December 2, 1977

The end November flew by quickly. Lily felt herself smiling randomly and sneaking glances at James, which he returned with wide smiles. They had ample opportunity to be together away from the prying eyes of their friends as they were the heads.

Lily felt James growing restless, she knew she liked him, but what would happen if they broke up, or anything really and everyone knew about them. She liked their privacy, however it was annoying when girls flirted with James, or Sirius tried to set him up.

Like today, Lily was doing a potions essay in the common room and the marauders sat in front of the fire laughing and talking.

"Hey mate, I got a gal for you to shag, that Ravenclaw sixth year that keeps making eyes at you." Sirius prompted.

James looked directly at Lily and grinned like a buffoon, "No thanks, mate." Lily smiled to herself and felt her cheeks flush.

"Your loss mate, I think I'll go for it, maybe tell her that it'll make you jealous…" He looked at Remus, who was grinding his teeth and looking everywhere but at Sirius.

It was indeed getting harder for Lily to not just snog James in public and get it over with, but Lily was scared. It was partly because she didn't want to hear that James must have finally worn her down and that she was a pushover, but she was also a muggle-born and at a time when there was a war on with people trying to kill her and the people she associated with, dating James was dangerous for the both of them.

She would never tell James this of course, because he would tell her he could handle the death eaters or that he would punch anyone who called her a pushover, but she didn't want to hear that.

November drew to a close and it hadn't snowed yet, it had been very cold and every Herbology class had to be bundled tightly, even with a warming charm.

Lily came back to her dorm after a particularly bad set of rounds, she had had to put three people in detention and remove a very amorous couple from a broom closet. She sank onto her bed with a tired groan, but heard the crinkle of paper so sat up immediately.

The paper was a note with her name written in beautiful cursive on the front and folded over.

My Dearest Lily,

It's so cold, but you melt my heart. Come and join me?

Love,

James

Lily smiled, James sucked at poetry, but he tried so very hard. Lily deposited her bag on her bed and grabbed all her winter clothes, it was freezing outside.

She walked down to the entrance hall and cast a warming charm on herself before stepping out onto the frozen grounds.

"James? James, are you here?" Lily called out. It was very dark out and the clouds were blocking the little light from the stars and moon.

Lily pulled out her wand, "Lumos." The tip of her wand lit up and she could barely make out the outline of trees in the forbidden forest.

She heard a rustling from the other direction and swiveled to face it. "James?"

"Hey." Lily's heart exploded. He was standing rubbing the back of his next and looking embarrassed.

"What did you do?"

"Nothing, yet." James was now standing very close to her. "I thought we should enjoy the first snowfall."

"How do you know it's going to snow?"

"I have a sixth sense."

They were quiet for a moment staring at each other's eyes. James had such beautiful eyes.

"I…" Lily hesitated. She wanted to tell him all that he meant to her, but she was so scared.

"It's snowing." Lily looked up, sure enough light flakes were falling down all around them, it was so peaceful.

Lily stuck out her tongue to catch some snowflakes, and heard James chuckling.

"What? It's fun! You try." James stuck out his tongue obligingly and Lily grinned, he was so cute.

"I love you." Lily clapped her hands over her mouth. She did not just say that out loud.

James looked at her for a moment, then he smiled so broadly and wrapped her in a big bear hug. "I love you too," He whispered into her ear.

A/N: Yeah love!