Lily woke up by Alex and Alice jumping on her and yelling, "Happy Christmas!"

"Happy Christmas," smiled Lily. "Do you think the guys are up yet?"

?Probably not? laughed Alice. ?Let?s move out presents downstairs.? They flicked their wands and their presents started to float in mid-air. They guided them downstairs.

Lily set hers down and went up to the boys' dormitory. Before she opened the door, she went back down. "Let's grab quills so we can tickle them." She went to their room and grabbed a quill out of her bag. They opened the door to the Marauders' room. Lily tiptoed to James' bed and sat on the floor. She tickled his ear. He didn't wake up, but he rubbed his ear. She tickled his ear again. He groaned and rolled over. She carefully crawled onto his bed. He opened an eye and closed it before she saw that he was awake. He grabbed her waist and brought her next to him. He cuddled against her and attempted to go back to sleep.

"Then, I'll just have to return your Christmas gift that I know you'll love," smiled Lily.

"You wouldn't," smiled James.

"Wanna bet?" laughed Lily. James started to tickle her. She crawled over him and onto the ground and stood up.

"Ok, I'm up," said James. He got out of bed, wearing only his pj pants. He had a nice toned body from Quidditch. It was prefect.

"Oh, Lily, you better protect him from all the girls," winked Alex.

"Alex!" smiled Lily, stepping in front of James. "Maybe I should protect him from you!" Lily laughed.

James pulled on a shirt that was tight enough to show off his body, but not very tight. "Ok, come on."

"Like that was any better," winked Alex.

"Alex!" smiled Lily as they walked downstairs. "Hands off! His sexy body is mine!" Lily laughed as James blushed.

Everyone put his or her presents under the tree. Lily waved her wand and all the presents mixed with each other. Everyone let Alice pass out the presents since it was her idea.

Lily got a hot pink quill with lime green ink from Alice, a real mood ring that changes color on what you are really feeling, not those cheap ones, from Alex, a midnight blue bookbag that never rips and feels light as a feather not matter how many books are in it from Remus, a simple gold chain with a Gryffindor lion pendent from Sirius, and a book on Astronomy from Peter.

"Oh, I'll be right back," James went up to his dorm and came back with a velvet pouch. He handed it to her. She handed him a leather box.

Lily undid the ribbon that was on the pouch and dumped it out on her hand. "Oh my God! It's beautiful!"

"That's not an ordinary charm bracelet," said James. He wanted to see her expression before he opened his gift.

"What do you mean?" asked Lily.

"The lilies will always make you smell of lilies, the Hogwarts crest has a powerful spell on it, you'll always be safe, the heart tells you how people actually feel about you and the white orb turns black when evil is around," James said, enjoying the look of joy on her face.

She kissed him. "Open your gift. You'll love it."

James opened the box. His eyes got wide. "Oh my God! Lily!" he pulled put the snitch.

"It's signed by the whole Bulgarian team," smiled Lily.

He kissed her. "This is great!"

"James!" laughed Sirius, he held up the spiked collar he had just opened. Everyone looked at it. The girls didn't catch what was so funny.

"We should tell the girls our secret," said James. Remus, Sirius and Peter looked at him like he was crazy. "I mean, they have to find out sooner or later right?"

Remus looked at all the girls. "You can not tell anyone. NO ONE. About our secret. No one can know or we all will get kicked out and hated on in my case. You have to promise not to tell a single soul."

"We promise," said the three girls. James, Peter, and Sirius all transformed into their animals. Padfoot, a big black dog, Peter a rat, and James a stag.

"You're all Animagus?" asked Lily. She knew about James, but had no idea about the others.

"Well, except for me," said Remus. He took a deep breath. He didn't want to scare off Alex or Alice because of what he was. He hoped they'd take it like Lily had. "I'm a werewolf."

Alex and Alice gasped and scooted back a little. Remus looked down. Padfoot laid down next to Remus and rested his head down on his lap, Prongs laid behind him and Wormtail crawled up his arm and rested on the back of his neck. Remus knew they were comforting him. Lily scooted over to hug him. She looked at Alex and Alice.

