Secret Santa
By: Lily*Potter
Lily Evans, a slightly short, red-haired, green eyed, girl woke up on a monday morning and sighed. She was the kind of girl who, although wasn't lonely, she wasn't popular, or close to being popular either, she wasn't the smartest, or the most athletic, she was stuck being "the good friend". She looked at her friend, Jenny, Jenny was Muggle-born like her but was much more athletic she had played many muggle sports before Hogwarts now she was on the Gryfindor Quittach team. Jen was slightly tall, with light brown hair and very loud. She wasn't popular either but being loud got her a few quick friends.
Since she made quick friends all the friends she had talked to Lily a little bit but Lily didn't like them very much. There was only one girl who was her good friend from the Ravenclaw house, Lauren, she was pretty quiet too but had more friends then she did in her house.
Jenny wasn't getting up so Lily shook her a little,
"Jen...come on! Get up will you?"
Jen looked up, "Lil? I am up..."
Lily laughed,"We have to go to breakfast!! Everyone's already gone."
Jen looked around, "oh ya..."
She got up and started getting dressed, "Lily are you coming? Or are you just gonna sit there starring into space?"
Lily looked up, "yea I'm coming."
After they got dressed they went down to breakfast. Lily and Jen waved to Lauren at the Ravenclaw Table. Then sat down at the Griffindor table. Lily as usual listened in to Jen's conversations with the "Marauder" boys Jen had just recently become friends with. Lily wasn't sure what they were talking about really, she just sat there and laughed if she happened to hear a joke or nod if she heard something serious. Today she decided to listen since it was so near Christmas she was eager to hear what they were talking about.
"...a secret Santa? with who?" asked Jen to the brown-haired, tired looking boy, Lily decided from memory his name was Lupin, Remus.
"Me and the guys, and you, and Lily....and..." Remus said as Lily tuned out when she heard her name. 'I'm dumb...he knows my name and it took me a few minutes to figure out his name....I'm fifteen!!! I should have known that.!!!' Lily thought.
"That's only two girls with 4 boys...that's not too fair..." Lily said by accident. The 4 boys and Jen were staring at her with interest. The raven-black haired boy 'James potter?' lily thought on Que. said, "Do you know 2 more girls who'd like to join us?"
Lily thought for awhile then asked, "would they have to be in Gryffindor?" The guys looked at one another then the other dark haired boy, 'Sirius.....Sirius...that's....Sirius...black!!' said, "it would make more sense because if we get one of those girls we wouldn't know what to get them."
Lily nodded in understandment, but Jen said, "oh...i doubt that you guys know like everyone!! because of all your tricks."
"Just because we know ALOT of people doesn't mean we know EVERYONE" James said.
"Sure it does!!" Lily said, not thinking yet again. James looked at her strangely. Remus said amused, "Looks like someone is talkative today..."
Lily looked at him with annoyance and said to Jen, "and you like these guys?"
"Don't make fun of us red!" said Sirius.
"Don't call me red..." Lily said getting more annoyed every second.
"ANYWAYS!!," Jen screamed, "lets just decide what we're going to do for the secret Santa okay?"
"Jen isn't that a muggle thing?" Lily asked.
"So what Lil...?"
"whatever..."
"Right so what are the rules for it? and who are going to be the 2 other girls?"
"How about Marie Sap?" asked Sirius.
"Marie SAP!? she's a slytherin!!" yelled James and Remus at the same time.
"so? She's hott."
Remus rolled his eyes in defeat, and James laughed and whispered to Jen,
"she's the large one sitting next to snape...."
"ooo....! Stop making fun of over-large egoistic people!!" Jen said laughing.
"I think Lauren from Ravenclaw should do the secret Santa with us." said Lily.
Everyone looked at Lily, "Who's she?" asked James.
"She's the one with dark-brown hair talking to Vanessa...who should do the secret Santa with us too." said Jen.
"Who's Vanessa?!" asked Sirius looking confused.
Remus patted his shoulder and said...."The only blonde at the Ravenclaw table my dear friend."
"OOOHh!!! Okay Vanessa and Lauren was it? They're fine."
"Come on Lils lets go tell them about it!!! We have to tell them where to meet us so we can pick people!" said Jen grabbing Lily's hand.
Lily got up and followed Jen over to the Ravenclaw table.
"LAUREN!! 'NEssa!!"
The girls looked up, Vanessa smiled and said "Hi Jen...Lily"
"Hello Jen'Lily" Lauren said.
