Author's Note- Ok, yet another Lily and James story (oh, how I love these).
But this one is different from my others. It's in their sixth year. Lily is
a quiet, smart girl, who keeps to herself. James is the most popular boy in
Hogwarts, the eye of every girl. He's known for going after girls then
dumping them a week later. Then he asks Lily out, and does the same thing
to her. But they find they are missing each other. Lily is surprised,
because she has never felt this way before, and James is surprised because
he's been able to dump a lot girls, and this has never happened. So, tell
me what you think. I hope you enjoy.
Disclamer- it all belongs to the Harry Potter people, not to me.
1 All You do is Bring Me Pain
Lily Evans, a sixth year, sat in a corner of the Gryffindor common room, at a table with her friends, Leslie Mann, Liz Breaker, and Christine Carter. They were quiet, and barely anyone in the Common Room noticed them.
Meanwhile, in the center of the Common Room, James Potter, also a sixth year, sat amongst a group of people, talking with his best friends, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. The others listened or stared in wonder at the boys.
The boys neither noticed Lily and her friends, nor cared about them. But that was soon to change.
James walked into the Common Room, wearing that look that he always wore when he was around crying girls.
"Who did you dump this time?" Remus asked.
"Lucy Brown, that annoying git. She ripped my robe," James said, poking at where there was a rip in his robe.
"Always told you Lucy was no good," Sirius answered.
"Yeah, well at least Lucy had a rep," James told him, sitting down.
"Is that what you look for in a girl, their rep?" Remus asked.
"Yeah," James answered, "Mostly."
"Lame, so lame," Remus whispered.
"At least I date," James shot back, but smiled.
It was the typical conversation that took place after James dumped that week's girl. James Potter was known to date girls for a few days, then dump them. Hogwarts was filled with disappointed girls.
"So, about the prank on Snape tomorrow, what color, pink or blue?" Sirius asked, changing the subject and grinning at his friends.
"What about red and gold, our signature colors?" James asked.
"Perfect," Sirius answered, grinning even wider.
"Chris, I've told you before, it's just a simple act of thinking about it and saying the right words," Lily told her friend, Christine.
The four friends were upstairs in their dorm, since all four agreed the common room was much loud, even if their usual table was in the far corner.
"Lil, I've told you before, I am not the one with the highest grades in our year," Chris said.
"I wish," Lily answered, rolling her eyes.
From across the room Liz called, "She's second highest, James Potter's highest, by like, one point, the git."
Liz had a thing against James Potter for the fact that he played girls more than he did his homework.
The door opened and Leslie walked in from the Common Room.
"James Potter just dumped Lucy Brown," she annoucned, flinging herself onto her bed, and closing her eyes.
"Told you he was a git. Lucy's probably off crying somewhere right now because Potter broke her heart, the poor girl," Liz said.
"He's not so bad, his pranks are funny," Chris said.
Liz glared at her. Les laughed.
"Yet another disagreement. Better stop this one quick, Lil, I'm too tired to carry anyone down the Hospital Wing, again," Les said, closing her eyes.
"Ok, you two heard Les, stop fighting. We are in agreement that James Potter is a funny git, right?" Lily asked.
Liz and Chris glared, but nodded.
"Ok, good. I'm going to bed, I'm tired," Lily said, smiling at her friends.
"But what about my homework?" Chris asked.
"You've just got to work on what I told you, then you'll get it. Don't worry about it," Lily answered, climbing into bed.
"Oh, that helps. I don't even know what you said," Chris whispered and sat down on her own bed.
Lily let out a giggle, and everything became quiet once more.
James' breakup with Lucy was talk of most of the school the next morning. It turned out Lucy had locked herself in her dorm, and refused to eat. This, however, bothered James in the least. In fact, he was sitting in the Great Hall, drinking pumpkin juice, happy as can be.
"So, James, who are you going to date now?" Remus asked.
"I don't know," James answered, shrugging.
"You know what you need?" Sirius asked, grinning at his friends like the world was ending.
Several girls who were watching him from the Hufflepuff tabled swooned at his "award-winning smile".
"What?" James asked, rolling his eyes (more girls swoon in the backround).
"A challenge," Sirius answered.
"A challenge, huh, Padfoot?" James asked, smiling at his somewhat- insane friend.
"Yeah, a challenge, like. Lily Evans," Sirius answered, looking down the table to where quiet Lily Evans sat with her friends.
"Lily Evans? Are you kidding? That's like suicide! Both physical AND social suicide!" James cried.
"Padfoot, are you allright?" Remus asked.
"Quite fine, Moony. So, Jamsie boy, what do you say? I think a challenge would be good for you," Sirius answered.
"Padfoot, are you sure you're not sick. Lily Evans is like, different, she turns down every guy that asks her out. She doesn't date! If I did, she'd turn me down and I'd be the laughing stock of the whole school," James said.
"Prongs, I'm staring to agree with Padfoot here, you do need a challenge. This is becoming to easy for you, girls just falling at your feet," Remus told him.
James laughed, and a few girls swooned.
"See what I mean?" Remus asked.
"Ok, maybe it is to easy, but not Lily Evans, I mean, she's. Lily Evans, the only rep she has is for being an outcast who stays quiet, and doesn't date,"James answered.
"Oh, come on, Prongs, be a sport. Just ask her," Sirius said.
"You're not going to give up on this, are you?" James asked.
"Not a chance," Sirius answered.
"Ok, later, Snape just drank his pumpkin juice," James whispered.
The boys turned to look at Snape, as his hair became a very strong shade of red and gold. His friends started pointing, and Snape ran out of the Great Hall a few seconds later.
"Works every time," Sirius whispered.
The Library was quiet. Lily sat with Chris at a table, tutoring her in Charms. There were only a few students, and then some girls started giggling very loudly.
Lily and Chris looked up, slightly annoyed. Then they saw why. The Library was no longer nearly empy. James Potter had walked in, and with him his entourage of girls hoping to be his next girlfriend.
"Good thing Liz isn't here," Lily whispered.
Chris nodded in agreement.
The Library had gone from quiet to Common Room loud. Lily rolled her eyes, and started packing away their books.
"Come on, let's go somewhere else, it's too loud here," Lily said.
The two stood to leave, when James spotted them. He swallowed hard, but didn't move. Sirius, who stood behind him, had to push him.
"This is suicide," James whispered.
"Have fun!" Sirius whispered back.
The chatting and giggling girls stopped and watched James walk over to where Lily and Chris were standing, putting their books away.
"What's he doing?"
"Is he mad?"
"Is he crazy? What does he think he's doing?"
Sirius watched, a huge smile on his face. James kept walking until Lily and Chris's path was blocked to the door. Lily looked slightly annoyed.
"Excuse me," she said.
"Hey, Lily," James said, putting on the completely charming act that every girl fell for, he thought he'd need it.
But Lily didn't bite. She just looked more annoyed.
