Chapter 3- The plan and freely given hugs

"Oh I'm so sorry, honey! I didn't mean to run into you like that!" James smiled down at her when he heard the footsteps behind him halt at his words. He put a hand out to her to help her up, sparing a glance behind her as he did so.

When Lily was standing she made a rash decision. She threw her arms around his neck and buried her face into his shoulder.

"Nicely done Potter, she's stopped in her tracks, glaring at you like you just grew an extra head and quite a few tails. Should I cast the illusion of us starting to snog or would that be going too far?" Mumbling so that James was the only one that could hear Lily took out her want and proceeded to flick it.

"Illugevestium snoggonius," she whispered after getting a nod from James letting her know that it was okay.

A trans parent blue bubble formed around them and to anyone out side the bubble it appeared as if James had just taken Lily's lips in what appeared to be a passionate, soul searching kiss.

Sirius chose that moment to exit the boy's bathroom right next to them.

Gaping at the sight before him, he glanced up and down the hall, seeing nobody but two very depressed people walking away, he ran towards the two people seemingly kissing. There seemed to be some sort of force field, and invisible barrier separating Sirius from them. He stepped back and charged it, hoping a bit of force would help him. He was stopped again, so he charged it again and again and again, but nothing worked. He was unaware that he had and audience until he heard some voices that sounded suspiciously like those of James and Lily who were still playing tonsil hockey!

"What a moron!"

"Be nice! 'SMACK'"

Hearing this Sirius stopped his mad charging and looked around quizzically. The people in the bubble were still snogging but that sounded a lot like their voices.

Lily cut off the spell and watched in amusement as Sirius took one look at them and fell over in dead faint.

"Sirius is so fun to confuse. It's hilarious to watch the turtle in his brain dieing." Lily giggled.

"what turtle? I like turtles, especially if they are filled with caramel." James looked around for some chocolate turtles.

"We better get him to the Gryffindor common room. I 've got an idea."

James heaved Sirius over his shoulder hoping to impress Lily with all his macho strength and all the carp. It was save to say it didn't work…

"So what's the plan?"

"Lindsay tends to come down to the common room every night lately, because she can't sleep. She loves to sit in that chair," Lily pointed to a high backed plush armchair, while speaking.

"I get it, so we get Sirius upstairs and we sit down here and duke it out with Lindsay when she comes down!"

"Now, we leave Sirius down here, go up stairs to grab that handy dandy invisibility cloak of yours…" Lily paused when James sputtered.

"What invisibility cloak? I don't have an invisibility cloak! Where would you get a silly little thought like that?" James was sweating like a pig trying to dissuade her.

"James don't even try to tell me that you don't have one because I know that that's how you and the other marauders get around when you're pulling pranks." Lily looked at him with a look that clearly said 'deny it and I hex you.'

Apparently he got the message because he stopped talking when he looked at her.

"So back to my plan, after we your invisibility cloak we sit down and wait. Lindsay will come down and hopefully they will talk, if they try to get away without talking, we have to stop them"

At that moment Lily heard a noise coming down the girls dormitory stairs. Sure enough Lindsay was coming down holding her favorite comfort book, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. If Lily knew her friend she knew that she would turn to chapter 23- the angel.

Lily heard a little intake of breath then Lindsay noticed Sirius laying, asleep in her favorite chair.

"Oh no, Sirius is here. Should I go read up in the dorm or just stay here? I don't know. Okay I'll just sit on the couch and read instead." Lindsay sat down and leaned back across the arm of the couch bringing her legs on the couch. Opening her book she skipped to the much dog eared page at the start of chapter 23. Her brow furrowing slightly as she read staring at her. Tears were prickling her eyes when she shut the book and moved to get up. When two warm thumbs wiped the tears from her eyes, they shot open to meet the grey eyes of the one person she hadn't been talking to as of late. Sirius was looking at her with concern.

"Are you okay?" The worry was evident in his voice.

"Yeah, the book I was reading is really sad. I've read it so many times but I still cry every time I read it."

Sirius lay his arm over her shoulders and allowed her to cuddle into his body. "Will you explain to me what happens in it? I want to know what's so sad."

"Okay, well the main characters name is Isabella Swan, but she doesn't like being called that, she prefers Bella, but anyways, she moves to a little town in Washington called Forks. She moves to Forks to live with her dad, Charlie, and to give her mom time alone with Phil, her new step dad. She's in grade 11 at Forks only high school and that's where she meets him, Edward Cullen. He's gorgeous beyond compare and really nice, but everybody seems to avoid him and his family as much as possible…"

"He's like me then, except for the other people avoiding him and all. People don't do that around me. Well… Except you." Sirius smile down at Lindsay and started talking, allowing her to continue.

"Well aren't you full of yourself, huh, Sirius?" Lindsay launched back into her description.

About five minutes later after she had described the rest of the book without and interruption from Sirius, Lindsay looked up when she felt a weight land on her head. A smile graced her face when she saw that Sirius had fallen asleep on top of her.

"He looks so cute when he sleeps," Lindsay thought as she leaned over, grabbed the blanket off of the back of the couch behind them. Throwing it over the two of them she lay her head back onto his shoulder and started dozing off, not hearing the almost silent footsteps walking away.

"Oh my gawd, they are too cute!" Lily squealed once she and James hit the base of the stairs leading up to the girls dormitory, "Wait, you actually stayed silent for over 10 minutes at a time… You didn't ruin the moment."

"I didn't want to put to waste everything that had happened, and Sirius should learn how to settle down with one girl. There is a little bit of a romantic in me after all."

"Thank you, Lindsay deserves to find somebody else who will stick by her side no matter what, after what happened this summer." Lily put her arms around James one last time before letting her lips graze his cheek with a kiss that was so light. Jamie wasn't even sure it happened. Taking one last look at the pair sleeping contentedly on the couch and a lingering look at James face. Lily pivoted and strode up the stairs.

James watched her with a little smile on his face before turning to walk to his dormitory.