"You're mother hates me!" James cried, tugging on his hair whilst Lily chopped some carrots. "Your father hates me too!" He dragged his hands down his face as he groaned with annoyance. "Your sister definitely hates me." Lily sighed, rolling her shoulders before turning and levelling the knife at his chest.

"Sit down." He plopped himself onto the nearest chair, eyes wide and staring at the blade that was now being waved in his direction. "Drink some tea and calm yourself. My parents do not hate you."

"You didn't say anything about your sister."

"Oh no, Petunia definitely does hate you." James made a strangled noise of distress which she promptly ignored. "She hates me too so we're in the same boat. And could you blame them if they did hate you? You first greeted them when you were eleven, telling them that we were going to get married one day and the next time that you meet them, you're pinning me against a pillar as you snog the living daylights out of me."

James smirked at that particular moment, one that had only occurred this afternoon as they got off of the train for Easter holidays. She'd been teasing him all journey home and he was lucky that they only saw them kissing because he was close to just taking her there and then, regardless of who saw.

"I don't want them to hate me." James whispered and Lily looked over, smiling softly at him. "I want them to like me so that when I ask your father if I can propose to you, he'll say yes straight away and not try to get rid of me."

Marriage had been brought up in their conversations a lot of the time at the moment and every time, it made her heart skip a beat and her heart flutter.

"Well, meeting the Evans family is just going to be a lot of work for you, isn't it James? I mean, you have to redeem yourself for violating my fathers 'innocent little angel' and making everyone in my family like you. Are you up for the challenge?"

A challenge? How could James Potter refuse? "Game on."

Written for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Prompts: "Your mother hates me!" and 'tea'