A/N So, I'm stumped right now, I'm feeling lazy lately and I'm getting bored with this story. I don't know if it's just I don't have time for it or I'm just not interested in the plot. I have no idea. But I will continue the story for you lot, cause you're just so special to me. So this chapter gets inside Lily's head, sorry if it seems rushed I just wanna get them back into Hogwarts. Maybe a little bit more music class? R/R!

Disclaimer: I've been forgetting this… haha… if I was JKR would I be writing fanfiction? I own nothing except my writing. No characters, no setting. And no hostess products. Nothing.

Chapter 16

The days flew by for the happy couples. Lily and James grew closer and closer everyday, laughing at the littlest things, arguing just for the fun of it, sometimes just sitting in each others company was enough for them. Amanda and Sirius spent a lot of time snogging and playing in the snow, a favorite past time for Amanda. However they spent their days, the four teenagers were always having a good time.

Though with all the good holiday cheer, Lily wasn't up to her usual self. The death of her parents was starting to sink in and the reality of the whole situation. She'd gone the day after she found out to settle the will of her parents. Everything went to Petunia, seeing as she was the eldest, but Lily got a few things here and there. Like her mother's wedding ring, a small gold heart shaped locket, and a couple family albums. Also, in the will, it said when she got married she would receive half of her parents money they had left behind. Lily smiled when she received the small box of items. Her mother knew her well. She'd always admired her mother's ring. It was simple: a small opal surrounded by five diamonds. The locket was also simple: just little intricate design of flowers, though Lily could never get it open. Her mother once told her she'd be able to open it when the time was right. Lily laughed as she went through the photo albums. So many memories, so many good times. She smiled sadly, tears in her eyes; she never got to say good-bye. That's the thing she regretted. Never saying good-bye, never telling her folks that she loved them.

James seemed to notice Lily's deflate, and tried to get her mind of things. Lily knew he was trying and everything but it just didn't seem to be working. She found herself crying a lot even though she knew her parents wouldn't want her to. She just couldn't help it. She knew they were in a better place but it still hurt to see them go.

Lily woke up early New Year's Eve. She sighed to herself, getting used to the whole white themed room. She was going to miss this place when they got back to Hogwarts. She quickly got out of bed, and walked down stairs to the kitchen. Yawning, she opened the fridge to crab the orange juice out and poured herself a glass. She heard a wolf whistle behind her.

"What?" Lily said as she looked over herself. She was wearing a white cami that stopped above her belly button, and pink sweats stripped with all different blues. So, they were a little showy, but there PJ's no one's supposed to see them.

"Damn, Lily, you look good in PJ's," Sirius said with a grin.

"Good to know," she taking a sip of orange juice.

"Really, it shows off your curves and who knew you had a killer body and look at your-"

"Padfoot, are you hitting on my girlfriend?" James said cutting in walking into the room.

"No," Sirius said frowning. He added, "Just complimenting her on her wonderful body."

James rolled his eyes and Lily giggled. Grabbing an apple he said, "Don't you have a girlfriend?"

"Why, yes, yes he does," Amanda said walking into the kitchen. "And he'd better stop hitting on his girlfriend's best friend."

"It's not hitting, it's complimenting," Sirius said annoyed.

The other three rolled their eyes not wanting to deal with him this early in the morning. Just then Mr. and Mrs. Potter walked into the room. There was a quick exchange of Happy New Year's Eve throughout the room.

Surprisingly, the Potters, being a pureblood family, only had three house elves (Twinkie, HoHo, and Zinger) and only used them when needed for extra things, like laundry and when they needed an errand run or if they where too busy to write a letter. Also, they used a ton of muggle appliances and electronics in their home unlike other pureblood families. It wasn't that hard to tell that the Potters were a very unconventional wizarding family.

Out of the blue, HoHo, the house elf, apparated into the kitchen. She quietly squeaked: "Does the Mrs.'s and Mr.'s wants anything?"

"Oh, no, thank you, HoHo," Mrs. Potter said kindly. "We've got it all covered, but could you get the kids' clothes all washed so that they're ready for when they return to Hogwarts?"

"Of course, Mistress Potter, anything for the Misses," HoHo said excitedly as if it was the best thing in the world. And with a loud crack, HoHo was gone.

