When morning came Lily grinned as her friends trudged into the Great Hall, all looking very tired, but her and James were feeling alright.

"Morning!" Lily sung loudly. Lucius glared at her, letting his head drop to the table, as Mars rested her head on Sirius' shoulder and fell asleep. The only one's who looked like they were awake were Remus and Dora. Lily raised her eyebrows at the coupling, Remus shot her a sheepish grin, but she only smirked at him.

"I can't figure out why for the life of me you're all so tired!" Lily was saying very loudly, before Sky slapped a hand over the Redhead's mouth.

"Shut up Twitch, or I'll glue your lips together." Sky growled, James raised his eyebrows with a smirk as Sky shrieked. "SHE LICKED ME!" Sky cried out.

Lily raised an eyebrow at the older girl.

"She does that." Sirius said unhelpfully.

Sky growled at him before laying her head on the table, and falling asleep.

"What did you get up to?" Lily asked, stunned at how crappy they all were.

"James didn't tell you?" Alice asked.

Lily shook her head, not before glaring at James.

"We went down to the local club." Severus told her. "They've got this speciality drink, it's a bit strong." Lily nearly snorted into her cornflakes. They were all totally hung-over.

Lily burst out laughing, and was glared at.

"Your own fault." She said before turning to James. "Why didn't you go?" she asked him, sure that he'd have liked to go out drinking with his mates.

"I didn't want to leave you alone, in case you woke up – which you did." James answered, it was a mumbled reply, but Lily felt suddenly really happy.

"That's really sweet." Lily said hugging him, and kissing his cheek. James shrugged uncomfortably, but held her hand under the table.

"You turned my best mate into a softy." Sirius muttered.

"You can hardly talk, Mr I must look after my baby sister. Anyways, sometimes being a bit of a softy is nice." Mars said smiling at her boyfriend.

They were out on the grounds, Lunch had finished and they were relaxing, Dora had cleared a bit of ground so they could sit down without getting soaked. And for some reason Lily found herself wound around James, His back pressed against her stomach as she lay on her side. But it was comfortable and nice.

Sirius was throwing snowballs at Regulus, as he always did at home, while Regulus flung snowballs back. Severus and Lucius were talking about some potion or another, the girls were chatting about random gossip.

Lily sighed and sat up, she moved so she had her chest against James back, and wound one of his arms around his waist as she rested her chin on his shoulder; the other hand was playing with his hair, and tracing his ear.

She sighed again, content with things, faintly aware that James was rubbing one of her knees.

She turned and kissed his neck before continuing to watch Sirius and Regulus.

"Strange how things work out, isn't it?" James asked softly.

"A bit, yeah." Lily agreed, her voice no more then a whisper.

"I couldn't get you out of my head when you first arrived here; you were this tiny little spitfire, so beautiful, and totally capable of handling things yourself. Then you start seeing one of my best friends, eventually I get you to myself and my best friend is dating the girl who broke up with me because I liked you so much." He sighed, turning enough to capture Lily's lips in his own.

"And now we've – I've got a problem." James said softly against her lips.

"What's that?" Lily asked.

"I've never felt this way before, and I don't know what to do." James murmured against her lips. Lily smiled as she kissed him. "But this pretty good." Lily pulled away as she started to laugh. James grinned at her. And for some reason the giggling just didn't stop, and then James started to laugh.

"Did someone put a Laughing charm on them?" Sophia asked looking bewildered at the laughing pair; every time they calmed down they would look at each other and start laughing again.

"I think they've just gone mad." Peter said thoughtfully as he looked at them.

"Possibly." Severus drawled as they burst into another fit of laughter. "This isn't normal behaviour."

"Twitch?" Sirius asked, poking his little sister with his foot. "Twitch, you're scaring us." That didn't help anything as Lily and James continued to laugh like tomorrow would never come. Sirius looked at Regulus who shrugged.

"Maybe if we left them out here they'll stop." He suggested.

"Come on then Reggie." Sophia said, holding her hand out to him, he grinned at Sirius before walking back to the castle hand in hand with Sophia. They all left the pair to their giggling, and it was starting to get annoying.

Eventually the laughing faded and James and Lily lay next to each other, gasping for breath, it had started to snow, but it didn't both them. James reached out and took Lily's hand in his own, linking her fingers with his.

"Lily…" James gasped as he tried to get his breathing to normal.

"Yeah…" Lily said breathlessly.

James leaned over Lily, and kissed her, both still breathless and yet they didn't want to part their lisp. Their chests were heaving, and they were feeling dizzy, but it had nothing to do with lack of air.

One hand held himself up so he wouldn't hurt her, as the other rest on her hip, one of his knees between her legs, and she was moving in way beneath him which were sure to cause embarrassment if his stood up, but for now he just groaned into her mouth as she arched her back into him, and her finger played with his hair.

"James!" Lily gasped out as he traced her ear with the tip of his tongue.

Suddenly, with strength that surprised him Lily rolled them over so she was straddling him, she grinned at his shocked face before kissing him heatedly.

When they finally parted for air they grinned fro each other. They were soaked from the snow melting against their heated skin.

"I think we should go inside." Lily said as she sat up, pulling a small compact mirror out of her bag.

"Probably." James agreed, wrapping his arms around her waist and walking with her back into the warm castle.