Author's note: Well here we are, Chapter 29! This story ended up going on a lot longer then I had thought. It is unfortunately slowly coming to an end. I'm not sure how many chapters exactly are left, but it is almost done, which is sad, because this is my first fic and has been my baby for soo long. I hope you all like this chapter, it's a much more fluffy chapter then my last couple of chapters, I thought it was time for some light fun you know since there's been so much dram lately, so enjoy everyone!
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Jade sighed as she walked into her potions class. She despised potions. She didn't want to have to take this class, she wished she could just drop it, but if she did, her mum would surely murder her if she did. Jade didn't doubt her mum would murder her too, wild hypogriffs couldn't keep her from doing it.
Jade went to the back of the class and took her usual seat. She took out her books from her bag and froze as someone, who definitely wasn't Piper, sat in the seat next to her. Jade turned to look at that person confused... they never sat with her.
"What're you doing?" Jade asked the person confused.
"...waiting for class to star," Sirius said slowly, looking at Jade like she was nuts, as he flipped opened his potions book.
"I realize that you git! Why are you sitting here?" Jade asked acidly.
"Oh, simple. I just wanted to be in your lovely company Caulfield," Sirius teased, grinning widely.
Jade sighed annoyed and looked up at Slughorn as he explained to them the new potion they were going to do today. Jade's gaze fell over to where Lily and James were sitting stiffly next to each other. It had been a week since their fight and both of them were still pissed at each other but pretended they weren't. Jade rolled her eyes and scanned the classroom and found Piper sitting with Blake Nelson.
Jade frowned as she watched Piper laugh at something Blake said and flip her hair flirtatiously. She hoped Piper wasn't seriously thinking about dating Blake... he was such an asshole.
"...haven't seen much of you in the past week Caulfield," Sirius said as he wrote down the notes Slughorn started to write down.
"Yes well, I've been quite busy," Jade said curtly as she checked over all the ingredients that she needed.
"Sure. Everything ok with you and Greystone?" Sirius asked. Once seeing Jade's death glare she sent at him Sirius continued on, "I mean... it's just, the whole article thing was basically all my fault. I mean, they made something out of nothing, right? I just wanted to make sure I didn't cause a rift between you too."
Jade stared hard at Sirius, then shrugged, "It wasn't your fault. Liam and I are fine, so don't sweat over it," Jade said then went up to the front to grab the rest of the ingredients that they were going to need.
"Ok, good! I'm glad!" Sirius called after her with fake cheeriness. Sirius slouched back in his seat and stared moodily at his cauldron.
"Now put in a pinch of pixie dust. A pinch James... James a pinch not a bloody handful!" Lily snapped at James.
James sighed irritably, "Sorry," he said tightly.
"Ok, we need to cut up some dornstring roots in small pieces. Try and make them all the same size," Lily instructed, giving James half of the roots and taking the other half for herself to cut up.
They cut the roots in silence. That's how it had been lately, silent. Anytime they were together, they hadn't said much to each other. They were both still irritated with each other, and both were too stubborn to come out and apologize.
"No, James, yours are all different sizes! You have to make them the same," Lily said annoyed.
"They are the same size!" James snapped back heatedly.
Lily glared at James, "No they're not,"
James looked down at his roots... he had no idea what the hell Lily was looking at, but his were fine. Just so she wouldn't keep snapping at him, James cut them up a bit more then showed her, "Happy?" James asked.
Lily frowned at him and gathered up all of there roots and threw them into the cauldron, "I'm not happy," Lily sighed.
"Me neither," James agreed.
"I don't like fighting with you James," Lily told him, turning around in her seat so she could face him.
James gave Lily a lop sided smile, "I don't like fighting with you either... I'm sorry about what I said. I was being a real insensitive prat,"
"Yeah... you were," Lily joked ruffling James hair.
James grinned, grabbing Lily's arm and pulling her into a hug, "I believe we just survived our first fight!" James said excitedly pulling away from Lily.
Lily smiled, her eyes sparkling, "Sweet!" Lily yelled and they high fived.
