Winter Wonderland

Summary: The Evan family decides to spend Christmas at a muggle ski resort. Lily is thrilled until everything starts going wrong, and she some how ends up snowed in a cabin with her classmate, James Potter.

"Isn't this place just absolutely gorgeous?" Mrs. Evans exclaimed leading her family into the ski resort's main lobby and out of the cold. It had just begun snowing again. It had stopped and started three times on the way up here, and Lily Evans could not wait to warm herself by the main fire place while Mr. Evans check them in.

Unfortunately to Lily's disappointment, the fire was nearly dead and putting off very little heat. She sighed pulling her winter coat tightly around her body. She had been looking forward to this trip for a long time. It was a chance to get away from her busy 6th year at Hogwarts; an even better chance to spend time with her family, but it seemed her and Petunia had been fighting more and more every day.

The trip up here had been a complete disaster. Mrs. Evans announced, as they pulled out of their driveway, the radio was to stay off so they could catch up on things going on in Lily's life. As you can imagine, this did not go well with Petunia. Apparently she had grown even fonder of being the only child around the house, and felt jealous when her mother's attention turned to Lily.

Lily, for one, could careless what bothered Petunia, but Mrs. Evans seemed to jump at her eldest daughter's every command. Five minutes into the trip Petunia declared Lily's life dull and demanded the radio be turned on. Mrs. Evan attempted to continue their conversation over the radio, but Petunia began to sing. The more they talked, the louder she sung. Finally Mrs. Evans sighed in defeat before turning around to help Mr. Evans navigate.

Lily, prepared like always, pulled out her current book and began reading. About halfway up the mountain Petunia decided she also wanted to read. Lily, thrilled they might have something in common, eagerly showed Petunia every book she brought along minus her school books. Petunia observed all the books before deciding she wanted to read the one in Lily's hand.

Lily groaned, "But it's just getting to the good part. How about reading one of the others until I get done with this one?"

"You've had that book the entire time. Don't they teach you to share in that dumb witch school of yours?"

Lily gripped her book tighter, "As a matter of a fact they don't. You learn that in Kindergarten. You of all people should know that since you took kindergarten twice!"

Petunia gasped, "You know perfectly well that my teacher was absolutely horrid. She couldn't even teach me to write."

Lily resisted the urge to laugh in Petunia's face. She knew alright. She knew Petunia never full learned to write her first name until her first year of elementary school. "Besides," Petunia continued, "You know I had a little trouble."

"That's not all your troubles!" Lily blurted, not being able to hold it in anymore. She was sick of Petunia always making fun of her school and claim Lily would never learn the things Petunia learns at college.

"Lily Evans!" Her mother scolded her, "Now I know you're upset, but really...that's no reason to poke fun at your sister."

"But..."

Lily's father jumped not allowing his daughter to object to Mrs. Evan's scolding, "No buts, young lady. I've just about had it with the both of you. Let Petunia read a while then you can read later." Thus Petunia won again.

They argued at least three more times before they reached their destination. Each and every time her parents sided with Petunia, and Lily had to give up something. Now that the car ride was over Lily was eager to get away from Petunia.

"Ok, Girls," Mr. Evans called out earning Lily's attention, "Your mother and I will be in room B1, and you two will be in B2."

Petunia groaned, and Lily's eyes widened. No, No, No! She had completely forgotten she'd be sharing a room with Petunia all winter break. This was just bloody awful! Lily had been so excited when her parents had owled her saying they were going to spend Christmas in a ski lodge. Now it seemed like Christmas break would never end.

Petunia quickly snatched their keys from Mr. Evans's hand. She turned to Lily. She was smiling her normal smile that seemed sweet to everyone but Lily. Lily knew it meant an argument was about to take place. Quite frankly, Lily had had enough of Petunia's stupid arguments and was beginning to see why everyone always gave into her without fighting.

"When you go get your stuff, will you pick up my bags? It's only two small little old bags. You should have no trouble carrying them. I'll make sure the room is ok and fix places for our stuff."

Since it was only two bags, Lily decided she might as well go get them. Maybe if she played nice with Petunia, the girl would ease up a bit. When Lily reached the car she immediately regretted telling Petunia yes. Those two little old bags turned out to be two gigantic trunks. She looked around trying to find her Dad, but he was nowhere in sight.

How in the world was she supposed to carry these in? If only there weren't so many muggles around. She could easily levitate these trunks. Instead, she had to do it the hard way. Luckily they had handles so she could drag them.

She got them about halfway through the main lobby before having to drop them to rest. She didn't even get to carry in her bags! It turns out she had packed less things then Petunia, and that's including all of her books. Lily sighed, sitting on her sister's trunk.

