A/n: AH! School's gonna start soon, but this time, I'm gonna try to get on the computer more often, by trying to be mum's perfect daughter that does everything she needs to do first, then spend all the remaining time on this! And I wont be using msn that much so that won't interfere! Yay! I'm so proud of myself. Lol. I gave myself a nickname, well, my brother did. Cuz I use star instead of me real name, (my name means star) and he made up 'Shining Star' and now I like it…but I know it'll get old one day…I think.

Lily and James Sixth Year War

Christmas Ball Preparations

It was almost time for the Christmas Ball (Christmas Eve) and Remus had won the bet and successfully got the girl he wanted for so long. Lily reluctantly handed over the pictures, but being her, she made copies of them and secretly showed it to the others who loved them. Remus at first was angry at Lily for not really keeping their promise, but when the guys didn't really, torture, him with the pictures and his girlfriend didn't make fun of him, he started to relax a little.

Lily and James do meet every night just not as secretly. The girls new about Lily and James and were sworn not to tell because both knew very well that if they did Lily and James, or just Lily could easily hex them into the next week, month, or year. Sirius and Remus though are still completely clueless. But seeing as to how close Remus and lily are, Remus is practically able to read Lily like book (not as well as james cuz james is the one that examined Lily every little chance he gets) and was able to suspect that his little sis was one, seeming to be more happy, two, seemed to be more tired and cranky in the mornings (more than how she was before), and three, was able to have a civil conversation with James.

Sirius though, being how he is, smart and all, but the smartness never starts working. He probably the only one, misses the endless fighting. But yet, he did somewhat enjoy the quietness at times.

Boy's Dorm, where everyone is

"Lets see, Remus got a date with his girlfriend," cooed Soph as she counted off her fingers, " Sirius is going with some hottie as he calls it from Ravenclaw, Bella is going with Timothy, from Hufflepuff, I honestly don't see what you see in him, but anyways, and I got a date with Alek!" gleamed Soph as she announced everyone's dates.

"That just leaves James and Lily without dates!" concluded Sirius.

"Wonderful Sirius, you've actually solved something, and yet, I hadn't even come to it!" applauded Remus.

Sirius playfully bowed down, " Why of course dear Remus, you never knew that my EQ was higher than yours- wait was EQ the one that shows how smart you are, or was it AQ…" Sirius plopped down on the floor again thinking.

The others cracked up laughing and in the midst of all the laughter, Lily was able to choke out a sentence, helping out Sirius.

"No Sirius, it was IQ, and I still think Remus' is higher." Came Lily's voice.

"OH. Why do you people think so low of me again?" asked Sirius in a playful tone. "I mean, I already know that you spell 'really' with an 'I' at the end not a 'y', right Jamesie?"

James looked up at the sound of his unliked nickname, "Don't call me Jamesie, and no, you got it mixed up."

"Ah, Hmph!"

The girls giggled at Sirius, and Sirius just looked up and gave them his famous grin.

"LILY!" screamed Remus' voice, halfway down the stairs.

Lily looked up, "WHAT? AND WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" came Lily's bellowing voice, if it was any louder, the floor would shake, everyone in the dorm covered their ears.

"Geez Lils, you're loud, VERY loud. I think I've gone deaf, I cant hear myself!" whined Soph.

"HURRY UP! WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HELP DECORATE THE HALL!"

"oopz" and with that, Lily dashed down the stairs, you could hear her heels clicking (it wasn't a school day so she was wearing jeans and heels) alongside Remus' shoes hitting the ground running as fast as they could, which was fast. The sound stayed for less than a minute.

The other four stared at where lily zoomed out of the room.

James, the first to recover shook himself and thought out loud to himself.

"Wow, they sure can run fast."

"Correction, Lily can run fast, I know that Remus was probably half dragged and half running." Exclaimed Sirius, still a little dazed.

"I never ever knew she was so fast. But how? And Why? And how come we never knew?" questioned James.

