Lily Evans

He drove her wild.

It wasn't something she could explain, not after her years of supposedly hating Him. Maybe it happened when Seventh Year started—when He finally started to ignore her. She thought that that situation would be bliss—but she suddenly found that she, most unexpectedly, missed Him gazing at her, a lovesick expression on His face, so engrossed in her that Professor McGonagall had to call His name loudly at least thrice before He would hear her. She missed Him asking her out to Hogsmeade every time they met, to Him showing off during some important Quidditch match, just for her, risking being told off by the Gryffindor Captain.

But even before Seventh Year, in the last third of Sixth Year, she'd already begun to notice a significant decrease in the attention He paid her. By Seventh Year, that attention was nearly completely gone—He was still polite to her, saying Hey and Hello and Excuse Me and such, but it wasn't any different from the ways He treated His other classmates.

He no longer gave her special attention, and she hated it.

She was most surprised with herself, with the emotions she was feeling for Him. She felt regretful that she didn't even say yes once. But, she thought, when He'd still ask her out every chance He got, He was an arrogant, conceited—

Yeah. But now, He changed. He was quieter, more studious (though He could very well get Os with not so much as a glance to the textbook), and he had stopped flaunting His Quidditch skills outside the pitch. He even stopped messing up His hair.

But, at times, He somehow seemed...depressed, whenever He was alone. He still seemed happy enough around The Marauders, but His bouts of depression during solitude worried her.

She remembered how, just a year or so before, how He would 'casually' run His hand through His messy raven hair, and ruffle it, and carefully look at her with His hazel eyes to see if she was watching.

Now all that was gone.

She wondered if they would ever speak again, or if He would only ask her out just once more, because this time she would say yes.