At least the main fire had been started back up. She looked over at it. When she turned her head something, or rather someone caught her eye. A person was staring at her over the top of a magazine. A Quidditch magazine to be exact.

The magazine dropped, and a familiar face started at her. "You know Evans, no matter how good looking I am, it's not polite to stare."

James Potter. The James Potter from Hogwarts. She and James had a past. Well, not a dating past, but a past. Back in first year, James had told his best friend, Sirius Black that Lily was beautiful. Sirius had cleverly found a way to announce it to the entire school. Lily was so embarrassed she rarely spoke to James that year.

Of course, by the end of their fifth year, James had gone through tons of girlfriends. Each one lasting about a month before he got bored with her. So Lily never thought of James in a romantic way. He was obviously a play boy at heart. Lily didn't need a crush on someone who would break her heart without a second thought.

James, on the other hand, was always hitting on Lily. Any chance he got to make a sexual comment or innuendo, he did it. Of course, it was all play. When it came down to it, James found some other girl to snog in the Astronomy Tower, and he seemed happy with that. So Lily did her best to ignore his stupid comments.

"Hello, James."

"Hello, Lily," James mocked her, "How are you on this bright beautiful day?"

Lily rolled her eyes. "Just wonderful." She stated flatly.

"Lily! Lily! Lily, where are you?" Petunia's loud voice carried all the way a crossed the main lobby. Lily watched Petunia rush over to where she and James were standing. "Lily, there you are. I was wondering what was taking so long with my bags. Are you too weak to carry them?"

Lily's jaw clenched, "No, Petunia. I was just stopping to check and make sure you didn't forget the kitchen sink when you packed." James chuckled at Lily's sarcasm. As much as Lily hated it, it kind of gave her a since of self respect being able to make him laugh.

Petunia turned and flashed a huge smile in James's direction, "Oh, Hello. I didn't see you, and I'm guessing my rude sister would never introduce us." She extended her hand for James to shake.

"You're right about that." Lily mumbled.

Being a flirt, James kissed the top of her hand instead of shaking it before saying, "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm James Potter, A classmate of Lily's."

The smile slightly fell off Petunia's face, "Oh well, its nice meeting you, but Lily and I must be going. I have to unpack and we must discuss our sleeping arrangements. I do not wish to share a bed with her. She snores." With that simple embarrassing statement Petunia stalked off.

Lily prayed a blush wasn't visible on her face. She didn't really snore. Petunia was just being snobbish like always.

"Well, this Christmas break just may turn out to be interesting." James mumbled staring after Petunia.

Lily glared at him, "What are you doing here, anyways?"

"Vacation!" James beamed, "My folks thought it would be wonderful to experience a muggle skiing vacation. At first I was completely bummed about being away from Remus, Sirius, and Peter, but you're here, Evans. This might be very interesting." Lily blushed again at him singling her out like that.

"Lily! I need my bags." Petunia's whining voice once again carried over the lobby.

"Duty calls." Lily mumbled starting to drag the trunks again.

"Oh Evans!" James called out stopping her, "If you need a place to sleep my bed is always open for you." He winked making the whole statement sound dirty. Lily just rolled her eyes and kept going. She was used to it by now.

When she finally got all of her bags and Petunia's into their room, she was exhausted and wanted nothing more then to sleep. Her entire body plopped down on the huge queen sized bed in the center of the room.

Petunia came out of the bathroom all dressed up. "Don't get too comfortable, Sis. I've arranged for a cot to be delivered to our room."

Lily frowned, "A cot? You don't have to sleep on a cot. There's room for you on the bed with me."

Petunia laughed, "Oh my sweet sweet little sister," Lily hated when Petunia talked to her like she was still five, "The cot isn't for me. It's for you. I'm having it put in the corner so your snoring will be far away from me, and I'll be able to get my beauty rest. After all, you don't want me looking dead tired all the time, do you?"

Lily opened her mouth to answer but decided against it. She was too tired to argue. She'd take it up with her parents later. Petunia opened the door to their room obviously going somewhere.

"Oh by the way, you're little friend is cute. Too bad he's a dumb wizard like you." She was out the door before Lily could yell at her. If she wasn't so exhausted she would have gladly ran after Petunia and gave her a piece of her mind. Petunia had no right to call James that. Only Lily was allowed to call him dumb.

Lily closed her eyes trying to get her head to stop hurting. This was going to be the longest Christmas break of her life.

A/n: I've finally come out of my slump and got out a new James and Lily fic! This one actually sounds very promising to me. I hope you guys enjoy it because I know I'm going to have fun writing it.