The rest of that night came and went. Soon enough it was Christmas Eve.

Petunia and Vernon were on the couch by the Christmas tree in the living room snuggling and looking gross if what not.

"Get a room!" Sirius yelled as he swaggered into the room with everyone following behind him. Lauren smacked the back of his head roughly and gave him a look that said, 'Drop it'.

"We had one until you lot came along. Now sod off." Vernon retorted snidely.

"Well now this room is ours, so you if you wouldn't mind." Sirius continued, though not showing his fear of being sat on.

"Come on Vernon," Petunia hissed acidly, "We don't want their freakishness to rub off on us." and with that Petunia Evans grabbed her fat lard of a boyfriend's wrist, with an iron grip, and practically dragged him out of the room, while he glared poison daggers at Sirius and company.

"You didn't have to be so rude, Sirius." Lauren said with a roll of her eyes and a slight smirk gracing her cherry red lips.

"HE ATE THE LAST DINNER ROLL!" Sirius exclaimed like it was the perfect excuse.

"Erm, so?"

"Soooo, I wanted it."

"Mate, drop it. It was a bloody dinner roll. I'm sure Elizabeth will make you more. She loves you." Remus said from the sidelines.

"Well I bet there were a lot of people who wanted it who didn't get any because you took theirs." Lily chipped in playfully glaring at Sirius.

"What is this? Hate on Sirius day? And Lils, you can have that dinner roll back. You just might have to wait a little bit while I digest." Sirius said trying to look hurt and smirk at the same time, which is something only The Sirius Black can pull off.

With a revolted look Lily let it go.

"It's Christmas Eve guys! Not the time for fighting. Look, we have the whole house to ourselves except The Wicked Witch of the West and her elephant of a boyfriend. Lily's parents went to a Christmas party and wont be back until midnight. Lets have a little bit of fun!" Logan exclaimed with his attempted motivational speech.

"Partayyy!" Sirius yelled at the top of his lungs while dancing crazily on the coffee table.

"Sirius! Get off the table. Knowing you and your fat arse it'll break! And we are NOT throwing a party. Lets just sit around and watch Christmas specials. It's kinda a tradition around here," Lily said, surprisingly, shyly with a slight smirk on her face, "But since mum and dad aren't here I didn't think we'd be doing it again this year. . ." Lily started to get a sad look on her face and the smirk melted into a small frown.

James put his arms around Lily from behind, hugging her warmly, and said, "I think that's a great idea Lils," and smiled.

Sirius was still subtly dancing on the table and Lauren said, "Sirius if you don't get off the table I wont kiss you for this whole vacation," with a smug smile on her face that grew when Sirius jumped hastily off the table and coughed smoothing his shirt out, "So, how about some Christmas specials?"

Everybody just stared blankly at him for a few seconds.

"Okayyy," he said clapping his hands together, "I'm gonna go get some hot chocolate. Anybody want any?"

"With cinnamon please!"

"Extra chocolate!"

"The mini marshmallows please because the big ones are harder to chew, and, yeah."

"Whipped cream!"

"SPRINKLES!"

"One with low-fat milk, powdered sugar, a dash of cinnamon, seven mini marshmallows, and a dollop of whipped cream, please."

"Okay so I got one with cinnamon, one with extra chocolate, one with mini marshmallows, one with whipped cream, one with sprinkles, and one with low-fat milk, powdered sugar, a dash of cinnamon, seven mini marshmallows, and a dollop of whipped cream, and one that is plain because they didn't speak up, and one for me. Now erm, Lily, how do you make hot chocolate?" he asked sheepishly.

With a hearty laugh and a roll of sparkling emerald green eyes she said, "Come on Sirius, TO THE KITCHEN!" then did a superhero pose and started charging towards the kitchen leaving Sirius standing there bemused.

"She sure is something special, mate." Sirius said with a chuckle.

"And she's mine." James said with a love stuck look on his face.

Sirius eventually meandered his way into the kitchen and found Lily with the hot chocolate stuff ready.

