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Presents and Tattoos
After a good night sleep, Lily and April walked down to the Heads Common Room to find to their surprise James and Sirius up and dressed waiting for them. When the girls approached them it was to find them holding flowers for them, James was giving Lily a bunch of fascias and Sirius presented April a single red rose, April smiled at Sirius and kissed him on the lips, Lily smiled, pleased that her friend had made up with her boyfriend. She turned to her own boyfriend and took the fascias out of his hand and kissed him soundly on the lips, she felt his arms wrap around her waist. She smiled and pulled out, he was smiling at her and kissed her forehead before all four of them made their way to the Great Hall for breakfast.
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Now that Winter was upon them, the Christmas Holidays were drawing ever nearer and so was Sirius's birthday. He was to turn to eighteen in the holidays and April knew, through Lily, that eighteen was a big deal in the muggle world, it celebrated becoming an adult and being able to drink booze freely. So April decided that they should take Sirius out for the night, but she needed to get him a present and she needed her cousin's help for that, so she asked him and he had come up with that apparently Sirius had everything he needed, so April was stuck, she had no idea what to get him for his birthday or Christmas, she was quite put out by the whole thing.
The weekend before the holidays was a Hogsmeade Weekend so she and Lily went off together promising to meet their boyfriend in the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer, April had already thought of a birthday present for Sirius but she also needed to get him something else so they were heading to Zonko's. However April could find nothing in their that was special so they continued down Hogsmeade looking in at shop windows until they came to a jewelery store, now April didn't like jewelery on a man unless it was a wedding ring, but she had just spotted the perfect chain for Sirius. It was silver and a half crescent moon with a werewolf on it, she thought that would be perfect for him and Lily thought it was a perfect present for James as well, so they went inside and bought four, one each for the Marauders and they would all receive them at Christmas.
The shop also happened to do tattoos and April made up her mind to get one, Lily wasn't found of it but agreed to wait for her, after half an hour April came out, she seemed very happy and refused to tell Lily was the tattoo was, but she had a bandage wrapped around the small of her back, they looked at their watches and saw that it was time to meet the boys for drinks so they headed to the Three Broomsticks stopping twice so April could get a proper present for Sirius and they also popped into Honeydukes for some sweets.
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Sirius glanced at the watch James's parents had gotten him for his seventeenth, they where late, James was agitated too, just then the pub door opened and Lily and April entered laughing, carrying a couple of bags between them, they spotted the boys and walked over to them, Lily sat down next to James who immediately wrapped his arm around her shoulder and kissed her head, April settled next to Sirius and kissed him lightly on the lips before putting her bags down,
"So what did you ladies get?" Sirius asked trying to peer into one of the bags that April had, she immediately snatched it away from him, however the quick movement made her wince and caused Sirius to look at her with concern, "You alright, love?" he asked. She nodded and subconsciously rubbed her lower back. "Here." Sirius said, he made to put his hands on the lower of her back, she slapped them away but it was too late, he looked at her curiously and then lifted up the bottom of her top, he gasped as he saw the bandage wrapped around her, "Why have you got a bandage around you?" he asked, trying to keep the anger out of his voice.
"What!" demanded James, looking at them, Sirius noticed that Lily looked slightly worried and was staring at April, who was looking at the table,
"April." Sirius warned. April sighed,
"Look it's nothing, ok, can we just drop it?" she asked, hopefully.
"I don't think we can, I want to know why my girlfriend has got a bandage wrapped around the small of her back." Sirius told her leaning back in his chair, his arms crossed, looking at his girlfriend. April sighed and mumbled something incoherent,
"Sorry, love," Sirius said leaning for wards, "I didn't quite hear that."
"I got a tattoo." April whispered so that only he could here her. Sirius stared at her, she avoided his eye, he grabbed her arm and forced her up and to a corner of the pub,
"Well, let's see." he said. April sighed and turned round lifting up the back of her top, Sirius pulled her bandage back and looked at the small of her tattoo, there was two Celtic patterns and in the gap of the pattens one word under the other was, "Pad foot's Property." Sirius grinned and let go of the bandage, she let go of her top and he spun her round, she fell into his arms and she looked up into his stormy grey blue eyes and saw that he was grinning, he lent down and captured her lips in his, "Nice Tattoo." he whispered. She ginned back at him and wrapped her arms around his neck,
"Thought you like it." she replied. He chuckled against her and kissed her cheek before whispering in her ear,
"You thought right."
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James watched as his best mate and his cousin returned to the table grinning, Sirius sat down on his chair and April made to sit down on hers but Sirius pulled on her arm so that she sat on his lap, he wrapped his arms around her waist and lightly kissed her neck, April grinned and snuggled into him. James felt someone squeeze his arm and turned to see Lily smiling at him, he smiled back and kissed her soundly on the lips.
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