HELLO MY WONDERFUL READERS. YEAH I KNOW IT'S SHORT AND I KNOW IT'S TOO SOON FOR TIS BUT YOU'LL SEE WHY I HAVE TO DO THIS! ANYWAY, READ, REVIEW AND ENJOY AND I'LL KEEP WRITING!
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CH.19
"Yo! Sirius! Charly! Stop!" James shouted behind the snogging couple.
"You're making me sick!" James laughed as he stopped next to them. Sirius looked slightly annoyed when Charly pulled away and looked at James.
"What is so important?" she asked him.
"Lily never had a Christmas." James said simply. Charly gasped.
"Oh yeah! I still have her present in my closet!" she said in awe.
"I got an idea!" Sirius cut in smiling. "We could take her to the Room of Requirements tonight and have a Christmas party for her." He said, proud of his idea.
"That is a great idea, Siri!" Charly kissed him softly on the cheek.
"James, you go tell Tori, Remus and Alice about this and tell them to meet in the Room of Requirements at 7. Sirius, you come with me and we can set up the Room of Requirements." Charly ordered.
" But the room can set up its…" Sirius was cut off by Charly's hand.
"I know that. We can figure out how we want it decorated." Sirius smiled as he caught her real reason, more snogging. Charly shooed James away and dragged Sirius off to the room.
(6:50pm night of the Christmas party)
"Lilyyyyyyyy." James whined to the ever reading Lily Evans.
"You've been reading the same book for four hours!" he exclaimed.
"I know and I only have one more page to go so shut up!" Lily said smacking him lightly on the hand. About three seconds later Lily put down her book.
"Now that I'm finished with my book, what do you want?" Lily turned to face James on the couch.
"I want you to come to the kitchens with me!" James said excitedly. Lily sighed.
"Fine! I missed dinner anyway so I'm a bit hungry." Lily grumbled and got up. Walking side by side out the portrait hole the two steadily made their way towards the Room of Requirements, unbeknownst to Lily.
"So, where are the kitchens anyway?" Lily asked. James smiled.
"This way come on!" he laughed pulling her by the arm. They'd be late if James didn't hurry Lily up.
"Ok, you have to put this on now." James said holding a blindfold. Lily looked confused but did as he told and let him tie the blindfold on.
"Ok, this way." James said taking Lily by the shoulders and stearing her down corridors and up stairs. Finally they stopped and to Lily it seemed that they were pacing, but she couldn't really tell. Hearing a door open Lily was guided forward and stopped.
"James, where are we?" Lily asked as she heard another door close. There was no answer.
"James!?!" Lily was beginning to panic when the blindfold was carefully untied and taken away from her eyes.
"Wow!" Lily said in awe as she gazed at the room before her.
"What is this?" she asked.
"It's a Christmas party for you." Charly said, emerging from behind a large Christmas tree.
"Yeah, we all pitched in." Sirius smiled as he stood up from behind one of three large red couches. Lily looked around and took in every detail of the room.
In the center stood a tall tree decorated in homey ornaments and ribbons, as if everyone took they're favorite ornament and put them on. A fireplace on the back wall, and three cushiony, red couches in a semi-square, stood around the tree and fireplace.
Laughing Lily sighed. Tori, Remus and Alice had appeared from behind the other couches while she had been looking around.
"Thank you so much." Lily smiled happily as she jumped over the back of a couch and landed with a small bounce on the cushions. Looking up she laughed as false snow began to fall.
"This is great!" she exclaimed laughing.
"Well, open your presents!" James said sitting down next to her. Charly and Sirius took one couch and Remus and Tori another as Alice sat on a large white pouf.
"Presents?" Lily said, getting even more excited. "YAY!" she clapped as James handed her a large package.
Careful not to rip the paper Lily opened it and quickly read the card. The package was from her dad. It was a soft, long, brown leather jacket. Lily smiled happily and set the jacket next to her on the couch.
Charly tossed her a bag and Lily looked at the card:
Dear Lils,
You've been getting' closer to James lately.
Charly
Lily peeked into the bag suspiciously and yelped. Tossing a pillow at her friend Lily transfigured the bag into fuzzy, monkey slippers.
"Thank you for the slippers, Charly." Lily said sarcastically but laughed, shaking her head. Tori tossed a heavy package to Lily and smiled.
"Sorry, no card, but I can safely say that it's from me and it's nothing like what she got you." Tori laughed pointing to Charly. Lily unwrapped it to find a new muggle romance novel.
"Thank you Tor! I've wanted to read this!" Lily said, getting up and hugging Tori. As she walked back she softly smacked Charly on the back of the head.
"HEY!"
"You deserved it!" Lily laughed. Sirius and Remus both gave her chocolates and some sugar quills, while Alice gave her a softly multi-colored scarf that went well with the leather jacket.
"Thank you guys! This was really sweet." Lily gushed as they sat around drinking apple cider.
"It was James' idea." Charly said, hiccupping.
"Thank you, sweety." Lily said leaning into James' warm body. Charly, Sirius, Remus, Tori and Alice snuck out of the room as James distracted Lily with a kiss.
"Lily." James whispered as he pulled away.
"Hmm?" Lily looked up at him contentedly. James slid down to the floor and got on one knee.
"Lily Rae Evans, will you marry me when we get out of school?" James asked, pulling a small box out of his pocket. Smiling Lily nodded.
"Yes James, yes, I'll marry you." Lily's eyes sparkled with tears of joy as James slid the thin silver ring on her finger. The ring had two small, round diamonds on each side of a square diamond, the band was a frosted silver while an unfrosted s-like line went over the top and held the square diamond. It was simply breathtaking. Lily threw her arms around James and kissed him soundly on the lips. Finally pulling apart the couple stared into each others eyes.
"I love you." They said I unison.
