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Sorry my whole story, I fear, is going down hill, I am planning to finish this year and ten skip straight to year 5, anyone disagree?? I just think more interesting things happen then!!
Chapter 17: Christmas.
"Ooh," Lily groaned as she rolled out of bed, "Never again!"
"That's what we said, but we never stuck to it!!" Sirius strolled into Lily's bedroom towelling his wet hair, he was dressed in his muggle clothes but he has a cloak on over them,
"Morning sleepy head!" chuckled James, walking past into the bathroom,
"How on earth are you so happy?" Lily moaned, Sirius laughed and pulled a bottle out from under his cloak,
"I made it myself," he boasted, "can't have a hangover on Christmas!" Lily sipped from the bottle, she was instantly refreshed,
"Amazing! You could make sooo much from that stuff!"
"I know, but who would listen to a twelve year old!"
"Twelve? I thought you were eleven,"
"Awhh Lil's," Sirius beamed, "You noticed!"
"Noticed what?"
"It's my birthday!"
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Lily was sat on the sofa waiting for Sirius to come downstairs before they all opened their presents,
"So Evans, looking forward to any particular present this merry Christmas morning?" asked James in a mocking posh voice, Lily looked at him and with a gloomy smile answered,
"Why would I look forward to a Christmas with no family?" a tear rolled down her cheek as she stood up and left the room,
"Time to open the presents!" shouted Sirius as he burst into the room, "I bags the first one…" but he drifted off as he looked around the room to find Lily gone. One look at James' guilty face told him what had happened,
"I…I didn't mean too…I forgot!" James stammered pathetically, Sirius shot him a black look before rushing out the door to find Lily.
"Rose Cottage," Lily shouted with a small smile on her face, she looked up just in time to catch Sirius' sad face before she shot up the floo. She was swirled around and around, growing dizzy, before she finally landed with a thump on the hearth in her living room. "I'm home!" she whispered feebly to almost empty room, the furniture had grown slightly dusty in the few weeks that no one had been there to clean up, the Christmas tree was set up with all the presents underneath it. Her father had always set up the tree a month before Christmas. In Lily's mind she could see her parents sat on the sofa with the fire blazing, her sister sat at their feet. She walked over and reached out to touch her mothers face…
"Lily!" someone grabbed her arm, "Lily, you shouldn't be here," Sirius looked around the room, at the tree, the presents, Lily looked like she had seen a ghost.
"Sirius, can't you see them?" Lily smiled at the empty sofa,
"See who?" Sirius stared at the sofa again, "I'm going to get James," he walked over to the fire place and as he put one foot in he thought better of it, "No," he thought, "I can't leave her alone," he pulled a mirror out of his pocket and said quite clearly, "James Potter" James' face appeared in the mirror,
"Hello Sirius," he smiled, "Where on earth are you!"
"I'm at Lily's, she's acting strange," he rushed, "Get in the floo and come to Rose Cottage, you hear me? Rose…"
"…Cottage?...Yeah I hear you," he stammered, "I'm…I'm coming,"
"Don't worry Lil's," Sirius smiled as he turned around, "We'll get you some…" but he didn't finish, Lily had gone!
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Lily walked through the corridors of her house humming the tune to 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas', her arms were laden with the presents from under the Christmas tree. She went through all the bedroom depositing the correct presents on her family's beds, first hers then her parents and then finally Petunia's. As she turned into her sisters bedroom she was just humming 'and a happy new year',
"AHH!" Lily screamed, her face froze in a shocked expression.
"Lily Evans!" a squeaked voice screamed, "What on earth has happened?" Lily looked in shock at the girl standing in front of her,
"Why are you here?" she whispered,
"What do you mean freak?" Petunia sniggered bitterly, "I live here don't I?"
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WHOOSH!! James landed with a bump in Lily's front room, he grinned sheepishly up at Sirius, "Come on, you can't expect me to make a good landing if I rush!"
"Never mind that James," he pulled his friend up by the arms, "Help me find Lil's, she wandered off somewhere again," James nodded and started to make his way over to a door, "But James," Sirius added, "Be careful, she's not exactly herself,"
"Okay," He was puzzled, "Well I'll take this door Si," He nodded towards a door that appeared to lead into a hallway, "And you take that one," he pointed to the opposite side of the room,
"WOW!" Sirius looked around in amazement at the large kitchen that stood in front of him, "This is my idea of paradise!" he headed towards the fridge, pausing to look at a picture of Lily with he family that was stuck onto the front with a magnet, "No," he told himself, I have to find Lil's, at that point he heard a scream from upstairs, "LILY!" he shouted, "Lil's I'm coming,"
"How's a boy meant to find anyone in this place?" James laughed as he looked up the giant stair case and what had Sirius meant when he said Lily "Wasn't exactly herself,"
"Oh well," he sighed, making his way up the stair case, he heard someone humming, "Lily?" he whispered, the atmosphere was getting slightly creepy, and that eerie humming wasn't helping,
"Lil's, this isn't funny," he saw a shadow moving around on the landing above him,
"AHH!" he heard a scream, a muffled voice,
"LILY!" he heard Sirius shout, "Lil's I'm coming!"
"Yeah! ME TOO!" and with that he ran up the stairs.
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