Disclaimer: All the characters that you recognize belong to J. K. Rowling.

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Time seemed to have gone by so quickly, Lily couldn't believe that she and James had been dating for a little less than two months now. But they had indeed been together for that long, and neither one of them had ever been happier.

Lily was actually sad when Christmas break had come, it meant three weeks without seeing James. Of course, Lily was pleased to see her family and celebrate with them, but she missed James so much.

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One day, about four days before the vacation would end, Lily found herself sitting on the couch reading a book she had received for Christmas. It was really quite interesting, and she became very involved in the characters and plot.

Lily was startled as she heard the doorbell ring, but went back to her book, thinking that her mother would answer it.

"Lily, would you mind getting that, I've got my hands full out here," her mother yelled from the kitchen.

Lily sighed, but got up and walked over toward the front door. She opened it up and saw none other than James Potter, standing there with a grin on his face.

"James!" Lily screamed, running into his arms and giving him a hug.

"Hi Lily," he said as he gave her a light kiss on the cheek.

"What on earth a re you doing here?" Lily asked, a puzzled expression on her face.

"I came to see you," he simply answered.

"James, as much as I love you being here, you really can't be here. My parents will freak," Lily explained.

Just then Lily's mom came to see what was happening at her front door, "Lily, are you going to introduce me to your friend?"

Lily blushed, realizing that she was still wrapped in James' arms. "Um, mum, this is James Potter, my boyfriend."

"Oh, so this is the infamous James Potter that I've heard endless stories about," Alexandra Evans exclaimed.

"Hello Mrs. Evans, it's a pleasure to be meeting you," James told Lily's mother.

"Oh, well, it's very nice to finally meet you…Now, James, will you be staying for dinner?" Alexandra asked.

"Well, actually, I should probably be heading back home, I didn't mean to interrupt your evening, Mrs. Evans," James responded.

"Oh, don't be silly. You'll stay, besides I'm sure Lily's father would love to meet you, and he isn't expected back for another twenty minutes," Alexandra told him.

"Oh, well, thank you very much Mrs. Evans."

Lily stared in shock, her mother had just asked James to stay for dinner. She wanted him there for dinner and to meet Lily's father. This was so unlike her mother.

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Twenty minutes later, Richard Evans finally came home, expecting to find his two daughters and his beautiful wife waiting for him.

However, when he walked into the living room and saw a boy sitting next to his youngest daughter, he nearly had a heart attack. He hurried into the kitchen, waving his arms frantically at his wife.

"Do you know that Lily is with a boy, in our living room?" he questioned.

"Of course I do, Richard. I invited him to stay for dinner," she replied.

"Why did you do that?" he asked.

"Oh Richard, in case you haven't noticed, Lily is not a little girl anymore. She's seventeen years old, and she really likes this boy."

"The more reason not to let our little princess near him," Richard answered sternly.

"Richard, you are being unreasonable," Alexandra told her husband.

"It's not that I don't trust Lily, I know she would never do anything wrong. But, it's the boy I don't trust."

"Richard, you don't even know him, just give him a chance. From what Lily has said about him, he seems like a very nice young man," Alexandra responded, not letting her husband win this argument.

"Fine, he can stay for dinner, but then he's leaving," Richard replied.

"Okay," Alexandra replied.

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"So, James, Lily tells us that you're Head Boy this year," Alexandra said, trying to make conversation.

"Yes, I really wasn't expecting it, but for some reason Professor Dumbledore chose me," James answered.

"And why weren't you expecting it?" Richard asked. Lily was going red as she heard her father ask the question, she hated him sometimes. Whenever Lily had invited a guy over, even if he was just a friend, her dad had asked questions which really shouldn't have been asked.

"Well, Mr. Evans, to put it quite bluntly, I wasn't always the best student at school. I mean, my grades were fine, but as Lily used to so nicely say, 'I was an arrogant prat.', James responded. "But, I changed over the summer, and apparently Professor Dumbledore knew that, and he chose me."

