“Come on Moony, I can’t help it if all the girls in school want me.” He coughed and it sounded a lot like ‘more than Padfoot.' “Hey!” Sirius cried. “I resent that. No one can resist Sirius Black.” He winked at a pretty girl to his left to prove his point. She smiled and then ran into a pole because she forgot to watch where she was going. He glanced back over at James before smiling smugly at him and saying, "I win."

“You know, none of this would have happened if you had just gone out with me.” James stated unenthusiastically.  Lily glared at him, but he continued on: “We would probably be inside right now, snuggling on the couch or something of that sort.”

“If you don’t shut your mouth, then I will come over there and shut it for you!” Lily yelled in exasperation.

"God, Lils, how do you do it?”

“Do what?”

“Not shove all the hot guys after you up against a wall and shag them like a madwoman!?"

That was when Lily did something that shocked all of them. She didn’t go on a lecture about how dangerous or illegal that was, she didn’t slap either of them for doing something so stupid, and she didn’t even open her mouth to yell at them. She hugged him.

She. Hugged. Sirius. Black.

Kingsley looked at him in the most serious expression James had ever seen. “Because there’s obviously someone who’s already in love with her, and I’m not going to stand in the way of that.”

James smiled and turned his eyes towards something directly above them. She followed his gaze...

Mistletoe.

"You just—" James started, but was unable to finish.

Sirius rolled his eyes as James continued to gape at her. "What he means to say is that he never thought he would see the day that you took off your pants in front of him. Now let's go!"