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A young girl named Lily Evans.
A young boy named Severus Snape.
Where the poorer section of Britain butted up against a more decent area.........
It started out as a meeting, then it grew into a conversation, then a brief walk along a small creek.
Quickly, that walk turned into a daily routine.
Lily and Severus became the best of friends.
Lily could do things that no one else around her could and that isolated her from her sister and her parents.
Magical things......
But Severus understood.
Severus taught Lily, guided Lily, and showed Lily how to use her abilities.
When they reached the age of ten, Severus and Lily started the same school on the same day, together.
"Come on, the Great Hall is this way, I believe." Severus said to Lily, carrying her trunk along with his own as they made their way through the crowd at Hogwarts.
"Alright, thank you, Severus. Lead the way." Lily replied.
A small smirk lit up Severus's black eyes.
Severus was too young to really understand what he felt, but even in that moment, Severus Snape felt that he would gladly lead Lily Evans anywhere she wanted to go.
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Lily and Severus remained friends through their formative school days, until the fifth year of their magical education.
The age of fifteen is a confusing time in anyone's life.
Filled with hope and despair, angst and wonder, like all of the other teenage years.
Things are no different in the wizarding world.
People begin to choose their paths.......
At fifteen, Lily was focusing on her school work while Severus was busy trying to secure a future for himself.
.......and his beloved Lily.
Unfortunately, for someone of humble means and little social skill like Severus, that meant falling in with the worst people.
A powerful evil promised pitiful Severus power, wealth, and status.
Those were the things that Severus thought he would need for Lily to look at him as........
As a boy, not just a friend.
The tension between Severus and Lily grew everyday.
As much as Lily expressed her dislike for Severus's new "interests", it was an unspoken wish between them.
What if.........
What if something.......What if Severus and Lily weren't just friends anymore?
Severus was reluctant to address the subject.
Severus had marveled silently, secretly, at Lily for years but he was apprehensive about telling her so.
Suppose Lily rejected him......their friendship would never be the same if it were not ruined completely.
Suppose Lily accepted him.....as lovely as that would be, things still wouldn't be the same.
And then that terrible day happened.........
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