jily headcanons bc i'm down bad for them
they started dating in their seventh year, about a quarter way through
lily had realized that she liked james at the end of sixth year
when she found out that he was head boy, she knew that he would do great job and be the perfect co-head
he actually apologized to her for dumbledore making her head duties difficult by making him her partner but lily encouraged him and gave him confidence that he would be an amazing head boy
being heads together made her fall deeper in love with james
the head boy and girl had their own private dormitories and a shared common room for them only
lily was the one who confessed first, albeitly drunk, bc she was madly in love but james didn't like her anymore (she thought)
she rambled that he didn't ask her to hogsmeade and instead took Miyah Hopkins, who actually seemed really nice, and then asked her out
james blushing hard bc here is the girl, who he is very much in love with, confessing to him and he isn't sure if its just the alcohol or genuine
lily then proceeding to fall asleep bc she doesn't want to hear james reject her and go kiss Miyah
(what she doesn't know that is james broke up with Miyah a week ago)
james carries lily back to the dorms and tucks her in to his bed since he can't go in to her room and he will not make her sleep on the couch especially when she's gonna wake up with a hangover
lily waking up and freaking out bc a) she can't remember if she did anything stupid last night bc she's never been a heavy drinker and b) why the hell is she in james's bed
her going to the common room and finding james asleep on the couch
sitting next to him and fighting the urge to kiss him run her fingers through his already messy hair
james waking up and finding lily staring at him
lily asks if she did anything dumb last night and james says that her and sirius serenaded everyone in the common room with their amazing and totally not off-key singing
at one point her and marlene started dancing on the table
then, "you told me you loved me"
james, panicking, starts saying how it's okay and that she was drunk and that they can forget all about it
but lily stares at him and realizes that this is it, she's already confessed so what's she got to lose
"i do like you james, a lot and i have for a long time now"
and then she starts rambling with "i know your dating Miyah and don't like me anymore but I really couldn't hold it in anymore and just needed to get it off my chest and you deserve to know"
selfishly she wants him to know and choose her
james just looks at with starry eyes, realizing that Lily Evans, the girl he's been in love for as long as he can remember, is confessing to him sober
"i broke up with Miyah a week ago and it's you Lily, it always been you"
lily kisses james with so much passion and all the stress and tension that has been weighing her down just rolls off her because james
james kisses back with equal fervency
it's all consuming and gravity-defying and more than anything either one of them could have imagined
"shut up and kiss me Potter"
This started as a headcanon and somehow devolved into how james and lily began dating. Do I regret it? Absolutely not ;)
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