~Three*Days*Later~

I was sick. I don't know what happened; all I knew was that I was puking my guts out into the trash bin every few moments, making it rather difficult to go anywhere. Lily kept muttering what hexes or potions it could be, emptying the bin with her wand whenever I wasn't throwing up long enough for her to. I chocked it up to a stomach bug.

"Just let me go get the nurse…" she muttered, leaving me curled up in a ball on my bed.

It seemed like an eternity before I was being levitated out of my bed, the trashcan underneath me. Somebody charmed my long blue-black hair into a neat bun to keep me from getting whatever was left in my stomach all in it. I think I blacked out or something a few times, because next thing I knew, I was curled up in a hospital wing bed.

The nurse came in and checked on me several times, telling me I'd had a bad reaction to some potion, possibly slipped into my food. She gave me some foul smelling stuff to drink to reverse the effect of whatever the potion did to me, and let me sleep it off the rest of the day.

I returned to the Gryffindor common room that night, kicked off my shoes and collapsed on a couch, and almost fell asleep again. That is, until James sat on my stomach and Sirius started tickling my feet.

"For the love of…" I groaned, twisting. Remus was standing up from his chair, like he was about to assist, while Peter was useless – like usual – when I said, "Get off me or I'll throw up on the two of you…"

James jumped up and Sirius rocked back on his heels. Lily came over and pushed them both to the side. She pulled me into a tight hug going on about how she thought I was going to die I was puking so much and that someone had poisoned me and blah blah blah… I was more concerned about the fact I couldn't breathe at the moment.

"Lily… Smothering… Oomf…"

"Oh, sorry, sorry…" She let me go and I sat back.

Lily looked at me with concern. "Did the nurse say what happened?"

I nodded. "Somebody put a potion in my food and I had an allergic reaction… or something like that."

I saw James and Sirius glance at each other while Remus watched them suspiciously. Lily didn't notice, and Peter just fidgeted slightly, like normal.

'Weird…'

~Two*Days*Later~

"No… Lily please… Don't make me go… Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease…"

"May, you're making a fool of yourself. Get. Up."

"But… But… Lily!!!" I whined, clinging to the end of her cloak. She continued to try to drag me to the door, since I was lying on the ground.

She sighed. "May. Your underwear is showing again."

I looked down and indeed, my skirt had come up enough to show the edge of my blue plaid undies. My face turning red, I let go of Lily's cloak and stood up, smoothing down the skirt of my uniform. While I wasn't paying attention, she grabbed my bag and wand, and ran out the door of the Gryffindor common room into the hall.

"May! Come on girl, come get your wand!!!" Lily made clicking noises with her tongue, like I was a dog. I grinned and chased her.

"GOTCHA!!!" I yelled, tackling her. I screamed as we fell against the railing of a stair case, almost tumbling down over it. It was a long drop since…

"Dammit, Lily!!!" I whimpered as a backed from the railing and sat in the middle of the stairs. She had led me almost all the way up to the top of the Astrology tower.

"C'mon, I know you don't like it, but we have to get to class…"

Groaning, I stood up and immediately closed my eyes. Lily took my arm and led me the rest of the way up. A few minutes later, I felt a cool breeze on my face. I heard Lily tell me to look up, not down. I did, and opened my eyes, taking in the sight of stars and constellations.

It was beautiful, and for a minute I was calm.

Then, I looked down.

"Shit, shit, shit… Holy fucking shit, I'm gonna die!" I screeched.

I felt several pairs of hands wrap around my arms, and one even around my waist. Surprised, I fell back against someone who tumbled with me into a wall. The person slid down the wall, to where I was sitting in their lap with their arms still around me.

"Hey there Jewels," a familiar voice said softly in my ear. I jumped when Sirius started to move around.

A half eaten chocolate bar appeared in front of my face. "Here," he said.

Shaking, I stood up, gripping the sleeve of his cloak tightly. I took the chocolate bar. "I thought chocolate helped with dementors, not ridiculous fears of heights…?"

The boy shrugged as Lily came over and guided me away from Sirius and to my telescope. She tied a thin looking ribbon around my wrist toand attatched it to a ring in the wall. I looked at it questioningly.

"It's spelled so if you start to fall, it'll pull you back up the wall," Lily said, messing with some knobs on her telescope. "So you'll be fine. Do your star map, I'm not letting you copy."

I smiled slightly and bit into the chocolate Sirius had given me while looking into the telescope. It was dark chocolate, it tasted like, with some sweet stuff in the middle. It tasted kind of like cherries, but it was almost too sweet.

Shrugging, I took another bite. Sirius had been right; the chocolate did help.