"Hi" Lily and Jen said back.
"What's' going on?" asked Vanessa.
"Well would you like to join us and the marauders to do a secret Santa?" asked Jenny.
"Sure!" said Lauren.
"OK meet us in the library after lunch today….you guys have a free period after lunch right?" asked Jen.
"Yeah we do." Answered Vanessa.
"Alright good so you'll meet us there?"
"Yea sure sounds good." Said Lauren.
"Okay bye guys!!" said Lily.
"Bye" said Lauren and Vanessa.
Lily sighed she hated her morning classes. She had signed up for everything Jen didn't by accident and ended up with the some of the annoying Gryffindor guys and girls. She walked out of the Great Hall and went to Ancient Runes class while Jen and the guys headed off for Divination.
Lily arrived in Ancient Runes class and sat down at the only seat left, a seat next to a Slytherin. She groaned and sat down. The class started and nothing bad happened. She wrote down the notes Professor Juins told them to write down. During class the kid she was sitting next to her started being a jerk she heard him talking about Jen, she decided to ignore him although she wanted to say something about him making fun of her friend. The she finally had, had enough.
"Stop!" Lily said in a slightly quiet slightly pissed voice. Then she turned back to her work but in the corner of her eye she saw the kid and his friend exchange glances. Lily now felt stupid…'I should have used more force….or….nothing at all….' The rest of the class Lily just did her work ignoring the Slytherin boys next to her.
After class she hurried out but she felt someone tug at her cloak.
"Wait girl" said the Slytherin boy from class.
"What!?" Lily said impatiently.
"Here….." he handed Lily a box she looked at it carefully….she knew what this was, it was a magic box when you opened it, some joke would happen to you the next day but the opener of the box can't see anything in it only the owner could.
"Nice….box?" Lily answered and handed it back.
"Open it…" said the kid.
"no thanks."
"JUST OPEN IT!" He screamed.
"I don't think I will." And she threw the box into a nearby classroom.
"You little…mudblood listen up…..I might not be able to beat you up…but I can get someone who can…so watch out….." and he walked away.
Lily starred after him and rolled her eyes….'what kind of wizard is he? Beat me up..? what an idiot….'
Finally morning classes were over and she went to lunch. She went over to Jen and Jen looked scared, "Lil….everyone's heard about what happened!!"
"huh? What are you talking about?"
"did you or did you not talk to Lucius Malfoy a couple seconds ago about you being beat up…."
"Oh you mean that strange Slytherin kid? Ya what about him?"
"If you thought he was gonna beat you up the muggle way your way wrong….he's gonna get his girlfriend, Narcissa to beat you up….she's that blonde….she's got one awful spell that can make you paralyzed for a few days!"
"Narcissa? Oh…She's not gonna come near me….trust me…I had a little incident a few years back where we promised no fighting…….."
"Well it sounds like she wants you to meet her after dinner for a duel…."
"where?"
"I have no idea…. You'll probably find out…later…..but you shouldn't worry about that now right?"
"No…I shouldn't be you should either Jen."
After lunch Jen and Lily headed for the library with Lauren and Vanessa close behind them. When they got there the boys where all ready putting a bowl in the center of one of tables and sitting down.
"Lily! Is this true? You're getting in a fight with Narcissa?" asked the kid who she hadn't heard talk much, Peter Pettigrew.
"Yes it's true but don't bug me about it right now."
"Okay girls, we've decided that we're gonna pick who our Secret Santa is by using this bowl, we put a charm on it so when a girl picks it'll end up a boy and when a boy picks it'll be a girl, no one can pick the same person. So ladies sit down." Sirius said.
"It would be best if the girls sit on one side and the boys sit on the other…now you won't be given a paper. When you put your hand in you close your eyes and you'll see the person and they're name and what the person most wants for Christmas, you don't have to get them this thing." Remus said.
Lily, Jen, Lauren, and Vanessa sat on one side of the table while the boys we're on the other side.
"Alright girls….I'll start" said Sirius.
Sirius closed his eyes and put his hand in the bowl. The bowl turned light yellow, then Sirius opened his eyes while smiling slyly, Lily heard Peter ask "Who'd you get?" Sirius just said, "I'm not telling."
Then it was Peter's turn, he closed his eyes and put his hand in. It turned an amazing bright pink, he took his hand out quite quickly and pushed the bowl to Remus.
Remus put his hand in and closed his eyes the bowl turned a silvery-blue, he took his hand out and gave the bowl to James.
