Chasers & Beaters

•news & new years•

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j.potter's POV
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New Years Eve.

The one night a year my parents leave the manor and I alone and I can throw a party. The guest list was simple;

Alice Fortescue
Frank Longbottom
Marlene McKinnon
Lily Evans
Mary McDonald
Padfoot
Wormtail
Ranger
Moony
Myself (duh)

"Siriussssss." I groaned as he was drunk and hungover on the floor from my bed. "Whatttt." He moaned whinily back. "Would Moony be ok if Dorcas came?" I asked him and as if magic, pun intended, he sobered.

"No, she cheated, not yet, she can't come yet." Sirius said aggressively and we sought to get ready for the party. "Why is Ranger the only Slytherin we invited?" I asked him as we carried all the expensive furniture into a room so we couldn't damage them.

"Because we like adopted her after she gave you a bone-" I cut him off. "Stop, I- no- forget I asked." I said purposefully dropping the coffee table to hit his knee. "Ow- your lucky I haven't told her about your near constant sex dreams about defiling her." Sirius spoke.

"I don't dream of her, I dream of Lily." I said like the bloody liar I am. "When have you ever called Lily, Ranger? Or mommy? Lily doesn't have a dominant bone in her body and Diana actually looks like Euphemia." Sirius said counting reasons on his fingers.

"I do not have an Oedipus complex, pads." I said and we walked towards my room. "Sure, and I don't have parental figure issues. The sky is neon Orange and the grass is red. Yes, you don't want to give Diana a kiss at midnight so that you kiss her on her 17th birthday. And of course, I'm straight." Sirius said slumping on my bed.

"No more firewhiskey for you untill 10 o'clock when the guests arrive." I said and slumped next to him. "Do you actually like Lily or just the idea of dating the girl you've always wanted?" Sirius asked and before I could respond he was asleep and drooling on my shoulder.

I passed out shortly too but Sirius slapping me in the face. "Wakey wakey jamesie." Sirius said before violently slapping me again. "What the f- oh hi mom." I said seeing my mother behind Sirius.

"We're heading out but we wanted to tell you two boys to have fun at the party you thing we don't know about." My mother said and Sirius' face dropped. "What-" he started but my father wouldn't let him finish.

"Boy, even when I was your age I had New Years parties here, that how I asked out your mother, James." My father said entering the room. "She was leaving in to kiss someone else for when the clock stroked 12 but I pulled her in and gave her the best kiss she'd ever have." My father said and I was on the verge of puking.

"Aw that's adorable but Mrs Potter, who were you supposed to kiss?" Sirius asked. "Damon Diggory, but of course that wretched bitch Cassandra had to swoop in- we were dating at the time but at least now I can say I married the love of me life." My mother said.

"Mrs Potterr." Sirius said exaggerating. "Yes I'm a naughty girl." My mother said and then her and my father walked out. Sirius and I laughed, "I think your mother just ruined that phrase for me." He spoke and we laughed even harder.

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To say Sirius and I were on muggle drugs wouldn't have fit the bill. We stopped drinking at some point and forgot we invited people. When Marlene and Lily arrived to see Sirius and I slow dancing to Chiquita and crying, I didn't care.

Lily rolled her eyes and walked over the where we put the snacks and Marlene laughed and followed her. Alice and Diana came together which shocked me because typically Alice didn't leave Frank's side. But Peter shortly followed with Mary who I presumed he was dating.

Remus and Frank were the last to come and then Sirius and I decided that was enough sulking for the night. Before any of us could speak Sirius sauntered over to the record player and played Queen.

But he grabbed his beloved hair brush, I personally find those quite useless but his hair is his pride and joy, and he turned it into a microphone.

"Can anybody find mEeEeEe, somebody to loVEEeEe."

He sang and he sobered me. Yes Sirius could Sing. No Sirius couldn't when he was drunk off his ass. Diana laughed into Remus' shoulder and I wrapped me arm tighter around Lily's waist.

Why am I jealous of my best friends? Why did I want to rip her out of his arms and prove a point to everyone that she wasn't his? Why did I want to strut over to them and do what my parents had done? The answer was three words.

Lily. Fucking. Evans.

The night moved in a haze of Diana and Remus acting in a physically close action and I aggressively gripping Lily tighter to prove a point to myself I had everything I ever wanted. I didn't, I wanted Diana Diggory.

As the clock struck down we all counted in a drunken shout as the clock hit 12. "Happy New Year!" Marlene shouted and grabbed Sirius' face for a kiss. Mary and Peter followed the action. Then Frank and Alice but Lily was in awe of watching out friends in a giggle so I didn't kiss her.

Instead my eyes were glued on Remus. He had a hand loosely at her waist and the other on her cheek as he whispered something in her ear and she smiled with her teeth, he made her genuinely happy.

Something then possessed me. I walked over to them in and pulled her by the waist with both hands and kissed her like the world was ending. Time for me stopped and I melted into her. She was stunned but her hands found their way into my hair.

This was bliss.

This was all I wanted in this moment- it's something I never wanted to end but then I was sobered by the sound of glass breaking. I pulled away from Diana with swollen lips to see Lily standing there with her fire whiskey bottle on the ground and tears in her eyes.

"Happy fucking birthday, whore." Was all Lily managed to say before running out with me chasing after her.