The Next week seemed to fly by. Classes were easy enough apart from broom flight class (for Lily) and potions (for James). Although they had every class together Lily had managed to avoid James, she had been watching him though, even if she didn't want to be, she found herself noticing things about him. Shed noticed that he had the tendency to ruffle his hair up so it was all messy when he was in class, she also noticed how he liked to pick on Snape quite a lot. She wondered if the two had a history or if they simply hated each other. Another thing she noticed was his arrogant side, he likes to boast quite a lot and the only people he respects are his friends and professor McGonagall (she had no idea why but whenever they had transfiguration he seemed to immediately become serious and pay attention, unlike any other class) and the last thing she noticed was that even thought he seemed to pay no attention in class he still seemed to be able to answer every question wasn't yet sure whether it was a good or bad thing that shed manage to pay this much attention to him but she just couldn't stop and that worried her. James on the other hand was very happy, while he missed talking the red headed girl he found himself enjoying his time at Hogwarts, he also liked the fact hed seen Lily staring at him in classes a couple of times so that seemed to keep his spirits up. Right now he and Sirius were super excited for the quidditch team tryouts this coming Monday. ever since they shown off their broom skills in broom flying class professor hooch had let them onto the field every day to practice for the tryouts. As they been walking to the field with professor hooch Sirius had thanked her for letting them into practice and even kissed the professors knuckle as she was leaving. James of course took the opportunity to tease his best friend and asked him if "Professor Hooch is replacing Minnie (McGonagall) as his favorite teacher". Sirius looked genuinely offended and exclaimed that Minnie would always be his favorite teacher (He basically enjoyed teasing her but she never did anything and surprisingly let him be annoying only Occasionally asking him to be quiet). Everyday since Tuesday they'd spent every spare minute practicing and they just hoped it would be enough. It was now Sunday evening and James and Sirius have just finished their sixth practice and are simply ready to sleep. When they come through the portrait hole they find Lily Evans asleep on the sofa a book perched in her small hands. Sirius keeps walking as if he cant see her but James freezes and frowns.

"Sirius! We can't just leave her here" he whispers just loud enough to hear. Sirius turns around to face Lily.

"shell be fine, let's just go sleep" He groans turning back around and going up the stairs to the dorm. James doesn't follow and instead picks up the book that's in her hands and places it on the coffee table and then proceeds to pull a blanket he found over his small frame. He smiles at her and then joins Sirius in the dorm.

The next morning Dorcas walks downstairs to the common room and wakes up Lily.

"Leave me alone" groans Lily covering her eyes. Dorcas rolls her eyes.

"Lils, you've got to get up or you'll not get breakfast"

"Hmm, I suppose I should" she grumbles sitting up. "Aw thanks for putting this blanket over me, I would have frozen to death if not" she jokes pulling it around her.

"I didn't put that over you, all of us girls were asleep by the time you were" Lily frowns. "Come on Lily get your lazy butt up those stairs and get ready" Dorcas cheers. Lily laughs and gets up. Dorcas sits down on the sofa and waits for her friend to be ready. Peter Pettigrew comes down stairs and sits down beside her.

"Hey Dora" he smiles. She rolls her eyes.

"you know I hate that name Pete" she says. He shrugs and picks up the prophet that was sitting on the coffee table. Lily comes downstairs soon looking far more awake than before.

"Thanks goodness your awake I'm dying to gossip to you!" Exclaims Dorcas hooking arms with Lily.

"Gossip away" Lily laughs.

"So I run into Emma Vanity-"

"The Slytherin?"

"Yeah. So I ran into her and she decided to call me a slag-"

"Your not a slag!"

"Lily dear, I love you but quit interrupting me"

"Oh sorry"

"its ok, now where was I? Oh yeah, she called me a slag completely out of the blue so I asked her why and she said it's because I hang out with so many guys! I mean, can you believe her?" Lily shook her head at this. " So I told her that she should look in the mirror and wear a longer skirt and then I walked away" Lily bursts into giggles as they walked into the hall. They sit beside Marlene and Alice who were having a conversation about who was the most good looking boy in the school.

"No Benji would be thirtyth if their was a list. " Marlene argues. Alice rolls her eyes and huffs.

"who cares about thrityth, any way we all know Frank Longbottom would be number one" Alice grins at her friends.