"Okay Sirius, today you will learn the art of hot chocolate making. But before that you need to know what's what. Now this here," Lily said gesturing to the object in her hand, "is a spoon."

Sirius laughed and said, "Lily-Pie, I think I know what a spoon is."

"Well i figured just to be safe I should tell you, because God knows I've never seen you use one at dinner." she said with a cheeky grin.

With a roll of stormy grey orbs he said dryly, "Point taken. But now is not make fun of Sirius time. It's teach Sirius how to make hot chocolate time."

"All the time is make fun of Sirius time." Lily said sticking her tongue out at him.

A half hour later Lily had Sirius trekking up the stairs with a tray of twenty hot chocolates in his hand. She had figured they'd need extras considering how much they could eat, let alone drink.

As soon as they entered the room everybody was rushing up to them demanding their hot chocolate. Remus seemed to be the mob leader. Remus loves him some chocolate.

Before they reached them Sirius screamed, "Halt!"

They all complied and stopped in their tracks.

"Now Lily-Pie and I have worked very hard on these and it would be a shame if it all spill down everyone's shirts from people crashing into me." a mischievous grin gracing his handsome features that they all knew to well.

"I'm not wearing a shirt." James, Remus, and Logan said simultaneously.

"Well then that would hurt even more, so everyone, SIT."

They all plopped down ungracefully on the couch or the spot on the floor they were standing on with a loud 'THUMP' that shook the house a bit.

They were all looking at a smugly smiling Sirius expectantly now when Lily whispered, "I think you should give them their hot chocolate now."

"Righttttt."

From her seat on Logan's lap Kylie said, "Okay, so we can either watch Rudolph, Frosty, The Grinch, or that one with the two little dudes, that are brothers, and one of them is hot and the other is cold or something, and, yeah."

"Can you repeat that?" Logan said, befuddled.

"Er- no."

"Why?"

"Because I said so,"

"But why?"

"Because,"

"Because why?"

"Because I said-"

"Okay let's watch Frosty!" Lauren interrupted hastily.

"I think that's a great idea, love." Sirius said pulling her into his lap as well and giving her a short peck on the lips that made her heart flutter.

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. . .

By the middle of the movie Sirius and James were crying about how Frosty had melted, and their slightly irritated girlfriends were trying to console them by saying he comes back next winter, but nothing worked.

Soon they just decided to shut off the television since all the hot chocolate was gone already. As they got ready for bed Lily realized her parents weren't home yet and started to worry since it was around twelve fifteen, but her worries quickly vanished like smoke as James came up with his breath smelling of minty toothpaste and gave her a soft kiss on the lips that made her knees weak. It was short but sweet.

As they all said their good nights it looked like James wanted to say something but stopped short. He just waved in the girls' general direction and walked back into his room. After everybody was in bed Lily was still awake staring up at the ceiling waiting to hear the door open and close downstairs when her parents arrived. Finally at fifteen 'til one when she was sure everybody was asleep she creeped out of her bed and into Remus and Logan's room.

"Remus?" she whispered quietly and was met by a rustling of sheets and creaking bed springs.

When she got to the right bed she shook him softly. "Remus? Wake up."

"Whatsimesit?" he mumbled sleepily.

"Almost one," Lily whispered back.

He groaned and rolled back over, so Lily shook him some more.

"Don't make me get out my wand, Remus." she threatened.

"Okay, Okay, I'm up. I'm up."

"Good."

"Now what is it, Lily?"

"Let's go downstairs so we don't wake Logan."

"Okay." he agreed sleepily.

"You can bring a blanket if you want."

"Kay."

Once they got downstairs Lily curled up on the couch and motioned for Remus to sit down somewhere.

"What's up, Lils?" Remus asked softly.

"Well my parents were supposed to be back forty five minutes ago and they're not home. What if--" she trailed off with tears welling up in her eyes.

