i really shouldn't be using the computer during school days! well, you guys are lucky because i've got no homework. :) anyway, i'm quite happy you people find the previous chapter good. what a relief! LMAO. =)) anyway, enjoy chapter 11!

11. EPIPHANIES

"Well, good morning, my fine friend," James said as Sirius slowly got up from his bed.

Sirius rubbed his eyes and asked, "What time is it, Prongs?"

"Twenty past ten in the morning," James grimaced. "We've missed breakfast," he said.

"I don't care. How long have you been awake?"

"Just a few minutes before you got up, actually," James grinned then said, "Don't you want to know how it went with Lily yesterday?"

Sirius' eyes suddenly widened. "Oh yeah!" he gasped, "Tell me all about it."

"Well, she said 'no' to Felix, obviously," James rolled his eyes. "She wanted to go somewhere calm and quiet. So we stayed at Madam Puddifoot's—"

"Madam Puddifoot's?" scoffed Sirius, "That's a sissy date place."

"I had no other options," James stated firmly. "Whatever makes Lily happy, okay? Anyway, we talked about ourselves there. Mainly, our interests… our likes and dislikes."

"But that's so boring," Sirius said flatly.

"Can you be a little more supportive, Padfoot?" James complained. "I asked her why she never wanted to go out with me before."

"Oh, this is interesting," Sirius shifted positions, "What did she say?"

"She said that she actually considered going out with me before… you know, she's close with Alice, and Alice is with Frank, and I'm close with Frank, so Frank tells Alice some nice stories about me sometimes, Lily told me."

"So?"

"So," James rolled his eyes, "obviously, Alice tells Lily things about me. Therefore, Lily considered going out with me before. But of course, that was around the time that I took a break from asking her out every other day because I was beginning to think it was annoying her—"

"Oh, it was?" Sirius teased with sarcasm.

"—so, all this time, she just waited for me to give another shot at asking her out again. She said she's sorry if she's ever put me off!" James said triumphantly. "And she also said that she was glad I asked her out, and that she was glad she said yes."

"Bloody hell, she did?!" Sirius laughed hysterically, "That's the most epic thing I've heard! I never thought the day would come when Lily—Lily Evans!—would say that to James Potter."

"Anyway," James said slowly, pointedly, "after Madam Puddifoot's, we went for a quick visit to Honeydukes. We just bought some sweets and I told her about the secret passage there that leads to the one-eyed witch on the third floor—"

"You told her about our passage?!" Sirius almost shouted.

James sighed, "Let it go, Padfoot. Let it go."

"But—but—you told her!"

"She's not gonna go shouting about it! Look, if I'm going to be with Lily, you're going to have to trust her as well."

"…you're with Lily?"

James looked sheepish. "Not yet," he shrugged.

There was a moment of silence. "And so what else happened?" Sirius asked.

"Well, we went horseback riding," James replied.

"Horseback riding? In Hogsmeade?" Sirius looked skeptical.

"We bumped into Rosmerta—you know, the young ten year old of the owner of The Three Broomsticks?" James asked and Sirius nodded. "Well, she kept on ranting about some horses with no owner that she saw in the meadows. Lily and I figured that she was actually serious and so we checked it out for ourselves."

"How did you find those horses, then?"

"She described them to be just between the Meadows of Joy and the Valley of Contentment," James did some sarcastic Jazz hands.

Sirius snorted, "She's ten, for God's sake!"

"Oh, who cares? At least the horses were for real." James thought for a while before saying, "Well, how about you? How did Felix treat you?"

"Guess who I bumped into there," Sirius wiggled his eyebrows.

James immediately knew who Sirius was referring about, "Rebecca Johnson! Bloody hell, finally!" he punched the air. "Are you two friends already?"

"So, so."

"How did you meet?"

"In a broom closet," Sirius answered.

James' jaw dropped. "A broom closet? Sirius, you can't be serious! No pun intended," James chuckled.

"It's not like that!" Sirius raised his hands defensively, "I was in the broom closet with Brianna. She ran out and for some reason, Rebecca was strutting by near that particular broom closet and I grabbed her instead of Brianna. I almost made out with her, thinking she was someone else! I almost made out with Rebecca, James!" Sirius said, horrified.

"You act like you don't like it," James teased.

"That's because I don't."

"Says you."

"Whoever said I fancy her?!"

"The student body," James grinned.

"Since when?!"

