So here is Chapter 2, it took ages to write. Anyhow here it is. So if you're reading this then you liked the first chapter, hopefully, yay. So have fun and read and be cool. And stuff.


I knew I should have eaten more food at breakfast. I seriously hate Mondays, you spend a weekend eating at random points in the day then you go back to lessons and there are set times for food.

That is the exact reason why I'm snacking on liquorice wands at the back of potions with James while Professor Slughorn gives a lecture at the front of the room.

When Professor Slughorn turned round to write something on the chalk board I brought a wand up to my mouth and snapped part of it off. Looking around the room my eyes locked with Sirius who was staring at James and me from his seat at the front of the class.

A smirk formed on my lips as I chewed slowly enjoying the taste. My eyes met Sirius' as I swallowed, a small smile tugging the corners of my lips. Sirius glared at me knowing I was teasing him and his love for liquorice wands.

"Mr Black." Professor Slughorn boomed out from directly behind him. Sirius jumped about a foot into the air and spun round coming face to face with Professor Slughorn's fuming expression. "Would you mind telling me what is so much more important that my lesson that you need to be facing the back of the class?" Sirius shook his head. "Fine if you don't have an answered you will serve detention tomorrow after dinner."

"Why not today?" Sirius asked.

"Today I have a few third year Slytherins who were trying to deface the fat lady." Professor Slughorn explained.

"They wouldn't have got anywhere." James whispered in my ear. "She problem started singing and that's worse than a baby mandrake."

I started giggling at this. "Miss Walker would you like to explain what's so funny?" Professor Slughorn asked.

I shook my head not wanting a detention. "I was just explaining to her how the Fat Lady's singing is worse that a baby mandrake." James spoke up from beside me.

Professor Slughorn's expression was priceless with steam practically bellowing out of his ears. "Mr Potter and Miss Walker, you will both join Mr Black in detention tomorrow." He sighed and exasperated sigh while rubbing his forehead before turning back to continue writing on the board.

"Well that went well." Sirius said once he joined us outside the potions class room. "Second lesson and two of us have got detention. Is it a new record Prongsy?" Sirius asked.

"Yep, its and new record for me, but not for you however. Yours was as soon as you stepped into school grounds last year if I remember correctly." Was James' reply as they walked off down the hall.

They just left me behind, how dare they. "Ally, are you coming?" Sirius called back at me jerking me out of my though.

"Yeah sure." I jogged down to catch up with them "Any way I think your forgetting someone." I said when I caught up with the two boys.

"Who?" They asked in unison looking down at me. You never get a real feel for how tall these two boys are until you are standing in between both of them. "Well if you don't remember I also got detention."

"Ah yes, but Ally." Sirius started.

"All you did was giggle." James finished

"I often worry about you two finishing each other sentences, that's just not right." I muttered. "Anyway you should be thanking me for helping you set a new record. As without me there would have been no liquorice wands meaning Sirius would not have drooled on the person behind him desk, which caused Professor Slughorn to give him a detention that he then questioned which made you say that comment causing me to laugh. Professor Slughorn would have let me off detention if you, Mr James Potter, hadn't piped up and told him what you thought of the Fat Lady's singing."

They both stared at me in shock. "She does have a point you know." Sirius spoke up.

"No way, The Marauders never have help getting detention." James replied in an
irritated tone.

"Aw come on James, you're just loosing you touch, what with being Head Boy and all that." Sirius and James continued their petty argument for the whole walk from the dungeons to the Great Hall.

"What's up with those two?" Lily asked coming up beside me.

"Nothing really, they got detention but it was not wholly their own doing." I replied walking into the Great Hall after the boys with Lily at my side.

"They got detention already." Lily was fuming "James, you're Head Boy meaning you must be responsible and set an example on the younger years." James cowered away from Lily "And Sirius I would have thought you would have grown up at least a bit in the space of the summer."

"Come on Lily, I'm Sirius Black, growing up is not on my agenda. Well at least not for a few years." Sirius replied while ruffling Lily's hair and sitting down.

"Yeah, well. I still expected better from you James." Lily huffed sitting down.

I exchanged a look with Sandy, who was sitting beside Remus, while sitting beside Lily. James sat on the other side of her while Sirius spread out into the space beside me.

I was about to scoop a spoon of soup into my mouth when someone clapped their hand over my eyes causing me to drop my spoon back into the bowl, thankfully not over my clothes.

"Guess who." The voice of my boyfriend said.

"Ohh I don't know, maybe the Easter Bunny?" I murmured.

"Tad early for him Alice" Sandy said from opposite me.

"No it's me babe." I cringed inside; I hate being called babe, baby I can just about manage but babe, no way.

"Oh I never would have guessed." Sirius murmured under his breath.