Both James and Lily started laughing, "We're such loser's!" James said.
Lily and James went back to working on their potion, this time much more amicably. Lily was glad their fight was over... but something was still nagging at her. It wasn't like James to blow up about something like that. Lily was about to ask James why he had gotten so angry when Slughorn appeared in front of their desk.
"Oho there Lily. You're potion is looking splendid!" Slughorn said jollily.
Lily was about to cringe but quickly tried to smile. It ended up looking like an extremely strained smile, "Thanks Professor,"
Professor Slughorn was an extremely... chatty professor, and he really liked to talk to Lily. Lily didn't mind talking to Professor Slughorn... but sometimes his little chats with her made her want to pull her bloody hair out.
"I'm throwing a–" Professor Slughorn started to say but was cut off by a frantic sounding Peter.
"Professor! Professor my potions bubbling and burning through my desk! OW! Oh, Professor it got on my skin, it's burning my skin!" Peter's voice cried out.
Professor Slughorn sighed and shook his head then made his way over to Peter's desk and helped him fix his potion, then sent him up to see Madame Pomfrey.
"I think out potion looks half decent," Jade commented, as she examined the powder blue potion sitting in her and Sirius's cauldron, "I bet we get at least an E on it."
Sirius smirked, "Will that be your highest mark in this class then?"
Jade glared at Sirius and hit him hard in the arm, "Watch it Black," Jade growled, pouring their potion into a test tube.
"It is the truth though isn't it?" Sirius asked amused as he grabbed the test tube from Jade's hands, "I mean, you tried to put in Gallow's ear when the potion called for Gallow's nose. I hate to break it to ya Caulfield... but you're really not very talented in potions."
Jade's eyes flashed with anger, "I do realize that Black, no need to be an asshole and point it out!" Jade snapped angrily.
"Right," Sirius said smirking and winked at Jade then went up and gave the potion to Slughorn.
"You're not being mean to my best friend are you now Black?" Piper asked smiling as she came up behind Sirius and handed in her potion as well.
"Me? Of course not!" Sirius said grinning.
"You better not be, that girls been through a lot lately, you don't need to add to it," Piper said crossing her arms at Sirius, who tried to look innocent.
"Wouldn't dream of it!" Sirius said, not able to wipe the smile off of his face.
"So I'll see you this weekend," Blake said coming over to where Piper and Sirius were standing hesitantly.
Piper turned to look at Blake and smiled brightly at him, "Yeah definitely, bye Blake!" Piper said happily waving good-bye to Blake.
Piper turned back to look at Sirius who was frowning at her. Piper laughed, "What?"
Sirius looked over and watched Blake disappear into the hall then looked back at Piper, "You're not really going to go on a date with that Nelson bloke right?" Sirius asked Piper curiously.
Piper rolled her eyes, slung her bag over her shoulder, then linked arms with Sirius and they walked out of the room together, "Yes I am going to go on a date with him. He just wants to go to Hogsmeade on Saturday for some butter beer. I doubt anything's going to happen with it."
"Saturday? Saturday is Valentine's day Piper, don't you think that he's going to think that it's a little something more then just a date since it's on one of the most romantic day's of the year?" Sirius asked, raising an eyebrow at her.
Piper stopped in the middle of the hall, her mouth dropping opened, "OMIGOD! Valentine's day? I had no idea! He must think I'm going to marry him!" Piper said astonished, clapping her hands on her cheeks.
"Har har," Sirius laughed drily, "Very funny Cromwell."
Piper smiled then linked arms with Sirius again, "Don't be so worried, it's just one date. I'm not that interested in Blake, but I really do need to start dating again... I can't keep waiting around for someone who doesn't even want me."
Sirius frowned. He really wished he could tell Piper that Remus really did still care for her, but he knew he couldn't, Remus would kill him if he did. But it killed Sirius to see Piper hurting so much, even if she put on a brave face, Sirius could see through it, it was the same face he put on.
