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Alrighty, this is my first shot at a Lily/James fic. It takes place in their sixth year, just so you know... but goes onto seventh year as well. And if there is not much of Peter, I'm sorry, I just HATE HIS GUTS!! If there was an emoticon that described how I feel about him... I would use it every time his name was uttered... --trails off--Oh, and if you want to read something while I'm updating or what-not, I have another HP story! I haven't updated it in forever though because so many things have come up... I've... really forgotten about it. :S Okie well, better start on this one then eh?

Chapter One

It was a blur of colours. Swirling blue and black, and a hint of yellow, all spinning so fast Lily felt as if she was going to be sick. Her eyes shut tight in a hope that if she couldn't see it, it was in fact not happening. Her effort was useless though, she could hear the spinning, and she could feel the colours dance around her, as if taunting her. Lily opened her mouth to cry out, but as soon as she did she awoke with a start.

Lily blinked in the pitch black of her dorm room, gasping for breathe, drenched in cold sweat. She barely noticed her heart was racing inside her chest. What had she been dreaming about? She couldn't remember.
'It had to be something!' she thought irritably as she felt her cold and clammy forehead with her palms.
She lay back on her bed, still catching her breathe and staring up at the canopy of her four poster bed. This was not what she had expected for the first night back at Hogwarts. Lily shut her eyes tight, forcing herself to relive her dream, curiosity fueling her desperate attempts to find out what the dream had been about to make her wake up with her heart beating ferociously against her chest, drenched in a cold sweat.
'It's no use,' came the voice in her head after what seemed like an eternity of laying there, eyes shut tight.
Lily sighed and silently agreed. She stopped forcing her eyes shut with all her might and rolled over so that she could peek out of the drapes to see the rest of her dormitory.
It was bathed in moonlight from the window nearest Lily's bed, so she had quite a good view of her classmates, all of whom were snoring loudly, hair askew over their faces.
Alice Retter was making a good deal of noise in the bed next to Lily's. Lily glanced over at her and silenced a giggle when she saw Alice snoring loudly, clinging to a pillow as if for dear life.
"Frank," Alice squealed in her sleep, which made Lily snort loudly, forgetting her attempts to be quiet.
It was well known around the school that Alice Retter and Frank Longbottom were desperately in love. Lily wondered why they still hadn't acted on their love, and guessed that it was mainly because of Alice's shy nature mixed with her low self confidence.
"He doesn't even like me!" Alice had moaned one day to Lily. "Why would he? He's smart, and handsome, and I'm..." Alice trailed off sadly.
"And you're clever and pretty!" Lily had finished for her in an assuring voice.
"No... and I'm fat and clumsy!" Alice sobbed, pulling at her round cheeks. Lily had looked around the room, giving herself time to think of something to say.
"You're not fat," Lily said soothingly at last. "You're just... round."
If Lily had thought that would help, she was dreadfully wrong. Alice wailed and flung herself into her four-poster bed, closing the drapes behind her.
Lily shrugged at the memory. Alice had obviously forgotten about being called round, for she and Lily were still good friends.
She poked her head around her drapes to look at her best friend's four-poster that stood across from Lily's.
Her best friend was Abigail Finnigan. She was a clever and good- looking witch, though she spent most of her time talking endlessly about Quidditch.
"Can you believe the nerve of Potter? I was right in front of him, ready to catch the Quaffle, when he just darts right past me and gets the damned thing stolen by Parkison!" Abby had exclaimed one day in their fifth year after a great match.
"Well you know Potter. He's always trying to show off on that Broom!" Lily muttered angrily.
"Mind you, we did crush them... but he has to learn teamwork!" Abby said crossly.
Perhaps it was the fact that Abby despised Potter almost as much as Lily that they became great friends. Lily had never really thought about it that way.
She pulled her head back into her four-poster and stared blankly up at the canopy. She had only one thing on her mind... Potter.
He had taken it upon himself since fifth year to pester her endlessly.
"Alright Evans?" he'd greet her every morning, his hand lost in the depth of his thick black hair.
"Not anymore," Lily would reply, pushing past him.
Lily knew what he was up to. James Potter had already dated almost every girl in their year, excluding the ones from Slytherin.
'He's trying to get me to go out with him because I'm the only girl he can't have,' Lily assured herself stubbornly.
Though she was beginning to have her doubts that her explanation was James' real intention. When she told James that she would rather date the Giant Squid, James had levitated it towards Lily, lips puckered as if expecting a kiss.
"Come on Evans, don't disappoint!" James said loudly over a crowd of people's endless giggles when Evans had stared at it in disgust. "He came all this way for you!"
Although the magic was impressive, Lily was not going to admit that to him. She stalked off to castle and endured two months of Slytherin torture.
"How's your boyfriend, Evans?" they'd sneer as she passed.
Lily sighed, hoping that almost everyone would have forgotten about the Giant Squid incident last year. She didn't know what she would do if another person transfigured something she was holding into a small squid.
'He's just an egotistical airhead,' she thought to herself before drifting off into sleep.
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James, on the other hand, was still wide awake in his dormitory with Sirius, Remus and Peter.
"Come off it, Prongs!" Sirius said loudly as James had stated that he was still planning to win Lily over. "She's never going to fall for you. She hates you even more than Snape does I bet."
James stared in shock at Sirius. "I know she likes me!" he said confidently while his hand found his way to his hair. "She's just too stubborn to admit it!"
"I have to agree with Padfoot," Remus spoke up. James rounded on him, glaring at him with all his might.
"Well that's a surprise!" James said in mock fascination.
"All I'm saying is that... maybe you should leave Evans alone?" Remus said quietly.
"Leave her alone? What do you think I am, Moony? A stalker?" James retorted.
Remus closed his eyes and opened them tiredly. "No. I just think that Evans will not change her mind about you in an instant because of some dazzling prank you manage to pull off. She despises that sort of behavior," Remus informed.
James opened his mouth to retaliate but was cut off by a voice in a nearby four-poster.
"Just because you four are up talking about pranks and girls you like, doesn't mean we want to hear it!"
"Sorry Longbottom!" James called pleasantly without a trace of guilt in his voice.
"I think you should go for her, Prongs," Peter said in avid admiration, apparently pleased that James was going to continue with his pranks.
"You know what, Wormtail? I think I will," James nodded in agreement, ignoring Sirius and Remus who were rolling their eyes.
"AHEM!"
"Yes yes, Longbottom. We're going to bed!" James said angrily.
The four stood up and looked at each other. "Night!" James said happily while crossing to his four-poster.
James was so keen on having the next day come quickly, that he ignored the piece of parchment that was magically flying around his bed. No doubt it was from Sirius, and no doubt it was something meaningless. With that, James rolled over and fell asleep almost instantly.
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... Yea I know it's short but my mom has just come back in and has given me five minutes to wrap this all up! Review please!? But be nice :)