"I said excuse me. We have to go, and you are blocking our path," Lily told him, with Chris standing at her side.
"Hey, Carla, Lily and I need to talk," James said.
"Carla?" Chris asked in a small voice.
"No, we don't need to talk. Excuse us, please," Lily told him, more annoyed then ever at James.
By now every girl in the whole Library was either watching Lily and James, or being carried out on stretchers because they had swooned.
"So, Lily, I heard your single," James said, ignoring Lily's comment.
"You heard correctly," Lily said, nodding.
"Well then, I'm single to so, I was wondering if. maybe we could hook- up, you know, like go on a few dates." James told her, but his voice trailed.
The girls who were listening either swooned or made horrific looks on their faces. James didn't notice, and neither did Lily, but Chris did.
"What the." she started.
"Why?" Lily asked.
"What do you mean, 'why'? Because I want you to go out with me, and you're not leaving here without saying yes," James added, smiling.
By now three/fourths of the girls who had been in the Library had swooned.
"Fine, I will. Come on, Chris, let's go do our work somewhere quiet," Lily said, putting a little bit more expression on Chris's name.
Chris, who looked utterly amazed, followed Chris out of the room.
"Did what I think happen just happen?" Chris asked as they made their way up to the Gryffindor tower.
"Depends on what you think just happened," Lily answered.
"I thought that James Potter, THE James Potter, just asked you, Lily Evans, out on a date," Chris said.
"He did," Lily said.
"And you told him yes, right?" Chris asked.
"Yeah, and I can't believe how stupid I am," Lily answered, then smiled at her friends.
"But you know what, maybe this can do James Potter some good, so that I can dump him before he can dump me," she added as an afterthought, then smiled.
"What are you all smily about?" Liz asked when they walked in the dorm.
"James Potter just asked her out, and she said yes," Chris told her, sitting down on her bed and getting out her Charms stuff.
"THE GIT DID WHAT?" Liz yelled.
"Oh my God, James Potter asked you out! That's wonderful!" Leslie cried, hugging Lily.
"Lily, you should have said no! Now he's just going to dump you a few days later like he did the rest!" Liz said.
"Liz, I only said yes so that I could get out of the Library. And I have a plan to shrink that huge ego he has, I'm going to dump him before he can dump me, so I can go away with my pride," Lily told her friend, grinning at the thought.
"Oh, Lil, you are good," Liz said.
Lily smiled, and started getting out her Charms book.
"Come on, James is still out somewhere, so the Common Room ought to be quiet, let's go down there, it's warmer," Chris said.
Lily rolled her eyes, but said, "OK."
James returned a few minutes later. He walked over to his friends, and they all turned to him, and saw him smiling.
"You didn't do it, did you?" Sirius asked.
"Of course I did, Padfoot," James answered.
"Then why are you smiling?" Sirius asked.
"She said yes. James Potter's charm got to her, just like every other girl," James said, sitting down in his seat, his ego budging.
"Wow, you are good," Sirius whispered.
"Wait, let me get this straight. You asked Lily Evans out, and she said yes? Wow," Remus agreed, his eyes wide.
"See, you should never doubt the powers of James Potter and his charm," James said, smiling at himself.
Sirius sat up straighter, and started scanning the room until he spotted a table with four girls sitting around it. One of them looked up, angry. She saw James, and stood up.
"Liz," Lily hissed.
Liz stomped over to where James and his friends were sitting, in their "reserved" spot by the fire. She looked really angry.
"What do you think you're playing at?" she spat at James.
"What do you mean. Lisa?" James asked, trying to remember her name, in vain.
Liz turned red, and not with embarassment, but anger. "My name is NOT Lisa, it's Liz. And Chris is not Carla, and Lily is not a stupid git, like you!"
Ok, this was a rare thing to happen. James had never been yelled at like this, not even when he had blown up the bathroom in his house.
"If you think you're going to make Lily just another trophy on your wall you got another thing coming," Liz yelled.
By now Lily, Leslie, and Chris were laughing. Liz looked over at them, then shot one more glance at James, and left.
"Liz, you know, I don't need you to fight my battles for me," Lily told her.
"I just wanted to speak my mind," Liz answered, her face still red in anger. "One of these days his ego will explode and kill him, and I want to be in the front seat."
"Don't worry, Liz, if I know you, you will be," Lily said, and laughed.
The next day, everyone knew about Lily's transition from outcast to dating the most popular girl in school. Guys were giving her more looks in the hallways, and girls (who were jealous) were shooting her evil glances. Of course, this was an improvement, since before they had never noticed her (which is hard to do due to her red hair and green eyes).
"What are they staring at? I mean, it's not like you just magically appeared," Liz sai, shooting an evil glance who was shooting daggers at them in the Library.
"They're noticing her for once, because she's dating James Potter," Les answered.
"Come on you guys, can we stop talking about my social life? It's getting weird," Lily asked her friends.
"It sure is," Chris agreed as a few seventh year guys walked by and gave Lily a wave and smile.
"Oh my gosh! Lil, those were SEVENTH YEARS! They, like, never look at a sixth year, let alone smile and wave!" Les cried.
"You guys are seriously paranoid. They probably mistook me for someone else," Lily said, shaking her head.
"Oh, come off it! You know they reckognized you! How could they not! I mean, you're the only one in the school with red hair and green eyes! It's hard not to reckognize you," Chris cried.
"I know I'm against this whole Lily-James thing but even I have to admit that's a little, you know, weird in a good way. If James Potter asking you out wasn't the reason, I'd think this was really cool," Liz said.
"I'm tired, I'm going to go back and get some sleep," Les whispered, and yawned.
"I'll go with you," Liz volunteered.
"Me too," Chris agreed.
"I'll be there in a minute, I just want to finish these notes, 'kay?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, sure," Les answered.
Les, Liz, and Chris left the library, and Lily looked back down on her book, and started writing notes. She didn't notice anyone walk up until she heard the chair being pulled out. She looked up to find James taking a seat.
"Hi, Lily," James said.
"Hi, James. What are you doing here? Don't you have detention tonight with Professor McGonagall?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, but I'll just tell her I forgot," James answered.
"Oh, like she'll buy that. You must have fed her that excuse a hundred times," Lily told him.
"So, anyway, how's it going?" James asked, trying to make conversation.
"Fine," Lily answered.
"You know, you're the only person in this school that doesn't fall on thier knees in front of me?" James asked, smiling at the thought.
"Well, I'm not the only one. There's Liz, remember? And Snape?" Lily asked, and returned the smile.
"Yeah," James replied, and the two started laughing.
It must have surprised them both, because they cut off their laughing, and Lily went back to writing notes.
"What are you doing, anyway?" James asked.
"That Transfiguration essay," Lily answered.
"That's not due for three more days," James said.
