Kisses From Snowflakes

James told Lily stories about klutzy things he used to do when he was younger.
"Oh, like you never do those things anymore," she said in a matter of fact tone.
"No," he replied grinning, he was so, happy, he always dreamed of this day, but he never thought it would go so well. "Now I'm more valiant and intelligent, so I don't get caught," he explained to her.
She giggled, "Ha, now I know your secrete!" she exclaimed. She rushed out of the castle, James at her tail. They were both laughing, having fun, with each other. Lily rushed over to a tree and hid behind it, positive she lost James.
She peeked beyond the tree to see how far he was, but there was no sight of him.
The grin left her face as she searched for him, "James!" she called out, hands cupped over her mouth to amplify her voice.
"James!" she hollered, no reply, this made her worried. "James!" she shouted anxiously, "This is no fun, come out now!" her face turned pale, and her green eyes became worried.
"Up here Lil," she heard some one say.
She moved her eyes upward and saw James on a branch of the tree sitting with his legs hanging down.
"You scared me to death!" She complained to him. He outstretched his arm and opened his hand.
"Come up, its nice here," he said soothingly.
"Did you hear me?" Lily inquired utterly annoyed.
"No, now come up," he grinned, and messed up his black mop of hair. Lily sighed and took his hand and shimmed up the tree.
She sat down beside him, and there was a moment of silence.
"It is very pretty," Lily finally said.
"Yeah," agreed James, but he wasn't looking out at the snow lying over the grounds, he was looking at Lily.
Lily finally turned her face away from the wondrous landscape and saw that James was staring at her.
"I-I- meant the grounds," she stuttered.
"uh-huh," he said not taking in a word she was saying.
"Do you hear me? You're not even looking at the sn…" Lily was cut off.
Her eyes were shut gently and her hair pushed back, and a pleasant, new taste emerged into her mouth.
Lily then realized what was happening, she was kissing James. She had to pull away, just had to, but she didn't want to.
How can this be, she thought, the one person I always hated, is now, kissing me? It was too weird, this couldn't happen.
It's all a dream; she tried to convince herself, why would I dream of this though!
James couldn't help it, he didn't know what came over him, and he was just, looking at her. Some weird attraction pulled him into her.
Is she kissing back? he asked himself. No, Lily wouldn't, but she was.
James slowly lifted his hands, and for once, found his hand in someone else's hair. And it was not dark and knotted and rough, no it was soft, glimmering, silky, magical, free hair that belonged to Lily.
Suddenly something brushed up against James's cheek. He took alarm, but it was just Lily's hand. He took one of his rough hands out of Lily's silky hair and held her plush hand.
Lily jumped, her hands were so cold without her glove on, and James's bare hand was warm.
So nice, she thought to herself, it shouldn't end, don't ever let it end…

"That was amazing!" exclaimed Lily, who almost fell off of the tree. "I actually didn't want it to end!" She leaned forward into James's chest.
He laughed and gently ran his finger through her hair.
"I liked it too," he finally said. Lily moved her head up onto his shoulder, and James found his arm around Lily.
She oddly felt comfortable, and although it was a freezing day, she was felt happily warm. James hugged her and she sighed tiredly.
"No offense, but I never pictured me here with you," Lily said.
"It's okay, I didn't really either."
Did James think that Lily despised him that much? Lily giggled under her breath, of course not; otherwise he wouldn't have tried so hard to get me to like him.
Lily nuzzled James's shoulder, and he beamed at her, he never felt so good in his life! He was cuddling with Lily atop a tree, with beautiful snow falling, ice glossed the ground, and at Hogwarts.

James led Lily into the Gryffindor Common Room after the sun had set outside.
"I'm a bit hungry," James said as he sat on a cushioned chair.
"I bet," Lily sat on James's lap, "We missed dinner in the Great Hall," she nuzzled up against him. James beamed, he never felt so warm in his entire life!
"Did we really? It didn't seem like we were out there for that long," James said. Lily sighed.
"Time sure flies when you're having a good time," James froze. Had he been able to give Lily a really good time? Was this all real life, or a dream?
"Pinch me, I'm dreaming," he muttered under his breath.
"What?" James woke out of his day dream.
"Nothing," he messed his hair and grinned.
"Okay," Lily looked up into his round hazel eyes. "You have nice eyes," she noticed, and she sat up. She looked into them. So intense and yet gentle at the same time.
"Thanks," James said. Lily started giggling. "What's so funny?" he asked.
"Nothing," she gasped, "It's just, you're suddenly so, so, different then normal," she explained.
"Oh," James sighed.
"It's not a bad thing or anything; I just never knew there was this side of you."
"Neither did I," the couple laughed.
"Anyway," Lily said. There was an awkward silence. Lily shuffled around in James's lap, trying to get more comfortable. She then began to pick at her bracelet. Why isn't he talking? She wondered. She lifted her head up, "So um…"
He leaned in and kissed her. She kissed back again.

