Prompt 002: Just Friends - Gavin DeGraw

"Tell her Prongs!" Sirius hissed, glaring at a small red headed girl by the fireplace.

"She can't do that to you!" Peter agreed vehemently. "You're James Potter. You're the coolest wizard in Hogwarts. Who even knows who that other guy is?"

"Michael Clearwater." Remus said, rolling his eyes.

The four boys were huddled around their usual table, whispering to each other. Three of them were shooting dirty looks towards Lily Evans and Alice Williams who were blissfully unaware of the revenge being plotted metres away. Remus was resisting the urge to smack them over the head with one of his textbooks.

"Michael Stinkywater is more like it." Peter sneered.

There was a moment of stunned silence before Sirius clapped his hand on Peter's shoulder. "Wormy. That was…"

"I've heard five year olds insult better." James took a break from scowling at Lily to join in on the teasing.

"I've heard Remus insult people better than that."

"Oh yeah, what did he call us yesterday?"

"Humungous tossers wasn't it?"

"No that's not quite it." James mused, tapping his chin with his finger. "Daft cretins?"

"Piss off you wankers." Remus muttered, bright red from embarrassment.

"Oooooh!" Sirius and James mocked.

"Do my ears deceive me?" James cupped a hand around an ear. "Did Moony actually swear?"

"I wouldn't really classify piss off as swearing though Prongs, should it count?"

"Shouldn't we be concentrating on how Prongs has been tossed over for Michael Stinkywater?" Remus said desperately. If he let those two continue in their current vein they would soon end up asking the entire Common Room to participate in a public vote over whether "piss off" was really swearing anymore.

James cut off mid sentence and flushed. "I wasn't tossed over! They're just friends."

Peter started sniggering.

Remus gave James a pitying look. "Is that what Lily told you?"

"Yes!" James said, crossing his arms over his chest. "I asked her about the wanker last week and she said they were just friends."

"I wasn't aware friends ran their fingers through other friend's hair…"

James spluttered indignantly as his mates all burst into laughter.

"Right." James leapt to his feet. "I'm going over to confront her."

This only made the boys laugh harder.

"Prongs," Remus managed to gasp out between laughs. "Prongs, I don't think that's a great idea…"

But James could not be deterred and marched over to the two girls. They were flicking through a magazine together, pointing and laughing at something on the page. "Lily!"

Lily jumped a little and turned to look at the boy looming over her. Alice took one look at James' expression and started to giggle.

"I thought you said Michael was just your friend!"

The inquiring smile slid from the girls face and she suddenly looked very uncomfortable. "Well…we're not dating Potter…"

"I saw you!" James said in a strangled tone. "He was running his hand through your hair and you were touching him on his stupid chest."

Lily's expression instantly darkened. "Were you following me Potter?"

"What?" James yelped. "No, I was on my way to the library and -"

"I can't believe this!" Lily snapped, glaring. "You were spying on me? What kind of creep does that? I have half a mind to report you to Professor McGonagall."

"I wasn't spying on you for Merlin's sake woman! It's not my fault you and your boyfriend were snogging in public."

James knew that was a mistake when Lily whipped out her wand and pointed it at James' face. "You have 30 seconds to disappear Potter."

"Ah Evans…" James said nervously. "You know 3rd Years aren't allowed to do magic in the Common Room…"

"That's rubbish." Lily jabbed her wand towards him and James took a small step back. "You now have 20 seconds."

"Look, all right, all right." James held up his hands in surrender and gave her his most charming smile, the one that always worked on his mother. "I'm sorry ok? If you promise that you'll only go out with me from now on I'll forgive you for-" James last words were drowned out by Lily's enraged shriek.

"POTTER I SWEAR IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF MY SIGHT THIS INSTANT I WILL MAKE YOU WISH YOU WERE NEVER BORN!"

James wisely fled.

A/N: I've never heard of this song before and when I read the lyrics I quickly realised it was yet another angsty song. So I decided that I wasn't in the mood for angst and instead bought out youngcocky!James. Hope you guys enjoyed it :)