"I know, but it took me forever to get that Transfiguration grade up that I don't want it to drop again, and it takes me three days just to write the essay," Lily told him.
James laughed, and Lily joined in. But this time, they didn't stop themselves until they'd laughed a bit more.
They talked for a while, on lots of different subjects.
Sirius walked in to the Library, and saw the two sitting at a table. He grinned, and ran over to the table.
"Hey, all!" he cried, and got a stern look from the librarian.
"Hey, Sirius," James said.
"Hello," Lily greeted, smiling.
"Come on, James, we got to go do the. you know," Sirius said.
"Oh, right. Listen, Lily, are you going to the Quidditch game on Saturday? Gryffindor's playing Slytherin," James told her.
"I usually don't." Lily started.
"Aw, come on, Lily! Everyone goes to the games! You have to! It's loads of fun! You and your friends can sit with us," Sirius said.
"Ok," Lily agreed.
"Great," James said.
"James is the best Chaser Gryffindor's every seen," Sirius told her.
"Come on, Padfoot, duty calls," James said.
The boys told her goodbye, and walked towards the doorway. As James walked out of the door Lily thought, "He's kinda cute. OH MY GOSH, LILY, YOU DID NOT JUST CALL SOMEONE CUTE. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"
She grabbed her stuff and ran up to the Gryffindor Tower.
"You want us to WHAT?" Liz cried.
"Go to the Quidditch game with me on Saturday, I promised I'd go. Sirius said he'd save us seats," Lily said.
The four girls were in their dorm, and Lily had just gotten back.
"But, Lil, you've never cared about Quidditch until now, you suddenly decide to go," Les pointed out.
"I know! I don't know what came over me! I just found myself promising that I would, and I'm not one to back out on my promises. And I'll be so. you know. awkward without you, so you have to come with me," Lily cried.
"We'll go, I guess," Chris said.
"Thank you so much, you guys!" Lily cried.
"I just want to know what came over you to actually accept an invitation to a Quidditch game. You don't even follow Quidditch!" Les cried.
"I have no idea. One minute I was just standing there, talking, and then the next I was saying 'okay'. Its weird,"Lily said.
"Yeah, definitely," Chris agreed.
"Where have you two been?" Remus asked as Sirius and James walked into the empty classroom.
"Library, Moony," Sirius answered.
"The Library? Is there anything wrong with you two? Are you sure you aren't sick?" Remus asked, raising his eyebrows.
"I had to fetch Prongs here, who was talking to Lily Evans," Sirius explained.
"Ah," Remus whispered. "You were talking to Lily Evans. I thought you didn't want to ask her out."
"I didn't. It's just weird, she's different. She doesn't worship the ground I walk on," James said.
"Prongs, old buddy, I know this is going to be a big shock to you, but not everyone worships you," Sirius said, patting James' back.
"No, that's not what I mean. When we were talking she didn't stare googly eyed at me, she just talked like she was, well, she didn't worship me. And we could talk for a while, until Padfoot appeared. It was strange," James said.
The boys held back a laugh.
"What?" James asked, "You'd better tell me or I'll put dungbombs in your beds."
"It sounds like old Prongs here is falling for Lily Evans," Sirius said.
"WHAT?!?!" James cried. "I AM NOT!"
"OK, you aren't then, Prongs. So anyway, we invited her and her friends to the Quidditch game on Saturday," Sirius said.
"Wonderful, then they can meet me!" Remus said.
Professor McGonagall stared across the room at the students. She noticed, with a note of surprise, that Lily Evans and her group, Elizabeth Breaker, Leslea Mann, and Christine Carter, had moved up from the table in the back of the room to one of the tables occupied with none other than James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.
"Allright, class, quiet down," she called across the room.
The class settled down, and she kept her eye on the table with the Potter boy. They were, however, well behaved throught the lesson. When class was over she hurried over to the teacher's lounge.
"What is it, Minerva?" Professor Flitwick asked.
"I was just in teaching my class, when I noticed that the Evans girl, and her friends were sitting with the Potter boy and his friends. I thought it was strange," McGonagall answered.
"Ah, you obviously have not heard the rumors, then, have you?" Flitwick asked.
"I don't pay attention to such things," McGonagall sniffed.
"Well, the rumors say that James Potter asked Lily Evans out, and they are dating," Flitwick answered.
"James Potter and Lily Evans. dating? But other than her being second in their class, I doubt they've ever heard of her," McGonagal protested.
"Well, it seems they have heard of her," Flitwick replied.
Lily, Liz, Les, and Chris watched as their social standing steadily rose. James and Lily talked a lot. James was surprised to learn that Lily knew next to nothing about Quidditch, and started telling her about it in preparation for the game. In turn, Lily, a muggle-born, told James, a pure- blood, about the muggle world. Their conversations lasted for a while. And, without their knowledge, they started to like each other more and more.
On Friday night Lily walked into her dorm room where her friends were waiting.
"Where've you been?" Liz asked.
"Where do you think she's been? She's been in the same place every night for the past couple nights," Les answered.
"Talking with James Potter," Chris replied.
"You guys are so snoopy," Lily told them, grabbing her pajamas.
"But it's true, admit it," Les said.
"Yes, it's true. It's weird, we have a lot to talk about," Lily answered, smiling at her friends.
"Admit it, Lily Evans is falling for James Potter. Everyone can see it," Chris said, walking across the room to where Lily stood.
"Lily Evans, fall for a guy! Impossible! Lily here is known to turn down every guy that asks her out." Liz said.
"Except James Potter," Chris cutted in.
"I just said yes so that I could get out of the Library!" Lily cried.
"Oh, sure," Les laughed.
"You guys are still going with me to the game tomorrow, right?" Lily asked, changing the subject quickly.
"'Course! What are friends for!" Les cried.
Lily rolled her eyes and went into the bathroom.
As she brushed her teeth she thought, "Could I actually be falling for James Potter? He is easy to talk to. NO! I am not falling for a guy! It is so not me! My friends are just weird, I'm not falling for James Potter. I'm just going out with him because he asked me and wouldn't let me leave until I said yes, that's all."
Lily smiled, having convinced herself.
James walked into his dorm room to find his friends gathered around Sirius' bed. He grinned, and walked over.
"Prongs! How are you doing?" Sirius asked quickly, hiding something behind his back.
Remus and Peter turned around quickly.
"What are you three doing? Is is a plan of destruction of the Slytherins?" James asked, "You all know you aren't supposed to do that without me."
"Don't worry, that's not it," Remus said, quickly.
"Then what is it? And why are you three so jumpy?" James asked.
"No reason, nothing at all," Sirius answered, putting on a very forced smile to reassure his friend.
"So, were you out talking to Lily Evans again?" Remus asked, changing the subject.
"Yeah, why?" James asked.
"You just seem to spend a lot of time with her. That's something you've never done with any girl before," Remus answered.
"We talk. She's easy to talk to, and can you believe she didn't know a thing about Quidditch until I told her?" James asked.
