I Own nothing but Xeomara.

Chapter Nine- The Date, and After.

-Sirius's POV-

The rest of the week went by quickly. None of us mentioned Zee's parent and she didn't bring them up either. People finally got over the drama of Zee's face. There were some many every changing rumors of how she got it but it always came down to one thing, Xeomara saving James. James was still sulking worse than ever. Even the ideas of pranks were making him feel better. Moony too, was a little on the down side. Zee did whatever she could to make them feel better, but to no avail it wasn't working. I suppose they just need time. I hope they get back to normal soon, I think they're making Zee feel even worse.

Lily was joining us at the table now and in the common room, sometimes her friends would come sit with us but she usually just came by herself. Her and James were getting on quite well now. I was happy to see that my bestfriend was able to talk to her without fighting. He wanted that more than anything else these last five years. Zee was also happy that they were getting along which meant she could spend time with all of us at one time, without feeling guilty about spending more time with us then she did with her.

Friday night we were sitting in the dorm, Zee was in her own dorm saying she needed girl time, which is ridiculous if you ask me. Since when has Zee liked girl time? I'm sure Lily probably put her up to it. James was looking at the map when suddenly he said "Seventh floor corridor, let's go!" We just stared at him.

"Uh, for what Prongs?" Remus asked the question we were all thinking.

"Zee's date, that damn prat is there! We haven't asked his intentions yet and they're going out tomorrow!" With that being said we all jumped up and raced out of the common room. We made our way quickly to the seventh floor. Where we spotted him.

"Oi! Johnson!" I yelled. He turned and faced us and looked a little nervous. He walked slowly to us and when he finally reached us he said "Oh hello, how's it going?"

"Just lovely." Remus murmured. I just laughed.

James just got right to the point, "What are you intentions with Xeomara?"

"My-My what?" He stammered out.

"Your intentions." That's when I heard a "Hey!" screamed down the hall way. I turned towards the voice and audibly groaned when I saw Zee. She reached us then and was glaring daggers at all of us.

"You." She said pointing at Johnson, "Do not need to answer that. Move along, I'll see you tomorrow." He walked away with a nod and she rounded on us. "And yous!" She said her little finger jabbing in the air. "Please, please stop interrogating my dates. I love you all to pieces but I can take care of myself you know. I've kept up with you guys all for five years, and James all my life. I can definitely take care of myself. But if he does something stupid, I give all permission to hex him, got it?" she added on smiling. She could never stay mad at us.

"Oh, I guess you're right." Moony said, always giving in first. "But how did you know we were up here" Peter added on.

"Oh you silly, silly boys." She said laughing. "Did you honestly think I wanted girl time? Lily put me up to it!" I laughed to myself when she said this. Boy did I know her to well. "I went to your dorm when I finally got away, and saw this," she held up the map. "Opened, and saw you guys cornering Tim. So naturally, I had to come. I couldn't let you ruin his gorgeous face." James groaned and I scowled.

"Gorgeous! Ha! We are all a lot better looking than him." James grumbled.

"Of course, you are Jimmy." She said smiling. "Now let's go shall we?"

I woke up the next morning to flower's screaming voice coming from the common room. I sat up and saw that I was alone in the dorm. I quickly got dressed for the day and headed down the stairs. Lily was standing at the bottom of the girl's steps with James, Remus and Peter behind her.

"XEOMARA ELIZABETH RAES GET YOUR ARSE DOWN HERE!" flower screamed.

I walked up behind them and said "What's going on?"

Lily answered "ZEE!" she screamed loudly. "Thinks she looks hideous, she said she refuses to go on her date! Which is absolutely ridiculous." My eyes widened and I looked to Remus, she said that with him here? "It's okay, I always had a hard time coming down with my scars Sirius, I don't feel bad anymore. It wasn't my fault." I was surprised to hear Rem say that. I guess Zee finally made him understand.

"ZEEEEEEEEE!" I screamed. "Get your beautiful self down here right now! Don't make me come up there!" I yelled to her.

"Shut up Sirius Black! I don't need your sarcasm!" She yelled back. James laughed.

"She's really going to make me go up there." I muttered. "James cover flowers eyes so I can get up there." Lily made a sound of protest and James covered her eyes. I pointed my wand at the staircase "soliduim." I said in my head. Only nonverbal spell I could do yet. I put one foot cautiously and the bottom step. When it stayed I ran up the stairs to her dorm. "You can uncover her eyes now!" I said to James.

