Jily oneshots

The Secret Santa

by Amelia Bedelia

"Merry Christmas!"

Lily looked to her left. A six-foot snowman waved cheerily and wiggled his orange, carrot nose at her.

"You, too," Lily muttered, switching her book bag from one shoulder to the other.

The snowman beamed and turned his head, scanning the hallway. He lifted his hat off of his head as two first year girls walked past. "Merry Christmas!" he shouted, scaring the young children away.

Lily laughed, shaking her head.

"Hey," called a squeaky voice from behind Lily. "Wait for me!"

Lily turned a head over her shoulder to find one of her roommates hurrying down the crowded hallway to join Lily. Her flat, blonde hair smacked her cheeks, but the girl just brushed the locks aside.

"Did you find your notes, Mary?" Lily asked the short girl.

Mary nodded, breathing heavily. She showed Lily her Charms notes balled up in a fist. "Remus must've borrowed them last night and forgot to tell me – I found them on one of the tables in the Gryffindor Common Room this morning."

"Oh – that's right…" Lily blushed, shooting her friend an apologetic look. "He told me to let you know that he grabbed them out of your bag. I guess I forgot to pass the message along…"

"No problem." Mary shrugged. She flattened out her notes with the palm of her hand, smearing the ink. "I mean – I found the notes on one of the common room tables before I started to panic too much."

"What are you saying about me, now?"

Lily and Mary both glanced over their shoulders and smiled at the tall, thin boy. Remus took a step forward between the pair so he could walk side-by-side with the two girls.

"We were just talking about how you stole my notes," Mary promptly interjected, playing around with her friend. She crossed her arms over her chest as if she were upset, hiding her smile.

"Lily said I could!" Remus protested. He looked back and forth between the two faces with panic in his eyes, but soon dropped his worried look and replaced it with a smile once he realized that they were joking.

Several whoops of laughter sounded from the end of the hallway, directly behind Lily. She did not, however, turn to find out where the noise was coming from but, instead, turned to glare at Remus, as if he had been the one to cause the disruption.

"I knew you were bad luck!" Lily scolded the boy, smacking him lightly on the arm.

"What – what did I do?" Remus asked, thoroughly confused.

"You're like a magnet," Lily said, refusing to hide her disgust. "To those two." She pointed a long finger in the direction of the noise just as two dark-haired boys skidded around the corner, clutching their stomachs. They ran straight towards Lily and her two friends.

"Oh, come off it," Remus scolded Lily, looking tired of hearing her complaints. "It's been seven years since your little feud began – can't you lay off them for one minute? They're really not that bad once you get to know them," he tried to persuade her.

"It's not both of them that I don't get along with," Lily countered. "It's James." She attempted to ignore the slapping noise of the two boys' shoes on Hogwarts' stone floor. "And it most certainly doesn't help that James accepted the Head Boy position, when he knew that I wanted to be Head Girl!"

"James can't control that, Lily, and you know it," Remus cut in, managing to stick up for his friend without taking sides.

Lily merely huffed, upset that, once again, Remus won the argument. He would always outwit her just by stating the most logical thing.