I am truely sorry for taking so long. And I'm sorry for the chapter being so short. But I'm starting another as soon as I upload this one. Once again, only the OC's belong to me.

(Cienna's POV)

It was the beginning of November. The sixth years were struggling through piles of homework. Even the troublesome duo had been spotted in the library, looking for books, which was exceedingly rare. In fact, it was unheard of! Cienna was fine. She'd recovered from her illness and everything was back to normal. So of course, no one was surprised when the marauders came up to the girls on Saturday morning at breakfast.

What was surprising however was that they made no lewd remarks, no stupid suggestions. They just greeted the girls, sat down and started eating.

"Do you think they're okay?" Mary whispered to Lily. She shrugged.

"I don't know and don't care. But whatever may be the matter with them, I like it. They're peaceful." Cienna looked up from the Daily Prophet, glanced at the boys, then at Lily, and then went back to her reading.

They all continued eating in silence. It was too awkward to try and make conversation. Mary was just taking a sip of her juice when Lily said, with a raised voice,

"Right. That's it. What are you four planning? And you better tell me now otherwise I'll hex you into next week. And don't say you're planning nothing because you are. You're behaving unnaturally, quiet and...Well, nice-ish for once. And I can't stand it. It's making me cringe. So what's going on?"

This startled Mary and she spent the better part of the next five minutes choking on the pumpkin juice she had she inhaled, rather than swallowed, with Emmy patting her back with a rather large smirk on her face.

The boys turned, startled.

"Erh." James.

"Um." Peter.

"Oh." Remus.

"...Say again. I couldn't hear you over the coughing." Sirius said, sending a smirk over to Mary. She glared at him.

Lily glowered at him, but James opened his mouth before she said anything. Cienna winced, praying he wouldn't say anything stupid. You're in enough trouble James; don't go making more for yourself.

"We figured it was time to grow up a little, Lily. It's okay if I call you Lily right? I've never asked before."

James, why in the world did you say...

Wait.

What?

Grow up?

Who?

When?

Why?

And I repeat, WHAT?

It seemed that the other girls were also in varying stages of shock. Mary had dropped her juice down her top. Alice's mouth was hanging open. Marlene was smirking. Emmy was grinning. Dorcas's fork had stopped halfway to her mouth. Cienna was still looking at the paper, but wasn't actually reading it. And Lily...

Well Lily was dumbstruck. Her mouth was wide open. Her eye brows were raised so high they almost vanished into her hairline and her eyes were also wide. She seemed to be trying to say something; her mouth was moving but no words were coming out.

Finally a single word came out.

"Oh..."

More silence.

"MERLIN!" shouted Mary. Everyone jumped, and then spun to look at her frantically dabbing at her juice stained top.

"Mary, how did you get juice down your top?" Dorcas asked, exasperated.

"Yeah, I thought you were meant to drink it, not bathe in it." Sirius said, smirking.

"Ha ha Black. Very funny." Mary glared at him.

"I try." He said, modestly.

"Mary, you're a witch. You don't need to bother with that napkin, just use magic to clean your top." Alice said.

"Huh?"

"Magic. You know, the thing that makes sparks come out of your wand and spells work. The reason you're here." Marlene chipped in.

"I know what magic is. I just...don't know the spell." She finished off in a mumble.

"Oh Mary, whatever will we do with you?" Emmy chuckled as she waved her wand. The orange stain on the blouse started to disappear.

"Emmy, I love you so much right now. Will you marry me? 'Cause we have McGonagall first and she'd have killed me if she saw that mess." They all laughed for a minute and then remembered Lily, who was still standing up with her mouth open, staring at James.

Alice clicked her fingers in front of Lily's eyes. She didn't move.

"Lily, if you can hear and understand us, blink please." For a moment nothing happened. Then Lily blinked.

Once.

Sirius snorted. Peter copied him, then started chocking as he swallowed air. Sirius, being ever helpful, slapped him on the back hard enough to send Peter face first into the table. His plate. His half full plate.

He raised his face, covered in porridge. Nobody made a sound.

Until Lily laughed.

And then everyone else started. Even Cienna smiled. Slightly.

Like I said before, I'm now going to start another one. It might even be on this evening if I'm lucky.

Megs