Lily Evans, was considered beautiful by many. Her long red hair hung to just past her shoulder blades. In the past considered frizzy, now her hair was thick and wavy. At 16 years old, she had grown into thin body. Around 5-feet-5-inches, in height, Lily blended in with the rest of her class. But instead of making her go unnoticed. Lily's personality made sure that everytime she walked into a room all eyes would be on her. For Lily, though, her best feature were her emerald green eyes, normally slightly outlined with eyeliner and mascara, they shone at whoever she was talking to. Excepting James Potter.

Ever since the third year, Lily has hated James. No one knew exactly what had passed between Lily and James, that faithful winter day in their 3rd year when their close friendship of the past 2-and-a-half years had crumbled to dust. No one but James, Lily and Severus Snape.

Severus Snape, a greasy-haired boy, in the same year as James and Lily. Always considered rather annoying, he didn't have many friends, and tended to keep to himself. Snape never forgot how he had accidently barged in on the important moment, which changed Lily and James' lives for many years. He also never missed an opportunity to hang it over James' head.

Now in her sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Lily was considered by many to be the belle of the school. The only other girls who had close to as many admirers as Lily did, were her two best friends. Through her years at Hogwarts, Lily had gotten steadily closed to Hymn and Aurora. All three had matured over the years, and were now known as the smartest, prettiest, and most perfect girls at the school. All three of them combined balanced each other out perfectly, and from the closeness, that the girls shared, they had come about their nickname of The Muses.

At 16, all three girls had striking appearances. Lily's like a fire on the move, entranced everybody. Her fiery temper, yet nice personality, plus her brains and good natured approach to everything, gave everyone a reason to be friends with her. Girls and boys alike flocked to her for tips on how to play Quidditch, considering she was one of the Griffindor chasers, and to how to snag their dream guy, knowing that Lily was one of the most sought after girls at school. Aurora, tall and mysterious, drew people to her like the moon draws the tides. Around 5'9" in height and with her waist length straight black hair and unusual purple eyes, not many boys were immune to her charms. Walking around the school with a queen's grace, and smiling at everyone as if to invoke their confidence, she weighted out Lily's fiery temper, and sharp personality perfectly. Hymn on the other hand, had matured miraculously over the years, she, like a bright burning sun, seemed to shine with light and drew people to her with her exciting personality. No longer playing around with her hair color every week, she had gone back to her natural light brown curls. Framing her heart shaped face perfectly, the curls looked soft and touchable, and made her bright turquoise eyes, look like gems.

Sirius Black and James Potter, who had naturally become best friends, were also deeply in love with Lily and Hymn, each of them respectively. They went about it in different ways. Where Lily knew that James loved her, and she consistently rejected him, and went out with other guys, Hymn and Sirius were very good friends, and had a playful relationship, which consisted of them bouncing sarcastic comments back and forth. Remus and Aurora, the calm ones out of the groups always watched the two couples' doings with interest.

"So Lily, time to break up with Amos already, huh?" asked Hymn playfully.

"Hmmm, she's right," added Aurora, glancing up from her Transfiguration book for the first time that evening, "Its been what, a week now?"

"Potter's been giving the death glare to you two for the past 2 days, its definitely time," added Hymn.

"I suppose you guys are right," replied Lily, "glancing away from her reflection in the mirror where she had been playing with various hairstyles, "I guess I'll do it tomorrow before the Quidditch match. It'll be fitting since our teams are playing each other."

"So that would be what boyfriend number 10 for this year?" teased Hymn playfully.

"And that's not counting the ones we met in France over the winter!" added Aurora with a hidden smile.

"I just cant seem to find the right guy!" burst out Lily in her frustration, "Every guy I'm with I lose interest with in a few days. With Amos it was either Quidditch or how good he is in Herbology. And believe me, I love Quidditch, ever since I was accepted onto the team in third year, It's been part of my life, but I've got to draw the line somewhere! It simply seems like I have no perfect match!"

"Ah, well. Maybe I'm destined to be an old maid!" said Lily dramatically flinging her hand to her forehead, "What do you guys think of this hairstyle?" asked Lily pointing to her hair, which was gathered elegantly in a messy up do, and obviously held up by magic, "I think I'll wear it like this tomorrow."

"It looks great Lils," commented Hymn, and it really did, with her hair softly gathered up at the top, it made Lily's eyes stand out even more. With a bit of makeup tomorrow, she may be mistaken for a goddess.

