1Chapter 5

"Mum and Dad will never say yes; though I don't think Petunia would mind." said Lily dryly to herself, after receiving the letter. Christmas break was in a week and a half and Lily knew her parents had been anxiously waiting for her reply, confirming that she would be coming home again this Christmas. Lily stared out into the snowdrift in her seat on the windowsill and wished, not for the first time in her life, that she could be as carefree as a simple, little, snowflake. It would be a short, uneventful life, yes, and the worst thing that could happen would be falling and melting onto James' or any slytherins tongue before the bitter end of a meltdown; literally.

"Hello." said a voice. It was the boy who haunted her dreams, the one who would almost never leave her alone, the one, the only–

"Sod off, Black." Lily mumbled grumpily.

(HAHA! You thought it was James didn't you?)

"Hello Lils. What's that?" Lily quickly fumbled around, trying to hide the letter from Alice's parents, but Sirius was too quick.

"You are cordially invited..." he whistled with amusement, "Hey, Lils, I got this too!"

"Please say you're joking."

"I'm not! Isn't that great? I think James also got one, and Remus I suppose, I mean we are Alice's boyfriends friends, right? How were we NOT going to get invited? We're also very famous you know. Since James' dad is an auror the ministry knows ALL about us!" He rambled on like this for minutes until Lily couldn't take it anymore. She clamped her hand over his mouth, only getting his wriggling eyebrows for a response to her action. She rolled her eyes, took away her hand, and walked away; the whole time, Sirius followed her talking and talking until Lily cast a spell on him. He kept talking, but thankfully, all you could see was his lips moving and no sound coming out. Lily sighed in relief and just let him follow her all the way to the great hall. She seated herself next to Remus and handed him her letter.

"Have you gotten one of these?"

"Yeah, I received one this morning. I knew you'd be invited though anyways, since you're Alice's closest friend." Lily ran a her hand through the tasseled black hair and sighed in frustration. Then, she noticed something peculiar.

"Wait a minute...This is addressed to Lily but was given to me. How did that happen?" Everyone shrugged, then James appeared (in her body of course) from the other side of the oak doors. He waved a piece of paper in his hand and everyone smiled as Lily groaned and dropped her head onto the table.

"Look! Alice's parents invited me! Finally, a chance to get away from Julian." He sat down next to Lily, to her unfortunate luck.

"Whose Julian?" Alice asked.

"My cousin, and he's annoying as Malfoy, if not more!" he took a bit of his oatmeal.

"All little kids are." said Lily distractedly.

"Oh, he's as far from little as possible!" yelled James with annoyance. "He's a year older then me and is always trying to best me in everything that I do. He's the most vexing creature god created!" he gulped down his entire cup of orange juice and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, to the girls disgust.

"Ah well, good ol' Julie would never do anything like show up to a party he's not invited to. So he's nothing to worry our pretty little heads about, now is he?" stated Sirius, and he actually made sense for once. Everyone nodded simultaneously and continued to eat their breakfast.

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"Mr. Potter! Mr. Potter! Please pay attention!" Flitwick snapped, jerking Lily out of her own thoughts.

"Sorry Professor." Lily apologized, blushing. She was doing that more often; not blushing, but apologizing. She couldn't stop; it was just one thing after another that she messed up, but at least it was what James usually did (even if he rarely said sorry). All the teachers thought he was maturing...pssh, Lily thought, maturing my broomstick.

James looked at her and sighed in the inpatient way she always did when she was around him.

"I'll help him Professor." He got out of his seat, walked across the room and started to look as if he was helping, even if he was worse at this subject.

"Can you stop making me look like an idiot?" he hissed angrily.

"Why would you need my help doing that?" Lily asked innocently. He glared at her and went back to his seat.

"Merlin Potter! It's not that hard!" he yelled exaggerating 'that' and actually looking as if this was a normal Lily-James row. Lily silently applauded him; silently being the key term. Oh well, if he was good at impersonating her, then she could be twice as good at impersonating him. She turned to Sirius.

"What did I do with that tack we were going to stick on Flitwick's pillow?" she asked rather loudly. A few heads turned, especially a fuming red headed one.

"I beg your pardon Li–Prongs." he corrected himself.

"Since when are you french, Black?" asked a Ravenclaw with an eyebrow raised. Sirius shrugged with that stupid smile of his and the ravenclaw rolled his eyes at him and went back to his own work.

"Nice cover." Remus whispered, "You could give me a run for your money!"

"Pardon?" asked Lily distractedly as she attempted the extremely difficult spell again. Remus' cheeks reddened.

"Nothing..."

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"Alice-dear...I don't want to go to your parents party in a tux. As much as I hate to say it, I'd rather go in a dress." Lily complained the next day as she sat by her blonde friend at an empty table in the Library. Alice just shrugged irritably.

"Well there's nothing I can do about it Lils. Go tell Dumbledore or something."

"But James wont let me!" Lily argued.

"Has that stopped you before?" she pointed out.