"Are you going to stop talking to him because he turns into a werewolf once a month?" asked Lily. "He's our friend. You can't do that to him."

"We're sorry," said Alex and Alice. They crawled over and hugged Remus.

"It's ok," said Remus. "Come on." He stood up, Wormtail scurried off of him and Prongs, Padfoot, and Wormtail transformed back. "Let's go down to breakfast."

"We won't tell anyone what we just saw and heard," said the girls. They guys smiled.

They headed back to their dorms to get dressed. They all headed to breakfast together. The heart on Lily's charm bracelet told her that everyone around her like her as a friend. Except Peter and James. Peter didn't like her as much as the others did, but Lily ignored that. James' loved her. Loved her to be with her for the rest of his life. Her heart skipped a beat. She rested her head on his shoulder when he put his arm around her waist. He was flooded with the sweet smell of lilies, but not too much.

They all stopped walking when they entered the Great Hall. There was only one table. The only teachers here were the Heads of Houses. There were three Slytherins, two Hufflepuffs, no Ravenclaws, and seven Gryffindors.

"Um, Dumbledore, what's going on?" asked Remus as they headed for the table. Lily walked past Severus, the heart told her that he liked her...more than a friend... She gasped silently.

"I thought it silly to have the House tables up when there's only seventeen people here," said Dumbledore. He smiled. "Happy Christmas Gryffindors!"

"Happy Christmas," they all chanted.

Lily sat down next to a Hufflepuff 3rd year girl. She saw Lily's bracelet. "Where'd you get that from?"

"James," replied Lily. She explained what each charm did. She told what the heart did last. "It only works if I've talked to a person for a while."

Severus dropped his fork with a clank. The whole table became silent and looked at him. The Marauders snickered. After about a minute, everyone went back to his or her food and conversations.

That night, Sirius and Peter were playing chess with Sirius' new pieces, Remus sat with Alex and Alice, talking like they did before they new he was a werewolf, and Lily and James cuddled up near the fire for a little nap along with Cloe. Sirius looked up after he beat Peter again and saw Lily and James napping. He and Peter went over to Remus, Alex, and Alice.

"A little Christmas prank couldn't hurt can it?" smiled Sirius. "Our love birds are sleeping, they prefect time."

"What do you have in mind?" asked Alex.

"Hit them with snowballs," said Sirius.

"We are way up in the Gryffindor tower, the snow is way down on the ground," said Peter.

"Thank God we are wizards," smiled Remus. Sirius walked over to the window and muttered the snowball spell.

"Count me out of this, I'd rather just watch," said Alice.

"Yeah, me too," said Alex.

Lily and James weren't really asleep. James told her that they might do something if they really were sleeping. Lily muttered something very quietly. They had to hid their laughter as best as they could.

Sirius flicked his wand, but instead of the snowball flying towards Lily and James, it chased him around the room before it finally hit him. Lily waved her wand again and all the snowballs flew towards Peter, Remus, and Sirius. Lily and James couldn't hold in their laughter anymore. They looked up and rolled with laughter and the other Marauders. Alex and Alice went over to Lily and James and gave them high fives.

"You were in their little prank too?" asked Sirius. "Ow." A snowball just smacked him in the face.

"Of course, other wise we would have tried to stop you," smiled Alex.

"Did you really think we were asleep?" laughed James.

"Yeah we did," said Peter.

"You thought we were that stupid to fall asleep with three evil Marauders up?" laughed Lily. The rest of the snowballs melted before hitting anyone.

"We'll get you back," laughed Sirius.

"Well, this was the best Christmas ever," said Remus. Everyone agreed and laughed at the three boys.

A/N: well, here's chapter 10! I hope you like it! I like it! I love it! Chapter 11 coming soon! Stayed tuned! i can't wait! Chapter 11 is kinda short, but its still good!