AN: SORRY FOR THE WAIT :/

When they finally got there James and Lily went to Zonko's, although it did take A LOT of persuading from James and ended up with Lily saying:

"Why do I even bother?" And with a cheesy grin James replied.

"Because you love me!" Lily just rolled her eyes and shook her head while letting herself be dragged away my James.

Peter just wandered around the shops aimlessly, with a rather suspicious look on his ratty face. Looking in shop windows and doing... whatever the hell it was he did in his free time apart from eat and sleep.

Natasha and Remus just looked at each other and smiled and then walked off towards the three broomsticks, leaving Anastasia and Sirius alone. The said pair decided to walk up to Honeydukes' sweet shop to stock up on chocolate and treats. Upon entering the shop Sirius turned around to Anastasia's lit up face and said

"Do you want anything?"

Anastasia shifted her weight onto the other foot and replied "Nope, I'm good thanks. But I do need some chocolate frogs for Natasha and Remus".

"Why Remus?" asked Sirius

"Oh, well it's the other part of Natasha's birthday present and chocolate frogs are an amazing bribing tool for Remus" Anastasia then winked. Sirius would know what she was on about. He always got Remus to do his homework for him.

Sirius' heart fluttered. On the way to the aisle with the chocolate frogs even in the happy atmosphere around them the tension was on the verge of unbearable. "So, ummm... What did you buy Natasha for her birthday?" asked Sirius, Merlin he had never been this nervous around a girl before; all he wanted to do was to make sure he did everything right.

Anastasia smiled "I got her some muggle clothes and now some chocolate frogs" she said while handing the money over "what about you?"

"I got her some pranking stuff from Zonko's and some sweets" he answered

"Cool" was all Anastasia said

"Let's go and meet up with Natasha and Remus in the three broomsticks" he suggested.

And with that the pair trudged through the snow, on their way to the three broomsticks.

When they got to the three broomsticks, they spotted Natasha and Remus sitting at the back doing a serious (A/N Look, see I resisted the temptation of the awful joke there! 8D) amount of snogging (American version – making out). Anastasia was the first one to reach the table and when she did she didn't even announce their presence, she just climbed over Natasha and sat herself in the middle of the couple.

Remus and Natasha sprang apart like someone had burnt them and stared at Anastasia, who did not at all seemed fazed by their looks, Sirius then pulled up a chair and sat down. Anastasia then turned to Remus and asked "Did we have any homework?"

"Yes" he replied "Herbology"

"Ships on the ocean" said Anastasia "Can you help me with it? PLEASE?" he said with puppy-dog eyes

"You want to copy off me don't you?" asked Remus

"Yes...but I can pay you" said Anastasia pulling three chocolate frogs out of her shopping bag

"Fine" sighed Remus snatching the frogs and staring at them like Gollum does with the ring; you could practically hear him saying in his mind 'My precious' over and over again. It was very disturbing.

Since Natasha and Sirius were locked in an intense whispered conversation, Anastasia picked up Natasha's butterbeer and started drinking it. Yummy.

"What did you do to him?" Sirius whisper- asked.

"Nothingggggggg," Natasha replied, also in a whisper, elongating the 'g'. Sirius gave her the look that he didn't believe her.

"Fine," she whispered, "I waited until he was alone and a way away from the castle, stunned him and then beat the crap out of him," she finished whispering.

"YOU DID WHAT?" Sirius shouted, forgetting that they were in the middle of The Three Broomsticks.

Anastasia and Remus looked over at them and Natasha sent Remus a pleading look, he realised that she needed him to distract Anastasia so he told her about the homework again; she listened to him and drank Natasha's Butterbeer once again. This time Natasha noticed.

"Hey, that's my drink!" she exclaimed.

"I know," Anastasia replied taking another swing of the bottle. Natasha huffed but returned to Sirius.

"Yes, I did do that but no one will ever know because Malfoy didn't see me, anyway how was Honeydukes?"

"Awkward," Sirius replied shorty, a sad look upon his face.

"Come on, it'll get better, we have my birthday party to come and with parties means getting people together, worked with James and Lily, it will work with you and Anastasia, you belong together," Natasha finished.

"Who do I belong with?" Anastasia asked, only hearing the last bit that Natasha had said.

"Err… you belong with… Ted?" Natasha replied, worried that Anastasia will click on to what was going on.

"You're right, me and Ted do belong together," Anastasia replied happily and took another swig of Natasha's drink, ignoring the 'hey' from Natasha.

After everyone had finished their drinks, the group left the Three Broomsticks and met up with Lily and James. Said person gave Sirius as look that meant 'we'll talk later; and get a plan going'.

When the carriage arrived outside of Hogwarts' the group all went to the Gryffindor common room and went their separate ways. ONLY after James and Lily had hugged and Remus and Natasha had snogged for a good 5 minutes.

"Dude, that not even normal... seriously don't you need to breathe like normal people?" asked Anastasia scrunching her nose up.

When they finally broke apart Anastasia and Sirius were doing their very long and very complicated handshake, you knew when it was finished because it ended with them both yelling "BAM!" This was actually very frightening to the unsuspecting students.

'At least the tension's gone' thought Natasha

Anastasia then walked up to James and high-fived him and said goodbye to Remus by giving him a knuckle bump. "I LOVE knuckle bumps" said Anastasia "they're actually reem"

"Reem?" asked Natasha

"Yeah, don't dis the reem...iness of it!" Anastasia said frowning at her choice of words and started muttering things like 'reemness' and 'reemology' trying to get the proper English version of it.

When the girls got upstairs, there was no one up there apart from Lily, Anastasia and Natasha. Natasha then turned to Anastasia and said "Alright, back to the animagus training; you were SO close last time you might actually get it!"

'OK' thought Anastasia 'I can do this' she sat on her bed and breathe deeply in through her nose and out through her mouth; she then began to clear her mind and focus it on going deep into an area of complete Zen and tranquillity, once she was there she breathed out and focused her mind on the first animal that she thought of. That's was usually your animagus form.

Anastasia heard Natasha and Lily gasp, so she opened her eyes only to find that instead of a human being she was now a beautiful golden coloured monkey; with a long tail and deep chocolate brown eyes. The body of her animagus was probably just under the length of a grown adults arm, not including her tail.

"Wow" said Lily "You are SO cute!" she then walked over and started stroking Anastasia.

Anastasia then crawled up Lily's arm and wrapped her hands loosely around her neck so she could swing, but still hold on. Lily then held Anastasia and rocked her from side to side, like you would a baby.

This was a whole new side of their friendship.

AN: Please review…. AND I HOPEN YOU LIKED IT! :D