Lucky Christmases And Long Gone Animosities.

A/N: FINALLY. I finally got the time to write this chapter. It was ready and was just sitting on my comp to be edited. I was just so busy with school work and didn't have time but here it is! Finally. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. And a big thanks to all the people who reviewed, favorited and put this story on alerts And also thanks to lightningscarpotter for being my beta! :)
It has been long so hope you still remember the story! I shall recap, yeah? :)
Recap – It's breakfast on a Friday morning and a mysterious snowman appears out of nowhere and hugs James who is lost in thoughts of Lily. He cleans up and attends Potions along with the rest of the Gryffindors where Slughorn sets a test. Lily aces it and wins the promised Felix Felicis. The next morning, she goes for a walk and bumps into Sirius at the Quidditch pitch. Lily finds him to be a little upset. As their conversation progresses, Lily offers to help him out. But when he says that she'd have to give him her Felix Felicis, Lily tries to back out. But she can't as Sirius has something against her. After lunch, Lily joins the Gryffindor Quidditch team as they practice. As they walk to the castle after practice, McGonagall calls out James and Lily and requests them to host a Christmas Ball. They walk back to their common room and the girls start to discuss dress robes as James goes up to his room to put his broomstick back.
Yup! That's it. Hope you remembered now. Read on! :)

Oh and Disclaimer - HAHAAH. Nope.

Dandelions, Almonds and Allergies.

"Aaah! No no no! This can't be happening! Please please no no no!" James muttered to himself, looking at his bedside mirror. There was a box of chocolates on his bed and a lone golden wrapper at its foot. A piece of parchment rested beside the chocolates.

"Prongs? What's taking you…" Sirius entered the dorm and as he saw James, his eyes widened and mouth moved to form a big O. James looked at him, with an expression that screamed help.

"Prongsie, you look ugly!" Sirius said, staring at his best friend's face as he sat cross-legged on his bed facing James, "Hey! That rhymed. Maybe I could become a poet!"

"Can your poet fantasies wait? I've a crisis going on here!" James' face was now swollen to a great extent and it was getting hard for him to breathe. His cheeks were red with rashes. And he was panicking. And Sirius was no help.

"What is go-BLOODY HELL! Prongs, what in name the name of Merlin's crooked nose is wrong with your face?" Remus stopped in his tracks and Peter, who was right behind him, bumped into him. And as his watery eyes fell on James, it went as wide as saucers. Remus made his way to Sirius' bed and sat next to him. James was staring at the mirror by his bed and tears fell down his face as he looked at his reflection.

"What happened Prongs?" Remus asked.

James heaved a sigh and started to recount the events that lead to this situation.

James entered his dorm after the girls started to discuss dress robes. He walked to his bed and bent down to put his broomstick underneath it. He stopped when he found a parcel wrapped in brown paper on his bed. Curious and excited about a early present, he opened it and found a box of chocolates and a note that said 'To James'. He stared at the note for a couple of minutes but he couldn't recognize the handwriting. He shrugged, it was a box of chocolates after all, and unwrapped a chocolate covered in gold foil. He popped it into his-

"Wait. You're actually telling me you found a box of chocolates from someone you don't know and you just ate it?" Remus asked, incredulously.

"It's free chocolates, Moony!" Sirius said, waving his hands while James nodded furiously.

"It could have been laced with poison! Or worse…love potion," Remus said. At the mention of 'Love potion' there were three sharp intakes of breaths.

"In this case, almonds," Peter said as Sirius stared at James, his eyes full of sympathy. Poor Prongs. He looked like his Great Aunt Licorice when she'd had a bad case of dragon pox.

"What happened next?" Remus asked.

He put his broom back in its place and quickly popped in three more. He started to walk back to the stairs when he felt something in his mouth apart from chocolate. He spat it out into his hands and looked at it curiously. When realization dawned on him, he started to panic and searched for his wand in his robes with trembling hands. He finally found it and held on to it with some relief. But he didn't know any spells that could cure allergies. He started to panic again. He felt his face slowly with his still trembling hands. It had already started to swell. He walked back to his bed and looked at the mirror horrified.

"And that's when I entered," Sirius said, pointing to himself as James gave a slight nod.

"We better go to the Hospital wing before it gets any worse," Remus said, patting James on the back.

"I'm not going anywhere like this! No ways in hell!" James said, completely horrified at the thought. "You've to help me, Moony! I'm sure you know some spell."

"Sorry , James," Remus shook his head, trying very hard to hide a smirk.

"Come on, Moony! Rack that furry little brain of yours. I'm sure there's something!"

"Sorry, mate. Looks like I've let you down," Remus grabbed James' arm and dragged him to the door. Sirius pushed him from behind and Peter held onto his arms as he protested.

Halfway down the stairs, "I should've got my cloak!" James squealed amidst his protests and mentally cursed himself for not thinking of it before.

