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Sirius was busy that morning pondering on whether or not Lily would tell Jane about him liking her, he was so paranoid he ended waking up every hour on the hour expecting to hear laughter from the girls room, by seven o'clock he had had enough of trying to sleep and so just went down to the common room.

He thought about ways to tell her on the way downstairs but was brought out of his musings by a person talking to him, when he actually was listening he thought the voice sounded very familiar to him.

"Sirius?" A worried voice asked the boy. "Are you sleep-walking? Or are you thinking?" The voice asked again, this time Sirius realised it was Jane and as soon as he worked that out he ran back upstairs as fast as possible and then crept into the boy's dormitory after doing that he then snuck back into his bed and pulled the covers up over his head.

He decided this was going to be the worst end to a weekend ever, and it was only the third day of term, how could he have been so foolish to think that he would be able to face her even after the long summer break, he had no idea that Jane was sitting downstairs nonplussed at what had just happened, she had never seen him act that way and decided to find out what had happened, she followed him upstairs and managed to sneak into the room before he closed the door.

"I need to talk to you, Sirius." The covers were pulled away from his head by Jane and she then sat down on the edge of the bed near him.

"About what?" Sirius was worried that Lily had told Jane about his feelings for her.

"About why you ran out of the common room like that, I've never seen you like this in all of the five years I've known you. What's wrong, that's what I want to know."

"Nothing, I'm fine Jane, why wouldn't I be?" Sirius wanted this conversation to end before anything bad could happen.

"Are you sure? Because I would be willing to help you if you had any problems, all you have to do is ask."

"Seriously Jane, I'm fine, but I'll bear that in mind, thanks for the offer it was really kind."

"Right, now that's sorted do you want to come back downstairs? Because I mean you're already awake and now that there's no problems between us I just thought it would be better for me to have some company."

"Yeah, sure why not, I have homework to do anyway and if I do it now it means I get more free time later."

"Just make sure Lily doesn't catch you saying that or she'll help you study, because she's getting her grades fine and she wants to offer her services to any NEWT level students that are struggling, she's even threatened to start a study club and force everyone struggling with their studies to come."



"Well then, I'm steering clear of Lily till the exams finish." Sirius joked while checking his essay for Professor Binns.

"How are your studies going?" Jane asked

"They're fine thanks, how are yours?"

"It's going well, thanks."

"What are you doing for lunch, Jane?" Sirius asked with a plan in mind.

"Ummm, well I was planning on sitting with Lily and that, why? Do you want me to sit with you?" Jane was furious for not offering to sit with him before.

"No. uhh well sort of I mean I was wondering if you would come and... No, it's stupid. Forget I said anything," Sirius could have sworn he felt himself going red.

"No, tell me Sirius, I want to know what you had in mind." Jane was wondering what he had meant to say before he stopped himself.

"Well I was going to suggest we eat lunch out in the grounds by the lake, just the two of us. I mean you don't have to I just thought it would be nice to enjoy the summer while it was still here."

"Sure, why not, Lily won't mind if I skip lunch, especially if I say I'm with you." Jane was enthusiastic now.

"Please don't say you're with me, Lily will laugh at my technique."

"What technique?" Jane was extremely perplexed at that.

"Well she might see this as me trying to ask you out, as she seems to think I have strong feelings for you," Sirius let out a small nervous laugh at this to show he didn't but it wasn't very convincing to him.

"Oh, ok I won't tell her who I'm with. I suppose it'll save me from ten million questions from her when I get back."

"Great, so I'll meet you by the lake then, around half twelve ok?" Sirius was ecstatic; his plan seemed to have worked without a hitch. That was until.

"Hah! Shame Sirius, I know about who she's meeting at the lake already, now at least, but still hah!" Lily came into the common room with a triumphant grin on her face; "I will also want details from you Jane when you get back."

Sirius buried his head in his face. Why is it that this one plan, out of all the ones I have done, had to go wrong at the last moment, why?!

"I was wondering when you would pluck the courage up to do it, I had a good laugh earlier when you saw her and then legged it back up the stairs, I've never seen you move so fast, with the exception of yesterday of course but oh man that was hilarious."



"What are you going on about Lily? Sirius is just friends with me," Jane was confused. She knew that Sirius thought Lily was reading too much into his awkwardness around her but she knew Sirius too well, he was a player, she would probably be just another notch in his bedpost.

"Right of course, I'm sure you want more from this friendship don't you Sirius?"

