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*I just posted a new Lily/James story called, So Breakable. Go check it out!*
James POV:
I think about her. Of course, not all the time! I have other things to worry about, like pranks with my best friends, other girls, other girls erm… unmentionables, my family, this wretched war, and of course Slytherins. But I do think about her. More than any normal boy would think about a girl that hates them, or at least tells you she does.
I think about her eyes, such a deep green, if you look hard enough, you could read her whole life story in them, as if it were written down on a paper. I think about her hair, it's this reddish-brown color that is long and wavy; it looks so soft and smooth. I think about her freckles, I think about how, if she'd let me, I'd draw little pictures in them. I think about her smile and the rare times I see it.
And then I think about the first time we met.
I walked into the small compartment. Inside was a skinny boy with a handsome face and black hair. He was staring absentmindedly out the window. Across from him was a small girl with reddish-brown hair. She was already changed into her school robes and was currently buried in a text book. I plopped down next to the boy and started to talk. We talked about everything! We talked about our families, Quidditch, and our pets. Suddenly another boy with greasy black hair and a long nose that shone in the compartment light burst through the door.
"Lily! I've found you!" He exclaimed all out of breath. The girl jumped slightly and then looked up. I glanced at her. She had freckles scattered across her cheeks and almond shaped green eyes. My own eyes widened when I saw her smile. She grinned at him and he grinned back and quickly sat beside her. She returned to her book and he watched her read.
"Anyway, which house do you suppose you'll be in?" I asked Sirius, the boy sitting beside me.
"I don't know, probably Slytherin." My chin dropped.
"And I thought you were alright!" I cried indignantly.
"My whole family has been in Slytherin. What house do you hope to be in?" He asked grinning slightly.
"Gryffindor! For the brave and loyal! Just like my parents." I beamed at them all. By now the whole compartment was watching me, even Lily, the girl with the pretty smile. The slimy boy snorted. "What house do you want to be put in?" I glared at him.
"Slytherin. I prefer brains over brawns." He stuck up his slimy nose.
"At least I have both." I sneered at him. His face turned pink and he opened his mouth to retort when the pretty girl spoke.
"Come on Severus, let's get out of here." She grabbed his arm and then squinted at Sirius and I before leaving with the slime-ball.
"See ya Snivllus!" I called out. Sirius and I chortled…
And I think about the times I teased her.
"Hey Evans!" I called out. The girl in front of me started and then made her small feet move faster. "Evans! Wait up!" I called and started to chase after her.
After a few strides I caught up to her and she sighed.
"What do you want Potter?" She asked.
"Hey where's your slimy dog?" I asked her looking around.
"His name is Severus, or Snape if you must."
"Nah, I like Snivllus better. So, freckle face, you think you could do mine and Sirius' papers for Potions? Since you're such a brain…" I winked at her. Her cheeks were slightly pink and her emerald eyes were slits.
"No, four-eyes, I shall not do yours and Black's papers for Potions since I am such a brain." She said clutching her books closer to her chest.
"Four-eyes is hitting below the belt, flat chest." I smirked at her as her face turned bright red and her mouth opened and closed repeatedly for a few moments. "Cat got your tongue?"
If possible her face got even redder and she huffed at me before turning on her heel and marching across the court yard. I chuckled slightly at her retreating form.
I lied. She has a pretty nice chest for a twelve year old…
And I think about a few of our fights.
"Potter!" I heard her shriek. Oh dungbombs! I thought I had gotten rid of her!
"Evans." I nodded and turned toward the fuming girl. I had to hold in a chuckle at her appearance. Her usually pale skin was red and gold and sparkling. Sirius and I thought she needed some house spirit.
"Did you do this?" She growled at me. I backed up slightly.
"Now, now Evans, it should wear off… in about a week…" I said, holding my hands up.
"A WEEK?! Potter! I'll kill you!" Her mouth dropped and she charged after me as I ran.
"Merlin, Evans! You're fast!" I called.
"I'm a pretty good runner, but I'm even better with my wand!" She called back.
"Wha-," I started but was soon stopped as I was frozen to the spot. My immobilized body tipped over and I was soon facing the beautiful devil flower.
"Hmm… What shall your punishment be…?" She said stroking her golden chin. Internally, I winced. This wasn't the first time I had faced her wrath.
