HAPPY CHRISTMAS, HANUKAH, & KWANZA!!

This is my present to you! I hope everyone has agreat holiday!

Author's Note: Hello everyone! Happy Holidays!

Disclaimer:i own nothing, life suxs that way!

Lily straightened her black dress. Her dress reached her knees but the neckline went down to the middle of her chest. She wished she had something more covering but she never needed dresses and this was her only one.

She scrunched her hair a little and then flicked it behind her shoulders. She fiddled with her necklace around her neck and then she knocked on the door to the house. Lily bit her lip and breathed deeply.

"Hello?" said Sirius Black opening the door to revile him in jeans and a tee shirt, "Evans?"

"Hi Sirius," replied Lily smiling.

"My god, what the hell happened to you?" he asked astounded at Lily in a very sexy dress.

"I grew up, which it seems you did a little bit of it." Sirius laughed and embraced Lily in a warm hug.

"Come on in, sorry about the mess, Remus, keeps on saying we need to clean up after ourselves, but come on, like that would ever happen!" Lily laughed. The house was okay from what she saw.

"Hey, it looks better than my room."

"That was something I thought I would never hear!"

"Sirius, who was at the door?" asked Remus entering the room with a goblet of steaming potion, "Lily, I see you take my advice," he gleamed kissing her cheek.

"Is James here?" she asked.

"Yeah, he's in his room. He got really drunk and is just sleeping it off. Remus and I were going to give him a potion anyway because we were planning to go to a club tonight," said Sirius.

"Oh well, I just wanted to take James out to dinner, but if you have plans then I'll…"

"Hell no," said Sirius blocking the front from Lily, "James has been unbearable since he visited you, you will go up there, clean him up, and take him to dinner god damn it!"

Lily laughed, "Alright, if you say so." Lily smiled and started to walk upstairs.

"Wait, don't forget the potion," said Remus handing her the goblet. Lily nodded and continued her climb up the steep steps. She noticed that only one door was closed at the end of the hall so she took her chances and went through that door.

Inside it was pitch dark. It was relatively messy, with a bed right next to the door. Lily wouldn't have noticed that a man was on the bed if she wasn't two feet away from him. James had piles of covers and cloths on top of the bed. Lily smirked, she gently took the beer out of his hand and placed it with the other beer bottles on the night stand. Lily sat on the bed and gave the potion to James. She waited for him to wake up.

"Waz the man'r?" he mumbled.

"Good evening Mr. Potter," smiled Lily. James looked up at Lily sitting on his bed and then rubbed his forehead and turned on the light. He sat up in bed and put on his glasses.

"What… how… why…"

"Remus and Sirius let me in, and I thought I would have the honor of taking you out to dinner.

James blinked a few times, "Um, sure," he said flatly.

Lily laughed, "Well, why don't you get dressed and I'll have a cab over here."

"Don't you apparate?"

Lily stared at the floor, "No comment." James looked at Lily.

"Um, sure just give me a few minutes to take a shower and change." Lily nodded and walked out of the room to find Sirius and Remus crouching by the door.

Lily shook her head and stepped over the grinning pair. Lily walked down the staircase and stood in the hall. She took out her cell phone and punched in a few numbers.

…

"It's good to see you again," said James sitting across from Lily at an Italian restaurant.

"Yeah, it is," she said smiling.

"So how long have you and Bret been dating?" he asked.

Lily looked down at the table, "Listen James, I'm sorry you had to see Bret and I like that, but you have to understand I am happy with how my life turned out. Please, can we just pretend that that never happened?"

James studied her face and opened his mouth but closed it again, "Yes," he said after a brief period of silence.

"Wonderful!"

"Why Lily, I didn't expect to find you here!" James said gripping her hand. Lily felt a surge of something in her body but didn't quite know what it was.

"Same here! So Mr. Potter how has everything been?"

"Please Lily, after almost ten years you can't call me James?" he asked sincerely.

Lily felt uncomfortable calling him James , but she would never tell him that.

More than a few hours had passed and they were soon the only people left in the restaurant. "… so then Sirius takes him by the hair and chucks him across into a cubicle."

Lily gave a loud laugh, "And does he still wonder why he got fired from the Ministry. I mean if I did that to my boss I would be tossed out of the place. I don't think as hard, since I'm on friendly terms with the bouncer." James and Lily both smiled at each other holding eye contact.

Lily broke away as the waiter came over, "I am sorry ma'am but we have to close." Lily looked at her watch, it was almost 24:00 (12:00). Lily nodded. James and Lily both apologized for the time and they both walked silently along the sidewalk.

"You know Lily, I have thought about what happened on graduation," he said turning towards her.

"James, don't!" she said firmly, "You and I both know that we were young and just excited. It meant absolutely nothing!" Lily continued walking.

