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Chapter Three: Head Over Heels

"No."

"Excuse me?"

James sighed and met my eyes, which had finally turned from the window. "I said, 'No.'"

"What the bloody hell do you mean 'no'?" I yelled at him.

"No means 'no' Lily! I felt something when we kissed," he was on his feet now towering above me, "and I know you did to! I'm not going to let go of something that could be the best thing that ever happened to me!"

"It was a MISTAKE James!" I stood up too, "You said so yourself, you got carried away!"

"AND I'M SORRY FOR THAT!" he yelled back, "BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I DIDN'T LIKE IT!"

"I beg your pardon?" I was startled to say the least, and slightly confused, if he liked it what was all that apologizing a moment ago for?

"That…That doesn't mean I didn't like it." He repeated quietly, looking down at our feet. It was just then that I realized how close we had gotten in our arguing. I tried to take a step back, but fate obviously had other things in mind. My shoe got caught in the carpeting and I tripped backwards, just before I hit the ground, James caught me. With one arm around my waist and the other on my back we were extremely close. A fact I noticed when I moved my head up and our noses hit each other. As he pulled me back up to a standing position, I unhooked my shoe from the carpet. Damn heels. I thought bitterly.

When I was finally standing, my hands were on James chest, and his hands where not moving from my waist.

"James-"

"Lily-" We Both started at the same time.

"You can let go now James." I whispered half-heartedly. Then I looked up, and realized that he was looking at me, like he was stealing himself to say something.

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JAMES'S POV:

This was of course the opportune moment. I could tell her everything, how I fell in love with her in 2nd year, how much I was in love with her, how much I was hurt every time she rejected me, and how much, at this moment, I would like nothing better than to throw her down and kiss her from head to toe, but I'm a coward, so instead of doing any of those things, I let go and too a step back.

Lily was totally unaware of how much she was tormenting me, of my inner struggle. With those beautiful curves and the flaming hair that was cascading down her shoulders. The compartment was too small, she was too close. I'm going to loose control if I stay here. Where the bloody hell is Sirius?

I yanked the compartment door open, letting it fall behind me. I looked into the compartments down the train until I found the one that Sirius and Marlene where in with their other Hogwarts friends. I sank down onto the seat nearest the door and laid my head against the wall.

"Oh Merlin," Marlene said looking at me across the compartment. "Don't tell me you screwed this up Potter." I lifted my head off the wall and stared at her. What the hell is she talking about? "This plan was completely wanker-proof Potter, not even Pettigrew could have screwed it up!"

"Hey!" Peter stared at Marlene, offended.

"Sorry Peter. What did you do, Potter?"

"Nothing," I shank beneath her glare, "okay, I started to try to talk to her, then she got angry at me for trying to apologize and we started to argue end of story."

"That's it." Marlene looked slightly upset at this, though I haven't the faintest clue why, I'm the one who's getting their heart torn out here.

"Yes."

"YOU BLOODY IDIOT!" I jumped at this proclamation; it was unlike her to yell at anybody, she was almost as quiet as Evangeline…almost. "The one time ANYONE wants you to take the term 'kiss and make-up' seriously you manage to ruin everything. One kiss James! You managed to date nearly as many people as Sirius over here; I thought you could have managed that!"

"It's not like she wanted me to kiss her, Marlene!"

"ARE YOU BLIND? Of course she wanted you to kiss her, it's not like she didn't enjoy the last one- Oh Merlin." Marlene slapped her hand over her mouth.

"What to you mean 'it's not like she didn't enjoy the last one'?" Marlene flinched; this was obviously something I was not supposed to know. "Marlene…. Answer me, Marlene. What do you mean?"

The brown haired Gryffindor slowly pulled her hand away from her mouth. "She liked it. Your kiss, I mean. She just couldn't understand how she could enjoy something from her worst enemy. She was confused, she's hated you forever, and now that there's a poss-" Marlene shook her head. "Never mind."

"what? Tell me Marlene!" I stood up, I had defiantly missed something here.

"Sorry, James, I can't tell you that."

For once however, Sirius had an answer. "Now that there's a possibility she might not hate you…that she might actually…like you."

I was out of that compartment faster than you can say Quidditch. I was running down the train, pushing everyone out of my way. I had to know, had to find out. Suddenly the train stopped, I looked out the window, we were at Platform 9 ¾ and everyone was getting off, I saw my mother with Mindy, our house elf. I ran faster if possible, I threw open the compartment door.

It was empty.

I pulled my trunk down from it's ledge above the seats and shrunk it. Being 17 I could legally do magic, I ran off the train. Looking around wildy.

"James! James, dear, we're over hear." I waved, but didn't move from my place on the platform, then I saw red. She was in line to pass through the barrier into muggle London, were she would probably be meeting her parents.

"LILY!" I called across the platform. She turned her head and met my eyes. She stiffened noticeably. I started to make my way across the platform.

That was when I heard the first screams.

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