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The first class Lily had was double potions. Potions was Lily's best subject and she was really looking forward to it, even if it was with the Slytherins. She reached class early so that she could get a good place and all the while Alice kept complaining about how miserable she was at the subject and about how Lily should just let her copy her homework.

Professor Slughorn arrived and let them into the class room. The students took their seats and took out their text books.

"Welcome class!" Professor Slughorn greeted them enthusiastically. "Today you shall be brewing A Cheering Potion. Now before you begin, I will be pairing you up according to your capability, meaning no offence to your individual talents, in the subject." Lily groaned. She wanted to be partners with Alice and even though their potion skills were poles apart, Professor Slughorn was never going to pair them up together ever since they had blown up that cauldron in third year because Alice had stirred their potion clockwise instead of anti-clockwise.

"Mr. Snape and Ms. Green..." Professor was saying. Lily looked at Alice who was completely petrified. She timidly made her way over to the scrawny Slytherin. Lily noticed Severus at the other end of the classroom and he returned her wave with a very discreet smile.

"Ms. Evans and Mr. Potter..." Lily was shocked. Why on earth would Professor Slughorn put her with Potter? Did he want her to burst into flames? Lily looked over to where Potter sat and saw him grinning widely at her.

She grudgingly dragged herself to his desk. She slammed her bag on the table without looking at him.

"Hey Evans," he said cheerily.

"Potter," Lily acknowledged stiffly. She sat down and waited for further instructions from their teacher.

"Has everyone got a partner?" Professor Slughorn asked the class. "Good. Now these Pairings are going to be permanent till the end of the first term. We will be trying to help each other excel at this subject, yes? Alright then, begin!"

This had got to be the worst start to a day Lily had ever had. She glanced at Potter whose grin got even wider, as if possible. If I ignore him, everything should be alright, she thought to herself. She took out her cauldron and began getting the ingredients ready. She noticed that Potter still hadn't moved.

"Aren't you going to help me with the potion?" she asked, her eyebrows raised.

"Do you want to be blown to bits?" he cross questioned.

She didn't talk to him any further and began the potion by herself. Halfway through she let her eyes wander to him. He was leaning back in his chair and was lazily flicking his wand at Remus' head, watching his hair turn from brown to blue to green.

"Stop that!" she snapped at him, causing him to start and forcing him out of his day dream.

"What?" he asked puzzeled, obviously unaware of what he had been doing. Lily just shook her head and changed Remus' hair colour back to the original brown.

James sighed, "What do you want me to do?"

"You could start by cutting those roots," she replied. He stood up and Lily noticed how tall he had become. He took her knife and began chopping them.

"See something you like, Evans?" he asked her without looking up, as small smile playing on his lips. It was then Lily realised that she was still staring at him. She quickly looked away.

"In your dreams," she snorted.

"Really? So you won't go out with me?" he asked, turning to face her. Wait what? Had Lily's ears deceived her? Did James Potter just ask her out? The boy who had always humiliated every chance he got was her asking her out? Lily snapped.

"Go out with you?" she asked baffled. " Why would I want to go out with you?" She was still seemed a little taken aback by her reaction. It was probably because every girl, and even some boys, in school fawned over him and his stupid friends and everyone other than Lily seemed too blind to see his arrogance and big-headedness. The look of shock that had barely made it to Potters face was replaced with that awful smirk of his.

"You could've just said no," he said smirking at her all the while. At that moment the bell rang and Lily Knocked his hand out of the way, grabbed her bag and exited the class without another word. This was going to be a long year.

AN: Apologies for any errors, I typed this very fast because my school has started today and I have a ton of work lined up. I could've waited till the weekend but I really wanted to get a chapter up because of all the people who are actually reading this (to my surprise). Thank you for reading and please leave a review!