"Budge up Black." Benji ordered before shoving Sirius out of the way and squeezing himself into the gap.

"The Ravenclaw table is over their Gotobed." Sirius retorted indicating to the table next to ours.

"I know that Black but I wish to greet my girlfriend and I'm sure she wants to greet me." Benji said turning to me and placing a kiss on my lips. Once again I cringed, it's not that I don't like Public Displays of Affection; it is that I don't like it with Benji.

"What was that we were just talking about James?" Sirius questioned leaning forward so he could see James.

"Wasn't it the fact that we are going to thrash Ravenclaw once again for the fourth year running? What with our amazing Chaser Miss Alicia Walker over here." James said winking at me, luckily Benji didn't catch that otherwise all hells would have gone up.

"Well I'm going to set off for Study of Ancient Runes." Lily said hesitantly as she stood up. "Are you coming Sandy?"

"Yep I'm right behind you." Sandy replied as she shot up and my two best friends hurried out of the hall leaving me defenceless against the boys.

"Well we have Herbology James." Peter mumbled as he attempted to drag James out of his seat.

"Fine, be ready to lose once again Gotobed." He declared as he finally stood up and marched out of the hall Peter in toe.

"I should probably be going too. I see you later." Benji said as he placed a kiss on my cheek and stood up. He probably avoided my lips as my mouth is full of French bread. "Lupin." He finished with a nod before turning and walking out of the hall to join James and Peter in Herbology.

"Hey, how come you get a goodbye Moony and I get nothing?" Sirius asked.

Remus rolled his eyes to me and I lifted my eyebrows in response. "Well you do kind of hate each other for reasons no one has yet discovered. Anyway he called me by my second name, we have known each other since first year and last year we were on first name bases, I wonder what happened?" Remus pondered to himself.

"Well I'm full." Sirius exclaimed as he lent back.

"You would be since you ate James' leftovers from when he left." Was my replied

"I have to go and see the new Defence against the Dark Arts Teacher. He wants some help with the first years and asked me if I would help him." Remus spoke up.

"Well I guess that just leaves us." Sirius said as he watched Remus leave the Great Hall. "Let's go for a walk." He randomly announced.

We were ambling down the path towards the owlery as I wanted to send a letter to my father. Sirius was lagging behind bored and annoyed that I was just about to make him climb the constantly slippy steps.

"It's amazing how even in summer these steps are slippy." Sirius puffed as we climbed up the said steps clinging onto the stone wall either side of us.

"Stop moaning, it is only one more spiral and then we will be there." I shouted back over the now howling wind.

We reached the circular room at the top of the tower. Already the floor was covered in owl droppings and feathers. "Sirius, can you help me find Sammy?"

"What?" Sirius shouted at me. "I can't hear you over all the owls hooting."

I walked up to stand directly in front of Sirius a small smile pulling on the corners of my lips. Standing on my tip toes I leant over so I was directly beside his ear I drew in a breath. "Help me find Sammy!" I shouted causing him to stumble backwards clutching his ear.

We finally found Sammy on the top layer of the Owlery and had attached my letter to his outstretched leg. Now we were making our way back down the slippy steps stumbling constantly.

"Hey Ally?" Sirius called when we had reached the bottom. "You wanna go to the cove?" He asked when he saw he had my attention.

The cove was exactly what it sounds like. A small beach extremely well hidden near the forbidden forest. The only way on to it is by a small part which is wide enough for one person, the trees overhang it making everyone apart from Sandy, who is the smallest out of our group, have to bend over to get through. We had found it back in second year, James had been bulling Snape and Lily had jumped into help Snape. The spell James had casted sent Snape to the hospital wing causing Lily to run of upset and annoyed. Sandy and I had followed her, the boys close behind, and we discovered this place.

"Yeah sure." I smiled up at Sirius.

"Thank Merlin it hasn't rained yet otherwise this path would be impossible to get down." Sirius stated as we made our way through the undergrowth.

"Finally." Sirius muttered from behind me as we emerged from the undergrowth onto the sand. He turned to smile at me. "I'm going for a swim." With that he shrugged his robe off, flicked his shows away, tugged his shirt over his head and pulled his trousers down leaving him in nothing more than his boxers. With a whop Sirius set off at a gallop into the water.

I settled on the beach with my back up against a rock watching Sirius mess around in the water. He looked so carefree and young. No hint off what he had been through and what he was going through. If anyone saw him now they would see a seventeen year old boy enjoying life and acting exactly how you would expect.

I lent back against the rock and shut my eyes, shutting out the rest of the world in the processes.

After a few minutes I went dark as if a cloud had covered the sun. A droplet of water fell on to my leg. "It better not be raining." I grumbled. "Thank Merlin, it only you." I muttered when I opened my eyes and saw Sirius blocking my sunlight that I had been basking in, his hair, dripping wet, was the droplet of water I had felt.