"Frank Longbottom, I didn't even think of him" Marlene frowned

"What's that supposed to mean, I think he's the best looking guy around" once she's said this she seems to realized what she just admitted and goes a deep red color.

"Aw Alice, do you like Frank Longbottom?" Dorcas says so loud that the people around them look over. Alice scowls at Dorcas and, if it's even possible, become more red than before. Dorcas laughs.

"No, I don't like frank."Alice lied. "Lets talk about something else." The girls smile.

Over at the entrance to the hall James, Sirius, Remus and Peter Walk into the hall. They spot the girls and go sit beside them.

"Hey Mar" James Smiles as he lops down beside her.

"Hey" she grins back.

"Prewett, Meadows... Evans" he says nodding to the others. They nod back apart from Dorcas whos to busy eyeing Emma Vanity across the hall. James picks up a piece of toast and takes a bite.

"So how are you Evans?" He asks noticing that she seems to be avoiding his gaze. She eyes him but says nothing. "aw, come on. Why are you giving me the silent treatment?"

Lily rolls her eyes dryly. "Maybe I would talk to you if you weren't such an pompous toerag" Sirius who is suddenly paying attention to their conversation starts to laugh at this.

"She just called you a toerag!" Sirius Laughs. James frowns at him.

"How would you know I was a pompous toerag, you haven't talked to me for five days. Oh wait, maybe it was when I caught you staring at me in class" he replies not thinking about what he's saying. Lily's eyes widen and her cheeks blaze.

"Oh just leave me, alone" Lily mumbles. James smirks.

"Aw come on Evans, get to know me better. Why don't we go out this weekend?" In side James is completely stunned by what is coming out his mouth but outside you'd never have known.

"we can't go out this weekend, we can't leave Hogwarts remember" Lily says sourly. James smirk grows.

"So if we could you go out with me?" Lily glowered at him and quickly gets up and storms out the halls. The girls who hadn't noticed what was going on turn to James confused.

"What happened?" Alice asked. James shrugged.

"I didn't say anything wrong" James laughs. At this Sirius laughs but quickly looks down at his food because of the look Dorcas gives him.

"I'll go check on her" Dorcas says walking briskly out the hall after Lily.

Dorcas finally caught up with Lily halfway to the common room. She caught Lily's hand and then started to pant as shed ran most of the way.

"What?" Lily says taking her arms away from her. Dorcas looks confusedly at her friend.

"What the hell happened back there?"

"I don't know what you mean." Lily say innocently looking down at her shoes.

"What happened with potter?" Dorcas says tilting her head to the side.

"He's a arrogant toerag" Lily growls starting to walk again. This time Dorcas walks beside her.

"Lils, that's not telling me what happened"

"Well I don't want to talk about it, I'll see you in Astronomy." Lily sighs before speeding up. Dorcas groans and stops following her friend.

"Lily stop these boots have heels, I can't run in new heels!" She yells looking down at her brand new boots.

By dinner Lily hadn't said one thing about what happened at breakfast and shed been in a fowl mood since and Dorcas had tried talking her out of her mood, but Lily being the stubborn girl she is just stayed the same. At dinner the boys sit beside the girls again. As they sat down Lily made sure to look nowhere but her plate. When the feast began James started piling food on his plate and was holding up a chicken drumstick when Lily finally looked up from her plate. he smirked.

"So Evans have you thought anymore about my question this morning?" Jame asked. He again had no idea why he was saying this but it just slipped out.

"I have no idea what your on about Potter" She shrugs. The other girls watch the exchange curious to know what's going on.

"Oh sorry let me repeat it. Will you go out with me?" He smugly smirks. The girls seem surprised at this.

"Potter I'm pretty sure I told you the answer to this already" she sighs looking once more at her plate.

"Hmm well I just thought id ask again, and I think ill keep asking until you say yes" he grins

"Not in a million years" Lily growls quietly. She helps herself to some food and completely ignores her friends who are giving her questioning looks. James starts to have a conversation with Sirius and remus about quidditch although his smug smile hasn't faded off his face. While eating Lily tries to calm herself down. By the time dinners over she has calmed down enough to explain to her friends what had happened that morning. She told herself that night that she would just avoid him and not even look at him, little did she would find this extremely difficult.

A/N - Was that ok? Who knows? I hope it was ok! Have a good day,

EB