Our Seventh Year

During February Petunia and Vernon had set a date for the wedding, it was to be May fifth at Lily’s parents house. To her surprise Lily was to be a part of the wedding, and Lily knew it was her mother’s doing, especially because she was brides maid number five, which was the last slot on the list.

“She is crazy if she thinks I am wearing this,” Lily said picking up the picture and a swath of cloth enclosed in the note from her mother. The dress was tight from the waist up with ruffles on it, with a giant poof of lace and other material that went from her shoulders to the neck, and all around the back. The bottom puffed out and from the picture it went down to her mid shin. The shoes were flats and matched the dress with a fluffy bow on the toes. The color was a nauseating pink, almost the color of the candy hearts you receive on Valentine’s Day.

“Aw but it is beautiful,” James teased as he looked over her shoulder at it. He had to suppress a laugh, she was right, it was hideous.

“Keep it up James, and you will be wearing it,” Lily remarked, flipping to the next picture, which was of the hair style. That was not so bad, just a French twist.

“I am going to die,” Lily said folding everything up again and shoving it into her school bag.

“It won’t be that bad,” he said trying to make her feel a bit better, but the look she gave him was enough, and he sat in silence.

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Lily did not look at that picture or note again for the next month, until it fell out of her bag as she rushed into her room to wrap up James’ gift. It had taken her forever to pick it out, and she was afraid it would not arrive in time for his birthday, but sure enough at eight the night before his birthday an owl dropped it off.

Shoving the letter into her desk, Lily promptly wrapped the gift, and stuck it under her bed. She would be spending the night in her room, since James was celebrating his birthday a day early with the Marauders because his birthday fell on a Sunday this year.

“Lils?” James called as he lightly tapped on her door.

Quickly Lily stood up from hiding his gift and went to the door opening it. “Hey love,” she said letting him in.

“They are going to be here soon,” James said leaning on the door frame.

“Alright have fun, if you need me I’ll be here,” Lily said with a smile walking over to kiss him. “Don’t do anything too crazy.”

“I won’t I promise,” James said kissing her back before leaving, closing the door behind him.

It was tradition, since their fifth year to celebrate each other’s birthday with a night of drinking in the dorm room, now though they could do it with a bit more privacy since James had his own room. He could hear them bounding up the stairs with bottles clanking, and James opened the door.

“Hey mate, ready to get smashed?” Sirius said with a smirk holding up three bottles in his hands. He wasn’t the only one with alcohol, both Remus and Peter had their hands full as well.

“Of course,” James said leading the way up to his room. Food of all sorts was laid out on a table, thanks to Lily offering to go to the kitchens. Ash trays were out, since Sirius had a problem with forgetting where he left one, and James did not want ashes all over his floor.

They set the bottles on James nightstand, and Sirius did not hesitate to open a bottle and claim it for himself. James was next grabbing a bottle of rum, before handing Remus a fire whiskey, and Peter a scotch, he always went for the old man’s drink.

So the partying began, they all staked out an area, James claiming his bed, Sirius on the floor, Remus in the window, and Peter at the desk.

Lily was next door, and could hear them all slowly becoming inebriated, becoming louder as they did so. She did not like drinking all that much, but it was very rare James drank, and she would step in the way of their tradition. Around two in the morning there was a loud crash, that woke Lily up. Grabbing a cloak, she threw it over her pajamas and ventured into James room, coughing from the smoke.

“Everything alright?” Lily asked raising an eyebrow. A bookshelf was on its’ side and Sirius was lying on the floor next to it shaking with laughter, and the rest were laughing too. Quickly she went over to him to make sure he was not bleeding, and she stood the bookshelf upright.

“Your pretty,” Sirius slurred as Lily wiped some alcohol off a book before placing it back on the shelf.

“Thanks,” Lily said rolling her eyes as she stood up again, using her wand to put the rest of the books back. The room reeked of alcohol and smoke, and it was completely trashed.

“Hey…hey…” James said stumbling over, catching himself on the footboard before walking over to Lily like a little child, putting an arm around her shoulder.

“You—you can’t talk to her like that,” he slurred laughing, a nearly empty bottle in his hand. “She’s my girlfriend.”

“”orry,” Sirius said finishing off the bottle that he picked up, before tossing it in the direction of the trash, missing it horribly.

“She is still pretty though,” Peter piped in. Lily looked in his direction as he hiccupped slightly, and slumped over in the chair.

“I’m going back to bed,” Lily said leading James over to the bed, she kissed him quickly, leaving the room before anything else happened. Closing the door behind her, she heard someone fall, and the rest of the boys burst out in laughter once again.

The rest of the night was pretty quiet on Lily’s end and she did not wake up until nine thirty that morning. Deciding to be nice, she got dressed, grabbing a bottle full of a blood red potion for headaches, and ventured into James room.

If it was any worse, Lily would not be able to recognize the room. “Where do I start?” She questioned aloud to herself. She opted for the window first, hoping if she opened it the trapped smoke would escape.

When she reached the window, she almost jumped out of her skin when something stirred under the fallen curtains. Pulling it back she found Remus laying on his stomach on the window seat. “Up we go,” Lily said rolling him over easily, for being so tall, he was very light.

