Lily sat in the library, in front of her sat some books she had collected from the muggle section, there was a muggle dictionary, a huge book full of fairytales, a cookbook, a comic, and an atlas. She wasn't sure why she chose the books she had, but for some reason they had called out to her as she walked past them.

She was reading the recipe's for all her favourite meals when some one came and sat down next to her, she looked up to see Lucius Malfoy sitting there.

"Muggle books?" He asked.

"Yeah, muggle books." Lily replied looking back at her book in her hands, turning a page. There was silence for almost a minute before Lucius spoke again.

"Why not James?" He asked her quite suddenly.

"Why not James?" Lily repeated. "Do you mean why I refuse to go out with him? Why I refuse to fall under the same spell as everyone else in this school?" Lily asked, Lucius nodded. "Because of who he is. I don't want to be with someone like him." Lily replied.

"He isn't really that bad." Lucius argued.

"When was the last time he had a relationship with someone, a steady relationship in which he didn't cheat on his partner, whether they found out or not is irrelevant." Lily asked, she raised her eyebrows as he sat there and tried to figure it out, but in truth he knew James had never had a steady relationship.

"Doesn't mean he can't, maybe you're enough." Lucius said.

"That's not enough for me." Lily replied. "I'm not going to be the test subject."

Taking a deep breath Lily walked out on the Quidditch pitch, it was her first game ever.

"And welcome to the first game of the year!" The commentator screamed, Lily looked up, and felt the weight of the world on her shoulders, she needed to win this.

And with that thought she followed the lead of James and shot into the air.

From that it was really just a bit of a blur, the thrill of it was the only thing she could remember, that and the stabbing pain in her shoulder from a bludger that Sirius hadn't managed to deflect.

"GO LILY!" Someone had screamed as she whizzed past them with the quaffle, she shot towards the opposite keeper and dipped down, shooting back up and behind him, and threw the quaffle through the hoop with no effort at all.

"Foul!" The keeper had yelled, but the referee did not seem to agree.

A flicker of gold shot past her head as she flew away, and then the Hufflepuff seeker crashed into the redhead.

"Watchout Evans!" The seeker yelled angrily as Terri got the lead, and then there was this huge roar, the good kind, as the whole of Gryffindor screamed. They had won.

Time passed by quickly, all too soon Lily found herself standing on the platform at Hogsmeade, gathering her trunk and sighing a lot, it was Christmas, she loved Christmas, but she wanted to be at Hogwarts.

Sirius sensed Lily wasn't very happy and looked at her curiously, she kept looking longingly at the castle, almost as if she wished she was there instead of going home.

"Twitch?" Sirius asked, brows knitted together as Lily plastered a fake smile on, she tried to look happy, but it just didn't reach her eyes. "What's up?" He asked curiously and cautiously.

"Nothing, I'm fine." Lily replied happily, but he'd lived with her for six years now, he knew better then to believe the words coming out of her mouth, so he slipped his arm across her shoulders and gave her a gentle squeeze.

"Do you wish we were staying at Hogwarts for Christmas?" Sirius asked, Lily looked down at her feet, feeling guilty, but honestly it was just such an amazing place, and even though the rest of Hogwarts was leaving, all but a few at least, she was just attracted to it, as if the ancient school reached out to her heart. She nodded her head slightly. "C'mon." Sirius said, he picked up Lily's trunk and started off back towards the school.

"Sirius!" Lily called helplessly. "We already told our parents we'd be coming home! The teachers aren't expecting us!" Lily called, she felt so guilty, she didn't mean for Sirius to stay or try and convince her, but she really wanted to.

"Don't worry about it Twitch." Reggie said comfortingly as he wrapped an arm around his little sister, and started up the path, dragging his own trunk behind him. "It would be cool with them, plus the teachers don't really mind. And hey, it would be cool to have a bit of time at Hogwarts, I mean the library won't be full all the time." Regulus assured Lily. They were just leaving the station when the others caught up with them.

"Padfoot, Mate, where the hell you going?" James demanded. "The trains going to leave in a few minutes." He said looking at his watch for confirmation.

"Twitch want's to spend Christmas here, so I'm staying with her." Sirius said shrugging like it was obvious. Marlene smiled at him and picked up her trunk and walked towards the school beside him.

"Well I guess that's settled then." Severus said picking up his own trunk.

"You guys don't have to if you don't want to." Lily said looking at her feet.

"I think it's a great idea to spend our last Christmas while we're in Hogwarts at Hogwarts, plus parents won't mind." Dorcas assured Lily, and all of them started on their way back to Hogwarts.

When they finally arrived back at the school McGonagall had reached the doors looked a bit surprised.

"Mr Black?" She questioned, Sirius grinned at his professor.

"We're spending Christmas at Hogwarts, especially since its Lily's first and last year here." Sirius informed her. "Don't worry we'll owl our parents when we get to the common room." Then he brushed past her.

Lily smiled weakly at the professor before following her brother's lead. They trailed all the way up to the Gryffindor common room and looked around.

"Do we have to stay here?" Lucius asked looked around at the room, he would stay in the Gryffindor common room, but reluctantly.

"We could stay in the Head Dorms." Allie suggested.

"Head Dorms it is!" Sirius called picking everything up, marching right back out of the Gryffindor common room, and managing to hold Marlene's hand within his own. Lily couldn't help giggled to herself as they trailed all around the school.

"What's so funny Lily?" Remus asked her, chucking his arm across her shoulders.

"Meh, this whole situation, it's a bit funny." Lily replied, unable to keep the smile off her face. "I really didn't mean for you guys to think you had to stay." Lily told him quietly, but Skylar heard.

"What are friends for?" she shot at Lily smiling. "Did you really think we'd leave you here all by your lonesome?"