Chapter 17- Christmas Day
A/N: I own nothing. Oh, and if you were wondering, what Lily told Lauren about James's mom, she was lying. It's not true.
Christmas Day finally arrived and Lily had officially given up on getting Lauren to cancel her date with James.
Lily woke up to Jordan screaming in her ear to wake up and come down to the common room and open presents. Lily yawned and walked down to the common room, where 3/4s of the people who had stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas were downstairs opening presents.
Lily took a seat next to Jordan and Megan and took the presents that Jordan was holding out for her.
"Thanks" Lily yawned, pulling the wrapping paper off her first gift, which turned out to be a new planner from Jordan. She thanked Jordan again, and opened the next gift.
Before long, all 3 girls had their gifts open and were taking turns looking at each others presents.
"This is cool Lily," Megan said, referring to the Castle snowglobe Lily's parents had given her for her collection of snow globes. So far she had 30, but they were all in her room at home.
"Thanks" Lily smiled.
Once all 3 girls had taken a look at everyone else's presents, the three girls headed up to their dorm, placed this presents on their beds, dressed, and headed down to breakfast.
The three entered the Great Hall which was, as usual, decked out for the holidays. The 12 Christmas trees stood behind the staff table and fake snow was falling from the ceiling.
The girls took a seat at the Gryffindor table and scooped some eggs and bacon onto their plates and began to eat.
"I'm so excited for the dance tonight!" Megan squealed after taking a bite of bacon.
"Me too." Jordan agreed.
"I wish I could say the same" Lily said.
"I'm sorry Lily. You can hang out with us if you want too." Jordan offered.
"Yeah totally" Megan agreed.
Once the girls had finished eating, the three headed back up to Gryffindor tower, and took seats by the fire.
"So what should we do for the rest of the day?" Lily asked
Jordan shrugged, "I dont know. Megan do you have any ideas?"
"Umm. We could go outside and go skating on the lake." Megan suggested.
"Yeah. That would be fun." Jordan said "Lily do you want to do that?"
"Sure." Lily agreed.
The three girls then headed up to their dormitory, grabbed their skates, pulled on their winter clothes, and headed outside into the winter wonderland.
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Lily, Megan, and Jordan spent the afternoon skating on the lake and then having a furious snowball fight with some of the other students. Then, around 4:00, the girls traipsed back up to the castle, wet and cold, to get ready for the dance.
The moment they entered Gryffindor tower, the three witnessed chaos like they have never seen before.
All the Gryffindor girls were either rushing up to their dormitories to get ready, or down in the common room searching for makeup or hair accessories that somehow, might have found their way downstairs into the common room.
The boys however, were either playing exploding snap or wizards chess.
"It's like a zoo" Lily observed, as another group of girls, this time 4th years, rushed up to the dorms to start preparing for the dance.
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Upstairs in the girls dorms was complete chaos.
The 7th year girls were running around their dorm looking for makeup or hair accessories.
"Oh my god, Lauren(a/n: not the same Lauren James takes to the dance. I didn't realize i used the name twice. haha) where's my eyeliner?" Lily, Megan, and Jordans roommate, Allison asked her friend.
"Has anyone seen my shoe?" Allison asked, completely ignoring her friends question.
Ignoring the other two girls, Megan, Jordan, and Lily each took turns showering and then began preparing for the dance.
"MEGAN! YOU USED ALL THE HOT WATER!" Jordan shouted from the shower.
"Oops" Megan giggled.
Lily grinned and then continued combing her wet hair. Once it was free of knots and tangles, she took her wand, pointed it at her hair, muttered a soft incantation, and made her hair dry instantly.
Lily then walked over to her wardrobe and pulled out the dress she had bought at Madam Marlas. Hiding behind it, she pulled on the dress.
Once hte dress was over her head, she smoothed the dress out, stepped out from behind the wardrobe, and admired herself in the mirror.
She still couldn't believe how well this dress fit her, almost as if it had been designed especially for her. Lily reached back into her wardrobe and pulled out the ballet flats and gloves Marla had suggested and, one by one, pulled the four pieces on, admiring herself once more in the mirror.
Lily then grabbed her brush off her table and combed her hair, twisting small sections of hair and clipping a bobbi pin behind each ear. Lily brushed her hair one last time and applied a coat of clear lipgloss, a light shade of blue eyeshadow, eye liner, mascarra, and light pink blush to give herself rosy cheeks. With one last glance at the mirror, Lily stepped out of her fourposter.
"Are you two almost ready?" Lily shouted.
"Ready!" Jordan shouted coming out of the bathroom. She was wearing a light pink spagahttei strap dress that went down to midcalf. On her feet were a pair of white, strappy shoes with about 3 inch heels. Her hair was done up in an elegant bun.
"You look gorgeous Jordan." Lily told her friend.
Jordan smiled. "So do you."
"Thanks" Lily said.
"Now where's Megan?" Jordan asked.
"Right here" Megan said.
The two girls turned around and stared at their friend. Megans dress was a very pale shade of yellow and strapless and fell to the ground, with a slight train on the back. Her hair was in a half ponytail.
"Megan you look so beautiful." Jordan said.
"Thanks." Megan answered, "So do you two."
The two girls smiled.
"So," Megan said, "Ready to go?"
Jordan and Lily nodded and the three girls headed down to the common room.
"Jordan where are you meeting Mitch?" Megan asked. It was full of boys waiting for their dates to come down. As the three reached the bottom of hte stairs, Megan started looking around for Remus.
"In the entrance hall." Jordan said.
"Well you better go" Lily said.
"I guess. And Lily, if you want too just come and hang with us." Jordan said.
"I will" Lily smiled.
"Great. Well, see you later" Jordan said.
"Bye" Lily said, as her friend exited the common room through the portrait hole.
"Oh! There's Remus. See you Lily!" Megan said and rushed off.
"See you" Lily sighed.
Staring around the common room, Lily looked at the clock and saw that it was quarter to eight.
Taking a deep breath, Lily walked out of hte portrait hole and down the stairs to the entrance hall, where many couples were waiting for the doors to the Great Hall to open up. The professors were standing in front of the doors making sure no students went in.
After what seemed like no time at all, the clock chimed 8:00.
"It's time." Professor McGonnagall told Professor Dumbledore.
The two nodded and pushed the doors open.
Almost all the students gasped as they saw the transformation of the Great Hall for the special occassion.
A/N: HEre's the next chapter. Sorry it took soo long. I wanted to get it up before tomorrow. I'm going to bed soon because I start school tomorrow. Because of this, I have no idea when the last chapter will be up. I have volleyball till 6:00 and then I have a quad tourmament on wednesday. I'll try to get it up before the weekend. There might be typos in this one as i didn't spell check it. Thanks for all the reviews. I finally got 100! Well, I'm out.
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Emma