"Well...no...but this time...it's...well, different." she finished, blushing at the ground. Alice raised an eyebrow but didn't say another word, until–

"He likes you, you know."

"Who doesn't..." Lily answered scratching furiously with her quill. Alice took the quill away and made Lily look into her deep violet eyes.

"I mean, he really likes you. Not 'I'm only going out with her 'cause she's pretty and smart', well, those are two of the reasons, but he finds you interesting–"

"So he only likes me 'cause I'm interesting'? Merlin Alice, that's not much of an excuse on your part. You never were very good at debating." Lily stated to her friend. Alice took away also the book Lily had ben reading. Lily gave her and incredulous look, her hazel eyes flaring.

"What can I do about it Alice? I can't convince anyone or anything, and nobody would believe that he actually likes me for me."

"But he does! Why can't you see that? Why can't you forget the past and just move on Lily." Alice angrily stood up and pushed her chair back so hard that the librarian, Madam Pince, shushed her very audibly. Lily sighed in frustration and banged her head on the table.

"You know how many brain cells you kill by doing that, just once? And that's the second time today." Remus set his back on the table and slumped into Alice's now empty seat.

"Hello." Lily greeted coldly.

"Oh well, better then the usual glare you give Sirius and James." he complimented himself. And Lily had actually thought of him before as a role model student. She bitterly took it back.

"Just thought I'd let you know though; I found the counter curse." he told her, out of the blue. Her head jerked up.

"What do you mean?" though she knew fully well what he meant. He gave her a wink, stood up, and left. Lily quickly rounded up her things, threw them in her bag, waved goodbye to Madam Pince, and dashed after him, catching up at the end of the corridor. Her wand was out in a flash and digging into his neck.

"Tell me!"

"Okay, first of all, before you ruin the marauders reputation, please remove James' wand from my neck." Lily blushed and reluctantly pulled the polished wood away from his throat. She looked sheepishly and somewhat regretfully at the ground.

"Nice One, Lupin."

"Pardon?"

"Well, you're kidding aren't you?" she said coldly, starting quickly down the corridor; he followed her calmly but at the same pace.

"I'm not lying Lily. I was looking it up yesterday and found it. Here's the spell." he pulled a crumpled piece of old, yellowing paper, probably from a very old book. She hungrily snatched it up and pulled Remus into an empty classroom by his collar. She eagerly started reading the piece of paper next to the window.

"When mis-said or misdirected, this spell can be extremely dangerous; resulting in the two wand-bearer's to temporarily change bodies—"

"Temporarily..." Lily mumbled to herself, "that's a good thing!" she continued,

"But if not reported immediately, can result in the curse lasting forever."

"Oh...that's not so good is it?"

"To break this horrible curse of being in the body of an enemy, which is the case for many, each person shall have to kiss their true love by the deadline of one month after the switch."

"One month...oh my gosh! That's the exact day of Alice's party, isn't it?"

"There's more." urged Remus.

"If both of the wand-bearer's do not kiss their true love by the deadline then on the day of the deadline they will change to their original body for that day and that day only, then will switch back and have only one week to kiss their true love to break the curse."

"How come EVERYTHING ends in kissing your true love!"

"James will be pleased."

"Why!" Lily's head snapped in his direction, the wire-rimmed glasses sliding down an inch to show the beautiful hazel eyes. Remus rolled his eyes.

"When will you learn, Lily? You two are sole mates! S-O-L-E-M-A-T-E-S!" Lily's dark eyebrows furrowed in annoyance.

"Drop it Lupin, we are NOT sole mates."

"Then...I guess you'll have to stay in James' body forever. I know he wont be happy about THAT." Remus retorted and left the room, leaving Lily to her confusing, yet not, thoughts.

Who is my true love?

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"This is great news Lily! And you have to kiss James!" Alice squealed when Lily told her about the counter-curse. Lily let out a frustrated scream.

"James isn't my true love!"

"Lily don't kid yourself." Then Sirius joined them.

"Hey! Moony just told me! Believe me lilikins, James has been waiting for this day for years!"

"Oh MERLIN, this is ridiculous!" she said throwing her hands up into the air.

"Hey Evans this is WONDERFUL!" said James voice and immediately he was giving her a bear hug.

"I get my body back AND you have to kiss me!" Lily groaned.

"But you aren't my true love, so it wont do anything!"

"How do you know that for sure? Doesn't the whole 'opposites attract thing' mean anything to you? And besides, can't we see, just to make sure?" Lily studied him carefully through slits of hazel then grumbled something while rolling her eyes.

"Maybe..." At that, James whooped and punched his manicured fist into the air.

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hmmm...I think I'll end here. Sorry, I know its been FOREVER and a day since I last updated this fic but I'm really getting into my ten things fic. So yeah, sorry to all who really liked this one, I'll try and update more regularly during the holidays but I make NO guarantees.

Luffs and fluffs and furry chocolate kisses (EW!)

Denierure