Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. The wonderful JK Rowling does! I wish I did, then I'd be rich! Just kidding! Please don't sue me for writing a fan fic that I really hope you enjoy!

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Lily woke up on here birthday to a quiet house, feeling very alone. She had fire-called all her friends a few days ago, but they had said they couldn't come over to her house today. Lily groaned as she sat up, expecting to find owls from her friends, delivering her presents, as they usually were there every morning for her birthday. To her surprise she found none.

Feeling close to tears, Lily got up and took shower, and got ready for the day. "Might as well go eat breakfast alone," she muttered as she made her way down the main staircase of her rather large house. Her father was a surgeon.

As Lily reached the spacious living room, she received quite a shock. "SURPRISE! HAPPY SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY LILY!" yelled many voices.

Lily grinned and looked around, seeing Sirius, James, Remus, Marissa, and Claudia.

James walked up and engulfed her in a hug. "Happy Birthday sweetie. I've missed you," James said, breathing in the smell of her hair.

Lily gave him a kiss. "Thank you. I missed you too. Did you plan this?"

Marissa smiled, "It was my idea and then James helped."

Lily pulled away from James and gave Marissa a hug. "Thank you so much! Where's Peter?"

Sirius sighed, "We wanted him to come, but his Mum is sick, so he had to stay with her. Do I get a hug Lillian?"

Lily giggled, "Of course!" She gave Sirius a hug and continued with everyone else in the room.

"All right, enough of this lovey dovey stuff. Presents!" Sirius said, jumping up and down.

James put an arm around Lily's waist and guided her down to the basement where her Recreation Room was. Lily saw the presents and ran over to them.

"Open mine first!" called Claudia, pointing to a present wrapped gold paper. Lily grinned and tore it open. Under the paper was a box and she opened it, gasping.

"Oh Claudia they're beautiful!" Lily said, pulling a set of dress robes out of the box. They were gold and sparkled and dazzled in the light.

"When you put it on, it's made to fit perfectly to your size," Claudia said in a matter of fact voice.

"It's gorgeous! Thank you so much!" Lily said, pulling Claudia in for a hug.

"Open mine next!" Marissa said, picking up a rainbow package and handing it to Lily.

Lily took the small package and ripped off the paper. Inside was a jewelry box. It had a painting of the Hogwarts castle on the top. On the sides were paintings of the Great Hall, Gryffindor common room, the lake, and the Quidditch field. All of the paintings were moving. She opened the box and a song that Lily recognized as one of her favorite wizarding songs came out of the box.

"Wow," breathed Lily as she examined the painting on the box sides, "it's so beautiful! Thank you Marissa it's wonderful!" She pulled Marissa into a hug. How could I ever think my friends don't care about me?

"Open Remus' and mine next!" said Sirius, bouncing on the balls of his feet. Remus walked over to Lily's presents and picked up one that had scarlet and gold wrapping paper on it.

Lily ripped off the wrapping paper. Inside was a square mirror that you could hang on a wall. "I highly doubt this is just a mirror. Is it going to insult me or something?" Lily asked.

Sirius shook his head, still bouncing. "We're not that mean Lillian dear. We found this in Diagon Alley. What you do is you say a name clearly in the mirror and it will show exactly what that person is doing!"

"Oh how cool! Let's see how Petunia's wedding is going! Petunia Evans!" Lily said clearly into the mirror and everyone gathered around.

An image came onto the mirror. Petunia was standing in a very ugly frilly and peach wedding dress surrounded by her bridesmaids and her mother and father. There was no sound but Petunia looked like she was yelling. Then everyone stopped moving and began to get into a single file line, with Rob taking Petunia's arm.

"How do you get rid of this?" Lily said bitterly.

Remus looked at her with concern, then said, "Finite!" The image disappeared instantly.

When everyone backed away anger was shining in her eyes. "Thanks guys, this is really, really cool, it's just I'm a little upset at Petunia right now,"

James went over and kissed Lily's forehead lightly, his thumb stroking her elbow. They had been separated for far too long, James had missed her. "Just forget about her and think about your friends."

Lily smiled, her anger disappearing. "Thanks, I love you."

James smiled happily back at her. "I love you too. Do you want my present?"

Lily pulled away and nodded. James summoned a very small package and presented it to Lily. She tore off the wrapping paper and saw a rectangular velvet box. She opened it and saw a charm bracelet. There were already a few charms on it. But when she took it out and looked and it closer, she saw they weren't just charms.