"Aha! I got it, how about a haircut? Oh? You want it completely redone you say?" She mused. She waved her wand a few times, muttering before each wave and she soon grinned at me. I was not completely frozen any longer, my fingers were able to move as well as my legs. Perfect timing if I say so myself.
She pulled a mirror out of her bag. Why do girls always carry mirrors? What's the point?
"Like your new do?" She asked shoving the mirror in my face. My once black hair was green with silver streaks and was pulled into high pigtails, not long ones but they were defiantly pigtails. I suddenly felt warm all over and I had to fight to keep my body still, just for a moment longer.
"Love it." I smirked at her and pounced. It was her turn to land on the soft grass as I supported myself above her. "When does it come off?" I snarled. She gulped.
"As soon as mine does. Fair enough?" I nodded…
And I think about the first prank we played on her.
"James, I feel weird like this." Sirius looked at me and pulled down on his skirt.
"Oh you look fine. We have to hurry to get up there though before the potion wears off." I said. We quickly descended the boys staircase and traveled up the girls. Smooth ride. No alarm, no slide, and no screaming girls.
"Come on, look for third year's door." I hissed at Sirius, knowing him, he would be distracted by the other doors and would run around waking up every Gryffindor girl around here. We searched blindly for a moment before I found a sign hanging just above a door that read, Second Years.
"Oh! Sirius, you have to look above the door! They have signs!" I whispered, amazed.
"Oh… Found it then." He replied. I rushed toward his voice and we slowly opened the door. Upon entering we were greeting with loud snoring.
"Jeez, Sirius, that girl snores louder than you!" I commented before pulling out my wand and charming the girls' hair. All of their hair was supposed to change just as their mood did. Sirius wrote down the key saying red was angry, yellow was sheepish and all that rubbish as I went around making sure it worked. We finished and I looked at Lily's hair. It was red. Even in sleep she's angry. Merlin…
I snickered and it came out as a giggle and we quickly left, rushing up to the boy's room. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
"POTTER!"…
And I think about the first time she called me James.
"Lily, could you pass me the cat's tails?" I asked absentmindedly, as I was concentrating on the frog's legs in front of me.
"Sure." She scrunched up her nose and pushed the tails toward me.
"Thanks." I said as I pushed my glasses further up my nose and continued to cut the legs.
"Your welcome."
Soon my potion was steaming and a yellowish color. Just as the recipe had said it should be. I smiled down at it and began to stir in a counter-clockwise direction. I didn't even notice Slughorn come up in front of me until he spoke.
"Well done James, well done! I think setting you beside Miss Evans has helped." I jumped and put my uncomfortable smile on, nodding at the plump man. He chuckled and moved on to observe other potions.
"Good job James." I froze. It wasn't the soft voice, or the compliment, it was the name. She called me James…
And I think about the first time I kissed her.
I glanced over toward the tree and I wiped my forehead.
"What are you looking at Prongs?" Sirius asked looking toward the girls. "Oh, I shouldn't have even asked." He rolled his eyes and lay back down on the grass.
"Shut up Padfoot." I mumbled. I trailed her every move with my eyes.
She tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. She fiddled with her book mark. Her friends giggled and splashed water at her from the lake. She jumped, surprised.
"Mary! I'll get you!" She laughed and placed her book down, jogging toward the lake. She didn't go in but she did place her hands in and splash the girls with all her might. They splashed back. I gulped as some hit her white button up blouse.
"I-I'm gonna go talk to her." I stuttered. Remus looked up from his book, exasperated.
"James, you've been doing so well with her. You two haven't fought in at least a week! Why ruin it?" He asked.
"But Remus! Look at her! Her and her friends are splashing each other! There's some on her shirt!" He glanced toward the girls and rolled his eyes.
"Aw, let him go embarrass himself, he's being boring just sitting here watching them." Sirius said as he shielded his face from the sun. Remus looked down at him; raised an eyebrow at me and then nodded. I nodded once back and then scrambled to my feet.
I straightened my shirt and walked over to the girls with my hands in my pockets.
"Hey." I nodded to them. Lily immediately stopped splashing and glared at me.
"What do you wa-," She was cut off as one of the girls drenched her. Her white shirt clung to her body and she turned toward the girls whom were all trying to hold in giggles.