"Oh Lily," he said and came over to her and gave her a hug, "It's a Christmas party. Since when has there been a party that we've thrown at Hogwarts without alcohol? Eh? They're grown adults, they probably just lost track of time or something. Besides, it's Christmas, do you really think the Death Eaters would attack on Christmas? Even if he did, the chances of him getting the party where your parents are are slim to none anyways.

"So, how about I get you a warm glass of milk, then we go back up to bed?" Remus suggested in a warm tone.

Lily nodded and Remus got up and padded over to the kitchen to get her some warm milk to help her sleep.

When she heard the microwave go on she pulled herself together and sat up straight.

She thought to herself, 'This is pathetic. My parents will be fine. They know about the wizarding world. Besides not even Voldemort would be as heartless as to ruin Christmas. They're probably just staying late to clean up if I know mum. . . Always the people pleaser. . .'

By the time she was done thinking Remus was standing beside her with a glass of warm milk and a smile.

"Here 'ya go. You okay now Lils?"

"Yeah, I'm good. Let's go get some sleep." she said with a smile of her own.

"Sounds good to me. I was having a delightful dream about chocolate before you woke me up." he said teasingly.

Lily just smiled sheepishly and said, "Sorry 'bout that."

Remus chuckled and said, "Anytime, Lils." They walked in silence up the stairs and when they got to Logan's room they stopped and shared a hug that you would imagine a brother and sister sharing.

"Night, Rem." Lily said and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Night, Lils."

After her little talk with Remus she was feeling a lot better, as she lay down to go to bed she heard the soft opening and closing of a door downstairs and drifted into a peaceful slumber.

But---

Not for long.

Six hours later. . .

"IT'S CHRISTMAS!" Sirius and James yelled jumping on the edge of her bed.

Lily, Lauren, Morgan, and Kylie let out screams of their own and all fell out of bed onto the floor at the same time, each letting out a colorful stream of curse words and nasty hexes.

Soon Remus, Logan, Lauren, and Kylie joined Sirius and James jumping on the bed and chanting, 'It's Christmas, It's Christmas!' much to the annoyance of Lily and Morgan who thought the warm covers looked very inviting. Though soon enough James got Lily in the Christmas spirit with a nice long good morning kiss which had Lily blushing at the end of it.

Then Morgan couldn't help but smile at all of her cheerful friends. Besides it was Christmas. What's Christmas without somebody waking you up three hours to early? Eh?

The friends made their way downstairs only to be greeted with the smell of every breakfast food imaginable. There were pancakes, waffles, mountains of buttered toast, scrambled eggs, bacon, french toast, cereal, fruit, orange juice, water, milk, even pumpkin juice somehow made it's way there.

"Happy Christmas!" Mr. and Mrs. Evans exclaimed as they entered the kitchen.

"This looks great Mrs. E." James said as he walked up to give her a hug.

"Happy Christmas, everyone." Lily's father said as he made his way to give his favorite daughter a hug.

"Where's Pet?" Lily asked her father.

"Oh, she's still probably sleeping. It's still only seven in the morning. You know how she gets about her "beauty sleep"." he said with a slight snort that earned him a light slap from his wife.

"Where's Vernon staying then? He was here last night when we went upstairs to watch movies." Lauren piped up.

"You know, Lauren? That is a very good question." Michael said a stern expression set on his face. He went straight off to his eldest daughter's room.

"Don't be too harsh Michael! Don't scare the poor boy! It's Christmas!" Elizabeth yelled at her husband's retreating back.

Lily sighed and asked nobody in particular, "When will that girl ever learn?" and started chewing a mouthful of toast.

Soon enough everybody else started digging in and there was chipper chatter throughout the, delicious aroma filled, kitchen. Suddenly in the distance you could hear a deep voice ranting on about 'in the same bed' and 'without my permission' and even 'after breakfast go home''s. You could also hear a shrill voice joining the conversation screaming things like 'It's my life' and 'why do you hate me' and 'you're completely ruining everything! I hate you!'s.

Right then a very flustered middle age blonde man with smoldering emerald eyes stomped into the kitchen which was now filled with silence.