"James," Lily asked pouring herself a bowl of Cheerios.

"Hmmm," he answered taking another bite of his apple.

"Why is your house elf named HoHo?"

Mr. and Mrs. Potter, James and Sirius all started cracking up while Amanda and Lily looked at them confused.

"Well-"James started but Sirius cut him off.

"When Jamsie here," he said slinging his arm around James's shoulder, "was a young lad, he had a fond liking towards all those Hostess products, and the Potters here let their son name the house elves, and out popped: Twinkie, HoHo, and Zinger. Well once you name a house elf it only responds to that name."

"Fond liking?" Mr. Potter snorted. "It was more like an obsession. Every meal had either a HoHo, Twinkie or a zinger in it, and every time you asked him what he wanted to eat he would say HoHo, HoHo, HoHo!"

"It wasn't like that," James said blushing. "It was Twinkies, duh."

The Potters including the rest of the seventeen year olds in the room laughed their heads off. Once everyone's face returned to normal color, they had a hardy breakfast of pancakes, sausage, cereal, bacon, and of course hoho's.

"Prongs," Sirius said leaning back in his chair, "What are we doing for New Year's?"

"I don't know, we could through a party er something, just a small one though nothing too big," James answered thoughtfully.

"That'd be fun," Lily piped in. "And we could see if Remus, Jasmine, and Peter could come over, and maybe Alice and Frank too. I hear they've been going steady for awhile."

"Yeah and we could use the third floor," Sirius said. "No one ever uses it, and we could get some funky music and get Zinger to whip up some food."

"Yeah! And we can probably nick some Firewhisky while we're at it," James said suggestively.

"NO!" Amanda and Lily shouted at the same time. Neither had any experience with the beverage and did not want their boyfriends getting all loopy on them.

"Fine," the guys pouted.

Remus, Jasmine, and Peter came over around seven that night, just in time for dinner. Alice and Frank were coming over a little later due to Frank's mother wanting to make sure her son got a healthy dinner and Alice unwillingness to leave her boyfriend. Dinner was a huge spread of just about everything under the sun. There was steak, chicken, sea food, turkey, and potatoes of every kind, corn, green beans, fruit, juice, milk, pumpkin juice, an array of desserts and other sides. It was enough food to rival a feast at Hogwarts. The seven teenagers dug in and soon there was hardly anything left on the table, mostly because of Sirius, James, Remus, Peter and Amanda.

Alice and Frank arrived shortly after the group thanked the Potters for the meal, and headed up to the third floor which had been turned into a small dance floor, complete with automatic DJ, snacks, butterbeer, couches, and to the girl's dismay: Firewhisky.

The girls started screaming as "The Way I Are" came on. Jasmine pulled Remus onto the floor, and started dancing with him while he sang, "I ain't got no money, I ain't got no car to take you on a date, I can't even buy you flowers, but together we'll be the perfect soulmates. Talk to me girl."

Jasmine smiled as she sang back to him, "Oh, baby, it's alright now, you ain't gotta flaunt for me. If we go thouch, you can still touch my love, it's free. We can work without the perks just you and me, thug it out 'til we get it right. Baby if you strip, you can get a tip
'Cause I like you just the way you are," as she finished she threw her arms around his neck.

"I'm about to strip and I'm well equipped. Can you handle me the way I are?" Remus sang, nervous about her being so straight forward with him.

"I don't need the G's or the car keys, Boy, I like you just the way you are," she sang shaking her head back and forth. Remus smiled at her; joining with her they sang, "Let me see ya strip, you can get a tip 'Cause I like, I like, I like…."

They finished out the rest of the song beautifully with Sirius joining in for a little bit, but ended up getting slapped by his girlfriend. Everyone clapped for them as they finished, Remus whispered into Jasmine's ear, "Wow, that was amazing."

She smiled back at him, "So are you." She said kissing him full out on the mouth.

Lily, Alice, and Amanda smiled at each other, and started giggling madly at the couple. James, Frank, Sirius, and Peter all looked at each other feeling out of place, which made the girls laugh even harder. Alice whispered something into Lily's ear, and her eyes went wide. Lily whispered something back and Alice nodded. Lily looked at her desperately but Alice nodded. The red head looked like she could kill right now, but never the less walked over to James.

