"You think you're very funny, don't you?" Snape growled at potter. "I don't know what you're up to, but she's with me, so quit it!" he glowered at him. Potter paused. "I'll tell you what I'm up to." Snape sneered at him. "I want to go out with her." He finished calmly. Then he stood and departed, leaving Snape thoroughly unsettled.
The next morning Snape met lily in the entrance hall. She noticed he looked as though he hadn't had much sleep that night.
"What's up?" she asked. "You look tired." He only shook his head with a yawn. "I was up late doing homework." They entered the great hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table. They didn't notice Potter go up to the teachers table and tell professor McGonagall something. They didn't notice McGonagall come up to the Gryffindor table towards Snape and Lily either, until she was right behind them. "Mr. Snape," she said. He looked around quickly. "I believe you should be sitting over at your table….the slytherin table?"
She inquired sharply. Snape frowned at Potter, who was standing behind her, an innocent expression on his face. "Each house has their own table so that they may sit at that table, with their own house." She continued sternly. Snape did not answer. "Go." She said sternly. Finally, he stood with out a word, and made his way over to his own table.
Lily scowled at Potter, who now took Snape's vacated place. "I don't know what you see in that greasy slime ball." He said. Lily only frowned.
Just then, Lily's best friend, Alice, came up and sat down on the other side of lily. "Where's Sna- Severus?" She asked, catching herself just in time, as she reluctantly tried to call Snape by his first name around Lily, even though she strongly disliked her best friend's boyfriend, but did not let Lily see that. "Potter told McGonagall he was sitting here, so she made him sit at his table." Lily sighed. "He's not going to be in a good mood in Slughorn's." Alice only nodded. "Hey, where is Frank?" Lily asked, noticing that her best friend's boyfriend was not present. "Oh, he's in the hospital wing after a duel with a slytherin last night." Potter cut in. "Oh!" Alice exclaimed, and hurried off to the hospital wing before her first class.
Lily frowned. "How'd you know that?" "Remus told me this morning." Potter answered calmly. Lily finished her breakfast in silence and then met up with Snape again as they left the great hall.
"I noticed you talking to Potter." He commented quietly. "Well ya," she shrugged. "Frank Longbottom, Alice's boyfriend, is in the hospital wing, after a duel with a slytherin yesterday." Snape was silent. "Don't get any ideas, though." She added. He still didn't say anything.