"Sorry, mate. You should have thought of it earlier," Sirius said as he pushed him down the last step and into the common room. Fortunately for James, it was almost empty except for four girls near the fireplace. And one of them started to turn around. James stared at her red hair and looked at her green eyes. They were ever so beautiful and he went into a trance. He started at her as her lips slowly started to curl. She was smiling at him. And he was liking it very much. Her smile slowly turned into peals of laughter. He lost himself in its sweet sound. He tried to smile back at her. But his face just wouldn't stretch. He tried again, harder this time. But nothing happened. He wondered what was wrong as he felt his face with his palms. It was all swollen and pudgy. That was not how his face usually felt. It usually felt nice and smooth, thanks to that moisturizer Sirius had lent…HOLY MERLIN! He broke out of his trance and started to panic. Lily and her friends were now laughing so hard. He turned around and noticed that his friends had followed suit. Some friends they were! He grabbed a laughing Sirius by the collar and dragged him out the portrait. Sirius turned around and winked at Lily before leaving. Remus and Peter got a hold on themselves and followed James and Sirius out the portrait.

"Oh, Lily. That was wicked!" Mary said in between laughs.

"Did you see the way he was trying to smile at you?" Alice asked and went into another fit of laughter as she remembered.

"Okay, guys. We should stop, " Lily said, regaining control of herself.

"Yeah, you're right," Erica said trying very hard not to laugh. "But his face!" She went into another fit of laughter and Alice and Mary joined her. But as Lily remembered his face she remembered the days leading up to their second year Christmas.

Lily awoke very early one cold, snowy, Monday morning. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the clock. It was still five thirty. She placed her clock back on the table when she remembered that they were supposed to brew the Hair Raising potion that day. Excitement started to fill her insides. She had been looking forward to this class for a long time now. Potions was one of her best subjects. They had potions with Slytherins and Severus and she had a lot of fun together. He would teach her some of the tactics and she would help him with spells. They were a great team. She smiled at all the fun they could have that day and quickly got out of bed and ran to the bathroom to get ready.

"Slow down, Lily!" Erica said as Lily bounded down the stairs and ran to her seat at the Gryffindor table.

"Lily!" Alice scolded her as she stuffed an entire toast into her mouth her,0 "Eating your breakfast fast is not going to make Slughorn start classes early!"

"I wish he'd never start it today," Mary groaned and slumped her head on the table.

"Hey there, Evans."

"Go away, Potter," she said mouth full of toast and butter. She was not going to let him ruin her day.

"But I just got here!" he whined.

Lily groaned and looked at him, "What do you want?"

"To give you this," he held out a bunch of Tulips right under her nose. "I know you like them." Lily was taken aback. She looked at James, the Tulips and James again, her eyes growing narrow.

"What is this, Potter?"

"Why, it's a bunch of flowers, Lilykins."

Lily's eyes were tiny slits now.

"Jeez I'm just a bloke giving his friend a Christmas present."

"Why do I have trouble believing that? And since when are we friends?"

James took a step back and clutched his heart, his mouth open in mock shock. Lily rolled her eyes at the drama. He slowly turned around and started to walk away. He made his way to a Hufflepuff who was eyeing him, put on his best smile and offered her the flowers. She accepted them with a giggle. Lily rolled her eyes at him again and she returned to her toast, getting rid of an itch on her nose.

Lily and Severus peered into their cauldron, beads of sweat forming on their foreheads as they waited for their potion to turn into a bright orange.

"It'll take at least five minutes more," Severus said.

"Why don't you cut the rat tails while I clean up the Puffer fish eyes?" Lily suggested as she itched her face furiously.

"Lily, are you alright?" Sev asked.

"Huh?" she looked up from the cauldron, her voice turning hoarse.

"Lily, what's wrong with your face? Why is it covered in rashes?" Sev lightly touched her face with his finger.

"Ms. Evans? Is everything alright?" Slughorn came over with a slightly worried look on his face. The entire class turned to look at her.

"Yes, Professor," her voice was completely hoarse now. She cleared her throat repeatedly but it didn't help her any.

"Are you sure you're not allergic to any of the ingredients?" Slughorn asked her and there were a few sniggers from James' table.

"No, Professor. The only thing…Dandelions!" she rounded on James and screamed, "POTTER!" He must have hidden the Dandelions amidst those Tulips he'd offered her that morning. Though Lily hadn't accepted those Tulips she'd been exposed to it long enough. James put on an innocent face that fooled nobody. She was seething with anger as she felt Sev drag her out of the class and into the Hospital wing where she spent the rest of the Potions class swearing and cursing.

"Lily, how about some Exploding snap?" Erica asked her and she was pulled back into the present. She nodded and with a slight smile on her face she joined the others, wondering how James would react to the gifts she had lined up for him.

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