Two Worlds; A Story About Lily Evans and James Potter

Chapter 4

Over the next few days, Lily had tried her best avoiding James Potter. Sometimes she managed to avoid him, but he mostly caught up with her or was waiting for her. Annoyed, she kept trying…and failing. Vivian, Katie and Lunette were doing their best to stop him, but he kept coming. All his apologies were ignored, no matter how many times he kept telling her he was sorry. It finally got to the point where Lily was about to go to the Headmaster about it.

In Potion's class, James decided to seat himself behind Lily. All the better to try to apologize to her. He wasn't giving up anytime soon.

Leaning in, he whispered, "Evans, I'm so sorry."

Vivian was glaring at him, wishing that looks could kill.

"As you've said about a million times already." Lily said, paying no attention to him whatsoever.

She didn't want Slughorn to hear her whispering. She was, after all, his best student.

"I really care about you." He said sincerely.

Lily heard it in his voice, but she (as always) chose to ignore it. Instead, she focused on Slughorn's lesson. It was just getting interesting.

"Do you really expect me to believe that, Potter?" she said, focusing on Professor Slughorn.

Leaning back, James looked at Sirius for help.

"Evans, you're killing the man! Take pity on him." Sirius said.

James was glaring at Sirius, thinking to himself Oh, just wait, Sirius. Just wait…..

"That's good. He'll be out of my life for good." Lily said, her eyes were reading the instructions on the board. "Maybe I would forgive him, if he was actually considerate of my feelings…or anyone elses."

As always, it was so easy for her. Sighing, she took out a black rubber band and tied her hair up in a bun.

"I'm considerate. Really, I am." James said, desperately trying to get her to forgive him.

"It's too late now." Lily said.

"Lily.." James said, but he was cut off by Vivian.

"If you bother her one more time, I will personally see to it that you die a slow, painful death and you regret the day you were even born, do you here me?" She asked, making sure that she sounded deadly and very intimidating.

"Right." Said James, cowering back.

"Now, begin. In an hours time, who ever brews the perfect love potion will receive Felix Felicis." Slughorn said, smiling brightly at Lily, knowing that she would win the potion.

"Oh my frigging God! I seriously need to get that!" Lily said, an evil grin on her face.

She decided to use it to avoid Potter. That git kept on bothering her.

Ingredients:

Crushed rose petals

In the middle of Lily reading the recipe for the love potion, James leaned over, his hot breath on her neck. Deeply bothered, she moved away from the spot where she was sitting.

Boiling water

"You can't avoid me forever, Evans." Potter said.

"Watch me, Potter." Lily said, cursing him silently.

"Potter, if you don't stop bothering Miss Evans, I will be forced to give you detention for a year." Slughorn said, absentmindedly writing something on the board.

Smirking triumphantly, Lily proceeded with her potion and James Potter didn't bother her for the whole class.

At the end of the class, Slughorn went around looking at each of their cauldrons. At Snape's, he nodded approvingly, but only the tiniest bit of impression was seen on his face. All could tell that he was looking forward to Lily's potion.

When he finally reached her, he took a sniff and looking at the beautiful coloured potion, he beamed as if his own child had become the most powerful person in the whole world.

"Magnificent, Miss Evans, magnificent. As always, you get it perfect every time. All you need now is a strand of some one's hair." Slughorn said, still smiling.

Leading her to the front of the room, he presented to her a small vial containing a small dose of Felix.

"Should last for about a day, so use it wisely." Slughorn said. "I do confess, I am very sad to part with it, but if it goes to you, it lessens the pain considerably less, though it would come in useful to me."

"Thank you so much, Professor." Lily replied, smiling at him sweetly.

As they all exited the classroom, Vivian muttered to her, "Flirt."

IN THE GREAT HALL

James was trying to find Lily…again. If only she would forgive him.

"Hey, Peter, do you know where Evans is?" He asked.

