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Liv sighed and sat up in her bed. She'd come up here to think, that had been more than two hours ago, and still she was just as confused as ever.

She thought about sending her mum a letter, but decided against it, she'd have to go up to the owlery to send it and she didn't want to risk being intercepted by anyone.

She thought about avoiding a certain someone for the rest of her Hogwarts days. After a few minuets of considering this she decided that it just wouldn't work. What was she supposed to do in classes she had with him, or during quiddich? Nope, that idea had to be scrapped.

Then she thought about getting a second opinion on her situation, that idea had actually gotten her somewhere. She was waiting for Rachael to come up to bed, not wanting to risk going to find her. She just hoped Reachael could shed some light on the situation for her.

Another hour of dwelling in agonising confusion passed before Rachael came up to the dormitory. She walked in the door with a frustrated sigh and closed it harder than was necessary. Liv flung her curtains aside. This seemed to capture Rachael's attention. "Where have you been!? I've spent Merlin knows how long searching this castle for you!"

"I've been here all along, Rach." Liv replied in a caling tone. Though calm was certainly not an emotion she felt right now, she needed Rachael to be calm while she freaked out.

"In the DORMITORY! You've been here all along!!" Rachael fumed.

"Yeah, listen Rach-"

"No you listen! Your supposed to be my best friend! How could you not tell me! This goes against every friend rule! Okay well maybe not, but still! Why would you want to keep secrets like this from me? Did you not trust that I would keep it private?"

Liv almost broke down at the look in Rachael's eyes. Hurt. As if this day wasn't enough of an emotional roller coaster already. She took a deep breath fighting back the tears that she was determined to keep in and explained: "It wasn't that I didn't trust you Rachael. I was going to tell you! But I just didn't have the opportunity. I only got out of the hospital wing last night. I was so tired and I just couldn't really handle a conversation like that at the time. And I haven't even had a minuet alone with you today! I was planning to tell you. Tonight. Now. Things just happened and really screwed up my plans! I'm sorry!" Liv grew more and more frantic with every sentence.

Rachael bit her lip and frowned. Apparently considering this apology. She rolled her eyes and walked over to where Liv was standing beside her bed and threw her arms around her. Liv smiled and hugged her back.

"Your still not fully forgiven until I get all the details!" Rachael insisted.

Liv chuckled slightly and nodded. They both climbed onto Livs bed, drew the curtains and cast a silencing charm before Liv proceeded to explain all the details.

"Where to begin?" Liv mumbled to herself.

"The start would be nice." Rachael muttered.

"Right." Liv smiled and rolled her eyes. "I was trying to sneak out of the hospital wing, I didn't want to waste my weekend stuck in there. I was just getting out of bed, I'd turned around to rearrange the pillows to make it look like I was sleeping. James came to see me. He caught me off-guard when I was still fixing my pillows and we started talking. It was the same as always at first. Just playful arguing. But then it got kind of serious. He said something like his friends don't argue with him and just let him win all the time. It was as if he was thanking me for doing it, which I guess I do understand, it must be pretty frustrating if people just agree with you all the time. We both stopped talking and then, we kissed. That's when we got interrupted by that damn first year. We were a bit dazed after that and we just agreed not to tell anyone. To just forget about it."

Rachael looked thoughtful for a few seconds. "Ready for the questions?"

"Bring it." Liv replied, smiling hesitantly.

"Do you like him?"

"Whoa, no warm up question even? Just straight into the deep end?"

Rachael shrugged, "I didn't want to waste time on trivial questions... so do you?"

Liv bit her lip, "I'm not sure, I think I do. He's not as much of a jack-ass as he was last year. He's been kinda nice to me lately actually."

Rachael pursed her lips and frowned, in deep consentration. "Do you like talking to him?"

"Yeah." Liv shrugged.

"I mean, do you really like talking to him. Do you look forward to the times when you know you'll be able to talk to him, without any of his dumbass friends?"

"Like quiddich?"

"Sure, quiddich."

"Well, yeah, but that could just be because I like quiddich." Liv told her.

Rachael sighed. "If James wasn't on the team, would you still like it as much?"

Liv frowned. "I don't know. James and me both got on the in second year, and before that, when I used to play quiddich before Hogwarts, James would always be the one playing with me. I've never really played without him. I suppose it wouldn't really be the same without him, but I don't know if that would be for better or for worse."

Rachael rolled her eyes, "You are so clueless."

"What?" Asked Liv, puzzled.

"You like him." She said this slowly. Emphasising each word.

Liv sighed, she still wasnt convinced of that. "Okay, but that really doesn't help me right now."

"Well what do you want help with?" Asked Rachael, a satisfied smile on her face.

"How do I not make it awkward anymore?" She asked desperately.

"That's easy. You just don't act like anything has changed. It's only awkward if you make it awkward, if you act like everything is normal, then so will he."

Liv thought about this for a few minuets, then shrugged. "I suppose the only way to find out is to try it, right?"

Rachael smiled. "Exactly! Now onto more important business. How was that kiss?"

Liv smiled and rolled her eyes. This was going to be a long night.

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Liv struggled through Potions the next day, once again fit to fall asleep in class thanks to late night conversations with Rachael. Snape kept looking at her with more malice than ever before. He corrected her harshly on every mistake and even every potential mistake she was making. It was driving her nuts. Snape on three and a half hours of sleep was bad enough but this was Snape multiplied by ten. Liv was counting down the minuets to the end of class, thankful that by the time the bell rang she hadn't snapped. She got up, bottled her potion, packed away her things and shouldered her bag before walking towards the door, she was the first one to leave, or she would have been the first one to leave.