"Dorcas, you are dead when he leaves!" She snarled at the tall blond who had soaked her. I immediately recognized her as a member of the Quidditch team. Her eyes widened and she jumped behind a dark haired girl.
Lily turned back to me and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"Now, what do you want?" She asked, shivering.
"To talk." I grinned at her.
"Well I don't want to talk." She turned and started to walk back to the tree she was previously at. I followed behind her silently.
"Oh come on, Lily flower! You can't resist the Potter charm." I winked at her as we approached the tree.
"Watch me." She said just before she bent over to reach into her bag. She rummaged around a bit before emerging with her wand. She quickly did a drying spell and then looked up at me. Her eye's widened when she realized just how close I had gotten.
"W- what are you doing?" She stuttered and her cheeks flushed.
"You can't resist the Potter charm…" I trailed off as I looked down at her mouth. It was parted slightly and I watched as she gulped. I leaned in just a bit more.
Her lips were warm and soft and I pushed down on them. I hadn't realized that my hands had made their way to either side of her face until her cheeks got even warmer. The kiss was brief but oh, so wonderful. She tasted like sweet caramel apples. She soon slapped my face, making me pull back.
"Ow! Jeez woman! What's your problem?" I cried as I rubbed the side of my face.
"Nothing… I'm just resisting the "Potter charm", like I promised you I would." She smirked before gathering her things and heading toward the castle…
And I think about the first time she kissed back.
I heard the portrait hole creak open and glanced up from my essay. Lily Evans crawled through. Yes, that same Lily Evans with the pretty reddish brown hair and the almond shaped green eyes. The same Lily Evans with the pretty smile and freckly face; the one who worked along side me as Heads and claimed that she detested it but surely didn't act like it.
She looked up and her eyes scanned the room. We had our own common room and bedrooms hidden higher than the Gryffindor common room. It was nice for a dive out the window from a broom.
She spotted me and gave a small grin, I nodded in return.
"Hey James." She sat down beside me and pulled out her books.
"Hey Lils, how's it going?" I asked, not really paying attention, but instead staring into the glowing fireplace.
"Alright, you?"
"Like shit. I just can't figure out how to put what I want on this damn paper." I answered shaking my head. She giggled and reached over, taking my paper. As she did, I got a whiff of whatever is on that girl. It smells sweet like roses and has a sharp edge like, shoot, I don't know what, and it was intoxicating to me.
"Okay so what are you trying to get down, aside from 'Patronuses show your true identity through an animal'." She looked up at me with her large green eyes.
"I need to say how, they ironically, could show you your love by the other person's animal being the mate to yours, and how it can change depending on who you love or your personality. I want to say how you can talk to them and feel them and generally your Patronus is the same as your Animagus. It shows who you really are, like if you were an animal that's what you would be. Your personality matches that animal's, you two are one." I sighed and ran my fingers through my hair.
"All that detailed and it has to be a page and a half long." I took off my glasses and rubbed my face. I could hear scratching and I peeked over at Lily. "What are yo-," I started but then saw it. As she wrote her handwriting immediately matched mine in the first paragraph. She was writing almost exactly what I had just said except detailing it. I watched her.
She bit her lower lip and gnawed on that as she worked. I stared at her as her soft hair fell in her face, shielding it. The fire made her hair look even redder. I reached over and pushed her hair behind her ear, just the part that fell in her face of course. She instantly froze and looked up at me. Instead of moving my hand away, I brought it to her cheek and gently caressed it. I couldn't see it but I felt her face heat up underneath my touch.
I leaned in closer freezing when I remembered what happened the last time I kissed this beauty. At this point I could feel her breath on my face and when she wiggled, our noses bumped just slightly.
I stayed frozen to the spot, only spreading out my hand to cup her small heart-shaped face. She tilted her head into my hand, closing her eyes. I began to make small circles with my thumb on her cheek bone. Her eyes snapped open and she licked her lips. As she did, her tongue skimmed my mouth and I tensed, she did not.
I felt her push her damp lips to my mouth and I tasted sweet caramel apples once more. It wasn't a peck, it defiantly wasn't tongue kissing but it was sure damn close.
Her hands were in my hair and mine were on her waist. She was pulling back so I leaned over top of her. We broke for air but soon reconnected. She was an amazing kisser and where she learned made me hot with jealousy but right now, she was mine.
