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Disclaimer: Blueskywillow (SHE DOESN'T KISS LIKE I DO!) does absolutely not own Harry Potter - Past, Present or Future, she merely runs the tour. And just to mention she doesn't get paid either, after all the tour is free.

Chapter 19

Over the next couple of weeks James and Lily barely spoke with each other. James was either with Ashley or the Marauders, as Lily was either with Ryan or one of her friends. Ryan had become a great friend to her, but that was all he was. The weekend before Lily was to go home for Christmas there was a Hogsmeade visit. Lily was going with Michelle, Claudia, Sophie and Ashley. Lily had got to know Ashley a little bit but she still kept her distance.

In Hogsmeade everyone headed straight for Madame Robins Robe Shop. Where else would the girls go but the dress store. The boys had rolled their eyes at the girls and proceeded straight to Quality Quidditch. Inside everyone except Lily was changing into robes, as they changed Lily was sitting on the counter talking to Madame Robins. Madame Robins was filling up two teacups with tea.

"I heard about your interview, Good Luck." Madame Robins said to Lily. Madame Robins was a tall and kind woman who Lily had known for a long time thanks to her constant trips to the store. She had black hair with strands of grey and vibrant hazel eyes with a very gaunt face.

"Thanks Mary. How did you find out?" Lily asked taking a sip from her cup.

"Mrs. Potter was telling me. She was very ecstatic about it." Madame Robins said. Lily smiled.

"I owe it all to her of course." Lily smiled. Madame Robins then set her teacup down.

"Lily you couldn't look after the shop for a moment? Daniel Whymper just walked by and I need to speak to him." Madame Robins said slightly blushing. Lily smiled and jumped off the counter. She moved round to the back of it as Madame Robins walked out of the shop. Lily leaned on the counter and read a magazine, which had been on it. Just then the bell above the door rung and James and an unfamiliar person walked in. Lily looked up from her magazine and smiled at the pair – they could after all be potential customers. The guy was slightly taller than James was with brown hair and green eyes.

"What are you doing behind there?" James asked Lily curiously.

"I'm just helping Mary out." Lily said.

"Oh. Lily this is Mark, Mark this is Lily." James introduced them. Mark's eyes lit up when James said "Lily", he looked at James, but James looked away.

"Nice to meet you Lily. Is Ashley here?" Mark said shaking Lily's hand

"Yeah, she's in the dressing room." Lily replied. "Do you want me to get her?" Lily asked. Mark nodded. Lily moved out from behind the counter and over to the dressing rooms.

"Ashley?" Lily called.

"Yeah?" Ashley called through the door of her dressing room.

"James and some guy, Mark, are here looking for you." Lily said.

"Oh hey baby. I'll not be long." Ashley called to the two boys. Lily stared at the dressing room door. Did she just call James baby? Her James? Lily looked away; tears were brimming in her eyes. Where Ashley and James dating? How could Ashley do that? Ashley knew what was going on between her and James. Lily blinked back the tears and looked into the mirror that was on the wall beside her. Lily checked to see that there were no tear marks round her eyes when she seen a familiar raven-haired boy looking back at her. Michelle and Claudia came out of their dressing rooms at the same time and were a good enough distraction for James too look away from Lily. Lily looked at them and smiled.

"You guys look good." Lily said to them as they did a little twirl. Claudia was wearing red silk robes and Michelle was wearing light blue robes.

"We do don't we." Claudia laughed.

"Ashley we'll meet you up in the three broomsticks in a few minutes cause Sirius is squaring up to Nott, and I got to see this." James called before running out of shop with Mark at his heels. Claudia and Michelle looked at each other then ran back into the dressing rooms to get changed. Madame Robins came back and Lily was free to leave as soon as the three girls were ready. The girls, excluding Ashley who was buying her robes, ran to the crowd of people who surrounded Nott and Sirius.

"If you say that again you're dead Nott." Sirius said angrily.

"You couldn't hack it could you Black?" Nott smirked.

"I'm not a Black." Sirius sneered.

"You never were good enough." Nott said. Sirius had enough. But before Nott could get his wand out Sirius had punched him in the face. The two of them started a full on fight. Everyone was cheering both of them on, including James. Lily hit James.

"Wha?" James asked defensively.