"Um…far away from you." Peter said, stuffing his mouth with whatever he could reach.

"Yeah, that part's obvious." James said, ruffling his hair.

"Don't you think that you should let her calm down a bit. Maybe if you're nice to her, she'll forgive you….even a bit." Remus said calmly.

"That's some really great advice Remus. You sure that she didn't tell you to say that to me?" James asked.

"Well…she could have had a small part in it…" Remus said, suspiciously taking interest in his food.

"I thought so. You're the only one that she would talk to…besides maybe Peter…." James said, his head still turning round and round, mercilessly searching for a certain red head.

"Prongs, why don't you just follow Remus' advice. He is usually right, you know." Said Sirius, relaxing back, only to fall onto the ground.

For a moment he had forgotten that it was a bench. The other three marauder's were laughing hysterically. Sirius was glaring at them, secretly hoping that Vivian didn't see his humiliating fall, but the girl never missed anything.

"Tough luck trying to hide that from you're Vivi." Said James, using Vivian's pet name to annoy Sirius even more.

When he looked around, he saw the four girls laughing evilly…most especially Vivian. Trying to hide his manly blush, he turned his head away and started to get up. At least he still had some dignity…he hoped.

"You've just lost your dignity." Remus said, an amused smile on his face.

Glaring again at them, he started stabbing his fork into three pieces of potato, naming them Peter, Remus and James in the process.

"Did you by any chance name those poor handsome potato's Peter, Remus and James?" asked Peter, still breathless from laughing so much.

Letting out a frustrated growl, he stomped out the hall, silently cursing everybody he could think of.

After he left, James said, "Now that I've finally found Evans…"

He jumped on top on the Gryffindor table and ran over to where Lily was sitting, glaring at him ferociously.

"Evans, I just wanted you to know that I'm sorry." He shouted loud enough so that everybody could hear.

All heads were turned towards him. With a flick of his wand, a lily and a rose appeared, tied with a beautiful bow and while Lily had to admit that it was impressive, it simply wasn't enough. However much Potter tried, she would never fall for him and his stupid pranks that resulted in the humiliation of countless people. If it wasn't for him, maybe she might still be friends with Sev, but she had to admit that their friendship wouldn't have lasted long anyway.

"Look, Potter, I'm not forgiving you. Now, leave me alone and stay out of my life." Lily said, stomping off…..but she didn't forget to tear the rose and the lily to pieces. "Such a waste, don't you think?"

James looked crestfallen, but he tried to hide it from the hysterical students. They were all holding onto each other for support, especially Slytherins. Frustrated, he jumped off of the table. He was sure that she would forgive him after that. She had just embarrassed him, when all he was trying to do was to try to be sincere.

Walking over to Remus and Peter (who were trying to hide their laughter), he sat down in huff.

"What gives her the right to embarrass me like that!? I mean, I just wanted to apologize for that prank. I was just having some fun!" James said, his jaw tightening.

There were angry flashes in his eyes and Remus looked worried. If he knew James, he knew that he would try to get revenge for what Lily did, and he also knew that things could turn really ugly.

"You know what?" James said, hands balled into angry fists.

"Um…no, not really." Answered Remus, looking worriedly at James.

"I think I'm going to use that love potion I made on Lily. Then she won't have any choice but to fall in love with me." James said, a sparkle in his eye which very much resembled Dumbledore's.

"But James, it wasn't perfect. Things might go wrong and you could put her in some danger. I do not think that it's a good idea. And anyway, don't you want to have her love you…like, really love you?" Remus said.

"If this is the closest I can get, then so be it." James said, his eyes suddenly distant.

"Oh, and are you suggesting that I am a bad potions maker?" James asked, a surprising sparkle in his eyes.

"Well, yes, actually I am." Remus said, looking apologetically down.

