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First Times
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Chapter 1- Seeing

The first time James saw Lily Evans was when they were both eleven years old and she was telling her parents goodbye on Platform 9 and 3/4

He could vaguely recall what she was wearing, some sort of blue dress and white flats with her long red hair braided back into two pony tails on either side of her head.

At that time, he was just another eleven year old boy. He wasn't popular as yet, he wasn't sorted as yet and he certainly wasn't obsessed with a one Lily Evans as yet. Back then at eleven, boys did not understand a thing about the opposite sex, nor did they ever want to. To them girls were completely different in every way, shape and form. They had progressed further than the cooties part, but they still hadn't reached the part where the hormones kicked in and they wouldn't be able to focus on anything except for the members of the female sex.

But moving away from semantics, that was the first time he saw Lily Evans. He just brushed her off as another random face.

But, the first time James Potter actually saw Lily Evans was not until the beginning of third year.

It would happen after their summer break and everyone was back on the platform chatting happily with friends as they boarded the train.

James and the rest of the Marauders were in their usual compartment. Remus was reading, Sirius and Peter were playing Snap and James was staring out their window, lost in his own world. The four boys had gone through growth spurts during the summer so now James looked lankier than ever.

Suddenly, their compartment door sprung open and, out of the corner of his eye he saw a flash of red. Lily Evans.

James and Lily had never really talked in their past two years unless it was about Lily reprimanding James for doing something to Snivellus, so James could not say that they knew each other well save for the fact that she was very quick and witty.

So when James saw that one flash of red, he turned around, sharp retort on the tip of his tongue, only to be frozen in shock.

It seems that not only the Marauders had grown during the past summer.

Lily was dressed in a simple pair of muggle jeans and a light yellow shirt. James could see that she had also gone through a growth spurt and seemed to be at least four inches taller than the last time he saw her. In fact, she was probably very close to being the same height as him with only a few inches difference. But that wasn't the thing that stopped James in his tracks and made his mouth go dry. No, it was her still developing figure. She was always a bit thin, having next to no curves at all, but now… now James was raking his eyes over her form. She had a small but define pinch at her waist, before it opened back out in to her hips. The was also a noticeable bulge at her chest, and his eyes may have lingered they a tad bit longer than necessary, but the poor bloke was in shock.

It was only after Lily Evans cleared her throat softly did his eyes finally snap back to hers. He vaguely wondered in the back of his mind if Lily Evans had emeralds for eyes, but then quickly dismissed the thought as he was beginning to sound like a right ponce.

"I'm sorry, I thought this compartment was empty," she muttered blushing. Her cheeks looked like little roses when she did that…

James shook his head to rid himself of all the girl like thoughts. He was a man for Merlin's sake, granted he was only thirteen, but still! Not to mention he was a Marauder. He shouldn't be thinking like that in the first place. Especially about Lily Evans. Boys like him weren't even supposed to go in detail about her eyes or how her hair was fiery red, but a few strands glinted gold in the sunlight- Gah! He needs to stop sounding like a bloody poet. The only adjectives he should be using to describe a girl were fit, hot and good looking.

"You could stay here if you want to," he blurted out. He mentally cursed himself. What in the name of Merlin's wand was he thinking inviting Lily Evans, the same Lily Evans that tattled on him who knew how many times, to spend and eight hour train ride with him and his friends?

Apparently, the other Marauders thought the same thing. Remus's mouth hung open in shock, Peter nearly fell off his seat and Sirius shot him a look that clearly stated that something was wrong with his best mates sanity and he best ship him off to St. Mungo's immediately. Even Lily bloody Evans stared at him in shock before shaking her head and politely replying, "I- I'm sorry. I can't. I'll just go find one of my friends or something."

As she made to shut the door, James yelled, "Hey Evans!"

She whipped around, red hair flying like the tail of a comet.

Dammit! He was doing it again! Remember James, you are a boy. You don't use similes and metaphors to describe a girl's sodding hair! You just say her hair flew around her. How bloody hard is it to say that?

"Yes?" she asked sceptically, looking at James as though he was about to pie her in the face. Which, given his previous reputation, it was entirely probable.

"Relax Evans; I'm not going to hurt you," James said, rolling his eyes.

"Then what did you want?"

"To tell you that you look good Evans," he said, running a hand through his hair, a nervous habit of his.

To say that she looked shocked would be an understatement.

She was positively gobsmacked.

She didn't notice Remus's book falling to the ground with a clatter, or Peter actually sliding off his chair this time around nor even when Sirius threw a wad at paper at his best friend's head and started mumbling about Polyjuice potion and St. Mungo's.

After recovering from her initial shock, Lily Evans blushed the brightest shade of red James Potter has ever seen.

"Oh… I- um- t- thank you… I guess," she stuttered. She left the compartment, banging her hand on the door before closing it.

After she left, Sirius jumped on his best mate.

"What the bloody hell was that all about?" he asked.

"Nothing," James said, blushing slightly from all their stares.

"That wasn't 'nothing' James," Remus said, picking back up his book. "You flat out stared at the girl for nearly five minutes!"

"I did not," he said, crossing his arms over his chest. "Pete, back me up here. Tell them that I did not stare at Evans for five minutes."

"Er…" Peter scratched the back of his neck awkwardly, "Remus and Sirius actually have a point mate. You did kind of check her out."

"See!" Sirius said triumphantly, wagging a finger. "Three against one! You can't deny it any more, Jamie boy!"

"Don't call me Jamie boy!" James protested, sounding sulky. "And fine; if you want to know what's the big deal, it's just that she looks different."

Sirius snorted. "Well yeah. You expected her to stay as the annoying little pipsqueak for all her life?"

Well yeah, sort of.

James never took into consideration that his rival might eventually grow up and look… well, fit.

James remembered mumbling something or the other to the boys, which pacified them for the time being. Remus went back to his book, Sirius and Peter went back to playing Snap and James went back to staring out the window, except this time a little red head with green eyes kept running through his mind for the entire train ride.

Hello lovelies! This is going to be a multi chapter fic. It's not in chronological order, because sometimes I may forget something that was supposed to be before and add it in after. Each chapter is an entirely different story by itself, all pertaining to Lily and James, from James's POV. It is going to be shorter than I'm accustomed writing, but these are drabbles.

Hope you liked it. Review please, even if it's just to criticize me. At least then I'll know what to work on.

~twilightstargazer