I started writing this because i really wanted to work out for myself how lily and James got togeher. I hope you like. Please review and tell me what you think.( Yes i do know that they got together in 7th year not 6th but i took the liberty of changing it.)

Prolog

Lily Evans had known she was witch for 6 years now and had gone to Hogwarts for just as long. And ever since she had arrived at school the same boy had been in love with her. His name was James Potter. Now there was nothing exactly wrong with James, he was handsome and usually nice. The thing was Lily was in love with his friend. Lily had been friends with Remus Lupin since she had arrived. He was a prefect with Lily which meant she got to spend a lot of time with him. The thing was he had never really shown an interest in her. Maybe it was because of James, but it always seemed to be something else too. She had even asked him out once, but he had said no. His only reason was that it could never work between them. James on the other hand had done nothing but ask her out since her 2nd year. It was now almost a Saturday ritual for him to do so. His ways were always outlandish; he had even gone as far to decorate the north tower to say: Evans will you go out with me? But it just hadn't ever seemed right. Lily's best friend and roommate was Casey Landers. Casey was a pureblood with 3 older sisters, all who had graduated and joined the ministry. For almost as long as James had been asking Lily out, Casey had been in love with him. But James had never noticed her. She was definitely pretty, with soft blue eyes and brown hair, but James just didn't seem to care. Casey had gone out with Sirius once or twice, in hopes of making James jealous, but it hadn't worked. Going out with Sirius wasn't that weird though, every girl in there year had done so at one point or another, even Lily. Lily and Sirius had gone out more as friends, but even so James had been mad. And after that it was quickly resolved that none of the marauders could out with Lily except James. This was quite annoying considering Lily was in love with Remus, but she knew there was no way that would ever happen. And now the Halloween Ball was coming up and once again she had no date.

Chapter 1

"Lily, Lily wait up!" It was Casey. Lily had been on her way to the Library for some last minute studying, but if Casey wanted to talk there was no way that was going to happen. "Hey Casey. Sorry I didn't wait, I was going to study." Lily said. Right on queue Casey rolled her eyes. Despite the fact that they had been best friends for six years they were polar opposites. Lily loved reading and talking. Casey loved Quidditch and chasing boys. Though Casey had never failed a class, school wasn't exactly her top priority. "I think James is going to ask me to the dance. I caught him looking at me in Potions." Casey said beaming. "That's great! Maybe he'll finally leave me alone." Lily sighed she didn't had the heart to tell Casey that James hadn't been looking at her. Lily was sitting right next to Casey and it had been quite obvious that he was staring at Lily not Casey. "So who are you going to ask to the dance?" Casey asked excitedly. "I don't know yet. I was kind of hoping Remus would ask me, but I doubt it." Lily said it a relatively glum voice. "Why not ask him? You have prefect duties with him tonight. And if James likes me now he might say yes!" Casey said beaming. "You know I've asked him before, I don't think he's going to change his mind. Don't you have to get going you wouldn't want to make James mad by being late to practice." Lily said, knowing that this would get Casey to leave her alone about Remus. Casey gasped looking at his watch, "Got to go. See you at dinner. Keep me posted about Remus!" Casey said dashing off towards the Quidditch pitch. Lily continued walking towards the library. As usual the library was extremely quiet and empty. After all it was Friday. Lily quickly found the book on alternative cures to everyday injures and began to read. Though she didn't need to she knew Slughorn would give her extra credit on her essay if she included more remedies than the ones discussed in class. As it turned out the section on magical animal bites was quite extensive. After a few minutes of reading Lily realized she wasn't alone. As it turned out someone else had had the same idea for getting extra credit. Remus Lupin had his nose deep in a book. It figured he would study now, while Sirius and James at practice and Peter most likely watching them. "Hey Remus. Seems we had the same idea." Lily said trying not to blush. "O hi Lily. I didn't even notice you there. I guess we did have the same idea. Found anything good?" Remus asked. "Ya, a few things. I think I'm going to check this one out and go study by the Quidditch pitch. It will only be nice out for a couple more weeks." Lily said standing up. "Ok well see you later for prefect duties." Remus said. Lily nodded and went to check out her book. Just as she was walking out Remus said, "By the way Lily, your hair looks nice like that." He quickly looked back down at his book blushing. Lily smiled and left.

