"Happy New Year's!" was shouted throughout Potter Manor as the clock struck midnight.

James sat and drank firewhiskey with his best friends Freddie Weasley also his cousin and Frank Longbottom who happens to be the older brother of the girl he was just fucking upstairs not even half an hour ago, and yet he didn't feel guilty that he's casually having sex with Alice but he can't help but feel a small amount of guilt for having to lie to his best friend.

His eyes wander around the room and land on the girl in question at the other end of the room. Alice had long, wavy dark blonde hair like her mothers, her sexy curves were outlined by the red dress she is torturing him with. The dress hung close on her body, red lace that covered her arms and left her neck and shoulders bare. Her long tanned legs stood out the most as he remembers them wrapped around his waist, he can't help but lick his lips.

"So is Alice seeing anyone?" James looked at his cousin wide-eyed as he asked Frank about his sister.

Frank glared at Freddie "Don't even think about it."

"What?, look I'm just wondering. She's a beautiful girl that can easily catch any guys eye." Freddie's innocent expression was unusual as he was much as a player like James. "Especially in that dress" whistled Freddie. Frankie hit him a friendly yet hard punch in the arm. Freddie look appalled "What? It's not like your not dating our cousin."

"Exactly. I'm dating Dominique. We both know you guys don't date. Stay away from her Freddie".

Frankie looked at James next. "You too James. No offense to both of ye but I know what kind of player ye are. And I don't want my sister to get caught up with some lad who's going to break her heart." He warned them.

James knew he should have just nodded and changed the subject but he couldn't help himself. "You know she's going to get with any lads she wants to. You can't stop her." He nervously remarked.

"I don't mind her dating some lad, I just don't want her getting with someone who only wants sex from her." Frankie started getting angry, he was very protective of his sister.

James involuntarily gulped "Sorry. I was just saying ."

"It's alright. Didn't mean to get angry." Frankie gave an apologetic look. James made sure his eyes didn't wander back to her.

Across the room, Alice and Roses chatted with Lily. "Why don't you just talk to him? We all know your dying to." Rose exclaimed.

Lily was trying and failing to not look over at Lysander Scamander who was talking to Charlie Weasley, probably about dragons. She looked at the two older girls, lost. "I can't. We broke up. For good this time."

Lily and Lysander have been on again off again since she was 15 and he was 17. When they were on they were the perfect couple, who other couples were jealous of. They weren't clingy to each other but yet understood one another better than they understood themselves. However, when they also got into big arguments that would end their relationship, while they decided to stay friends now Lily looked as if she wanted nothing more than just being beside him, but since their relationship only ended a few months ago she didn't want to be near him and not actually be with him.

"At least you are staying friends. Not many other people would be able to." Alice tried to reason.

"I know." Lily huffed "It just still kind of hard. You know what, how about I get us another round of drinks."

Alice and Rose watched as the younger redhead silently walked away.

"Poor Lily. She and Lysander really loved each other." Rose stated.

"So, it's really over with them? Is there any chance of them getting back together. They have before." Alice questioned.

"Lily said she thinks it's for good, apparently both of them said things they didn't really mean, and that their fight was the worst they ever had."

"She also said they had really intense breakup sex," Rose added.

Alice laughed lightly. "I don't think you can have breakup sex without it being intense."

A knowing smirk came on Roses' face. "Speaking of sex. Are we going to talk about the mystery guy you're having sex with?"

Alice coughed out some of her drink she was enjoying until Rose asked her that question. She looked at her Rose with wide eyes. "What are talking about? There's no mystery guy." Alice inconvincibly mumbled.

"So it wasn't some guy's boxers I found behind the couch last week when you were terribly trying to hide the fact that someone was in your room." Rose smiled "Not to mention that your were clothes inside out that day."

Alice sighed knowing that her fellow Ravenclaw was to smart to be lied to. "It's no one important. Just someone to past the time and have fun with."

"Hey, I'm not saying it's a bad thing." Rose laughed. "I actually fully support this." Alice raised her eyebrow at her unusually understanding friend. "You need fun. It's not like it's someone who is seriously off limits and will cause a problem with your family or theirs. It isn't, is it?" Rose wondered.

"No! Of course not… It's just someone who nothing will ever really happen with."

"What does that mean?" Rose questioned her best friend.

Alice exhale slowly "It means he isn't the kind of guy who does relationships or does random romantic things, he's the kind that doesn't stay the night. And I don't even want a relationship or for him to stay the night… I just… I just want to not have to think about what something means or question why something was said or why something happened."

Rose looked as if she was trying to figure out how to say what she wants to say without offending Alice or being cruel. After a brief pause, she asked a question that even Alice was thinking about "But what happens when you do want those things; the romantic random things, waking up knowing that that person would be there or being with someone who loves and gets you for who you are or being in lo_"

"Lily!" Alice interrupted as the young redhead walked with three drinks in her hands. A new conversation began but a silent question still hung in the air waiting to be answered or acknowledged.

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Alice stood in the kitchen getting a drink when she noticed she was no longer alone. No surprise when she turned around was James Potter the casual none romantic relationship she was currently in. And yet she couldn't help but feel butterflies in her stomach when she saw him.

"That dress is very very distracting." James smirked, "It was nearly impossible to have a proper conversation with my family when you are wearing that."

"Then maybe I'll take it off altogether." She claimed in a low, flirty voice. "Or… you could take it off for me."

Slowly like a lion to its prey, she made her way over to James, hips swinging, eyes full of lust and mischievous smile on her face. Nothing was said verbally but the two lovers stared into each other's eyes. Her hands brushed lightly on his abs, his chest, his arms. Even though anyone including Rose or Frankie or their parents could walk in and their secret would be out, they took the chance as it felt like to them nobody else was around. She licked her lips seductively.

"Ali you know if you keep doing this I'm not going to be able to control myself." James could barely get the words out as he was distracted by her feathery touches.

Her hand made its way down to the bulge in his pants, his breath hitched and she whispered right beside his ear "Then don't. My place, half an hour."

Next minute he knew she was gone and he was breathless for the first time. Neither of them knew of the presence hidden in the room, or that if they kept going deeper and deeper in the non-relationship that soon it would be too late to get out of. Unless it already was.