"Hey, do you have a karaoke machine?" she asked smiling.

"Umm, yeah why?" James asked looking at her.

"Ah-" Lily turned to look at Alice but she sent her a look that said do it. Lily looked at her frustrated but turned back to James smiling. "Can you sing?"

"What?"

"Can you sing?" she repeated.

"Define sing?"

"You can carry a tune," she said annoyed.

"Yeah, but-"

"Good enough," Lily said pulling him towards the auto DJ. "Umm, Our Song Taylor Swift please, the karaoke edition."

The robot nodded at her kindly, handing them both microphones. She smiled, thanking him.

"Lily," James started, "I'm not too sure about this, like I said I'm not exactly the best singer out there."

"Just follow the words, and sing whenever I say he says or it said or I gesture to you. Just read the words and you'll be fine, ok?"

"Sure," James looked a little green but it might have been the disco ball.

"Just take a deep breath and you'll be fine," Lily said as the music came on, she sang, "I was riding shotgun with my hair undone in the front seat of his car…. He's got a one-hand feel on the steering wheel the other on my heart. I look around, turn the radio down. He says"

"Baby is something wrong?" James sang hesitantly. Lily smiled at him.

"I say nothing I was just thinking how we don't have a song, and he says..."

"Our song is the slamming screen door, sneakin' out late, tapping on your window. When we're on the phone and you talk real slow cause it's late and your mama don't know" at the don't' know Lily sang with James in harmony. Then left him to sing again.
"Our song is the way you laugh," James sang getting a little bit more confident, smiling at her. "The first date "man, I didn't kiss her, and I should have," Lily sang harmony again, though joined him with the rest. "And when I got home ... before I said amen asking God if he," James smiled at her; she smiling back raising an eyebrow at him singing, " could play it again."

She took over again singing: "I was walking up the front porch steps after everything that day had gone all wrong and been trampled on and lost and thrown away. Got to the hallway, well on my way to my lovin' bed. I almost didn't notice all the roses and the note that said..."

"Our song is the slamming screen door, seakin' out late, tapping on your window. When we're on the phone and you talk real slow cause it's late and your mama don't know" again at the don't know Lily sang with James in harmony. Then left him to sing again.
"Our song is the way you laugh. The first date "man, I didn't kiss her, and I should have," Lily sang harmony, and joined him. "And when I got home ... before I said amen.
Asking God if he," James sang smiling at her letting her finish singing, "could play it again."

The music broke out into a guitar solo, with Lily and James jamming out on stage, their friends laughing at them. Lily sang "La la la da…. I've heard every album-" James cut in singing, "listened to the radio!" Lily rolled her eyes at him. They both sang, "Waited for something to come along," they stole glances at each other, smiling. Lily sang, "That was as good as our song...

"Cause our song is the slamming screen door, sneaking out late, tapping on his window," she gestured to James laughing. "When we're on the phone and he talks real slow cause it's late and his mama don't know."
James joined Lily, substituting the he's with she's and the him's with her's, "Our song is the way he laughs. The first date "man, I didn't kiss him, and I should have." And when I got home, before I said amen, asking God if he could play it again."

Lily was laughing singing," Play it again…oh yeah,"

"Ah yeah," James cut in making her laugh even harder.

"I was riding shotgun with my hair undone in the front seat of his car," Lily sang slowly, as James came from behind putting his arms around her waist. "I grabbed a pen and an old napkin and I... wrote down our song…"

"How was that?" James asked breathing down her neck, as their friends plus the auto DJ clapped for them.

"Perfect," she answered smiling.

"Not as perfect as you though," he said kissing her.

"Sirius! Why can't you be like that?" Amanda asked her boyfriend.

"Cause you wouldn't love me if I was," Sirius said shrugging.

"Oh, just kiss me you, bastard!" Amanda yelled at him.

"Oh, with pleasure," Sirius said granting her wish.

A/N Sorry, again for the delay, but it's long… for me any way. I'm proud of myself. And I have big news for you all! I got a boyfriend! Hehe I'm soo excited. Lol So review! Make me even happier! -Arya-