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"Some friend you are Evans, couldn't you take your love puppy somewhere else to swap spit?" I pulled away from Lily to look up into the eyes of a very angry looking Melissa Cook. Lily also spun round.

"Oh…Melissa…I was just, I was…well James lost his parchment and…"

"And you thought you might find it in his mouth!" She spat stepping dangerously towards Lily.

"Well of course they were kissing Melissa babe, they are going out" Sirius said smoothly, suddenly appearing from no where.

"Excuse me!" Lily said exasperated. She turned to me, her eyes disbelieving and her jaw half way down to the floor.

"Sirius mate, what are you doing here?" I asked trying to keep calm, a false smile plastered on my face.

"Dunno really, I was bored so you know…" He trailed off looking into the distance.

"Wait hold up, I am NOT going out with James!" Lily said shaking her head furiously.

"You're not?" Sirius said, his own jaw hanging open.

"Course she's not where did you get a silly idea like that?" I said, keeping my cool and collected posture.

"When you said 'Actually you're wrong, because Lily's my girlfriend and I don't want you to take her away from me', and as I recall those were your exact words"

"You said WHAT!" Lily screamed turning to me.

"Look Lily, I was being stupid, I wasn't thinking let's not ruin the moment hey?"

"Look POTTER you ruined the moment the day you started telling people I'm goin' out with you!"

"I didn't tell any people! I only told Sirius" I said using my best puppy dog eyes.

"Thanks" Sirius mumbled scuffing his feet.

"Look I don't know what the hell is going on here but I just want to say, thanks Lily, you knew I liked James and you still go after him, you already get everything Evans why'd you have to take my things as well?"

"Look Melissa, First off I do NOT have everything! Secondly James is NOT yours and secondly you can sure as hell HAVE him because right now I want nothing to DO with him LET ALONE go 'out' with him OK!" Melissa looked quite taken aback by this but not as much as me. I couldn't believe her little red head, she had just gone through all this lovey dovey crappy stuff and now all of a sudden she had turned into this fiery tempered monster out to get me.

"But Lily…" I said grabbing at her arm.

"Oh get OFF me Potter; as soon as I start to let you in, start to like you, you go and open your bloody mouth, I remember why I never liked you before Potter. Because you don't bloody know WHEN TO JUST SHUT UP AND GIVE IT A REST!"

She span on her heel and turned away but not before giving me a good slap around my face.

I stood there awe struck as she stalked away. I looked around, a crowd had formed and I was now the centre of attention. Oh how my dignity had been bruised, but not half as much as my face. I could feel it stinging as I lifted my own hand to touch the red mark I know had appeared.

"Ouch James, you ok?" I looked up to see Sirius standing there and much to my dismay his mouth was twitching at the sides. I gave him 10 seconds…it only took him 8 before he burst out laughing.

"Thanks Padfoot, you're a real mate, first you ruin it for me and Lily then you laugh at my poor and sad misfortune" I muttered, fixing my jaw back into place after Lily had sure smashed it out of its roots.

"I'm sorry James but it's just…since when did you ever have any trouble with girls?"

"You know Padfoot, I don't quite know whether to take that as a compliment or to kick you in the balls" I said giving him an icy stare.

"Well Prongs mate, if there's no hope for you, Mr second best looking in the whole of Hogwarts next to me, then there sure as Merlin isn't any hope for the rest of us Mr Smooth" He said grinning, resting his hand on my shoulder. I shrugged him off and began to walk away.

"I really do hope there isn't any luck for you Sirius because I know exactly who you have your eye on, and that is one relationship I am never going to let happen" I whispered to no one in particular, cupping my sore cheek in my hands.

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I had Qudditch try outs that evening; the new captain was one of last year's chasers. James Darcy. They said he was one of the best around; some people said he was accepted by Chudley Cannons Quidditch team. Some even said the Holyhead Harpies tried buying him on a contract of over 50000 Galleons. The rest said the Falmouth Falcons kidnapped him and held him at a ransom unless he would play for them in the Championships.

Personally I don't think he's anything much special. Any noodle can prance around on a broom stick throwing balls through hoops, and some people say I'm jealous, me, I'm NEVER jealous, NEVER.

"Prongs close your mouth before you swallow a fly" Sirius laughed slapping me on the back.

I was waiting for ages for my turn to try out for position of Seeker in a line of 30 other students. Sirius was going for the Keeper position like last year; we were both on the team last year and had won the cup back from those good for nothing, dirty, foul, slimy, toad like Slytherins after a decade of defeats. We had to be back on the team, I mean, what would the poor saps do without us?

"Potter…POTTER!" I suddenly snapped out of my trance as I was pushed forward into Darcy himself.

"Erm, hi" I said sheepishly giving him a small wave.

"Potter we have no time for your games, what position are you playing?"

"Erm seeker, if that's ok" What the hell was happening to me? Since when did James Potter care about manners!