Our mouths moved in sync and she repositioned her hands, one on my shoulder and the other on my chest. My hands were supporting myself, one on each side of her head. I gently nipped at her bottom lip, the one she was previously eating herself. I heard her give a muffled moan and I nibbled harder. She gasped mid-kiss and I smirked and kissed her cheek bone and her ear and her forehead before finding her mouth again.
I could tell she was nervous. So what if she had experience? She knew I had way more than her. I was surprised though, when she licked my upper lip, wanting entrance. My eyes opened and I shot up.
"Um…" I cleared my throat and ran my hand through my hair. I always seemed to do that more often around Lily than not. She sat up disoriented.
"Erm, here's your essay, I think I'm going to turn in… Night James." She stood and shook her head.
"Night." I nodded…
And then I think about when she finally said yes.
With my hands in my pockets, I departed, Sirius by my side. We were like Batman and Robin, whoever they are, Lily always calls us that though so. We chatted aimlessly as we waltzed toward Hogsmead.
"So, I know this is weird for me but, how's Lily?" Sirius asked tilting his head. Last year, he and Lily had finally begun to get along. But even though they were somewhat friends, he still tired of hearing me basically gush about her.
"Alright. I mean, I think so last night we didn't really talk but were a bit more… uh… physical…?" I squinted at him.
"Physical? Physical how? Merlin my best friend gets physical with his dream girl and he DOESN'T rush to my room to tell me!" He whined. I chuckled at his drama queen face.
"Well, we somewhat made out on the couch… and I somehow ruined it like always." I sighed.
"Details! Tell me!" He begged as we made our way into Three Broomsticks.
"Alright," I smiled as we sat down. "Okay, so I leaned in but she started the kiss and then it was good, steady making out until she licked my lip…uh wanting entrance I guess. Then I kinda freaked and jumped off her." I ran my hands through my hair. Even just thinking about her makes me do that!
"Prongs! Man! You had her, hook, line and sinker!" I snickered at his use of the old muggle phrase that they had talked about in muggle studies a few weeks ago.
"Yeah I suppose…" I looked up as a group of girls entered yapping about something unimportant. I glanced down at my hands, they were calloused from my broom stick. I did have the finest model but it still rubbed your hands raw.
"James, go talk to her!" Sirius whispered at me.
"What?" I looked at him and then at the girls. There she was, staring straight at me, her emerald eyes shinning with a smile. "And say what, Padfoot?" I snapped at him.
"I dunno, anything. You probably still have a hook on her after last night." He wiggled his eyebrows suggestively. I whacked the side of his head with my fist.
"Shut it, dog." I looked over at her table again and as I did, she looked up at me, biting her bottom lip, just like last night. I gulped and my eyes widened.
"Is it that hard Prongsie boy?"
"Sirius!" I quickly stood from the table and shoving my hands in my pockets I strolled over to her table.
"Hey Lily." She jumped and looked up at me, so did all her table. A few of them smirked and the rest looked wary.
"Hey James, what's going on?" She bit her lip again.
"Uh, I was just, er, thinking maybe you'd like to spend the rest of the day with me? We could go wherever you want, Zonko's, the bookstore, whatever that's called, or Shrieking Shack, or even back to the school… or…" I ranted, my hands balling into fists in my pockets.
"Yes." She said smirking slightly.
"Or…Wait- what?" My chin hung loose and my eyebrows disappeared into my hair.
"I said yes, stupid. Are you gonna take me somewhere or are you just going to sit here staring at me?" She smiled that amazing smile that lit up a whole room and stood. I held out my arm with a grin.
"After you, m'lady." She waved at her friends and I turned to Sirius with a grin. He was smiling. I had finally got the girl…
Maybe she doesn't hate me as much as she says she does. Maybe being with me makes her smile or maybe she thinks about me as much as I think about her. Maybe two is better than one.
A/N: Wow, that was a long one… Aren't you proud of me?! And I wrote all of this in a car. A very tight car too. My dad's seat is actually pressing the back of my laptop up and my feet are all folded up but you know what? I was in a Lily and James mood.
I like that part in the beginning where he says and other girls' erm… unmentionables. Haha! That was good. Anyway, I have homework to do so I must bid you farewell!
Make sure to go read So Breakable, it's just a prologue so far but I must say I am quite proud of myself. And I know it's not the story I promised but I hope I can truthfully say it will be better!
