It was three days before the Christmas Ball was going to be held and Lily and James had been working extremely hard to try and get everything done in the next three days!

James and Sirius got together after Lily and Sirius did to talk about what was going on with the Santa and Mrs. Clause idea.

"Sirius I've just thought…what if she has a big massive fit at me in front of the entire school about swapping roles with you and me getting completely embarrassed and never being able to leave my dorm again!" James explained while Sirius and James were having their little 'secret' meetings.

"Umm…not gonna happen!" Sirius said confidently.

"But how do you know?" James asked his words becoming into a more and more worrying tone.

"Because I know Lily, Now don't argue and try this on!" Sirius said holding up a bright red Santa suit and a big bobble hat.

James sighed and took the costume off Sirius and got under his invisibility cloak to get changed into it, as they were in a random classroom that they had found empty.

All Sirius could hear from under the cloak was 'ouch' 'bugger' 'Stupid bleeding costume go on!'

"You know James I've never got changed underneath a invisibility cloak, but it sounds rather dangerous…so I don't think I'll be trying it anytime soon!" Sirius joked as James took the invisibility cloak off and stood there in a complete Santa costume!

"Perfect!" Sirius said and James got back underneath the cloak and put his originally clothes back on.

The day before the Ball Lily was looking round Hogsmeade for the perfect dress that she could wear…and it had to be wonderful because she was head girl, she couldn't go dressed up in any old thing that she had found on the street or in the back of her wardrobe, and she wasn't having much luck either!

"I give up Louise! There is not a dress for me anywhere!" Lily complained as they walked out of another robe shop near the outskirts of the village.

"Don't worry Lils you'll find something!" Louise said confidently…but secretly she was worrying as well that Lily would not have anything to go in.

"I won't!" Lily said walking back into the center of the village.

"Don't give up hope Lily!" Louise argued.

"Lou…I've been looking for the perfect dress for over a month now…and I've gotten no where…so I'll just find something in the back of my wardrobe or something…I mean its not all so important is it? Its just a silly ball, yes the first ball I have designed on my own and my first proper job as head girl, but all that doesn't matter, it doesn't mean that I have to have the perfect dress does it?" Lily said quickly and Louise was finding it hard to follow.

"You don't believe a word of that complete rubbish do you?" Louise asked with her face scrunched up still trying to take in everything Lily was saying and Lily sighed.

"Nope, heck I can't even remember if I said it in English or not!" Lily said sitting on the bench in front of the Shrieking Shack and putting her head in her hands.

"Come on lets go back to the castle…we'll figure something out stop worrying!" Louise said and Lily sighed again and got off the bench and walked back up to the castle with Louise, completely losing all hope that she was going to find the perfect dress in 24 hours.

It became to the morning of the Ball and Lily still hadn't gotten a dress and was really starting to panic, she was pacing in her room, trying to think of something to do when she heard a knock at her door.

"Come in!" Lily shouted and James entered.

"Hi" James said simply.

"Oh you…what do you want?" Lily asked.

"Well I heard you were having some problems so I decided to come and give you a hand" James said sweetly.

"Well thanks but no thanks, I'm slowly reaching social suicide and I really don't need you breathing down my neck either!" Lily said still pacing the room and James looked shocked, still standing at her door frame, scared to walk in incase he got a good going at from Lily.

"Ok, I just thought that I should leave this for you, Louise told me you were having problems and I saw this yesterday while me and the boys were at Hogsmeade and I thought of you, I guess I'll see you at the Ball, see you Lily" James said walking over to her bed with Lily eyeing him suspiciously as he dropped a rectangle brown box on her silky white bed and then walked out of the room without another word.

When he left Lily walked over to the box and opened it slowly, wondering what James Potter would possible think would be good for her to have, She opened it to find what had to be the most gorgeous dress she had ever laid her eyes upon, it was a white floor length dress, with little rose flower patterns going down it, it cut off the shoulders and had a shawl ( I think that's what its called, sorry if I've got it wrong) to go with it, Lily gawped in awe at the beautiful dress and then remembered James, She dropped the dress quickly back into its box and ran out of her room and down to the common room where she found James sitting on the couch reading a book.

"Thank you" Lily said shocked.

"It was no problem, I saw it and thought of you" James said not lifting his head up from the book.

"No it must have cost you a fortune" Lily said still in shock.

"Nothing I couldn't handle" James said simply.

"But…I still don't understand why you did it?" Lily asked and James finally looked up from his book, got up from the couch and walked round to her.

"Consider it as a peace offering" James said and Lily looked confused.

"Meaning…?" Lily asked

"Come on Lily…you're head girl! I mean I offer it as peace for us two, you know friends again, no more fighting and arguing, what do you think?" James asked hopefully and Lily looked in deep thought.

"James after what you just did for me, no girl would be able to resist that offer" Lily said smiling and James laughed and hugged Lily for the first time in about four years.

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