{ before you read friends just like to put a disclaimer that this idea was NOT mine but has been circling around tumblr for a while. I think the original poster of it was 'propercy'. So in case anyone claims I stole it. Other than that the writing is all mine :). Enjoy }

Lily couldn't believe she was stuck with him. Gobsmacked. Shocked. Dumbfounded. Annoyed? Moping in her misery. It was one of the first potion testings of the year and she's paired up with him! Why was the world out to get her?

She was staring at the empty cauldron in pity, feeling sorry for herself.

"Merlin Lily, i'm not that bad am I? I thought we were friends." James teased.

"We both know you're only even here so you can be an Auror." Lily snapped, completely not in the mood. "If you could, you'd be out of here before you could say Quidditch."

James shrugged.

"Maybe so, but I still have to pass to be an auror don't I? It's not like i'm not going to try." He added.

Lily blinked. She supposed he had a point but every other year with every other project she'd been stuck with him with he'd messed about and flirted with her the whole bloody time. It was their last year though, perhaps he'd pull his act together, he'd been doing that a lot lately. James Potter and his stupid ambitions.

She glanced over at the dark haired boy who had began scanning the instructions, a crease in his forehead became prominent. James Potter had ambitions, huh.

James caught her eye before she could look away. He flashed her a cheeky smile.

"Are you going to help me... or?"

Lily couldn't help a faint blush appear on her cheeks. She brushed it off with quick roll of her eyes. Two could play at this game.

She swished her wand lazily, allowing the fire to start to begin warming the cauldron.

"I am helping." Attempting to sound as innocent as possible. He just flashed her a large smile.

"Brilliant. Get the Ashwinder eggs from the potions cupboard will you?" He asked, turning his focus back to the potion at hand. Lily huffed and made her way towards the cupboard, cursing dark haired, quidditch obsessed teenage wizard's all the way.

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This was almost impossible. Why couldn't he read the simple instructions? Instead he had to try a way to get around them, make the process quicker.

"James, you have to use a wooden spoon okay? It simply doesn't work with the metal one. It'll flake off into the potion!" Lily groaned. Seriously loosing her patience as her hair was getting frizzier all the time. "Look we're nearly done, just do it like it says, okay?" Lily softened her voice, trying to reason with him.

"But look how much smaller the wooden one is, it'll take half the time with the metal." James whined, shoving two spoons in Lily's face. She narrowed her eyes and shoved the spoons away once more.

"Thats. Not. The. Point." She sighed.
"Who cares?" James said, in a lame attempt to defend himself. Lily was exasperated. She sighed once more.

"Look. Do you want it done right? Or quickly? Pass or fail?" Lily decided a whack up the side of his head would do good. Messing up his hair while doing so. It kinda looked cute like that actually....

Now she felt like whacking herself on the head. Focus.

"Geez Evans, you'd be a good teacher you know." James said, remorsefully putting the large spoon down and picking up the small one. He began stirring the pot clockwise. "Just 185 turns to go..."

Lily rolled her eyes. Potions was definitely not James's strong point.

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Lily was drifting off into nothingness as she watched James lazily stir the potion. Her thoughts and intoxicatingly smells drifting around her pulling her into daydreams.

"One hundred and fifty two.... One hundred and fifty three..."

"Five minutes left class!" Slughorn yelled from his desk. This got Lily's attention, as well as James. They both bolted up as if they'd just been awoken from a deep sleep.

"Hurry Hurry." Lily said, realising they weren't even nearly done. James's stirring became ridiculously fast and he was done in an instant. "I hope you counted that properly." Lily worried.

"I did." James snapped, sick of her contradicting his every move.

"Whatever. Quickly, help me chop up these rose thorns.'

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They had approximately a minute left and they'd only just thrown in the last ingredient. Which left them about thirty seconds to attempt to fix any mistakes they'd made.

James peered into the cauldron.

"Is it meant to be this... pink?" He questioned, seeming generally curious. Lily rolled her eyes.

"Of course, it's Amortentia you idiot." Lily replied. James threw his hands up in defense.

"Just checking." He glanced back up at Lily. "Shall we?"

She clutched her heart dramatically.

"We shall." They both leaned in, ready to inhale the intoxicating smell of amortentia.

They both inhaled.

Nothing.

"Well, I can't smell a damn thing!" He cried. Falling back into his chair through defeat.

Lily looked gobsmacked.

"Impossible! I'm sure I got this right." She argued.

"Well obviously not." James replied.

"Perhaps if you'd been more careful with your stirring." She contradicted.

"What about you wasting precious time to mope about being stuck with me and how horrible I am." James snapped. "Maybe then we'd have actually had time to check our progress?"

"Well perhaps I could actually smell something if you didn't use bucketloads of that stupid conditioner this morning." Lily said, trying to lower her voice to not bring so much attention to their work bench. Although it was in vein because she could already see Sirius smirking out of the corner of eye. Git. Did he think this was a joke?

James however, didn't seem fazed by the growing pair of eyes pointed on them.

"I wouldn't be the one to talk, the amount of rose perfume you're wearing is giving me an asthma attack." He replied curtly.

"Oh come on James, I ran out of that perfume a week ago!" Lily pointed.

"Yeah well, I didn't even wash my hair this morning because Sirius was hogging the bloody bathroom!"

Lily's eyes widened and her face fell. James seemed to still not put two and two together.

Slughorn had arrived at their table in no time. Clearly hearing the squabble from the other side of the classroom.

"What's all this fuss about?" He glanced at Lily and James who both didn't seem to be able to speak. Slughorn raised an eyebrow. "Yes, a questionable pair as I thought. All the same, your potion must be checked." He leaned forward to take a sniff. His face relaxed.

"Ah yes, fresh lemons." He looked. "Perfectly brewed as always miss Evans." He congratulated before moving on towards the next bench.

Lily still seemed frozen. James still looked confused.

"I think old Sluggy's off his rocker. All I can smell is your perfume still, how is it the potion is-" Something struck on James's face. "Oh," was all he managed to mutter.

Sirius couldn't contain his laughter anymore. He exploded into a fit of 'manly' giggles.
"You should really thank me for spending extra time on my hair this morning Prongs or we'd never had found out how Evans felt about you."

After waiting a few moments of silence. Sirius tried again, this time waving a hand in front of his best mates face.

"Oi Evans, I think you broke James."

She couldn't help but laugh.

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