"No, we had no idea," Remus said, nervously.
James looked at them, and said, "Ok, spill, you guys."
"What? Spill what? We have no possible idea what you're talking about, no idea," Sirius told James.
"I know you are hiding something behind your back, and I want to know what it is. Come on, you guys, you've told me everything, and everything you don't tell me, I find out about," James said.
"He has a point," Peter whispered.
Sirius closed his eyes, and took a piece of parchment out from behind his back and handed it to James.
"What is it?" James asked.
"Um. Sirius kinda. drew a. um. picture of. you and Lily. with. um. your. kids," Remus said, and closed his eyes knowing the verbal assault that was coming.
"YOU WHAT?" James yelled.
"I thought it would be funny," Sirius protested.
"Yeah, well, don't show tell anyone about this or you're parents will be planning a funeral," James told his friends, "I'm throwing this out."
He went over to the trash can, and ripped up the drawing and threw it away.
"I'm surprised you did that, Prongs," Sirius said.
"Why would you be surprised I ripped up a very embarassing drawing?" James asked, turning to face his friends.
"Isn't it obvious? You are so falling in love with that girl!" Sirius cried.
"Me, fall in love with a girl? Padfoot, you're crazy," James answered, and went over to his bed.
He couldn't shake the feeling that Sirius was right. Was he falling in love with that girl? Was he, James Potter, honestly and truly falling in love? It couldn't be. He was James Potter, he didn't fall in love, it just wasn't done. He shook his head. Sirius was so wrong.
Lily, Liz, Les, and Chris walked down the grounds to the Quidditch Stadium. The stadium was packed, and Lily and her friends looked around for seats. Sirius waved madly at them from his seat. Remus and Peter sat next to him.
"Hello, Sirius," Lily said.
"Hello, Lily, Elizabeth, Leslea, Christine. I saved some seats for you," Sirius said, motioning to the seats on the other side of him.
"Thanks, Sirius," Lily answered.
"Your welcome. The teams will be coming out soon," Sirius told them, "James is one of the best chasers Hogwarts has ever seen. They say he's going to play for England when he graduates."
"Really? My cousin wanted to play for England. He wasn't good enough, though," Liz said, frowning.
"That's neat, huh, guys? Guys? Elizabeth here just said her cousin wanted to play for England," Sirius said, poking Remus and Peter.
"Oh, what? That's great," Remus said.
Peter echoed him.
"You guys can call me Liz," Liz said.
"You can call me Leslie," Les agreed.
"And you can call me Chris, I hate my full name," Chris said.
"Ok. Hey, look, the teams are coming onto the field," Sirius said, pointing to the two teams crossing the fields.
Lily automaticly picked out James in the red and scarlet. Everyone was cheering, and waving. The players mounted their brooms, and flew off.
Lily watched and listened through the game as James assured a Gryffindor victory, until their Seeker, Pinch, caught the snitch. A roar urupted from the Gryffindor side.
"One more victory before the cup," Sirius said, "Come on, let's go congratulate James and the team on a victory well done!"
Lily, Liz, Les, and Chris followed the boys down the seats to the field, were they ran over to James.
"Jamesie boy! Another victory for Gryffindor, eh?" Sirius yelled, grinning and wrapping his arm around James' neck.
He then started singing to himself a song he had made up on the spot about winning the House Cup. Lily, Liz, Les, and Chris watched him.
"Ignore Sirius, he's rather. crazy at times," Remus told them.
"Yeah, he likes to, you know, forget about everything else and go to his little dream world," James agreed, nodding.
Sirius heard that, and punched James in the side.
Everyone laughed.
"We gotta go," Liz said.
The girls turned to go back up to the castle when James called, "Lily! Same time tonight?"
Lily turned around, and smiled, "Yeah, sure."
The girls left and Sirius turned to James.
"Oh my God, James, you are like so in love with her," Sirius said.
"Padfoot, you need medicine, because I am not in love with Lily. I don't even like her. too much," James said.
"Prongs, you are in denial! Huh, guys? Moony? Wormtail? Don't you agree?" Sirius asked.
"Hey, leave us out of this. This is between you and Prongs," Remus said, taking a step back.
Sirius shot him a dagger, and turned back to James.
"Anyone can see it. The great James Potter, Quidditch Star, Future Head Boy, is falling in love with Lily Evans," Sirius said.
"I am not!" James protested.
"Fine, but you know what, by now with all of your other girlfriends you would be thinking up a unique way to dump them," Sirius said.
"I am not in love with Lily, I am not!" James cried.
But his feelings would be showed otherwise when he walked into the Common Room that night. Lily was sitting by the fire, where she always sits now. Her red ponytail was glowing and her green eyes dancing by firelight. James felt like he could melt.
"OH MY GOD! I AM FALLING FOR LILY EVANS!" he screamed in his thoughts. "Sirius was right, they all were right. I, James Potter, am falling for a girl. I can't fall for a girl! It will ruin me!"
He took a deap breath, "What should I do? I just can't let myself fall for someone. What should I do?"
He knew the answer, break up with her. It was echoing in his head. But he didn't want to break up with Lily. He liked her. But he had to, to make sure he stopped caring for her.
He took a step towards her. Lily turned around.
"Hey, James, you're late," Lily said, standing up and walking over to him.
He didn't look the same. He was red and looked confused.
"What? What is it?" Lily asked.
"Lily. I think we should. stop. seeing each other." James whipsered.
"You mean you want to break- up with me?" Lily asked.
James nodded.
"Ok, I agree with you. We should," Lily agreed, smiling at him.
"Ok, then," James said.
Lily echoed him.
"Well, I guess." James started.
"Bye," Lily finished, and smiled at him.
She turned and walked upstairs to her dorm. Her friends noticed something was wrong right away, mainly because Lily never came in this early.
"Lils? What's wrong?" Liz asked.
"James broke up with me," Lily answered, sitting down on her bed.
Her friends exchanged glances, and Liz turned red.
"I'm gonna get him, yes I am," Liz whispered.
Meanwhile, up in the boys dorm, James walked in, looking very defeated, and suprising his friends, because James never looked this way after a Quidditch game.
"Hey, James, why aren't you smiling? You just won!" Sirius cried.
"I just broke up with Lily," James answered.
Silence fell over the room.
"Oh," Sirius whispered.
"You've never been like this after you break up with somebody," Peter annoucned, before getting nudged by Remus.
"Sorry," Remus said.
"You guys, you are acting like I just lost my parents! I must be losing my touch, she didn't even cry," James said.
"You'll be the one crying when that one girl gets her hands on you. Liz, I think," Sirius said, trying to think.
"Sirius, stop trying to think, it will never work," Remus said.
The boys started laughing, lifting spirits in the room. James went over to his bed, and got a strange feeling inside of him, a kind of achy feeling, and he didn't know why.
