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"Yeah, um…come in?" said Lily.
"Nuh-uh, come on. I know somewhere better to talk" replied Sirius
"Um, ok…where?" asked Lily.
"That's for me to know and you to find out" said Sirius mysteriously. At this Sirius grabbed her arm and pulled her down the stair-case and into the common room.
"Come on Lily, hurry up" he called as she casually walked beside him.
"Erm…what's the time Sirius?" She asked.
"Nine pm, why?"
"We can't go out. Its curfew at ten, and you can't tell me we will be back in an hour" said Lily
"Soooo…"
"I am not going out and getting caught, I haven't had a detention yet and I don't plan on getting one!"
"Ugh, you are such a worry wart!"
"Sirius, I am NOT leaving this common room, we will get caught"
"What if I said I had something that will stop us from being caught?" asked Sirius.
"Huh?"
"Wait right here" he replied. With that said, he ran upstairs to ask James if he could borrow the invisibility cloak.
"Prongs mate, can I borrow the cloak?" asked Sirius.
"What for?"
"Just talking Lily-flower down to the kitchens, I need a little chat with her"
At this James perked up actually listening. "Why?" he asked. What does he want with Lily he wondered.
"I'll explain when I get back, it's a long story"
"Um, OK Padfoot, but when you have finished call me on the mirror; I need to talk to her as well"
"Yeah sure thing prongs"
"Thanks"
"See-ya"'
"Ready to go?" asked Sirius throwing the cloak over them.
"Wow, an invisibility cloak"
"Yeah, come on, no time to marvel now" he said leading her out the common room and away to the mystery location.
"Oh, and Sirius?"
"Yes?"
"You do know I'm still angry with you don't you?" said lily sarcastically
"Oh yes, yes of course" he said playing along. They walked for ages, going past all sorts of paintings. Ones with knights ones with dragons, fairies, vampires, everything you could imagine.
It was taking forever to get there. Sirius is a marauder he must know some secret passage that will get us wherever we are going quicker than this thought Lily. But she never actually said anything.
When they past through the Great Hall Lily got very anxious as to where they were going and couldn't stand it anymore.
"Come on Sirius, where are we going?" she ordered
"Nearly there" is all he said in reply. They rounded a corner and headed down a small corridor and stopped in front of a painting.
"Err, a bowl of fruit?" said Lily confused A/N If you haven't guessed yet where they are going, then you aren't a very good Harry Potter fan
"God Lil' you haven't been here before?" asked Sirius amazed.
"Um, no" she stated simply. Sirius threw the cloak off them and folded it up. He then stepping forward towards the painting, when he started tickling the pear Lily thought he had gone insane, but when a door handle appeared she understood.
"Oh, a secret passage-way!" she exclaimed
"Um, I wouldn't exactly call it secret, most of the six and seven years in the school know its here, and some others. The marauders found it second year." He stated proudly. "Come on, get in"
When they stepped through a few dozen heads turned there way, elf heads.
"Master Black, here again so soon, welcome back sir!" squeaked an elf with a nose like a potato.
"Thank you Larry". Sirius replied
"Your welcome sir, but where are Master Potter, Master Lupin and Master Pettigrew?" A/N lying, cheating, scum of earth
"Oh, I'm not sure where the guys are. But I'm in the company of this lovely Lady here" he gestured Lily.
Lily felt her cheeks burn, and she new she had turned the colour of her hair.
"Hello Miss, what might your name be? That is, of coarse, if you don't mind me asking?" said Larry.
"Lily, Lily Evans"
"The Lily Evans?" enquired another elf who had been listening.
"Um, yeah, that's me" she said throwing Sirius a quizzical look. He just chuckled.
"Master Potter is always talking about you, you see" Stated Larry "Is it true you hate him as he says?" he asked.
"Well…I told I'm I did, but…"
She quickly glanced at Sirius, who was smirking
"But I have change my mind"
"Hmm, yes, wise decision, he talks about you non stop you know?" he continued "In fact, they all do, Mr. Lupin, Mr. Pettigrew, Mr. Potter and Mr. Black here too"
But before Larry could let out anymore Sirius's large hand was covering his mouth.