"Since that night at Felix! That's why I want to know what happened, what everyone's ranting on about right now. You and Rebecca Johnson are the new 'it' couple!"

"I don't fancy her, James." Sirius concluded.

James coughed loudly and it Sirius thought he heard the word, 'Denial'. Sirius just rolled his eyes and let his head fall back on his pillow again.

"Oy! Get up, Padfoot. Tell me about Felix," said James.

"The usual, James! Eating a little. Loud music. The whole place vibrates. Terra's annoying flirting—I swear, I'll never go out with her again. Ever."

James chuckled and Sirius continued, "Drinking. Regulus got drunk, by the way."

"No surprises there," James shrugged. "Was Rebecca with her usual Slytherin posse? Regulus, Bellatrix and Snivellus?"

"Yeah, them. She's quite nice… fine, I admit it. It's fun to talk to her and spend time with her, it's just that, it's so difficult to do that because she's always with her conceited Slytherin friends!"

"See?" James said comfortingly, "You do fancy her."

"I never said I fancy her!"

"That's always the first stage, Sirius. Denial. You're acting like Lily before she went out with me. Exactly like that. And now, look where fate brought Lily and I," James had a dreamy look in his eyes.

"Fate," Sirius scoffed. "If there's such a thing, then someone's got it in for me up there," he pointed to upward, referring to the heavens, "I bet it's my mother."

"So what else happened in Felix?"

Sirius cleared his throat, "There was a lot of dancing. I think last night was the craziest and wildest I've seen! And you have no idea how awesome Rebecca looks like when she moves."

James said nothing but nodded knowingly at Sirius. "A compliment doesn't mean I fancy her, James," Sirius narrowed his eyes.

"I dare you to compliment her in person."

"Now is not the time for dares!" Sirius sat up, "Now is the time for stories."

"You're a sissy—"

"Do you want me to tell you the story or not?!"

"Okay, okay! Tell me," James said.

"Well, as I said earlier, Regulus got drunk and Rebecca was with Regulus a lot. Of course, I couldn't really approach her much since she was with my demon for a brother but I kept a close watch on her, in case things got dirty and out of hand. Peter said I was panting over her—which I'm not—and that Regulus was as well. And he seriously was, you should've seen it, James! He was all over her. I hate it when he's drunk."

"Aww," James squealed like a girl.

"What do you mean, 'aww'?" Sirius grimaced.

"You're protective of her. That's so romantic, Padfoot!" James pretended to wipe fake tears.

"Shut up—" Sirius half-laughed.

"And you chose to keep a close eye on her rather than enjoy the party at Felix with your date like you always do!" James said dramatically.

"I enjoyed the party like I should, okay?" Sirius laughed.

"That's why everyone thinks you fancy her, Sirius! Everyone thinks you're gonna hit on her next."

"Well, I'm not! I'll show them—"

"People at Felix probably saw the jealousy in your eyes you had for dear, old Regulus and your goo-goo eyes for Rebecca!"

"I was not jealous and I was not making goo-goo eyes!" Sirius put his foot down. It sounded funny when he said it that way. James laughed.

Everyone thought Sirius fancied Rebecca... was Rebecca included with 'everyone'? Sirius didn't want Rebecca to feel as if she's 'just one of those girls'. Because she honestly wasn't and Sirius had no intention at all to hit on her like he did to the other girls in school.

He suddenly realized he actually had been thinking about Rebecca a lot, ever since she arrived at Hogwarts, and even more when he met her.

"Sirius, c'mon," James stood up. "Let's head down for some lunch."

"Sure," Sirius replied absentmindedly. Sirius suddenly had a huge question plastered on his brain. How come he didn't see Rebecca the way he saw the other girls at Hogwarts?

anyway, time for me to reply to some reviews! :)

Jade Lammourgy, Regulus did some naughty stuff. You won't find out till the next chapter, though! ;)

Cicillia and Joelle8, yes. Well, Peter knows Rebecca best since he became friends with her first. And it is pretty obvious when Sirius likes a girl, don't you think so? ;) I never really like Peter before this story and I also surprised myself when I started liking him myself. LOL! :P

bluekiwi95, aww, you're welcome! I like talking to my reviewers, I did that a lot in my first story, The Dark Side of The Moon. :) hope you like this chapter!

Axellefish, I guess you could call it a love triangle. In my story, Sirius and Regulus are pretty much the same when it comes to girls, but in Rebecca's case... one of them changes. ;) It's not so hard to figure out who, if you ask me. :-" =))

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