A/N: Okay, here's what I promised: Chapter One, Lily and James style. I really hope you like it, I'm not sure.
This will be a Lily/ James story, eventually. I swear.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN THIS STUFF (except in my dreams) THIS IS ALL JK ROWLING.
Chapter One: Meeting The New Neighbors
Lily knew James ever since she was a baby. How could she not? They had lived beside each other forever. She smiled as she thought of the first time she ever met him.
It was when she was barely three, and she was in her back yard with her mom playing in a little wading pool. James had saved her life.
Lily and her mother had just moved in. They had left her father and sister Petunia back at their old house. They were so different that they decided they couldn't live together anymore. Lily was glad to get away from Petunia, and she was only one!
Lily's mother had taken her into the yard and filled up the pool with water. It was about two feet deep, just deep enough fro Lily to stand up and support herself on the edge. James and his mother were playing catch in their yard next door. Lily was splashing around in her little green bikini, she was so cute that her mom decided to run inside and grab the camera.
"Lily, you'll be okay for a minute, won't you?" she said. It wasn't really a question, because one year olds don't usually answer when you talk to them. She felt bad leaving Lily out there alone so she yelled over to James's mom.
"Hey, Crystal! Would you mind coming over here and keeping an eye on Lily for a second? I have to run inside. You can bring James over to swim if you want."
Mrs. Potter smiled. "That's a good idea, Em. I'll be right there." She picked up James and took his shirt off, plopping him in the pool with Lily. As she turned around to talk to Lily's mom, Lily took a hand off of the rail to wave at James and slipped.
Going under, she realized she couldn't swim. James looked around wildly, as if to say- why don't you crazy people pay attention! She's drowning! But he couldn't talk so he had to try to figure it out himself.
He was just a little bit taller than Lily, so he could stand up on the pool without drowning. He reached down and pulled her up, saving her life.
Since they never remembered that day, Lily didn't know that she owed James her life. All she knew was that he was her best friend, and they had a lot of adventures together. But there was always something James wasn't telling her, and she knew it.
When they were five, they had to go to kindergarten together. Since they lived fairly close to the school, Lily's mom was supposed to walk Lily and James to school in the morning.
But right before they were ready to leave, she got an urgent phone call. "Emergency at work, Lil! I'm so sorry, but I can't walk you two to school this morning. Do you think you can do it alone?" she asked, worry lines forming on her face.
Lily smiled up at her mom, revealing two missing teeth (James had pulled them out with a string and a door handle). "Of course, mommy! James and I can do it!"
"Okay. But you have to hold hands with him all the way there so that you two don't get lost, okay, sweetie?"
Lily and James looked at each other in horror, knowing what the other kids would say. "Well, we just won't let them see us," James whispered knowingly in her ear.
That was the first time they ever held hands. And some kid did see them, and idiot child named Edie, and he told the whole entire class that they were dating. Edie had some trouble fitting in with his big black eye for weeks after. And when that was gone, completely healed, Lily gave him another one. The only reason she hadn't given him the first one was because James got to him first.
James and Lily were best friends. They didn't think that would ever change. Until the day the new neighbor moved in next door to Lily. That was the day James went from friend to enemy very very fast.
"SIRIUS BLACK GET OUT OF MY LAWN!" Lily yelled at the shaggy haired youth for the fourth time in the last five minutes.
Sirius moved in next to Lily when they were seven. He single handedly ruined Lily and James's friendship just by telling James that girls had cooties and were NOT cool to hang around. Lily didn't blame Sirius; well, okay she did. But she mostly blamed James for believing him!
They were only seven, but by the time they were eight. Sirius and James had become Lily Evan's worst enemies. Every time they were around her (Which was all the time, since she lived right between them) they did something to her.
There was the time they cut her hair. All of her beautiful red hair. It took her two years to grow it back to the length it was. And then there was the time they decided it would be funny to order fifty pizzas and sent them to her house. They came over that night telling her mother that she'd invited them over for a pizza party.
