Emily P.O.V.

I wake up and try to remember the dream I had the night before. All I could recall was Sirius and I were in the common room. I shake it off and begin to get ready for the rest of the day.

"Hey Emily," calls Sirius. He rushes over to kiss me on the cheek.

"Mornin'" says James.

"Hello," says Lilly as she joins the group.

We all walk down to the Great Hall. I see Remus and Peter already sitting down. Remus flashes us a smile and waves us over to the table.

"Good morning everyone," he says with a grin.

"What are you so happy about?" asks James as he hurtles over the bench.

"I believe that someone owes me some Chinese fireworks," he says smugly in Sirius' general direction.

"What!" exclaims Sirius as he nearly jumps out of his seat," there is no WAY the Irish beat the Bulgarians! There seeker had a broken leg!" I roll my eyes and begin to laugh; they take this way too seriously.

"I'm going to want them soon; I really want to get out of N.E.W.T.S."

"Fine, a week tops," he responds.

"You two will do anything to get out of a test," I say.

"That's our job," says Sirius as he leans in for a kiss.

"If you two are done, I would like to get some studying in before class," says Lilly, barely lifting her head from the book she was reading to say so.

"Well too bad," says James, trying the same thing, but being rejected for a book.

All of us talk and laugh until it's time for our first class, not knowing that that was the beginning of something terrible.