Keywords: Breathe Again (Note to self - double check what keyword is before uploading...) Thanks for all your reviews :D
"Evans! Evans! Lily, wait, please! I'm sorry, alright?" James Potter yelled from the Gryffindor table. The entire population of Hogwarts had just witnessed him send a vat of onion soup down the length of the table and all over Lily because he had attempted to hex Severus and missed spectacularly. As expected, Lily had shrieked several curses at him then, overcome by the pain of onion soup in her eyes, attempted to leave the hall in an elegant fashion. So far it wasn't working.
"Sev?" She was standing in front of him now, looking very sorry for herself and as if she were about to burst into floods of tears. It was a pitiful sight; the thirteen year old girl completely drenched in soup, and furious and terribly upset at the same time. "Will you help me wash it out of my hair?" She whispered miserably, fingering the sodden waves. He nodded and stood up, following her out of the hall.
"Why're boys so mean, Sev?" She asked him in a quiet voice while he washed the soup out of her hair in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
"Am I mean?"
"Well, no. But you're not like them. You're nice and you understand when I don't want to talk and you've never pushed me over or been horrible to me. Promise you'll never be horrible to me?" She had looked at him with such innocent eyes and he had, naturally, promised never to hurt her. He couldn't say no to anything when she looked at him so imploringly with those beautiful green eyes.
He finished washing her long hair and dried it gently with his wand.
"Oh Sev, you're such a great friend. We'll never fight, right?" She had beamed at him and then suddenly, so quickly he almost missed it, she had kissed him on the cheek, hugged him, and then broken away and disappeared from the bathroom. Severus felt like he'd never be able to breath again with her arms around him. He touched the spot where her lips had met his cheek, then looked at his fingers with something akin to wonder.
Maybe he should thank Potter for spilling soup all over her.