"Sorry, Lily," he whispered, and got into bed.
Author's Notes- How did you like part one of two parts of this story? TELL ME! I really want to know. I wrote this to try and break my writers block and think of idea for Lily's Lake (you know how hard it is to write certain parts!). So, tell me how you liked it, and go read part two!
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1 All You do is Bring Me Pain
Lily Evans, a sixth year, sat in a corner of the Gryffindor common room, at a table with her friends, Leslie Mann, Liz Breaker, and Christine Carter. They were quiet, and barely anyone in the Common Room noticed them.
Meanwhile, in the center of the Common Room, James Potter, also a sixth year, sat amongst a group of people, talking with his best friends, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. The others listened or stared in wonder at the boys.
The boys neither noticed Lily and her friends, nor cared about them. But that was soon to change.
James walked into the Common Room, wearing that look that he always wore when he was around crying girls.
"Who did you dump this time?" Remus asked.
"Lucy Brown, that annoying git. She ripped my robe," James said, poking at where there was a rip in his robe.
"Always told you Lucy was no good," Sirius answered.
"Yeah, well at least Lucy had a rep," James told him, sitting down.
"Is that what you look for in a girl, their rep?" Remus asked.
"Yeah," James answered, "Mostly."
"Lame, so lame," Remus whispered.
"At least I date," James shot back, but smiled.
It was the typical conversation that took place after James dumped that week's girl. James Potter was known to date girls for a few days, then dump them. Hogwarts was filled with disappointed girls.
"So, about the prank on Snape tomorrow, what color, pink or blue?" Sirius asked, changing the subject and grinning at his friends.
"What about red and gold, our signature colors?" James asked.
"Perfect," Sirius answered, grinning even wider.
"Chris, I've told you before, it's just a simple act of thinking about it and saying the right words," Lily told her friend, Christine.
The four friends were upstairs in their dorm, since all four agreed the common room was much loud, even if their usual table was in the far corner.
"Lil, I've told you before, I am not the one with the highest grades in our year," Chris said.
"I wish," Lily answered, rolling her eyes.
From across the room Liz called, "She's second highest, James Potter's highest, by like, one point, the git."
Liz had a thing against James Potter for the fact that he played girls more than he did his homework.
The door opened and Leslie walked in from the Common Room.
"James Potter just dumped Lucy Brown," she annoucned, flinging herself onto her bed, and closing her eyes.
"Told you he was a git. Lucy's probably off crying somewhere right now because Potter broke her heart, the poor girl," Liz said.
"He's not so bad, his pranks are funny," Chris said.
Liz glared at her. Les laughed.
"Yet another disagreement. Better stop this one quick, Lil, I'm too tired to carry anyone down the Hospital Wing, again," Les said, closing her eyes.
"Ok, you two heard Les, stop fighting. We are in agreement that James Potter is a funny git, right?" Lily asked.
Liz and Chris glared, but nodded.
"Ok, good. I'm going to bed, I'm tired," Lily said, smiling at her friends.
"But what about my homework?" Chris asked.
"You've just got to work on what I told you, then you'll get it. Don't worry about it," Lily answered, climbing into bed.
"Oh, that helps. I don't even know what you said," Chris whispered and sat down on her own bed.
Lily let out a giggle, and everything became quiet once more.
James' breakup with Lucy was talk of most of the school the next morning. It turned out Lucy had locked herself in her dorm, and refused to eat. This, however, bothered James in the least. In fact, he was sitting in the Great Hall, drinking pumpkin juice, happy as can be.
"So, James, who are you going to date now?" Remus asked.
"I don't know," James answered, shrugging.
"You know what you need?" Sirius asked, grinning at his friends like the world was ending.
Several girls who were watching him from the Hufflepuff tabled swooned at his "award-winning smile".
"What?" James asked, rolling his eyes (more girls swoon in the backround).
"A challenge," Sirius answered.
"A challenge, huh, Padfoot?" James asked, smiling at his somewhat- insane friend.
"Yeah, a challenge, like. Lily Evans," Sirius answered, looking down the table to where quiet Lily Evans sat with her friends.
"Lily Evans? Are you kidding? That's like suicide! Both physical AND social suicide!" James cried.
"Padfoot, are you allright?" Remus asked.
"Quite fine, Moony. So, Jamsie boy, what do you say? I think a challenge would be good for you," Sirius answered.
"Padfoot, are you sure you're not sick. Lily Evans is like, different, she turns down every guy that asks her out. She doesn't date! If I did, she'd turn me down and I'd be the laughing stock of the whole school," James said.
"Prongs, I'm staring to agree with Padfoot here, you do need a challenge. This is becoming to easy for you, girls just falling at your feet," Remus told him.
James laughed, and a few girls swooned.
"See what I mean?" Remus asked.
"Ok, maybe it is to easy, but not Lily Evans, I mean, she's. Lily Evans, the only rep she has is for being an outcast who stays quiet, and doesn't date,"James answered.
"Oh, come on, Prongs, be a sport. Just ask her," Sirius said.
"You're not going to give up on this, are you?" James asked.
"Not a chance," Sirius answered.
"Ok, later, Snape just drank his pumpkin juice," James whispered.
The boys turned to look at Snape, as his hair became a very strong shade of red and gold. His friends started pointing, and Snape ran out of the Great Hall a few seconds later.
"Works every time," Sirius whispered.
The Library was quiet. Lily sat with Chris at a table, tutoring her in Charms. There were only a few students, and then some girls started giggling very loudly.
Lily and Chris looked up, slightly annoyed. Then they saw why. The Library was no longer nearly empy. James Potter had walked in, and with him his entourage of girls hoping to be his next girlfriend.
"Good thing Liz isn't here," Lily whispered.
Chris nodded in agreement.
The Library had gone from quiet to Common Room loud. Lily rolled her eyes, and started packing away their books.
"Come on, let's go somewhere else, it's too loud here," Lily said.
The two stood to leave, when James spotted them. He swallowed hard, but didn't move. Sirius, who stood behind him, had to push him.
"This is suicide," James whispered.
"Have fun!" Sirius whispered back.
The chatting and giggling girls stopped and watched James walk over to where Lily and Chris were standing, putting their books away.
"What's he doing?"
"Is he mad?"
"Is he crazy? What does he think he's doing?"
Sirius watched, a huge smile on his face. James kept walking until Lily and Chris's path was blocked to the door. Lily looked slightly annoyed.
"Excuse me," she said.
"Hey, Lily," James said, putting on the completely charming act that every girl fell for, he thought he'd need it.
But Lily didn't bite. She just looked more annoyed.
"I said excuse me. We have to go, and you are blocking our path," Lily told him, with Chris standing at her side.
"Hey, Carla, Lily and I need to talk," James said.
"Carla?" Chris asked in a small voice.
"No, we don't need to talk. Excuse us, please," Lily told him, more annoyed then ever at James.
