Alone in a back garden in Bottingdon James Potter lay gazing up at the sky wishing for something exciting to happen. It was a quiet town in which he lived in with his grandparents and because it was a muggle area he could not perform any magic although he was the legal age now, but due to being in a muggle area this could not be done.

Silently he watched the clouds passing by and began to think back over his years at Hogwarts. This year was to be his last year there and soon he would be leaving his most favourite place in the world to go onto more bigger and better things, but what that was it was left unanswered. Thinking of Hogwarts brought some hurt to him, especially his last day there.

James had secretly fallen for one of the girls most unlikely to have even given looked at James twice, Lillian Evans. Lillian was a school prefect and very smart. She was the envy of many people within Gryffindor house, but liked by many, especially James.

On that eventful last day James had decided he would tell Lily how he felt about her and vowed that if he did not tell her now he wouldn't have the guts to tell her again. James left the Gryffindor common room in search of Lily. He met some students from Gryffindor in the corridor and asked if they had seen Lily, they replied that they had seen her sitting by the lake. Rushing quickly down to the lake he ran past his three best friends Remus, Peter and Sirius, to where a girl sat alone beside the lake with long red hair. Slowing down as he reached her, he paused and thought about what he was going to say.

Slowly James turned away so that when he spoke, she would not see the embarrassment on his face.

"Lily. mmmmmm. I have something to tell you" stammered James

"But I'm." the girl started to say but was broken in by James

"I want to say something and I think you should hear me out. I know that you and me have had our differences and I wasn't always nice to you, but mmm...Lily... I really like you!"

At this point James turned around and saw Sirius doubled over with laughter, Peter laughing just as hard and Remus trying his hardest not to laugh. Looking behind them he saw Lily standing with her friends with a shocked look on her face.

James finally turned around to see whom he had been saying his most deepest thoughts to and noticed a girl who was as embarrassed as he was. The realisation had hit James, he had told the wrong girl how he felt and his so-called best friends had heard him do it.

Storming off in a huff James made his way quickly back to the castle followed closely by his friends. He couldn't believe what had just happened, and what with Sirius imitating him in the background did not help matters. The image kept playing over again and again in his head. How on earth was he ever going to face Lily again after today? He didn't want to think about that!

Upon reaching the portrait of the Fat Lady he automatically said "mandrakes" and the portrait swung open revealing the Gryffindor common room. Stepping into the common room he made his way up the stairs to the boys' dormitories and lay down on his bed. Lifting his wand he motioned for the curtains around him to be closed so that he could be alone.

Just as he had closed the curtains round him Remus, Sirius and Peter entered the boy's dormitory. Sirius then began to imitate James by getting down on one knee running his hands through his hair and saying a high pitched, pathetic voice

"Oh Lily I love you, please will you go out with me!?!"

"OH YES JAMSIE WAMSIE!" Peter replied back in a very girlie type voice. The taunting went on for a while like this, James just placed his pillow over hi head trying to drown out the sounds of Sirius and Peter. The scene kept replaying over and over in his head. Remus noticing how quiet James was raised a hand and motioned for Sirius and Peter to be quiet

"James are you ok?"

"Just leave me alone will you please! I just want to be myself!"

Remus, Sirius and Peter looked shocked at this outburst from James, as he had never been like that towards them before. So slowly they left the dormitory and entered into the Gryffindor common room and sat in a corner where no one could hear them.

"Gee what's up with him?" said Sirius, who seemed unaware of what was actually going on or was just oblivious to the situation.

"Sirius are you messing about or are you really thick?" exclaimed Remus, who couldn't believe how stupid Sirius could be at times and this was one of the most stupid times yet.

"No I'm not messing about Moony, I just don't understand why he's acting the way he is!"

"Well Padfoot my old friend..... It's like this... James really likes Lily, can't you see that?"

"Yes Sirius, I thought you of all people would have noticed that. After James began Hogwarts and seen Lily he has always had a thing for her!" explained Remus to a shell shocked Sirius, who was still sitting on the floor.

"WHAT?" exclaimed Sirius, who fell of his chair at this shocked at what he had just heard.

Sirius got up of the floor and placing his chair upright sat down and thought for a minute. "MMMMM I thought Prongs was acting a different this year, always trying to talk to Lily, whom kept ignoring him. Now I know why! But how come he never said anything to me, I'm his closest friend, no offence to you's two."

"Your ok Padfoot we understand and know that, but maybe he thought you would tease him something serious and didn't want to tell you."

Sirius thought this over for a minute and realised that Remus was right and if he was in James's position he wouldn't be telling them that he fancied anyone. As he knew that James would tease him something serious, just like he would do to James if he told him.

"Moony old friend your absolutely right. I guess we'll say nothing more to James and just act like nothing happened. After all we go home tomorrow."

Silently each agreed to this and headed back to the dormitory and climbed into bed and fell asleep. Only one person did not sleep to well that night and that was James. He kept thinking about what had happened that day and replaying it over and over again in his mind. Finally near dawn he fell asleep.