"Well, if it means anything, I like you waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better then Janelle. I. Can't. Stand. Her. Every time she speaks, I want to drown myself, no actually I want to drown her. Honestly, her voice is one of the most irritating voices ever. OH, and her laugh! My god it's like a banshee!" Sirius complained.
Piper started laughing, "You're horrible! What do you say about me when I'm not around?" Piper asked amused.
"That you're the sweetest and sexiest girl I know!" Sirius said raising his eye brows suggestively.
Piper smacked Sirius lightly on the arm and laughed, "You're gross,"
They continued to walk in comfortable silence. Sirius liked that he had a girl who was just strictly his friend. It was nice. He was glad he and Piper had become such good friends, he felt like he could tell her almost anything, and he just loved joking around with her, she was becoming one of his best friends.
"Even though you're going on that date this weekend, you're still going to find time to come to my quidditch game, right?" Sirius asked with puppy dog eyes.
"How could I turn down a face like that," Piper asked pinching Sirius's cheek, "Of course I'll be there! I'll even wear an 'I love Sirius' t-shirt!"
"And you'll cheer for me really loud? Louder then anyone else?" Sirius asked, his eyes gleaming.
"Well... I don't know if I can cheer louder then your hordes of girl fans... but I'll definitely do my best," Piper smiled sincerely.
"My fan club is getting bigger isn't it?" Sirius asked dreamily.
Piper rolled her eyes, but despite herself laughed, "Careful Sirius, or you'll get a big head," Piper warned him.
"I'll never get a big head as long as you're here to bring me back down," Sirius said playfully, snaking his arm around Piper's waist and pulling her closer to him.
As Piper laughed, she noticed a bunch of younger girls looking at her with envy... and anger, which caused Piper to laugh even more, "Come on, we're going to be late for Transfiguration," Piper said, grabbing onto Sirius's hand and leading the way.
"Did James say where he was taking you?" Jade asked as she slipped on her quidditch robes.
"No, he says he wants it to be a surprise. But he did give me a hint. He said that it was somewhere that was important to our relationship... and I have no clue as to what that mean's, but I'll find out soon enough," Lily said happily as she applied eyeliner.
"Who's ready for quidditch!" Piper asked coming out of the washroom.
Jade and Piper looked over at her and started to laugh like crazy. Piper had on a white t-shirt, with Sirius's face on it that said 'I love Sirius', she had Go Gryffindor in gold paint across her fore head, and she was wearing a black pleated mini skirt.
"You're not seriously going to wear that are you?" Jade asked, barely able to contain her laughter.
Piper shrugged, "I Siriusly am," Piper joked and started to laugh but stopped when Lily and Jade just stared at her, "Sorry."
"You and Sirius spend way to much time together," Lily said shaking her head at Piper.
Piper grinned, "I know, but he's just so much fun!" Piper told them as she went over to her bed and put on her shoes.
"I think you're delusional," Jade smirked.
Piper looked up at Jade, "Jealous?"
"What! Of course not!" Jade said quickly, her face flushing.
Piper smiled, "Relax Jade, I was just kidding,"
"Come on guys, we should get going," Lily said, after she had finished putting her make up on.
The three of them made their way down to the common area then out the hall. Today was Gryffindor vs Hufflepuff so as they made their way down to the pitch tons of people had dressed up in the huffelpuff colours or the Gryffindor colours.
"All right guys, I've got to go, I'll see you two after the game," Jade said once they had reached the pitch.
"Good luck!" Lily and Piper called after Jade as she went into the girls locker room.
Lily and Piper made their way up to the stands where most of the Gryffindor's sat. Once they made it up the stairs, Lily and Piper scanned the stands for somewhere for them to sit. Lily saw Remus sitting near the top of the stands, but wasn't sure if she should mention it to Piper.
"Look, there's Remus, let's go sit with him," Piper said, grabbing onto Lily's arm and dragging her up the stairs.
Remus looked up and saw them coming and smiled, "Hey Lily, Piper," Remus said happily as they took seats next to him, "Nice shirt Piper," Remus said laughing lightly.
"Thanks," Piper said, grinning, if possible, even wider then before, "You doing all right Remus? You're looking a little pale."