"They're pictures. Some of them are empty. Here's one of the Marauders," James said, pointing to a small oval where the four of them were waving, "and here is one of you and Marissa and the last one is of you and me" he pointed to the last one, which was heart shaped, and had Lily and James hugging, as they posed for the picture. Every now and then they would start to kiss.

"I love it! And there are so many more spots to fill. Thank you," Lily said, giving him a soft kiss.

Sirius groaned, "Come on, break it up. I saw a pool in your backyard Lily. Can we go play?" Sirius said in a whiney voice.

Lily laughed, James still holding her as he gazed at her. "Sure Sirius, but you guys don't have any swimsuits."

"Yeah we do, they are in our bags. We're staying the night," Claudia said nonchalantly.

Lily's smile brightened. "Thanks for telling me! Come on, let's go outside!"

Sirius whooped and dragged Marissa, Remus, and Claudia upstairs. James was about to follow when Lily pulled him back and kissed him. "You know," she said when they both had to catch their breath, "we also have a hot tub."

James eyes widened and he leaped up, pulling Lily along with him. "Come on, hurry! We got to go outside right now!"

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Sirius and Remus were in the middle of putting their swim trunks on in the guest bedroom when James hurriedly burst into the room. He went over to his bag and began yanking clothes out.

James was in the middle of wrenching off his socks when Sirius finally asked, "Er, are you alright James?"

James nodded, trying to get his shirt off. "Lily has a hot tub!"

Sirius chuckled, "Well it will still be there when we get out of here."

There was a knock on the door and then Marissa's voice calling, "Are you all dressed?"

"Yeah, but James is wrestling with his shirt and loosing," Sirius said.

Marissa came in and Sirius had to hold back a gasp. She was wearing a violet bikini that matched her eyes perfectly. Every time Sirius saw Marissa his feelings for her grew a little bit, but in a bikini was doubling it.

Unknown to Sirius, ever since he had comforted Marissa that night in the common room, she had been looking at him in a whole new way. Seeing him in swim trunks just made her melt more.

Remus walked over to Sirius and closed his mouth, which was hanging wide open. "Are Claudia and Lily dressed yet?" he asked Marissa.

"Lily is trying to find a good swimsuit and Claudia is brushing out her hair," Marissa said, still eyeing Sirius. "I'll tell Lily that James might suffocate in his shirt. See you all in the foyer in five minutes?"

Remus nodded and Marissa left. Sirius was still staring at the door. Remus rolled his eyes and went over to help James with his shirt.

"So how long have you liked Marissa?" Remus asked.

Sirius whipped his head around so fast that Remus heard his neck crack. "What are you talking about?" Sirius asked coolly, folding up his shirt. Sirius face was slowly turning red.

James, hearing the last bit of the conversation, came over to Sirius. "Don't be thick. You were gaping at her when she walked in with that bikini."

"Your shirt was strangling you, how could you see what I was looking at?" snapped Sirius.

James sighed, "You know you can tell us anything, right?"

Sirius threw his shirt down at sat on the bed. "Yeah, yeah, I know. I've had a growing crush on Marissa since that prat, Hayden whatever."

James laughed, "I thought you were flirting with her, but I wasn't sure. Ask her out, she's single."

"That is easy for you to say. It took you six years to ask out Lily and Rissa and I had to help you!" Sirius said, sarcasm dripping off his words.

Before James could respond, Remus said, "Let's just go downstairs."

When they got down there, they found Claudia wearing a one-piece blue suit that sparkled. She was also wearing blue swim shorts. Lily was wearing a green bikini with a multicolored skirt to go with it.

James immediately started pulling her toward the back door. "I want to go to the hot tub!" he said.

Lily rolled her eyes at Claudia and Marissa and let herself be pulled along while the rest of the group took their time. "James, you know I have to turn it on and let it heat up!" Lily said and everyone heard a loud "WHAT?" from James.

When they reached the backyard they saw an enormous pool. The water level started out at your ankles then slowly inclined deeper and went all the way to twenty feet.

Sirius snuck up behind Marissa and picked her up, walking towards the pool. Marissa was giggling and half-heartedly punching Sirius. "SIRIUS PUT ME DOWN! NOW! IF YOU THROW ME IN THE WATER-"

"I would never throw you in! But I'll jump in with you!" Sirius said. Before Marissa could say anything, Sirius walked off the patio and into the pool. The people above water burst out laughing.

