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The Halloween Feast was great, as usual, and The Marauders gave us all a treat with their costumes. Okay, now guess what they came as.
Girls. Yes, they all dressed up as 'lovely' women. Sirius in Rose's old uniform, James in Lily's, Remus in mine(And looking quite cramped, to be honest), and Peter's stolen from the laundry. We suspected it belonged to a particularly heavy fifth year girl.

Tom had been scared out of his wits when he poked his head out of my school bag, abd came face-to-face with a levitating jack-o-lantern. He had taken to going everywhere with me, hiding in my large duffle. I didn't minf much, but my teachers had some protests. They didn't much like it when he snuck out of it and wandered about the classroom, brushing against legs and knocking over ink pots. But he hated being left alone, and seemed to be frightened of everything. Lily and I blamed this on the trauma of being sent to my by owl post.

Back to the feast. Well, we're were all laughing, having a jolly good time, and Sirius curtsying everytime he got the chance too. I think my outburst a couple of nights ago had cause at least a bit of a change in him. Because even though he ended it with Maryanne, he had not yet been seen snogging since. I was quite proud. To say the least, not seeing the guy I'd been helplessly swooning over since my first year snogging some other girl constantly for the first time since... what, fourth year? Well, the whole thing had me in a very good mood. Though, everyone else simply assumed it was Tom's doing and worshipped him for it.
He appeared to be going down the same spoiled-rotten road as Moosey.

For my costume, I have changed myself to the furthest extent that I could, sprouting orange hair on my face, cat eyes, ears, and an orange and white striped tail. When the others asked me what exactly I was supposed to be, I just shrugged and said 'I'm confused'.
Lily, on the other hand, had donned James' Quidditch robes, telling everyone that, though she had not a clue exactly how the game worked, she played it wonderfully.
Rose and Alce hadn't dressed up at all, though they did take great pleasure in telling anyone who asked that Alice was dressed as Rose, and Rose was dressed as Alice. Since they were both wearing school uniforms.

So, I was chomping happily on a hunk of choclate, while watching Sirius mock-flirt with Jamed and Remus, batting his eye-lashes and puffing out his chest, while twirling a lock of hair around a finger and telling James how amazing a Quidditch player he was, and how the game simply facinated him. Peter was giggling furiously at it, he too eating and watching the comical scene the three made.
To be honest, all three of them looked ridiculous, and James was the only one who at least fit semi-well into the unniform, though the sleeves where too short and tight.Remus looked the worst, because he was hearing mine. And, of course, it was about fifteen sizes too small. So small, in fact taht he could hardly move.

Sirius turned away from James and Remus, grinning at me. "So, tell me how pretty I look."

I laughed, "Oh, absolutely stunning. You should make the change permanent."

Rose put an eager face on and pointed her wand jokingly at Sirius' lower regions, "Oh! Can I do the honors?" We all laughed at that, though Sirius looked considerably paler.

Tom was sitting on my lap, extremely content aftfer walking the length of the gryffindor table, recieving scraps of food from everyone. Yup. He was definately going down the same road as Moosey. I suppose I'm destined to have all fat-cats. Though, I'll admit that Tom gets a considerably larger ammount of exercize than Moosey did. I want his life to be a long one.

I stroked my cat, and watched everyone laughing and talking. Life was good, I decided, contrary to the very different decision I'd come up with back in first year. Soon, Nearly Headless Nick was doing the epic reinactment of his death, only the first and second years seemed to be amazed by it, after seeing it a couple of times it looses its appeal.

For the sake of being polite, I waited until Nick was finsihed and I had how great it was this year, to announce that I was retiring to bed.

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"I'm going to bed." Rissa yawned, the cat ears pking out from her orange hair twitched slightly. It was wierd for me to see her coated in the orange fur, She stood up and stretched, having moved Tom off of her lap. Okay, I'll admit, It was a pretty flattering angle for her. I got a good look.
Merlin's pants, I didn't just think that. I didn't.
I mentally smacked myself. This is Rissa. I don't look at Rissa that way. She was a friend. A very good friend. Not to mention James' cousin. Thinking about her that way was a big no-no. A huge no-no. I can't look at her like that.
But I mean, she was pretty. And I can't deny that every once in a while I wonder if she's a good snogger, or what if would be like to snog her. I'd even considered actually doing it. But...

It was completely wrong.

If James found out...
How would James find out? A little voice in the back of my head whispered.
James would know something was up. He'd ask. And I don't lie to James. At all. I'm alot of things, but I don't betray my friends trust like that.

Rissa was completely off limits.

So I just waved at her, and ate a bit of pudding. I had alot to thik about now. Sure I'd considered Rissa before, but I'm never actually... I just considered every girl, you know? I'd never actually checked her out before. I like spending time with her too much. Maybe I'd not let on, but I was pretty upset about our row the other night as well. I didn't cry, or anything, but I did nearly rip the bed hangings off my bed.

The feast had lost most of its appeal with the departure of Rissa. And the damn skirt was just about as uncomfortable as humanely possible. I honestly don't know how girls can stand them. I know for sure that I couldn't wear them all of the time. I tapped the side of my pudding bowl, before pushing the bowl away from me. "I'm beat." I said bluntly, standing up from the table, waving to everyone, and left.