"But Lily, come on, it had to mean something?"

"No James it didn't, and I would take it back if I could. I would take a lot of things back," she whispered.

"I thought you were happy? Lily is this guy, Bret… does he hurt you?" James asked grabbing her arm.

Lily tilted her head back gave out a loud laugh, "Bret… you have got to be kidding me!" she wiped a tear from her eye, "Bret is great, I mean all our relationship really is just getting drunk and shagging. I mean, yeah I would like more but I'm not going to push him." Honestly though, Lily had really no feelings towards Bret other than he was amazing in bed and very gorgeous. She was thinking of dumping him because she did want to find the one and get married and everything but just not with Bret.

James again grabbed her arm to stop her but this time held both of her arms, "So, if I kissed you, you won't be mad?" he asked but before Lily could laugh he leaned in and kissed her. All of the memories and feelings from Hogwarts came back. She suddenly was determined to get rid of Bret and be with James.

She focused back on the kiss, his tongue teased hers and then decided to tease on her own. She broke away and whispered into his ear, "It's early in the bar industry, let's just go and have a good time. We forget about Bret and we forget about all of the other things and just enjoy tonight."

James's face was about a centimeter away from hers, he kissed her again, "Let's just do it, Lily. Why get drunk and then not remember it? I wish I remembered it from graduation…" Lily kissed to shush him, grabbed his hand and disparated back to James's room.

James said a simple spell to clean the place up in between kisses. Lily ran her hands through his hair as he kissed her neck and ran his hands up and down her back. They broke apart and looked at each other. Lily saw that James's eyes were alive with fire.

Lily went to unbutton his shirt but James took her hands and kissed them, "I missed you so much, Lily, you will never know how..." Lily held his cheek in her hand, "I know." Lily kissed him passionately then unbuttoned his shirt. Somehow they ended up on the bed after Lily had abandoned her dress and shoes.

James ran his fingertips up and down Lily's arms while kissing her. He smiled at Lily who was taking off James's pants and boxers. James kissed Lily's neck and made his way down Lily's body. James' kisses were soft and sweet. Each kiss was like an addiction to Lily, she needed more of him every second.

Finally after what seemed like hours, James rose above Lily and she arched towards him. She clenched the sheets as he gripped her hips to enter her. She gave a small gasp and they started to rock slowly. Lily swore as at how fucking good it felt. She titled her head back as she neared her climax… Good Fucking GOD!

Lily slightly groaned at her soreness the next morning. She replayed the events in her mind and smiled happily. She dared to open her eyes, she was in James's room, on his bed, next to him. He had one arm wrapped around her waist and another hand near her hair. Lily smiled widely, James's hair looked horrible. Lily reached out her hand to attempt to comb his wild hair but James opened his eyes and grabbed her hand and kissed it, "I don't like it when mysterious bartenders who decide to sleep in my bed try to comb my hair after a great night of sex."

Lily gave out a great appreciated laugh, "I'm sorry."

"You should be," James gazed at Lily as he caressed her hand and kissed each of her fingertips.

Lily stared right back at him, her heart beat faster than it should have. She broke eye contact and cleared her throat, "Do you feed your mysterious bartenders?" she asked looking away from him. She sat up in the bed clutching the covers around her body.

James turned her chin towards him, "Please, don't regret this, Lily, please," he said kissing Lily tenderly pulling her down towards him with each soft kiss.

"James…"

"Please Lily, don't do this," James said throwing himself on the bed.

"James," Lily said sharply, "How the hell am I suppose to take this, I mean I do have a boyfriend!"

"I know Lily," James said getting up and grabbing some jeans off the floor, "You don't have to remind me!"

"Well, sometimes I think I do! James we aren't eighteen anymore, we're twenty! I can't go around and sleep with every guy I think is hot, it's not how it works anymore." Lily turned away from him.

She could hear James sigh. She felt the bed sink beside her, "Lily, can you at least pretend? I promise that I will never speak to you again, just for this one day, be happy about last night, can you do that for me?"

Lily looked at him, his hazel eyes were so powerful. She felt so much passion when he looked at her, "Yes," she stammered.

James smiled and kissed her on her cheek, "You can borrow whatever you like from the closet or floor and I will make us breakfast. Just follow the scent of something burning." Lily giggled and James left the room. Lily sighed and sunk into the feather pillows, she grabbed a pillow and stuffed it over her face and gave a small faint scream.

I hope you guys like it! Thanks for all the reviews!

For All Readers/ Reviewers: James & Lily split up at Hogwarts, you'll find out more later on. The bar scene was inspired by Cayote Ugly. And people change in two years. Thank you all for reviewing, it's awesome, and Happy Holidays again!

Meg-