Remus mumbled under his breath, before opening his eyes then immediately shut them against the light. “Drink this,” Lily said shoving the bottle into his face. He took two swigs, as he sat up. Stumbling slightly, he wandered towards the door, tripping over a pair of shoes.

Repairing the curtains, Lily began to pick up everything in her path as she neared Peter, whose head was laying on the desk, his arms sprawled out. It was amazing how people could sleep in certain positions. She woke him up, offering him the same potion before ushering him out.

The rest of the room was picked up, and she found James on his bed under the blankets with no shirt. What was perplexing her was where Sirius was. She even went as far as looking under the bed for him, but he was nowhere to be found.

Finally she moved to the bathroom, and there was Sirius sitting on the floor, using the wall as support, though he was slowly starting to lean to the side. Rolling her eyes she shook him, and gave him the potion as well. He was worse off them Remus and Peter combined, so Lily actually walked him down to his bedroom. Peter and Remus were already in their beds, not bothering to change, passed out.

Lily was going to give James until about noon before waking him up, so she went for a run, then to brunch before going back to James’ room.

“Wakey wakey,” Lily said as she climbed up on the bed, grabbing the potion she had left on his nightstand in case he woke up before she was back. She shook his shoulders lightly, and he just shrugged her off, rolling onto his side.

She was not going to give up that easily, so she wrenched the blankets off him completely, and she heard him swear under his breath. “It is noon, time to get up.”

James opened his eyes, closing them quickly with a groan because of the light. “Drink this,” Lily said putting it into his hand.

“I’ve drunken enough,” James said not moving his hand.

“It will help,” Lily said as she walked over to the window closing it and the blinds satisfied that all the smoke was out.

Without protesting anymore James drank the liquid, cringing at the taste, it burned his throat. But as soon as it touched his lips, he could feel the pounding headache melt away, as well as the nausea. “Thanks,” he mumbled setting the bottle on his night stand, grabbing his glasses now pushing them on his face.

“Happy birthday!” Lily said jumping onto his bed leaning to kiss him lightly.

“Oh yeah, that is today isn’t it?” James said smirking as he looked around the room. It was perfectly clean. “Thanks love,” he said indicating to the room. “Where is everyone?” He asked noticing that his three friends were gone.

“I put them to bed,” Lily said laughing.

Once James was fully awake he wandered to the bathroom to shower, and clean himself up. He wished he had found that potion Lily had given him for all the other nights of drinking. Normally he would be in bed all day with a hangover, only getting up to be sick in the bathroom.

Lily grabbed his gift while he was gone, as well as the package that had arrived for James from his parents. She noticed new Quidditch Robes, some broom oil, a dirty magazine and some other things obviously from the marauders as she made the bed. Stacking everything neatly, she placed them on his desk and waited for him to return.

“These came this morning at breakfast for you,” Lily said handing him three packages and a few cards.

James finished toweling off his hair, and threw the towel into the corner where all his dirty laundry went before taking a seat next to her on the bed opening his gifts. His aunts and uncles had sent him cards with money, and a few odds and ends. Then James moved to the biggest package which was from his parents.

Inside he pulled out a small pouch which jingled with money. Next was a set of nice dress clothes. The last one James took his time to look over. It was a new watch with his name engraved on the back. It was gold, unlike his last one which was silver, with stars revolving around on it. “Wow,” he said turning it over in his hands as he examined it. “It’s like my fathers,” James said smiling as he held it.

He grabbed his old one from his nightstand to look at it. “I am going to keep this one still though, I got this when I left for Hogwarts the first time as a congratulations gift from my parents.”

“You can still use that one mainly,” Lily said looking at it, it was scraped up greatly, and there was big dent in the back. “And your new one for special occasions.”

James nodded, putting the old one down, and pocketing his new one, wanting to keep it on him for today at least.

“Well my gift is not as good as that,” Lily said reaching to her side to grab the box it was wrapped in. Truth was this was not the only thing she had gotten him for his birthday, well she bought it for herself, but in the end it would be for him.

“I’m sure I will love it,” James said taking the box from her hands, and unwrapping it. Once all the paper was off, it was just a white box, so he opened the top. Inside folded neatly was a new cloak that was a dark deep blue color. Slowly James pulled it out, the stitching was silver as well as the clasp and the rest of the buttons. “Wow Lily,” James said running his hand over the material. He knew this had cost her, but he liked it a lot. Standing up, he put it on going into the bathroom to look at it. It was really nice, the material inside was silk, and the outside was velvet. “You really shouldn’t have Lily, I know it was ex—“ but Lily cut him off.

“There is one more thing,” she said tapping the box lightly. James walked back over and saw another smaller box within the original one. He took it out unwrapping it, then opened it. He knew right away what it was, the box gave it away.

Inside was a ring, it was rather large, but it fit his finger. “It is a school ring,” Lily said smiling as he looked it over. The ring was silver as well, with the Hogwarts crest on the top where the jewel normally would be, one side was engraved head boy with a picture of the Gryffindor crest, the other said Quidditch captain with a picture of a snitch. On the inside was his name, and the year they were graduating.