I emerged from the Great Hall just as Rissa came out of the girl's privy a bit further down the hall. She was back to normal, it was down, so I assumed that was what she'd been attending to back in the bathroom. "Oi! Rissa!" I yelled waving as I ran to catch up with her. Damn. Skirts made running a hell of alot harder.

She was laughing at me, trying and failing to stop as I skidded to a stop at her side. I glared at her, and she managed to gain control of herself, "You know, that you look absolutely ridiculous, don't you?" She asked me, her eyebrows raised to disappear under her bangs.

I tried to look offended, "What? You said that I looked stunning!" I made my voice as high-pitched and girly as possible.

She laughed and started to walk off in the direction of Gryffindor Tower. "I guess you don't just look ridiculous then." She called over her shoulder. Already she was pulling her hair back into it's usual pony-tail. Today had been the first day I'd seen her with it down. And I had to admit, it looked good that way.

"Riss, wait! Don't put it up!" I grabbed her wrist to stop her. I felt somethng like static tingle up my arm when I touched her. I don't even know why I did it. Why did I care how she wore her hair? "I-I Mea..." She was loookign up at me, her blue-green eyes wide, and a bit confused. Why hadn't I ever noticed her eyes before? She has really pretty eyes. No. Stop. Stop thinking things like that. Bad Sirius, very bad Sirius. Friends don't want to snog other firends. It's wrong. I hurriedly dropped her wrist, "Whatever."

Rissa was still looking at me with that calculating look in her eyes. She was rubbing the wrist I had grabbed absent mindedly. Merlin's pants, did I hurt her when I grabbed it? She's so tiny, it was a possiblity. Or... or did she maybe feel those little tingles too? I'd touched alot of girls... But I've never felt those little tinglies before. And it deffinately wasn't a bad feeling either. It was good. Niether of us siad anything. At this point I was positive she had felt something. Her face was quickly being flooded with red, the blush creeping up her cheeks. Blushing. And all I did was grab her wrist. She broke the silence, "Well... Well, good night, Sirius." She muttered, turning on her heel and beginning to walk donw the hall agian, although, this time she didn't try to put her hair back up.

I recovered myself and trotted to catch up with her. "Rissa, we're going to same place. Might as well go there together." I laughed.

She wasn't looking at me, instead, she found her shoes particularly interesting. Though, I doubt they were. I could see that even her ears were red with the blush. "Okay, whatever." Her shoulders shrugged as she said it. Why was she blushing so much? We'd walked to the Common Room together before this. Was she remembering me grabbing her wrist? Or had I simply never noticed how easily she blushed?

I kind of watched to touch her again. To see if those little tinges hadn't just been part of my imagination. I didn't think I hd imagined them. They had seemed pretty real to me. Yes, I was fairly sure that they were real. I was positive of it. And Rissa must have felt them too, right?The nest thing I knew I was devisng a way to touch her. An excuse or something of the like, to test my theory.

Merlin. I think I have a problem.

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Sirius and I climbed into the portrait hole together. The Common Room was empty, probably because everyone was still down in the Great Hall, enjoying the Feast. Sirius seemed distant on the way here, ever since grabbing my wrist. He seemed to be thinking something over. I wasn't quite sure that I wanted to know exactly what that something was. I rubbed my wrist subconciously. There had been the normal tingles I got when he touched me. Maybe he had felt them too? I doubted it. He was just being spacy. He does that sometimes.

"Hey, Rissa...?" His voice interrupted my thoughts, I turned to face him, eyebrows raised. He had the self-pleased smirk he got after he'd been snogging some girl, or had pulled a particularly good prank. To say the least, I was a bit alarmed at the thought of either. Sirius' self-pleased smirk had turned into more of a pretatory-grin. So I, being the good prey I am, backed up slowly.
Sirius snatched my wrist, causing my hand to tingle pleasantly, pulling me a bit closer, "Rissa. You've got something in your hair." He grinned, pulling a little bit of black string from my orange hair.

Well. That was alot of panic for a little nothing. "Oh. Thanks Sirius. I guess." I grinned, taking the string from him. He had yet to let go of my wrist. "Uh.. Sirius?"

He grinned back, "What?"

"Could you, like... Let go of me?" I asked, gesturing to he hand that held my wrist.

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I wasn't imagining the tingles. They happened again when I grabbed her wrist this time. But I think I scared her a little. She'd looked a bit panicked...

I dropped her wrist hurriedly, "Oh! Yeah. Uh, sorry. My bad." I paused, pushing my hair out of his eyes, as I came to a decision. "Say, Rissa, What d'you-"

"Oh, Merlin, where's Tom?" She interrupted me, looking around frantically. Her face was completely horrified, and she gripped her hair at its roots. "Crap! I left him in the bathroom! I forgot him! Poor tommy!" She shrieked.

The next thing I knew, she had pushed me out of her way and wasleaping through the portrait hole, tearing off towards the bathrooms. Why that girl likes cats so much, I'll never know.

I'm more of a dog person, myself.

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AN:
I'm sorry doesn't quite cut it, I suppose?
No, I've used that one too much. I love you guys!
How about that one?
Well, this chapter is pretty long, eh? At least for me.
And its a goody. Sirius POV! That was hard to write.

I know I don't deserve it, but please review!