking"

Lily glared at him and punched him on the arm.

He rubbed it, and smiled and Lily saw that he was carrying his drawing pad.

Lily stopped, and so did he.

"What?" he asked frowning.

"What's that up there?" Lily asked nodding down the corridor.

James looked and quick as a flash Lily grabbed his pad, taking him by complete surprise.

"Ha! And the tables have turned" she said grinning.

"Evans, give it back"

"When I've had a look" Lily said and was about to open it.

"NO! Come one, gimme it back!"

Lily shook her head.

"Evans" he growled and she just smirked. She got as far as the first picture, of the castle when he grabbed the pad. He had one end and Lily had the other.

He pulled on it, dragging her closer and she laughed.

She pulled it back her way, pulling the pad and him.

Not knowing how close they were, Lily lifted her head and caught his lips with hers without meaning to.

The pad fell to the ground as James pulled her closer.

Her eyes fluttered closed as he leaned Lily against the wall, and kissed her softly.

But then she came back to her senses and opened her eyes, and pulled away.

James' eyes opened too, and his forehead was leaning against hers and their breathing was quicker then before.

James stepped back, and Lily stood there staring at him, feeling shocked.

She just…

She…

She just kissed…

SHE KISSED JAMES POTTER!
Lily clapped a hand to her mouth, realizing what she did.

"Lily…" James trailed of, not knowing what to say.

Lily looked at the ground, and saw a drawing that had come out of his pad. One that she hadn't seen before.

She kneeled down and picked it up, and saw that James really had drawn her during Herbology.

Her eyes were closed, and she looked peaceful, smiling slightly.

"I was going to draw some drool on the table but I decided against it" James said softly picking up his pad.

Lily looked up in alarm.

"I wasn't drooling was I?"

"Yeah… and you were saying; 'kiss me James… oh god I love you James' and you were smiling".

Lily glared at him. "That is so not true!"

He grinned, "Right. I know I was just kidding".

He helped her up and she passed him the drawing.

"About before-"

"It doesn't matter Foxy, just forget it. I have"

Lily nodded and looked away, missing the look on his face which clearly said he hadn't forgotten it already. And he would never forget it for the rest of his life.

-

That night when Lily crawled into her bed, she stared at the ceiling for ages, thinking about 'The Kiss' as she now called it.

How could this happen? How could they… kiss?

Lily sighed.

That was her first kiss. Her first kiss and it was with Potter.

Her FIRST kiss was with James Potter.

And the really bad thing was that 'The Kiss' wasn't bad at all…

Lily had actually enjoyed it and that was what annoyed her the most.

'The Kiss' was with Potter and she hated him, but she enjoyed it all the same.

Lily sighed and rolled over, and wondered whether James too was thinking about 'The Kiss'.

And he was. James lay there, staring the ceiling and grinned.

Lily Evans had kissed him. Even if she hadn't meant to, she still kissed him.

LILY kissed him.

EVANS kissed him.

FOXY kissed him.

Lily Evans KISSED him.

Lily Evans kissed HIM, James Potter who was her sworn enemy.

James grinned even wider.

The one thing he'd wanted since he first started liking Lily had happened.

He'd finally got a kiss from her, and even better, he had a feeling she had liked it.

Maybe getting Lily to go out with him was going to be easy.

He had until July to do it, and it was September now.

He could do it; he could get her by then.

But what if he didn't? He'd never see her again after Hogwarts.

Don't think about that, he told himself.

Just aim to be her friend first, jus her friend.

Now what was it that she had told him during detention?

Flashback-

"What do you want in a guy?" James asked out of the blue.

Lily looked up. "Sorry?" she asked.

"What do you… like in a guy?"

Lily thought about the question before answering.

"Well… I'd like it if a guy opened the door for me and let me go through first, that way I could get the best seat" Lily said grinning and they laughed.

"Nah, um yeah they'd open the door for me, say 'bless you' when I sneeze…"

James nodded.

"But mostly, I want a guy who can be himself around me and everyone else. And he wouldn't change"

"Anything else?" James asked, his heart thumping quickly.

"He'd love me for me, not who he'd want me to be"

Lily sat there, thinking silently.

"Any chance that guy's name is James Potter?" James asked grinning. Lily looked at him.

'We'd better finish these before McGonagall comes back" she said, ignoring his question.

James watched her for a minute or two and she looked up.

"What?" she asked and he shook his head and smiled.

"Nothing"

But truthfully, a plan was forming inside his head.

-End of flashback

James grinned.

He would get Lily by the end of the school year, he would.

A/N:

Hey guys! I hope you's liked this chapter! It's longer then the first one:) Seven pages in Microsoft Word!

Well, I'd better go!

Thanks SO much to the reviewers! I LOVE you ALL!!!

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