A/N: Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed last chapter. I'm so sorry it's taken me forever to update, but I've finished all my college applications, they're in the mail and I was accepted at a college! I'm not staying home next year lol.
Anyway, please read and review, I should have more time to write now that I've sent in my applications, so look for chapter 9 soon.
Kristin
Chapter 8: Christmas
"Hey." Lily murmured as she cracked open her eyes.
"Hey". James replied before kissing her lightly on the lips. "Merry Christmas love."
"Merry Christmas." Lily replied with a smile.
"Last night was great." Lily stated awkwardly.
"Yeah, it was." James agreed, "we should do it again sometime." He said with a wicked smirk.
"Oh, I think that's definitely something that can be arranged…" Lily said suggestively.
"Oh really?" James murmured, before rolling his body on top of hers and kissing her passionately. The kiss was intense. Hands were roaming all over each other's bodies, Lily's shirt was discarded, and neither wanted to stop.
"Oh my Merlin! What is going on here?" David Potter's voice boomed from the doorway.
"What's going on?" Anna asked as she tried to peer over her husband's shoulder, and finally pushing him out of the way, saw James and Lily in a very compromising position.
"Umm, I thought you guys said you wouldn't be home until noon…" James muttered meekly.
Lily pulled the covers over her upper body and her face turned as red as her hair.
"You've got five minutes to get dressed, both of you, and just know, you two have a lot of explaining to do when we go to the Evan's house." Anna threatened the two teens. Both nodded.
"This is not good!" Lily hissed at James after his parents left the room.
"Thank you captain obvious." James replied sarcastically.
"They're never going to trust us again!" Lily said with worry.
"They never trusted me in the first place, so no big deal." James answered.
"But they did James! If they didn't trust you, they wouldn't let us stay alone together. You do realize that we probably won't be allowed to see each other at all this week, right?" Lily asked, trying to get more of a reaction out of James.
"Well, we'll go back to the old flash light method." James responded with excitement.
"I am not flashing a light across to your window! It's not the same." Lily said with a pout.
"Okay, so I ask my parents if I can stay at Sirius' house, you ask if you can stay at Kate's, and then we'll meet up somewhere in between." James answered quickly.
"Okay, I guess." Lily answered.
The two got dressed and left James room. Anna and David Potter didn't say anything to them as they walked to the Evan's house. Jen and Michael Evans greeted them and ushered them into their house.
"Let's go into the living room, Petunia's already there. We'll open presents before brunch." Jen said to the group.
"Jen, I think that James and Lily need to tell us something." Anna said, raising her eyebrows at her. Jen gave her a look that said, 'really? They're together?' Clearly, these two women were waiting for the day their children would become a couple.
"What do you need to tell us Lily bean?" Michael asked.
"Um, just that James and I are a couple…" Lily said with a smile. James nodded his head in agreement.
"Well congratulations!" Jen exclaimed as she pulled her youngest daughter into a huge hug, and then gave James one as well.
"But Lily bean, why didn't you tell us first?" Michael asked, slightly jealous that Lily went to the Potters before him.
"uh…" Lily started.
"She didn't tell us, we found the two of them in a compromising position this morning." David answered for her.
She and James turned red at this comment.
"Um, yeah." Lily answered. Her father and mother were staring at her, as though they didn't recognize her.
"How about we open presents now?" James asked.
"Oh, yes, alright, let's open presents." Jen agreed. She sent a look at Lily that clearly said, 'we're talking about this later young lady.' But Lily didn't care, James had taken her out of the spotlight, at least for that moment.
"Hi Petunia." James said when he saw her sitting on the couch reading a book.
"Hello James." She answered. "So, I hear you and Lily are a couple, now you can have little freak babies."
"It's nice to see you too." James said sarcastically.
"Petunia, at least try to be nice to Lily's boyfriend." Jen said with a smile. Petunia rolled her eyes.
"What are you reading?" Lily asked her sister as she tried unsuccessfully to hug her.
"A book about drills, Vernon gave it to me." She replied almost nicely.
"Ah, intriguing?" Lily asked questioningly.
"As a matter of fact it is." Petunia snapped.
"Okay… geeze, I was just trying to be nice!" Lily said defensively. "I got you a present". She stated and handed Petunia a wrapped package.
Petunia carefully undid the paper on the present, careful not to rip it too much.
"Thanks Lily." Petunia said with a genuine smile. In her hands she held a box of chocolates and a bracelet that had Petty engraved on it. That was what Lily had called Petunia as a child, when it was too hard for her to pronounce Petunia, and the nickname had stuck for many years, until Lily got her Hogwarts letter and the two had drifted apart.
"Welcome." Lily replied as her sister gave her a hug. This is what it used to be like. Lily thought to herself. When Petty and I got along. Maybe there's hope for us in the future.