"Bloody hell Lily, drop it!" Sirius growled in her direction.

"Uhh, Sirius I think I'm gonna leave the picnic if you don't mind." Jane was panicking now, she had been right.

"Awww Sirius, your love interest just rejected you, how do you feel?"

"Butt out, Lily... unless you want a more fetching pair of pyjamas, and I'll make it permanent this time." Sirius' blood was boiling now

"Wait, hang on, you love me? I thought you were just trying to get me into bed with you," Jane laughed with relief.

"No, I do love you, Lily guessed right," Sirius was miserable now, he had his fair share of girls it was true but it was easy for him to be around the ones he had, Jane, she was different, he felt awkward around her, he couldn't explain it but she was different to him than the rest.

"Well then I will come on the picnic then, it'll be fun, and it looks like we'll have nice weather for it as well." Jane was happy now, ecstatic in fact.

"Cool. Remember, meet me by the lake at half past twelve," Sirius had perked up a bit now

"Ok, see you then. Bye for now Sirius," Jane smiled and walked out of the common room, Lily trailed after her.

Sirius had unknowingly stood up, so he sat himself back down and smiled to himself.

He then heard the pad of feet and recognised the footfalls as Remus' he hastily put the homework that was on the table away in his bag and sat with his legs up resting his feet on the table, his favoured lounging position, he mostly used it when he was happy, which led to Remus' comment "What's put you in such a fine mood Pad, you aren't much of a morning person, did you put the tally up to thirty or something?"

"Nope, I scored a date with your sister. I promise I will not use her, it's different this time mate, you've seen how I am with her, I swear it is, just give me a chance to prove myself," Sirius pleaded.

"I hope this goes well, for her sake I haven't seen her happy in ages, that's all I want, it'd be pretty good to have you as a half brother, better than Snape or Worm."

"Ugh don't mention marriage yet Moony. It's only our first date and why would Snivellus be a contender for your sister's hand anyway; she thinks he's a creep."

"True and congratulations mate I'm happy for you and my sister, shame the tally ends at twenty nine, it puts you in second place though, Prongs got his to thirty one last night, I'm surprised you 

managed to sleep at all last night, he was going at it till about 11 o'clock. He really is competitive isn't he?"

"Ha-ha, he was faking it, well I mean he was making his racket but he just used a spell to get the woman's voice, couldn't you hear the slight accent in the voice, no one sounds like that in our year, so it's a draw." This put Sirius in a better mood than before.

"Come again?" "Your tally stood at twenty nine at last count, don't tell me you bumped it up last night?"

"Yep, I'm more discreet than James could ever be, and I just timed her in with James, he has a deeper voice so he just drowned her out for me, I'd better thank him when he gets up." Sirius had a massive grin on his face

"Oh, he's going to be so depressed now, but I don't care." Remus had a grin on his face as well.

A minute later James walked into the common room, he saw Sirius and Remus change their facial expressions to one of polite boredom, he asked them "What's so funny?"

"Oh, nothing, did you have a nice night prongs?" Sirius asked

"Didn't you hear?" He asked puzzled

"Oh yes I heard, I heard you fake it." Sirius had his massive grin back on his face

"I did not fake it" James said calmly

"You did, no one has a foreign tinge to their accent here, at least not in this year, and we said we would keep it in this year, so we draw." Sirius was proud he had kept a draw with his friend, not many people could boast they had even managed to do that against James.

"You didn't, because even now my tally stands at thirty, one more than you at last count."

"Ah, but I had one last night, thanks to your racket I was able to stay unnoticed, so we have a draw." Sirius' grin spread even wider as he saw James turned depressed.

"And even better than that I scored a date with Jane, moony doesn't mind, he's actually pleased, because it was either me, Snivellus or Worm." Sirius started to laugh at the fact that Worm was still hopeful at having a shot at Jane.

"Best break it to them gently though pad, eh, I mean Snivelly's fragile as it is at the moment and Worm will be devastated," stated James.

"I suppose, I have to get ready now, but first breakfast," Sirius added the comment about breakfast because his stomach had just growled.

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A/N: hope you like the chapter, please tell me if you did by reviewing, I was also thinking about posting a karaoke night at one point in the story, I would also like opinions about that in the form of a review. If the idea was approved there would be a wide variety of songs so that all audiences are happy.

I would also like to dedicate this to Ellie my patient friend who puts up with me and proof read this chapter for me.