"Yeah sure, whatever, Black you play keeper for this play, I'll be chaser and Kim here will be a beater"

"Is that all the players we need?" I asked looking round at the other 28, freezing Gryffindors standing round, huddling close together to share their body heat.

"I said so didn't I?" He said not looking at me but instead fixing a loose twig on the end of his broom.

"Well, yeah but…"

"But nothing Potter, you're wasting enough time as it is, mount your broom and hurry the hell up!" He barked mounting his own broom and soaring through the air.

"Sure thing your majesty" I mumbled joining him in the air.

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I passed the try outs with flying colours, I was on speed, I was surprised they didn't check me for any signs of steroids. Personally I don't see the use of the things. I'm already as fit as a stick (If a stick is in fact fit). Anyway I had done so well Darcy gave me the position straight off. How chuffed was I? VERY CHUFFED!

A smile was spread across my face, Sirius had also made the team, but as he of course wasn't as good as me he had to have one more play off between this girl called Becky. She was pretty cute, in a little sister, English rose kind of way.

He still beat her and she flew off crying. But I think that might have been the fact that Sirius accidentally threw the quaffle at her head.

Oh well, she would have got her pretty little head smashed in anyway, after all Quidditch was a dangerous game.

The first practise was on Tuesday evening. I had already polished my Cleansweep's

Handle and brushed its tail. After all, a happy broom leads to a happy flyer. Ok that was crap but it still looked nicer.

I rested it against my wardrobe and sat down on the edge of my bed. I though about all that had happened that day. I was now Lilyless and it was all Sirius fault. Ok if I hadn't told him we were going out he wouldn't have said anything. But he was my best friend, some friend. First Remus kisses her, then Sirius wrecks it for us…I'm just hoping Peter hasn't had any illegitimate children with her who are hiding away in some cave in Switzerland somewhere. This thought made me laugh out loud and I nearly fell off the bed in hysterics. At least I could always count on old Peter to help me out and be there for me. I bet he would even die for me.

I stopped laughing and took time to breathe. I was still Lilyless after everything that had happened, but I wasn't worrying, after all I'm James Potter, and James Potter always gets what he wants.

Ok maybe I was a bit of a spoilt brat, but hey, I was Handsome, pretty well off money wise, witty, talented, irresistible and pretty studious if I do say so myself. Ok scrap the studious part but I was hott and in teenage years that's the most important thing anyway.

I stood up and went over to my mirror; my long dark eyelashes made my golden coloured eyes look mysterious and dark. My high cheeks bones made my face look mature and my slightly tanned skin colour from spending the summer in Hawaii made me look strong yet perplexed. Ok…I may be the vainest boy Hogwarts has ever seen, except Sirius…he was just as bad, though some said he had even more reason to be vain…was he really better looking than me?. Then again as I've said before…I also have a lot to be vain about.

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When I went to bed that night I thought about what I could do for Lily the next day to maybe make it up to her. I suppose I could take her for a romantic picnic by the lake…nah too sappy, there was always the thought of taking her down to the fountain and watching the stars whilst lying on the grass and talking about our different experiences with the opposite sex…nah too, personal. Well I could always sneak us into Hogsmead for an ice-cream…nah if we got caught she would never forget me. So what could I do for her? Before I had come up with an eligible answer I had already fallen asleep and was waking up the next day 2 hours late for breakfast.

"God dammit Moony why the hell didn't you wake me!" I growled angrily trying extremely hard to get into a pair of jeans with the zipper still done up. I stack my leg through one whole and fell horribly off balance which landed me straight on the floor on my arse.

"I tried Prongs mate but you just wouldn't budge. Kept muttering something bout the 'evil blue squirrels coming to get you'" I cringed as I remembered back to my dream. They were all against me…they were coming. Anyway moving on…

"Well, you could have tried harder" I said huffily, folding my arms and resigning to wearing an easy slip on pair of jogging trousers instead of those damn jeans.

When I was ready Remus and I left the dorms. Apparently Sirius and Peter were already outside by our tree. I made a short stop to the broom cupboard on the 3rd floor were I kept a little snitch; I stole in my third year, to play with. I released him from his box and cupped him in my hands.

When I got outside I greeted the others and slid down by the tree. I was pondering on whether or not to ignore Sirius then decided it would just be too much bother and I should just act like normal as to not disturb any of the tension mounding up between us. Then my brain took a moment to take a breath after thinking that long sentence.

I let the snitch fly about a foot away from me before reaching out to catch it.

Peter looked in awe at my fast reflexes and sharp eyes. Sirius was looking bored and Remus was reading a large Transfiguration book which I think I had used to squish an extremely nasty fly the other day. I could see Lily over by the lake paddling her feet with Alice and some other friends. They were laughing and splashing each other with water. How beautiful she looked.

Suddenly Snivellus came into view. Well at least now there was something to do round here.

"Prongs I'm bored" Sirius muttered grabbing my snitch and shoving it into his own pocket.

"Read something then, or help me revise for this test we're having in Transfiguration today" Remus said shoving the book under Sirius' nose.

