I walked down the stairs with Lily the next morning and saw Sirius sitting on the couch holding his head. I'm sure he regretted drinking so much now. "Damn mate, you look bloody awful." James laughed. Sirius grumbled something unintelligent causing James to roll his eyes. "Come on. We need go get breakfast. Moony already made the potion for you." Apparently this happened more than I realized. Moony held out the hang over potion and Sirius took it greedily.

"So, what did your mom send you with croissant this time?" Lily asked as we headed for the door. "I really love those." My mom was famous for sending homemade French food with me. I loved French breakfast, so of course I always bring some with me from home.

"Yup, a whole bunch. I have the in a bag in my backpack." I told her as I pulled the out and showed her.

"Yeah!" Lily squealed as she took one and handed back the bag.

"What are those?" James asked as he eyed the bag over.

"They're French pastries, prongs." Sirius told him with a roll of his eyes. Sirius' eyes were still bloodshot, but he looked more awake. His hair was neatly combed, his tie hung loosely around his neck like always, and his shirt was untucked.

"Mmm." Lily said as she bit into the buttery pastry. "Can you adopt me?" Lily asked, causing me to laugh.

"Sorry, Lil. You'd have to speak fluent French to live with my family. We never speak English. You'd be lost." I stuffed the bag back into my backpack and put on my shoulder. "Now come on, I want to go and get some breakfast."

"But we have croissants. We don't need-

"Lily my mom isn't sending more until Christmas... did you see how many there were in the bag?" Lily pouted.

"Aw. That sucks. We have to actually conserve the food." I rolled my eyes, grabbed her hand, and started dragging her to the door.

"Yes, so suck it up."

"You should just give me the bag. You get to eat food like that all summer. It isn't fair." I glanced over at Lily.

"Lil, I don't eat food like this all summer because guess what it makes you fat. Do you want to have to buy new clothes?"

"You're a bitch." Lily pouted as she hit my arm. I just laughed.

"Yup, now come on I'm hungry." The two of us went out and headed down the stairs.

"What are you going to do about Sirius?" Lily asked as me as she glanced over her shoulder to make sure they weren't right there.

"Nothing."

"Nothing?"

"Nothing."

"But, what about last night?"

"He was drunk." I gave her a shrug and shifted my bag on my shoulder. "I'm going to do nothing until he tells me what he did when he isn't drunk." Lily just fell slightly as I moved my bag more. The only bad thing with having so many classes was that the books are sooo heavy. My shoulder felt ready to pop out of the socket.

"Here, let me." I almost jumped out of my skin as I heard Sirius' voice right behind me. I turned and looked up at him in surprise. James, Remus, and Peter were walking over to us, still a bit of a distance away. Lily had stopped and she too was looking at Sirius confused.

"What?" I asked.

"Let me carry your bag. You look ready to break." He said as he took the bag from me, without my permission may I add.

"Sirius I can carry my own bags." That was when I realized what I had just done. I called him Sirius. Lily's eyes widen as she looked at me. Sirius, who had taken my bag and was ready to carry it, froze in his place. He stared at me with shocked eyes. I didn't like the attention this was giving me. I never call him Sirius. This stupid veela thing was really getting to me. "What?" I asked trying to play dumb. "Cat got your tongue. I can carry my own bag, Black so go be a pack mule for your fan girls." I said icely as I took my bag from him, spun on my heels, and walked away.

Lily hurried after me. "Ellie, you just-

"I know."

"And he just-

"I know."

"And I was like-

"Lily!" I turned and looked at her. "I know okay. I know I just called him Sirius, I know I just confused the hell out of him, and I know I just surprised you. I know. I know. I don't like it okay. I don't like this stupid veela affect it's having on me. I don't like how all I want is for Sirius to just carry my bag for me, hold my hand, and tell me he loves me. Okay? I don't like this. I just... I just want it to go away." I didn't even realize I was crying until the tears fell from my face.

"Oh, Ellie." Lily pulled me into her arms, rubbing my back soothingly. "I'm sorry. I'm being insensitive. I don't know what you're going through. I'm not a veela. I'm sorry. I won't push you anymore. How we just go to breakfast and try to get back into the swing of things." She said as she pulled away and looked at me. I could only mutely nod as she wiped my tears from my face. "Come on. Let's go see if they have English muffins." I smile and followed after her, wiping the remaining tears from my face.

The two of us sat together, already on our second muffin when the guys came into the dining hall. Sirius' eyes met mine, but I merely looked away from him and over to Lily. "So, my family is having this Christmas party and wants me to come home for Christmas." I told Lily as I bit into my muffin.

"What? But we always spend Christmas together." Lily said, as she looked at me with sad eyes.

"You can always hang out with me, Lily flower. You don't have to be so sad." James as he sat down beside Lily. Sirius came and sat beside me and Lily shot me a look.

"Potter, leave her alone." I told him as I sipped my juice. "Not everyone wants to be with you. Not surprising judging with how the girls talk in the bathroom about how small you are." Lily almost choked on her water as she started laughing. James' face was painted red as Sirius started laughing. "You're not much better Black, I wouldn't be laughing if I were you. Who ever said Hufflepuffs are kind were far from right." Sirius looked at me in surprised as Lily was just a fit of laughter.

"What.. I... Huh..." James couldn't even spit out a sentence that made sense.

"Lily, can you pass me the butter?" Lily nod, still giggling, and handed me the butter. I started buttering my muffin more.

Remus walked in with Peter and looked towards James, then Sirius, to Lily, and finally me. "Did we miss something?" He asked. I grabbed my bag.

"Nope, just Black and Potter realizing they aren't as amazing as they think. You coming Lils? Let's leave these two to their slowly deflating heads." Lily giggled and nod as she grabbed her things.

"I love you."

"Again I know."