Deer Diary || Jily

Year 1 III

Finishing her breakfast, but still with a queasy and slightly hungry stomach, Lily made her way to her first class of the day, when she heard the pattering of footsteps behind her.

Turning around, she saw James running towards her.

"Evans!"

"Yes, Potter?" Lily asked, not completely unkindly.

James held out something wrapped in a napkin and offered it to her.

Lily looked at it and then back at him. "Is this a trap? Are you taking my advice of not pranking the Slytherins and are pranking me instead?"

James sighed, ruffling his hair. "Just take it, Evans."

Lily reached out carefully and took the napkin. When she unwrapped it, she saw it was a piece of—

"Treacle tart." Lily held it up to her nose and smelled the heavenly scent of lemony sweet goodness. "These are my favorite!"

"I know." James grinned. "I saved the last one for you."

Lily looked at him in surprise. "But you hardly got any! I can't take it." She tried giving it back.

"It's fine, Evans. Really. It would make me lot happier if you had it. Think of it as an apology for coming five minutes late to detention and having us miss dinner."

Lily and James both knew that even if James did come on time, they still would have missed dinner by a long shot, but neither decided to bring that up.

"Are you sure you want me to have your last sweet?"

"I am absolutely positive."

Lily pursed her lips, but her desire to try the sweet took over and she took a bite. "Holy Merlin, this is amazing!"

Maybe James wasn't so bad after all, she was kind of starting to like him as a person. That's strange...

James proudly said, "I knew you'd like it," then he grinned sneakily, "And it was laced with love potion so now you have to go out with me."

"What?" Lily shrieked and tried to spit out whatever treacle tart she still had in her mouth.

"I'm just kidding, Lilykins." James held his hands to his stomach as he laughed. "But I had you going for a second, didn't I? Now that would have been an epic prank."

"You complete arse!" She smacked him. "You made me spit out the most wonderful dessert in the world because I thought you poisoned me!"

"Relax, Evans!" James tried to shrink away from Lily's arms, "My mum will send more over later! I would never forcefully make you fall in love with me. That just takes the fun out of it. But pranking you, I didn't even think about it until you reminded me."

Lily crossed her arms and stepped back. "I didn't like that prank," she stated bluntly.

"Then I'll have to try better next time."

"You do that," Lily harrumphed and made her way to her next class leaving a happy James in her wake, still laughing at his own joke.

When Lily sat at her seat and waited for class to start, she took out her journal and began writing.

***

Deer Journal,

Get it? Deer? Like dear, but deer the animal. I don't know. Potter has gotten deer into my head lately.

Honestly, Potter, in general, has been stuck in my head lately and it's so annoying!

I had detention with him yesterday. I won't get into the details, but ugh, I was so hungry and that made me get into a bad mood and then Potter was being Potter making me into get into an even bigger bad mood! And then I didn't even get dinner.

Speaking of food. Potter had a lot of food today at breakfast, and he shared it with everyone. Even me. Which I kind of wasn't expecting him to do.

It was really nice of him. I mean, he's still annoying and dumb, but I guess he's not as spoiled as I thought he was. He cares for his friends and he even invited Black over to live with him cause Black's parents are absolute trash.

So what I'm really trying to say is that my seventh reason why I hate Potter is now declared null and void.

Lily flipped to the page with the list of her reasons and dragged her finger down to the last reason and crossed it out.

—7—.—H-e-'-s—a—s-p-o-i-l-e-d—b-r-a-t—

Then she went back to her latest journal entry and continued writing.

This doesn't mean anything though! Even though James may not be as spoiled as I thought, there are still plenty of other reasons why he's a horrible person!

Trust me, I have 6 more reasons why I hate James Potter. And those reasons aren't going away anytime soon.