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Introduction: James Potter and the rest of the soon to be seventh years are on their summer holidays, but James is having a lousy holiday, he can't keep his mind of someone. Lily Evans. Lily has captured his heart, however, she doesn't exactly feel the same way about him, or as she says, "Potter I hate you! Oh, wait scratch that I HATE YOU POTTER WITH A PASSION!". Read on and follow the adventures of James and Lily as James tries to win her heart, Lily tries to resist her feelings and they embark on a journey full of love, hate, jealousy, laughter and tears...The Trouble with Love Is...

A/N: Author notes and responses to reviews at the bottom.

Chapter Three: The Compartment

Lily followed James with curiosity, what the hell had gotten in to him and when was he so polite? And how the hell had Dumbledore given him head boy? She knew Dumbledore was eccentric, but no one could be that eccentric.

James was sitting in the furthest carriage from the front reserved for the head boy and girl. He was sitting right up against the window on the far wall. Lily stood in the doorframe.

"Did you bump your head?" She asked, with a touch of venom in her voice.

James looked at her, all big brown eyes "No, I was being nice to you."

"Why?" Lily spat back.

James blinked; he had thought it had been obvious after almost six years of tailing after the red haired beauty. He looked at her. He sighed. He couldn't exactly some out and say, 'Hey Evans, I really like you and so I'm being nice to you to show you that I've deflated my head a little and so you'll eventually go out with me'. And so he said, "Don't you think we should be civil to each other, I mean we will be working together for like the next year and so…"

"I should throw six years of you annoying and pestering me and being a bully little toe rag down the drain and jump into your manly arms and live happily ever after JUST BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T HIT ON ME FOR TWO MINUTES AND CARRIED MY TRUNK INTO THIS COMPARTMENT. What are you? Demented?" Lily bellowed. James flinched, and scratched his neck as his cheeks began to feel warm.

"You did think that didn't you?" Lily cackled loudly, "Oh my gosh, what is wrong with you Potter? You're pathetic." Lily looked at him in disgust. She was about to walk out of the compartment when a bundle of prefects walked in: MJ, followed by Remus (the two Gryffindor prefects), Snape and Narcissa Malfoy (the two Slytherin prefects) and some Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs she didn't know. They were closely followed by the prefects from the lower years.

Lily bit her lip as the prefects piled into the small compartment. James stood up.

"Okay well…hello everyone!" Lily said brightly. Snape coughed. Lily's face fell a little but she carried on.

"Urm…here are your duties and the passwords for your respective houses, you will need to patrol the train every hour or so and I trust that you will." This time it was Narcissa who coughed. The Slytherins laughed.

"Hey!" James butted in, "If you don't listen to your duties, you won't be able to follow them and if you don't I will personally get your status as a prefect stripped and take a considerable amount of points away from your house." James said in a rather authoritive voice.

Lily looked at him, "I don't need you to rescue me!" She hissed in an undertone.

"Who said I was rescuing you, maybe I just want these prefects to listen to their duties, Lily." He replied raising an eyebrow in an omniscient way.

Lily rolled her eyes, James spoke again, "Hopefully you will carry out your duties well and you will get to keep your status but if you have any problems Lily and I will be here for the whole train journey and I'm sure we'll let you know where you will be able to find us at Hogwarts. Happy prefecting!" He added with an expression of mock excitement.

The prefects all piled out of the compartment and only Lily and James were left. James sat back down again and starred lifelessly at the weather beaten foliage whizzing past him.

"I'm not who you think I am." He said not pulling his eyes away.

"Yeah and who's that Potter? The womanising, big headed, bullying toe rag? I don't know who you think you are Potter, and why the hell you have this little 'thing' about me but…"

"I've changed Lily."

"Really?" Lily challenged. "And that's why you're playing all these games with me? How do you expect me to like you when you're like this huh? I don't know who you are Potter. One minute you're saying you're in love with me next you're off shagging some bloody bimbo!"

"WHAT?"

"You heard me."

"Me? Shagging some blonde bimbo, I think you're confusing me with Sirius."

