A/N:
Written for the April Event over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)
AVPB: (Dragon Song) "Let's re-evaluate our options. Throw away our old presumptions."
1000 Word Challenge: Watch
Word Count: 336
Friends
James strolled along the grass towards the tree where he had asked Lily to meet him earlier that day in a note.
He wasn't sure whether or not she would turn up, and if she did he had no idea what to expect.
The teenager reached the tree, slumped against it, sank to the floor and waited. James periodically checked the watch his parents had sent him for his seventeenth birthday the week before.
She was five minutes late.
He should have known that Lily wouldn't show up.
He should have known better than to hope that she would be willing to talk to him, to give him a chance.
The only thought in his mid was that at least he hadn't told his friends about his last ditch attempt at winning Lily Evans' heart.
As James stood up and dusted off the stray blades of grass that had stuck to his clothes he caught a glimpse of red out of the corner or his eye and his heart soared.
She came.
"Alright Potter, what is it you want to talk about?" she asked as she reached him.
James grinned at the witch who had claimed his heart the moment they had first met.
"I wanted to say that I'm sorry," he said. "I'm sorry for all the crap that I've pulled in the past and for all the immature ways that I have tried to impress you. I wanted to say that I completely understand why you always reject me. I guess what I want is for us to start over this year with a clean slate."
"Really James," Lily said quirking her eyebrow. "No more chasing me. No more acting like a jerk."
"Yes think about Lily; let's re-evaluate our options," James declared. "Throw away our old presumptions, and move forwards; and maybe, just maybe we could be friends. After all we do have to work together now."
Lily bit her bottom lip, and nodded her head.
"I suppose I could work with that."