DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the Characters, they are property of J.K. Rowling. I am just borrowing her brilliant world and characters, with no claim at all.
"I just don't understand what her problem is!" Groaned James in frustration. Sitting in the Fifth Year Boys Dormitories, James was laying face down on his bed suffering. Across the room Sirius and Remus sat playing Wizards Chess, whilst Peter softly snored on his bed.
"Prongs, mate, Evans won't ever want to date you if you continue to act like a prat every time you see her." Responded Remus, not bothering to look away from the game. Sirius was known to move the pieces around.
Looking up from his bed James responded, "Moony, I can't help it. It's like… every time I see her my mind goes entirely blank. All I can think about is wanting to impress her, and no matter what I do it always backfires on me!"
Snorting, Sirius looked up from the game of Wizard Chess he was sorely losing, "Just give up already Prongs, Evans won't ever understand your sense of humour. She's never gonna get past that. And that's just part of who you are."
"But it's just that Sirius! I can't get over her. You know I've tried. She's the only girl I want."
Completely giving up from the game Remus pointed out, "Yeah, but James have you ever thought about maybe dating someone else? You've had your eyes set on Lily ever since first year, and have asked her out daily ever since third, and nothing's changed."
"Someone else? As in, someone other than Evans?" James asked with a dumbfound expression plastered on his face.
"Well, yeah…"
"But how would that help me get Evans to finally say yes to me asking her out? That doesn't make any sense at all."
"That's exactly my points James. Maybe you should ask out somebody else, yes someone other than Evans, so that you can get over her. You've never really tried."
"That's not true!" James spluttered. "I went to Hogsmeade with Marlene McKinnon just last month! I even got a pretty good snog in there at the end!"
Exasperated Remus looked at Sirius for help, "Prongs, you said so yourself right after, that you'd only asked her out because you thought it would make Evans jealous. How about we find you someone who actually appreciates our brilliant pranks and senses of humour! We work really hard on them you know!"
Ignoring everything that was just said James pouted and simply stated, "I don't want anyone other than Evans."
With quiet sighs, Remus and Sirius went back to the game. Eyeing the board suspiciously, Remus glared at Sirius, "Sirius, why has my King crossed the board and conveniently placed right in front of your Queen?"
Making his face look as innocent as possible and with a bit of a shocked expression Sirius responded, "I really don't know how that could have happened." Then with a cheeky grin Sirius moved Remus' King safely back to where it had been.
Laying facedown on the bed again James tried to banish the pair of bright green eyes that appeared every time his were closed.
Could he just get over Evans? Get over her?
With a second to think about it James immediately knew, no he couldn't.
The next morning Lily Evans lay in bed. With eyes red and puffy from crying all night long, and a severe case of bedhead, she groaned when her best friend Alice shook her shoulder.
"Lily, it's time to get up. You have to go shower and dress or else you're going to miss breakfast."
"I don't want to get up. Let me starve." Lily mumbled into her pillow. Yesterday's events still played out in her head, as if she were watching it on a loop. Her heart hurting, and her head aching with a pounding headache, she wished to just sink into the bed and to never have to face anyone ever again.
"Now, as your best friend you know I can't allow that. It's going to be okay, if you get up and shower you'll feel better." Alice tried to persuade Lily.
Still feeling her hesitation Alice promised, "I swear to you I won't let Snape bother you today. I'll be right by your side and I'll hex anyone who tries to mess with you… Including Potter and Black. Even Remus if it comes down to it."
Not able to stifle a small giggle at the thought of her five foot, two inch friend cursing Potter and Black, Lily felt wiped the tears that had dried to her face.
"And, there's only a couple more days of school left and I don't want to waste my time with you. You know I won't see you all Summer."
Lily peered up at Alice with a look of suspicion written all over her face. "You know that's not fair Alice. Guilt tripping me like that."
Tasting victory in the air Alice just giggled and swatted Lily's butt, "Only because I love you! Now let's go! Black's gonna eat all of the pancakes again!"
With a heavy sigh Lily heaved herself off her bed and headed for the bathroom to get ready.
After a nice hot shower, Lily quickly got dressed and dried her hair. Not feeling like trying to straighten her hair, she decided to throw it up in a messy bun. Adding a bit of mascara, blush, and lipstick to try and make it look like she hadn't been crying all night, she stared at herself in the mirror. She still had red splotches lining her cheek bones, but there wasn't much she could do about that.
Turning towards Alice she grabbed her bag and shoved her books inside.
"Ready?" Alice asked with a encouraging smile.
With a deep breathe, she plastered a fake smile on her face and responded, "Yep! Let's go."
"Padfoot, seriously you're going to choke. Slow down," James laughed at Sirius.
Sitting at the Gryffindor Table in the Great Hall the Marauders sat together eating breakfast. Remus, who was reading over the Morning's Newspaper deliberately tried not to look at Sirius as he shoveled sausages down his throat.
Ignoring James' warning, he just grinned showing all the food he had yet to swallow.
"Wus yur prbum?" Sirius asked James with a mouthful of food.
James, Remus, and Peter had all gotten very good over the last five years deciphering Sirius when he ate.
"Nothing." James muttered, looking towards the Great Hall doors for a certain redhead. Yesterday had not gone the way he wanted it to.
Why do I always have to make myself look like a prat in front of her?
With a knowing look at Remus and Peter, who was hurriedly trying to finish up his Transfiguration Essay, Sirius swallowed his food and looked at James with sympathy.
