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.

Author's Notes:  This in response to Winter Witch's challenge in her profile. It's a little something like this:

1) Must be a James/Lily fic!

2) Lily cannot be the perfect popular girl, and please keep the shy bookworms to a minimum! Make her different!
3) Must be at Hogwarts!
4) Dumbledore must be the headmaster
5) Someone must make a sexual remark, not during a Quidditch match!, and someone else must respond to this remark by saying "Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt...and I think its in your size!"
6) Remus and Sirius must play large parts!
7) A Gryffindor MUST say: "Severus is lookin' sexy today!" in a serious context

Enough rambling from me. Let the story begin.

Hesitation by Hullabloo

The time just passes by as I walk down the street and suddenly its time for me to leave this place again. Its time for me to return home and its time for me to forge my own path.

Lily Evans, witch and Hogwarts student was returning to her home after a long year at school. Sitting on the Hogwarts express Lily was scribbling in a notebook and mouthing words to herself. Never one to shy away from danger and never one to not find the situation humorous Lily Evans was one of the most original people in the whole school. She lives in a small village on the outskirts of London with her sister and parents. Deciding that this summer holidays was going to be different for many reasons. First of all Lily had finally found the courage to get herself home from Kings Cross Station for the first time and, so it was in a pair of orange bell-bottoms, a white tank top and a pair of big black sunglasses that Lily sat on the train to Millbrook.

"Miss, can I please take your ticket?"

"Yes, here it is. Can you tell me how much longer till Millbrook station?"

"It's the next stop, so roughly five minutes. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"No, I'm right thank you."

"That trunk looks awfully heavy are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure."

With that the ticket collector walked out of the compartment muttering something about feminists thinking they could get their luggage down and having to fill out another incident report. Little did he know Lily had already gotten her trunk down with the help of a simple 'wingardium leviosa'.

Quickly packing up her notebook, swinging her bag onto her shoulder and grabbing the trunk, not forgetting Kitty, Lily exited the compartment and waited for the train to stop.

Once on the platform she took a deep breath and made her way home for her first summer as a witch able to perform magic outside of school. Petunia wouldn't know what had hit her!!

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"I honestly wish that Mum and Dad had bought me that stupid car last year," grumbled a very hot and sweaty Lily.

"Hey Lils, wanna lift," yelled a passing driver.

"Merlin. James you really scared me. I didn't see you on the Millbrook train, how'd you get home so fast?"

"Lily, do I have to remind you every summer that my parents are a witch and wizard and we floo home? So do you want that lift?"

"Well, I don't think Mum would like me getting into the car with a boy who blew up our letterbox with wizard fireworks but ok."

After Lily was settled in the car there was a silence. Not an uncomfortable silence but a silence that seemed to indicate that there was nothing left to say and that these two people who acted so friendly really didn't want anything to do with each other.

"Thank you for the lift James. I really can manage from here. Careful, you'll break something. JAMES, DON'T YOU EVER LISTEN NOW LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!! I HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN HOME FIVE MINUTES AND YOU'VE ALREADY RUINED MY MOTHER'S GARDEN. Give me my trunk and go home. I'm sure that Sirius is waiting for you."

"You make it sound like we're lovers or something."

"Well aren't you? I mean you sure do spend a lot of time with each other and seem really close. Now shoo."

"For your information Lillian Evans me and Sirius are not lovers. Sirius and Remus though well you'll have to figure that out yourself."

And with that he stalked back to his car only to drive it across the street.

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