By now every girl in the whole Library was either watching Lily and James, or being carried out on stretchers because they had swooned.
"So, Lily, I heard your single," James said, ignoring Lily's comment.
"You heard correctly," Lily said, nodding.
"Well then, I'm single to so, I was wondering if. maybe we could hook- up, you know, like go on a few dates." James told her, but his voice trailed.
The girls who were listening either swooned or made horrific looks on their faces. James didn't notice, and neither did Lily, but Chris did.
"What the." she started.
"Why?" Lily asked.
"What do you mean, 'why'? Because I want you to go out with me, and you're not leaving here without saying yes," James added, smiling.
By now three/fourths of the girls who had been in the Library had swooned.
"Fine, I will. Come on, Chris, let's go do our work somewhere quiet," Lily said, putting a little bit more expression on Chris's name.
Chris, who looked utterly amazed, followed Chris out of the room.
"Did what I think happen just happen?" Chris asked as they made their way up to the Gryffindor tower.
"Depends on what you think just happened," Lily answered.
"I thought that James Potter, THE James Potter, just asked you, Lily Evans, out on a date," Chris said.
"He did," Lily said.
"And you told him yes, right?" Chris asked.
"Yeah, and I can't believe how stupid I am," Lily answered, then smiled at her friends.
"But you know what, maybe this can do James Potter some good, so that I can dump him before he can dump me," she added as an afterthought, then smiled.
"What are you all smily about?" Liz asked when they walked in the dorm.
"James Potter just asked her out, and she said yes," Chris told her, sitting down on her bed and getting out her Charms stuff.
"THE GIT DID WHAT?" Liz yelled.
"Oh my God, James Potter asked you out! That's wonderful!" Leslie cried, hugging Lily.
"Lily, you should have said no! Now he's just going to dump you a few days later like he did the rest!" Liz said.
"Liz, I only said yes so that I could get out of the Library. And I have a plan to shrink that huge ego he has, I'm going to dump him before he can dump me, so I can go away with my pride," Lily told her friend, grinning at the thought.
"Oh, Lil, you are good," Liz said.
Lily smiled, and started getting out her Charms book.
"Come on, James is still out somewhere, so the Common Room ought to be quiet, let's go down there, it's warmer," Chris said.
Lily rolled her eyes, but said, "OK."
James returned a few minutes later. He walked over to his friends, and they all turned to him, and saw him smiling.
"You didn't do it, did you?" Sirius asked.
"Of course I did, Padfoot," James answered.
"Then why are you smiling?" Sirius asked.
"She said yes. James Potter's charm got to her, just like every other girl," James said, sitting down in his seat, his ego budging.
"Wow, you are good," Sirius whispered.
"Wait, let me get this straight. You asked Lily Evans out, and she said yes? Wow," Remus agreed, his eyes wide.
"See, you should never doubt the powers of James Potter and his charm," James said, smiling at himself.
Sirius sat up straighter, and started scanning the room until he spotted a table with four girls sitting around it. One of them looked up, angry. She saw James, and stood up.
"Liz," Lily hissed.
Liz stomped over to where James and his friends were sitting, in their "reserved" spot by the fire. She looked really angry.
"What do you think you're playing at?" she spat at James.
"What do you mean. Lisa?" James asked, trying to remember her name, in vain.
Liz turned red, and not with embarassment, but anger. "My name is NOT Lisa, it's Liz. And Chris is not Carla, and Lily is not a stupid git, like you!"
Ok, this was a rare thing to happen. James had never been yelled at like this, not even when he had blown up the bathroom in his house.
"If you think you're going to make Lily just another trophy on your wall you got another thing coming," Liz yelled.
By now Lily, Leslie, and Chris were laughing. Liz looked over at them, then shot one more glance at James, and left.
"Liz, you know, I don't need you to fight my battles for me," Lily told her.
"I just wanted to speak my mind," Liz answered, her face still red in anger. "One of these days his ego will explode and kill him, and I want to be in the front seat."
"Don't worry, Liz, if I know you, you will be," Lily said, and laughed.
The next day, everyone knew about Lily's transition from outcast to dating the most popular girl in school. Guys were giving her more looks in the hallways, and girls (who were jealous) were shooting her evil glances. Of course, this was an improvement, since before they had never noticed her (which is hard to do due to her red hair and green eyes).
"What are they staring at? I mean, it's not like you just magically appeared," Liz sai, shooting an evil glance who was shooting daggers at them in the Library.
"They're noticing her for once, because she's dating James Potter," Les answered.
"Come on you guys, can we stop talking about my social life? It's getting weird," Lily asked her friends.
"It sure is," Chris agreed as a few seventh year guys walked by and gave Lily a wave and smile.
"Oh my gosh! Lil, those were SEVENTH YEARS! They, like, never look at a sixth year, let alone smile and wave!" Les cried.
"You guys are seriously paranoid. They probably mistook me for someone else," Lily said, shaking her head.
"Oh, come off it! You know they reckognized you! How could they not! I mean, you're the only one in the school with red hair and green eyes! It's hard not to reckognize you," Chris cried.
"I know I'm against this whole Lily-James thing but even I have to admit that's a little, you know, weird in a good way. If James Potter asking you out wasn't the reason, I'd think this was really cool," Liz said.
"I'm tired, I'm going to go back and get some sleep," Les whispered, and yawned.
"I'll go with you," Liz volunteered.
"Me too," Chris agreed.
"I'll be there in a minute, I just want to finish these notes, 'kay?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, sure," Les answered.
Les, Liz, and Chris left the library, and Lily looked back down on her book, and started writing notes. She didn't notice anyone walk up until she heard the chair being pulled out. She looked up to find James taking a seat.
"Hi, Lily," James said.
"Hi, James. What are you doing here? Don't you have detention tonight with Professor McGonagall?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, but I'll just tell her I forgot," James answered.
"Oh, like she'll buy that. You must have fed her that excuse a hundred times," Lily told him.
"So, anyway, how's it going?" James asked, trying to make conversation.
"Fine," Lily answered.
"You know, you're the only person in this school that doesn't fall on thier knees in front of me?" James asked, smiling at the thought.
"Well, I'm not the only one. There's Liz, remember? And Snape?" Lily asked, and returned the smile.
"Yeah," James replied, and the two started laughing.
It must have surprised them both, because they cut off their laughing, and Lily went back to writing notes.
"What are you doing, anyway?" James asked.
"That Transfiguration essay," Lily answered.
"That's not due for three more days," James said.
"I know, but it took me forever to get that Transfiguration grade up that I don't want it to drop again, and it takes me three days just to write the essay," Lily told him.
James laughed, and Lily joined in. But this time, they didn't stop themselves until they'd laughed a bit more.
They talked for a while, on lots of different subjects.
Sirius walked in to the Library, and saw the two sitting at a table. He grinned, and ran over to the table.
