It really was right there, under her nose, jumping up and down, screaming, and all this time she had just walked on by, both blind and deaf, how could she have not noticed, it was always there, Ivy had practically screamed it at her. Since fifth year he had liked her, and yet she scowled at the thought, why was she so blind. She needed to do something, quick. She needed to fix everything, and how she did it she wasn't sure.

The simple fact was that Lily Evans had it bad for James Potter. And she didn't know what to do.

So she ran away from James who was looking thoroughly bewildered at the look of mortification on Lily's face. She ran all the way to the great hall where Ivy was sat with Sirius chatting happily.

"I need you now!" Lily yelped. "I need you now! Help!"

"Sit down Lily, what's wrong," Ivy said slowly sitting Lily down on the bench beside her. Instantly Lily's head crashed down on the table, a heavy thump sounded, and she groaned with the pain.

"I like James, I've always liked James. And I think back to it I really have always like James, I was just too wound up to realise," Lily muttered, Sirius gasped at the news and tried to escape his girlfriends clutch to tell the good news.

"You have to let me tell him!" Sirius whined as Ivy wouldn't let go of her iron grip on the back of his shirt, he looked heartbroken with the insistence that he could not tell his friend this wonderful news. "No this is something Lily must deal with."

"But-"

"No Lily needs to deal with this, alone," Ivy said then released her grumbling boyfriend, who sunk into his seat and sulked.

Lily paced in the Head Common room, was she really going to do this? Was she really going to tell James she liked him? How would he react? Would he even care anymore?

Lily looked to the clock and grimaced it was getting increasingly late, but she was drawn from those thoughts when James stumbled into the common room, causing Lily to groan, he was drunk.

James seemed to have spotted her.

"Hey Lily… I like your hair…" He slurred and smiled at her sheepishly. "I think I may be a bit drunk."

Lily sighed.

"And here I was hoping to be able to tell you how much I like you, but that doesn't matter, you won't remember anything in the morning, so I'll take this as a sign. You're not meant to know, we're not meant to be together," James tipped his head to the side slightly and looked at her. "Goodnight James."

And she left him standing there in the middle of the common room, out of his head drunk.

But at least he wasn't a horrid drunk.

The next morning Lily awoke to the sound a groaning from the bathroom, so she knocked three times then opened it, to find James leant over the sink practically downing mouthwash.

"How's it going?" Lily asked him loudly.

"For someone who likes me, you're a cow at times," James said smirking at Lily's shocked face. "I remember everything." He said and Lily felt her face flushed, and for the first time she noticed that both of them were barely dressed, James for one was only wearing a pair of black bowers, and she was wearing only her small pink shorts and white crop top.

"I-I. I-oh." Lily said pathetically, she felt like such a fool, he wasn't meant to remember.

James straightened up and looked at Lily.

"Is this a sign too?" He asked softly stepping forwards slightly.

"Maybe," Lily said in almost a whisper. Then she shook her head and walked out very quickly.

James stared confused, did she just reject him again or what?

"I'll think about it." Lily called from her bathroom as if she had read his mind.

"HANNAH!" Lily screamed as she tumbled into the Gryffindor roughly an hour later. It was of course to find herself lying flat face down on the floor then too look up and find herself facing James. "Damn."

"I see you're having a great day." James said picking Lily up off of the floor. "I'm going to make things easy for you." Lily looked at him curiously.

And in a swift movement James pulled Lily against him and brought his soft lips down on hers, gentle and loving, Lily moaned, she hadn't meant to but James' touch was something above everything else. Taking this as encouragement James deepened the kiss and slid his tongue into Lily's mouth, a sensation that made Lily's knees buckle, but James' hold on her didn't let her fall to the floor. Slowly he pulled away and smiled at the redhead.

"Be my girlfriend Lily?" James asked, whispering softly into her ear.

"Yes."

There was a sudden cheer and for the first time Lily realised that there was a crowd watching her and James, she blushed as James grinned and wrapped Lily up in his arms, and led her back down to the Heads Dorms.