I do not own Harry Potter. Thanks for all reviews and your opinions, they are all taken into consideration. Three reviews! I'm so happy! Thanks for taking the time to write one. However, seeing as I got no feedback on the matter, Lily is staying at Hogwarts for Christmas. Also, it is thanks to Jedward's new song 'Lipstick' that I decided to write a new chapter. It just got me in a great mood. JEDWARD TO WIN THE EUROVISION!

"So what are you doing for Christmas?" James asked her at dinner on the first of December.

"I wasn't really planning anything interesting, just to shave my head, cross-breed a unicorn and a manticore and assassinate the Minister of Magic," Lily said airily.

"No really Lily, be serious," James said.

"Eww, I don't want to be like him," Lily teased.

"Hey! Watch it Lily-flower," Sirius said through a mouthful of food.

"I'm staying here for Christmas," Lily said before James could ask again.

"All on your own?" James asked.

"She won't be on her own. I'll be here to keep poor Lily-flower company," Sirius said, waggling his eyebrows.

"That will definitely keep us up all night worrying," Remus said, grinning at his friend.

"I'll just have to stay at Hogwarts to keep these two wild young things at bay," James said.

…...

It was the day Lily had been waiting for since the end of October. It was the holidays, a time to relax, a time to sleep in, a time to-

"GOOD MORNING LILY-FLOWER!" a male voice shouted into her ear, waking her from her long awaited lye-on.

"AHHH!" she screamed reaching for her wand. A hand grabbed her wrist.

"Calm down, it's just us," Sirius said.

Lily blinked a few times to see her dorm completely empty (everyone had gone home for Christmas) bar James and Sirius standing in front of her.

"You scared the life out of me. At first, I thought you were Death Eaters." Lily panted, trying to slow her heart down.

"And?" Sirius said. "Death can't be very nutritious, they really need to widen their diet if they want to stay strong enough to rule the world."

Lily decided to ignore his last comment. "Wait a second. How did you guys get up here?" Lily asked, her eyes narrowing. The stairs to the girl's dorms throws back anyone that isn't female.

They both looked at each other then James began to talk.

"Well you only get thrown back if you try to climb the stairs," James began.

"Do I really want to know?" Lily said.

"It's not that bad, we only flew up the stairs on our brooms," James finished.

"Well I suppose it could have been worse," Lily muttered.

"What did you think we did?" Sirius asked curiously.

"Let's just say at least you didn't try to walk on the ceiling," Lily answered.

…...

As the three of them walked into the Great Hall for breakfast, they saw that there was only two tables. The staff table was there as usual but running parallel to it was the second table. There was only three seats left.

"It seemed silly to use the House Tables with so few of us," Dumbledore said when Lily did a double-take.

There was two Slytherins, three Hufflepuffs, five Ravenclaws and the three Gryffindors.

Lily decided to go easy and just have pancakes. However, when she turned to talk to the boys, she saw they had an entirely different idea.

They had everything on their plates. What surprised her more was the speed they wolfed it down at. She gagged. Suddenly her pancakes didn't seem so appetizing.

How she left the Great Hall without puking was beyond her.

…...

Lily was running through the Forbidden Forest. "Lily help!" her mother screamed. "Lily save us!" her dad cried. "I'm coming!" Lily shouted. Her parents screams of fear and pain echoed through the Forest. She heard a cold, humourless laugh.

A blaring foghorn jerked her into consciousness. It had been a horrible dream. Just a dream Lily, she reassured herself.

"Come on Lily-flower! It's Christmas!" Sirius yelled from the Common Room.

"Bring your presents down so we can open them together!" James shouted.

She realised that James or Sirius made the foghorn noise with their wand. She trudged down the stairs, her arms full of presents. She found Sirius and James jumping on the couch like five year olds.

"I thought we were opening presents!" Lily exclaimed pretending to go and put them back upstairs.

"NOOOO!" both boys cried and started tearing the wrapping paper off their presents.

She bought all the Marauders a huge bag of Zonko's products and a large Honeydukes chocolate bar.

Alice had gotten her a new novel from Flourish & Blotts. James gave her a charm bracelet and Remus, Peter and Sirius all got her a charm as well as some Honeydukes goodies.

"Thank you so much!" she said diving on them both. She was ecstatic.

"Your invading my personal space Lily-flower!" Sirius moaned.

"I don't mind," James said with a smirk.

"Hey!" Lily said smacking James' arm. She was so excited she didn't care. Their childishness is really rubbing of on me, she thought.

"Fine, if you don't want thank-you hugs," Lily teased folding her arms and turning around.

They both felt guilty immediately and enveloped her in a hug. Only when she started giggling did they realise that she wasn't upset.

Then Lily caught sight of the window. It was still dark outside. "What time is it?" she asked suspiciously.

"Umm . . ." James trailed off, looking around the Common Room nervously, avoiding her glare.

"Four thirty a.m.!" Sirius said happily.

"I'm too tired to be annoyed. I think I'll go back to bed and kill you at a more suitable time," Lily mused.

"Fine," they chorused and went back to bed.

…...

It was ten o'clock when they got up for the second time. Lily skipped into the boy's dorm. She stopped abruptly once inside.

The place was a mess. There was a layer of clothes at least a foot deep on the ground.

She saw James, his face smooth and untroubled. His arm was hanging off the bed. His hair was messy as always and his mouth was slightly open. He looks so peaceful when he's asleep, Lily thought.

She didn't want to wake him, but she knew James would kill her if she went to breakfast without him.

"James." Lily whispered, shaking his arm. "James."

"Uh huh?" James said drowsily, raising his head.

"Are you coming down to breakfast?" Lily said quietly, glancing over to Sirius' bed, which had the curtains pulled.

"Yeah, just give me a minute. Try wake Sirius up while you're free," James said, looking like he was trying to contain a grin.

"What's so funny?" Lily asked. She really hoped she wasn't about to walk into a prank.

James just shook his head.

Lily walked over to Sirius' bed and pulled the curtains open.

"What in the name of Merlin?" she murmured to herself, confused. Sirius' feet were on his pillow and he was lying completely upside down. He was also lying face down and Lily was surprised he hadn't suffocated yet.

"Sirius!" Lily said at normal volume. "Sirius! Wake up now!"

It took Lily and James' combined efforts and the help of the Aguamenti charm to finally wake Sirius from his slumber.

"Did you want something?" Sirius grumbled.

"Do you want to miss breakfast?" James hissed as he hopped on one foot, trying to pull on a sock.

"Miss breakfast? Are you mad?" Sirius exclaimed jumping up immediately, a look of worry on his face. Lily had to bite the inside of her cheek to stop herself laughing out loud.

It amazed her how they managed to find everything they needed. They barely had to dig through the mountains of clothes.

"You knew I wouldn't be able to wake Sirius, didn't you?" Lily accused.

James just smirked, but he might as well have said yes.

She decided to have a fry for breakfast. By now she knew better than to watch at James and Sirius. She looked straight ahead determinedly.

They went back to the Common Room which felt enormous because of the lack of people in it.

They played games of Exploding Snap and Gobstones and acted like ten year olds for the rest of the day. They had a chess tournament in which James was crowned the champion. After pulling a Christmas cracker at dinner, Dumbledore won a sparkling gold crown and presented it to James.

"What's the point in winning if you don't get a crown to prove it?" James smiled.

He looked very handsome as he pretended to be the king of the Gryffindor Common Room.

The night ended in laughter and Lily thought about how this time, the previous year, she would have cringed at the thought of spending a Christmas with Potter and Black.

Times change, she thought blissfully as she drifted off to sleep.