James POV

We have Charms as the first class today this week. I like the class although it doesn't really beat Transfiguration or Professor McGonagall for that matter. If there is a single female besides Mrs. Annabelle Potter who can put the leash on Sirius and me, it's definitely "kitty-cat McG"! McG maybe borderline inflexible and the shrewdest nut to crack but she comes with a huge loyal heart of gold. Actually if it wasn't for her, I think I would have been expelled years before for all the shenanigans that we get up to…let alone make Head Boy. Of course the fact that she is in cahoots with the aforementioned Annabelle Potter since their own Hogwarts days would make any young male shitt bricks. However Potters are made of sterner stuff! Ahem.

The greater majority of Marauder pranks were conspired in the Transfiguration classroom but the refining was done in the Charms class considering they were usually back-to-back classes. Adding flair and flourish is good business in pranking, almost equivalent to what Muggles call 'Sales Marketing'. It attracts maximum appreciation. *wink* (I knew Muggle Studies would come in handy somewhere.)

Well to the guys pranking was the foolproof way to have maximum fun with our magical abilities. Peter liked the female adulation that followed some of our more innovative pranks. Not to be condescending or anything but good ol' Pete definitely needs all the help he could get in that department. For Remus, it was one the best ways to let his hair down and take a break from his "werewolf". Sirius on the other hand, my brother in every sense and best mate.. worshipped pranking. He confided once that he did it to gain notoriety and more importantly, annoy his banshee of a mother with school complaints. I've met that woman in person and I would give away even my prized darling Phillipa to never be in a 10 foot radius of that banshee. And by the way, Phillipa is my prized broom and that is saying something! Sirius's mother is just horrid. Period.

And want to know what pranking does for me? Lily….Evans. Or getting her sole attention on me is more like it. That anger and those eyes...yeah, it seems I am masochistic after all. It certainly helps that she is very attractive too. *wink*

Sigh.

Lily has hated my guts since forever. To her I am arrogant, annoying, self-centered and a "complete-waste-of-precious-limited-resources-that - could-be-used-to-feed-starving-African-children". Yeah that one at the end is a direct quote. I think she considers me as the bane of her existence. It's amusing on my good days, funny on my best days and depressing on my worst days. Sirius compares her to a red Chinese Fireball. Gorgeous yeah but definitely breathing out fire. Admiration only allowed from afar with a 'Do Not Park Your Broom Here' billboard. I actually do like her though. Genuinely. So bloody sexy and doesn't even know it.

Damn skirts.

My interest in Lily came about sometime during our fourth year. From the first to third year, I thought she was generally interesting and cute but I wasn't really interested in her in the romantic sense. The fact that she hung out with Snivellus and also that he was completely in love with her was the fuel for us to annoy the magic out of them both. Besides I was dating fifth year Brianna, who surely knew her way around her tongue. *shudder*

Brianna was an older, more experienced, sexy blonde Hufflepuff and came completely without principles. If she was even a fourth of what Lily is as a person she wouldn't be dating a fourth year to get him into her bed and underwear. Good thing I had some common sense to dump the 'cradle snatcher' before anything actually happened. Sure, it added a lot to my reputation with the females but I wasn't aiming to be the man whore of our batch.

Merlin. No wonder Lily hates me…what with my 'reputation' and all. It's true I am not a virgin but I certainly have NOT had my way with numerous girls as the countless rumours claim.

Regarding my interest in Lily beginning in our fourth year? Lily suddenly sprouted curves and started looking like a woman that year. What a year.

It was actually in Potions class when I realized that she had assets. And very nice ones too!

We were brewing a Memory draught for that lesson and she was my partner much to her dismay and my initial indifference. We needed some ingredients for the potion and we were bickering about who should go to the Professor's stores to collect them. Lily being the teacher's pet she is, condescendingly demanded that I should be the one to get them since I have the "mental capacity of a flobberworm" to get any quality potion work done. Now that phrase right there is totally inaccurate. After all, I am James Potter and therefore obviously awesome.

