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"What the hell is going on here?!" James asked heatedly. Severus couldn't conceal a gaudy smile. No one took notice, for Potter was to busy staring at Lily as if she had done something terribly wrong and Lily returned a sharp gaze.

"James, what we are doing is of no concern to you."

"Are you on a date?!" The other people in the café were now staring at them. "Your going out with snivillous and his nose Evans?!" Most of the Hogwarts students laughed. Lily looked around herself. She went pink. James was extremely angry with Lily. "Know wonder you stood up for him last year!" A lot of people made fun of Lily for it. And in his anger, James meant to embarrass Lily. The students stared to murmur.

"I'm not going out with him!" She yelled. Severus felt as if something had slammed into his heart and knocked it out of his chest. His pale face instantaneously turned crimson.

That smudge look appeared on James's face. The look Lily and Severus both loathed. "I see that smudge on your nose! You must have gotten it from making out with snivillous!"

"I'm not going out with him," she said, her voice was hot with embarrassment. Severus felt the knot in his stomach tighten, as if no knife could pry it lose.

"What do you mean?" he whined as a child would whine to his mother. Emerald fell on Severus's crimson face. Pity shone in the emerald eyes. She never respected him she just pitied him. He didn't know why the mudbloods feelings towards hurt him so much.

"W-w," She glanced round her then looked into Severus's pleading eyes. He really did seem to like her and care about her. She looked at her public again. "We are going out!" she said as strongly as she could, but it still came out painfully weak. Severus's heart did a cartwheel.

James looked at her, pure horror spread across his face. Hazel met emerald. Pain screamed in the in the hazel. The emerald was torn away from the hazel. The students, other costumers, and cupid employees were watching with intent eyes. James finally came back to reality. He opened his mouth for a stream of taunts for Lily to come out but he saw how embarrassed she was.

"Well what are you losers looking at?" the furious hazel color darted between the watchers faces. Instantaneously the café was bumbling with it usual sound as if nothing had happened. "I'm sorry for ruining your date," James said, his voice quivered. He turned to leave then remembered his date whose existence he had completely forgotten about. He took her hand and they started to walk away.

"Wait James," Lily felt her heart bang against her rib cage in cool simultaneous beats. It was such an amazing feeling, one she had never felt before. James looked back and the beating went faster. It was so loud that she swore that everyone in the café heard it.

"Sorry for embarrassing you," he said. He and his date walked out of the café together. Lily turned back to Severus.

"Thank you for standing up for me," he said, taken aback by his own kindness. "I'm sorry he embarrassed you like that."

"Thank you," she said, her heart still vibrating. Both of them leaned close to each other. There lips touched to unit them. They stayed together as one for a moment. Severus's heart began beating like Lily's. They became two individual again.

"Your beautiful," Severus said, meaning it for the first time. He thought of how once again, she stood up for him when know one else would. Her soul was the true beauty, more beautiful then any face he had seen. He wanted to explain how much it meant to him that she would do this for him. He opened his mouth to try and explain but he was to caught up and just said "your beautiful," again.

Lily looked at the radiant glow on his face. Color seemed to rush into his pale face and his beady eyes brightened. He had obviously enjoyed the kiss much more then she had. She wanted to break up with him then and there. He had feeling for her, which she could not return. He was a sweet guy but she could never see him as more then just a friend. But she couldn't dump him; she just couldn't bring her self to do it.

Lily looked at Severus with wide shining eyes, the way ones shine before a heart-wrenching sob, which one might do after kissing Severus. But this look was caused by her confusion because of the strange feelings she felt for James, feelings she had tried to deny for quite a while. The truth was that she liked James a lot and she thought about him a lot but most of that thinking was her denying her feelings for him. Even now she was trying to deny her feelings for James trying to say Snape was giving them to her. But she had no feelings for Snape, why she couldn't even call him by his first name.

So Severus continued to think about Lily while Lily thought of James. They were snapped back into reality when a cupid employ, hands full of dishes, rudely pushed passed them. Lily looked at her watch.

"Well I should get going, I have some homework to do," Lily said hastily.

"Me to," he said. He leaned in to give her another kiss. She closed her eyes; her sore lips begged him to stop while Severus's lips never wanted it to never end. When they finished she put a Galleon on the table and ran off.

So he liked a mudblood. He didn't even feel ashamed. She was smart, beautiful, and charismatic. But her heart was the greatest part about her. Even when everyone picked on her for her kindness towards him she still continued to be kind to him. She allowed herself to be an outcast for him. She must have really liked him, Severus thought. No one had ever been so kind to him. He really liked, no loved her. He felt stupid for using such a strong word but he knew that he loved her.