Also, there was that time when she was walking to school and she suddenly forgot where she was. She still couldn't figure out how they managed that one but she knew it was them.
Since they were her neighbors, they went to her school too. And they were in most of her classes every single year. There was that time when they went up to the substitute teacher that Lily was mentally handicapped and she spent the entire day telling him that she was not. It turned out that they hadn't really told him she was in the first place, so she had followed that poor man around all day long telling him that she wasn't insane.
After about two years, when they were ten years old, Lily decided that she was tired of her life being controlled by those two brainless gits. She enlisted the help of some fellow girls and decided to go on a mission to get back Sirius Black and James Potter for all of the terrible things that they did to her.
And she knew just the girl to turn to. "Ali, come on. You know you want to help me do this- please!" Lily got down on her hands and knees and begged her best friend Ali Hamilton to help her. Ali grinned down at her.
"Well, all right Lil. If you must beg then I know you are desperate… so I'll help. I think those two have it coming anyways. Now, what did you have in mind?" asked Ali grinning.
Lily and her stayed up the whole night plotting. But when they actually put their plan into action, something went terribly wrong.
Their plan was to tell Mrs. Potter that they were coming over to help James with homework. Then they were going to take all of his clothes and throw them onto the roof. But the clothes kind of… disappeared.
The next morning, when James woke up for school, he realized he didn't have any clothes. "MOM! Where are my clothes?" he asked urgently. Mrs. Potter smiled discreetly.
"I have no idea," she told him, even though she did. She knew that Lily hadn't come up here yesterday to help him with homework. James never did his homework. When she saw her throw his clothes out the window, she knew that she didn't give the girl enough credit. She had also seen the clothes vanished and discovered that she had a little witch neighbor.
"This could get very interesting," she thought to herself.
James went to school that day wearing some clothes that he spent an hour begging his mother to conjure up for him.
Lily was furious that he'd obviously found substitution clothes. But he'd had a very bad day, and he was late to school. That satisfied her.
The next day, Lily and Ali met at Lily's house. "Ready for plan B?" asked Ali, grinning.
Lily smiled back. "Absolutely."
Lily and Ali had realized just how important their broomsticks were to Sirius and James. They couldn't exactly figure out why, but every single day they took their broomsticks and were seen leaving the house.
Lily and Ali knocked on the door and Mrs Potter answered. "Hello girls. Can I help you?" she asked sweetly.
"Actually, we were kind of hoping we could borrow a couple of brooms. We had an accident at home and we don't want Mrs Evans to find out," Ali said.
"Of course you can," Mrs Potter said. She smiled and winked at the girls as she handed them the goods.
Half an hour later, Lily and Ali returned the now bright pink and sparkly brooms to
Mrs. Potter.
"Thank you so much, Mrs. Potter."
"No girls, thank you," she replied.
Sirius and James fainted at the sight of their Clean Sweeps.
Finally, summer came.
"And next year, we won't have to deal with either of them, because they're both going to boarding school!" Lily was happily telling Ali during one summer sleepover in early July.
"Yeah, but Lily, you're going away too. I'll be stuck here all alone," Ali pouted.
Lily looked guilty. "But I don't even know where I'm going. My mom won't tell me anything about the place!" she said in frustration.
"Hey, isn't your birthday coming up soon?" asked Ali, slyly changing the subject.
Lily smiled gratefully.
"The eleventh," she said, sighing, "Same day as James's."
Ali looked at her in pity. "Boy, you just can't get away from him can you? It's almost as if you're meant to be together…" she said, trailing off at the look on Lily's face.
The next day, after Ali went home, Lily went into her bedroom and lay down. Instantly, her ceiling changed and formed a picture of James's face.