"Correction again James, we did know, except maybe you were staring at her, and plus us together were running and usually, because of Lily's speed, she got a headstart so it made us think that we were running at the same space." Soph's voice came. She was in a trance like, when Lily ran past her, she practically spun a full circle around on the spot on the floor she was sitting on.

"How come you guys know this much? And why am I always being corrected now? Tell me everything!" demanded James.

Bella answered this time," Weeeeeeelllllll, lets see, Lily ran fast, because, uhm, lets start with when she was young her evil sister, always chased her around the house, now mind that, their house is quite big and so Lily being smaller, had to run faster and thus slowly increased her speed."

"Also, at her muggle school, Lily told us that they had something call j-j-jim classes or something that helped work out their body and Lily joined the track team, you know, where you run. And she was on that for two years, and was one of the fastest runners."

"That's how lily got to have such speed. And that pretty much answers the 'what?' and 'why?' question." Replied bella's cool voice.

"woooww" was all that came from James.

"why isn't she on the quidditch team?" asked Sirius who was listening intently to Bella.

"She is doofus. She plays beater with you dumbass." James said.

"Hey hey! What s with the rude remarks at the end, oh wait, hse is, ok, yeah, I am a doofus..i think." Sirius added as an afterthought.

"Damn. With Lily's body, she looks so-so-so, so lady like, and one of those dainty people who know how to do nothing and need a man's help or something. She's so petite and tiny, and small, and-"

"James, shut up about Lily, what you mean is that she doesn't look so angelic. She plays some of the best pranks I know-" Bella smirked.

"Pranks!"

"From perfect lily?"

the boys were shocked.

Soph now smirked with Bella, "Yup. Ever wonder who was the one that made your clothes disappear from your drawers and onto a clothesline outside when you opened them? That was lily, and that was when lily got so pissed at you for changing her clothes into her homework, ripped and pieced together to form clothing. She had to redo her homework and you really pissed her off."

Soph spoke up, "Yeah, and at home, now that she also knows about Zonko's and all, the house reeks with dungbombs, and screams from Petunia every so often. Your perfect Lily isn't an angel. She's not as perfect as its shown."

"She's a little devil!" proclaimed Sirius.

Both girls nodded in agreement.

James just sat in shock.

Wow, the girl I've been after for so long was playing hard to get, and she's a nasty little devil. And yet, I still love her.

Love?

Oh no, its my conscience again.

What's wrong with me? Anyways you LOVE her!

Yes, actually I do, even if she's a little devil. She's a cute little devil and my lily all the same.

Wow, I never knew your feelings for her were that strong, I just knew she wasn't gonna be a day of the week girl.

Yeah, anyways. I know much more about my lilykins. She's strong. Wait, she's strong, so that means, I gotta be careful of her not just magic wise. Damn, she's fast, and being a beater, those arms are strong. Scary just thinking about it. Watching her for like every second I get to, I wonder how come I never found out that she was on the qidditch team, nonetheless, a beater! I talk to Sirius about beater business but somehow lily never popped in. oh well, at least my perfect lily has more, uhm, abilities? I guess that's what you could call it, than I thought. That just makes her even more perfect!

"JAMES! FOR THE HUNDRETH TIME! I DON'T CARE IF YOUR DREAMING ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE GIRL IN THE WORLD! THE CARRIGES TO HOGSMEDE ARE LEAVING! SO GET YOUR ASS OFF THE GODDAMNED FLOOR!" screamed Sirius.

Sirius can scream loud too….

'that's cuz his mouth is right next to your ear, and listen to your best pal and get your lazy bum ,moving.'

"OKOKOK! Whats the rush anyways? We could always go through one of the secret passages.?" Asked james.

"We're meeting Moony at the front gate, and maybe Lilykins too." Grinned Sirius, emphasizing 'Lilykins'.

James jerked up at the nickname Sirius gave Lily and he and Sirius started in a dash to the front gate. Actually it was James in a dash and Sirius following and trying to keep up.

