*THE DEVIL WITH AN ANGEL'S FACE*

Chapter Three: Who to Choose?!

By: littlebit

DISCLAIMER: Boohoo!!! J.K. Rowling owns everything (except for Kylie, who probably won't be mentioned again!!). Wah!!!!

Dumbledore finished reading and looked up from the paper. Sirius and I looked at him, stunned. 'I know it's a surprise, but you two should know,' he said. I had no problem with it, but I'm sure Sirius did. He was pale white and looked like he had seen a ghost (although it's hard to say that, no one is afraid of ghosts here). I could tell Sirius was curious, but also worried about what this really meant. We could both tell that there was something that Dumbledore wasn't telling us. Dumbledore cleared his throat and said 'Well after all that mess in the 1st year and from all the tests we took, we did miss something!,' he looked at Sirius and laughed. 'Don't worry Sirius! You're at Hogwarts! The safest place in the world.' He looked fondly at us. Now, you two should go to bed. Everything will be fine.' As we got up to leave, he said,' Oh, don't tell anyone, people aren't quite fond of this type of thing. Come to my office on Friday and we will figure out something to do.' He added, winking at us,'Although I'm sure I'll be seeing you sooner.'

Sirius and I left the office and started toward the Gryfinndor common room in silence, but he stopped halfway there. He looked at the floor and said,' Lil, come on, there's something I want to show you.'

He took my hand and we ran through the corridors until we reached a door with a crooked handle. I recognised it at once. 'Sirius, you know we're not allowed in there,' I said anxious to get away from the door, it brought back horrible memories. 'We're not going there silly, we're going here.' He turned to the right and slid down the banister. I followed and almost fell on the floor. Sirius caught me by my waist and held me for a few minutes, looking into my eyes. Then he kissed me. It was slow and passionate. I melted into it the kiss and it wasn't before I heard footsteps coming that I realised we shouldn't have been making out in the middle of the corridor at midnight.

I pulled away from Sirius, right as Malfoy rounded the corner with his stupid friends. Since they outnumbered Sirius and me by one, Malfoy was feeling brave. 'Oh, it's Lily and her boyfriend,' he said. 'Bugger off, Malfoy,' Sirius said, setting in front of me, to protect me. Malfoy, seeing this said, 'Oh, isn't that cute Crabbe? Sirius has to protect his Mudblood.'

Sirius charged forward but I got there first. I slapped him right across his face. He stumbled backwards into Crabbe, who fell back onto the floor.

Sirius grabbed my waist and we left. Sirius steered me into an empty classroom. 'Ok, calm down,' was all he said. I shook my head. 'I have a bad feeling about this year.Malfoy.I just want to make him pay.' We sat in silence a few minutes more, and then I had an idea. 'Ok, I have an idea.' I explained my plan quickly. When I looked at his face I could tell he was impressed. 'Ok, this is gonna be good. We'll just have to time it perfectly. When should we do it?' He was really excited. I said, 'About 3-4 days, we have to wait for him to let his guard down.'

We walked out of the classroom together, thinking. We walked towards the common room and it wasn't until the Fat Lady asked for the password that we realised that neither of us had any clue what it was. We were debating where to go find someone or wait, when the painting swung open. 'Hi, we were just going to go looking for you,' James said, his eyes on me. Remus was standing behind him. 'What did Dumbledore say?' Remus asked. I was really tired and didn't want to talk about it and I told them that, then I went upstairs to bed.

I got under the covers and was soon asleep.

'Lily, pssst, Lily! Can I talk to you?' someone said. I rolled over; it was 3 in the morning. I groaned. 'Can I Lily?' the voice said again. 'If you shut up you can,' I whispered back. I was still half-asleep or I would have noticed when he crawled under the covers. 'Lily, are you awake?.Lily?' He shook me. 'Yeah I'm awake, what do you want?,' I said back to him. 'I want to talk about you and Sirius. What's going on with you two?,' he half- whispered. And I was afraid the other girls would wake up and find me in bed with James. 'I don't know what's going on.does Sirius know?' I felt James shake his head. 'Does he know you're here?' I whispered. Kylie, who slept next to me, stirred, but didn't wake. James whispered softly. 'No, he doesn't know, he'd probably try to kill me if he knew. He really cares about you as much as I do. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to let you go.' I didn't say anything and we soon drifted into sleep.

I was woken up at 5 by another voice. It was Sirius. I could feel James loosen his grip from my waist and slide onto the floor. 'Lily, can we talk? I have to find out what's going on with us, I haven't been able to sleep,' he said quietly. 'Sure, hop in,' I said, opening the covers so he could crawl in. I heard James give a small gasp from under the bed and then a few minutes later the door close. It was done so quietly that Sirius didn't hear anything. 'God, you're cold. Put your arms around me, you'll warm up faster.' He did and said,' Thanks, I was in the Owlery.'

'Why were you there?'

'I sent a letter to my mum, then I decided to come here. Lily, I can't stop thinking about you and that kiss--those kisses.'

'Neither can I,' I whispered, smiling

'Will.will.' he trailed off.

'.Be your girlfriend?' I finished.

'Will you?' he said louder, excited and I could feel him get red.

'Yeah, silly, I will,' I smiled. This is exactly what I wanted. But what about James? Sirius said exactly what I was thinking. 'How do you think James will take this? He really likes you.?'

'I think he'll be ok with it, but if it starts a fight between you two, well then.'

'I don't want to think about that, but I understand what you're saying.' And then we drifted into sleep, this time I was in Sirius' arms instead of James'.



Littlebit's Letter: Ok, that thing about Sirius and Lily in Dumbledore's office, well I haven't got it figured out yet so you'll find out what Dumbledore read/ said later.I gotta study, so the next chapter will probably be posted on Saturday or Friday. Thank you to LiannesLily, ole' green eyes, Lavender James and BabBlGrl. I hope you enjoy it!