She was afraid, so she left. He thought it was what she wanted, so he didn't run after her. Six months later she musters up the courage to tell him what she had left unsaid. L/J Oneshot AU.

"She smiled at me and I mentally cursed my stomach for doing little flips. After spending three months of being Just Friends with Lily Evans, my desire to be more than that had intensified. Yet, I reasoned, I'd rather be just her friend than nothing at all." L/J Oneshot.

"First you're apologizing to me and now you're asking me for help? Why, Evans, if you keep this up you might just get me thinking that I have a shot with you." For better or worse Lily attends a back-to-school party at the Potter's. L/J

Lily's voice was seething and her eyes were narrowed into slits, "You made a deal with James bloody Potter that you would tell him when I fancied him?" L/J Oneshot.