"Hey, all!" he cried, and got a stern look from the librarian.
"Hey, Sirius," James said.
"Hello," Lily greeted, smiling.
"Come on, James, we got to go do the. you know," Sirius said.
"Oh, right. Listen, Lily, are you going to the Quidditch game on Saturday? Gryffindor's playing Slytherin," James told her.
"I usually don't." Lily started.
"Aw, come on, Lily! Everyone goes to the games! You have to! It's loads of fun! You and your friends can sit with us," Sirius said.
"Ok," Lily agreed.
"Great," James said.
"James is the best Chaser Gryffindor's every seen," Sirius told her.
"Come on, Padfoot, duty calls," James said.
The boys told her goodbye, and walked towards the doorway. As James walked out of the door Lily thought, "He's kinda cute. OH MY GOSH, LILY, YOU DID NOT JUST CALL SOMEONE CUTE. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"
She grabbed her stuff and ran up to the Gryffindor Tower.
"You want us to WHAT?" Liz cried.
"Go to the Quidditch game with me on Saturday, I promised I'd go. Sirius said he'd save us seats," Lily said.
The four girls were in their dorm, and Lily had just gotten back.
"But, Lil, you've never cared about Quidditch until now, you suddenly decide to go," Les pointed out.
"I know! I don't know what came over me! I just found myself promising that I would, and I'm not one to back out on my promises. And I'll be so. you know. awkward without you, so you have to come with me," Lily cried.
"We'll go, I guess," Chris said.
"Thank you so much, you guys!" Lily cried.
"I just want to know what came over you to actually accept an invitation to a Quidditch game. You don't even follow Quidditch!" Les cried.
"I have no idea. One minute I was just standing there, talking, and then the next I was saying 'okay'. Its weird,"Lily said.
"Yeah, definitely," Chris agreed.
"Where have you two been?" Remus asked as Sirius and James walked into the empty classroom.
"Library, Moony," Sirius answered.
"The Library? Is there anything wrong with you two? Are you sure you aren't sick?" Remus asked, raising his eyebrows.
"I had to fetch Prongs here, who was talking to Lily Evans," Sirius explained.
"Ah," Remus whispered. "You were talking to Lily Evans. I thought you didn't want to ask her out."
"I didn't. It's just weird, she's different. She doesn't worship the ground I walk on," James said.
"Prongs, old buddy, I know this is going to be a big shock to you, but not everyone worships you," Sirius said, patting James' back.
"No, that's not what I mean. When we were talking she didn't stare googly eyed at me, she just talked like she was, well, she didn't worship me. And we could talk for a while, until Padfoot appeared. It was strange," James said.
The boys held back a laugh.
"What?" James asked, "You'd better tell me or I'll put dungbombs in your beds."
"It sounds like old Prongs here is falling for Lily Evans," Sirius said.
"WHAT?!?!" James cried. "I AM NOT!"
"OK, you aren't then, Prongs. So anyway, we invited her and her friends to the Quidditch game on Saturday," Sirius said.
"Wonderful, then they can meet me!" Remus said.
Professor McGonagall stared across the room at the students. She noticed, with a note of surprise, that Lily Evans and her group, Elizabeth Breaker, Leslea Mann, and Christine Carter, had moved up from the table in the back of the room to one of the tables occupied with none other than James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.
"Allright, class, quiet down," she called across the room.
The class settled down, and she kept her eye on the table with the Potter boy. They were, however, well behaved throught the lesson. When class was over she hurried over to the teacher's lounge.
"What is it, Minerva?" Professor Flitwick asked.
"I was just in teaching my class, when I noticed that the Evans girl, and her friends were sitting with the Potter boy and his friends. I thought it was strange," McGonagall answered.
"Ah, you obviously have not heard the rumors, then, have you?" Flitwick asked.
"I don't pay attention to such things," McGonagall sniffed.
"Well, the rumors say that James Potter asked Lily Evans out, and they are dating," Flitwick answered.
"James Potter and Lily Evans. dating? But other than her being second in their class, I doubt they've ever heard of her," McGonagal protested.
"Well, it seems they have heard of her," Flitwick replied.
Lily, Liz, Les, and Chris watched as their social standing steadily rose. James and Lily talked a lot. James was surprised to learn that Lily knew next to nothing about Quidditch, and started telling her about it in preparation for the game. In turn, Lily, a muggle-born, told James, a pure- blood, about the muggle world. Their conversations lasted for a while. And, without their knowledge, they started to like each other more and more.
On Friday night Lily walked into her dorm room where her friends were waiting.
"Where've you been?" Liz asked.
"Where do you think she's been? She's been in the same place every night for the past couple nights," Les answered.
"Talking with James Potter," Chris replied.
"You guys are so snoopy," Lily told them, grabbing her pajamas.
"But it's true, admit it," Les said.
"Yes, it's true. It's weird, we have a lot to talk about," Lily answered, smiling at her friends.
"Admit it, Lily Evans is falling for James Potter. Everyone can see it," Chris said, walking across the room to where Lily stood.
"Lily Evans, fall for a guy! Impossible! Lily here is known to turn down every guy that asks her out." Liz said.
"Except James Potter," Chris cutted in.
"I just said yes so that I could get out of the Library!" Lily cried.
"Oh, sure," Les laughed.
"You guys are still going with me to the game tomorrow, right?" Lily asked, changing the subject quickly.
"'Course! What are friends for!" Les cried.
Lily rolled her eyes and went into the bathroom.
As she brushed her teeth she thought, "Could I actually be falling for James Potter? He is easy to talk to. NO! I am not falling for a guy! It is so not me! My friends are just weird, I'm not falling for James Potter. I'm just going out with him because he asked me and wouldn't let me leave until I said yes, that's all."
Lily smiled, having convinced herself.
James walked into his dorm room to find his friends gathered around Sirius' bed. He grinned, and walked over.
"Prongs! How are you doing?" Sirius asked quickly, hiding something behind his back.
Remus and Peter turned around quickly.
"What are you three doing? Is is a plan of destruction of the Slytherins?" James asked, "You all know you aren't supposed to do that without me."
"Don't worry, that's not it," Remus said, quickly.
"Then what is it? And why are you three so jumpy?" James asked.
"No reason, nothing at all," Sirius answered, putting on a very forced smile to reassure his friend.
"So, were you out talking to Lily Evans again?" Remus asked, changing the subject.
"Yeah, why?" James asked.
"You just seem to spend a lot of time with her. That's something you've never done with any girl before," Remus answered.
"We talk. She's easy to talk to, and can you believe she didn't know a thing about Quidditch until I told her?" James asked.
"No, we had no idea," Remus said, nervously.
James looked at them, and said, "Ok, spill, you guys."
"What? Spill what? We have no possible idea what you're talking about, no idea," Sirius told James.