"I got something for you too." Petunia said handing Lily a perfectly wrapped box.
Lily pulled the wrapping paper off haphazardly, completely opposite of Petunia and opened the box. Inside was a hat, glove and scarf set, all emerald green.
"Did you make these?" Lily asked in awe as she wrapped the scarf around her neck.
"Yeah." Petunia replied.
"Thanks." Lily said with a smile and embraced her sister again.
Around them their parents and the Potters were opening gifts from one another, but it was nice for the girls to be able to share this moment. They didn't hate each other, they just had very different views on issues and often disagreed.
"Hey, I've got a present for you." James said softly in Lily's ear as he handed her a small box.
She unwrapped it and found a necklace inside with a charm in the shape of a Lily flower and her name engraved in the flower with a small diamond on top of the "I".
"Thanks." She said with a smile, giving James a quick peck on the lips. She pulled away quickly, knowing that her parents, Petunia, and the Potters were all watching.
"I love it, and I love you." She whispered.
"I love you too." James responded softly.
"Here, I've got you a present too." Lily responded. James unwrapped the large gift and his eyes lit with excitement.
"Cool! The newest most intense broom care kit! Awesome this is amazing!" James said giddily, throwing his arms around his girlfriend.
"Glad you like it." Lily murmured.
After the two families finished unwrapping their presents, they sat down to brunch which consisted of eggs, French toast, and scones. Around two O'clock the Potter's went back to their own house. Lily was in the kitchen helping her mother clean up. Her dad was attempting to put together a workout machine his wife had given him, and Petunia was in her room listening to a new record her parents had given her.
"So Lily, when did you and James start dating?" Her mother asked casually, giving Lily a side glance as she dried dishes.
"November first." Lily said quietly.
"Almost two months, impressive for your age." Her mom commented.
"I guess." Lily answered. Trying to give her mother the impression that she was not into having this conversation, although Lily knew it was inevitable.
"Look, I'm not going to beat around the bush, are you and James having sex?" Her mother demanded.
"What? No. Not that it's any of your business mom." Lily responded defensively.
"Well, how much have you done with him?" Her mother prodded.
"MOM! I'm not going to tell you that." Lily said defiantly.
"Lily, I just don't want you to get hurt, or pregnant." Her mother said.
Lily sighed. "I won't get hurt, it's James. And as we established before, I'm not having sex so I won't be getting pregnant."
"Well, maybe at this moment you aren't, but you probably are contemplating it, and you will do it in the future, and I was just thinking that we never had the talk." Her mother thought out loud.
"We've had the talk! When I first went to Hogwarts, and then after I got my period." Lily said in exasperation.
"No, those times I just told you the facts, you were still much too young to be having sex, but now you're a young woman. If you have any questions, I want you to feel like you can ask me them, okay?"
"Okay. I have no questions, can you stop interrogating me now?" Lily asked desperately.
"No, not yet. What were you and James doing when the Potters found you this morning?"
Lily sighed heavily and answered slowly. "We were kissing, in his bed."
"Is that all?" Her mother demanded, "you know I'll find out from Anna if you're lying.
"I'm not lying!—though there was some touching and some skin showing." Lily answered meekly.
"Lily, it's natural to have needs and feelings at your age, and if you do decide to have sex, please use protection. I know that goes against our religion, but I'd rather you be safe than sorry." Her mother finished.
Lily smiled slightly and hugged her mom. "Thanks mom." Lily said and turned to walk out of the room.
"Oh, and Lily, one more thing."
"Yeah?" Lily stopped and turned towards her mom.
"You're not allowed to see James for the rest of vacation."
"I figured." Lily said as she continued to her room.
She passed Petunia's room and heard her new record playing a song.
"What's that song?" Lily asked with interest, popping her head into Petunia's room.
"Only the Good Die Young by Billy Joel." Petunia responded pleasantly.
"It's good." Lily said, walking all the way into Petunia's room and sitting on her bed.
"Mmm hmm." Petunia responded.
"Can I ask you something kind of personal?" Lily asked as she heard the lyrics, you catholic girls start much too late
"I guess." Petunia responded.
"Have you ever had sex?"
"That is personal." Petunia responded.
"Look, I swear I won't tell mom." Lily pleaded.
"Yeah, I have." Petunia said, not giving her any more details than that.
"Really? I had you pinned as a virgin until your wedding night!" Lily said with a laugh.
"How well you know me." Petunia said dryly. "So, why did you want to know?"
"Because I'm thinking about it, with James." Lily said apprehensively.
"I say go for it." Petunia said.
"Really? You know, I always thought I was the more rebellious free spirit but look at that, so are you." Lily said with a smile.
Petunia smiled back and said, "Well, I wouldn't go that far, I'd just say that we agree on more things than we thought."