They came back up a second later. Sirius was laughing and Marissa was trying to hide the small grin on her face. "You are so dead Black!" Marissa said in a low voice. Sirius' ears turned red as Marissa pounced on him and pushed him underwater.

Remus and James took this as a cue. Remus grabbed Claudia by the waist and fell in sideways. Claudia was in the middle of a scream when she hit the water. James scooped up Lily and walked over to the diving board.

Lily started laughing. "Do you trust me?" James asked as he was standing on the end of the diving board quite clumsily.

Lily smiled, "I trust you." James gave her a lopsided grin. Lily was glad she was in his arms or she would've melted. James took a great leap off the diving board.

Lily opened her eyes once she went under and could see Marissa and Sirius playfully wrestling each other. She didn't see Remus or Claudia anywhere. She felt someone pull her around and turned to see James' beautiful blue eyes staring at her. Lily pulled him close and kissed him, which was a challenge since they were underwater.

When they finally broke the kiss, James pointed to the surface, Lily could see his face turning strange colors. They swam above the water and gasped for breath.

"Lily I need to talk to you!" said a voice. Lily turned to see Marissa standing over her, her face red but a huge smile on her face. She was holding onto the wrist of Claudia, who was looking at her questionably.

Lily turned to James. "Can you wait in the hot tub for just a sec?" she asked. James smiled and nodded eagerly.

Lily climbed out of the pool and grabbed a towel. "My old swing set is a little further back here. Follow me" Lily said.

Once they got there Marissa sat down on a swing and took a deep breath. "Sirius kissed me," she said, a happy smile placed on her face.

Claudia and Lily just stood and stared for a moment. Then Claudia spoke, grinning. "You are the luckiest girl in the world!"

Lily cleared her throat, "Excuse me, I have James," Lily turned to Marissa, "How did this happen?" Marissa quickly explained what happened that night in the common room and what she had been feeling since then.

"I bet he has felt that way about you for a while," Claudia said.

"Me too, I say go talk to him about it," Lily said, pulling Marissa off the swing. Mara grinned and ran over to the pool, Lily and Claudia close on her heels. All three guys were in the hot tub, laughing.

"Sirius can I talk to you for a second?" Mara said, her voice higher than usual.

Sirius looked embarrassed as he followed Marissa over to the far edge of the pool. "Listen, I'm sorry about kissing you. You're probably going to hate me for it now-"

Marissa silenced him by kissing him softly. When they broke apart, Sirius looked shocked. "Wha, uh, wh, hem, hem, uh-"Sirius stumbled over his words.

"I'm not going to hate you. I was going to suggest we do it more often," Marissa whispered.

Sirius grinned at her and pulled her close. "That's fine with me," he said, his voice ragged. He leaned in slowly towards her lips but instead of making contact, he pulled once more into the pool.

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Author Notes: Blah…I hate this one. I'm too tired to change the whole ending though. Tell me how you like it!

Okay, it's Friday night and since my friend never called me back to hang out, I think I'll put off my World History project and stay up really late writing the new (and extremely difficult) chapter for the later ones!

Review Responses:

Snow Queen72593: Oh no problem, don't be sorry! I don't mind at all! In fact, I love it when people ask questions! I actually didn't realize I mention that in an early chapter (I don't even know if human transfiguration is illegal or not, I just know the Anamagus is) but I'll definitely go back and change it. Thank you for bringing it to my attention! And no, I'm not having trouble with xanga, what's the problem I bet I can help, I'm an xanga expert lol.

Demi: Ahh man you suck! Nine days? Rarr I hate you! No just kidding lol. Well I like the Marissa/Sirius part, but the proposing part seems rushed and cheesy. If you have any advice I would love it! And you gave me a huge compliment that put a huge smile on my face (I've been told it doesn't take much to flatter me lol).

xx-Heartbroken: AWWW! (times fifty!) Of course you're mentioned, you reviewed didn't you? The estimated chapter of the story is 49-50 chapters, depending if I add something from Harry's 3rd year or not. Yeah it's a lot, but it gets better I promise. I hate all the chapters I've posted on this one so far. Also, your review DID make me update! My day was so bad and your review made it a gazillion times better, so update for you!

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