Thinking about what Remus and Sirius had said last night about finding someone different made him feel even worse. Yes, he had been with Marlene on a date but he found himself wishing she was Lily the whole time, and couldn't help thinking about what Lily might be doing. It just wouldn't be fair for him to ask someone else out knowing he's in love with Lily.
"Mate, Lily's here."
Immediately James's head swiveled around towards the entrance.. He felt his breath catch once he caught sight of her sitting down with their fellow Gryffindor Alice Prewitt, and between Mary Macdonald and Dorcas Meadowes.
"I should go and say something to her." James found himself saying as he watched her quietly sit poking at her food.
"Prongs, I really wouldn't if I were you. She wasn't very happy with what you did to Snape yesterday."
At the mention of his name, James immediately glanced over at the Slytherin table where Snape sat brooding. James felt a quick flash of anger and jealousy run through his body as he watched him possesively staring at Lily.
He shouldn't even have the right to look at her after what he called her yesterday. The greasy haired git. HOW has she managed to stay friends with HIM for five years? He's OBVIOUSLY EVIL.
"OI, PRONGS! What're you doing?"
Snapped out of his thoughts, James looked around to find his wand drawn and sparks shooting out of the end. Peter, who was sitting across from James was cowering in fear as he had often been caught in the cross hairs of James' or Sirius' jinxes.
Immediately James lowered his wand and muttered, "Sorry, I don't know what happened." Looking at Peter, who still looked quite frightened James managed a smile and said, "Sorry Peter. Really."
"I-It's okay!" Peter squeaked back, looking relieved.
"Well, what was THAT?" Remus asked James with a puzzled look.
"Sorry, I was just thinking about Snivellus and what he called Lily. Y'know, the M-word. What a foul, unpleasant git."
Trying not to fuel the fire that was already there between James and Snape, Remus simply said, "Yeah he needs to learn some manners."
"And how to use shampoo" Sirius snorted. Peter laughed a squeaky laugh, laughing for a few seconds too long.
Looking back over at Lily, James noticed that it looked like she'd been crying. Without thinking or saying a word, James jumped up and walked down the table to where she sat. He could hear Remus yelling after him, and Sirius mutter something under his breath something about 'unhealthy obsessions' but James had never seen Lily cry before and he needed to make sure she was okay.
Walking into the Great Hall Lily immediately could feel all the eyes on her. Purposely avoiding his gaze, Lily pointedly sat with her back towards Snape. It felt like his gaze was burning a hole in the back of her head.
And further down the Gryffindor table she could see James Potter staring at her, with an odd expression on his face. Not wanting to look at him, Lily ignored him too.
Between her other best friends Mary Macdonald and Dorcas Meadowes, and with Alice sitting across from her, Lily felt herself relax a bit.
"Morning Lily!" Mary Macdonald smiled.
"Morning Mary. You and Dorcas woke up early."
"Err, well we just thought you might want some privacy this morning." Dorcas explained.
Lily could see the concern and compassion in her friend's eyes. "Oh… well, thank you."
Not wanting to say much more, Lily grabbed a bagel and began picking pieces off. She didn't feel very hungry. Listening to her best friends talk to each other, and pretending to listen by adding "Mmm's" and "Aaah's" when appropriate Lily sat quietly.
Suddenly Lily heard a voice in her ear causing her to jump, whispering, "Goodmorning Evans."
Immediately stiffening at the close proximity Lily snapped, "What do you want Potter? You come over here to hex some innocent first years?"
Turning around to glare at him, Lily watched him flinch, but then immediately recover with a cocky smile. Running his hands through his hair he responded, "Actually, no Evans. I'm over here to tell you how dearly I'm going to miss you over the Summer Holidays. But you could always fix that, you know. If you'd go out with me?"
Eyes flashing, Lily tried to keep her temper under control. "And why Potter, would I ever want to go out with you? You ask me every single day, and every single day my answer doesn't change."
"Come on Lily I know you want me as much as I want you."
Lily could feel her face turning red in anger and her hand twitched towards her wand. "Potter. I will not go out with you, nor will I ever. Your head is too inflated, your arrogance is sickening, and you're just a bullying toerag. The only reason you chase after me is because I'm the only girl who will say no to you, and you just can't stand that. You don't know me at all Potter, and I don't want to get to know you."
Breathing heavily, Lily felt a small twinge of guilt after seeing James' face flash with pain as if she'd punched him.
However she immediately felt nothing but annoyance once again when he just smirked at her and said, "Must you always attack me with words?"
"You want me to use rocks?"
With a loud laugh James just turned around and said, "See you in Transfiguration Evans. I look forward to it."
Glaring at his retreating figure, Lily slowly turned around to see her friends trying their hardest not to laugh. However, after seeing her face, they all broke down with laughter.
With a sour look on her face Lily glared at her friends, "this is not funny." However, that just made a whole new round of giggles start.
"Oh, Lily." Dorcas chuckled.
"What?"
"Can't you see how cute you two are together?" Mary laughed.
Hearing this, Lily just glared harder at her friends who were still laughing. "We are not cute together. Now I'm going to class, and I suggest you guys do too."
Stiffly standing up and gathering her books, Lily began to stomp out of the Great Hall.
Author's Note: Alright so here's the second chapter. I don't think anyone was really waiting impatiently for this chapter, but if you were I'm sorry it took so long. I was having Writers Block for a really long time, and felt like my creative writing had leaked out of my brain. So, I'm not 100% fully satisfied with my writing for this chapter but I hope that I can write some more chapters faster now that I'm getting used to writing. Also, this chapter is just a little bit shorter than the last, but I'm planning on having longer chapters than this hopefully.
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