"You're a good friend." James said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Look, Prongs, even though you're my friend, I also respect Lily and sometimes, you should learn to respect her, too. It's the only way that you'll ever win her over and seeing what was on that prank a few days ago, I think you have some competition. If you don't start acting mature, she'll be lost to you forever."

"Well, I could always prank her again?" James said, scratching his head thoughtfully.

Even if he liked her, it was hard not to get revenge and revenge he would get.

"I'm not so sure-" Remus started saying, but was cut off as James suddenly rose up from his seat and started walking away.

"I'm not hungry anymore. I think I'll skip classes for the rest of the day and just stay in my dorm." James said, head hung low.

"If you say so." Remus said.

IN THE HEAD'S DORM

Lily took off her school robes and loosened her tie. She just needed some time alone. After a moment of consideration, she took off her tie and button down shirt and was left with a white tank top and school skirt. Next was her bun. Taking that off, too, she shook her head to loosen up her hair.

Next were her shoes and she decided to take off her nylons. What was the point in having them on, anyway? Thinking that no one would walk into the dorm, especially not James Potter, she turned on her iPod and using an amplifying spell, made it loud enough so that the whole dorm could hear it, but cast the muffliato spell on the door so that nobody outside could hear it.

Heading toward the kitchen, she decided that maybe she should cook herself a meal. A nice, big fancy meal that she would eat at home. Deep in thought, she considered salad, soup and steak. The three S's. For the drinks, she would use some wine that she smuggled into the school. Who knew when you were going to need something alcoholic to clear her head?

Over the past few days, girls were smirking at her and guys were wolf whistling. The teachers sympathized with her and tried to be nice to her in class without it looking like favouritism. As much as she appreciated this, all she needed was some time alone. Walking over to the fridge, she retrieved some of the stuff she was going to need.

'Hmmm….let's see, some steak and those vegetables.' She thought to herself, looking very intent on what she was doing.

A few of the stuff she needed….. oh, and the knives for chopping the vegetables. Just as she was about to start, the song Uptown Girl by Westlife. Pressing the replay button on her iPod, she started dancing and cooking at the same time. Shaking her hips and moving her body to the music, she did twirls and started to chop some vegetables.

The click of the door echoed through the room, but she didn't notice. She was too busy dancing and cooking. If she knew who had just came in, she would have immediately wished she was invisible. And just when you think that all that was enough, she started singing. I'm not kidding when I say that she has the most beautiful voice in the whole world.

James Potter looked at her there, jaw almost hitting the floor. There was Lily Evans, in barely anything, dancing, cooking and singing. A sight that he never thought he would see. Looking at the whole kitchen, he could tell that she had been cooking and it actually smelled quite good. With a quick sweep of the room, he saw a wine bottle on the counter. Lily Evans drank alcohol!?

"Lily, is that you?" he asked, still looking quite shocked.

Immediately turning around, she blushed so red that her skin matched her hair. Holding up her clothes questioningly, he looked her over. Grabbing her clothes from him, she quickly got to putting them on. No way she would let anyone know about this.

"Not a word about this, hear me Potter?" she asked, glaring at him ferociously.

"Not a word." He said, still staring at her.

Sighing, she turned to the food. It was true that she had made a lot of food and she couldn't possibly finish it all.

"You want some?" she asked, hand on her hips and waiting expectantly.

"Yes, I do." He said, eyes not leaving her chest.

"Look, Potter, eyes away from the body. Now get eating, because I can't finish this all by myself." Lily said, taking the food to the table.

"Yup." He said. "Maybe you could tell me a little about yourself. I want to know some facts behind that scene we saw in the Great Hall."

"Don't push your luck, Potter. There's nothing to talk about and who said I was eating with you?" she asked.

Taking her food, she stalked up to her room and slammed the door.

A/N:

Hope you liked this chapter! Oh, and just to clear things up, Dumbledore did a spell so that muggle appliances could work in Heads Dorm. Please review! I do like some criticism once in a while, but I do appreciate comments of how you like my story.