A/N: My third story! Woohoo! I have plans for this one! Well, bigger plans for this that my other two. Each chapter is loosely based on a song, but unfortuantely I've had to take the lyrics off, and a link doesn't work, so if you need to find the song you'll have to do it yourselves, sorry. Well, here we go, hope you enjoy it:

TITLE: Purely Platonic

AUTHOR: Boy-Crazy Bookworm

SUMMARY: James has finally changed and Lily has agreed to become friends. Just friends? Pft… I wonder how long that will last!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything associated with Harry Potter! Please don't sue!

SONG: Welcome To My Life, by Simple Plan. I don't own this either so please don't sue me for using it as the title!

CHAPTER 1: Welcome To My Life

(6th Year)

"POTTER! POTTER! Get down here THIS INSTANT!"

James Potter lazily made his way down the stairs and into the Gryffindor common room, where Lily Evans was standing, hands on hips and eyes blazing. A crowd was beginning to form, they enjoyed watching the daily show. Well, maybe not daily. More like hourly.

"Yes, Lilykins?" James said sweetly, leaning against the railing of the stairs and grinning like a Cheshire cat. Lily stormed right up to him so that she was face to face with him. Or face to chest to be more specific. He was pretty tall.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" she asked in a harsh whisper.

"What do you mean, Evans?" James said innocently. "I don't know what your talking about."

"Bullshit!" Lily exclaimed, then said more quietly. "I know it was you."

"What did I do now?" James asked, then subtly performed a spell which magnified her voice.

"You made all my underwear turn pink and put talking Barbie pictures on them!" she cried, then gasped when she realised that everyone in the common room had heard her. Lily whipped out her want and pushed it against his chin.

"You're a bastard, Potter!" she growled. "An annoying, evil, heartless, insensitive little shit."

And the eyebrow goes up. It was James's new trademark. Last year it was ruffling his hair, this year it was raising one eyebrow while keeping the other one down, giving him a puzzled look. Lily hated it as much as she had hated it when he'd ruffled his hair. It was so bloody annoying. Because it was so darn cute. Everything about James Potter was like that. But Lily Evans refused to go out with him, because to her, his annoying ways were far more obvious that his cuteness.

James mock sighed. "There you go , breaking my heart all over again, Lilykins." Of course, James would never admit that it was actually true.

"You don't have a heart!" Lily whispered angrily, before turning around and storming out of the common room.

Sirius came up to James to high-five him, and James grinned, his love for attention almost as great as his love for Lily.

"Well there you go, folks! Tune in soon for another episode of the Lily and James Feud!"

Then his eyes narrowed, and he elbowed Sirius (who gasped, "Hands off the merchandise") in the ribs, and they watched Remus Lupin run out the door, in search of a pretty red head girl, most likely in tears.

"How can he do this to me, Remus?" Lily sobbed. "Why? Why does he do this to me?"

Lily and Remus had become friends while they were prefects. Now the regularly met up yo chat about school, families, friends, and recently- James Potter. At present they were sitting under a willow tree which was situated by the lake, but much more secluded than the beech tree.

"I have no idea, Lils," Remus replied, taking a bite out of his apple as he leaned against the tree. "I know he wants your attention because he's completely infatuated with you."

"Yeah, judging from the 72 times he's asked me out, I sort of figured that out. But he has such a weird was of showing it!"

That's James for you," Remus sighed, putting his arm around Lily's shoulders. "Either you ignore him or go out with him."

Lily gasped in horror. "I would never go out with the jerk! He is such a pretty boy! Then again, so are you." She grinned evilly and began tickling his ribs.

"Lily!" Remus gasped, before grabbing her wrists in attempt to stop her.

"Bastard," James managed through clenched teeth, while he watched Lily and Remus tickle each other to the ground. He and Sirius were crouching down out of view behind branches of the willow.

"What the fuck does he think he's doing?"

"Well, um, Prongs, mate, they are friends," Sirius whispered awkwardly. He knew that James was mad, but he also knew that Remus would never do anything to hurt James, so their behaviour must be innocent.

"Bloody hell, he knows he's not supposed to act that way with her! She's mine!" James muttered.

Sirius shifted uncomfortably.

"Why her?" James exclaimed. "Why Lily? Any other girl, hell, any other person, guy or girl, I wouldn't care. Why Lily?"

"Well what about you?" Sirius asked, and James looked at him in surprise. "Why Lily? You can have any other girl."

"Because…" James gestured at the two friends that were currently gasping for breath (A/N: For all those with their minds in the gutter- NO:D) "Because she's Lily."

Sirius raised is eyebrow. James wasn't the only one with that talent.

"She's special," James whispered. "I can't describe it."

They watched in silence as Lily and Remus got up off the ground and brushed leaves off their robes.

"Do you really think they're just friends?" James asked quietly.

"Yes, mate, I'm…" Sirius's voice trailed off as he watched Lily kiss Remus lightly on the cheek, who them promptly blushed. "…sure."

James eyed them wearily, then suddenly grinned. "Well just to be on the safe side…"

Lily and Remus walked up to the castle to their potions class.

"Don't worry about James, Lily," Remus said quietly.

"I can't help it," Lily sighed. "I'm just waiting for whatever cruel thing he'll decide to do next."

She pushed the door open and met a room filled with pictures of her and Remus, magical moving pictures of them in he library, eating together in the Great Hall, playing checkers, doing prefect duties, and, of course, Lily kissing Remus under the willow tree.

"Lily and Remus sitting under the tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" the class sang and then burst out laughing, as Lily stood there looking horrified, her mouth hanging open, and Remus blushing bright red, looking like he wished the floor would open up and swallow him whole.

"Alright, settle down," the professor said as he came bustling through the door, and the class quieted down.

The day was uneventful from then onwards, until it was time to go to bed. Lily had decided to have an early night and went up to the girls's dormitory. Ten minutes later Lily came downstairs in her pink and green polka-dot pyjamas, once again looking flustered.

"Potter," she spat out the word as if it was filthy, which, to her, it was.

"Evans," he regarded her coolly.

"Where is he?" Lily asked, sounding desperate.

"I haven't a clue what you're on about," James said, shrugging.

"What did you do with him?"

"Go out with me and I'll tell you," James grinned charmingly.

"JAMES ANDREW POTTER WHERE THE HELL IS TIMMY?" Lily screamed.

Remus's eyes widened, and he ran up to the boys' dorm. He knew that Timmy was Lily's teddy bear, and for personal reasons she hadn't slept without him since she had received him. He emerged holding the little bear. Lily looked like she was about to burst into teas as he handed Timmy to her. She then ran up to her room as fast as her legs could carry her. Remus turned James.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" he said in a low, disapproving voice before storming off.

James looked after him, then to the stairs where Lily had just disappeared, and grinned half heartedly at Sirius. His heart was heavy with guilt, as the girl of his dreams cried herself to sleep for what seemed like the hundredth time.

A/N: YAY! Please review!