After a couple sloppy mouthfuls of eggs he said in an exasperated voice, "After she eats breakfast she's taking her presents and her 'fiance' back to his place for Christmas holidays. I mean fiance!?" he slapped his hands on the table, "That boy didn't even ask for our blessings! And Petunia accepted two weeks ago without us even knowing! I doubt we would have even been invited to the wedding!"

"SHE'S ENGAGED?!?" the whole table asked with astonishment.

"Okay, did you guys not just hear my incredibly frustrated rant?"

"I just can't believe it," Elizabeth said with her head on her hands, "My own daughter is engaged and she didn't tell me. Gosh. I don't pay enough attention to her. . . I'm a terrible mother."

"Mum, you're great! I mean I turned out good right?" Lily comforted earning a watery chuckle from her mother.

"Yeah Lils, you turned out great. I'm so proud of you." Mrs. Evans said patting her daughter's hand.

"Okayy," Logan said trying to break the growing tension in the room, "Who wants to open presents?"

"ME!" everybody screamed but the two parents who were watching their younger daughter beam with happiness surrounded by her friends who were now all rushing out of the kitchen towards the Christmas tree.

They all sat around the tree in a circle and started handing out presents. Each person had a great big pile of presents surrounding them by the time they had finished sorting. Petunia and Vernon's stack together didn't even match Lily's cut in half which saddened and satisfied Lily at the same time.

"So who wants to go first?" Michael asked.

"How about Mum?" Lily suggested, which everybody agreed with.

"Open the one from the Marauders and Logan first, Mrs. E!" James exclaimed giddily.

"That sounds like a wonderful idea." she said as she reached for the gift. When she tore the paper off she found a beautiful new pair of ruby earings and a reservation for a day at the new spa in town.

"Oh boys! This is wonderful! It must have cost a fortune though!"

"It's from Sirius, Remus, Logan, Peter, and I, so really when you split it five ways it's not as much as you think we each spent." James said smiling.

"Oh thank you, thank you! I love it!" Together all the guys leaned in for a big group hug with Lily's mom, and received a kiss on the cheek from her.

"Ours next! It's kind of a joined present for both of you." Lauren smiled.

"It's from Alice, Lauren, Kylie, and I." Morgan said sweetly.

Mrs. Evans unwrapped her present and found a photo album inside. The album had pictures from Hogwarts and from their summer visit. There were a couple of the soccer game, just hanging out, the boys floating out in the lake after the girls' prank, Lily and James kissing in the hallway, Lily and James kissing at the ball, James singing in the great hall and Lily walking in stunned, and a few from the train that were blamed on the invisible lighting storm.

"This is so sweet! I can finally see how weird and crazy you all are at school!" she laughed.

"Why thank you." Sirius said in a macho man voice that made everyone crack up.

"Um, James, why are you in boxers at breakfast singing and dancing?" Michael asked in an amused manner.

"Haha, well, about that, you see, it was all Alice's fault really. And Kylie's. And Lauren's. And Morgans."

"What about Lily?" he asked.

"Oh she, erm, was in the Hospital Wing."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Anyways, Mum, me next." Lily said excitedly.

Lily had gotten her a goblin made charm bracelet. It already had charms on it. There was a wand with sparks coming out of it symbolizing how Lily was a witch. Accompanying it was a piano to symbolize all of those years of piano lessons Petunia took. Then two wedding rings interlocked to symbolize twenty three happy years of marriage.

"Oh Lily, this is amazing! I love it! Thank you sweetie."

"No problem, Mum."

"I suppose Petunia's present was telling me she was getting engaged then." she said sort of stiffly noticing the lack of gift from her eldest daughter. Tension in the air grew until more present opening started.

Then the present exchanging went on. Michael got some Quidditch stuff and books on magic from the guys, a new watch from Lily that had pictures of when each sporting event came on, and some of Alice's mum's favorite scones as an added extra from Alice.

