Just another jily fanfic

Chapter 5

Lily's POV
The first day of classes went by fairly dull for Hogwarts standards, with only 1 student sent to madam Pomfry during care of magical creatures and 1 prank on Slytherin table during lunch. I finished out my day with potions and transfiguration and went down to the library to start on the homework from those classes.

You would think with it being the first day back and all Mcgonagall would take it easy on us, but unless an 8 inch essay on human transfiguration was the new definition of easy, apparently she thought better.  So there I sat in the library working at my usual table tucked away in the corner. Working in my essay until I had dinner and patrols when James came over and plopped in the chair next to me, dropping his book bag on the floor next to him.
"Evans how can they do it? First day back and we've got essays for Mcgonagall and Slughorn with a diagram for Sprout."
" You do realize that this is a school right? And that at schools, people learn and do work...like homework. For their classes." I said sarcastically. He made a face at me as he stretched and slouched deeper into his chair.
"Why are you here, by the way? Don't you have to be stupid somewhere else?"
"Not until 6" he replied with a wink. I shook my head as I turned back to my work but smiled all the same. This was one of the things I liked best about James. His wit. He was always ready with a comeback or a sarcastic comment or somethings of the sort. Of course years of arguing with me has helped him improve his skill significantly so I should be given some of the credit.

James POV
I watch her smile and shake her head as she goes back to her sheet of parchment. Merlin I love her smile. I reach for my bag and pull out my own roll of parchment to get started on my essay. I barely get my name and the first sentence down on the paper when I realize I won't be getting much done just now. She is sitting right next to me. I can hear her quill scratching on the parchment as she writes and I can smell her perfume or shampoo or whatever that intoxicating, distinctly Lily smell is that I have come to adore over the years. I look up and see her bent over her paper writing quickly, stopping occasionally to look at her text book or to dip her quill in the ink pot sitting to her left. A piece of her long, red hair falling into her face every time she moves. It takes all of my strength not to reach over and tuck it back behind her ear before she can get to it. I had decided last year that it was better to be her friend than nothing, and I have stuck strictly to that. For the most part. It's moments like this when I find it the hardest to bite my tongue and not tell her how desperately in love I am with her. When we're just together, with her being Lily and me being James. It's when we're doing nothing special that I remember how much I love her and how amazing she is even when we are doing nothing at all, just homework. Or pretending to I'm my case. I guess that strand of hair was too much for her to handle, because she puts down her quill and gathers all of her hair and ties it into a know at the nape of her neck, keeping it all out of her face. Focus James. I shake my head slightly and get back to work, because now is not the time to be staring at Lily.

Lily's POV
I see something move out of the courier of my eye and turn to see James shaking his head and   resuming his work. He puts one hand in his untamed hair and clenches his jaw while he works, effectively making him one of the only things I could think of at the moment. That was until I saw someone walk behind him to sit down at a table a few rows across. I looked like a seventh year. There was no way he could be anything else. But I knew all the seventh years, even the Slytherins. And how could I not know him? He was gorgeous!! Tall with hair that could either be called light brown or dark blond, mesmerizing dark blue eyes, and a jawline to kill. I nudged James with my foot.
"Who's that?" I asked nodding my head in his direction.
"Grayson something. He was the new kid Dumbledore was talking about, remember?"
"Well obviously not or I wouldn't be asking you." He rolled his eyes but quickly looked back over to the new kid. Or Grayson as I should call him.
"Why do you ask?"
"Just curious. I though I knew all the seventh years. I wonder if h-" I was promptly cut off by Sirius sprawling himself dramatically across James.
"James I just can't do any more of this 'school' stuff today. Let's go do something fun. Oh hello Lilypad." He added as an after thought.
"Hello Black" I said with a quick smile his way before I went back to work. I'd written maybe one sentence before I heard James exclaim rather loudly for a library,
"That is a terrible, horrible, incredibly foolish idea!" I started to smile with pride thinking that Remus and I had finally gotten some sense into him. But it was short lived because not two seconds later I heard,
"Let's try it and see what happens."
I let my head fall into the table making a loud bang.
"I think you broke Evans." Sirius stated
"Lily I promise yo-"
"Potter I really don't want to know. Jut please don't get caught doing whatever it is you are going to do and be back I time for patrols. I think I'm past the point of caring."
He flashed me his signature smile before shoving his roll of parchment into his bag and running off with Sirius. I gave a small laugh and went back to my paper. I would never admit it but I had learned to look forward to whatever pranks they decided to pull. They had a tendency to be slightly brilliant.
"I'm sorry but your Lily right? The head girl? I'm Grayson Cole. Professor Slughorn said I should ask you if I had any questions on how to do the homework." He said. My brain took an extra 5 seconds to comprehend what he was saying because let's face it. He was hot. Like top 5 hottest people I had ever seen hot. And he seemed intelligent. And kind. And hold up Lily you didn't even know his name until 7 seconds ago.
"Um sure. Take a seat, let's see what's up." I said with a smile, that he returned. Merlin he is gorgeous when he smiles.

A/N
HEY SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN FOREVER!! But this one 1190 words not including this so hopefully that will make up for it. So NEW CHARACTER COMMENT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!! Thanks for reading!