It seemed a lot of people had had the idea to study in the Quidditch stands. The Gryffindor team was in full practice mode. Casey was positioned right above Lily. And James was completely distracted from the game and of course staring at Lily. After he dropped 5 passes made by Casey, the team called it quits and headed off to the great hall for dinner.

"Guess what I saw James staring at me again, during practice. He must really like me!" Casey said giggling as she ate. Lily nodded once again not able to tell Casey that he hadn't been staring had her. "That's great Casey, I have to go it's almost 6 o'clock, I have prefect duties. See you later." Lily said standing up. "Have Fun!" Casey said winking as Lily left. Lily rolled her eyes. Lily found Remus in the library. There task tonight was to make sure all the books in the districted section were still there. "Hey Remus, did you get the list from Madam Pinch?" Lily asked. "Ya I did. We better get started if we want to get done by midnight. There's a lot of books and there never put back in alphabetical order." Lily nodded, it was true. The districted section was completely disorganized, making it extremely had to do inventory on. "Ok what's first?" Lily asked. "Lets see, the titles a beginners guide to Love Potions by Lady Hemingway." Remus said. Lily quickly looked around and found it, "Its here, next." Lily said. It went on like this for a couple of hours. By the time they got to Zzzzz: A guide to eternal Rest, it was close to 2 a.m. "And that it, we're done." Remus said. "Only two books missing and nothing that Serious." Lily said sighing. Lily walked over to Remus to take the list from him, as she did there hands brushed. Causing them both to blush. "Hey Lily, You know how there a Halloween dance coming up?" Remus asked looking at his feet. "Yes there is, tomorrow night." Lily said hoping this was going where she though it was. "Well I was wondering if you might want to go with me?" Remus said blushing madly. "I would like that." Lily said. They sort of just stood there looking at each other for a few minutes before Remus mumbled something about it being late, and walked off. Lily wasn't tired and decided to go take a bath.

The perfects bathroom was as usual very relaxing. Lily was very excited she had a date with Remus to the dance; it was almost too good to be true. As Lily thought about she realized James must know. Remus would not have gone behind his back. He had probably even asked James permission. That meant James must have finally gotten over his crush on her. Though Lily was relieved to hear this, for some reason there was a tiny part of her that was disappointed.

The common room was quiet; it was almost 3 a.m. when Lily returned. At first glance it seemed deserted. But as Lily's eyes got adjusted to the light she realized some one was sitting in an armchair by the fire. "So he asked you? Of course he did. And of course you said say. You know he's wanted to ask you out for at least a year now. All he had to do was ask. I'm not stupid I know you'll never go out with me." Said a tired voice, it was James. Lily walked over to the fire and sat down on the chair next to his. She was surprised to see that for once in all the time she had known him he had a serious look on his face. At that moment Lily had an idea. "James I have a favor to ask you" Lily said. James nodded. "As I'm sure you know Casey has a huge crush on you. And I was wondering since neither of you have a date to the Halloween ball if you might consider taking her. It would mean a lot to her and me." Lily said, hoping he'd say yes. "Of course I know she has a crush on me, everyone knows that. And I was planning on asking Krishna, in Huffelpuff's. But I'll take Casey." James said shrugging. He still wasn't smiling. Lily was overjoyed, and she knew Casey would be 10 times happier than her.

"Thank you so much James!" Lily said. And then she did something odd, she went over and hugged him. James looked at her strangely for a minute, almost not believing what she had done. He then did something he had wanted to do for years. He kissed Lily right on the lips. It was brief, maybe 3 seconds, but Lily felt something she knew she shouldn't be feeling. With that James stood up and went towards the boy's dormitory steps, at the last minute he turned around and said, "Good-night Lily" and winked. He then turned around and left. Lily didn't go up to bed for many hours, and even when she did she couldn't sleep.