"You know, I thought Mom would be mad if I had sex before I was married, you know because how Catholics are supposed to wait until marriage before they have sex." Lily said, and Petunia snorted.
"Lily, you went against the Catholics the day you received your Hogwarts letter! A Catholic witch? Puh-lease! If it's mom's religion you're worried about, then worry no longer. She accepted you as a witch, she'll accept you having sex. Or you just won't tell her." Petunia finished.
"Probably the latter." Lily replied.
"Alright, now that you've got your sex issue solved, get out of my room. It's Christmas and I don't hate you, but I still don't like you, so if you'd be so kind as to get out of my room…" Petunia trailed off.
"Okay, okay, I'm going. Thanks for the help." Lily said. Petunia wasn't so bad, well at least not on Christmas. Lily thought to herself.
"James how long have you and Lily been together?" Anna demanded as soon as they got home.
"I don't know." James answered.
"James Henry, don't lie to me." His mother said.
"Fine, almost two months." James said.
"Two months! And you never thought to tell your own mother! I can't believe Sirius didn't owl me when it happened. Two months!" Anna rambled.
James sneaked a glance in his father's direction, though his father did not look like he had any intention of stopping his wives monologue.
"And in your bed! Honestly James didn't we teach you better?" Anna asked her son.
"Yeah." James said.
"You are grounded for the rest of vacation!"
"What! But mom, you already said I could go to Sirius' new years party, and he arranged it and everything, I can't just miss it!" James said with anxiety.
"Fine! You can go to Sirius' for new years, but you are not to see Lily for the remainder of the vacation." Anna said, glaring at her only child.
"Fine." James grumbled. "Can I go now?" James whined.
"No, you and your father are going to have a sex talk now." Anna said sharply.
"What!" yelped James. "But we've done this already." He said.
"You will sit and hear your father's words." Anna said fiercely.
"James, when a man and a woman love each other they have…" David was cut off by his wife's shrill voice.
"He knows the facts David! Alright, James are you still a virgin?" His mother demanded.
"I'm not answering that!" James said with indignation. (He wasn't, but he wasn't about to tell his parents that.)
"Have you and Lily had sex?" Anna asked.
"Mom! Not that it's any of your business, but no, we haven't. Yeah unfortunately James thought to himself.
"Well, if you plan on it you MUST use protection, is that understood? And make sure that Lily likes it as much as you, is that understood, do you now what I'm saying James?"
"Yes mom, I understand." He said. This conversation was extremely embarrassing. His mom was very open about sex, but sometimes he thought she was a little too open about it.
"Good. Go to your room." Anna demanded.
"Yes mother." James said as he bounded up the stairs to his room. That conversation could not have been any more awkward. James thought to himself as he lay down on his bed and closed his eyes.
James owled Sirius later that day, telling him to invite Lily and Kate to his New Years party. Then he owled Kate asking her to invite Lily to her house for New Years, but actually go to Sirius's party. He briefly explained what had happened and how he and Lily were not allowed to see each other. Kate and Sirius owled him back saying that they'd do what he asked and they'd help as much as they could.
Lily was ecstatic. Kate had owled the plan that James had come up with to her, and it had worked. Her parents said it would be fine for her to spend New Years with Kate, so Lily was going be able to kiss her boyfriend at midnight.
She packed her bags and went to the Potter's house later that day to floo to Kate's house.
"Lily!" Kate squealed hugging her best friend.
"Kate!" Lily responded with a giggle. "Thank you so much!"
"What are friends for? Come on, let's put your stuff upstairs, we should start getting ready soon, I mean it starts at seven and it's already five!" Kate said excitedly.
"Wow, someone's excited." Lily said with a smile.
"I know, I love new years."
"You know, January first is James and my two month anniversary." Lily said.
"Yes, I know." Kate said with a smirk.
The two girls continued chattering as they got ready to go to Sirius' apartment. Kate's parents were out for the night and they thought that she and Lily were going over to Leah's house. In fact, Leah would be at Sirius' along with Sammy and most of the upper classmen at Hogwarts.
At seven the girls still weren't completely ready. Lily was deciding how to do her hair, while Kate was applying makeup. Both girls looked good.
Lily was wearing a long dark green dressy top with bell-bottoms. Her hair was down and wavy and she had on a little eyeliner.
Kate was wearing a blue low cut top with jeans. Both girls had on platform shoes. Kate's hair was down and straight.
"Ready to go?" Kate asked Lily at 7:30.
"Yeah, let's go!" Lily replied in excitement.
The girls walked to Kate's fireplace. Kate went first and said,
"The Black flat." Lily watched as the flames turned green and Kate was transported to Sirius' flat.
Lily stepped into the flames, repeated the same line, and landed in Sirius' living room.
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