"Oh, and how's that. I hear them everywhere you know. Every time I stop and feel almost … guilty, I hear them. 'Oh Jamesie he's such a darling, with that adorable black hair that you can mess up when you're making out in the broom closet or when you're congratulating him after winning a quidditch match. Or when…" Lily trailed off when some very attractive and slutty in Lily's opinion Ravenclaws passed and Lily and James couldn't help but over hear them.

"Oh, yes he's drop dead gorgeous James. Mind you I've heard that he's never you know…"

"You know what?"

"Ever done it. No one's ever been passed kissing him."

"Ah, but that Sirius he's a different matter."

The girls giggled.

James felt his temperature rising madly; he pulled at the collar of his Hogwarts shirt not knowing how Lily would react. He was so embarrassed, bloody girls talking about their bloody love lives. He couldn't even look at Lily now that she knew his little secret.

Lily sat there her mouth ajar dumfounded from what she had just heard. Was it true, Potter wasn't a womaniser he was a ... She had been wrong about him, sure it was only a part of his stupid personality, but Lily had been sure that he enjoyed the attention of his female fan club. She looked at him. He was all scrunched up in the corner, bright red. He looked so...vunreable. Huh? Lily thought, when did she think Potter was ever vunerable. Lily shook her head and brought herself back to her senses.

"Is it true?"

Potter made some sort of yelping noise. Lily raised her eyebrows, what was wrong with him, and why the hell was he so embarrassed. "What they said, is it true?"

Potter seemed to regain himself as he he spat, "What do you care?" Before wincing, you have to be nice to her James, he repeated to himself.

"Because if it's true then...then..."

Potter's cheeks returned to their ordinary colour, as much as James wanted to be nice to her he couldn't give up this opputunity.

He smirked, "Then you were wrong about me?"

"What I never said that!" Lily said heatedly.

James chuckled, "Okay fine, you win, if its true then I was wrong about you, so is it true?"

Potter's embarrassment returned as they dealt with the issue in hand. "Well, erm," he said as he fingered the buttons on his cloak, "Yes, it's true."

Lily's eye widened, "It is?"

"But it's not like I didn't have the opputunity," James found himself saying in a rush, "I just wanted to..."

"Wait for the right person?" Lily finished. She nodded her head silently, she could respect that. Not that she'd ever tell Potter.

They sat there for a while, in the midst of the awkward silence, until James finally broke it.

"Hey, Lily could I ask you a favor?"

Lily didn't reply, she knew he was going to ask her anyway. What did Potter want.

"Could you not tell anyone about...this, please. I just...it's..." he took a deep breath, "No one knows, not even Sirius, or Remus, or Peter. So could you?" He looked at her, he had somehow got off his seat and was now kneeling on the floor. She looked at his eyes, and realised something.

"You're eyes are hazel."

James raised his eyebrows, "Yes?"

"I just noticed." She smiled, she always thought they were some sort of mud brown, but when she looked right into them, they were beautiful, full of depth, capturing.

Wait a second, you like his eyes. You LIKE something of Potter's. What the hell Lily, get a grip on yourself.

"I'll keep it a secret."

"Thanks, I really appreciate it."

Lily tucked a tendril of silky red hair behind her ear, and grinned, "Well, we have to be civil as we are working together."

Potter opened his mouth but was interupted by MJ and Emily Watkins were waiting at the door.

"We came to say Hi!" MJ said.

"Do you mind if I go, Potter?"

"Since when do you ask me?" James smirked. Lily rolled her eyes and walked out.

"So, that seemed cosy," MJ smirked. Lily laughed sarcastically.

"It wasn't we were just talking about..." Lily stopped, she had promised Potter she wouldn't tell. But it was only Potter, you never paid attention Potter before. However, it was different this time, she remembered how sincere he looked when he asked her not to tell. "you know head stuff." Lily finished.

James smiled as he heard Lily finish, sure she wasn't falling at his feet but somehting had changed. They had been talking civilly and she kept his secret.

A/N: Thanks so much for reading my fan fiction, I hope you enjoyed reading it and if you have any views on it or anything to say to me please leave it in a review, anonymous or signed please, please, please hit that little purple button I will love you forever!

In case you hadn't noticed there was another second chapter but I really wasn't happy with it, that's why I hadn't updated in so long, I was trying to find a way of introducing the characters in an alternate way. Sorry about that.

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