AN: whoops! Ok, I said that it was March earlier, well, I want it to be December now, so *Poof* it is! Yay! Ok, the way the chapters work are the hospital dream one, then the next two are what happened before, like flashbacks, ok? On with the story!

Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all things connected with Harry Potter belong to J.K. Rowling. What I made up is mine.



"You guys! Come QUICK!!!!" Lily sounded a bit hysterical when she called out.

Peter jumped at this noisy disturbance when the group was walking down the hall. He started to say something, but then was interupted by Sirius acting like he was a cheerleader.

"Hey! Give me a W! Give me an H! Give me an A! Give me a T! What does that spell!?! WHAT?"

"Calm down." Remus hissed. "It's just a Christmas dance (a semi-formal ball) and Lily's in dreamland."

Lily was imagining her and James together, dancing a slow song. Everyone would be around them in a circle, watching. As the final strains of music ended, James would lift her chin, and sloooowly lean down, when they would-

"Lily! SHOPPING!!!!" Kera was very excited, as she had been having her own thoughts about Sirius and herself.

"Ok, but NOT at Hogsmeade. I have bad memories about there."

As this was happening, the boys were talking.

"Hey James?"

"Hello, Sirius."

"Guess who you should take?"

"Who?" (He knew.we all know)

"Lily!"

"I would, guy, but I think that she is going with that one guy, her whadda- ya-call-it?"

"Boyfriend?"

"DUDE!? Could you say it louder?"

"DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU LIKE LIL-?"

"SHUT UP!"

Lily and Kera were walking away when they heard this, and Lily's face lit up, then fell when she thought that James probably meant that 5th year, Lillebette. (AN: this was someone else's character, not mine, but just the name)

"Lily, he sooo means you."

Kera looked anxious as she said that, cause Lily had a habit of being very melodramatic, and rather unstable in her mind."

As they looked at the portraits lining the halls, they noticed a 4th year Gryffindor coming along.

"Hello, Lily. Kera. Such a pleasure to see you." The girl had applesauce blonde hair, with faint cherry/strawberry highlights in it. She was biting her lips, to not burst out laughing.

"Hey Abby." Kera looked at Lily, because Lily was looking at Abigail strangely, because she didn't know this girl very well, the strange girl being younger. But the most peculiar thing was not that she seemed older than her 13 (soon to be 14) years, but that she was familiar looking. Then she wondered how she had known her name. After all, Kera was the one tutoring her in potions, Lily was just around. Then it hit her. She was the mysterious model girl from the muggle world that was only working during the summer, and no one knew where she went to school. So this was where. Hmmm, she looked younger, and was younger than Lily thought she was.

"How do you know me?" Lily asked.

"Well, duh! *Laughing* Everyone knows you. You are, like, the, like, most totally popular girl, in, like, the whole school. Uh huh!"

"Um, ok! Ker, I gotta run, I will see you, k?"

"Yeah, Lils. Toodles."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*that night~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"So, do you wanna go shopping now? We have permission to go to Diagon Ally, not Hogsmeade this break, us being 6th years."

"Kera, do you ever think of anything besides clothes?"

"No. Sooooo, let's sceedaddle, and shuffle of to buffalo."

"Tomorrow, ok? It is late now."

"Whatever. Night Lil."

"G'night."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*next day~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Lily! WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP!!! TIME TO SHOP!!!!!" Kera was bouncing around the room while she screamed this.

"I'm UP ALREADY!!!!" Lily roared this last comment. (Her only comment) She was not a morning person.

They hurried down and stuffed some toast into their mouths, mumbling "gotta go wif mcgongl. Bye."

The boys looked mystified at these comments, but the younger girls (who couldn't go on the trip) knew exactly what they meant and told them to have a good time.

"So, James, Remus, Peter. What are you going to wear, and who are you going to take?"

James looked around, and said, "the Quidditch team is wearing our robes, you know that." Then he looked around, rather embarrassed looking, and whispered, "No one."

"What!" The boys could not believe it. James, the most popular boy in school, in Britain, in the world (note the sarcasm *grin*) NOT HAVE A DATE? Impossible.

"Impossible!" Sirius countered. "Even I have a date. But really, that is not too surprising, as the girls love me. Maybe it is better to say that Peter even has a date, and you know how shy he is with the ladies."

Remus chimed in, "And James, you know you wanna ask Lily. I think you should, she would probably say yes. She is into you."

"Maybe." James mumbled, while hoping it was true.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Oh, wow! Lily, in that dress you will knock the socks off James."

"Kera, I don't know, it is kinda reveling."

"Trust me, it is fine. You look great."

Professor McGonogall walked in the shop, and told the girls it was time to leave. As they were flying back to Hogwarts (OF COURSE they can fly from Diagon Ally to Hogwarts.) Lily and Kera were both wondering how to get their crushes to ask them. Lily's mind was also occupied with her fantasies of the ball, mostly the ones that she had had before. She was thinking that James had asked her, and was swept away by her beauty, poise, and charm. She didn't realize that James loved her when she was mad or planning a prank. Anyway, they were dancing, when the rest of the students formed a circle around them. Then, as the final strains of music were being played, James would look into her eyes, and whisper, Lily, I lo-

"Lily! Watch out for that tree!"

Well, she was a bit disgruntled at her dream being interrupted, for the second time.

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