“You really should have Lils,” James said looking the ring over. It was perfect, not to girly, but still classy. He put it on his ring finger of his right hand and looked at it again.

“I’m glad you like them though,” she said smiling as he kissed her.

They spent the day with all of James friends, just as they had on Lily’s birthday. By the end of the day, James was set for at least two years with Quidditch equipment, and broom maintenance kits. He also received posters of Quidditch teams, and a few girls, which cause him to blush when Lily looked them over, but she did not care.

“Sorry I didn’t plan dinner,” Lily said as they walked down to the great hall.

“It’s fine love, that’s normally a guy thing, plus you got me more than enough,” James said as they took a seat eating dinner.

“There is one more thing though,” Lily said casually. Truth was she was so nervous, and the butterflies in her stomach were doing flips.

James sighed looking at her, “you spent way too much on me,” he said taking a sip of his pumpkin juice.

“This was really cheap don’t worry,” Lily said smirking as she finished her dinner.

James just shook his head, not saying anything else about it. They went for a walk outside with the marauders and a few other friends just shooting the breeze, a few of them sneaking a few fags.

At ten they were finally back in James room alone as James wrote a note to his parents about his day, and thanking them for their gifts.

“I’ll be right back,” Lily said rising from the bed, and grabbing a bag from under James bed glad he did not notice.

“Alright love,” James said, not looking up from his note.

Quickly and quietly, Lily changed into what she had been hiding for about a week now, and slipped on dangerously tall high heels. As best as she could, she covered up the clicking on the tile floor of the bathroom as she walked out. Luckily James was still writing the note, so she threw the clothes she was wearing into the floor before climbing onto the bed.

James stirred when Lily cleared her throat, “one more second,” James said as he quickly signed his name at the bottom and folded the parchment up. Turning around though, he swallowed hard at what he saw.

Lily was half sitting half laying on the bed, her legs curled to one side. She had changed into something James had never seen her in before, lingerie. The top was black lace that went just below her chest, and showed everything. The bottoms were black boy shorts, which also showed everything.

James tossed the note back onto the desk and walked over to the bed. “Was this the rest of my gift?” He asked her smirking widely.

“How did you guess?” Lily asked him in a sexy voice, which was very difficult because she was nervous as all get out.

Smirking he crawled up on the bed next to her, and without another word, he kissed her, feeling he was already aroused. Before she could do it, James removed his shirt, pulling her up into his lap. He pulled back looking at her again, and grinned when she bit the corner of her bottom lip as he looked her over.

Strangely enough, Lily was comfortable with James looking her over, she felt pretty in what she was wearing, which was giving her confidence, and finally the butterflies began to subside. She felt his hands slip to the back looking for the clasp, but she led his hands to the front where the laces held the bra together.

“This is different,” James said as he undid the laces quickly, pushing the top off of her body fully before grabbing her chest with one hand, the other going to her back to support her, since he was being a bit more rough than normal.

Lily moaned leaning her head back slightly enjoying the attention. She felt him begin to concentrate his movements on her nipple and she grinned slightly biting her lip. Slowly she moved her arms above her head and gave him free range.

James pinched her slightly before kissing her neck then down to her chest, biting her every now and then, enjoying her gasps. He then grabbed one of her hands placing it on his arousal, willing her on.

Without hesitation, Lily scooted back out of his lap a bit, and undid the zipper and button pulling down on his pants and boxers getting it over with in one shot. Once they were fully off, she grasped him and began to move her hand up and down. Giving him a wicked smile, Lily pushed James back slightly so he would back up, then took him into her mouth.

He groaned his hands finding her chest once again moving his hands over her as she continued moving on him, and he felt her teeth every few times, and groaned when she teased him with a lick. James wanted her now, so he pulled her up, and found that her knickers were held together by ties as well, quickly he undid them as Lily kicked off her shoes.

Again James pulled her back into his lap, and wrapped her legs around his waist, pulling her on him once she was settled. This position made it easier for both of them to move, though it was more tiring.

“Lils,” James groaned into her ear as he moved her up and down on him. Hit bit her shoulder lightly suppressing another moan.

She leaned back holding onto the head board to give her a bit more balance, and made it easier to move now that she had something to push off of. She was panting now, and every few minutes moaned his name. Finally she came, her legs tightening around his body as an orgasm washed over her.

James was not done yet, he moved so she was on her back, with her legs still around him, and his hands went up to take the place of her hands on the headboard, and he continued, the bed creaking loudly under them, and every few seconds there was a band of the bars of the canopy hitting the wall. He could feel the sweat running down his back as well as his neck, and a few strands of hair were sticking to his forehead.

With a loud groan, and a particularly hard thrust James came, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the headboard. Lowering his hands he knelt on all fours on top of Lily smiling and fighting to catch his breath.

Lily lowered her legs smirking at him as she relaxed under him, her body worn out from everything that had just happened.

James lowered himself as he pulled out, then rolled over on his back next to her. His breath caught, he wiped his forehead with his hand, then reached out to Lily holding her close. “That was good, really good,” he said with a smirk.

“We should do that again sometime,” Lily said laughing a bit when she looked at his face.