Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns the world & most of the characters. The only things I can claim as mine are Bekka, Jay, Alex, and the plot.

And I'd like to dedicate this chapter to... julie662! :) For reminding me that I have this wonderful story to write.

Bekka walked into the common room after her Arithmancy class. It was the last class before the holidays. "Is it over?" Sev asked, hopefully. While there was no fighting during the project study time, he still did not enjoy them.

"Is what over?" Bekka asked, innocently.

"You know what he's talking about? Is study group with the idiots over?" Reg asked. He wanted to them to be over as well, even though he was hardly ever there. He didn't like Bekka being subjected to the 'horror of being around the blood traitor.'

Bekka laughed as she sat down by her friends. Reg and Sev were looking at her with faces full of hope. Alex was just looking bored. "Sorry guys, Professor Murray decided to extend the project until the end of the year. You guys don't have to keep coming though if you don't want too," Bekka informed her friends. The guys faces fell and Bekka felt a little guilty for bursting their bubbles.

"We're not going to leave you alone with the Gryffindors," Sev said sadly.

"Hey Bekka, has your mom written you back yet? There's only 4 days left," Alex asked, changing the subject.

Bekka shrugged. "I'm not sure. Let me go see if there is anything for me on my bed," she ran up the stairs into the dorm.

She quickly ran to her bed when she saw the family owl sitting on it. Bekka untied the letter from his foot and gave him a treat before reading the letter.

Rebekka,
I suppose your friend can stay if you absolutely must have her the whole time. I'm not sure why it is so important that she stay the whole time, but nonetheless she can stay. You girls will have to find something to do the Wednesday night after you arrive here. I assume Regulus and Severus will only be here the week of Christmas as originally planned.
I will see you in a few days and I hope all is well.
Love,
Mother

Bekka quickly ran back to the common room. She arrived out of breath. Alex looked at her hopefully. "She said you could stay," Bekka said, excitement filled her voice.

"Yes, I don't have to go home for the holidays!" Alex yelled. The whole common room stared at her but she didn't care.

Bekka, Reg, and Sev laughed at her. "You are way too excited," Bekka informed Alex.

Alex glared at Bekka, "Shut it you."

Bekka grinned and said, "Fine. I'll just leave then. If that's the way you are going to treat me. I have that Charms essay to finish up anyways."

"I thought you did that yesterday," Alex said, remembering that Bekka had disappeared into the library almost everyday for the past week.

"I did, I didn't get a chance to finish it though. I did the easy part now I have to do the hard part. It's probably going to take all night and I still won't be done. I hate Charms," Bekka lied. She had actually finished the essay early for once.

Regulus watched her leave the room, suspicious of his best friend. Bekka had been spending a lot of time in the library this year, more than she normally did. Reg was willing to bet that she wasn't doing homework the whole time.

Rebekka was sitting in the library doing research. She had a journal that she kept making notes in. "Hey Powers, mind if we sit here?" a voice interrupted her concentration. Bekka jumped and quickly closed the books she was reading and flipped her journal to another page. She looked up to see her small table surrounded by all four of the Marauders.

"You want to sit with me why?" Bekka asked, confused.

"Because all the other tables are taken," Sirius pointed out. Bekka looked around and sure enough they were all being used.

"So you'd sit with someone you hate instead of sitting with someone you don't know?"

"We don't hate you Bekka. You aren't actually that bad for being a Slytherin and my brother's best friend. In fact if it wasn't for those two flaws, you'd be considered a friend," Sirius explained, sitting down on Bekka's left.

"Speak for yourself," James said, also sitting down on the other side of Sirius. "I still think she's the she-devil!"

Bekka smirked at this. "You're just mad that she said you can't talk about Lily anymore," Peter said, quietly. James sent him a glare, while Sirius and Remus laughed. Peter just smiled and sat down, next to James.

Remus didn't say anything as he took the only available seat left, which was between Peter and Bekka. "Has he really not spoken about Evans since that day?" Bekka asked Sirius, Peter, and Remus.

"Nope," Sirius said, as the other two shook their heads in agreement.

"Potter, you are an idiot," Bekka said, beginning to laugh. The four Gryffindors looked at her in surprise wondering what she was laughing about. "I just said I didn't want to hear you talk about her. You can talk about her as much as you want as long as I'm not around," she explained.

Remus sent her a fake glare as he said, "I wasn't going to tell him that... ever. I was enjoying not hearing him go on and on about her."

"Wait a minute… Moony, you knew? How could you know and not tell me that I could talk about her as long as Powers wasn't around?" James asked, looking at his best mate in disbelief.

Bekka laughed, "Gods, Remus, what kind of friend are you?" she asked.

"Oh shut up, Bekka," Remus said, shoving her lightly.

