Lilly sat on the shambled rock thinking to herself. She looked up and started twisted her dark red hair around her long delicate fingers. A reaction she used when thinking what to do. The look in her eyes showed she didn't know what to do. She felt someone brush her back in a comforting way.
"What's wrong Lilly?" asked the beautiful woman sitting next to herself. "it just doesn't feel right" she looked at the girl next to her. She longed with a deepest secret desire to be like her. Those concerning eyes penetrating into her. Reading her every thought. Why couldn't she have those eyes? She wanted so much to have bright blue eyes, which glistened in the sun. She wanted nothing more then to have the slim body and the waist long blonde hair, which Lorraine had. "Lilly? What's not right? Is there something that you're not telling me?" those blue eyes so full of concern.
Lilly looked down to the solid earth beneath her. A few specks of grass showed through the dingy mud. "Everything." Lilly replied. "I mean James Potter! How could he be so… argh! He just gets to me sometimes." Lilly paused to look up at her friend whom she was surprised to see smiling "why on earth are you smiling like that? You know how much he gets on my nerves. I just cant help it." A flood of anger rushed through her, her blood was rising. Why did her friend think it was so funny? Why was it when Lilly needed someone to talk to she was always there making a joke out of the situation somehow? "What's he done this time?" Lilly thought about the question and the first answer that came into her head was "lived" but she refrained herself from saying it out loud.
There were a lot of things she never said out loud. Like how she really felt for James. She would never admit to anyone but her diary that she thought he was funny and smart and off course drop-dead gorgeous. She thought for another few minutes of how much she'd love to walk hand in hand with James Potter. That was when she remembered she was supposed to be answering a question. But before she even started to answer her friend had already began to speak.
"Lilly if you like him so much why don't you just tell him, everyone knows how much he likes you." Lilly nearly fell off her rock, the only reason she didn't was because her friend caught her in time. "See even his name makes you swoon!" her friend joked and started giggling, Lilly's face turned red enough to out match her hair. She too started giggling. "How on earth did you find out? I never told anyone" Lorraine smiled a cheeky grin. "Well actually I was reading on my bed when a house elf came in to tidy up. We were meant to be in charms at the time but… well I didn't feel like going." She looked out, deeper into the woods. She paused for a second. She leaned one way thinking she saw something. She shook her head and thought nothing of it. She continued "well any way. Being fascinated by the little creatures I stopped my reading to watch him at his work. As he was tiding your bed I saw something moving under the pillow." Lilly hid her head in sheer embarrassment. She already knew what her friend had seen. "The photo" Lilly finished her friends subject. "Yes Lilly. The photo."
Her and her friend giggled for a while until Lilly couldn't go on any longer without knowing. "so anyway how did you find me here? This is my…well…not so secret any more, place." Her friend sighed. "Well I followed you here after James pulled that last stunt which set you off." She girls sat in silence until they both heard a snapping sound. Lilly turned around so quickly not even a Comet 260 could have out done her.
The few split seconds Lilly thought James might have also followed her in to the woods. But it was ok. It was just a stag. Lilly stood up. "This stag always knows when I am here" she spoke in a soft voice. She stood up and went to pet the creature gently. The stag gently brushed its nose though hr hair and sniffed at it. "How can you tell it's the same one?" her friend stood up and followed her to the stag. "Well it has this small patch of tuffty hair just here" she remarked while gently tugging on the animals fur. "And it never seems to lay down straight." Lorraine started to walk out of the woods and beckoned for her friend to follow her.
Lilly kissed the stag on the head. "Well now there are three of us that knows about my love for James." She said softly to the animal. "At least I know you won't tell anyone." She kissed the stag again and raced off to catch up with her friend.
The stag stood still watching the girl run after her friend. He bent his head low into a bow as if to eat some grass but his neck sprung back into a full upright position as soon as he knew the girl had vanished from sight. For a while the woods was still. There was no movement except the slight summer breeze in the trees and birds that flew to and from their nests. The Stags chestnut coloured coat shone in the sun as it turned to leave its place but before he could move to far he heard a sound which came from a near by tree.
As if out of thin air three boys appeared laughing immensely. The three boys were obviously friends. Best friends. First inline stood a strong looking boy. He had broad shoulders and well developed mussels. His hair was short and black. He was very good looking and looked very much like a lad who kept himself in good keep. He had his arm friendly against another boy whom was propping himself up against him.
This boy however was different. He was thin and pale. Not as muscular as the other but did not lack in the looks department his hair was long and tied back in a ponytail. The third boy however did not seem to fit in to the picture as well.
He was a plump boy who was not strong. He did not look clever like the other two. They had the look of knowledge upon them while the plump boy had a vague and vacant expression on his face. The third boy was not leaning on the others for support but sat at the foot of a near by tree with his back against it. The boys seemed to be laughing at the stag but with less then a blink of an eye the fully-grown stag had turned into a boy.
This boy fitted right into the group. He was tall and muscular. He was extremely good looking with jet-black hair, which stood up in a messy way. His eyes where brown but they didn't laugh like the others they just stood gazing into the place where the girl had stood before him. He reached out as if to touch an invisible cheek and he kissed the air in front of him. The boys by the tree laughed harder. He sat down on the rock that had just accompanied the red haired girl.
He sighed. His friends stopped laughing and slowly walked towards him. They all knew that he was smitten. This girl. The only girl. That did not like James Potter. Of course she was the only girl. And being the only girl out of hundreds that did not like him. He had to have her. But it was more then that for James, and all his friends had realised this long before anyone else. Maybe even Potter himself. But that good-looking untidy boy was in love.
"Lilly Potter" he said dreamily. "Doesn't it just sound perfect?" he turned to face the others only to find them gagging jokily. He shoved them playfully aside. The shorthaired boy spoke first. "Look potter if you want to get the girl I'll show you how any time" he grinned at his longing friend. "I don't think he needs any help in that department Sirius!" Replied the longhaired boy "after all she not the first to get "Potter fever" the three boys laughed but James just sighed. "You know this is different Lupin," he sighed again looking up at the longhaired boy. "I think I'm in love with her" the other three boys looked at one another smiled and helped James to his feet.
As they walked out of the woods into the bright sunlight the small round boys eyes darted around for teachers. "You do know how many rules we just broke don't you?" he looked at the other three who were trying there best not to shout at him. "for one thing, entering the forest alone is agains-" the boys words were cut short "Shut up peter! We don't need a talking rule book, if we wanted one I'm sure we'd charm one." The shorthaired boy named Sirius stopped midway talking. "Actually" he carried on "that's a brilliant idea for your birthday present" he said laughing. Peter just looked at him irritably.
They laughed and joked all the way to the common room where they all collapsed into their usual seats. Not far away Lilly was talking to her friend Lorraine. James stole a look across the crowded room only to see her glance directly at him. There it was. It lasted seconds. But there in that moment they both knew the truth. It was the first time they'd ever looked at each other properly. With no showing off. He looked deeply into those deep green eyes hoping to find some mutual understanding. She looked back down at her book and carried on her conversation.
James turned to his friends. "I will have that girl" they all knew he meant in more ways then one.
