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Lily awoke the next morning to a room full of sunshine. She yawned, and rolled over to look at the clock; it was 7:09. She could hear the sound of the shower going, so someone else must have been up already. Lily then walked over to the mirror, and with horror, realized her hair was violet. Bright violet.

A surge of anger rang up in her as she remembered the previous night. I hate that James Potter! I hate him! She thought.

Lily then turned to the sound of a door opening, and saw Caroline step out of the bathroom, with her hair in a towel.

"Hey," Caroline said.

"Hey," Lily replied. She pulled out her school uniform from her drawer, and began to dress. "After all that, my hair is still purple." Lily sighed.

"Well, it is kind of funny if you think about it," Caroline said, undoing the towel on her head, before muttering a spell that dried her brown hair.

"Whatever." Lily was already in a bad mood, so she decided not to dwell on the subject. "Let's go down to breakfast," she said, taking one last look into the mirror.

-

The great hall was abuzz with chatter as Caroline, Lily, along with their two roommates, Parker Cossman and Candace Hughes, entered. The walked over to the Gryffindor table ,and Candace, sat next to her boyfriend, who happened to be Remus Lupin, who was sitting next to his fellow marauders, Sirius, James, and Peter. Parker, Caroline and Lilly, naturally sat next to her. This meant that Lily Evans and James Potter were in closes vicinity. And let me tell you, that this was not good.

Caroline could tell there was a problem because Lily was fuming. "Lils, problem?" she asked.

Lily just stared at her. "Problem? Of course there is a problem! I am in close vicinity of a certain person, who shall remain nameless, who turned my hair violet!"

"Merlin, Lily, James is four seats down from you! He can't even bother you from this far away," she rolled hers eyes, thinking that lily woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Which was true, too. You can't exactly be happy in the morning if someone landed you a detention and turned you hair violet.

"We'll see about that," mumbled Lily, under her breath.

"Lily-flower! I see that your hair is still bright purple!" James said, smirking.

Lily gave Caroline a look that meant 'Can't bother me? Of course he can still bother me!' Caroline just smiled sympathetically.

"Yes, it is, Potter. Thanks to you. Why don't you do yourself a favor and turn it back, before you make another little trip to the hospital wing. And, DON'T CALL ME LILY-FLOWER!"

"Well, Evans, I'm afraid I can't do that."

"Why not, Potter?" Lily said with an insidious look in her eye.

"I guess you'll find out soon enough, but your hair won't turn back to normal, until you want to go on a date with me."

"Wrong answer Potter! I'll never go on a date with you!"

"Well, then I guess that you'll have purple hair for a long, long, time," James said, then went back over to sit with Sirius.

That Potter! I didn't even think he was that clever! It won't change back until I say I want to go out with him? Well, I guess I should get used to violet hair, Lily thought.

"You know, Lily, you could always lie. You know, say you'll go out with him, and as soon as your hair is back, pretend you didn't say it, or, I mean, what's one date gonna do?"

"I will not give him the satisfaction, Caroline! I will not go on a date with Potter!" she said, her mind made up.

"I was only suggesting something," said Caroline as she buttered her toast.

-

The classes of the day went by pretty quick, for once. Lily reckoned that it was probably because she was dreading her detention with James and Sirius for tonight so much. Well, at least Caroline and Remus will be with me too, she thought.

At precisely 6:00, Caroline and Lily headed to professor McGonagall's classroom for there detention.

"This is gonna suck," complained Caroline, as they walked through the corridors to McGonagall's room.

"Majorly suck! And it's even worse that I have to be there with Potter. And Black, too, for that matter."

"Yeah, I know," Caroline said as they walked into Professor McGonagall's classroom.

"Ah, Miss Evans, and Miss Davis, why don't you go join Mr. Lupin there, and I will tell you what you detention will be when Mr. Potter and Mr. Black arrive."

"Hey, Remus," Lily and Caroline said.

"Hey guys, do you have any clue what we're doing?"

"None," said Lily.

"Why aren't James and Sirius with you?" Caroline asked.

"No clue, but if I were to take a guess, I would say that they are eating in the kitchens."

"Sounds about right," Caroline laughed.

Just then, the door to the room burst open, and a panting and flushed looking Sirius Black strode in, followed by a just as flushed and panting James Potter.

""How kind of you to join us, boys. You're late. Because of this, I believe that you two will see me again tomorrow night," Professor McGonagall said sternly. "Now, If you five would follow me, we will leave for your detention, now."

As they walked out the door, Lily heard Remus say, "Where were you guys?" James just responded by saying, "In the kitchens."

Hahaha, Remus was right, those pigs! She thought as they left the castle and walked on the grounds toward Hagrid's hut.

Soon Professor McGonagall stopped and said, "You will be serving you're detention tonight with Hagrid, in the forest. I will leave you here with him," she said as she left for the castle.

"The forest?" said Lily.

"Oh, joy," Remus commented.

"Al'ight, you five, we 're goin' into ther forest to collect a few flooberworms, for Professor Sprout. I reckon I'll 'ave yall split up. Um, Remus an' Caroline go on, and here's a jar to put 'ur worms in. Then Sirius, you can cum with me, an' then Lily an' James, you two go, an hur's a jar for yeh. Al'ight, once yeh fill up the jar, meet back here at the hut," Hagrid gave the orders and disappeared into the forest.

Great, of course it's all my luck that I'd be paired with Potter! Lilly cursed under her breath at this predicament.

"Well," began James, "I guess we better go catch some flobberworms."

"Yeah, let's get this over with," Lily agreed.

It really wasn't as bad as Lily thought it would be. In fact, James was being quite civil. They talked some as they gathered their flobberworms, Lily even laughed when James grabbed one too hard and it burst, covering his lower arm in flobberworms guts.

"Here, let me help you with that," she said as she grabbed his arm and whispered a spell to clean it.

When Lily didn't let go of his arm right away, James smiled at her, but then she quickly let got and turned away, to hide herself blushing.

What happened, Lily? She asked herself, why were you just blushing?

Lily didn't realize how nice James could be when he was fighting with her. Actually, she thought she might even like being friends, if they wouldn't fight, that is.

Now, after wandering through the forest turning over rocks, looking under bushes, and climbing up trees for a while, their jar was almost full. Then, as they were walking along the forest, continuing to search, they both suddenly tripped over a raised root and fell to the ground. Coincidently, James landed on top of Lily.

Lily was dazed, like she didn't know what had just happened, then she looked up, and found James Potter lying on her, breathing just inches away from her lips. All of a sudden, she had a slight feeling of content, and an urge for her lips to touch his. She then looked up at him, and he had on a wide grin.

Lily finally snapped into her senses and said, "James, you are lying on me."

James said in a soft voice, "You called me James…"

"James, please get up," she said, turning her face away from his.

He then got up and said, "Your hair is red, Lily."

"Well of course its red! It has always been red, since I was born. Wait, it's not violet anymore?"

"No," James said softly, helping her up. "That means you want to go out with me," he said with a smile.

Lily just stared at him for a moment, and then she remembered who she was with, and quietly said, "No. I've said it once, and I'll say it again," she was trembling now, unsure if she was mad at him or herself, "I will never go out with you."

Then Lily pick up a flobberworms that was on a nearby bush, put it in the now full jar and walk off, back to Hagrid's hut, leaving a sad and confused James Potter standing in the middle of the dark, gloomy forest.

A/N: well, there is chapter two. I hope it wasn't to intense since it was only my second chapter, but I have a lot to tell before I even get to the climax, so I thought it should be there.