"Stop it. You're Head Boy, you're supposed to be setting an example!" Lily said to him. James rolled his eyes then pulled Sirius of Nott. He held Sirius back.

"What the hell are you playing at? I was gonna kill him." Sirius shouted at James.

"I would've loved if you had done that but I have to set a good example." James mocked the last bit. Sirius looked at Lily who was looking very stern with her arms crossed, he rolled his eyes. Lily stepped between the two boys. Crabbe and Goyle were helping Nott of the ground. Lily looked at each boy carefully.

"You both are a disgrace. Showing the school up like that." Lily said in a disappointed voice. "Detention for both of you and I will be telling your heads of house about this." Lily said angrily before she stormed of with Claudia and Sophie. Michelle stayed behind with James and Sirius.

"You okay?" Michelle asked him. Sirius looked at the ground. "James could you leave us alone for a minute?" Michelle asked. James looked uncertainly between Michelle and Sirius then nodded.

"Sure, Mark come on I think Ashley's waiting for us." James said walking away with Mark beside him.

"What was that all about?" Michelle asked him. Sirius looked at her.

"Can we go somewhere and talk in private?" Sirius asked rubbing the back of his neck.

"Sure." Michelle said. Sirius led her towards the shrieking shack. Meanwhile Lily was sitting with Claudia, Sophie and several other friends.

"I can't believe Chelsea actually broke up with him. She'll be back to him before she knows it." Claudia sneered.

"Do I sense a hint of jealousy?" Lily giggled.

"No!" Claudia snapped. "I'm over that jerk." Claudia said taking a swig of her butterbeer.

"Okay." Joey said, she was one of the girls who had gone to the shrieking shack with the group earlier in the year. Claudia rolled her eyes and stood up.

"I'm going." Claudia said walking out of the pub. Lily, Joey and Laura started laughing.

"So what's up Lily?" Laura asked. "We haven't spoken in ages."

"Oh nothing much, this and that you know," Lily said.

"I still can't get over you and Jordan broke up. You guys were like the perfect couple." Joey said. Lily frowned.

"We weren't as perfect as you may have thought." Lily said. Just then James, Ashley and Mark came over and sat down. Everyone was introduced.

"What did you buy?" Lily asked Ashley. Ashley then took a long black silk dress robe out of her bag. "That is so pretty." Lily said touching it.

"Crap, I got to go send an owl to my gran." Ashley said standing. She and Mark said their goodbyes then walked out of the Three Broomsticks.

"We better go, too, Christmas presents to buy." Joey said sighing, she and the rest of the group said their good byes and left leaving James and Lily with Kent and Sophie. Kent and Sophie looked at each other than at the others.

"We got to go. Bye." Kent said before running out of the pub with Sophie. Lily chuckled then looked at James who was sitting beside her.

"Hey Lil." James smiled

"Hey Jamie." Lily giggled.

"Lily can I ask you a question?" James seriously.

"You just did but you can ask another." Lily smiled.

"Why were you crying earlier in the shop?" James asked looking into his drink.

"I umm wasn't, I just had something in my eye." Lily said.

"Oh." James said not really believing her but he didn't want to pursue the topic, as he knew that if Lily wanted to talk about it she would have.

"Where's Sirius and Michelle?" Lily asked curiously looking up at James trying to change the subject.

"They're talking. I don't know what about though." James said sipping his butterbeer.

"How's Remus?" Lily asked curiously.

"He's not so good. The last transition was rough. He's in the dorm sleeping it off." James said.

"Well when you see him tell him I send my love." Lily said.

"Will do." James replied. "So how've you been the past couple of weeks?" James asked her. He looked at Lily; she looked so beautiful as always.

"I've been okay, getting by y'know. You?" Lily asked looking into his liquid blue eyes.

"Good." James replied. "God could this be anymore awkward." James said with a small chuckle.

"I know, you'd think we'd dated or something." Lily said sarcastically. They both looked at each other and laughed. Lily then saw Frank Longbottom and his girlfriend, Alice Paterson. "Oh look at Frank and Alice, they look so cute together." Lily gushed. James chuckled.

"Couldn't you just see there children, it would be so weird Alice is nearly as clumsy as Peter and Frank is nearly as smart as you. That child should be well balanced." James laughed. Lily hit him on the arm.

