Chapter 1

Lily Evans woke to the sound of a screeching Petunia. She groaned, the sound of pots clanging and hitting the kitchen floor, and of her owl Beary hooting uncontrollably.

"LILY! Get your BLOODY BIRD away from ME!" She screamed out some of these words and made clear that Lily must awake and come down. Again, Lily heaved out a sad sigh and stumbled out of her room, down the stairs, and to the kitchen. She found Beary flying around, attacking Petunia, a large package attached to Beary's claws.

"Come over here Beary, that's a good owl!" Lily cooed encouragingly as Beary flew over to rest on Lily's chair. She reached for the package, tearing it open.

"Lily! Vernon is coming this afternoon, when he arrives I want you and your blasted creature out of here!" Petunia screamed at last, she marched up the stairs to her room and slammed the door harder then ever before.

"Good morning Lily dear, I toasted some bread, and here's some jam, I'm sorry I couldn't make pancakes for you this morning, but we were out of eggs." Mrs. Evans said, she bent down and kissed her daughter on the cheek.

"That's alright mum, thanks anyway. O look! I got a letter from the school! I'm Head Girl, at last!" Lily, stared into nothing, a daydreaming smile on her face.

"That's wonderful dear! I can't wait to tell your father once he arrives back from work!" Mrs. Evans happily announced, Lily smiled back, and stared at the letter, rereading it again.

Dear Ms. Lily Evans,

Professor Dumbledore and I have made the decision for you to be Head Girl. Please arrive accordingly on the date and time below in Dumbledore's office for a brief discussion about your privileges, responsibilities, and also your new Head Girl and Head Boy common room, bathroom, and the rooms you will sleep in. Have a nice rest of your summer.

Sincerely,

Professor McGonnagall

Date: One week from today

Time: 11:15am

Please use Floo Powder to arrive.

"O mum! I can't wait!"

"A pity though that school begins for you in just another week or two. It feels as if times passed too quickly." Mrs. Evans sighed, spreading some raspberry preserve on her toast.

"Mum, don't worry, after this last year I'll be home a lot, except I may have trouble doing so with Petunia around, she's been such a pain in the-

"Lily Evans, if you say that word I will-

"Mum! I was going to say that she was a pain in the foot, not that!" Lily laughed. During the quiet breakfast, she hummed a song, ate two pieces of toast with her favorite jam (cranberry), drank a full glass of orange juice although she'd much rather have pumpkin juice then went back upstairs to clean up and get dressed.

"Lily, remember, Vernon comes soon, if I see you lurking around here, you won't hear the end of it!" Petunia snapped, stepping in front of Lily before she could get to her room.

"Petunia, shut it!" Lily heatily replied. "I wouldn't stay even if I wanted to, Vernon gives me the creeps, he's nothing but a fat, arrogant idiot!" with that remark still hanging in the air, Lily hurried to her room and locked the door. She loathed her sister, ever since Petunia found out that Lily was a witch she had called her a freak and never accepted her as a sister, multiple times she had said that she did not have a sister and that she was an only child.

After showering, and dressing into some jeans, and a light t-shirt, Lily pulled on a sweatshirt and quietly made her way down to the kitchen, where her mother still sat reading a large white book.

"O, mum, I'm going to Diagon Alley to pick up my school things, I'll be back in," Lily glanced at her watch, "maybe a couple hours." Lily mumbled quickly, tying her trainers on.

Mrs. Evans only slightly nodded not taking her eyes off the book, her reading glasses were set slightly askew and her book tilt to the right just a bit while she sipped more of her morning tea.

"Diagon Alley!" Lily shouted, opening her hand to let the Floo Powder start fuming, there was green smoke and then everything disappeared along with Lily. There was a loud clunk as Lily fell in a heap in the fireplace of Flourish and Blotts, a large wizard and witch book store where she could gather up her school books.

"Fancy meeting you here Evans." A sing-songy voice rang out behind her after she had gotten up and started walking towards a shelf.

"Potter." Lily blankly said as she turned around. "What do you want?" Turning away, pulling out a couple of books.

"You.

Lily blushed, as she stacked three books in her arms.

"Here let me help you with that."

"No, its fine, I've got it." Lily mumbled, moving away from James Potter's outstretched arms. His dark brown hair was ruffled about, and his glasses were set high up on the bridge of his nose, the frames were so very thin that you could barely notice her wore glasses which seemed to be what he had been trying to do.

"O, alright then. Hey, Evans, want to go out-

"No." she simply said, bustling away, James followed close behind.

"Aw c'mon Evans, you know I'm going to keep asking you!"

"No Potter, I'm never going to go out with you. You're nothing but an arrogant twit, I'd rather go out with Severus."

"Snivellus! Are you mad Evans, I'm highly insulted by your choice, but I'll inform him of your strong 'love' for him as soon as possible!" sniggered James sarcastically.

"I don't fancy him Potter, I just would rather go with him then the likes of you." Lily snapped, she turned away once more and walked away, she expected James to follow, but he did not, and her heart dropped a little from his action. She turned back around, expecting James to have been following from a distance, but she couldn't find him, finally she spotted him walking out the door of the shop, looking quite sad. She rolled her eyes, feeling stupid for doing this, but dropped the books on the counter and chased after him nonetheless.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it you know."

"It's fine Lily." Potter said, not looking at her, instead he kept walking and she followed close behind.

"Did you just call me…Lily?"

