Summary: Lily and James hate each other, but there's a fine line between love and hate. How will they finally get together?

Genre: Romance

Ships: Lily/James

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

A/N: This was written a few years a go, so bear with the immature ideas. It's cute, though g

The Fine Line Between Love and Hate

Chapter the Fourth: At Sirius' House

[ Agent Bambi ]

James sat on his bed, early on a Saturday morning. He didn't usually get up at such an early time – it was all Sirius' fault, as usual. He had sent James an owl about coming over to his house that day. James looked over the messily scrawled letter.

"Hey James,

I'm coming to your house today, okay? Owl me back.

-Sirius.

PS: Remus is coming

PPS: Peter's coming too

PPPS: Should we invite Lily, Dyna and Aurora??"

He laughed. Trust Sirius to add so many postscripts!

He pulled out a quill and a piece of parchment and scribbled something hardly legible, that went something like:

"Sirius,

Yeah okay, be there before lunchtime. You can invite Dyna and Aurora but DEFINITELY NOT LILY!!! Please.

C-ya soon,

James."

James looked around for Sirius' crazy owl, Spacey, but he had flown away. Instead, James grabbed Triton, his own tawny owl and tied the letter to his leg.

"Send it to Sirius, 'kay?"

Triton hooted good-naturedly and flew off into the sun.

Around nine o'clock, James got up out of bed and rushed into his parents' bedroom.

"Can Sirius come over, mum?"

"Of course he can. Just don't get up to any trouble," his mum replied, as if she knew.

"I won't!" James lied; fingers crossed.

After having breakfast and then a shower, Sirius set off with Lily towards James' house, which was only a block away.

He pushed open the door and called, "James! I'm here!"

James ran down the stairs, to see Sirius grinning madly.

"You won't believe who's here!"

"No, not Lily."

Sirius' smile faded from his face, "How'd you guess?"

"I know you love to torture me, what else could it be?" James drawled, and then continued, "So, where is she?"

"Right here," Lily said, appearing in the doorway, "Who else is here?"

"Peter, Remus and Dyna, Aurora said she can't make it until after lunch, though."

"Oh, well. Where is everyone?"

"Upstairs."

James followed Sirius to his room. Dyna was sitting on the floor next to his bed, talking to Remus and Peter about their game of chess. They all looked up when James, Lily and Sirius walked in.

"Hi, Sirius and Lily," Remus said.

"Hey Sirius, Lily," Peter laughed.

"Hi Lily. And Sirius," Dyna greeted.

"Hi," Sirius said, then looked at Lily.

Lily rolled her eyes, "Hey, everyone."

"Evans," James nodded his head in acknowledgement.

"Oh, you two, just be friends already!" Remus said in a bored voice, "Or at least call each other by your first names!"

"Yes, master Remus," James laughed, not taking him seriously.

"Like Potter could ever be civil!" Lily snorted.

"Pig," muttered James.

"Excuse me?" Lily said dangerously.

"I said, 'pig'," James challenged.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" Lily murmured and James flew up into the air.

"Put me down, Evans!"

"Like I would, Potter."

"Lily, put him down," Peter said calmly.

"Nah, its fun watching him," Lily replied casually.

"Yeah, perving on James, are ya, Lily?" Sirius laughed innocently.

"You wish," Lily said, but put him down.

"Now, what shall we do?"

"Shall?" Dyna laughed, "Sirius, what happened to you?"

"A temporary change of character, maybe?" Lily laughed.

"Too bad it's not permanent."

"Well, we can't have everything," James smirked.

"So, what are we going to do today?" Sirius repeated.

"We can send a curse to Snape?" Lily suggested.

James' eyes lit up at once. "Great idea, Evans," he said, to everybody's surprise.

By the time they had sent an Itching Curse to Severus Snape, Aurora had finally arrived.

"What are you guys doing?" she asked when she was inside.

"Nothing, we just finished sending a curse to Snape, and now we're stuck for ideas. Got any?"

"How about prank calls?" Aurora suggested. Even though she came from an all-magical family, they still used phones.

"Do we know anyone's phone number?"

"No, but we could call up just anyone, you know."

"Alright," Sirius said and grabbed the phone from the hall.

He punched in a number, "Hello … is this Jake's house? … No? … ah, sorry Emily … just hang on a sec, will ya, hon?"

He covered the mouthpiece, "What should I say?"

"Ask her if she wants to order a pizza."

"Ok," Sirius said, uncertainly.

"Do you want to order a pizza, Em? … you do? Ok, good. Would you like the Margarita? We have a special Hawaiian today for only ten dollars … do we serve the Meat Lover's Pizza? Of course we do! Alright, could I have your address please? 25 Cartwright Drive is it? Ok then, see you soon!"

He hung up.

Lily stared, her eyebrows raised, "Um, that was an interesting prank call!"

"Thank you. Now are we gonna go to Emily's house or not?" Sirius asked.

"Is it far away?" Peter said, pointing out the obvious problem.

"Well, I've never heard of it …" muttered Sirius.

"Ok, so we'll just leave her waiting for the pizza then?" James laughed.

"But of course!"

"Should we do another?" Sirius asked.

"Um, maybe not …" Lily smirked, "That was really, really juvenile, about the pizza order."

"You really think so?" Sirius said, pleased with the result.

"Definitely."

"Ok, what should we do now?" Dyna asked.

"Let's play Quidditch!" James said suddenly.

"Do we have enough brooms?" Aurora asked.

"I don't know where any of the brooms are so James, Remus and Peter can bring their own, plus three extras for you girls," Sirius said.

"I've got my own at home," Aurora said.

"Me too," said Dyna.

"Ok, then James can bring an extra one for Lily."

"You're kidding! He'll bring me a really crap broom!" Lily protested.

"We don't have any crap brooms, Lily," James said arrogantly.

"Ok, fine then."

James made his way out of the door, followed closely by Peter, Remus, Aurora and Dyna, leaving Lily alone with Sirius.

"How long will they be?" Lily asked Sirius.

"I dunno, anywhere between half an hour to an hour. Depending on where they live."

"Oh," Lily said and slid down next to Sirius on the floor.

"So, what are we going to do?"

"I dunno. It's your house."

- TBC -