"I'm going to get you in that lake at least once this year." He stated as he sat down beside me.

"There is no way you will get me in there willingly." I replied as Sirius settled against the rock.

"Who said you need to be willing?" Sirius replied, his well know Marauder's smirk appearing on his lips.

He lay back shutting his eyes. "It is so warm." He mumbled under his breath "I'm going to take a nap."

"You sound like such an old man."

"Shut up Ally." Sirius grumbled with his eyes shut. "I'm tired and the sun is really warm."

I watched him as he dozed off and started to snore lightly, he is truly an amazing boy, so different every five minutes. I lay down beside him and shut my eyes dozing off next to him.

"Ally, Ally wake up, we need to go back to the castle." Sirius said as he poked my side. I rolled over and buried my head in my arms. "If you don't get up Alicia Walker then I will pick you up and throw you into the lake right now." At this I shot up and came face to face with a grinning Sirius "Anyway we have missed dinner."

"How did we do that?" I asked. "You should have woken me up, now everyone is going to be wondering where I am, including my boyfriend."

"It's not my fault, I was asleep too." Sirius responded. "Anyway, no one will be too bothered that we are missing."

"Apart from Benji."

"Well he doesn't matter." Sirius said a frown forming. "Come on, let get something to eat at the kitchen

We had finally got to the kitchen and were sitting on one of the four, the Gryffindor one as we are proud Gryffindors, and were finishing off a plate of huge, and I mean huge, pancakes when Sirius asked "What one thing do you really want to do this year?"

"That is one of the hardest questions I have ever had to answer." Was my reply after sitting in though for around three minutes "You go first as it was your question."

"Fine, I want to fall in love. Now your go." Sirius answered.

"I seriously don't know." Sirius' eyes bored into mine edging an answer out of me. "Fine I want to fall in love too."

"But aren't you in love with Gotobed, or is it a one way relationship?" Sirius asked with a smirk.

"No it not like that, it's just that I don't think our feelings for each other are that strong and anyway when you fall in love it should hit you like a ton of bricks."

"Imagine you married to him, Alicia Gotobed, and if you had kids every time anyone called them by their full name they would thing that they were being sent to bed." Sirius laughed.

"Shut up Sirius, anyway do you really think I would get married to Benji?" I asked hoping for a response that I wasn't quite sure off.

"Nope." That was the response I wanted. "And I completely disagree with you opinion about love. I think it develops over time until it becomes so strong that you have to do something about it."

"No your idea is completely wrong." I retorted.

We continued our debate all the way up to the Common room where we said goodnight and separated to bed.

"How much have you written Remus?" Sandy asked from my left.

"I'm just about finished. How about you?" He answered from the floor opposite us eyes and quill not leaving the parchment in front of him.

"Same here, how's your Potions coming along Alice?" Sandy turned to face me.

"Absolutely brilliant. I really know what this is all about." I lied

"Alicia." Lily scolded fro over my shoulder. "You haven't written past the opening paragraph." She addressed me like a mother scolding a child.

"It is not my fault I fell asleep and Professor Slughorn caught me, and then proceeded to set me extra homework." I complained.

Lily was about to argue how I shouldn't have been sleeping when a extremely high pitched scream echoed around the common room followed by a clattering. Both noises came from the boy's stain case.

Lily pulled out her wand as we watched the stairs waiting for something to happen.

A mattress with Peter sitting on top of it came whizzing down. When it hit the ground and the angle changed Peter toppled off backwards with a crash but the mattresses didn't stop. I kept going straight into a first year girl's legs, who had been watching with wide eyes. When the girl fell Lily snapped to her senses and rushed over to help the girl up.

"The sound of running feet echoed around the room as who would probably be James and Sirius ran down the stairs.

"That was wicked." Sirius exclaimed when he hit the ground upright.

"How was it Wormtail?" James asked

Peter just raised a shaky hand and gave a thumb up in reply a dazed smile on his face.

"Great." Sirius bellowed. "My go!"

"No way, you are not doing that again." Lily bustled over to them.

"Why ever not Lily-Flower?" James questioned knowing that the nickname would push all her buttons.

"Because you almost hurt someone." Her face getting redder by the second like it did in any spat with James.

"She's fine. Your fine, aren't you?" The wide eyed first year nodded. "See."

"I don't care. It's dangerous." Lily stated. "And if you do it again Potter you will not play in the next Quidditch match." Ignoring James', and much of the common room's, protests Lily turned to Sirius. "And I will confiscate you leather jacket." Sirius' mouth dropped open. "Now Sirius take Peter and that mattress back up stairs and James pin up the notices." She demanded before spinning round and marching up to our room.