Petunia sat across from Lily at the table, she had a smirk on her face. And Lily could only imagine what she was thinking. And it was probably along the lines of, 'Wow, you call him a boyfriend? Dad hates him, it's so obvious.' Or she might be thinking, 'My Vernon passed the Dad test, I bet James can't.'

There was a moment of silence, Lily's father seeming to accept James' answer. "Did I tell you that James is also captain of the Quidditch team?" Lily asked her parents.

"Oh, is that so? Well, you must be quite the ideal student now," Alexandra announced, "I mean, Head Boy and Quidditch captain."

James blushed a little at her praise, not quite sure what to say to that.

"So, James, now what is it that you plan on doing after Hogwarts?" Richard asked.

"Well, there are lots of options. I was thinking probably an auror, which I guess would be similar to a police officer, am I right Lily?"

"Um, yes. I guess they are," she responded.

Richard perked up at this, "Really? Well, that is a good modest career," Richard told James. Lily just realized that her father may have a different view on James now, after all her father had been in the police department in London for twenty-five years, until he was shot. Then her mother wouldn't allow him to rejoin the force.

"Yes, I've been thinking about it for quite sometime now. And that always seems like the perfect career for me. Although, my mother isn't fond of it, she thinks that I'll get hurt or something," James responded.

"Oh, yes, I know the feeling. You know, I was once in the police department in London," Richard began. He then went about telling James bunches of stories of when he was an officer. Lily thanked God that it seemed to hold James' interest; her father just loved telling the story to anyone who would listen.

As he told the story, Lily glanced over at Petunia. The smirk was wiped off her face. Vernon hadn't been accepted this much by the Evans' family, not even after months of getting to know him. And here James was, and Richard had liked him the first day they had met.

One Lily's father had finished with his stories, and dinner was nearly done James decided to mention the real reason he had come.

"It's been so nice meeting you all, Mr. Evans, Mrs. Evans, Petunia. You have been so kind to me, and it's been so nice seeing Lily. I've missed you so much, my mum finally started complaining that I talked too much about you. She said that you seemed like a wonderful person, and she really wants to meet you," James said.

"Oh, well, I really want to meet her sometime too," Lily replied.

"You know what would be great, if you could come back to my house with me and meet her. She'd be very pleased, and since there aren't many days left in the break, we could just take you with us to King's Cross," James announced.

Lily looked startled at his words, go back with him, to his house. Her parents would never approve.

James then added as an afterthought, "If it's alright with you, Mr. and Mrs. Evans."

Her parents looked at each other for a moment. Lily was surprised that they didn't say right there and then 'no.'

"I think we need to talk it over before we make any decisions," Richard responded. Lily could almost feel her eyes pop out of her head, her parents were actually considering letting her spend the rest of the break at James' house.

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Lily and James were sitting in the living room talking when Lily's parents entered the room.

"We need to know a few things before we decide," Alexandra told the couple.

"First, James, your parents are going to be home, right?" Richard asked.

"Of course," James replied.

"And Lily would be sleeping in a different room?" Alexandra questioned.

"Yes, we've got plenty of guest bedrooms," he replied.

"And this is alright with your parents?" Alexandra asked.

"Yes, they are quite keen on meeting Lily."

"Well then, I guess that you can go Lily," Richard told his daughter.

Lily and James both smiled. James was so happy that Lily could come, he wanted to be with her so bad. Lily was pleased as well, getting to spend time alone with James would be nice. Of course, she did wonder why her parents had allowed her to go, but she didn't care as long as she was able to go.

"And Lily, remember to owl me as soon as you get to James' house, and as soon as you get to Hogwarts," Alexandra reminded.

"I will mum," she replied. Then went over and gave her parents each a gigantic hug.

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Soon enough, Lily was all packed and ready to go. She said her good-byes to her parents and sister, and then found herself apparating over to the Potter manor.

Author's Note 2: Wow, I think that this is the longest chapter that I have ever written! Go me! Anyways, please review!