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Chapter Four: Animagi, Christmas, Under the Mistletoe

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Selena and Sirius both looked up to see who it was.

"Oy! Prongs, that was fast!" Sirius said sarcastically. Selena spread a wide grin on her face, she knew.

"I'll talk to you later about that my dear Padfoot," James said, " So, what was that? Lets do what?" looking at Selena, she dropped the grin from her face and went white.

"Well, what it was… umm… it –

"See Prongs, I asked her to come with me to Hogsmeade next weekend," Sirius said cutting her off. She nodded in agreement.

"Oh…" James winked at Sirius. "I'm going to go to bed now. See you two in the morning."

Before James left the two Selena asked, "Did Gwen ever come back on her lil date with Jared?"

"Yeah… she walked back with me, but she fell asleep with others right away." James said while walking to where everyone was sleeping.

Selena turned back to Sirius, "What was that about?!?" trying not to yell at him.

"Cool it woman! I did that so James wouldn't find out what we were trying to plan. Besides we can plan at Hogsmeade since we'll be alone," he said.

"Ok then, we better get some sleep," she said trying to keep her eyes open, "And this isn't going to be a date, remember that."

"Whatever you say… whatever you say," he replied.

Sirius broke up with Maria the day after it wasn't pretty. Maria made a big scene in the Great Hall, yelling at Sirius while pouring pumpkin juice over his head. Everyone was very amused with this, even the Professors.

Selena and Sirius never went to Hogsmeade that weekend; they were both too busy, stuck with homework the whole weekend. They decided to plan after Christmas.

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It was a few days before Christmas. The gang was buying gifts for everyone, with the little money they had. Except for James he came from a wealthy family as for Gwen and Arabella.

"Where's Remus at?" Arabella asked.

All three boys went white. James spoke up, "His – his  mother is sick again. So, he had to go home – home  for the rest of Christmas break."

All four girls looked at one another. Remus had been going home a lot this year. The girls got worried for his mother.

"Aww… I hope his mum is ok," Lily said sounding very concerned. The guys just nodded, while regaining color in their faces.

"Hey you guys! Lets go get some butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks," Gwen said breaking the silence.

Everyone went into the Three Broomsticks and bought their butterbeers. The guys finished first, they left the girls saying that they had to go to the library to finish their D.A.D.A (Defense Against the Dark Arts) essays.

"So, Bella. What did you get Remus?" Lily asked. All three knew that Arabella liked Remus, since the Halloween feast, but she would never admit it.

"I got him a broom," she said while holding it up, "he doesn't own one. So, I just thought he would like one."

"How sweet of you Bella," Gwen said smiling at her.

"Shove it Gwen," Arabella said eyeing her. Selena stood up.

"I'll see you three back at Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall asked me to stop by her office today, she needs to talk to me about something," Selena said.

"But you have an A in Transfiguration!" Lily said sounding confused, "I wonder what it's about?"

"I know strange isn't it?" Selena said, " Well, I'll see you later!"

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James, Sirius, and Peter were all in the library. What the girls didn't know was the boys had lied about working on their D.A.D.A. essays; instead they were looking for books on Animagus transformation. The guys knew Remus was a werewolf, that's why he was always gone; he stayed in a little shack that ran through the Whomping Willow. Remus had told them during the summer about his condition and asked them to make excuses when he was gone on a full moon. After he had told the guys, they wanted to help him make his transformation more bearable. So they decided they wanted to become unregistered Animagi where they could transform into an animal, so Remus wouldn't have to be alone. James would become a stag, Sirius a dog, and Peter as a rat. Hence the nicknames they gave one another, Moony, Prongs, Padfoot, and Wormtail.

 The library was empty since many of the students went home for Christmas break. All three boys were sitting in the back table, where not many people could see them if they came in the library. Peter was reading  "Animagi's for Idiots"; across the table James and Sirius were both reading "Everything You Need to Know About Being A Animagus". As they were reading, Selena walked into the library after talking to Professor McGonagall. She spotted the boys and walked over to the back table. Peter was the first one to see her coming and he shut his book closed and pretended he was working on his essay, but James and Sirius didn't notice.

"So, what do we have here? Dumb, Dumber and the Dumbass himself," Selena said referring to Sirius as the Dumbass. While looking at the title of the book they were reading.

James and Sirius went pale and glared at Peter for not telling them someone was coming, "WE – CAN – EXPLAIN!" both of them said at the same time.

"No need to you two, I guess McGonagall talked to you guys also, on how were going to learn about Animagi next. This will be a fun topic. Strange how she only talk to a few students."

All three boys sighed in relief. They were lucky that they were going to learn about Animagi during the same time they wanted to become one.

"Yeah… she talked to us about it. We're all really excited about it," James said regaining color in his face.

"So, Lena. What are you in here for?" Sirius asked, "I thought you would never step a foot into here."

"I would say the same to you," she said, "I came in for the same reason as your three are in here for." All boys began to tense up. "A book… smart ones, but since you took all the books. I'm gonna go back to the common room and finish some homework," she walked out of the library.

