Never give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about.

"James I am not joking, leave me alone," Iris Evans spoke to her cousins boyfriend, who seems to become more persistent the more she says no.
"C'mon, Iris! I just need to know what's going on in her head," he begged. Iris just shook her head, causing her auburn curls to shake dramatically. His face fell.
"James, she's my cousin, my best friend and you hurt her, I don't know what you want me to say," Iris told him her heart breaking a little for the boy, who was obviously upset.
"I just want to know if she still wants to be with me," he asked. Iris sighed.
"Ask me anything but that James, I don't know the answer to that one,"
"Look Ire, just tell her this for me okay? I love her, always have, I know I shouldn't have done what I did, it was stupid, I regret it, I miss her, tell her, I don't need her in my life, tell her I want her, and that's a big thing because I COULD live without her, but I really don't want too," his voice started to tremor.
"Iris, I really don't want too," Iris wrapped an arm around James, who gave her a quick hug back.
"James, did you mean everything you just told me," she asked and James nodded furiously.
"Every word Iris, I may be a marauder, but I would never joke about stuff like this, not about Lily," he confirmed, still looking dejected.
"James, do you love her?" Iris questioned.
"Let me explain something to you Ire, I have wanted to be a part of her life since I was 11 years old. I have gone through years of rejection, taunting, and embarrassment trying to let her let me know her. My friends ripped me off for five years because I couldn't get her. Now I have her, and every time she is near me I get butterflies, and I forget how to think right, I mess up alot, but its because im trying so hard not too. Every morning I think to myself my day will be amazing if I can just get her to smile, my day will be amazing if I can just get her to laugh, because Ire, she makes me happier than I have been in years, and her being happy is everything to me. Now to answer your question, Do I love Lily Bryce Evans? More than my own life," James spoke clear and loud, and his declaration for his love sent goose bumps down Iris's arms. She sat there with her jaw hanging open for a moment before packing up her books and putting them in her back.
"Wait Iris, where are you going, I need you to help me, I need to know whether to let her go, if that's what she wants," James begged. Iris looked at him and shook her head.
"James, James, James, I don't know what to say except never give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about," upon saying this she gave him a quick hug and ran out the portrait hole to meet Sirius.

James sat looking out the window on to the grounds near the great lake where he saw Iris run out and hug Sirius about 5 minutes after she left him. James smiled, his best friend deserved to be happy. He could see Remus studying under the old beech tree next to the lake, and he could bet his bottom galleon that he was shaking his head at Sirius who was now threateningly close to the waters edge with Iris in his arms. He could see Peter sitting beside Remus, and he looked like he was looking at the pretty red headed hufflepuff girl he had been eyeing off lately. James sighed he would have given anything to be one of his friends at that moment, so carefree.
"You know, sitting here feeling sorry for yourself won't make her forgive you," the harmonious voice of his girlfriend spoke from immediately behind. James spun around and she was walking toward him. Immediately James started to talk.
"Lily I-" but he was cut off by her pressing her hand to his mouth.
"But saying words like you did to Iris might," she smiled. "Did you mean them? What you said?" she asked. James looked her directly in the eyes.
"Every word, how could I not," Lily reached for his hand, and pulled him into a standing position.
"Okay then, well its a lucky thing I was coming down the stairs when you decided to declare them," she whispered, grabbing for his tie and pulling his face down until it was only centimetres from hers.
"Your forgiven," she murmured before crushing his lips onto hers. James took back his previous thought about being one of his friends, they don't get to do this with Lily.