"What you don't want me sitting next to you? Fine I'll move," Bekka said, she stood up and grabbed her chair. She pulled her chair around to the other side of Sirius, so she now sat between James and Sirius.

"Ahh! The she-devil is next to me!" James said a little too loudly. He received a glare from Madam Pince.

Bekka rolled her eyes. "I can't still be the she-devil. I mean I told you could talk about her as long as I wasn't around. Which is more than some people did." She sent a pointed look in Remus's direction. Remus did the very mature thing and stuck his tongue out at her.

"Okay, fine. You're not the she-devil. But you are at least the spawn of Satan," James said, smiling.

"Sounds good to me. So why did you guys come into the library anyways?"

"Oh yeah, we have essay's to finish writing," Sirius said, pulling out his parchment and quill.

"Guess we should start working on those," James said, pulling out his supplies as well.

"Some of us are already working," Remus said. Everyone looked at him to find that he was indeed doing homework.

"I'll be right back, boys," Bekka said, standing. She stood and quickly grabbed the books she had scattered around the table, hoping the boys didn't have time to study them. "I have to put these away." She left the table and quickly put them away.

Two hours later, Remus was the only one that was still working on homework. The rest of the marauders had given up and were joking with each other. Bekka never had any homework to begin with, so she just watched and listened in amusement.

"I'm out of here boys," Bekka said, standing. "It's dinner time and I'm starving."

At the mention of dinner Sirius and James stood up, "Food?" they said together, causing everyone else to roll their eyes.

"Let's all go to dinner," Remus said, putting away his homework.

"No way am I walking into the great hall with the four of you. Half the school would die of shock," Bekka said.

"Not if we go in screaming at each other like we usually do," James pointed out.

"Then no one has to know we had a somewhat friendly encounter," Sirius added.

"That's acceptable. As long as I get to have the last word in our screaming match," Bekka said, grinning.

"And if we don't agree?" James asked.

"Then I body bind everyone but Peter, and by the time he releases you, dinner will be over," Bekka said, smiling sweetly.

"And there is the reason I hate you," Sirius said. "Well, that and you are still forcing me to date the most irritating girl in the world. I actually think I'd rather be around you than around her, although I still hate you more."

"And she made me stop talking about my true love," James added.

"No, I rather actually enjoyed that part. But she went and ruined it, by telling you that you could talk about her as long as she wasn't around. So that is another reason to hate her," Sirius said.

"She's also a Slytherin."

"And best friends with my good for nothing brother."

James and Sirius went back and forth adding up reasons for them to hate her.

"Wait… where she'd go?" James asked, noticing she was missing.

"Remus is gone to," Sirius said, looking around.

They looked at Peter who was standing there with a stop watch.

"Where'd they go?"

"Bekka left, and then Remus left shortly after her. Before he conjured this stop watch and told me to time you to see how long it took you to realize he had left. That was 17 minutes and 43 seconds ago," Peter replied helpfully.

"Wait, so she didn't get to hear our wonderful reasons for why we hate her?" James asked in disbelief. Peter shook his head.

"We must right them all down so she can know them!" Sirius said, grandly. "But first food!" At that the three boys ran out of the library.

Meanwhile… Remus had quickly caught up to Bekka. "I left Peter with a stop watch and told him to find out how long it took them to realize we were gone. I predict it will take 14 minutes 43 seconds," he said.

"Nope, I'm thinking only 14 minutes 33 seconds," Bekka said, laughing.

"Let's bet on it then."

"And how do I know you didn't set this whole thing up before hand with their help and this is just some kind of prank," she said.

"Because I'm a Gryffindor and I win my bets honorably. Besides Pete and I still owe you something and we're a little scared still of what you might have us do. Him more than me, but yeah I'm still worried," Remus said, sticking his tongue out.

"Scared of little ol' me?" Bekka said, innocently. "And just what are we going to bet?"

"Hmmm… the loser has to kiss a person of the winner's choice," Remus said.

"Fine. You're on," Bekka said, as they reached the great hall. "Hope you like kissing James after you lose."

"You wouldn't."

Bekka smirked at him and disappeared inside.

Remus was about to follow her inside when the rest of the Marauders came running around the corner. "Moony! How could you just leave us while we were listing reasons we hate Powers?" James asked in mock disbelief.

Remus rolled his eyes and went into the Great Hall. Once they were all seated at the table, "So how long did it take them, Wormtail?"

"17 minutes, 43 seconds," Peter said, laughing.

"Woohoo! 17 minutes, 43 seconds! I win!" Remus yelled laughing, causing in the Great Hall to pause eating and stare at him. He grinned mischievously at Bekka, who responded by sticking her tongue out at him and returning back to her food.

Most of the school missed the silent exchanged between them. However, much to Bekka's dismay, her friends hadn't missed it. "What the hell was that about?" Reg demanded.