"Miss Tonks, Mr Potter, stay behind please." Snape voice rang in her ears.

Her hand slipped of the handle of the door and she turned around. What did he want? To torment her some more on her pathetic potion-making skills? Wasn't it enough that he'd already had two classed for that? She took a glance at James. He looked tense, and he was biting his lip. He looked nervous. Before she could ponder this further she was snapped out of her thoughts by a hard shoulder hitting into her.

"Oh! Sorry!" Emma Parkinson. She sounded anything but sorry as she sneered at Liv.

Liv rolled her eyes. "Bugger off, before I break your nose again."

"Is that a threat?" Emma's eyes glinted in the candle light of the dungeon.

"It's simply a warning." Liv replied coldly. She turned away from her and walked down to stand beside James. Soon they were the last ones left in the room.

Liv looked up at Snape and waited for him to begin.

"Do you know, Miss Tonks, why you are here?" Snape questioned standing behind his chair and leaning over it onto his desk.

Liv was baffled. "No."

"No Sir." Snape corrected.

Liv clenched her teeth together. "No Sir I don't know why I'm going to be late for my next class." She replied.

"Ten points from Gryffindor, I'd advise you to keep your tongue in check if you hope to have anymore house points by the end of this conversation." Snape fumed. "Do you think you are above the rules here Miss Tonks?"

"No Sir, I don't." She said stiffly.

"Do you Mr Potter?" He turned his gaze to James.

"No Sir." He mumbled. Liv frowned. She'd never seen him look so defeated in front of Snape, what was going on?

"Then why do you persist to break the rules in this school?" He asked hotly.

Liv and James looked at each other, a confused gaze meeting a guilty one.

"Ten points from Gryffindor."

"For what?!" Liv blurted out before she could stop herself, drawing Snapes gaze once again to her.

"Lying." He answered. "And another ten for back chatting!" He added.

Liv was fuming now. None of this made much sense to her, it was as if Snape called them back to just rile them up so he could take the points that they'd won from the quiddich match away from them. She couldn't help it when her hair flared red.

"You are here because you were out of bed, and charmed the Slytherin quiddich teams hair!" He told her, eyes lingering on her hair.

"What?! What are yo-"

"Another ten points! Would you like to make it twenty?"

Liv shut her mouth with a snap. She looked over at James once again, he was looking down at his boots. Guilty. The word rang in her mind.

"There is no point in playing dumb, Potter already confessed. You will both have a weeks detention, be here at eight o'clock sharp, and bring your couldrins. Fifty points from Gryffindor." He informed them.

"Fifty!?" James found his tongue.

At the wrong moment. "Each!" Snape spat. "Now Get Out." He turned away from them and busied himself with something on his shelf.

They wasted no time in leaving. Liv was so mad she was sure James could hear her teeth grating off each other. She looked over at him, he was looking back at her timidly. She turned away and kept on walking.

"Liv-" He trailed off, not knowing what to say.

"Yes?" She asked after a few moments. Her voice wasn't as hard as she'd expected it to be, but he flinched away at the sound of it all the same. She turned away from him again, she didn't have time to waste with coaxing a conversation out of him, if she didn't hurry she'd lose even more points for being late. She cringed adding up how many they'd already lost. One-Hundred-and-Forty-Points. Not good.

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They had arrived just barley on time for class, filing in with the last few stragglers. They hadn't talked for the whole way there. Liv could tell he was struggling with himself as to whether or not he should say something though. Once in the classroom Liv sat down in the chair that was left free in-between Rachael and Michael. She had avoided their curious glances and the fact that James had been staring at her for the whole class. As soon as class was over and she had calmed down a little bit she explained everything to them. They weren't happy about it, but it was obvious they tried not to show it or bring it up too much, incase they upset her. Things had been quite strained at dinner. The entire Gryffindor table was talking about the lost points, and what might have happened. It did nothing to brighten Livs mood.

It was 8:05pm. They were waiting outside the potions classroom for Snape. It wasn't like him to be tardy. Liv sighed, 'count your blessings' her mother would have said.

She looked up at James for what seemed like the millionth time that day. He still looked riddled with guilt. She decided to try make an effort at conversation, "Abby's gonna kill us."

James looked at her, startled. "Yeah, let's not tell her we were the ones to lose all those points."

Liv smiled grimly, thinking back to the last time they tried not to tell people of what they had done with each other. That time hadn't gone so well. "Yeah, we better not, she'll just make us do even more training." She was determined that this secret was one she'd take to the grave, excluding Rachael and Michael of course. "Have you told any of your friends?" She asked him. He looked at her as if she had gone mad. "Guess not."

"That would not be a good thing to do. It would get spread around faster than butter on hot toast." He explained.

Liv smiled knowingly. She turned her head at the sound of someone walking down the corridor, but it wasn't Professor Snape.

"Good, your here. Follow me. You will be serving detention in my class instead." Remus told them.

James looked over at Liv. She shrugged and began following Professor Lupin.

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There you go, lots of James and Liv, well not really, but in the next chapter there will be! And lots of Remus too! And there will be laughter and banter!

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