James had gotten a new broomstick, the newest fastest version yet that had only been released two days ago, from Lily. From Sirius he had gotten a whole book of Transfiguration spells, a new snitch to practice with at home, and an autographed quaffle by Quidditch legends. Remus had gotten him pranking supplies as a hint they needed to play some more on Slytherins. Then Peter had gotten him new Quidditch gloves since he'd been complaining how his had gotten small. Kylie and Logan had both made him picture frames with a pictures already in them. Some of Lily and him, the Marauders, the whole group, him dancing in the Great Hall, the guys stuck on the lake, then pictures from third year when Lily hexed him into the hospital wing, Kylie and Lauren acting like dork and posing like models, and things like that. Alice and Frank also gave him a joined gift of chocolates, prank supplies, and a book on Quidditch plays. Mr. and Mrs. Evans gave him a really nice pocket knife that had a flashlight and a bunch of cool gadgets.

Sirius and Remus had both gotten boxers with puppies and wolves, respectively, that flashed with glitter and unicorns over few seconds from Lauren and Morgan who were giggling in the corner when they opened them. Lauren also got him a new beater's bat. Sirius gave Remus a look and took the girls by surprise by putting the boxers on over their pajama bottoms. From Lily, Sirius got his own copy of one hundred and one dalmatians, and a dalmatian puppy of his own that he named Junior. After several jumping hugs he and Lily shared he opened his next present from Alice and Frank. They got him three bottles of his favorite shampoo and conditioner that takes months to get from owl and he'd been out of of a few weeks. Kylie and Logan had gotten him a necklace with a shark tooth on it from a muggle shop downtown that looked great on him. Then Mrs. and Mr. Evans had given him a weeks supply of homemade chocolate chip cookies, and a muggle soccer ball.

Remus had gotten a butt load of chocolate from people. Apparently they knew of his weakness. All the girls, and Peter, Logan, and Frank, had given him Honeydukes chocolate, in addition to his new boxers, except Lily. Lily had gotten him a beaker of wolfsbane, the newest potion that helped with werewolve transformations. His eyes widened recognizing the substance and mouthed her a heartfelt thank you. Sirius had gotten a book on girls, presumably. James had gotten him a few books and some chocolate. Mr. and Mrs. Evans had given him a basket of his favorite chocolate chip muffins and a wizarding camera that they'd found an add for in one of Lauren's Witch Weekly magazines that she had left over the summer.

For Logan they'd gotten him a nice muggle outfit from a designer store that he changed into right away then strutted down the hallway like a male model causing laughs. Kylie had gotten him a new pair of sunglasses and the heart charm from a locket with a picture of the two of them kissing inside. Morgan, Lauren, Lily, and Alice had gotten him IMP quills, a book of excuses on how to get of homework, a book on magical cities of the world since he's always loved travelling. The Marauders and Frank had gotten him a whole bunch of candy, prank tips, Herbology pointers, and his very own wizarding radio.

Morgan, Alice, Lily, Lauren, and Kylie all gave each other spa kits out of tradition that included mani pedi supplies, a hot guy who did massages for a living's business card, and a bunch of lotions and body washes and things like that. This way, whenever they needed a pick me up, they had plenty to work with.

Remus had gotten Morgan a gold necklace with a purple butterfly charm on it that sparkled in the light. Sirius had gotten Lauren a pair of diamond earrings that could be worn with practically anything. James had gotten Lily a beautiful necklace with a lily pendant that gradually changed colors in the light that earned him a very sweet kiss. Logan had gotten Kylie something that wasn't jewelry like everyone else had given their girlfriends. He got her a simple teddy bears with a note on it's lap saying, "Forever and Always my love". It wasn't expensive or flashy, just sweet and cute. It was exactly what she wanted.