"Uh…shall we carry on than? Are you hungry?" asked Sirius.
"Yeah I guess" said Lily, looking from Sirius's hand to the elf then at Sirius again. He quickly realized what he was doing and dropped his hand.
Larry went scuttling off, who was quickly replaced by another elf asking them if they desired anything to eat.
"Ill have a coffee with two sugars, a pumpkin pasties and a large, triple fudge, chocolate chip, icing sugar coated brownie with walnuts throughout please Brenda." Does he know every elf here thought Lily before saying "just a cup of tea for me thanks"
"Lily! You disgust me!" exclaimed Sirius
"What?" asked Lily shocked.
"Tea is, is, it's disgusting, that's what" said Sirius "Tea drinking is very bad"
"But I've got a fake I.D though!" Exclaimed lily and then she cracked up laughing, unable to control herself. "Tea…HA!...disgusting…Hahaha….Sirius, you loon...Hahaha….muggle hip-hop…. Hahaha" she said between out burst of loud laughter. A/N There is a hip-hop song that says "Teen drinking is very bad, but I've got a fake I.D though" and I just couldn't resist"
Sirius just sat there looking shocked and confused. "Um…Lily, are you alright?"
"My stummy hurts!" she moaned, still laughing her head off.
"Your what?" asked Sirius chuckling.
"My stummy, it's a cross between a stomach and a tummy" she said, suddenly utterly serious.
"Okay and I thought me and James were crazy"
Then suddenly lily became her normal self again and said "James and I, Sirius, James and I"
"Yes mother" he muttered back.
When the food arrived Lily and Sirius were ready for there discussion.
"Um, so Lily, would you please remind me exactly what I did. Please?"
"Ok, well you're probably expecting some kind of prank but in this case you actually hurt me mentally"
Sirius looked confused
"Sirius, you broke my heart"
This just made Sirius look even more confused
"Um….Lily, did we even go out?" asked Sirius
"Huh, oh, no"
"Well then how did I break your heart?"
"When we met we were instantly friends, and we stayed friends until end of 1st year" she said "do you remember?"
"Yeah" said Sirius, looking back on fond memories.
Flash-Back
It was the first Quidditch match of the year, Slytherins vs. Gryffindor and Sirius and Lily sat watching excitedly.
"Foul, foul!" bellowed Sirius. "Did you see that Lily! They knocked Andrew right off his broom. On purpose!"
"Yes Sirius, it's quite hard to miss" she said while giggling.
The game carried on for hours and the two teams where constantly neck and neck. Then finally George Spinnet 'Gryffindor seeker' spotted the snitch.
He dived downwards. Zooming closer and closer to the golden ball. Everyone was on the edge of there seats waiting to see what would happen next. George's outstretched hand finally closed around the fidgeting ball and won the game for Gryffindor.
"We won, we won, we won!" squealed Lily, jumping up and down and hugging Sirius tightly.
"Oh yeah, we rule, we rule, uh-huh, uh-huh" he chanted.
End Flash-Back
"But how could our friendship break your heart?" asked Sirius.
"That's just it, towards the end I started to feel more than friend-ship, I tried to tell myself that you were just my best-friend. It was normal. But then I realized that I didn't think about snogging my other best friends all the time and decided that I had fallen hopelessly in love"
Sirius gasped and fell off his chair.
"Get up you dim-wit" said Lily laughing
"Still, I don't quite understand."
"Well after that year, you and James became closer and much more interested in girls, you started dating.
Well if that didn't hurt me enough you went and abandoned me too. I wasn't good enough to be your friend anymore, it broke me to pieces."
Flash Back
A Twelve year old Lily sat on her bed sobbing, looking at a picture.
It was Sirius and her. He was giving her a piggyback down by the lake, every now and then pretending to throw her in. It was snowing and the water would have been freezing. Why me? Why my friends? She thought I love him so much, why can't he see?
She grew angry resulting in the picture frame being thrown to the floor and repaired a few times.
As the years went on Lily eventually covered the picture of Sirius and her with one of her and the girls laughing, high on butter-beer in the three broomsticks.