Sirius levitated Peter onto the mattress and then levitated the mattress so it would follow him up the stairs. We could hear him grumbling all the way up. Remus got up and said goodbye to us before following the grumbling boy.

James wandered over to the display board muttering about how: "Lily needs to learn how to have fun." I got up to follow him giving up on my homework as Lily wouldn't help me.

"Are the Quidditch try-outs in that pile somewhere?" I asked as I watched James put up a poster about the choir.

"Yeah, you're trying out right?" James asked as he pinned another flyer up.

"Nope." James turned to me jaw hanging open. "I was thinking about just watching this year."

"What?" James yelled. "No, you are trying out, I don't care if I have to Imperio you I am not about to lose the second best Chaser in Hogwarts."

"James, you're so gullible and full of yourself. I'm not going to quit Quidditch." I laughed.

"Merlin you scared me Alice." James said relief plastered over his face.

"Aw poor James." I cooed. "You should go, your friends are waiting. "I pointed to the portrait hole where the rest of the Marauders were standing.

"I'll see you later." James said as he walked off. "And you better go to the try-outs as I will Imperio you if you don't.

A smile on my face I turned to read the Quidditch notices he had just put up. It brought a smile to my face: "Gryffindor needs you! On Tuesday the 13th September Gryffindor Quidditch team try-outs are taking place. If you're handy with a broom pop down and give it a go. Lots of Love James the Captain. PS no first years allowed! But you are all invited to show some support for your friends in the stands." Trust James to write something like that.

Around the edge of the poster were photos of the team ever since my second year when James and I both got on the team, each photo was taken just after the try-outs when the team of the year was formed. The one from fifth year when James had first been made Captain made me laugh out loud catching the attention of others in the room. Everyone was smiling at the camera but occasionally Sirius would run across the photo. After that year he was as much a part of the team as the players always turning up to every practice to raise our spirits. After on match when we had been thrashed by Ravenclaw he had turned up in a cheerleading costume to get us back in a winning mood.

Most of my favourite memories are from the Quidditch team.

"You would think that after three years of you playing that joke on him he would have realised that you are joking." Cynthia said coming up beside me.

"Yeah, even Peter caught on last year and started saying that he was going to try out, that really freaked him out." I replied smiling at the memory.

"Didn't he even turn up to the try-outs in a spare Quidditch uniform?" Cynthia asked. "It was pretty funny when James flipped at him." I looked at her confused. "Oh right you hadn't arrived yet. He was all: What are you doing Peter? Where is Alice? There is no way you are trying out. And then you and Sirius ambled onto the pitch and he shut right up. It was hilarious to watch his face when you arrived in your kit."

"That sound pretty funny, I wish I had been there to watch." I replied while searching the notice board for Hogsmeade dates.

"Cynthia!" Someone shouted from the girl's stair case. "When are the first Hogsmeade dates?" Mary came strutting down the stairs.

"She wants to go with Sirius to the Halloween dance so need to get the best costume." Cynthia muttered under her breath.

"Cynthia, there you are." Mary called when she noticed us. "What are you doing with her?"

"I was just getting the dates Mary; I haven't talked to Alice or anything. The date is 15th October anyway." Cynthia replied looking down at her feet.

"Good that gives us plenty of time to pick the best outfit, come on I need to pick what to wear this weekend." Mary finished before spinning on her heel and strutting back upstairs.

"I'll see you later." Cynthia said sending an apologetic look at me before following Mary upstairs.

"Well she certainly likes to strut." Sandy said coming up beside me.

"You got that right." I responded. "Do you remember when we all used to be friends?"

"Yeah until she got jealous." Sandy said. "I got to go; I promised my brother I would help him doing his Transfiguration. I'll see you later."

"See you." I said as she left.

Back in first year we had all been friends, sharing clothes and secrets. It all started too changed late into second year. Mary had told us that she had a crush on James so when he started to hassle Lily with constant proposals and dates Mary relation with Lily was strained due to jealously. Then in third year when she had gone off James and her relationship with Lily was a little better but still a tad strained she told us she really liked Sirius. Unfortunately Sirius didn't want anything to do with her and whenever she asked him if he was free he would make up an excuse which continued into third year. She once asked him if he would go with her but he told her he was going with a friend. She had been fine with that knowing how close the boys were. However the friend he had been talking about had been me as Peter and James had detention and Remus was ill. When Mary saw us in the Three Broomstick she flipped her switch accusing me of betrayal and saying she would never speak to Lily or me again. She stopped talking to Sandy a little late when she had suggested that we all go down to Hogsmeade together. It is all very silly but Mary is one of those girls that thinks everything goes deeper than it really does and she is also very strong willed.


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