James looked around at his 3 friends and the girls then closed his eyes and slowly put his hand in.
The bowl turned a brilliant green. Almost as bright and cheery as Lily's get sometimes, Jen thought. James opened his eyes and took his hand out, again looked at everyone but looked at Lily for a second longer, no one noticed this except Remus.
James pushed the bowl across from him to Lauren. Lauren quickly closed her eyes and put her hand in, it turned silvery. Vanessa put her hand in and closed her eyes, the color was a dark red, blood red almost. Vanessa gave the bowl to Jen. Jen put her hand in a winked at everyone before putting her hand carefully in. The bowl turned a mix of gray, blue, orange, and black. She quickly took her hand out and gave the bowl to Lily.
Lily took the bowl and looked at it….then looked at everyone and said,
"Why is everyone so tense? It's like we're picking partners for a big dance or something…"
"We're not nervous we're just waiting for you to go." Said Remus calmly, as Lauren, Peter, and Vanessa laughed.
Lily rolled her eyes and looking into the bowl it didn't look like anything was in there. Well there wasn't anything in there was there? Lily looked harder into the bowl, and BAM!!
"LILY!!" Everyone yelled.
"OW!! Who hit me?" Lily yelled back.
"Jen did….!" Peter said.
Jen gave Peter a mean look and smiled at Lily.
"Just go Lils." Said James.
"Lils? Only Jen calls me that." Lily said annoyed.
"JUST GO!!" everyone yelled.
"Fine fine…god…."
'and I call them my friends' lily thought secretly.
Lily closed her eyes and reached into the bowl. Everyone else saw it turn a brown color. She saw brown eyes chocolate brown….'such a nice color' lily thought. Then a head appeared. Blurry at first….first she could see the brown eyes, Then the raven-black messy, hair. And she knew who it was. 'James' she thought. His whole face appeared when she thought this. She saw a broom, 'he wants a new broom? That shouldn't be too hard to find…' then the broom turned into something else it wasn't clear, then it disappeared and the broom came back in view…'alright….a broom then.' Lily started taking her hand out and didn't notice green eyes and red hair blur into the whole bowl…
A/N-hey everyone! This is my first story I've writen since last year I believe…please tell me what you think!!!
By: Lily*Potter
Lily Evans, a slightly short, red-haired, green eyed, girl woke up on a monday morning and sighed. She was the kind of girl who, although wasn't lonely, she wasn't popular, or close to being popular either, she wasn't the smartest, or the most athletic, she was stuck being "the good friend". She looked at her friend, Jenny, Jenny was Muggle-born like her but was much more athletic she had played many muggle sports before Hogwarts now she was on the Gryfindor Quittach team. Jen was slightly tall, with light brown hair and very loud. She wasn't popular either but being loud got her a few quick friends.
Since she made quick friends all the friends she had talked to Lily a little bit but Lily didn't like them very much. There was only one girl who was her good friend from the Ravenclaw house, Lauren, she was pretty quiet too but had more friends then she did in her house.
Jenny wasn't getting up so Lily shook her a little,
"Jen...come on! Get up will you?"
Jen looked up, "Lil? I am up..."
Lily laughed,"We have to go to breakfast!! Everyone's already gone."
Jen looked around, "oh ya..."
She got up and started getting dressed, "Lily are you coming? Or are you just gonna sit there starring into space?"
Lily looked up, "yea I'm coming."
After they got dressed they went down to breakfast. Lily and Jen waved to Lauren at the Ravenclaw Table. Then sat down at the Griffindor table. Lily as usual listened in to Jen's conversations with the "Marauder" boys Jen had just recently become friends with. Lily wasn't sure what they were talking about really, she just sat there and laughed if she happened to hear a joke or nod if she heard something serious. Today she decided to listen since it was so near Christmas she was eager to hear what they were talking about.
"...a secret Santa? with who?" asked Jen to the brown-haired, tired looking boy, Lily decided from memory his name was Lupin, Remus.
"Me and the guys, and you, and Lily....and..." Remus said as Lily tuned out when she heard her name. 'I'm dumb...he knows my name and it took me a few minutes to figure out his name....I'm fifteen!!! I should have known that.!!!' Lily thought.
"That's only two girls with 4 boys...that's not too fair..." Lily said by accident. The 4 boys and Jen were staring at her with interest. The raven-black haired boy 'James potter?' lily thought on Que. said, "Do you know 2 more girls who'd like to join us?"