Eventually they met up and the girls went their way to buy their dresses and the boys for their outfits and of course prank products.

Both groups said that they'd meet each other back at the Gryffindor common room because the boys knowing most girls, would spend hours picking their outfits and that if the were to meet up, they'd have to wait forever for the girls.

Madame Milkims Special Occasion Dresses
(its like another branch of the dress robe shop we know in diagon alley except the name is a little different, as is the clothing sold their.)

"WOW! Look at these dresses! There are so many and so beautiful and oh my! How am I ever gonna choose?" jumped Bella (she's always been the one more into fashion, though not totally)

Soph, usually the one who'd stay outta this with Lils, her eyes always brightened up at the site.

The shop was HUGE with dresses of every design you could think of.

Lily without saying anything immediately got to work as did the other. They spent a long rueful 5 hours in their flipping through dresses, trying them on, and tossing them every which way and that (they were magiked so that they would return to their original spot when it was 'unwanted')

Finally the girls decided which dress to choose and went the the accessories area where the necklaces, earing, bracelets, and what not were. Then off to the shoes department, and after that the make up area, and finally, the cash register.

The girls fumbled out galleons, sickles, and knuts every which way but finally paid for everything.

They got out just in time before the last carriages were leaving, by now it was already dark out and the boys, who were sitting and waiting in the common room were getting tired.

Gryffindor Common Room

"How long can those girls take? Its been 4hours of waiting!" sighed Sirius, he lost to Remus in another round of wizard chess.

"I know. I mean. Actually I think its quite amazing. Knowing lily, it'd probably take her 10 minutes. She's not one really into fashion and I know that other girls aren't much better."

"I wish they'd come and bring us back from boredom." Whined Sirius. And as if it was magik, the three girls stumbled through the doors with huge dresses.

"OOH GOODY!" jumped Sirius.

James and Remus had to pull him down to keep him from jumping on the girls.

"You're back-finally." James stated, "You have no clue how bored we were, we were just about to go insane! What took you so long?"

"Yeah. LIls, I know you better than everyone-well almost everyone," Remus glanced at James and quickly changed his wording," and I know that you, lily isn't a girl to spend FIVE HOURS shopping in the FASHION department, especially for dresses and all the cra-stuff. I wanna know what you were doing, leaving us three in such a bad state."

Lily smirked, "Well for starters, that place was huge we got lost trying to find each other and the changing rooms, and two, if we didn't take that long, it would be the first dress we saw, and the first one I saw would not look good on me."

"Oooh."

Then an idea struck Sirius, "That means! Because you took so long and left us here on the edge of insanity, we getta see previews of your dresses! Right?"

Bella and Soph smirked along with Lily and decided to play, " No, Black honey, you'll just havta wait like all the other boys and our dates until tomorrow night. Plus, it'll be more fun, keeping you waiting. Now, we're gonna take ourselves upstairs and have our fun putting on the dresses, without you seeing." Grinned Bella.

Sirius just pouted at the answers. Infact Remus and James also looked a little bit down, but didn't say or show any sign of it.

"C'mon boys, we better go to sleep now, they came back at around 8. and I know that we'll take about two hours on our rounds about the castle pranking, and then, we really need to sleep." Stated Remus.

"But why?" whined James who was never one in favor of sleeping early.

"because, you guys are always early risers, and tomorrow, if you wake up at six, you'd havta stay awake until like 3 the next day seeing as to how this is an OVERNIGHT party." Remus exaggerated the word 'overnight'.

"Ok." With that, the boys reluctantly dragged themselves up. it seemed like they had no energy left, but once they were hidden under the invisibility cloak with all their stuff, they were up and alive, and ready to cause some trouble.

A/n: sorry for the short chapter. Well, its ok length, but, whatever. Anyways. This is just the boring part. The fun part comes next. But then schools starting! Ahh! Oh well. I'll try my best.

Shining Star.

Oooh! Loox nice…I think