Remus smiled weakly, "I'm fine, just tired that's all. I haven't gotten much sleep lately,"
"You sure?" Lily asked, as she too noticed how pale Remus was looking.
"Don't worry guys, I just need a good night's sleep and I'll be fine," Remus assured them.
"Hey baby," Janelle said as she came up and sat next to Remus, snaking her arm around his waist and planting a kiss on his lips.
Lily felt Piper stiffen next to her, but when Lily looked at her face, her smile was still intact... it did looked a lot more forced though. Lily didn't know how Piper could be so strong with Janelle dangling Remus right in front of her, she would never have been able to keep her cool like Piper was.
Lily and Piper turned their attention back to the quidditch game that was about to start. Lily felt uneasy when she saw Amos Diggory and James glaring at each other down on the pitch as they mounted their brooms. Madame Hooch walked to the middle of the pitch, waited for both teams to be up in the air, then threw the quaffle up high.
"The quaffle is immediatley taken by Jade Caulfield of Gryffindor–amazing chaser that girl is!" Logan Jordan said, who was doing the commentary, "She's zipped down the pitch, avoided a bludger sent her way by Hufflepuff beater Don Burns. Caulfield passes over to fellow chaser Delaney Hornburg, who passes back to Caufield, Caufield shoots–keeper Goldberg dives for the quaffle... he misses... GRYFFINDOR SCORES! The quaffle is back in play, Hufflepuff chaser Mike Ford has it, he races down the pitch, passes to teammate Cathy Crow, Crow passes to Nia Song, Song passes to Ford- Caulfield intercepts the pass and speeds off down to the Hufflepuff goal! That girl sure can fly! She's all alone, it's just Caufield and Goldberg -OUCH- Caulfield takes a bludger to the arm and drops the quaffle -wait- Caufield dives for it... she's got it! Caulfield shoots-GRYFFINDOR SCORES! Song has the quaffle, nice dive around Thornburg, sends it over to Ford, Ford shoots- Hufflepuff scores, blast it all! Brady Collins has the quaffle, he passes to Caufield, Crow and Ford have closed in on either side of Caufield, this doesn't look good! BEAUTIFUL! Caufield pulls back and does a beautiful maneuver away from Crow and Ford and passes over to Thornburg, Thornburg throws to Collins-and it's intercepted by Song. Song makes her way down the pitch, she throws to Ford, Ford-youch-Ford gets a bludger to the back of the head courtesy of Gryffindor beater Sirius Black!"
"YEAH SIRIUS!" Piper yelled jumping up out of her seat and clapping loudly.
Unfortunately Sirius probably wasn't able to hear her, because as she stood up to cheer, the first two rows filled with girls stood up and started shreiking 'Go Sirius' as well. Piper laughed and sat back down grinning.
"Thornburg has the quaffle-hold on- James Potter has seen the snitch! Diggory and Potter are both diving towards the ground, they're both reaching for it... POTTER HAS THE SNITCH, GRYFFINDOR WINS!"
"YEAH!" Lily and Piper jumped up happily, along with everyone else in Gryffindor. Lily and Piper hugged happily, then Piper turned around to see Remus grinning at her, and they hugged as well causing Janelle to turn a very unattractive colour of red.
"Come on, we should go congratulate them!" Lily said grabbing a hold of Piper's arm and dragging her down onto the pitch where most of the rest of Gryffindor had also gone.
Lily shoved people out of her way, too excited to apologize, and made her way over to where James, Sirius, Jade and the rest of the quidditch team were cheering loudly. Lily quickly ran up to James, who's eyes lit up when he saw her, and jumped into his arms.
"Congratulations!" Lily said happily. She went to give James a quick kiss, but James wrapped his arms tightly around Lily and deepened it.
Sirius grinned as he watched Lily and James make out then looked over at Piper with puppy dog eyes, "Oh hell no!" Piper said laughing.
"All right, well at least jump into my arms!" Sirius said, outstretching his arms, ready to catch her.