I am smarter than 95% of the people in our batch and generation. I am second in class for Merlin's sake! Remus being the good, studious, hardworking bloke that he is, is first in class. Actually Lily is fifth in class after Snivellus and Sirius. I bet that bothers her to no end. *snigger*

What?! I am a male and we have egos. Huge ones if you know what I mean. *smirk*

To get back to how I suddenly discovered how appealing Lily is; our bickering continued to the potions stores adjacent to the classroom. Most of the class had already started with their potions and we were certainly not winning points from the Professor with our fighting. Lily huffed and stomped her way inside the room and started climbing the ladder to get some of the ingredients from the upper levels. I was too irritated to do anything much besides hold the ladder in place. I held it steady and eventually looked up to see as to why it was taking Lily so long to get the ingredients.

Merlin..what a sight.

Lily was balancing precariously on one foot while stretching her form to reach a jar, which was out of her fingers' reach. Her hair was slowly slipping from her clip and she was biting her lip in concentration to reach the jar without jostling herself further. Her leg muscles were all flexed and her school uniform was riding up. And fuck, her curves! I didn't realize then that I had my mouth open and drooling. My hands had shaken and it disturbed the fragile balance of the ladder and the person on it. Everything that followed happened too quickly for me to register anything besides the fact that I suddenly had a raging libido towards one Lily Evans.

Lily had fallen right off the ladder and down on me. It was like a …what's that word Muggles use for moving scenes? Yes! A movie scene! Lily broke her fall on me and she landed really hard. I was too winded to realize then that the way my limbs had positioned themselves to catch her... in what would be considered as totally inappropriate to any third observer. Definitely deliciously inappropriate. I somehow had one hand resting on her back close to her bum and the other very, very agonizingly close to her breast. If I had slid my hand a few centimeters to the left I could have been cupping her.

Damn, my pants are getting tight thinking about that memory.

Lily on the other hand, had been too shocked to make a sound. Her hair had come open and it had framed us both. We were breathing heavily and when she tried to move she accidentally rubbed her leg against my.. err.. manhood. That certainly didn't help matters and I only hardened further much to my embarrassment. Lily's eyes had narrowed and she pushed herself off me. She furiously whispered to "get my perverted hands off her if I didn't want to be castrated". That had my gotten my hands off her as if she was the giant piranha herself.

What a memory.

As for what had happened in our fifth year and this weekend, I think it was inevitable. Our unexpected make out session in our fifth year only reinforced what I have been feeling for a while. I respected her then and I respect her now. I really can't bear to be a regret in Lily's life ever. Although I still can't get my head around to what had happened last night. She tasted like watermelons and I even got to feel her beautiful curves this time. I am going to need a cold shower again if I keep this train of thought going. Ugh.

She was looking so perfect yesterday. I could barely keep my eyes off her. When she was walking and talking to the other prefects all I could focus on was her movements and how unaware she is about her sex appeal. The fact that Lily is a genuinely nice person who is kind, funny, loyal, responsible, honest and forgiving (which unfortunately doesn't include me) just makes her more beautiful to me. I don't understand why she puts on this face where she apparently loathes my existence. One doesn't go about kissing their supposed bane like she does with me. I know there is some interest there for her at some level even though she would rather die than admit it. Guess I'll have to work on that and make her admit that she doesn't actually hate me. I want that girl and I am not going to stop at anything to have her.

It's time to head down to the Great Hall for breakfast anyway. I wonder how Lily is going to react today. I am curious if she will be angry and insult me as usual or be embarrassed and give me the more rare silent treatment. Lily is not the silent type. She enjoys telling me exactly what she thinks of me and my Marauder-ish ways. Either way I am looking forward to it because I definitely intend to follow through with the promise I made to her last night. It WILL happen again because I am NOT letting this one go.

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