Chapter 51

Amanda smiled as she walked down to the common room. She knew that gossip would be rife as Sirius had long ago entered the room and James was missing but she didn't care. Looking around the room she found Sirius sitting on the sofa with Remus and Peter.

Quickly she dropped into the space next to him allowing her head to fall onto his shoulder in that comfortable way. Minutes later James had taken a seat on the armchair opposite them. She could see the small smile on his face but didn't meet his eyes.

Sirius' lips rested gently on her forehead and looking into his eyes she smiled. Leaning up gently she allowed her lips to meet his. Peter spoke up.

"How come you can so openly do that?"

"Do what?"

She knew what he meant and so did Sirius but yet their friendship was a strange one. They were more than mere friends but that was all they really were. After all Sirius never got serious with a girl and had his eye on a Hufflepuff and she herself had just started going out with James.

"Kiss like that. You do it all the time and yet you claim not to be anything more than friends. You can't be come on how long have you been dating in secret?"

Amanda smiled as she allowed her hand to fall into Sirius'. She smiled widely letting her eyes meet with James for a brief second before answering Peter.

"We're only friends Pete honestly. There is nothing between us. And I mean it. Come on he's been meeting with a Hufflepuff for a week and I'm with someone else."

She felt Sirius move behind her and his mouth fell to her ear.

"So he finally did it then?"

The smile grew wider as she nodded in response and she only just heard Peter asking her who it was. She stood up; stretching to her full length, which lets face it wasn't all that much. Allowing her hand to linger in Sirius' she moved towards the armchair and positioned herself on the arm.

James' arm slipped easily around her and she leaned into his chest allowing him to cover her. Peter's small ohh made her laugh and then she heard a small laugh from the other side of the room. Turning to look she saw Lily smiling as she moved over and took a seat next to Remus and Branwen lowered herself next to Peter.

"It's about time; you two have been pussy footing around each other too long."

Amanda laughed at her but she just grinned widely at them twisting herself around to look at Remus.

"You so owe Ginny a meal Re, she told you they'd get together before Easter."

"Great, couldn't you two wait until April then she'd have to have paid for the meal."

Amanda looked closely at Remus and back towards James. Remus had a look on his face that gave Amanda the impression that he wanted to be more than just friends with Ginny.

"What about Joe?"

"It was his idea!"

James laughed and Amanda leant further into him enjoying the way his arms felt around her. Sirius though stood up and looked around.

"Well if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to go find Dawn."

He wiggled his eyebrows at Amanda and she began to laugh. Peter though looked up at him.

"Who's Dawn?"

But Sirius had already left the room so the boy turned and looked at Amanda but she was still laughing too hard so James spoke up.

"A third year Hufflepuff that Sirius is kind of seeing."

Peter just nodded and looked at Branwen, Lily and Remus had moved onto the floor and had started up a game of chess and Branwen was tilting her head at Peter and finally he got the message and stood up following her away from the group.

Amanda rested her head against James' chest and the pair sat there watching Lily losing the game of chess. Feeling sorry for her Amanda stood and sat next to her and the pair took on Remus who was then aided by James, each side determined to beat the other no matter what.


I know I know. You're sick of these chapters that focus around Amanda and James. You want to move on with the story, and you'd be happier if they weren't together. Well they are together for a while anyway and the next chapter is the Valentine dance, which means Ginny, Alice, Joe and Frank. So we're moving on.

Oh and two chapters to make up for the long time with no post. Not sure when the next will be I've actually only writen 454 words of a 1500 essay which is due in in 4 days. Holiday was good though, too hot for my liking (90 in the shade at times!) but I'm glad to be back. So next post sometime in the week.

Kris