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He pulled back straight away and looked at her. Then slowly leaned forward and deepend the kiss.
'James?' came a small voice. They pulled apart and there stood Lily dressed in a gorgeous blue dress and with tears in her eyes.
'Lily,' he gasped as she turned and ran.

'LILY!' Jamed shouted running after her.
But she closed her eyes and kept running. They were sore and there were tears streaming down her cheeks but she ran as fast as she could. Unfortunately for her, he was faster. He grabbed her shoulder and pulled her into an empty room.
'Lily, I'm so sorry. I didnt mean to.' He had hold of both her hands so she couldnt move.
'James, how could you do this to me?' She was still crying. 'I thought you loved me?'
'I do. I do love you,' he gasped, trying to lean in and kiss her. She pulled away.
'No James, if you loved me you couldn't do that. You couldn't make me feel as bad as I do right now.' With that she pulled her hands free and ran out of the room. James stood staring at the door in silence, not knowing what to do or say.

She left the room in a daze, her eyes still full of tears. She just started walking, not really sure where she was going and not really caring.

Thoughts were just racing through her head.

How could he do this to me?

Why?

I thought he loved me?
Suddenly she stopped, she wanted to talk to Em. She needed a friend, so she turned and started towards the Great Hall unware and uncaring about her appearance with the mascara she'd applied only 20 minutes ago now in streaks down her face.
She walked into the Great Hall and spotted Em with Harry, Hermione and Sirius around one table, Peter was handing out some butterbeer. She walked over not noticing the people looking at her.
'Em,' she gasped and the group looked up. Em and Sirius jumped to their feets and ran over.
'Lily, what happened?' Sirius asked.
'James,' she sobbed, 'I just saw him kissing...' With that she broke down and cried again. Em pulled her into a tight embrace.
'Come on,' she said, 'Lets get you out of here.' She steered Lily out of the room. Harry and Hermione followed them and Remus muttered something about going to find James before heading in the opposite direction.

'Lily, try and calm down and tell us what happened,' said Hermione in a calm voice. She was sat in the Gryfindor common room with her arm around Lily. Harry, Sirius and Em sitting around.

Other than the five of them the room was empty as everyone was at the Christmas dance. 'You said you saw James kissing someone. Who?'
Lily sobbed at the sound of James' name and looked around her friends,'K...K..Kim Robinson,' she stuttered.
'Who's that?' asked Harry.
'She's a Ravenclaw,' answered Sirius, 'she seems a nice enough girl but I hear she drinks a bit much. I just don't understand why James would do this. He loves you, Lily.'
Lily's head shot up, anger flashing in her eyes suddenly. 'He doesn't love me. He never did or he wouldn't do this to me, especially after everything I've already been through.' This silenced then all. Everyone had seperate thoughts running through their heads but all of them containing one emotion. Shock!

After Lily left James in that room alone, he stayed there for a long time. He sat down on a chair and just stared into space. He had no idea how long he was sat there. Thoughts just kept racing through his head.
It wasn't my fault, she pushed herself on me, I didn't want it, Lily will understand that. But I did want it. Things hadn't been right for ages, she had become distant from me. But I shouldn't have done that. Why did I? I love Lily.

He didn't know how long he had been sat there with conflicting thoughts running through his brain before the door opened and Remus walked in. James barely noticed his arrival. Remus came in and sat in a chair beside James, as he did this he couldn't help noticing that his best friend looked comatose.
'What did you do, James?'
James looked at Remus, 'I don't know, she was just there and the next thing I knew she was kissing me and, Remus, I kissed her back.'

Just then he burst out crying. Remus had never seen James cry before (though this wouldn't be the last time) and this came as a slight shock to him. He put an arm around him and pulled him into a hug.
'It'll be ok, man! It will be.'

'Ok, Lily's gone to bed,' said Hermione coming down the stairs from the girls dormitory, 'Don't think she'll sleep for a while though.' She had now changed out of her dress she'd been wearing for the dance and took a seat next to Harry. Just then Sirius came down from the boys' dorm looking tired. He sat down and put his arm around Em.
'James is a state,' he said, 'I have no idea how this happened. It just seemed like a moment of weakness on James' part but things aren't gonna be the same again.' Everyone shook their heads.

Lily and James had been so happy just a few months ago and now it had all fallen apart, it seemed a shame after it took them so long to get together for their relationship to only last 3 months.
'Hey Harry, what's wrong,' said Remus suddenly.
Harry's head shot up, 'What?' he asked.
'You seem a bit quiet, you ok?'
'Yeah, I'm fine, just bit surprised,' he answered but he wasn't and only Hermione knew why. For Harry this was like his parents divorcing only it wasn't. He didn't understand. He knew they ended up together but now he didn't know how it would ever possibly happen.