"That wasn't nice." Lily said trying to suppress a smile. "But the child would be." Lily laughed.

"I'd hate to see Nott and Chelsea's kid. That child would be well messed up." James said taking a drink of his butterbeer.

"Can Remus have kids?" Lily asked curiously out of the blue. James shook his head.

"Something to do with the wolf inside of him." James said quietly.

"Him and Claudia would make a great couple then. She despises kids." Lily said.

"Do you want kids?" James asked Lily. Lily was caught of guard by this question but she thought about it.

"I don't know." Lily said truthfully. "I suppose one day I will have kids but I'm not thinking that far ahead yet. What about you?" Lily asked James.

"I want seven." James said bluntly. Lily looked at him then realised why he wanted the number seven.

"You want a bloody Quidditch team." Lily laughed. James laughed and nodded.

"I'm just thinking logically." James said. Lily was laughing that hard tears were rolling down her eyes. James stood, still laughing.

"I'll get us another drink." James said walking away. Just as Lily's laughter was dyeing away Jordan came up to her.

"Hey Lily." Jordan said. Lily hadn't spoken to him since the break up.

"Hey Jordan." Lily said wiping the tears away.

"Are you okay?" Jordan asked her.

"I'm fine. James just cracks me up." Lily said clutching her side. She was getting a pain there from laughing so much.

"Potter? You're here with him?" Jordan asked curiously.

"Well, I'm sitting with him." Lily said a little coldly. James came back with two glasses of butterbeer. He sat one in front of Lily and sat down beside her.

"Hey Jordan. Lil you still laughing about that?" James asked Lily. Jordan looked at Lily waiting for her to go mad at being called 'Lil' but it never came.

"It was funny." Lily said.

"What was it?" Jordan asked curiously.

"It's a long story." Lily said.

"Oh. Well I better get back. I'll see you guys later." Jordan said and he left to go sit with his friends.

"What was that all about?" James asked. Lily shrugged.

"Dunno." Lily rolled her eyes to see that some butterbeer was on James' top lip. She wiped it away with her finger.

"I was saving that." James said trying to be serious. But after ten seconds both of them started laughing. Lily looked at her watch.

"Crap, Charms closes in half an hour." Lily said.

"What's Charms?" James asked.

"It's that new jewellers. Come on lets go. I need to get my mum her Christmas present." Lily said standing. James quickly finished off his drink then followed Lily out of the pub. They walked down the street and into the jewellers. Lily started looking round at all the jewellery, trying to see if anything would suit her mum. Lily then seen a beautiful hair clip. It was silver and shaped as a butterfly it had an emerald set in the middle of it.

"Oh my god isn't that beautiful." Lily said to James. James looked at it and nodded. "My Nana used to have one just like it. I was supposed to get it when she passed away, but when I went to get it, it was gone." Lily said sadly. She then saw the perfect thing for her mum. It was a gold pendant with flowers on it. "This would be so great for my mum." Lily said. She went over to the sales clerk to ask if she could see it whilst James purchased a gift for a 'friend'. When they were finished James and Lily left the store, they then went back to the castle. When they came through the portrait hole they were both laughing about something.

"...So anyway, the stupid git walked straight into the trap. I mean how gullible can someone be?" James said causing Lily to laugh. They sat down beside their friends. Michelle, Sirius, Peter, Ashley, Claudia and Remus were all sitting on the couch around the fire. They all looked at James and Lily with shock cause they actually looked as if they were having a good time.

"Hey Remus, you feeling better?" James asked. Remus nodded and looked at Claudia.

"Lot's." Was all he said.

"Good, anyone wanna come down to the kitchens with me? Inky said she would wrap these presents for me." James said. Lily rolled her eyes.

"You can do it yourself." Lily said.

"No I can't. I'm not as good at charms as you are." James smiled.

"Fine I'll do it for you." Lily said reaching for the bag that had all the presents. But James moved it out of her way.

"Nah, it's okay. You coming guys?" James asked the three boys. Remus nodded.

"We better go. See everyone later." James said as he and the boys left. All the girls then made there way upstairs to compare items bought.

Christmas is just around the corner – well in the story anyway!!!! I'm dreaming off a crazy Christmas!!!!! Now go review before I give you all big wet kisses!!!! Told you they were disgusting!!!!!