One Week: A Lily/James story

A/N: If you could not tell from my past writings I LOVE LILY/JAMES! Now that I got that out I bring you One Week. This story will be multi chapter and will last this week. From today until next Sunday. I own nothing you recognize. It all belongs to the brilliant J.K. Rowling. I only own the situations that Lily and James are bound to get into, and James's idea of Lily falling in love with him in a week. Enjoy, lily.

Sunday

Eighteen year old Lily Evans sat at the Gryffindor table eating breakfast with her friend Alice Stevens and Alice's boyfriend Frank Longbottom. Suddenly James Potter appeared on her left side. His friends sat around the group. "Morning Lily," James said reaching across her for the orange juice. "Morning, James." Lily replied. The two of them had called a truce at the start of the year after finding out that they were the Head Boy and Girl for the year and would have to work together and would be sharing the Head dorms for the year. Lily had thought it best if both she and James lived to see graduation so she had agreed to be friends with James.

"Have you done that essay for Slughorn yet?" Remus Lupin asked Lily from her right side. "Remus, he gave it to us yesterday!" Sirius Black exclaimed. Lupin looked over at him. "I was not talking to you Sirius…" he said calmly. "No, Remus, I have not, I plan to go to the library after I finish and will start it then." Lily said taking a bite of her strawberry covered pancakes. "I will go with you; I need to do it too." James said eating his toast. "Alright, James, I will meet you up there; bye everyone." Lily picked up her book bag and headed up to the library.

When she reached the library she went to look for a book that would help her write her essay. Lily walked down the rows of books until she reached the Potions area. Severus Snape stood half way down the aisle. Once, two years ago, he had been her best friend. It would have been he, not James that Lily would write her essays with. But, unfortunately, times, and people, change. Lily had broken off the friendship because Severus refused to give up his love of the Dark Arts and he had insulted her in front of a dozen people.

Lily sighed and walked down the aisle. Severus looked up when Lily was right beside him. "Hello, Lily" he muttered looking down at her. "Lo, Sev." Lily said as she started looking at various books. "Looking for something to help with Slughorns essay?" Severus asked as Lily looked. "Yes, James is meeting me here so we can do it together." Snapes face hardened at the mention of James. "Well, this book should help." Severus pulled a book of the shelf and handed it to Lily. "Thanks, Sev." Lily made to take the book but Severus held on to it.

Lily laughed "Sev in order for me to use the book, you have to let go." Severus stared down at Lily. "Why…" "LILY!" James had arrived at the end of the aisle. "Your book," Severus muttered letting go of the book. Severus swept past Lily and James and left the library. "So, shall we find a table?" James asked as Lily walked over to him. She nodded and James took her arm and steered her to a table near the high French windows. Lily sat and pulled parchment, a quill and a bottle of ink out, James did the same and the pair started to work. Two hours later Lily set aside her finished essay and looked at James. James was looking at her oddly. "What, James?" James laid his essay aside and looked at Lily.

"I have a proposition for you Lily…" "Yes?" "Well first off let me say, I still love you. Now the proposition, I want you to give me one week of your time. If at the end of the week you still like me only as a friend I will never ask you out again. If, however, you do like me as more then a friend next Sunday afternoon I want to take you out. One date. If you have a horrible time I will not ask you out again. We will not see our friends for a week. We will be each others best friend. Since every teacher in this school LOVES you, we will be each others partner in class. We will eat all of our meals just us with no outside parties interfering. We will tell each other everything, no matter how hard or embarrassing it is, because in a relationship people trust each other with all their secrets. This is my last resort to make you see the real me. It is only one week, Lily. What do you say?" James finished looking Lily in the eye.

Lily smiled "When will we tell our friends about this, because I don't know about yours, but mine will be pissed off if I ignore them for an entire week." James looked at his watch. "How about at lunch, which begins in about ten minutes?" "So the week actually starts…" "After lunch." "Alright, James give me all you've got. I hope this doesn't ruin our friendship." James looked shyly up at her. "Yes, James" "Well… since we are going to be together all week…would it be alright if I hold your hand… once in a while?" Lily laughed "Yes, James, if you want to I will not stop you." "And could I maybe…" "Kiss my cheek?" James looked shyly at the ground. "Yeah…" he muttered. "Yes, you may as long as we don't get in trouble for PDA from the teachers." James looked ecstatic. "Ok, Lily; let's go to lunch." The pair packed their bags and headed out the library doors. When they stepped into the corridor James took Lily's hand and kissed her cheek.

The pair arrived in the great hall and sat beside each other by their friends. "Ally, Frank, I won't be around this week." Lily said as she poured herself some pumpkin juice and grabbed a sandwich. "Why not" Alice asked. "James wants me to spend the entire week with him, no outside interference. Basically we will be attached at the hip. He won't be seeing his friends either." Alice smiled slightly "Ok, now why is he doing this?" "To try to get me to fall in love with him. I am doing it because he promised to leave me alone if I don't fall for him; I have nothing to lose and everything to gain." Lily finished her lunch and looked over to see James telling the Marauders about his plan. He is kinda cute I guess. Quidditch dose do wonders for him. Wait…what? Why am I thinking that? Because it is true. Concentrate Evans! James looked over at Lily as he finished his lunch. "Well, I guess we should go, we will see you in a week I guess." James said as he and Lily stood up.

Once out side the Great Hall, James took Lily's hand leading her outside. He pulled Lily over to a tree and sat beneath it pulling Lily with him. "So what to start with…Do you have any siblings?" James asked playing with Lily's hair. "One older sister, Petunia; But we really don't get on that well anymore." "Why not?" "She thinks I am a freak for being a witch. I think she is jealous. We used to be very close until I got my Hogwarts letter. Now we don't even talk. I miss it, I really do. Do you have any siblings?" James smiled slightly. "Kind of, but not really. You see, my parents took Sirius in when he ran away before sixth year. He doesn't get along with his family. They are, with the exception of Sirius and his cousin Andromeda, Voldemort supporters. The other two cousins Bellatrix and Narcissa and Sirius's little brother Regulas are all Death Eaters themselves. Sirius left the family and came to ours and my parents took him in as their own." James said still playing with Lily's hair. "I never knew that… poor Sirius."

The pair sat out on the grounds until they got hungry then went inside for dinner. "Any pets?" Lily asked as she ate. "One owl, you?" Lily smiled "My parents sent me a kitten for Christmas. She is so cute. I named her Holly." Down at the other end of the table the rest of their friends watched them interestedly. "They belong together…" Sirius muttered. "I agree, now if only Lily knew that…" Alice muttered back. After dinner Lily and James walked up into the head dorm where they played chess. "Checkmate…" Lily said with a yawn. "Bedtime." James said yawning as well. Lily walked to her stairs but found James holding onto her wrist. "James, what" James kissed her quickly on the lips and murmured "Night, Lily" Lily fell asleep that night with a smile on her face.

A/n: Expect Monday sometime tomorrow. Please Review!