A/N: This is the companion to the last chapter, also requested by Nobody'sGirl101. While the last one was from Snape's point of view, this is now from James'. I hope you like it, and forgive me that they're both so short. Leave a review and let me know what you think? :)
Insecurities II
Why did Lily choose to hang around with Snivellus? James felt a pang of jealousy every time he saw the two together. She could do so much better, and he didn't deserve her. What could she possibly see in him? And if she liked him…James felt nauseous at the thought. She couldn't possibly feel that way for Severus Snape.
James couldn't deny that he did well in his classes. Really well. He was at the top of Potions for their year, and not far behind in anything else. Maybe Lily liked to study with him. She was pretty smart herself, and always reminded James that he wasn't much on an intellectual. That had to be it. She just liked Snivellus' brains.
But even his brains weren't much to like, James reasoned. He was up to his greasy nose in the Dark Arts, and surely someone like Lily wouldn't be interested in that. Maybe that's what he was using to make he like him! Some sort of Dark spell. It seemed like the sort of thing that he would do. Of course, if he was using Dark Magic, than he would have just gone all the way to make her fall in love with him, wouldn't he?
So that left James to assume that Lily just plain liked Snivellus, of her own free will. Which seriously made no sense.
What bothered James the most wasn't the fact that Lily like Snivellus. It was the fact that she like Snivellus more than him. Okay, so maybe deep down Snape had something that Lily found likeable. But didn't James have even more likeable qualities? He was better looking. He was popular. He played Quidditch. And he was a Gryffindor! Even the worst Gryffindor was better than any Slytherin. And yet Lily spent all of her time with that slimeball Snape, and treated James like the scum of the earth.
It just made no sense.