Chapter 10: THE END.

It had been a number of weeks since the bet incident had blown over. Sirius and Rose had broken up, according to the latter, because "they needed to go their seperate ways," as she explained to Lily later. There appeared to be no hard feelings whatsoever between the two, and they could still sometimes be seen sneaking into broom closets together, but only if one really tried, like Keilani had on a number of occasions. Rose explained that they had agreed on a random snog every once in a while. This did nothing to calm Keilani.

Sirius was growing increasingly suave whenever the American girl was around, but she never seemed to notice. They both gave each other lingering glances whenever they thought the other wasn't looking, then caught one another and blushed. The others regarded this with high amusement.

"You know," Remus stated conversationally in Herbology after these incidents had happened at least five times in a row, "At this rate, they might burst a blood vessel in their brain and die together. Modern day Romeo and Juliet."

"Nah." Lily replied in an equal tone. "They couldn't be a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. It only counts as suicide if they both want to die, not if they burst blood vessels."

James and Violet exchanged amused glances. "What do you think people would say if they caught the Head Girl talking about whether or not blushing counts as suicide?"

Lily looked at her boyfriend, who smirked, and replied, "What they'd known all along. I must be at least slightly insane. Why else would I be dating you?"

James looked mildly offended, then thought about it and decided she had a point. Remus and Violet looked at each other and laughed as they watched these the wheels turning in his head. The banter went on for a while before they realized...

"Hey... What happened to Sirius and Keilani?"

They looked toward the table where Sirius, Keilani, Rose, and Snape had been working. Snape appeared to be unconsious on the floor (like usual) and Rose was finishing up the project Lily had done a half hour ago, but Sirius and Keilani were nowhere in sight.

Hmmm...

In the broom closet (where else would they be?), Keilani and Sirius were having a bit of fun.

"So let's go over this plan again... We use a color change on their shampoo, and that's all there is to it?" Keilani looked a bit surprised at the over-simplicity of the plan. "And this has actually worked?"

Sirius looked a bit put off. "Yes... Why wouldn't it?" He was a bit nervous. He hadn't actually used this particular prank before without Moony. Was he doing something wrong?

"Okay!"

If Lily, Remus, or even James had been there, one of them would have explained that by changing the color of their shampoo, it merely changed the color of the shampoo and would have no effect whatsoever on the color of the hair of the Slytherins. Sirius, however, had had a bit too much sugar that morning to realize an error.

He looked over at the American girl. He realized she had been looking at him the entire time. She realized that he realized that she had been looking at him the entire time.

"Screw this..." They were in a broom closet, after all...

And so, they all lived happily ever after. THE END.