"Why are you asking me? I work on a project with him. That doesn't mean I can read minds," Bekka rolled her eyes.

"I'm not talking about him randomly yelling that he won. I'm talking about that silent conversation you two just had that ended with you sticking your tongue out at him," he said.

"I have no idea what you're talking about, Reg," Bekka said, acting confused.

"I saw it too," Alex said.

"So did I," Sev added.

"Come on, Bekka, spill the beans. What is going on between the two of you?"

"Oh gods, tell me you two aren't secretly dating?" Alex said.

"Would it be so horrible if I was dating him?" she asked.

Her three friends stared at her in sheer shock and disbelief. "Somebody tell me this is a really bad dream," Regulus said.

Bekka laughed loudly. "You guys should see your faces. They are hilarious. Calm down, I have no desire to date him. He's just my project partner," she said, grinning at her friends.

"Oh thank god, don't ever scare me like that again," Regulus said.

"I was about to hex them into the next century because I thought they put a spell on you when we weren't looking," Sev said.

Bekka laughed, "You guys are so overdramatic." Dinner passed quickly after that and the small group headed to their common room together, joking and laughing like they normally did.

The next day passed by normally. After dinner, Bekka went to meet up with Remus to help him with the potions homework. "There's no charms homework," Bekka said, grinning, as she sat down in the chair next to him in the library. "And while we're on the subject, who am I kissing for losing your silly bet?"

Remus looked at her confused. "Since when were we on that subject?" he asked.

"Since I decided we were," she said, shrugging.

"Well I'm not telling you who it is, until after you help me with this homework," he said, pointing to the potions book.

"Afraid I'll get mad at you for whoever it is and not help you with the homework," she teased.

"A little bit actually," he said.

Bekka laughed, "I would have made you kissed James. So all's fair, I won't get mad. But come on, let's get this potions work done. Still don't know why it's so hard to you."

"You're only mocking me for failing at potions, because I can't mock you for failing at charms since there's no homework to fail at," Remus pointed.

"So? Your point?"

"Jerk," Remus said, flipping open the book.

Bekka laughed and pointed out a mistake he had made two sentences into his essay. It only took about an hour for them to finish the essay.

"Now was that so hard?" Bekka asked.

"Yes," Remus said, darkly.

"Come on, I bet Pippi already has our desserts ready in the kitchen," Bekka said, packing things up.

"Aren't you going to ask who I'm going to make you kiss?" Remus asked.

"I thought about it, but then I also thought about that delicious bowl of ice cream that is calling my name, so just wait until I get to that first."

Remus laughed. "Alright," he said. They quickly walked to the kitchens and sure enough Pippi was there with Bekka's ice cream and Remus's chocolate cake.

"So do I like whoever it is you're going to make me kiss?" Bekka asked as they ate.

"I don't know. I can't read your mind, I don't know who you like," Remus said, rolling his eyes.

"I'm going to tell you who I like Remus. You can't repeat it to anyone though. It's a secret and if you tell anyone I'll have to kill you," Bekka said, looking very seriously at Remus.

"Who?" Remus asked, intrigued by Bekka's serious tone.

"ME! I like me!" Bekka said, bursting into laughter. "Are you going to make me kiss me?"

Remus couldn't help but join in the laughter. "Bekka, I'm not even going to ask you to explain how you could kiss yourself."

Soon the desserts were finished and the house elves had clear the dishes. "Alright, Remus, give it up, who am I going to kiss?" she said. She was a little nervous about who he'd pick, but was doing her best not to show it.

"I want you to kiss…" Remus paused for dramatic effect, "Me."

"You?"

Remus nodded his head and did his best to ignore the racing beat of his heart. Bekka just stared at him and Remus heart plummeted. This is what he had been afraid of, being rejected. "You don't have to, if you don't want to," he mumbled. "I mean-"

He stopped talking as Bekka threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. When they finally pulled apart for air, both were blushing. "Um, well I should get going," Bekka said, before racing out of the kitchens.

Remus stared after her for a couple of minutes, before returning to his own dormitory.

Once Bekka reached the Slytherin Common room, she avoided her friends and headed straight for bed. She knew there would be questions in the morning, but she'd have to make some excuse. She dug out Chaos again before crawling into bed. She closed the curtains around her. "Oh gods, Chaos, why did I do that? My friends will never understand. They'll kill him. I shouldn't have done that," she whispered to the stuff animal. "Not to mention he's a you-know-what. I shouldn't be kissing him!"

Bekka pretended to be asleep when Alex came to bed. Her thoughts about what she had just done kept her awake; it was late before sleep finally overtook her.

Hopefully I'll be better about updating this story and can get it finished finally. :) Review! You know you want to. :)