Lily thought for awhile then asked, "would they have to be in Gryffindor?" The guys looked at one another then the other dark haired boy, 'Sirius.....Sirius...that's....Sirius...black!!' said, "it would make more sense because if we get one of those girls we wouldn't know what to get them."
Lily nodded in understandment, but Jen said, "oh...i doubt that you guys know like everyone!! because of all your tricks."
"Just because we know ALOT of people doesn't mean we know EVERYONE" James said.
"Sure it does!!" Lily said, not thinking yet again. James looked at her strangely. Remus said amused, "Looks like someone is talkative today..."
Lily looked at him with annoyance and said to Jen, "and you like these guys?"
"Don't make fun of us red!" said Sirius.
"Don't call me red..." Lily said getting more annoyed every second.
"ANYWAYS!!," Jen screamed, "lets just decide what we're going to do for the secret Santa okay?"
"Jen isn't that a muggle thing?" Lily asked.
"So what Lil...?"
"whatever..."
"Right so what are the rules for it? and who are going to be the 2 other girls?"
"How about Marie Sap?" asked Sirius.
"Marie SAP!? she's a slytherin!!" yelled James and Remus at the same time.
"so? She's hott."
Remus rolled his eyes in defeat, and James laughed and whispered to Jen,
"she's the large one sitting next to snape...."
"ooo....! Stop making fun of over-large egoistic people!!" Jen said laughing.
"I think Lauren from Ravenclaw should do the secret Santa with us." said Lily.
Everyone looked at Lily, "Who's she?" asked James.
"She's the one with dark-brown hair talking to Vanessa...who should do the secret Santa with us too." said Jen.
"Who's Vanessa?!" asked Sirius looking confused.
Remus patted his shoulder and said...."The only blonde at the Ravenclaw table my dear friend."
"OOOHh!!! Okay Vanessa and Lauren was it? They're fine."
"Come on Lils lets go tell them about it!!! We have to tell them where to meet us so we can pick people!" said Jen grabbing Lily's hand.
Lily got up and followed Jen over to the Ravenclaw table.
"LAUREN!! 'NEssa!!"
The girls looked up, Vanessa smiled and said "Hi Jen...Lily"
"Hello Jen'Lily" Lauren said.
"Hi" Lily and Jen said back.
"What's' going on?" asked Vanessa.
"Well would you like to join us and the marauders to do a secret Santa?" asked Jenny.
"Sure!" said Lauren.
"OK meet us in the library after lunch today….you guys have a free period after lunch right?" asked Jen.
"Yeah we do." Answered Vanessa.
"Alright good so you'll meet us there?"
"Yea sure sounds good." Said Lauren.
"Okay bye guys!!" said Lily.
"Bye" said Lauren and Vanessa.
Lily sighed she hated her morning classes. She had signed up for everything Jen didn't by accident and ended up with the some of the annoying Gryffindor guys and girls. She walked out of the Great Hall and went to Ancient Runes class while Jen and the guys headed off for Divination.
Lily arrived in Ancient Runes class and sat down at the only seat left, a seat next to a Slytherin. She groaned and sat down. The class started and nothing bad happened. She wrote down the notes Professor Juins told them to write down. During class the kid she was sitting next to her started being a jerk she heard him talking about Jen, she decided to ignore him although she wanted to say something about him making fun of her friend. The she finally had, had enough.
"Stop!" Lily said in a slightly quiet slightly pissed voice. Then she turned back to her work but in the corner of her eye she saw the kid and his friend exchange glances. Lily now felt stupid…'I should have used more force….or….nothing at all….' The rest of the class Lily just did her work ignoring the Slytherin boys next to her.
After class she hurried out but she felt someone tug at her cloak.
"Wait girl" said the Slytherin boy from class.
"What!?" Lily said impatiently.
"Here….." he handed Lily a box she looked at it carefully….she knew what this was, it was a magic box when you opened it, some joke would happen to you the next day but the opener of the box can't see anything in it only the owner could.
"Nice….box?" Lily answered and handed it back.
"Open it…" said the kid.
"no thanks."
"JUST OPEN IT!" He screamed.
"I don't think I will." And she threw the box into a nearby classroom.
"You little…mudblood listen up…..I might not be able to beat you up…but I can get someone who can…so watch out….." and he walked away.
Lily starred after him and rolled her eyes….'what kind of wizard is he? Beat me up..? what an idiot….'
