(A/N): here it is a major turning point! I've tortured you long enough I think...
Sarah recovered from her gram's death because of her friends and could soon be seen laughing with them and such but a few dark clouds were forming which no one knew about. All seemed right again as they entered April, nothing terrible was happening. Sarah sat in the common room read a book when Sirius, James, Rachel and Lily came in.
"It just doesn't make any sense," Sirius muttered; "she's not on this list, that can't be right I must have missed something." He didn't look at anyone as he went up to his dorm.
"Someone please make him shut up!" James screamed as he entered the common room; "if you hear his cries for help don't answer them, he deserves what he gets." James smiled menacingly as he rubbed his hands together and made his way upstairs.
"Don't kill him James!" Lily warned shaking her head and looking down at Sarah. "Do you have a spare quill I can use? The boys decided to turn all mine into sticks." Lily shook her head smiling a bit, she was so use to it by now she hardly ever got angry.
"In my trunk," Sarah smiled at her as Lily started up the stairs.
"So Sarah," Rachel smiled sitting down; "what you reading this time?"
"Robert Frost," she smiled but a scream cut her off before she could tell her about it; "Shit!" Sarah screamed and ran up the stairs with Rachel trying to keep up. Sarah entered her room to find Lily staring at her wild eyed with the black velvet dress in her hand.
"Lily, Sarah, what's wrong?" Rachel asked then went wide eyed when she saw the dress. Sarah heard footsteps coming up the stairs and grabbed the dress from Lily throwing it back in the trunk as James came into the room.
"What's wrong?" He panted as Sirius came in after him panting also.
"Nothing's wrong," Sarah smiled; "it's girl stuff. I don't think you'll want all the details."
"Are you sure everyone's alright?" James said looking at the others.
"We're fine James," Lily confirmed.
He shook his head following Sirius out; "women."
Rachel raced over and slammed the door shut as Lily bared down on Sarah; "you're Blacky? I thought you said you couldn't go?"
Sarah looked at the floor; "after you guys left my gram's owl showed up with all this stuff. I just couldn't let it go to waste."
"And why haven't you told Sirius yet?" Rachel asked.
"You know how the boys look at me, it'd be to weird," Sarah told them.
Lily and Rachel sat down on her bed as Sarah sat on her trunk; "you're going to have to tell him eventually you know," Lily said.
"I thought he'd just forget about me," Sarah tried to smile.
"He didn't," Rachel said; 'the sooner you tell him the better."
"I know, I know," Sarah said.
Lily moved over as did Rachel both sitting on either side of her and hugging her; "well," Lily smiled; "Sirius finally likes you, so how does Sarah Elisabeth Black sound?"
"Yeah Sarah, who you going to name the baby after?" Rachel teased and all Sarah could do was laugh at them.
The next day Sarah sat in between Lily and Rachel at the Gryffindor table before dinner as they did their homework. The mail came and Sarah received yet another letter from her parents, god what did they want this time? The death of her gram had made her resentful of her parents, what right did they have to dismiss her gram's death as if it was nothing at all. Sarah didn't open the letter, she finished her homework, she ate her dinner, sat in the common room, avoided a prank war between Lily and Sirius, before she opened the letter, she was glad she had waited when she did.
Dear Sarah Elisabeth,
Your mother's and mine work has paid off for you. We will be picking you up from Hogwarts on the last day of school and from then on you will be attending Saint Gretrude's finishing school for girls. It is the most respected finishing school in the world, granted you will be going there with muggles but you have completed enough of your magical training for that of a lady. If you excel at this school it is guaranteed that you will marry into a royal family, which is what we have been priming you for since you were born.
Your father
Sarah went to bed, the next day she said nothing to her friends but after they left for class she approached professor Dumbledore. "Miss McKinley, what can I help you with?"
"I received a letter from my parents and it informed me that I will no longer be attending Hogwarts," she whispered.
Dumbledore nodded; "I received an identical letter."
"Albus?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"Just wanted to make sure," Sarah said and then walked to her class.
"Albus?" McGonagall asked again; "how can you just let her parents take her out of school like this."
"As much as I would like to Minerva I cannot intervene," Albus says bowing his head.
"Hey guys listen to this!" James smiled as they sat in the common room. Everyone was gathered around the fire either studying or reading their mail even though it was half way through May and their first exams were tomorrow. James sat up straighter looking at his letter; "my mum thinks she knows who Sirius' dream girl is."
Lily tried not to look at Sarah who became more engrossed in her book; "who is it?"
"She's funny, sweet, can take the pranks you boys pull on her, she would take care of him, and though you've never noticed it she's very beautiful," James quoted from the letter.
"So who is it?" Remus asked interested. Lily and Rachel shot each other glances as Sarah hid her face deeper in her book.
"Sarah?" James sang; "Sarah?"
She pulled her face out of the book; "yes?"
He smiled; "hey Sirius? I'll give you a galleon to kiss her."
"What?!" Sirius and Sarah asked outraged together from where they were sitting on the sofa together.
"Come on let's just test mum's theory," James smiled. "What could it hurt?"
"I'm not kissing him!" Sarah declared.
"Oh come on Sarah, I can't be that bad of a kisser," Sirius smiled trying to snake and arm around her waist. Sarah jumped up and Sirius followed chasing her around the room.
"Sirius don't!" Lily says trying to help as much as she could but her wand was upstairs in her room.
"Sirius leave her alone!" Rachel called.
As Sirius sat on Sarah he smiled down at her then moved close to whisper to her; "if you really don't want me to I won't."
Sarah could feel his breath on her face and she couldn't help it, she kissed him. Sirius pulled away from her, he saw the chain and pulled on it exposing the ring; "Blacky?" He moved off of her.
"I guess the game's over," Sarah said looking at the floor.
"Yeah it is," Sirius said angrily. "How could you Sarah?"
"I'm sorry," she said.
"You're sorry? You knew what I was going through, you knew the whole time!" He screamed at her.
Sarah took a step back; "I'm sorry. I didn't know how to tell you. I thought you would forget."
"Forget!"
"I'm sorry Sirius," she said reaching for him.
"Don't come near me Sarah, don't you dare!" He bellowed as he went up to the guys' dorm.
She stood there in silence for a few minutes just watching the stairs hoping that it was a prank, that he would come down and sweep her off her feet but he didn't. She turned back to her audience; "good night."
"Sarah," Lily said softly but Sarah held up her hand.
"Don't Lily, you warned me. I should of known better," she said going to bed.
"James Potter!" Lily yelled at her boyfriend.