Piper looked at him unsure, then a wicked smile spread across her lips and she backed up, then ran and jumped into Sirius's arms. Sirius caught her then whirled her around causing her to laugh.
"Stop or I'll be sick!" Piper pleaded.
Sirius put Piper back down and grinned at her, "So... did ya cheer for me?" Sirius asked.
"Of course!" Piper said, "I was the loudest out of all of your fan club!" Piper laughed.
Piper looked over and saw Jade coming her way and quickly grabbed a hold of her and pulled her into a big hug, "OMIGOD! Jade you were absolutely amaizng. I couldn't believe it!" Piper said excitedly.
Jade smiled brightly, "Thanks," She said, panting slightly. Her face was red and sweaty from playing quidditch, but her eyes were bright and her smile was extremely wide, she was ecstatic that they had won against Hufflepuff.
"PARTY IN THE GRYFFINDOR COMMON ROOM TONIGHT!" Sirius shouted loudly. Everyone on the pitch cheered loudly, "Just kidding professor!" Sirius called over to McGonagall was who giving him the evil eye, but she knew he wasn't.
James and Lily finally broke apart for their kiss and Lily had a goofy grin on her face, "I think you should win more often," Lily said dreamily.
James laughed and pulled Lily in closer to him, "You do, do you?" James said kissing her again, "I'm just going to go and change, then we'll go on our date ok?"
"Ok!" Lily said excitedly. She watched James disappear through the crowd, then went over to where Sirius, Piper and Jade were all standing and talking. When Lily saw Sirius she smiled brightly, "Sirius you were amazing! I don't know what this quidditch team would do without you!"
"Awe, Lilykins, stop, you'll make me blush!" Sirius said, his eyes gleaming from the compliment. Lily and Sirius hugged, then Lily turned around and engulfed Jade in a hug as well.
"I can't believe how well you've been playing Jade, no wonder the Harley Harpies are begging you to be on their team!" Lily said, yelling slightly over the crowd.
Jade blushed, "Thanks Lily,"
"...we are going to have a party in the common room right?" Piper asked Sirius excitedly.
Sirius grinned, "Of course! Do you think us winning a quidditch game could go uncelebrated?" Sirius asked.
"All right, well I better go and meet Blake now then so I'll have plenty of time to party with you guys!" Piper said, then disappeared into the crowd.
"I'm going to go wait for James by the locker room, he'll never be able to find me with all of these people on the pitch. You both played brilliant, and I'll see you tonight!" Lily called to Jade and Sirius and then disappeared as well into the crowd.
Jade scratched her head, then glanced over at Sirius, "... you did good Black," Jade said politely.
"So did you Caufield. Actually you did more then good, you were amazing. I really do hope you consider going into quidditch, I really do believe you would be absolutely brilliant in it," Sirius told Jade seriously.
Jade felt her whole face heat up. She wouldn't doubt that she looked red as a beet, "Er... thanks Black. Well I'm going to head back up to the common room... I supposed I'll see you there tonight..bye," Jade said quickly, then dashed into the crowd.
Sirius watched her go with a grin on his face.
"James, I really hate when you blindfold me... can't I just take it off?" Lily asked impatiently.
"Just hold on Lily, we're almost there," James told Lily excitedly.
He had been planning for Valentine's day since they had started going out. He really wanted to make this an extra special day for Lily, it was like his way to show her how much that he really appreciated her. It also was to make up for what an ass he had been last week, James was determined not to let Madison play mind tricks with him anymore. It was because of what she said that had made him freak out so bad, but he knew better now than to listen to her.
"Seriously James, can I please take this off?" Lily asked. The last time James had made her wear a blindfold, he had made her face one of her biggest fears. She was really scared he was going to make her do something like that again.
"Ok, go ahead," James told her.
"Finally," Lily grumbled and took the blindfold off.
When she did her breath caught. They were in the astronomy tower, and James had put candles all over the window seals, and around the edges of the tower, and in the middle was a blanket with two long candles, flowers and two plates.
Lily placed her hands by her heart, she couldn't believe James had done this. It was beautiful. Lily walked into the room and took all of it in. When she looked back at James, she was smiling happily, her eyes sparkling with tears.