Lily waltzed into her dorm and collapsed on her bed. "Wow."
"That good, huh?" Pamela drew the curtains.
"Hey," Lily sat up, she was blushing a bright red.
"Don't be embarrassed, a girl's allowed to have some fun every once in a while," Pam grinned.
"Thanks for the support," Lily said sarcastically.
"Ah, back to your normal prissy self, I see."
"I'm not prissy," Lily grinned.
"Yes you are!" Pamela got up and threw a pillow at her friend.
"I hate you!" Lily joked.
"Of course you do," Pam said coolly.
"You suck," Lily continued.
"Okay," Pamela agreed.
"Whatever go get me a wet towel to get this make-up off," Lily asked. Pam got up and walked out of the room and down the hall into the bathroom. Lily rolled over in her bed and pulled out a little vase in the night table; she did a spell and it filled with crystal blue water. Then Lily dug in her coat pocket and found a small rose that James had gave her earlier.
Since it was winter there were no flowers left, but James had a rose that came with a book that James stole from his mother. Then once they were in the common room he had a wonderful idea of giving it to her.
Lily loved it. She screamed of joy and jumped into James's arms, and he laughed.
Lily sighed as she relived the moment, but it was all over. Pamela had come back into the room and Lily put the rose in the vase and put it atop the night table.
"Here," Pam dropped the slightly wet towel in Lily's lap, and then she tossed her mirror on Lily's bed.
"Thanks," Lily grinned and she started to wipe the make up off, and she checked how she was doing in the mirror.

James was also in his dorm. Although he obviously wasn't taking makeup off, he was talking over the date with his friends. They had crowded his bed, Sirius was atop it with James, and Peter kept moving around the bed jumping up and down. Remus was on a chair at the side of James's bed, with a book in his lap and a quill in his hand, and he continuously nibbled on the end of it as he listened to his friends.
"I always thought I'd have a better chance with Lily than you," Sirius said.
"Hey!" James exclaimed.
"He's always been very popular with the girls," Peter squeaked.
"So," James said coolly.
"So, you've always seemed to bother her much more then us," Sirius explained.
"Well…" James started.
"For a while I thought Snivellus would've had a better chance with Lily then you," Remus said taking the quill out of his mouth for a moment. The boys all laughed.
"Yeah," Sirius gasped.
"Whatever, can I get started?" James asked.
"Yeah!" the out shouted unanimously.
"Ok, well, a first we talked till we got out side and then we went up in a tree, and kissed…"
"Ooo…" the other boys poked fun.
"Then we talked some more 'til we got back to the common room, and then we kissed again…"
"Ooo…" they cut him off again.
"Then talked more," James said laughing, "and then kissed her goodnight and…"
"Ooo…"
"…Came up here," James finished.
"Ooo…" Peter went.
"Not to have it!" Sirius exclaimed, "stupid," he muttered.
"He came to see us," Remus finished the thought.
"Oh," Peter blushed with embarrassment, "I uh, didn't get the hints,"
"Well, they were there," Sirius barked.
"Stop it!" James shushed the two bickering.
"Wow, you're turning into her too," Sirius joked.
"C'mon," Remus rolled his eyes, "Let's piss off some other boy," he suggested.
"Sounds grand to me," James grinned.
"Yeah," Sirius shook a fist in the air.
"Hooray!" Peter cheered.
"Here we go," James pulled out a blank parchment and laid it out on the bed.
The boys put their wands on the paper and recited, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good," and suddenly words appeared on the paper until the marauders map was in full tacked.
Sirius took it and opened it up and they scanned the map.
"Look," Remus tapped the map with the tip of his wand, "There's James's girlfriend," apparently Lily was pacing back and fourth in the girls' dorms.
"Wonder what she's doing," James said looking at it.
"Probably thinking about your little date," Sirius guessed.
"Maybe," James took it in his hands.
"Let's go," Peter said.
"We can't," Remus stopped them.
"Why not?" James asked.
"Remember when we tried to sneak in last year one of the girls saw us, now they put that sliding spell on the staircase leading to the dorms," Remus explained.
"Oh yeah," Sirius recalled the moment and grinned, "still can't believe we got caught."
"Neither can I," agreed a beaming James.
"Me neither," Peter squeaked.
"Nor I, it was a great plan, stupid girl, she had a magic eye," Remus swore.
"Yeah," Peter agreed.
"Plus she didn't get in trouble for staying up late," Remus added on.
"This isn't going to help me get to Lily any sooner," James muttered.
"Sorry," Remus apologized.
"It's fine," James forgave him, "I just want to know what she's up to," James sat back in his bed.
"She may go in the common room," Sirius said.
"Why?" James asked, he knew Sirius had done something.
"Well uh…"
"We were spying a bit on you and Lily," Remus said suddenly getting interested in the book he was reading.
"I knew you'd probably do that," James smirked.
"Yeah well, um…" Peter couldn't spit it out.
"I stole her bag," Sirius said.
"And I took a little ring that was in her pocket," Remus flipped the page in his book.
"You did!" James exclaimed.
"Yeah, why?"
"I looked everywhere for that bag! She had forgotten it, so I thought I'd bring it back, but I couldn't find it. And the ring was her mother's; Lily will be worried sick over it!" James exclaimed. The boys laughed.
"Here, you can have her bloody crap," and Sirius gave it back.
"Anyway, I'll give it to her in the morning," James sighed.
"Why don't you give it to her now?" Remus asked.
"I have to give someone mischief," James grinned. So did Sirius and then Peter, and Remus.