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Chapter 1 – Set during Lily and James's 4th Year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

"Love is unhealthy. It's like a disease that plagues you." I sighed.

"Love is when you think about a person everyday and you hate them for it but at the same time you are addicted to dreaming about them.

Love is when you can look over imperfection and only see beauty... and it just keeps going and stretching on and on and on," I concluded.

"Heavens above!!!! Lily we need to get you a guy - either that or a huge tub of ice-cream because, Lily, you are such a ROMANTIC" laughed Arabella.

"You just don't understand love" I retorted.

"Yeah, well, sure as hell sounds like I don't want to either after that little rendition." she threw back at me.

I knew, with Arabella, that I would never win this argument so instead I pulled a grumpy face at my best friend and stalked off to my dorm.

Deep down I really loved Ara but she just didn't understand affairs of the heart. I had tried so hard to introduce her to all those wonderful romance novels that I just live for but trying to associate her with a book is like trying to get the "Marauders" not to play pranks – IMPOSSIBLE.

But for me love was painful because the more I loved the more I got hurt and the more love I formed the less I received – and all this I blamed on a particularly attractive JAMES POTTER.

He was my heaven. I could dream about him all day and not get bored. I could imagine those eyes, that hair and that perfectly gorgeous body day in day out but he would never notice me!!!

It was all because I was ugly. My hair was bright red and too harsh on the eyes. I was too skinny and had stick like legs and no chest at all. I had freckles and pale skin and worst of all --- I was a bookworm geek who spent more time reading and studying than living.

So how with all of this against me was I ever, EVER going to get James Potter to fall in love with me?

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P.S – this chapter is dedicated to those who have a true love but don't have him loving you back

Luv ya all - Fee