A/N: I AM SO SORRY!!!!!!!!! And I seriously am sorry this time. My job was sucking up all of my time. Even though I only worked three days a week, those days that I was not working I was laying around because my feet, body and brain still hurt. The good news though is that I don't work there any more! My new job gives me plenty of time to do as I please. So you all should be as happy as I am because with this new job I get time to write!

Chapter Eleven

September 2

James prided himself on the fact- or what he thought was a fact- that he knew every little thing about Lily Evans. But the truth of the matter was that he did not know everything about Lily Evans. If he did know everything about her, he would have noticed right away that she had started to fancy him. If he knew everything about her he would have known that kissing her on the forehead when she wanted to be snogged, would most certainly get him smack and then snogged.

Well, they had only gotten as far as the smacking and James decided he did not deserve it. So, he got up and left the Heads Dorms without a word. The Pagan in him was so pissed off that he slipped through the halls impossibly fast and made his way to Gryffindor Tower. By the time Lily caught up with him she was a bit pissed off as well.

She grabbed James by the arm and swung him around. "How dare you just walk away from me?!" she screamed. The few people in the Common Room scurried out of the way, sure that the argument to follow would be rather violent.

"How dare you smack me for doing nothing?!" James yelled back.

"Nothing? You did nothing? How about you kissed my forehead when I wanted to you snog me within an inch of my life! That's not nothing, Potter! That's-" James pulled her into his arms and smashed his lips against hers.

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Sirius was not sure what exactly was going on in front of him. It was pretty common for Sirius not to know what was going on around him, seeing as he never paid attention to that bit. But generally he knew what was going on in front of him because it was directly in his line of view. Not this time, though. He had no idea how what he was seeing came to pass.

What Sirius was not aware of is the fact that Lily Evans could be quite forceful when she wanted something. The thing is that as far as Sirius knew she only ever wanted good grades. That is why she was always so intent on studying. She wanted good grades she got good grades.

But Sirius could not understand why Lily Evans would want James Potter to check her tonsils with his tongue. As far as he could tell James was not very knowledgeable when it came to matters of medicine. For as long as Sirius had known him James had never gotten sick. Considering his inability to know when to leave well enough alone, Sirius wanted to inform Lily of this little fact.

He was just about to when the most beautiful thing on two legs intercepted him. Serena grabbed Sirius' tie and effectively distracting him. He looked down at her with a dopy look on his face, or the usual look on his face, depending on your point of view.

"I was wondering if you knew of a private place," she whispered.

"Your dorm?" he suggested. Not a good suggestion but hey at least he said something.

"No, I meant somewhere I could be totally alone. No interruptions. You know a place people go to do naughty things. A place very few know about. Do you know where that place is?" she asked.

"Your dorm?" Serena sighed. She let go of his tie and scratched her head.

"Sirius, just tell me where I can go so that I won't be bothered. And if you say, 'your dorm,' I swear I will never touch anywhere you want me to." Sirius blinked and thought hard.

"The Room of Requirements!" he yelled. James pulled away from Lily long enough to say:

"Sirius, you great oaf!" But no one was quite sure if he meant to say 'oaf' or if that was just a muffled version of something else. Lily had grabbed James shirt as soon as he pulled away and smashed her lips back onto his near the end of his statement.

"Wonderful, where is that room?" she asked.

"I'll take you," Sirius said.

"Perfect, let's go." Serena grabbed his hand and headed towards the Portrait Hole.

"Sirius Black, I swear!" James yelled. He pulled away from Lily again.

"James Potter, I swear that if you don't snog my brains out right now, I'll-" James cut her off.

"Well, that solves that," Sirius said. He shuddered at the sight on the couch. "Shall we?"

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At the moment Remy was regretting ever going Hogwarts. She signed up mostly because all of her friends had and she did not want to be left behind. Another perk was that she passed all of her other classes for participating in this 'educational experience.' But now Remy did not think it was worth it anymore.

The reason for her foreboding mood was sitting across the table from her. He looked pale and down right sickly. Wednesday was the full moon and he said he was going to see his sick mum. Remy fought the urge to chide him for seeing a sick person on the night of his transformation. She was sure that he did not know that she knew about him.

But she did know that he was well aware of her interest in him. It seemed to her that he purposely ignored her when they were together. Or he would refuse to go anywhere exciting with her, instead he would go to the library when they were together and do his homework. Remy thought it upset Remus that these purposefully boring excursions did not deter her interest in him.

"Remus?" she said. His jaw clenched at her voice.

"Hmmm." He did not look up from his essay. His seeming indifference to her presences made did nothing to improve her mood. After all she was the superior being in the situation. He was just a fool that could not see how lucky he was to be getting any attention from her at all.

"Does it hurt?" she asked ambiguously. He glanced up at her.

"I-I don't know what you mean." He went back to his essay. She leaned across the table, making sure he got a great view of her cleavage. He swallowed hard and grinned.

"Does it hurt knowing that you're forcing loneliness upon yourself?" He started fidgeting with his quill. She could tell he was having a hard time looking her in the eyes.

"A-Again, I'm not sure what you mean." Remy sighed and sat back in her chair. Remus went back to his essay and Remy made a frustrated noise.

"You know, James told me you don't think you deserve a girlfriend." Remus looked up at Remy. "And if you keep acting like this, I'm going to have to agree with you." She stood up and gave him a vicious look. "Not because you're a Lycan," she said this quietly, "but because you don't seem to care about anyone's feelings but your own."

"Remy, I-" Remus began. He did not get the chance to finish his sentence though. By the time he said anything Remy was already out the door.

She was not sure why she was so mad at him. All of things her mother had told her about humans said that she should not care about him in the first place. That was most certainly not the case.

"Hmmmm………" Remy's ears perked up at the sound. "Like that……… do that again… Hmmmm………" Recognizing the voice Remy made her way over the origin of the noise.

"Oh would you bugger off!" Serena yelled when the light of the hall fell on her hiding spot. She did not both untangling herself from Sirius' embrace.

"I would but I don't think snogging in a secret hall way is allowed," Remy said. Hearing Remy's voice Serena pulled Sirius' head out of her chest and pushed him away.

"It's not what it looks like," Serena said. She calmly straightened her dress.

"Oh, I'm fairly sure that it is exactly what it looks like." Serena made a disgruntled noise in the back of her throat.

"It is not a sin to snog, Remy!"

"I never said it was." The two long time friends stared at each other for a while. Serena broke out of her reverie and walked away from Sirius.

"Serena," Sirius called.

"I'll see you later, Sirius," she said as she rushed down the hall. Remy followed her. "It's not wrong, Remy. What I do with him isn't wrong." They continued down the hall at quick pace.

"Trust me darling, I now it isn't wrong," Remy said.

"Then why am I hiding? If it wasn't wrong I wouldn't be hiding it."

"Serena, you're hiding it because it's looked down upon to snog heatedly in the hallway." Serena stopped and turned on her friend.

"No, you know as well as I that that is not the truth. I'm not hiding it from the students and the professors here. I'm not hiding it to protect the privacy of what we have. I'm hiding it from the others because he is human. And though I do not share in the hatred most Pagans bear to humans, I can not deny myself the shame. Of all the species in the world I had to fall in love with-"

Serena's rant was cut short by a thud resounding behind Remy. It sounded strangely like someone fainting.