"You should know that I hate you."

"That's nice Lily. Please continue"

Lily sent James her darkest scowl and, scrunching up her face in distaste, raised her trembling hand towards her mouth. She opened her mouth slowly, took a deep breath and -

"No!" She exclaimed, dropping the offending object on the table. "I can't do it."

James sat back in his chair with a smug smile, clearly enjoying himself. All around them the crowd ooooh'd in anticipation and Sirius Black, standing behind James, let out a bark of laughter.

"Evans, Evans, Evans." He shook his head slowly, eyes dancing with glee. "If I didn't know any better, I'd almost think you wanted to lose this bet."

Lily spluttered, folding her arms over her chest. She most certainly did not want to lose this bet. Not only was the stupid thing taking place in the middle of the Gryffindor Common Room, where her humiliation, if she did fail would be seen by all, the outcome if she did lose was unacceptable.

"Think again Black." Lily spat, glaring at the boy. "I would rather die than lose this bet."

"You don't have to die." Peter, who had until now been watching silently, pointed out. "You just have to -"

"I know what I have to do!" Lily interrupted, transferring her glare to him. "I just don't want to - I don't know if I can…" She eyed the object suspiciously, as if she expected it to jump down her throat at any second.

"Surely it's not that hard Lily," Remus added. He sounded sympathetic, but the mischievous sparkle in his eyes gave him away. "Just take one little bite…chew…swallow…and you're done."

Lily glared at the four boys - James, sitting across from her at the table, looking supremely smug, Sirius, Peter and Remus, all standing around him, grinning at her cheekily. And around them, let's not forget, was what felt like the entire Gryffindor House, watching eagerly for the outcome of this little wager. A sudden thought hit her.

"Hang on! How did you lot even find out that I hate bananas? I was very careful to make sure you didn't find out about it for this very reason."

Sirius smirked and shook his hair out of his eyes. "Let's just say that your friends don't show quite as much loyalty to you as you think they do."

Lily's eyes narrowed. She should have known. "Alice!" She spun around to glare at her best mate, who suddenly looked very guilty. "What?"

Alice shrugged and couldn't quite keep the smile off her face. "I'm sorry Lilykins, but it's for your own good you know. Just admit that you can't eat the banana and snog James for all he's worth. There's no point fighting the attraction anymore."

The crowd around them crowed in delight and someone in the very back wolf whistled. Lily's mouth dropped open and she stared at Alice in shock. Not that she should be shocked, that is. In the seven years that she and Alice had been friends, Alice had never shied away from putting Lily in what Lily called terrifying and humiliating moments to be burnt from her memory and what Alice called formative moments in her development as a person. This, Lily thought furiously, was most definitely part of Alice's scheme to get herself and James together.

"There's no attraction." Lily said through gritted teeth. Alice rolled her eyes and gave her mate a pointed look. "There's not!" She turned around to face James again, glaring at him. "There's not Potter, so wipe that stupid smirk off your face!"

James looked startled and held both his hands up. "I had nothing to do with this. It was all Sirius' idea."

"And Alice's!" Sirius added when Lily transferred her glare to him. "We're sick of the sexual tension between you too. I hate you Potter!" Sirius said in a squeaky voice, obviously a terrible attempt at mimicking her voice. "Stay away from me! Why are you such a slimey git? Why are you talking to Chastity Clements and not me? Why won't you kiss me?" He started making kissing noises amidst laughter from the crowd. "It's ridiculous. Go have a shag in a broom closet already and get it over and done with."

Lily couldn't help but notice that James was shooting Sirius an annoyed glare at his little pronouncement. Well, she didn't blame him. She too knew what it was like to have a meddling, terrible best mate. He looked kind of cute when he was annoyed. Something inside of Lily when ping and she made a split second decision.

"Fine." She sighed dramatically, getting to her feet. "Come here Potter."

James looked wary. "Why?"

Lily rolled her eyes. "Why else you tosser? You're right. I can't eat that…thing…so I suppose I am going to have to kiss - I mean let you kiss me."

There was dead silence for only a few moments before the group around them erupted into cheers and claps. Sirius let out a whoop and clapped James on the back.

"I knew you'd give in eventually Evans." He crowed, high fiving a surprised Remus. "Who can resist my man Prongs here?"

Lily wasn't interested in Sirius' whoops, Remus' surprise or Alice's shrieks of delight. She was taking careful note of the expression on James' face. He was still seated, staring at her with his mouth wide open, a slightly stunned expression on his face.

"Wha..?" He managed to get out before Lily harrumphed impatiently.

"Well you hurry up and get over here Potter before I change my mind?" Lily rolled her eyes and tried to stop smiling when James blinked and stood to his feet, looking very dazed.

"I can't believe this worked." Remus muttered to Sirius, watching incredulously as James made his way over to a very impatient looking Lily.

"To be honest," Sirius admitted, "neither can I. I thought she'd force that banana down her throat - MERLIN SHE'S ACTUALLY LETTING HIM KISS HER!" Sirius interrupted himself with a shout of delight and burst into laughter at James swept Lily up into his arms and started snogging her. "This is too good to be true." He chortled, rubbing his hands together. "Who would have thought that Lily Evans would ever - oh."

Once again, dead silence fell over the Common Room as Lily, one arm still wrapped around James' neck, very carefully smushed the banana that had recently been sitting on the table into James' hair. She pulled away with a triumphant smirk as James frantically tried to brush the mush out of his hair.

Remus snorted. "I told you this wouldn't work."

A/N: Hello peeps! I know, I know it's been forever and I'm super sorry, but I just ran out of creative juice! I also know I should be working on I Want To Hold Your Hand, but…it's just not coming out of me right now! It's still in the pipeline though, so don't worry about it!

This is just a short little story to get myself going again…unedited and unbetad, written very quickly at work. Hope you guys enjoy it

Taken from a prompt table that I'll be using quite a bit I think, I'm really enjoying it so far – the prompt was…banana!