#modern jily

[grassreads]

"James?"

"Yeah?"

"This thing..between us. What does it mean?"

"Forever. It means forever."

[potter-ing]

jily modern au

- I was trying to read in the park and your stray football fucking knocked me unconscious.

This didn't turn out nearly as angry as the prompt makes it sound but sure look it.

Lily has routines, she has certain things she does on certain days and life's good like that, it flows.

She has classes four days a week and work five, her and Remus do lunch dates on Wednesdays after her weekly park bench read and before her 2pm lecture, they have a game night with Alice and Frank every Friday and she goes back to her parents house every second Sunday for tea.

Sure it could seems boring doing the same things all the time, and sometimes it is, especially with her little free time. But it works and she likes that it works. Of course having spontaneous moments is fun, and she still has plenty, but having a structure to her life brings her a sense of freedom she hadn't expected, deciding what she's gonna do and planning it empowers her in a way winging it just doesn't. Sometimes though, spontaneity makes it's way into her routine.

Like now, where instead of reading on her favourite park bench in her favourite park, waiting on remus to finish work so they can get lunch and chat shit, she's lying with her face smushed into the ground. Grass and muck already leaving an imprint on her cheek. Green and brown staining her palms.

She distantly hears someone cursing as she's turning over. She's still sitting on the bench, but flat on the ground. A hand pops out in front of her and she instinctively grabs it, gets pulled up into a firm chest and trips up, almost knocks them both over but is steadied by the firm hands that helped her up. She looks up and all she can think is fuck, he's gorgeous. Because of course he is. She meets the most attractive human being in the history of humankind when she's just been knocked on the floor, grass in her hair and on her face. Of fucking course.

Lily blinks up at him slowly and manages a "huh?" before he's got his phone out and is going on about calling an ambulance, just in case she's brain damaged. It's kinda cute, meaning really fucking cute, how frazzled he seems. But she really doesn't need an ambulance and hearing the word wakes her from her daze."No, it's fine. I really don't need one. Seriously." She adds the seriously in when he looks at her all unsure, concerned and adorable but after hearing her say it he just smiles an almost laugh and says, "If you say so, but I at least need to make sure you're alright then. And if you're not too mad, bring you out for dinner. As an apology for almost killing you."

"An apology for almosy killing me?! What're you on about?" She asks it while rubbing grass off her face and clothes and really, she's not always this much of a mess in front of cute boys.

"Hitting you." He says, "with my football, it's, eh, why you got knocked back, I was just mucking about with my mate over there and kicked it a bit far off. And a bit hard." She looks over to where he's pointing, sees a man with long hair lying on the grass with a football by his side and a dog on his stomach and says, "yeah it's a bit far off alright."

He blushes at that and you can barely see it under his dark skin but she's really fucking close and when he chuckles she can picture herself describing it all to Remus later, how she can almost feel the vibrations from it through the ground and how his face crinkles when he's smiling after laughing. She can also picture Remus making fun of her for it but that would happen no matter what she said.

"Yeah well, I might've been a bit distracted." he says it like Lily should know what he's talking about. She doesn't.He bends down and picks her book up off the floor, flicking through it he says, "We Should All Be Feminists? I've been meaning to read that after seeing the TED talk, how is it?" He hands the book to her and when their hands brush Lily truly hates how affected she is, she can feel a blush rising and really hopes the bits of grass still on her face cover it."I was expecting it to just be the TED talk in print honestly, but it actually goes alot more in depth into why we should be feminists now and how important it is, it's pretty fucking great." She would normally go on and on about the books she's reading but she suddenly remembers she should be meeting up with Remus soon, she goes to say goodbye when he starts talking again.

"So dinner then? as a sorry for almost killing you." His smile is one he clearly knows is charming but she can still see that he's nervous. She says yes, of course, and they swap numbers so they can sort something out later on. When he's walking away his friend looks up, waves at Lily, all dramatic and cheeky, and laughs at him. She turns around, picks her bag up off the bench and thinks, Remus will love this.

It's not until she's on her way to see Remus that she realises she never got football boy's name, she pulls out her phone and checks her recently added contacts and at the very top of the list is

💕The Love of my Life, James Potter💕

She can't help but both laugh and blush and be annoyed at herself for both.

[rjolie]

Modern Jily AU:  Post-Argument

Lily: Shut it, Elsa

James: Elsa?...Why Elsa?

Lily: Because you're on thin ice right now!

[read-a-jily-fic]

Hey! Do u have any modern jily fic recs?

OMG I DO!! About a ton of them and it’s going to take me a little bit of time to put them all together so just stay right there anon.