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On Christmas day, Lily and Shannon woke up to see piles of presents on the foot of their beds. Lily got chocolate and books from her parents, nothing from her sister, a Chudley Cannons poster from Dylan, a book about Hogwarts from Shannon, a Quiddich Guide book from Shannon, an advanced potion book (her favorite subject) from Remus, and surprisingly, she got a gift from James. When she opened it she gasped. It was a beautiful white-gold bracelet with gold, flying snitches on it. She put it on.

"Wow, who's that from?" Shannon asked, impressed.

"Potter," Lily replied softly. She looked at the bracelet on her wrist and was really touched.

"Oh! I didn't get him a gift!" Lily said slapping her forehead.

"Whatever, we should probably get ready for Christmas breakfast. I told the boys we would meet them there."

Lily nodded and the two of them got dressed. Lily kept her bracelet on. It showed her that there was a soft side of James Potter. When they arrived at the dining hall, James waved the two of them over. Shannon sat next to Sirius and Lily next to Remus. James decided to move to the other side of Lily.

"Hey, Evans," James said.

"Potter."

"Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas. And thank you so much for the bracelet. It's lovely. I'm sorry, I didn't get you a gift."

"Sitting here with you and having a real conversation with you is the best gift you could give me," James said looking at her wrist. He smiled. Her wrist was starting to turn a navy blue.

"Just don't get used to it. Tomorrow everything's going back to normal. All of this nice stuff is just for the holiday."

"Good enough for me."

After breakfast the six of them went outside and made snowmen. James made one of himself on a broom. "Why you little, egotistic, twit!" Lily teased him.

"You goody-two-shoed, teacher lover," he teased back.

After they were done making snowmen they all went to the common room. Shannon and Lily went upstairs to get changed out of their cold, wet robes.

Once the girls were upstairs, Sirius asked, "Is everything ready for the prank tonight?"

"Yup. The maple syrup's up in our dorm. We'll tell the girls to go down to the feast before us. Once they're gone we'll put the maple syrup into the buckets and bring it down to the Great Hall. We'll put it over the door and once the girls walk through the doors on the way out of the hall we will cast a spell and the syrup will pour down on their heads," James replied enthusiastically/

"It's GENIUS!" Peter chimed in as equally enthusiastic.

"Are you sure you want to ruin your friendship with Lily? You two seem to be getting along pretty well," Remus asked James.

"Eh, it's all going to end tomorrow. She said that her being nice to me is just for the holiday and then everything's going back to normal."

"Whatever," Remus said, giving up.

At that moment the girls walked back downstairs. "What's going on?" Shannon asked them suspiciously.

"Nothing," Sirius replied casually.

"Right. Come on, I know you better than that!" Shannon said, hurt that she was being left out of something.

"Just drop it."

"Fine, Lily let's go."

"Hey! Where are you going?" James asked.

"We're going to the Quiddich Pitch. I'm going to teach Lily how to play Quiddich."

"Hey, I'll come too. I can help you teach," James offered.

"No thanks, James. Someone with your Quiddich status would just make me nervous," Lily joked.

"Did you just call him James!" Sirius, Remus, Shannon, and Peter exclaimed. James was a little hurt that she didn't want him to help her learn.

"Well, yeah. I guess I did," Lily said, blushing.

"I guess we should go," Shannon said to Lily.

"Yup, the Pitch is awaiting!" Lily agreed.

Shannon ran upstairs and grabbed her broom. Lily decided that she would borrow one from the school. The two of them walked silently down to the Pitch. "So what was that about?" Shannon asked, breaking the silence.

"What?"

"You called him James."

"Oh, that."

"Yes that! That's big!"

"Well, by giving me the bracelet he showed me a softer side of him. He's actually not that bad." They arrived at the Pitch.

"So, how do I play?" Lily asked Shannon. Shannon explained the rules and the function of the balls and then the two girls started to fly. By the end of the Quiddich lesson, Lily was quite good.

"I guess you'll have to buy a broom then!" Shannon said happily, "Finally there is a girl who I can play with!"

Lily nodded and laughed. She was exhilarated. Who knew Quiddich could be so much fun?

The girls walked back up to the common room and were surprised to see that the boys were not there. Shannon put her broom up in the dormitory and then the two of them got ready for dinner. They walked down to the Dining Hall and still did not see the four boys.

"Okay the coast is clear!" James informed the other boys. The four of them poured the syrup into the buckets and then brought the buckets down the stairs. They levitated the buckets up to the top of the doors then joined the girls at the table.

Dippet made a few announcements then introduced the meal with, "Merry Christmas!" The table filled with food and they started to dig in. Once they were so stuffed that they felt that they were going to explode, the girls decided to go upstairs to bed. They said good night to the boys and got up to leave.

"It's time," Sirius announced. The boys got up and when the girls were under the door, they cast a spell making the syrup buckets fall. Shrieks were heard and the whole table turned towards the doorway.

"POTTER!" Lily screamed.

"Evans, you're looking a little blue!" He informed her, looking at her skin. The bracelet that he had given her was from a joke shop and turned the recipient's skin navy blue.

Lily looked at her arms, "POTTER!" she shrieked, "YOU ARE SO DEAD!"

"RUN!" James ordered his friends. They ran with Lily and Shannon chasing them.

"POTTER I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Lily shouted. The girls chased the boys to the common room and stopped only when the boys finally reached their dormitory.

"There will be blood tomorrow!" Shannon said to Lily.

"You bet there will be!" Lily agreed.