Authors Note: Sorry guys, it's been quite a while since I posted, and I know all of you asre dying for another chapie...so here goes. I warn you though, this one is uber short, and slightly disapointing...

Chapter 31

Christmas in Heaven

Lily and Caroline spent the next few days attending party after party of the Ruperts many

friends and aquaintances. By the time Christmas rolled around, Lily was so exhausted from

parties that she hadn't even realized the date. She woke up Christmas morning and went

downstairs, as she did every mornings itting down at the counter to tell Georgio what she wanted

that morning.

The Ruperts kitchen ran like a restaurant, everyone got what the wanted when they wanted

it. This morning Caroline was not in her room when Lily woke up, so she had gone downstairs

alone. Georgio was not waiting for her as he normally was, so she rubbed her eyes and looked

at the clocks above the matel. The first one told her the time, and served as a normal clock. It

was 10:12 in the morning right now. The second clock, rather than having numbers around the

edge, had rooms in the house where members of the family might be, except that there were so

many rooms in the Ruperts house that it had had to be enlarged in order to fit all of them. This

clock told her that every member of the family and household was in the living room right now.

Lily, still drowsy, went into the living room. No one was there, yet they had to be here

because the clock was always right.

"Merry Christmas!!!" Shouted Mr. Rupert, jumping out from behind the door. He waved

his wand in the air, shooting red and green confetti out of the end. Mrs. Rupert came next

shouting

"Happy Holidays!" From her wand came snowflake shaped confetti. Lily looked out the

window. The sight there made her heart leap, she was having her first white Christmas in her

life. Usually, if it did snow over christmas on Privet Drive, which it had only done twice, they

either went away, or the snow meled before Christmas day. There was a Christmas tree in the

corner where Georgio and the kitchen staff were busy monitering the draping of popcorn and

lighting of candles, (the popcorn was strining itself while the candles lit themselves, but it still took

a large effort to make sure nothing caught on fire and no needles went rambo).

There were piles of presents underneathe the tree, Lily even thought she saw some

adressed to herself. Caroline and Ben were already underneathe the tree opening parsels. Lily

tore open the paper on one package adessed to her throwing the paper aside with recless

abandon, inside was a beautiful snowflake necklace which she imediatly fastened around her

neck. Lily looked at the note on the paper, it was from James. That was sweet of him, Lily was

glad that she had sent off the invisibility cloak to him the other day. She also got tons of

chocolates and Bertie Botts Every-Flavor Beans. The Ruperts had given her a beautiful charm

bracelet with three charms so far. One was a little model of Hogwarts, one was a snowflake, the

other was a balerina. Lily did not understand why they had given her a balerina charm.

"Oh, it's because of your beautiful dancing sweetheart!" Explained Mrs. Rupert. Lily

thanked them and ripped open the paper on her last parsel. It was from Caroline. Inside was the

dress she had worn to the Ruperts ball, it had been washed and ironed, enclosed was a note

telling her that it looked so good that Caroline had felt like she needed to give it to her. Lily

thanked everyone so much for her girfts and went upstairs to put them away. The rest of the

vacation passed by in a blur of presents and parties, none of Lilys homework got done.

Authors Note: Sorry it was so short!!! The next one is longer, I promise...although unless you click the little review button, you won't be reading any of it! So there! Haha, only teasing, I probabally crack and end up posting with or without your reviews...but just to be safe, click away! Oh, and ps, the chappter title does not mean anyone died or anything, it is reffering to the name of the farm, Little Slice of Heaven, dur!