Chapter 4 The Christmas Ball
It was finally the day of the Christmas Ball, all the castle was buzzing with Christmas cheer. All the lessons had been cancelled for the day so that the students that were going could get ready.
Lily woke up late Friday morning. She ran down the stairs and ordered breakfast in the heads room and waited on the couch for it. James came slowly down the stairs and saw Lily waiting on the couch.
"Good morning. Looking forward to leaving tomorrow?" James asked sitting down in the armchair.
"Yes I am. Oh and I ordered breakfast up here 'cause we've already missed it."
"Oh good, good." James replied licking his lips.
When the breakfast trays appeared on the table they quickly started eating. They ate in silence until they had finished. While they were eating James kept looking at Lily while she ate just thinking of how pretty she looked. When she had finished she said
"I'm going to go now. I'll see you at 7:30 in the common room don't be late." She said and broke James out of his train of thought.
"Don't worry I won't be."
And with that Lily ran up the stairs, got her stuff and went to the Gryffindor Common Room.
A couple of hours later Lily had her make-up on and her hair done. Her hair was in an up-style with curled strand framing her face. She only had a little make-up on but it was enough. The other girls had their hair down with bits of it curled as well and only a little make-up also.
One by one the girls were putting their dresses on and finishing the last bits so make sure their hair wouldn't come out or anything like that.
After Lily had left, James finished eating and cleaned up the breakfast stuff and took it to the kitchens. He came back to the dorm, got his stuff and walked to Gryffindor tower. When he got to his old dorm all of the boys were still sleeping. So he conjured up buckets of icy cold water and levitated them up above each their heads and with a flick of his wand the buckets tipped the water onto the beds where they were sleeping and then you heard a whole lots of guys screaming.
"Ahhh! James you FUCKING BASTARD! What you'd do that for?" Sirius asked jumping out of his bed.
"Good morning or should I say Good afternoon?" James said simply with a devilish grin on his face.
"Ah yes, Good morning to you too James buddy ol' pal." Remus said as he performed the drying spell on Sirius, Peter and himself.
"What are you doing here?" Sirius asked.
"Well today is Friday, all classes have been cancelled and do you know why?" James asked.
"No actually I don't. All I know is that I was able to sleep-in." Sirius said getting mad that he was woken up.
"Well tomorrow is Saturday and that's when we're going home and tonight is the Christmas Ball."
"Oh shit! I totally forgot. What time is it?" Sirius asked looking shocked.
"Well last time I looked it was about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Oh, you've missed breakfast and lunch in that order so I brought you up some food." And with that said James conjured up a tray full of food for the 3 Marauders. They quickly realised how hungry the were and all started stuffing their faces.
"Aren't you having some James?" Remus asked a couple of minutes later realising that James wasn't eating.
"Nah, I had a late breakfast with Lily this morning." James said pleased with himself.
Remus and Sirius just nodded approvingly and just kept eating.
When they had finished eating James sent the food back to the kitchens and the boys started having showers and getting ready. When they had finally finished it was 7:15 so they just talked about what they had planned for the holidays. When it was 7:25 the boys decided it was time they should go down to the Common Room and wait for their dates.
When they got down there Peter left 'cause he was meeting his date at the Great Hall, the guys had only been waiting a few minutes before they heard foot steps coming from the 7th year girls stairs. Then Elissa walked down first and Sirius's eyes were bulging from his head.
"WOW, you look b-e-a-u-tiful." Sirius said trying to gain his voice.
"Oh, thank-you. You don't look so bad yourself." Elissa said smiling and took Sirius's arm and walked out of the Common Room.
Next girl to come down the stairs was Yazmin. She was in a bit of a rush 'cause she's late for meeting Brad down in the Great Hall but as she was speed walking out of the Common Room she said-
"Oh, you guys look really good. Lily and Bekka will be down in a minute." And closed the portrait behind her. James and Remus looked at each other blankly but before they realised Bekka and Lily were half way down the flight of stairs.
James started swaying and was just about to fall over from amazement, Remus grabbed his arm in mid-air.
"Thanks mate."
"No worries. That's what I'm here for."
And when both James and Remus looked up again Bekka and Lily had walked past the boys and was opening the portrait.
"Arn't you guys coming? We gonna be late. James and I have to open the ball so come on, pick up your feet." Lily aid.
The boys shook their heads in confusement and ran through the portrait before it closed.
When the boys got out of the portrait hole they took their dates by the arm and walked to the Great Hall where everyone was waiting for the Ball to officially start.
When they entered Remus and Bekks went to the dance floor to stand with Sirius and Elissa. James and Lily went to the front of the room to start their speeches.
"Thank-you all for attending, we appreciate it very much. Also Merry Christmas and have a wonderful holiday."
"Ah yes, now don't forget New Year's and New Year eve parties and what do we do at New Years Eve parties..." Lily stamped on James's foot with the heel of her shoe to stop him from saying what he was going to say, "...We stay home and celebrate New Years with pumpkin juice." James concluded rather glumly. Then all the students clapped and dumbledore stood up to silence them and said-
"Thank-you. Now would the head girl and boy please go to the dance floor and officially start off tonight with a dance."
James and Lily nodded and James took Lily's arm and took her to a spot on the floor and waited until the music to start, when it did they started dancing to a slow song. After a little while more couples joined in as well.
"You know James, you weren't supposed to say that. I hope that I didn't hurt you too much
When I stood on your foot." Lily asked later that night.
"I know. But you know me; I don't follow rules or protocol. And, yes, it did hurt very much." James said back to her.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you too much."
"It's ok."
Remus and Bekka and Sirius and Elissa were dancing and Remus and Sirius were looking at Lily and James.
"They look really comfortable together, don't they." Remus said smiling.
"Yeah they do. I really hope he doesn't stuff up these holidays. With ant luck they might come back holding hands and talking about wedding plans." Sirius replied blankly with a little hope shinning through his words.
"I hope your right. But I don't think that the wedding thing will happen." Elissa said sighing.
Remus and Sirius looked at each other blankly then at Elissa and Bekka not realising that both girls were listening. The rest of the night went smoothly with no problems. Remus, Sirius, Elissa and Bekka were talking about Lily and James and Lily and James were talking about what to do about the next ball and the Hogsmede trips.