Finally morning classes were over and she went to lunch. She went over to Jen and Jen looked scared, "Lil….everyone's heard about what happened!!"
"huh? What are you talking about?"
"did you or did you not talk to Lucius Malfoy a couple seconds ago about you being beat up…."
"Oh you mean that strange Slytherin kid? Ya what about him?"
"If you thought he was gonna beat you up the muggle way your way wrong….he's gonna get his girlfriend, Narcissa to beat you up….she's that blonde….she's got one awful spell that can make you paralyzed for a few days!"
"Narcissa? Oh…She's not gonna come near me….trust me…I had a little incident a few years back where we promised no fighting…….."
"Well it sounds like she wants you to meet her after dinner for a duel…."
"where?"
"I have no idea…. You'll probably find out…later…..but you shouldn't worry about that now right?"
"No…I shouldn't be you should either Jen."
After lunch Jen and Lily headed for the library with Lauren and Vanessa close behind them. When they got there the boys where all ready putting a bowl in the center of one of tables and sitting down.
"Lily! Is this true? You're getting in a fight with Narcissa?" asked the kid who she hadn't heard talk much, Peter Pettigrew.
"Yes it's true but don't bug me about it right now."
"Okay girls, we've decided that we're gonna pick who our Secret Santa is by using this bowl, we put a charm on it so when a girl picks it'll end up a boy and when a boy picks it'll be a girl, no one can pick the same person. So ladies sit down." Sirius said.
"It would be best if the girls sit on one side and the boys sit on the other…now you won't be given a paper. When you put your hand in you close your eyes and you'll see the person and they're name and what the person most wants for Christmas, you don't have to get them this thing." Remus said.
Lily, Jen, Lauren, and Vanessa sat on one side of the table while the boys we're on the other side.
"Alright girls….I'll start" said Sirius.
Sirius closed his eyes and put his hand in the bowl. The bowl turned light yellow, then Sirius opened his eyes while smiling slyly, Lily heard Peter ask "Who'd you get?" Sirius just said, "I'm not telling."
Then it was Peter's turn, he closed his eyes and put his hand in. It turned an amazing bright pink, he took his hand out quite quickly and pushed the bowl to Remus.
Remus put his hand in and closed his eyes the bowl turned a silvery-blue, he took his hand out and gave the bowl to James.
James looked around at his 3 friends and the girls then closed his eyes and slowly put his hand in.
The bowl turned a brilliant green. Almost as bright and cheery as Lily's get sometimes, Jen thought. James opened his eyes and took his hand out, again looked at everyone but looked at Lily for a second longer, no one noticed this except Remus.
James pushed the bowl across from him to Lauren. Lauren quickly closed her eyes and put her hand in, it turned silvery. Vanessa put her hand in and closed her eyes, the color was a dark red, blood red almost. Vanessa gave the bowl to Jen. Jen put her hand in a winked at everyone before putting her hand carefully in. The bowl turned a mix of gray, blue, orange, and black. She quickly took her hand out and gave the bowl to Lily.
Lily took the bowl and looked at it….then looked at everyone and said,
"Why is everyone so tense? It's like we're picking partners for a big dance or something…"
"We're not nervous we're just waiting for you to go." Said Remus calmly, as Lauren, Peter, and Vanessa laughed.
Lily rolled her eyes and looking into the bowl it didn't look like anything was in there. Well there wasn't anything in there was there? Lily looked harder into the bowl, and BAM!!
"LILY!!" Everyone yelled.
"OW!! Who hit me?" Lily yelled back.
"Jen did….!" Peter said.
Jen gave Peter a mean look and smiled at Lily.
"Just go Lils." Said James.
"Lils? Only Jen calls me that." Lily said annoyed.
"JUST GO!!" everyone yelled.
"Fine fine…god…."
'and I call them my friends' lily thought secretly.
Lily closed her eyes and reached into the bowl. Everyone else saw it turn a brown color. She saw brown eyes chocolate brown….'such a nice color' lily thought. Then a head appeared. Blurry at first….first she could see the brown eyes, Then the raven-black messy, hair. And she knew who it was. 'James' she thought. His whole face appeared when she thought this. She saw a broom, 'he wants a new broom? That shouldn't be too hard to find…' then the broom turned into something else it wasn't clear, then it disappeared and the broom came back in view…'alright….a broom then.' Lily started taking her hand out and didn't notice green eyes and red hair blur into the whole bowl…
A/N-hey everyone! This is my first story I've writen since last year I believe…please tell me what you think!!!