Title: The Process of Getting Over Myself (or rather Lily Evans)

Rating: PG

Summary: "You know what she told me??? She told me to get over it! GET OVER IT! As if I could, how stupid can she be? Any other normal person would have given up long ago, but I am not any other normal person. I am James Potter." James tries different approaches to get Lily to like him.

A/N: This is Madame Puddifoot speaking, formerly known as lilygurl88, I changed my penname I got sick of the other one. I'm back from France! It was loads of fun although I'm not going to bore you with the details. This chapter is unbetaed since I felt bad for not posting this up sooner, but hopefully my dear beta reader can find it in her heart to forgive me. Enjoy! And please review I always contemplate to abandon my fics when I don't get any feedback. Sad, I know, but true.

Disclaimer: Mine???? Surely you jest.

The Process of Getting Over Myself (or rather Lily Evans)

Chapter 2

To be honest last weeks plan was a complete failure. I must have done something wrong, although I'm not exactly sure what. It is obvious that there is no way I'll be able to figure this out by myself. Therefore, I have taken it upon my genius to enlist my best friends to help me out, Moony, Padfoot and Wormtail.

According to Padfoot I'm a lost cause. His exact words were, "James, you prat, you'll never convince Lily you might as well give up while you still can." You know, for my best friend he really isn't all that encouraging.

When I asked Wormtail he wasn't exactly in a position to answer as he was too busy eating one of the Pumpkin Pasties that has been under Sirius' bed since Fifth Year. You would think he'd notice all the mold.

Of course, the only real help that I got came in the form of Moony. According to him, I have to get Evans at least a little interested in me before I play the mystery game. And then everything will just be a 'piece of cake.' Sometimes I wonder where he gets this terminology from.

Remus also mentioned that the way to get Evans interested in me is to be nice to her. Compliment her on things no one else notices and what not. Also, conversation is the best way to get her really interested in me. And then, when the conversation stops she'll come flying into my arms.

Today was supposed to be the first day that I put my plan into the works. Needless to say, it failed miserably. I decided to put to Remus' advice into action first thing in the morning since I need all the time I can get. Sirius finally gave me some input, that surprisingly wasn't degrading to my character, and advised that I play it cool.

So, Padfoot, Moony, Wormtail and I walked into the Great Hall (casually and coolly, of course). On our way past Lily I commented (in the most casual/cool way I could) "Hey Evans, nice eyebrows." Three things happened at once. Sirius had a hacking coughing fit, Figg burst out laughing and Evans stood up gave me a look that would have frozen a chimera and left the room.

It wasn't until we found a spot at the table when Remus explained to me what exactly it was that I had done wrong. It turns out 'things that no one else notices' does not include eyebrows or any other form of facial hair. And according to Remus, the way I said it made me sound like an idiot (which would explain why Figg is still laughing and why Alice and Frank can't get her to say what happened, which is fine by me. I have enough embarrassment as it is).

For the rest of breakfast I just stared into my bowl of porridge trying to figure out what was the easiest way to drown myself in it.

Note to self: Avoid sticking head in a hot bowl of porridge. It hurts and Sirius will bother you about it for the rest of the day.

It turned out that Evans had actually been trying to avoid me after the Eyebrow Incident, as Peter now refers to it. I honestly don't see what the big deal is! You make one bloody comment about someone's eyebrows and they're avoiding you like the plague. Well no one avoids THE James Potter!!!

Note to self (2): Do not say "THE James Potter" out loud as Sirius will make smarmy comment about speaking in the third person.

It wasn't until after the Transfiguration lesson that I was even able to attempt to apologize to Evans. Needless to say it went horribly wrong, as do most things that I attempt to do concerning her.

"Hey Evans, uh, could I talk to you for a second."

With a tinge of great exasperation she sighed, "What is it Potter?"

"Well, I'm sorry for complimenting you at breakfast. I didn't mean to talk about your eyebrows, honestly! It's not as though I started talking about a mustache or anything, not that you have one. I just wanted to show you that I noticed things that no one else notices and I couldn't find anything cause everyone notices everything about you cause you're not really conspicuous. Now if I started talking about your sideburns, then that would have been horrible…"

My rambling continued along this vein for quite some time. After about 2 more minutes I concluded with,

"I just wanted to make sure you knew that I'm really sorry about making you mad, although you do have lovely eyebrows."

Lily merely stared at me spluttering indignant unrecognizable words, obviously twisting the words of my beautiful oration in her equally beautiful head in a way that always leaves me feeling stupid.

"You prat!" she yelled and stomped off in the direction of the Gryffindor Tower leaving me trying to figure out what it was exactly that I had done wrong.

Me and my stupid mouth. Why doesn't it ever just stop moving?!? Before supper Remus was able to explain to me exactly what it was that I had done wrong. Of course in my stupidity, I ended up talking about her facial hair. What is wrong with me?!?

By the end of supper I was staring into the dregs of my gravy contemplating if I could drown myself in that.

Note to self (3): Do not attempt to stick head in gravy bowl. It will send both Sirius and Figg into fits of uncontrollable laughter. Not to mention, a strong desire to take a shower afterwards.

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