"James... it's beautiful!" Lily whispered.
James smiled and walked over to Lily, engulfing her in a hug, "I'm glad you like it. I thought the astronomy tower would be appropriate since it was the first place you and I never tried to kill each. You know... that night that you and Owen broke up," James said, rubbing Lily's back.
"I remember and I love it James, I absolutely love it!" Lily said pulling away from James so she could look him straight in the eyes, "I really do,"
"I'm glad," James said leaning down and kissing Lily, "Ok, come sit down." James said leading Lily to the blanket and sitting her in front of one of the plates.
James quickly went over to the other plate and sat down. He grabbed the picnic basket he had packed, and pulled out two napkins giving one to Lily and then placing one in front of himself.
"So for dinner tonight, I have brought us something...extremely gourmet and what all of the rich people are eating," James said, in a fake french accent.
Lily wrinkled her nose, scared of what James had made for them. Lily wasn't that much of an... adventurous eater... she was actually really picky, but whatever James had made for her, she would force herself to eat it, no matter what.
"I have made... chicken fingers and french fries!" James said.
Lily smiled, "My favourite!" Lily said, clapping her hands together happily.
James put food on both of there plates and they dug in.
"James, this has to be the best chicken fingers and french fries I have ever had. Really, it's amazing," Lily said, as she grabbed another chicken finger and ate it quickly.
"Slow down there Lily," James laughed, "You'll give yourself a stomach ache."
"... oh right... whoops!" Lily said, her face flushing with embarrassment.
Once they had finished eating, James cleaned off the blanket and pushed the basket to the side. James smiled at Lily, and Lily smiled back at James.
"I have something for you," James said, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a little box.
Lily took the box and then looked up at James smiling. Lily opened up the box and gasped. Inside was a beautiful necklace. On a long gold chain, there was a gold heart shaped locket, "Oh James, it's beautiful," Lily said, staring transfixed at the locket.
"Open it up," James told Lily.
Lily opened the locket, and on one side of the locket was a picture of her and James. They were smiling at the camera, then kissed each other lightly and looked back and smiled even wider at the camera. Lily remembered that picture. They had taken it after they had first gotten together on New Year's.
"It's Perfect," Lily said. She leaned over and kissed James, "Can you put it on for me?" Lily asked James.
James nodded and Lily turned around so he could put the necklace on her. Once he did, Lily stroked the necklace affectionately, it really was quite a lovely gift.
"I have something for you as well," Lily told James.
"You do?" James asked surprise, "I didn't think you were going to get me anything."
"Of course I was going to get you something!" Lily said.
She handed James a medium sized box, and James grabbed it happily and ripped the wrapping paper opened, then lifted the box lid off. James stared completely astonished at the contents in the box. Lily stared nervously at James... he wasn't saying anything, he was just staring at her gift.
"... do you like it?" Lily asked.
Lily had barely gotten the words out, when James jumped over and wrapped Lily tightly in a hug. James was squeezing Lily so tightly, she could barely breathe.
"OMIGOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!" James yelled happily, "YES! WAHOO! I HAVE NIMBUS GLOVES! YEAH!" James said still yelling and bouncing happily.
Lily broke out into a grin. She was so glad James liked her gift. She knew that his quidditch gloves were starting to get worn out, and the lady at the quidditch store had told her that those were top of the line ones, but she still wasn't sure if he would have liked them... apparently he did.
"YOU ARE THE BEST GIRLFRIEND EVER!" James said happily pulling away and kissing Lily eagerly.
Lily smiled and kissed James back, her hands finding their way into his hair and pulling him down on top of her. James hands ran up and down Lily's body, and Lily ran her hands up and down James back and stomach.
James pulled away and smiled down at Lily, "I love you," he said, not able to contain his smile.
"I love you too," Lily told him, and meaning it with all her heart.
James laid down next to Lily and Lily cuddled up next to James, who wrapped his arms around her and rested his chin on the top of her head. They both stared up at the stars, not wanting to ever leave each other's sides.