"Sirius Black! You little sneak!" Lily yelled to me. I just laughed and burst through the door. Zee was staring at herself in the mirror, she kept touching her scar making little faces of disgust. I heard her muttering something about what would my mother say to this. I shook my head and walked quietly over and stood behind her. She looked shocked to see me there behind her. I guess she didn't hear the door open I thought. I placed my hands on her shoulders and sighed.

"Zee, love. Now what is the problem." I said softly. She narrowed her eyes.

"I can't go down there! Look at my face! Did you see what Lily picked out for me to wear? I mean sure the uniforms okay because you can't see how the scar goes all the way down to my shoulders. But no, Lily has to pick this low cut white shirt!" I had an image of Zee in my head with a low cut shirt. I shook my head quickly.

"Zee, he still wants to go with you. He told you that himself, you can't just not go. This isn't like you at all. If he says anything about your face I'll hex him, alright. And even if he does don't worry we all think your still beautiful."

"Oh yes, my bestfriends think I'm beautiful. You guys have to think that!" I laughed and shook my head.

"No we don't, now I want you to get dressed and be downstairs in five minutes. Okay?"

"Fine." I leaned forward and kissed her scared cheek. And walked swiftly from the room and down the stairs.

"She's coming." I told Lily.

"How did you- how did you-"I placed my fingers on her lips and smiled.

"Secret flower." We moved away from the stairs and sat on the couches. I smiled as James and Lily sat next to each other.

"Do you know too James? And Remus and Peter?" The all just smiled innocently and she sighed.

"Are you joining us today flower? I asked.

"Of course who else would I go with. My friends all have dates." She finished sourly.

"You didn't get asked?" James said shocked. I myself was a little shocked Lily, was gorgeous with her long fiery red hair, and her bright green eyes. Any guy would be an idiot not to think she's beautiful.

"Oh, no I did. I just said I didn't want to go with them." James faced looked confused and Remus opened his mouth most likely to ask why but then Zee bounced down the stairs. She had her long hair down and curly like always. Little to no makeup on. She was wearing tight jeans with black converse and a low cut white tee shirt. She looked plain but beautiful. She always looked that way. I smiled at her as she walked over to us with a frown on her face.

"Happy?" she asked us.

"Yes." All of us replied and then we laughed. James stood up and pulled Lily up with him. The rest of us stood as well and began making our way down to the Entrance to leave. Once we got there Tim spotted us and walked over. Zee straightened herself up as he walked over. "Well, don't you look beautiful." He drawled.

"Thank you." She said confidently. She sure could hide her emotions well, just a minute ago she was frowning. He held out his hand and she took it. Turning to face us she said "Bye, I'll meet you all later. Come find me!" I scowled as they walked away, surprising myself I never really cared about her dates. Well unless one hurt her, or was a complete prick. Lily sighed dreamily.

"What?" I asked her rudely. She looked taken aback by the tone of my voice but still put a secretive smile on her face.

"Nothing." She said quickly. Then laughed. We made our way to Hogsmeade. Stopping in all the stores but staying the longest in Zonko's. I was quite surprised to find Lily to be quite the little jokester. She wasn't as stuck up as everyone thought. At around three we headed over to ThreeBroomsticks. Where we spotted Zee and Tim. She was laughing when we walked in. I scowled harder.

-Xeomara's POV-

I was laughing at something Tim said we I heard the door chime. I turned to look at saw my friends coming in. Sirius scowled as he saw us. I thought it over quickly in my head but couldn't come up with why so I waved to them. I saw lily whisper something to them, they waved back but sat at a different table, one all the way in the other corner.

"Your friends aren't sitting with us." He stated more than asked. I turned my attention back to Tim.

"Hmm, I guess not. If it was up to them yes, but Lils probably told them to leave us alone."

"Good." He said simply. I raised my eye brow.

"Do you not like my friends?" I asked sharply.

"No its not- not that. It's just-"

"Well good because if you get me, you get them. We're sort of a packaged deal."

He nodded grimly. "You guys are really close aren't yous?" I noticed he once again quickly looked at my scar and back up again.

"They're my family."

"Ready to get out of here?" I nodded. He put the money on the table and took my hand. Right before we walked out the door I turned to my friends and winked.

"Want to go to the Shrieking Shack? It's supposed to be the most haunted building in England." I laughed to myself, thinking just how haunted it was. He didn't seem to recognize the smile on my face because he was too busy staring at my scar again.

