A/N: Hello hello! Well, here's the tenth chapter of my award winning fic! Haha, that's funny. Well, as normal, please read and reply, and all that fun stuff!
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Strangest Friends
Chapter 10: Brainstorms and Stags

Lily was brushing her hair into a pony tail, like normal people for once, while her friends were still asleep. It was about 5:30 AM, but she couldn't sleep. She had been having odd dreams but could never remember what they were about. She always knew that she would wake up in a cold sweat, but her memory was like it had been used with a Memory Charm. Lily pulled on her robes and walked down the long stairwell, hoping she wouldn't see anything even remotely related to Voldemort. She had to admit that she had been extremely scared when she saw what was written on the wall.
Lily got up and slipped her slippers on. She carefully tip-toed out of the dormitory. As she passed their old bedroom, she sped up her pace. She didn't like to think about the room. She shivered slightly, and tightened her pale blue bathrobe around her. Lily pushed the door open that led to the common room, expecting it to be empty. But, instead, Sirius was in there writing on a sheet of paper. Lily came up behind him and sat down.
"Hi, Sirius," she said quietly.
"Hey, Lily," he answered, glancing up at her from her sheet of paper, which he was shielding unconsiously, or not. "What are you doing up?"
Lily sighed slightly. "I couldn't sleep. What about you?"
"Same," Sirius said. "That and James snores. Really annoying."
"Ah," Lily said, smiling slowly. "So, what are you writing?"
"Nothing," Sirius said. This time he hid it on purpose.
"Hmm," Lily said, winking. "I see."
"What, Professor Trelawney?" Sirius said sarcastically and rolling his eyes.
"Oh,"Lily said, putting her hand on her chest and acting as though she was wounded. "That one hurt."
"Bet it did," Sirius said, sitting down on a couch.
"Sirius," Lily asked him, "What do you think that thing meant in our dormitory?"
Sirius looked at Lily with a semi-bemused expression. "I just hope it doesn't mean what I think it means."
"And that would be?"
Sirius painfully looked at the fire and squinted slightly. "Lily, you know what I think it means."
Lily gave an involuntary shudder and shook her head. "This is just wrong, Sirius. What did James ever do to him?" She was speaking in barely a whisper.
"I don't know," Sirius said, shaking his head.

It was about an hour and a half later, and Lily had gone back up to her dormitory to take a shower. Mainly, she didn't want to be in Jamie and James's lines if fire when they got out of bed to see Sirius and Lily together. Fur would fly. Anyway, she came out of the bathroom and walked into her room to find Tessa and Jamie getting dressed.
"And where were you?" Tessa asked.
"Taking a shower," Lily said, pulling out some of her cloaks.
"Where were you before that?" Tessa prodded.
"Tess, leave her alone," Jamie said as she pulled a sweatshirt over her head. "Lily's entitled to her privacy."
"Thank you," Lily said grumpily.
"You know, as much as I'm looking forward to being a human again, I really wanted to sleep in," Jamie said, tying her shoes.
"Yeah," Lily said. "I missed hanging out with the guys."
"Think we're going to have a dance or anything?" Tessa asked.
"Probably not, what with all is going on," Jamie said lightly.
"It would be nice though," Lily said.
"All right," Jamie said, jumping on her toes. "I'm ready, let's go!"
"Jeesh," Lily said, pulling on her shoes. "What are we in a hurry for?"
"I don't know why you're in a hurry, but I know why I am," Jamie said and smiled happily.
"Really?" Tessa asked. "Why?"
"Starts with a 'S'," Lily said daringly, "ends with and 'S' and 'iriu' in the middle."
"Oh," Tessa said gloomily. "I want a boy-friend."
"You should talk to Remus," Jamie said, sitting on her bed and watching Lily brush her hair. "I'm sure he has his reasons for being so distant."
"Do you know anything?" Tessa asked hopefully.
"No!" Jamie said quickly.
"Oh," Tessa said.
Jamie breathed a sigh of relief, but Lily was looking at Jamie questionly.
"Ok, let's go!" Jamie said, jummping up and walking to the common room, leaving a confused Lily and Tessa behind her.
"She scares me sometimes," Lily said.
"And you scare me often," Tessa winked and walked down the steps.
"Well, now, that was uncalled for," Lily said and followed her.
When they reached the common room, there was a hush. They could see Jamie talking to Sirius and James, but Remus was nowhere in sight. The two girls could tell they were talking about something important, so they walked over to them.
"But where is-" Jamie stopped when Tessa and Lily walked up.
"Where's who?" Lily asked, sitting down.
"No one," James said quickly.
"But-" Tessa began.
"It's nothing," Sirius said sternly, making her shut up.
There was an awkward silence, and Jamie looked around quickly and said, "Hey, look, maybe there's a dance."
There was a new paper on the board, and, with that, both Lily and Tessa went to look.
"So, where's Remus now?" Jamie asked urgently when they were out of earshot.
"He's in the Willow," James said. "It was weird, because the moon isn't supposed to go full until tomorrow."
"He was right, it's just like PMS," Jamie said, laying back into the couch. "You can try to predict it, but you don't have much of a chance of being right."
"Gee, wish I could clarify on the point," Sirius joked.
"No you don't," Jamie said. "Is there anything I can do?"
"Well, the only way that James, Peter, and I get to talk to him is by transforming," Sirius said calmly.
"Sirius, you did not just tell her that," James said, slapping his forehead.
"C'mon, James, she was going to find out evenually."
"You guys are Animagi?" Jamie asked in a hushed voice.
"Yeah," Sirius said. "I turn into this big dog, thing, James a stag, and Peter a rat."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Jamie asked them. "Or Lily and Tessa?"
"Well, we kind of broke the law in doing it," James said. "And we figured, the less ears the better."
"Good point," Jamie said.
Lily and Tessa came back over and looked at their friends sadly.
"What?" James asked them.
"We have a dance tomorrow," Tessa said.
"So?" Jamie asked. "You were just saying you wanted one."
"Yeah, but," Tessa said. "You guys have 'significant others' and I don't."
"Oh," James said, turned around and rolled his eyes at Jamie and Sirius. They both smiled.
"And, I'm thinking I might have to go stag," Tessa said, sitting down.
Jamie looked at Sirius, then James, then the three of them burst out laughing.
"James, that's really insensitive!" Lily gasped.
"Sorry," James said, but continued to smile.