"I really wish you'd quit doing that," she told the ceiling. It always changed into whatever she was thinking about at that moment. She never told anybody because she knew they'd think that she was insane. Heck, maybe she was insane. But she knew she was thinking about James at that moment.
You have got to have the bluest eyes I've ever seen
And when I wake from dreamin', I am screamin' out your name.
It's more than just a crush,
Every time we touch
Babe you know you make me feel brand new
Like there's been no one else but you
For the first time, I feel like this would be the last time I will
Fall In Love
The song was blaring on the radio when Lily turned it on to try to drown out her thoughts about James. She hated him! Okay, so she didn't hate him. She hated Sirius. But she was supposed to hate James. He was the one who betrayed her. Who gave up their friendship for Sirius. So why should she blame Sirius? He was just an innocent boy- well, maybe not innocent, but he certainly had no common sense. And he couldn't even come close to James's intelligence level.
But still, she couldn't help it. When he wasn't around, she loved him. But every time she got near him, he made her so mad that she usually ended up telling him how much she hated him.
On the morning of the eleventh, Lily woke up to sunshine streaming through her window. She looked up at her ceiling to see what she had been dreaming about. To her surprise, it was the same image as the night before- James Potter.
She ran downstairs in her PJ's yelling, "Presents!"
Her mom was sitting at the table amongst a small heap of gifts. On the very top was a letter.
"I think you should read the letter first, Lily. It will explain about your school," her mom told her, smiling.
After Lily read the letter, she had to sit down. She was quiet for ten minutes, thinking. "So that's what happened to James's clothes," she finally whispered. Her mother burst out laughing, and Lily joined her.
She opened her presents, among them a cat, a mini owl, and a book entitled, Hogwarts, A History.
"Thank you so so much mom!" Lily said. She was so happy and excited.
"I really hope you have a great time at Hogwarts," her mother told her, "I did."
Lily looked at her sharply. "You mean, you're a witch?" she asked, excited. "Will you teach me some things?"
Her mom smiled and said, "Be patient. You will learn plenty in time, I promise."
Lily laughed. She was so happy! Finally, she grabbed her robes (they were a present from her mom) and ran into the bathroom to try them on.
After they were on, she ran into the back yard with her robes on, swirling them around, and twirling in circles.
James came out and leaned against the fence between their yards, watching her silently.
God she's beautiful, he thought. Too bad she hates my guts. And Sirius hates hers. Wait, are those Hogwarts robes? No…
But they were Hogwarts robes. And he knew it. So he ran inside and put his on. He'd gotten his letter this morning. He'd also gotten his robes for his birthday this morning.
He came back out, fully robed and walked over to Lily. "Hey, Evans, nice robes," he said, acting like she was stupid for wearing them.
She turned around. "You know what, Potter-" she stopped when she saw him.
"Please tell me those aren't Hogwarts robes?" they both said at the same time. At that moment, Sirius came bounding over.
"Hey, guess what Jamsie-poo! I got my let-" he immediately shut up when he saw them staring at each other.
"So, Lily dearest is coming to Hogwarts, too?" Sirius said with sarcastic delight.
Lily screamed. "UH! This is the worst birthday ever!" she yelled before running inside and not stopping until she made it to her room.
Once again, her ceiling had James on it. Only this time, he was smirking at her, with his arm around Sirius.
She fell asleep. The rest of summer flew by. Next thing she knew, it was September 1st.
A/N: Well, I hope you liked this. I don't know if this story is too boring or not, sorry if it is though. I didn't clarify in the first chapter that Harry and Ginny were dating, but it doesn't really matter because this is going to be a Lily and James story for a while now.
I'm sorry if any of you are confused. I know that it is a confusing story. I just had to write it, though! And that song in there wasn't mine, I forget who sings it but It's from the Princess Diaries.
Please REVIEW because if you do I will be very happy. I will update ASAP. I'm sorry if I don't update ASAP. That will because you DIDN'T REVIEW!
Thank you,
Alexa Nicola