The group stayed up for another hour or so before Hermione told them that they had all better go to bed because it was Christmas tomorrow. When she said this there were a few gasps. They had all forgotton in the trouble. It was Christmas Day tomorrow and it didn't even feel like it.

The next morning Lily woke but didn't open her eyes. She could hear her friends moving around the room and talking in whispers.
'Do you think we should wake her up?'
'I dunno, I don't think she slept well, she was muttering in her sleep.'
'Yeah, I heard but it's Christmas and it might make her feel better.'
'Don't worry, I'm up,' said Lily sitting up in her bed. Hermione and Em were both sat on Em's bed but when they saw her awake they both got up and rushed over.
'Are you ok, Lily?' asked Em timidly. Lily thought about this for a moment then nodded.
'Yeah I'll be ok. It's just a little strange, you know,' they both nodded, 'Anyway, where's my presents?' She smiled weakly and her friends jumped up and each grabbed packages from their own trunks before returning to Lily's bed.
'Here, open mine first,' said Em and handed Lily a bright pink parcel withm a blue ribbon around it. She opened it and pulled out a red jumper of a very special magic material which gave it the appearance of water in the hand but the wearer could adjust it to whatever bagginess she wanted.
Lily grinned, 'It's beautiful, thank you.'
She crawled to the bottom of the bed and pulled out two neatly wrapped presents and handed them to each of them, 'You have to open them together.' So they did and each found an identical ring with all three of their initials on it. 'I have one too, they're friendship rings.'
They thanked her and Hermione gave her her gift which was a beautifully bound book of poems. As Lily opened this tears filled her eyes trying desperately to hide them but failing. The other two girls pulled her into a tight hug and the three of them sat there together like that for a long time.

'MERRY CHRISTMAS!' came Sirius' voice as the girls entered the common room and before they knew it he was hugging each of them in turn. Even Lily smiled at this but her smile soon faded as she looked across the room and saw James. He was stood staring at her but she broke her glance away and turned and hugged Harry and Remus. There were a million thoughts running through her head but she brushed them away one by one. She was not going to let him ruin her Christmas.
'Come on guys,' she said in a bright voice, 'Lets go to breakfast.' With that she turned and walked straight past James out of the portrait hole.
Remus caught eyes with James and saw tears again mixing with the deep hazel.

After breakfast the group sat in the common room and exchanged presents. There were smiles on all their faces (especially when Remus' present from Sirius blew up in his face) but they were false smiles. They all felt the tension.

Lily ignored James all day though he stared at her constantly and the present she had got him stayed upstairs in her trunk.

Hermione couldn't concentrate on presents and Christmas. She was thinking about her parents. She missed them terribly and this was the worst day so far. Sure, she had spent Christmas without them before but before she had always had the choice of spending it with them if she'd wanted. She wondered what they were doing and if they missed her. She had searched every book she could get her hands on a hundered times, she'd even sneaked into the restricted section of the library to look in there but there was nothing at all about travelling forward in time.
She was getting desperate. She was starting to think that they should go and see Dumbledore because she truely believed that if anyone could send them home it would be him. But a part of her was scared and for once not because of any punishment he might issue but because if he couldn't send them home then they were really stuck there forever. He was their last hope and she didn't want to risk having to use it.

After everyone had opened their presents Remus, Harry and Sirius went down to the kitchens to see if they could steal some hot chocolate for them and the others stayed in front of the fire in the common room talking.

'I think I'm gonna go get a warmer jumper on,' said Lily, standing up and heading for the staircase to their dormitory. When she entered the first thing she saw was a small package on her bed. She stared at it for a few seconds, and knew two things straight away. Who it was from and that she really didnt she want to open it?
Lily walked over to the bed, sat down and picked up the present. It was small and wrapped in a red foil paper. She moved it from one hand to another and stared at it for a few minutes before her fingers started to unwrap it against her own will.
With the paper off it revealed a small box. She lifted the lid and saw a heart locket on a thin chain. She gasped at it, it was so beautiful. She gently lifted it out and looked closer on the back was an inscription I love you more than life itself, may us never be apart, James.
'May us never be apart,' Lily said to herself out loud, 'Bit late for that.' And with that she put the locket back into it's box and dropped it into her trunk. She closed her eyes in an attempt to stop the tears but it, once again, failed. She sat down on her bed and sobbed and that was how Em found her ten minutes later as she came up to announce the arrival of hot chocolate.