"Why? It's your name isn't it?"

"Well, yes, but you usually call me Evans."

"Would you rather me call you Evans?"

"Well, no…James." She noticed him twitch a bit while he walked but he resumed back to his normal walking/strutting.

"James, wait up." Lily said anxiously. The teenage boy paused and waited, she finally went to his side, closing the gap between them. She noticed him tense while she accidentally brushed his arm while they walked.

"Why did you follow me?" James asked, he wasn't acting like usual. Most of the time he'd saying something like 'Couldn't resist my good looks and charm eh Evans?' or 'Knew you'd chase me sometime Evans.' But instead, he had to ask Lily why she did, which made her feel uncomfortable and wondering herself why she did.

"I guess…well…I'm not sure really." Without saying another word, she grabbed his hand and held onto it tightly. She saw his mouth begin to smile, and watched him fight the urge.

"First Hogsmeade trip's the week after the first of school, like to join me?"

"Sure." Lily felt her face heat up and her heart start pounding.

James felt wonderful, he finally had Lily fancying him back, he had liked her ever since fourth year, and felt his heart being crushed every time she turned him down for a date.

"Er, James, I do need to get my books and quills while I'm here though, do you mind if you um, come with me. I mean, you don't have to if you don't want to, I'd just like it if you could…" Her voice trailed off.

"Of course Lillian dear." James said, giving her a wink, he turned around and gave her a kiss on the cheek while they made their way together through the huge crowds of adult witches and wizards. Lily blushed deeply, and kept her head down while he led the way. They went to a new store meant for ink, quills, and parchment. Lily made an attempt to let go of James' hand, but he held on and she felt very happy he did, they looked at the parchment and agreed which ones were the best for classes and bought the same kind, they discovered a new type of quill that could not only write all your words correctly without spelling errors but had stored up ink in it already with replaceable capsules and came with an everlasting sugar feather attached to the quill in the center.

"I must get this!" both exclaimed, they laughed and smiled, picking up two quills. By the time they got around to the ink bottles for normal quills they found on the back shelf a bottle of ink that would turn to the color of your mood, they both decided to try the ink on a sampling piece of parchment.

"Mine is maroon." Lily announced to James.

"I got brown." James said, he looked slightly embarrassed, then again, brown was a strange color to define a mood. But they both soon discovered why once they read the captions of one another's and then their own.

Maroon- In love

Brown- Pervertish & in love

"James Potter!" Lily giggled, staring at the definition of brown.

"Well, I must say that its exceedingly accurate." James seductively replied, nearing Lily, they became only inches apart. Lily raised an eyebrow, "What makes you think I'm in love?"

"I don't have a reason, but then again, magic doesn't have a reason and its real." James whispered, the inches quickly dropped to centimeters and they could feel each others breaths on one another's faces. His deep hazel eyes stared into her emerald ones and since Lily could not think of a remark to say back, she closed the gap and kissed him, at first she noticed him being slightly shocked that she made the first move, but after chasing James earlier, she felt pretty daring. Seconds passed, but they felt like they had been kissing for minutes on end, finally a scolding voice broke them apart.

"Ahem?" the owner of the store growled from behind the counter.

"Get a room." A teenage boy disgustedly commented from behind them, opening up a set of quills.

"If you two are done purchasing, please leave…now." The owner ordered in an irritated voice, the door magically opened for them, and James and Lily crept out feeling very humiliated but the result was bursts of laughter that both of them couldn't contain once they reentered the streets.

"Did you see her face? What a horse, she looks like my sister Petunia!" Lily laughed.

"I know! That bloke behind us, he looked as if he was going to blow up!" James sniggered. After minutes of continued laughter, and jokes about the owner and boy, the new couple bought the rest of the things on their list and finally ended the trip with some magic candy from Seductive Sweets, a store that had opened but a month ago by a young, romantic witch who didn't mind at all when Lily went on tip-toe and gave James a smack on the lips, in fact, she smiled and sighed.

"I really like the MugginBerry!" Lily said, tossing a piece in her mouth, it exploded with flavors of a magic fruit and Lily thought it tasted the best. The two teenagers were sitting on a bench outside the shop, trying all the different kinds of sweets they had bought from the store inside.

"Really? I like this one." James answered, he held out a small round shaped sweet, "Its their specialty. They're called Fire Hots. Here try one." James explained, giving Lily a wink and a lopsided grin at the end. Not expecting anything to happen, Lily tossed it into her mouth, suddenly, a heat rose inside her, and she pounced onto James, in minutes they were getting it on behind a building until the spell wore off and Lily found her hand in James pants and his hands up her shirt. She gasped and pushed him away.

"I can't believe you gave me that!" Lily angrily spat at him, smoothing her red hair down, her emerald eyes glaring at him, keeping the hand that had been in James' pants far away from touching her body or clothes.

"Well, you did take it without asking me about it…" James mumbled wittily, slightly smiling.

"Don't be smiling, this isn't a happy matter, I could've lost it you pervert, and you went along with it too, instead of trying to stop me! You let me James, you are indisputable!" Lily was so disgusted, she marched away, pulling her bags of books and supplies with her.

"Wait, Lily, c'mon, I'm sorry, EVANS!" James yelled, but Lily began running and James couldn't catch up with her in the massive amount of people.

Lily felt tears streaming down her face, the one time she thought James had changed, but he hadn't, he was the same arrogant faggot she had always known him as, and she didn't ever want to speak to him again.