"I know you are hiding something behind your back, and I want to know what it is. Come on, you guys, you've told me everything, and everything you don't tell me, I find out about," James said.
"He has a point," Peter whispered.
Sirius closed his eyes, and took a piece of parchment out from behind his back and handed it to James.
"What is it?" James asked.
"Um. Sirius kinda. drew a. um. picture of. you and Lily. with. um. your. kids," Remus said, and closed his eyes knowing the verbal assault that was coming.
"YOU WHAT?" James yelled.
"I thought it would be funny," Sirius protested.
"Yeah, well, don't show tell anyone about this or you're parents will be planning a funeral," James told his friends, "I'm throwing this out."
He went over to the trash can, and ripped up the drawing and threw it away.
"I'm surprised you did that, Prongs," Sirius said.
"Why would you be surprised I ripped up a very embarassing drawing?" James asked, turning to face his friends.
"Isn't it obvious? You are so falling in love with that girl!" Sirius cried.
"Me, fall in love with a girl? Padfoot, you're crazy," James answered, and went over to his bed.
He couldn't shake the feeling that Sirius was right. Was he falling in love with that girl? Was he, James Potter, honestly and truly falling in love? It couldn't be. He was James Potter, he didn't fall in love, it just wasn't done. He shook his head. Sirius was so wrong.
Lily, Liz, Les, and Chris walked down the grounds to the Quidditch Stadium. The stadium was packed, and Lily and her friends looked around for seats. Sirius waved madly at them from his seat. Remus and Peter sat next to him.
"Hello, Sirius," Lily said.
"Hello, Lily, Elizabeth, Leslea, Christine. I saved some seats for you," Sirius said, motioning to the seats on the other side of him.
"Thanks, Sirius," Lily answered.
"Your welcome. The teams will be coming out soon," Sirius told them, "James is one of the best chasers Hogwarts has ever seen. They say he's going to play for England when he graduates."
"Really? My cousin wanted to play for England. He wasn't good enough, though," Liz said, frowning.
"That's neat, huh, guys? Guys? Elizabeth here just said her cousin wanted to play for England," Sirius said, poking Remus and Peter.
"Oh, what? That's great," Remus said.
Peter echoed him.
"You guys can call me Liz," Liz said.
"You can call me Leslie," Les agreed.
"And you can call me Chris, I hate my full name," Chris said.
"Ok. Hey, look, the teams are coming onto the field," Sirius said, pointing to the two teams crossing the fields.
Lily automaticly picked out James in the red and scarlet. Everyone was cheering, and waving. The players mounted their brooms, and flew off.
Lily watched and listened through the game as James assured a Gryffindor victory, until their Seeker, Pinch, caught the snitch. A roar urupted from the Gryffindor side.
"One more victory before the cup," Sirius said, "Come on, let's go congratulate James and the team on a victory well done!"
Lily, Liz, Les, and Chris followed the boys down the seats to the field, were they ran over to James.
"Jamesie boy! Another victory for Gryffindor, eh?" Sirius yelled, grinning and wrapping his arm around James' neck.
He then started singing to himself a song he had made up on the spot about winning the House Cup. Lily, Liz, Les, and Chris watched him.
"Ignore Sirius, he's rather. crazy at times," Remus told them.
"Yeah, he likes to, you know, forget about everything else and go to his little dream world," James agreed, nodding.
Sirius heard that, and punched James in the side.
Everyone laughed.
"We gotta go," Liz said.
The girls turned to go back up to the castle when James called, "Lily! Same time tonight?"
Lily turned around, and smiled, "Yeah, sure."
The girls left and Sirius turned to James.
"Oh my God, James, you are like so in love with her," Sirius said.
"Padfoot, you need medicine, because I am not in love with Lily. I don't even like her. too much," James said.
"Prongs, you are in denial! Huh, guys? Moony? Wormtail? Don't you agree?" Sirius asked.
"Hey, leave us out of this. This is between you and Prongs," Remus said, taking a step back.
Sirius shot him a dagger, and turned back to James.
"Anyone can see it. The great James Potter, Quidditch Star, Future Head Boy, is falling in love with Lily Evans," Sirius said.
"I am not!" James protested.
"Fine, but you know what, by now with all of your other girlfriends you would be thinking up a unique way to dump them," Sirius said.
"I am not in love with Lily, I am not!" James cried.
But his feelings would be showed otherwise when he walked into the Common Room that night. Lily was sitting by the fire, where she always sits now. Her red ponytail was glowing and her green eyes dancing by firelight. James felt like he could melt.
"OH MY GOD! I AM FALLING FOR LILY EVANS!" he screamed in his thoughts. "Sirius was right, they all were right. I, James Potter, am falling for a girl. I can't fall for a girl! It will ruin me!"
He took a deap breath, "What should I do? I just can't let myself fall for someone. What should I do?"
He knew the answer, break up with her. It was echoing in his head. But he didn't want to break up with Lily. He liked her. But he had to, to make sure he stopped caring for her.
He took a step towards her. Lily turned around.
"Hey, James, you're late," Lily said, standing up and walking over to him.
He didn't look the same. He was red and looked confused.
"What? What is it?" Lily asked.
"Lily. I think we should. stop. seeing each other." James whipsered.
"You mean you want to break- up with me?" Lily asked.
James nodded.
"Ok, I agree with you. We should," Lily agreed, smiling at him.
"Ok, then," James said.
Lily echoed him.
"Well, I guess." James started.
"Bye," Lily finished, and smiled at him.
She turned and walked upstairs to her dorm. Her friends noticed something was wrong right away, mainly because Lily never came in this early.
"Lils? What's wrong?" Liz asked.
"James broke up with me," Lily answered, sitting down on her bed.
Her friends exchanged glances, and Liz turned red.
"I'm gonna get him, yes I am," Liz whispered.
Meanwhile, up in the boys dorm, James walked in, looking very defeated, and suprising his friends, because James never looked this way after a Quidditch game.
"Hey, James, why aren't you smiling? You just won!" Sirius cried.
"I just broke up with Lily," James answered.
Silence fell over the room.
"Oh," Sirius whispered.
"You've never been like this after you break up with somebody," Peter annoucned, before getting nudged by Remus.
"Sorry," Remus said.
"You guys, you are acting like I just lost my parents! I must be losing my touch, she didn't even cry," James said.
"You'll be the one crying when that one girl gets her hands on you. Liz, I think," Sirius said, trying to think.
"Sirius, stop trying to think, it will never work," Remus said.
The boys started laughing, lifting spirits in the room. James went over to his bed, and got a strange feeling inside of him, a kind of achy feeling, and he didn't know why.
"Sorry, Lily," he whispered, and got into bed.
Author's Notes- How did you like part one of two parts of this story? TELL ME! I really want to know. I wrote this to try and break my writers block and think of idea for Lily's Lake (you know how hard it is to write certain parts!). So, tell me how you liked it, and go read part two!
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