"Nah, I already know it all" He said pushing it back.

"Here's something that'll cheer you up Padfoot, look over there, it's our good friend Snivellus" Sirius smirked and hastily got up.

"All right, Snivellus?" I said loudly. The grease ball dove into his bag for his wand, looks like I'm not the only one with good reflexes.

"Expelliarmus" I shouted, though it was a lazy hex seeing as I was so good at them anyway.

Snape's dirty wand flew around 10 feet away from were he was standing and I could hear Sirius bark with laughter behind me.

"Impedimenta" He shot at Snape, he was knocked off his feet halfway through a dive to grab his wand from the grassy patch it now lay in.

Students began to crowd round, this was getting good, the most fun I had, had since Lily nearly bit the dust.

"You – wait" Snivelly panted attempting to get up but struggling because of the invisible ties bonding him together, "You just wait"

"Wait, for what?" Sirius said coolly, "you gonna wipe your nose on us?" Snape started to swear at us and hex us but it was no use, his wand was still 10 feet away from his squirming body.

"Wash out your mouth" I said pointing my wand at him again, "Scourgify!"

"Leave him ALONE!" I turned to see Lily standing there hands on hips with a look of seriousness about her.

"All right there Lily?" I asked casually, taking a glimpse back at Snape who was now gagging on the soap spuds seeping through the gaps in his mouth.

"Leave him alone" She repeated, "Really Potter what has he done to you?"

"Well if you count existing…" I grinned, the crowd around me laughing intently.

"You think you're so funny Potter but you're just an arrogant, bullying toe rag, now leave him alone"

"I will if you just go out with me Lily" I said quickly, running my hand through my hair, "I mean we've already gone half way why not?"

"I wouldn't go out with you Potter" She spat my name like venom, "if it was a choice between you and the giant squid"

"Bad luck Prongs" Sirius said, with a worryingly joyful tone of voice before briskly turning back to Snape lying on the grass, "OI!" I saw a sudden flash of light and a deep gash appeared on the side of my face, the blood spattered on my robes and I felt the cut digging deep into my skin a stinging sensation making me dizzy.

"Levicorpus!" I thought in my mind aiming my wand at Snape. He flew up and dangled in mid air, his robes fell over his head to reveal a pair of skinny legs and slightly greying underwear. We all roared with laughter as the crowd applauded.

Lily for a moment looked as though she was going to smile, but her face soon turned stony with an icy expression.

"Let him down!"

"Certainly" I replied muttering the counter curse beneath my breath and letting Snape drop to the floor in a heap.

He disentangled himself from his robes and hastily got up pointing his wand threateningly between my eyes.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Sirius shouted, Snivellus keeled over stiff as a board.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Lily literally screamed. She had her own wand out. I eyed it warily.

"Ah…Lily…I don't want to have to hex you now do I?"

"Dunno Potter but I sure as hell wouldn't mind hexing you"

"Come on Lily…I really don't want to you know…"

"Take the hex off him, then!"

I sighed deeply and muttered the counter curse.

"There you go" I said as Snape scrambled himself off the floor, "You're lucky Lily was here, Snivellus -"

"I don't need help from a filthy little Mudblood like her!"

Lily looked a little flabbergasted.

"Fine then I won't bother in the future. And I'd wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus"

"Apologise to Lily!" I roared at Snape's petty little face.

"Back off Potter, I don't want you to make him apologise! You're just as bad as him!"

"What?" I stuttered. "I'd NEVER call you a you-know-what!"

"Messing up your hair because you thinks it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broom stick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors throwing random hexes because someone annoys you – I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK!"

She turned on her heel and hurried off.

"Lily" I shouted after her, "Lily!"

But she carried on.

"What is it with her?" I sighed.

"Well Prongs mate, looking at the circumstances I'd say she thinks you're a little conceited" Sirius said.

"Right" I said furiously…I cast the spell once again at Snape "Now who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?"

A lot of cheering and jibes followed but I didn't have the guts to do it. She was right wasn't she…I was a bully.

"James mate what are you doing, aren't you gonna mess Snivellus up some more, or are you going soft over a girl?" Sirius laughed. I turned to look at him, then turned to look at the people milling round watching the show like they would at the theatre.

"Just watch it Snape, or you'll wish your mummy never got up the duff and had you in the first place" I spat dropping him to the ground with just a bit more force than last time, "No one wanted to see your nasty girls parts anyway" I added giving him a kick in the stomach before walking hastily away.

Her voice resounded in my head again and again… "Bully" "Toe rag" "Arrogant" "Fat head". But the thing that got to me most, that really started to get at me, was that…she was right.

Sum of you might have noticed that i used the stuff from Snape's penseive in the 5th book near the end, but i changed it a bit because it actually happened later in the year. I kept most the same though and the spells were all the same...don't sue me i have a disclaimer! Anyway read and review please i will look forward to ur comments...aslong as there are no flames...!