The first day of holiday

James POV

Sirius was first outside today as Remus had given him nutella at breakfast (never a good idea), he bolted out the door like a hyperactive 5- year old and promptly came running back in screaming, also in the manner of a hyper active 5 year old, "Holy shizmuffins! It's COLD out there!!" He stared at us accusingly, "Why did no one tell me Switzerland was cold!"

"We're in the alps Sirius... snow?" Sirius still looked blank.

"Never mind I'm sure they'll be a spare suit around here somewhere." Thus began the search for a ski suit and the total destruction of my parent's chalet. (And the Lycra abomination, thank god)

"THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL I AM WEARING THIS! I am Sirius Orion Black, I need my hotness, and pink is not my best colour!" He marched out of his room clothed in what seemed to be a giant hot pink marshmallow.

"Well, look on the bright side, if you fall on the slope then you'll just roll the rest of the way down," I said

"And…" added Remus "We will never ever lose you on the slope, which actually just made me really depressed…Damn You Sirius!" And thus Remus shuffled off to the kitchen, clutching his spoon and nutella jar.

"This is a chicks ski suit though!" Sirius wailed back at me "I can't be seen in this! It would be like putting a rock cake in a chocolate fountain, IT'S JUST WRONG!"

Sirius sulked and eventually gave in, hiding his face as we walked up to the lift, where we would meet our snowboard instructor, he brightened up considerably as he saw our instructor, who was a tall glamorous woman called Sonia (she'd taught me for a few seasons before). Sirius came up to me and whispered, "How do you say you're hot in French?"

"It's J'ai les issues mentales" I replied

"Thanks prongs" he whispered back (he did not have the best grasp of French) and sauntered up to Sonia, looked her up and down and said in what I assumed was meant to be a suave, seductive voice "J'ai les issues mentales" Sonia seemed rather confused by this strange foreigner with the terrible accent and replied

"Err… decour…" before backing away slowly; Sirius was completely oblivious and strutted back over to us,

"I think she likes me"

Remus and I had both snowboarded before and Remus was the best, closely followed by me, and Sirius, who had never boarded before was straggling far behind us. He had the confidence, but not the technique, which resulted in quite a few very impressive falls, and after each fall him jumping up and saying "I totally meant to do that". Getting up the lifts was pretty interesting as well, Sirius would, without fail, get bored, lose concentration and fall off every lift and then, when teased, would maintain that he 'didn't fall off, he decided to get off early!' which only made Remus and I laugh at him more, of course.

Lily POV

It was Rose and Marlene's turn to go up the t-bar together this time, leaving me all lonesome, with just eighties songs to keep me occupied, (our favourite pastime on lifts was to sing such masterpieces as Come on Eileen and Wake me up before you go-go, which resulted in some rather strange looks from passing foreign skiers.) This time however I was joined by a boy (well I think it was a boy, it was hard to tell under the ski helmet, goggles and balaclava he was wearing) and he said in rather muffled tones

"Mind if I come on this lift with you, there are three of us and my two friends are on a lift together",

"Sure, same situation here, but how did you know I was English?" I replied, then it dawned on me… "You didn't hear…" A slight movement under the balaclava showed me he was smiling

"I happen to like Come On Eileen" he said. Oh this was embarrassing; I could practically feel the tip of my nose (the only part of me visible) reddening. He must have picked up on this because he laughed.

"Don't laugh at me! Tisn't nice" I muttered in what I have to admit, might have been a slightly sulky tone of voice. This only made him laugh more. "So… are you staying in St Luc?" I asked.

"Yeah, we're staying in my parents chalet, near the bakery, you?"

"We're staying on the outskirts of the village in my parent's chalet as well". The conversation continued like this and I was beginning to really get to like him but then the people on the T-bar ahead of us, who I assumed to be his friends got tangled in each others board and fell off, "Well I guess this is my cue to leave" he said

"Well, I guess I'll see you around" I said as he got off

"Yeah, hope you do" he replied and I watched him until he disappeared behind the next hill. He appeared to be really laying into his friends, wonder why…

James POV

"You IDIOTS you just had to choose this time to fall off!"

"I didn't fall off that clot brain over there pushed me off!" protested Remus

"I di-" Sirius started to protest but I interrupted him

"Do not tell me you decided to get off early AGAIN; you crapfaces interrupted a conversation I was having with a really nice English girl!"

"Ooh was she hot?!" was, predictably, what Sirius asked.

"I couldn't tell actually, all of her face was covered except the tip of her nose, but it was a lovely nose tip…"

Sirius immediately broke out into a loud chorus of "JAM-JAM'S GOT A GIRLFRIEND!"

"Do NOT call me Jam-jams!"