End Flash Back
"Oh, I'm so sorry Lily, I didn't even realize what I was doing" he stepped forward and pulled her into a warm hug. Then he pulled away and held her at arms length.
"Friend?" he asked
"Always" said Lily
Meanwhile James Potter sat on his bed, anxiously awaiting Sirius to mirror call him. He needed to talk to Lily.
He felt bad about ignoring her. He hated not being close to her. But she hated him and he didn't want to annoy her with his presence any longer. But then, what Mooney had said did make sense to.
She did look sad lately. Maybe she misses me he thought. But before he could contemplate any further his mirror started vibrating.
"You there?" came Sirius deep voice "Prongs? Prongs?"
"Yep, so can I come down and talk to Lily?" asked James
"Yeah, I've finished. Can you bring the map though? I kinda need it to get back without the cloak"
"Without the cloak? Sirius you haven't lost it again, have you?"
"No, no, its just Lily won't leave without it because she doesn't want to get caught; jeez she is such a worry wart"
"Don't insult her!" snapped James
"Oh yeah, I forgot I was talking to her lover" Sirius said "So can you bring it?"
"Yep, sure, whatever"
"K, see-ya soon"
"Bye"
"Um, Sirius, why were you just talking to a mirror?"
"Marauder secret darling, Marauder secret" he replied.
"Ok, well what's happening? Are we going back now?"
"I am"
"Huh"
"James is coming down, you two need to talk?"
"No way" she attempting to reach for the door but Sirius stopped her.
"You don't want to get caught, do you?"
"Blackmail, no fair"
"Well I'm not Sirius Black for nothing darling" A/N (couldn't help myself, soz)
"Oh shut up"
"Well anyway, James is on his way now, there's no stopping him!"
Meanwhile: what am I going to say? James thought. Oh I'm sorry I ignored you, I actually still love you, even though you don't want to here that because you hate me and have probably been in bliss for the past two weeks.
"That's Terrible I can't say that" he said aloud.
This was his train of thought all the way down to the kitchens.
When he entered he saw Sirius and Lily sitting drinking tea and coffee and talking animatedly about how much of a fraud there divination teacher was.
"He cleared his throat "Um…hi, Padfoot, Lily"
"Ok, I will be leaving now, James, the map please"
James handed the map to Sirius, before slowly turning to Lily who was looking at him uncertainly.
"Hi Potter" She said, even more uncertainly than she looked.
Sirius was halfway out the door when he heard how pathetic they were and turned around.
"Oh you guys are so clueless!" he said. He then walked over to James; pushed him down into the seat he himself had been previously occupying and said to an elf:
"Two coffees for my pathetic friends please Doris' then he turned to Lily and said:
"And I don't care if you despise, you will drink all of it, it will give you an energy boost and you will find it easier to talk"
"I wasn't going to say anything" she mumbled. James chuckled; she offered him a small smile which came as a surprise to him. Then they just sat there staring at opposite walls.
"Must I start the conversation for you?" asked Sirius. Lily perked, and turned to Sirius with pleading eyes. James just nodded vigorously.
"Ugh, fine. I see that you, James have been ignoring Lily for the past two weeks, because Lily said she hates you. How do you both feel about this situation?"
"You didn't have to put it so bluntly" muttered James
"My work here is done" Sirius said completely ignoring James comment, then head out the door leaving the two alone
"Um… I don't hate you" said Lily, breaking the uncomfortable silence that had fallen
"You don't?" he asked
"Well, I thought I did, but I realized that I really don't"
James Smiled, he smiled so wide most of his face was just smile. His eyes twinkled and he looked truly happy for the first time in weeks.
"So, um…. Am I allowed to talk to you now?' he asked.
Lily laughed as if it were a joke but then saw that he was actually waiting for an answer "oh, um, yeah of course" she said awkwardly
Before he could stop himself he pulled her into a tight hug, he had missed her so much. Then he realized what he was doing and backed away quickly.
"Oh, um sorry" he mumbled, hoping he hadn't ruined it already.
She went red and replied "Potter….
To Be Continued…….
A/N so there's another chapter, I have had a lot of people read this story but only 2 reviews! pls people review if you want me to carry on!
Mad Over Mooney.
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