James POV:
James woke up the next day to see Sirius standing in front of a mirror, attempting to perfect his hair.
'Oh Padfoot, you look pretty no matter what you do with your hair.' James told him in a sweet tone.
'Oh Prongsie, I knew I loved you for a reason!' Sirius replied while blowing him a kiss.
'I always knew you guys were gay for each other…' said a voice from behind them that he recognized immediately.
'Lils, how'd you get up here?' James asked her.
'Oh, I walked up the stairs,' She replied in a voice that one would use when talking to a 5 year old, 'But I did come up here for a reason, is Remus alright? We have to go down to the prefect meeting soon.'
'Evans, why are you so nice to us?' James asked.
'Well I think the question really is, why are you guys nice to me… Considering the four years of hell I gave you.' Lily laughed slightly and smiled.
Lily POV:
'So you don't care that we're illegal animagi?' James asked her with a worried look on his face.
'Well of course I care about it, but I was more impressed than anything when I worked it out.' She smiled.
'Lily, you're honestly the most wonderful person I've ever met!' James ran over and gripped her in a big bear hug.
At that point Lily realized two things, and only one of them was important to her.
The first, was that James was in nothing but a pair of shorts… But she didn't care so much about that.
What did interest her however, was the second thing. James' smell. Grass, broom polish, and cologne. Shit.
James POV:
James stood there embracing Lily, inhaling her scent of vanilla and flowers. He had noticed Sirius walking out and raising his eyebrows at James and Lily.
James and Lily… When he thought about it, it sounded so right… He was in love with her, and surely she had at least some minute feelings for him…
All too soon for either of their liking, the hug broke apart. They stood there, staring at each other for a while, yet it wasn't awkward.
'Look, James…' she began, and with a pained look at him walked a few steps back and said, 'We only have a few days left of being at Hogwarts for fifth year… I-I-… I'm not good with the whole 'feelings' thing, but I think it would be best if you just forgot about me… J-just go and find a random girl to snog senseless.'
He watched as Lily walked from the dorm, and he could have sworn tears were fighting to fall from her eyes.
But he couldn't just forget about her… She was Lily Evans.
For the last two days at Hogwarts, he and Lily had not talked at all, and they hadn't said goodbye at the platform either... It was killing the both of them, but neither would admit it to the other.
The holidays went by extremely slowly for James, sure, being with Sirius made them ten times funnier, but he felt terrible about Lily and the fact that they hadn't contacted at all.
Lily POV:
Lily's time away from Hogwarts had never been so boring and terrible. Petunia was meaner than ever, but more importantly, she had absolutely no friends left in the world.
She'd left the marauders, Severus no longer cared about her, and Alice and Marlene barely ever talked to her.
She had nothing left anywhere; she just hoped that by some stroke of luck, James would contact her… But she'd told him to forget about her… She had no idea as to whether she had feelings for him or not.
The only thing that cheered her up were the results she had received for her O., she had received all Outstandings and was relieved to see that at least something was going right.
Finally, weeks later, it was time to go back to Hogwarts for sixth year. At eight in the morning, Lily was woken not by her alarm, but by an owl on the window seal.
She had already received her O.W.L results, who would want to talk to her?
Lily flung herself out of bed and ran to reach the owl. She saw the messy handwriting of which had written 'Lily Evans' and took the letter from the owl. Quickly filling up a bowl with water and placing it in front of the deliverer, she sat down and opened the letter.
'Lillikins (you love it, I'm sure),
Before you throw this away and say that you hate me and whatnot, I just thought I'd tell you that I didn't do what you told me to. Rebellious, eh?
But Siriusly, (yes, I will make that pun forever), we need to talk, and maybe on the train we could meet up and do that.
Evans, don't glare at the parchment, it never did anything to you.
Look Lily, I just want to be friends here, we had a really good friendship… and it would suck if that ended.
-From the most amazing bloke in the world, who you also know as James Potter.'
Lily re-read the letter twice before writing back.
'Potter (or do you prefer Jamilia? I suppose it sounds pretty),
I guess you're right; we shouldn't just ignore each other.
I'll meet you at the station, but put the moves on me once and you will die a most painful death.
-Lily.'
Lily place the letter into the waiting owl's mouth, and quickly turned her alarm off as it was seconds away from beeping very loudly. Grudgingly, but very smugly, Lily prepared herself for what was going to be a long day.
James POV:
He received Lily's reply and almost jumped with joy, this was going to be a good day, in his opinion.
Hours later, he had arrived at Kings Cross Station with Sirius and James' mother. As they ran through the barrier and were at platform 9 and 3/4, James' eyes landed on fiery red hair.
Lily Evans.
'I'll be back, mum.' He told her and Sirius as he ran over to her with his trunk levitating behind him.
Lily POV:
Lily was finally at the platform, going back to Hogwarts; to home.
She found Alice and Marlene and had begun to greet them when a pair of strong hands wrapped around her waist and turned her around.
'Missed me, Evans?'
'It could be possible, Potter…' she laughed as she hugged him.
They both turned back to find that Alice and Marlene were staring at them with raised eyebrows and smirks.
'Now, now,' the voice of Sirius came from behind them, 'Finally admitting your undying love, are you?'
James and Lily both hit him on the head lightly, yet it was enough for him to shut up.
'Well well,' said another voice, everyone turned to see who it had come from. The woman of which had spoken looked so much like James that it was uncanny, Lily supposed this was his mother, 'Little Jamesie wouldn't be leaving without saying goodbye to his dear Mummy, would he?'
'I was literally five seconds away from finding you,' James persisted.
His mother just laughed and said, 'Yeah, right.'
The woman must have realized who Lily was, as her eyes widened and she said, 'So this is the Lily I've heard so much about!'
Lily felt herself blush and said, 'Whatever he's told you, I swear it isn't true.'
They all laughed, at least that broke the tension.
After a good conversation with James' mum, Lily found herself on the train, sitting with James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Alice, and Marlene.
While Alice and Marlene sat in and held a whispered conversation, and Remus, Peter and Sirius played a loud game of exploding snap, James and Lily were sitting in a corner and having a conversation about anything and everything.
Lily was hoping for it to be the start of a beautiful friendship.
So here's chapter three... don't forget to review, I'll give you my eternal love and affection xoxoxoxoxoxx