"You know Potter's gonna start drooling when you come in like that," said Aurora, with a hint of sarcasm in her voice, "You take pleasure from that don't you?"

Lily smiled a mischevious smile. "Well and why shouldn't I? He embarrassed me before, now I can have my pay back! Plus this hairstyles practical, I've enchanted it not to fall apart while I'm playing Quidditch tomorrow, and do from the moment I put the enchantment on to the moment I take it off, every hair should stay in place."

"Lils but it was such a long time ago!" "Its really time to get over it. "Besides haven't you seen how good Potter's looking this year." "And everyone knows he's madly in love with you!" her friends bombarded Lily with their persuasive arguments, completely ignoring her attempts to steer the conversation away from her relationship with James.

"He's just not what I'm looking for," Lily said with a sigh, as she remembered Potter's warm hazel eyes, and flashing smile glowing upon her as she walked into the common room earlier. "He could be eventually, and I thought he was a while ago, but now I have no feeling for what he has become."

"It's late guys! I'm going to bed," said Lily as she magicked her hair back down went to the bathroom to brush up, and lay down in bed.

When she got to her bed she saw that Aurora and Hymn, were still sitting up in Hymn's bed playing cards, their other roommate Alice was already asleep. As Lily lay down and put her head on the pillow, her two best friends looked at her.

"You loved him didn't you?" asked Aurora perceptively.

Lily considered the question for a moment. "No" she answered finally, "I loved the person I thought he was, but that person is gone."

i "I simply wish he can come back," she admitted, but only to herself. /i

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James Potter had meanwhile been sitting back in the common room. Since Lily had walked in and glanced at him he had been unable to think about anything but her. As she walked through the door, her emerald eyes had flashed as her warm laugh rang out at something Hymn had said, they turned towards him, and he felt his heart jump as he gave a tremulous smile. She simply rolled her eyes at him and turned away.

Why does she hate me so much? He asked himself.

i Maybe because you rejected her in front of the whole school? Said a voice inside his head /i

But I was so young I had no idea what I was doing. Do you honestly think I don't kick myself every day for that one silly mistake?

i I know you do, and you know you do. But she doesn't know it. /i

But everytime I try to show her that, she simply rejects me. I don't know what to do!

i You realize you wont get anywhere with this attitude, you simply have to find out what she wants from a guy, and become that guy. /i

Hmm, if only it were that simple.

"PRONGS! Wake up, how long can you sit and think of Evans? She walked by us about an hour ago and you still haven't come out of your trance. Moony and I have played at least 4 games of Exploding Snap, and Wormtail here is already starting to whine about being sleepy. I suggest we all go up and to bed, we have to play tomorrow, and you want to look spiffing for out little Lily Flower don't you?" said Sirius in a rush not wanting to allow James to fall back into his Lily induced thoughts.

"I suppose you're right. But on the bright side, she'll be breaking up with Amos tomorrow, maybe Ill have a chance then, right after the Quidditch match I'll ask her to Hogsmeade!" said James with his mood perking up by the second.

"That boy has officially gone insane." Commented Remus, looking after his friend as he skipped up to their dormitory.

"When the rest of the boys got up there James was already in bed and deep in his thoughts again.

"Let him think," suggested Remus, "That way he'll be sharp tomorrow!" narrowly stopping Sirius from jumping onto James' bed.

Sirius simply shrugged his broad shoulders and went to his bed in the corner.

James however had other things on his mind.

"I wonder how she became this beautiful woman right underneath my eyes?" he pondered relentlessly in his head.

"One day she was my little Lily, always there in our second year to give me a hug after a missed a shot in Quidditch and to congratulate me at my good marks in Transfiguration. Then the next day we stop talking, and a week later she's the most sought after girl at school, with a list of boyfriends seriously catching up to my list of girlfriends. How could I have been so stupid as to reject her!" said james turning around in his bed and crushing his pillow into his face in frustration.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!" he chanted to himself!

"But I'm not giving up on her. No never!"

i Smartest thing you've said all night. You keep it up and she might be yours, /i said the voice inside his head, but James was already asleep, dreaming of Lily, as she laughed at him, with her green eyes bright and her perfect white smile shining on him. She ran up to him, and whispered in his ear, "James you're everything I've ever wanted!"

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Meanwhile Lily was lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, but one thought kept trying to push itself into her mind, in the end she relented.

"James, you're everything I've ever wanted!" she thought before falling into a deep sleep.