A/N: Written for Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Christmas Crackers- The Golden Cracker with Mistletoe Edited by:
Prompt: Write about two characters getting stuck under mistletoe, which refuses to release them until they kiss.
Optional Prompt: (song) All I want for Christmas (Is you)
Word Count: (excluding A/N) 683 Words.
Under Magical Mistletoe
Lily was extremely happy. Why shouldn't she be? It was Christmas, after all. She smiled when she thought about her father. She remembered how he would always tell her how she was made for Christmas, with her red hair and green eyes. Lily was in fact, so excited about the special day, she accidentally walked into a wall or at least something that felt like a wall.
"Ow!" She exclaimed and looked up to see the smirking face of James Potter.
"Careful there, Evans," the boy in spectacles spoke.
Lily's heart skipped a beat when she heard his voice. She loved it when James would call her by her last name and the way it rolled off his tongue so easily this made her sigh internally. Of course she would never tell him that, not even in a million years. Lily knew it would only inflate his already large ego .
Although, during the year he was made Head Boy, she noticed the sudden changes in James Potter. He stopped hexing the other students. Well, other than sending a few nasty jinxes and curses to the Slytherins who didn't know how to take a hint, but really that was their fault He stopped pestering her every moment he had a chance and he did not ask her out anymore every time he saw her. He also learned how to be responsible. He would still prank his fellow students, but they were only harmless pranks and secretly, Lily loved his pranks. Most especially since it was badly needed at this time. The war was becoming more serious and the Marauders' pranks were only a few of the things which could put a smile on her's and many of the other students' faces.
She took a step back, or at least she tried to. "Huh? I can't move," Lily thought. She suddenly became aware of how close she was standing in front of James Potter. "Don't think about how much you want to kiss him. Bad, Lily. No!" She quickly scolded herself."Shit,"James said, looking up. Lily followed his gaze.
"Shit, indeed," she responded, gazing at the mistletoe hanging above their heads.
"Lily, take a step back."
Lily tried but she was stuck. Then, James tried to wriggle his way out, he couldn't move his feet anywhere except scooting closer to Lily.
He's rather good looking, don't you think? He'd make a nice Christmas present. "Shut up", Lily told her subconscious, however she was having not much luck.
Lily was sure her face was as red as her hair. "Let's just get this over with."
James raised an eyebrow at her. "Fine by me."
Then, they both leaned in with their lips puckered out. This moment would later be reminisced by Lily as one of the greatest kiss she would have ever received. The heat, the passion, the intensity. Lily was so sure she was about to melt in James' arms.
When she ran out of breath, she broke the kiss.
James looked slightly disappointed. "I guess we can go now."
"Yeah. I guess we can," she replied, before grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and crushing his lips against her own. The next time it was James who broke the kiss. His grin was so wide, he would probably resemble Peter by now and Lily shuddered at the thought.
"I'll see you in the common room, during the gift giving?" He asked.
"Yeah," Lily said breathlessly. "Of course."
James turned around and started to walk away, but Lily called after him, "Potter!" She started to grin at herself for the inexcusably cheesy joke she was about to make. "You don't have to get me anything , James. I only want one thing. You."
That was a familiar line. He used it on you a few Christmas' ago, during fourth year," Lily's subconscious said once again. "I said, shut up," Lily told herself .
James grinned back at her. "Course, honey. You can have me as much as you want." He winked suggestively at her.
Lily couldn't hold it in any longer so she bursted out, laughing.