"Sure." He brought his glaze up back to my eyes and smiled. We got there and sat at a bench right in front of it. Neither of us spoke, we just sat there enjoying the silence. Next thing I knew we were kissing. I returned the kiss back and it started to get deeper. Which was weird because I knew I never kissed like this on a first date but I let the thought go to the back of my mind as we continued to kiss. His lips were soft on mine. His lips broke off of mine and started traveling down towards my neck, when he suddenly stopped. I made a note in my head that he was kissing my scared side, but that was yet again another thought it pushed to the back of my head.

"What?" I asked him, breathing heavy.

"Sorry, but I think we should get back." He said also breathing a little heavy. I nodded a little disappointed. He was a good kisser.

After we agreed to have a study date on Monday, and I have him a soft kiss goodbye I made my way to the tower. When I reached the common room, I didn't see my friends anywhere. Instead of heading to my dorm I made my way up to the boys'. I pushed open the door and found them all sitting on their beds talk, Lily on the floor. I smiled to myself. Lily finally forgave James.

Lily then saw me in the door way. "Zee! Hey, how was your date." She asked as I walked and sat next to Sirius on his bed. I laid on my stomach next to him.

"It was pretty good."

"Oh come on Zee, you can do better than that! What happened, where did you go? Did you snog?" I felt Sirius tense next to me as she said snog. I looked at him and smiled and he smiled back, his body relaxing a bit. I changed the subject.

"Heyy guys, how was your day!" I said brightly.

"Don't change the subject Zee, We want to hear all about your date." Peter said. The boys and lils nodded. I sighed loudly.

"Well, he is very funny if you must know, not in the least as funny as you guys but still. He made me laugh a lot and he was nice. I'm not sure what else I can tell you. Uh we agreed to go on a study date Monday." Sirius snorted.

"You, study?"

"I think it's good she wants to study" Remus said quietly.

"Ha, yeah right, she just agreed because she wanted to go on another date with him. Right, Zee?" James asked.

"Boy, Jimmy. You know me all too well." He laughed, Remmie sighed. "Well did you kiss?" he asked sharply.

"Yes! And it was bloody amazing. He was definitely an eight!" I said referring to the numbers we always rate our snogs on. Sirius tensed again and I could feel his eyes on me. Realizing what I just said, I turned slightly pink and put my head in my hands.

"An eight? Oh please do not tell me you guys rate your snogs." Lily snorted.

"Of course we do flower, your kiss was a perfect ten." James said. I laughed taking my head out of my hands remembering when James kissed Lily last year during Christmas time under the mistletoe he placed at the common room entrance.

"Oh please James, That kissed last ten seconds if anything and besides I didn't even want to kiss you. Just imagine how good it would be if I had wanted to." She teased and then winked at him. I looked at Sirius and his eyes met mine, to say we were both shocked was an understatement.

"Think you're willing to show me?" James asked with a wink of his own. I stifled a laugh and I heard Peter turning his laugh into a cough.

"We'll see, Potter. We'll see." She said smoothly. "Well I'm off. Staying here Zee?"

"Yes I probably won't be back tonight. See you in the morning." She smiled at me and left.

"Whoa, Jamesie boy! Did you hear that, lily flower was flirting with you!" I exclaimed. "By this time next month, you'll be snogging each other senseless."

"Speaking of snogging. You really kissed that prat?" he asked. Sirius sighed and rolled over on his back. I looked at him for a moment wondering what was wrong. Then looked back to James.

"Yeah." Then I changed the subject again. This time to quidditch. "When's the try outs again" I asked.

"This up coming Wednesday." Sirius said. "Not that we really need to try out. Wood told us that we already had a spot on the team. He told us to tell you that as well. Really were just looking for a new seeker." We continued talking about quidditch and how we were taking the cup this year. I looked at the clock next to the bed and saw that it was nearing 12. I told them so and we all got up to get changed. I grabbed a pair of boxers and a tee shirt from Sirius's trunk and went to the bathroom to get changed. After putting my hair curls in a bun and brushing my teeth with an extra tooth brush I had in there. I walked back in the room and saw that they were already ready in bed, with the lights shut out. I chuckled softly and walked over to Sirius's bed pushing him over.

"I'm sleeping with you tonight." I told him. He lifted the blankets up so I could get in and placed them back over us. I rolled over and curled up next to his side. I heard him sigh and the next thing I heard was his snores. I smiled to myself suddenly feeling very comfortable, closing my eyes I fell quickly asleep.