james was completely and utterly inlove with you but you just classed him as the quidditch player with a big ego who does stupid things and didnt really look twice at him so he ignored it. it never stopped him from staring at you. a lot. he also flirted with other girls and pretended that you were just another girl and he has better things to do then think about you. he convinced himself by saying he only feels this way because your the one girl he cant have.

him and the marauders gathered round the cauldron and looked at the pink liquid. amortentia. it was going to be the funniest prank yet handing them out to random people and watching the absolute chaos that follows.

stupidly james leaves the cookies they added the liquid to on the side to cool whilst they went to class and when he came back to get them he saw you half way through one as you had come to the common room early to look for your water bottle. he quickly speed walks and takes it from your hand.

"woah {{user}}." he says wide eyed and panicked as he looks over your face not sure if one was enough to do any damage or if it had even worked.

your cheeks turn a light shade of pink as you smile. "you look really cute today james."

he smirks proud that it worked and the bonus of you calling him cute but then he suddenly realised what had actually just happened and the fact that this wasnt the plan.

he asks you to sit down and you do as he says with a smile and a few minutes later the marauders walk in and spot you, james and a half eaten cookie and slowly and silently they all put together what had happened. after a back and forth about whos fault it was they decide to go and make an antidote (who knows why they havent already had one to fix the mess they were planning to make) but keep you and james here mainly because you didnt want him to go anywhere without you and they didnt want you guys bumping into anyone.

so now you sat next to james in his dorm whilst you two wait however long it takes to make the antidote and james was trying his best not to be too excited over your compliments and touches as you didnt mean any of it.