"I thought I was going to pee in my pants!" Sirius whined, " Wormtail, why didn't you tell us she was coming?!?"

"I got scared! SORRY!" Peter squeaked. James and Sirius shook their head.

"Next time, if something ever happens like this again. TELL US!" Sirius said. Peter just nodded.

"But what was she talk about McGonangall talking to a few students?" James said while slipping the book in his robe.

"I don't know," Sirius said. All of them just shrugged and left the library. They needed to work quick if each one of them were going to become a Animagus.

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It was already Christmas morning the girls had wakened up early except for Lily. As for the boys they were all sleeping as well. Selena, Arabella, and Gwen decided to wake the boys up. They walked to the front of the boy's dormitory, they could hear snoring. Arabella opened the door and all three creped in slowly. They found James and Peter already awake, but they found Sirius sound asleep, snoring.

"I've already tried to wake him up. He won't budge," James told all three.

"I'll wait for you guys downstairs," Peter said running out the door.

Everyone just laughed. James looked around and noticed Lily wasn't there. He looked at Selena and noticed her eyes switched from dark brown to an amethyst color and back again. He blinked and looked at her crazy not quite sure of what he saw.

"Lily's still asleep. We couldn't wake her up, you go and try," Selena said pointing out the door, "leave the sleepy head to us."

James walked out of the dormitory and entered the girl's dormitory finding Lily fast asleep. He walked over to her bed and leaned in closely from behind her whispering, "Merry Christmas, Tiger Lily."

Lily was still asleep. She just rolled over and grabbed on to something warm, she opened her eyes and realized she pulled James into the bed with her. Lily jumped up pushing James off her bed.

"What are you doing in here?!" she said pulling her covers up to her body.

"Arabella, Gwen and Selena asked me to wake you up, since they failed," James said trying to get up, " Come on lets go down stairs with everyone to open our presents!"

Lily and James walked down stairs and as they walked towards the tree, they saw Peter sitting in front of the Christmas tree along with Arabella, Gwen and Selena. Both of them sat with the group, Lily looked around noticing that Sirius wasn't there.

Lily looked around, "Umm…you guys. Where's Sirius?"

Everyone, but Lily and James began to laugh pointing to the ceiling. They saw Sirius hovering around trying to yell, but no sound came out. As they saw Sirius they began to laugh along with the group.

"What did you do to him?" Lily asked after she had stopped laughing.

"Well, Bella, Gwen and I decided to wake him up, but he threw a pillow at my face. So, we levitated him downstairs and put a silence charms on him," Selena said while rubbing her red face.

"Hmm… I think he's had enough," Gwen spoke.

They got Sirius down and took the silence charm off of him. Then, he sat by Peter away from the girls. "You know that wasn't funny," he said.

"Merry Christmas! Lets open the presents now!" Peter said looking for anything that had his name on it.

Everyone was happily opening there presents. Lily piled up all of her presents from everyone; Remus bought her a cheating quill for quizzes. She opened another one both from Arabella and Gwen; they gave her a picture book filled with pictures of the group throughout the year. Selena bought her a Walkman, the rest of the group looked at it strangely, she to explain to them how it worked. Then, she reached at the back of the pile for James and Peter's present, Peter was too cheap to buy his own present for her, she opened the gift and to her eyes was a shimmering blue heated robe. James had explained to her if she worn it she would never get cold. Lily thanked every one for the presents. And brought everything to her dormitory.

James left to the owlry to send Remus his gifts, and come back.

"Lily, you have one more present!" Arabella said waving a tiny gold box and handed to her.

"That's strange, I thought I opened them all," Lily said looking at the tiny box. As she opened the box her moth dropped, she couldn't believe it was so beautiful.

"Well, what is it?" Gwen and Selena said at the same time.

Lily showed them a Lily-shaped diamond necklace, the diamond looked just like a Lily. Arabella, Gwen, and Selena rushed over to her to take a closer look at it.

"Who's it from?" Gwen asked.

"I don't know. It didn't say," Lily said.

"It must have been really expensive!" Gwen said still looking at the necklace.

"OooO! Lily has an admirer!" Sirius said in a sing- song voice. After he had said that James had come back.

"What did I miss?" James asked.

"Lily got a gift from a admirer!" Gwen chanted. James smiled.

Lily began to turn red, and put the necklace on, 'I wonder who sent me this, maybe it was...nah!' she thought to her self.

As everyone put their presents away they all decided to go get something to eat in the kitchen. Peter and Sirius were waiting outside in front of the portrait. Then Arabella, Gwen and Selena, headed out too. Lily and James were right behind them, as they were almost out of the common room James stopped Lily.

"Lily look up," James said.

She looked up and saw mistletoe hovering above them, as she looked back down James leaned in and kissed her softy on the lips. Lily's eyes grew bigger as he kissed her, when he leaned back they both started to blush madly. There was giggling behind the portrait, everyone had seen them kiss. Selena and Sirius looked at on another and smiled.

'This won't be hard to get them together after all,' Sirius thought to himself.

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