Sirius had gotten Lily a really old book called "Forgotten Charms",a really nice green handbag, and some over sized sunglasses that were twice the width of her face and had star shaped lenses. From Remus and Peter she had gotten books called "Tips to NEWTS" and "Advanced Defense Spells"which she thought could come in handy really soon. From Frank and she had gotten an extemely rare Orange Tiger Lily with Blue and Green spots instead of black. Lastly from her parents she had gotten a new scarf, cloak, book bag, a book on Potions, and some make up. She guessed Lauren's Witch Weekly had helped them out a bit more here too.

She smiled to herself and watched the rest of her friends open thier presents.

When they all had finished opening their presents Mr. Evans cleared his throat like he was ready to make an announcement. He got the rowdy teenagers to settle down an started his speech.

"Elizabeth, ever since the first time I saw you I knew in my heart you were the only one for me," he paused for a second to watch his wife blush, "I know you were really upset the day before the kids got here about losing your wedding ring in the sink. . . so I took it upon myself to find you a new one." he fiddled nervously with a small box behind his back and handed it to his wife.

She opened the little box and inside it was a beautiful new wedding ring. The band was white gold and had small diamonds, rubies, and emeralds leading up to the large stone. It was a two karat diamond that sparkled and shined in and out of the light. On the inside of the band it had an inscription, "Not even death shall do us part."

By this time Elizabeth had tears in her eyes and all of those but her husband "awww"ing around her.

"Do you like it?" Michael whispered.

"No." his grin faltered.

Looking at the ring again she said, "I love it." Relief washed over Michael's face and he shared a sweet kiss with his wife.

Sensing this was a private moment all of the present high teenagers made their way up to Lily's room.

"Oh crap it's almost two!" James exclaimed once they had all gotten comfortable in Lily's room.

"Umm soo?" Lauren asked.

"Sooo my mum wanted us at my place by three since dinner starts at four."

"We still have an hour at least." Lily said nonchalantly.

"Uhh, Lily, have you seen our room?" Sirius asked a bit nervously.

"Oh gosh. Er- no." she responded.

"Good. But we may, possibly, have made a little bit of a mess." James said skittishly.

Lily made an irritated noise in the back of her throat.

"Well nothing a few Charms can't fix. Normally I would make you do it yourself, but it's Christmas and I really want to visit my muggle friends before we leave." Lily said reluctantly.

"Yesss!" James and Sirius shouted jumping in the air and sharing a high five.

Lily muttered something under her breath that sounded like "dorks" and walked out of the room for less than a minute and returned with her wand behind her ear.

"All done! Visiting time. Anybody who wants to come, follow me!"

"Yes Ma'am General Lily!" All but Kylie and Logan said in salute.

"You guys go ahead. We'll be fine here. We haven't met your muggle friends yet, so, er, yeah." Logan said with a smile.

"Okayyyy. Whatever you say, lovebirds." Sirius said with a wave.

"We love you! Try not to miss us to much!" Kylie shouted at her best friend's retreating backs.

"We love you too!" they all yelled over their shoulders.

Once they reached the living room as they headed to their destination: The Front Door, they told Lily's parents where they were going, who seemed to think it was a wonderful idea.

"Bye Mum, bye dad! Love you! See you in a half hour!"

"Bye, dearies! Love you too! That goes for all of you!" she said with a warm smile.

"Ditto to that, Firecracker!" Michael said in attempt to be cool.

They all let out little laughs and headed out the front door.

About twenty five minutes later and many enthusiastic of "Happy Christmas!" to her friends, Lily was finally wrapping it up with Abby.

"Okay Abby, well we've gotta jet. We've got to be at James' house in a half hour for Christmas dinner. I'll see you this summer though, I promise!" Lily said giving her friend a hug.

"Awww. You're leaving already? That sucks. Well I guess I'll see you this summer," she said with a small sigh, "Oh, and Lily, what's that thing by your house?" she asked with pure curiosity and wonder.

Each and every head turned and drained white when they did that 180. . . Just like their entire world.

It just couldn't be. . .

Okay, I just couldn't wait to post this chapter right after I finished it. . . I was going to add the next part in here, but, I thought to myself, nahhhh. That's just not fair to me since I'm posting early.

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