Authors Note: Hello! I am soooo sorry i have taken so long to get this chapter out. I went on holiday and ive been busy with homework (which im supposed to be doing right now...) I aint gonna say anything else today, i reckon that will do you. Except for the reviewers appreciation part. See! If you review my story you get appreciated!!!!!! Here goes –

Sapphireskies: Yeahhh! Somebody that hasn't reviewed before, lol. I need some new blood. You sed you saw it coming, but im not sure wot u mean. If you mean her telling her friends, well...you were supposed to see it coming. I told u it was coming. If you meant somethin else though, please tell me. Cos then i might be able to see where i went a bit cliche!! Thankyou 4 da review!

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Shayla: I know, I am rude and evil!!!! But don't worry, im back now!!! See, I'm here in the flesh!! (sorta...) Did you have nice Summer Holidays? Mine were soooooo boring, i had loads to do, but they were dead boring! Anyway, ta for the review, chucks!!!!!

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Princess Gin-Gin: I hate to say this, but I'm quite liking the cliff hanger approach, i have had more reviews for this chapter than any of my others!!!!! Saying that tho, i have already written loadsa chapters and i dont think many of them have cliff hangers. DAMN!!!! Well you don't have to wait any more hunni!!!! Here it is!!! The next chapter. I sound so dramatic don't i! Ohh i love drama me! Thanks!!!!!!

SuperSaiyan-Jinn4: I nkow that we all want Sirius for ourselves. I'm sure we'd all look after him well, but for now, he is in the capable hands of Serena!!! Notice I sed for now.... mwaaaaahhhhhaaaaahhhhhhaaaa!!!!! twitch, sorry i get a lil bit freaky sumtimes, (Nicola has an evil glint in her eye) Thanks 4 reviewing!

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InvisibleInk: Alrite Lauren!!!! Hows you???? By the way, the question about why Serena didn't get killed, will be answered in the future of this story. I just have to think about why that might be! lol, i hope you enjoyed your holidays, I have finished my English assignment but its really bad. I aint exaggerating either. It is the worst assignment i will ever hand in to Miss Douglas. It's okay, but not up to usual standards. But i already got an A for my other media assignment. I dont even need to do this one!!!! Anyway, see you later babez!!!

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Heraclas: Seen as you said that Orlando Bloom looks hot in the trailer, please can we swop!!!! You have Orlando and I'll have Elijah!! I think i have fallen in love with someone I don't know!!! He is cute and fine and his eyes!!! ohh his eyes are like, well, i dunno wot they are like, they are too beautiful to describe. Omg! I sound like a weirdo. I tell you, if i ever met him, i would be so chilled out about it! I would smile nicely and shake his hand, with out screaming. Anyway!!!!! Isn't Philip Pullman class. You know you sed you had just finished the first one, well so had i!!! Weird, non? Eeeee, i dunno, i't like we've known each other forever, and we haven't even met. I tell you what, if i ever travel to America, I will come and visit you and you can buy me a Dill Pickle!!!! I will probably take a trip to New York when I'm older. I have always wanted to go there, it is the perfect place for me. Everything is soo busy. Apparently the shopping is outta this world. The shopping in London is great mind! I still live about 200 miles from London. Quite far for a shopping trip, lol. Anyway, i have rambled to you. Back to the story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Chapter is dedicated to Gavin and Ben for giving me an insight into the world of the opposite sex. They tell me what goes through their heads, and I tell you, it is sooooooooo odd. Maybe it's just these two lads, but to my horror, i think they are all the same!

11. You lied

"And I wasn't lying, you see, Lord Voldemort did kill my mother, and so did my father, because they are one. Lord Voldemort is my father."

The silence was unbelievable. James was sat with his mouth wide open with an expression of disbelief on his face. Peter looked scared to death, his eyes popping out of his head. It was Sirius' expression that was most difficult to read though, his face was blank with no emotion written on it. His eyes looked empty.

"You lied" said Sirius, still showing no sign of emotion, "you lied to your friends, I can't believe you would do something like that."

"Well...I didn't see any other..." Serena started, looking at Sirius' now fiery eyes.

"You lied to us!" he said, quite angrily. Serena didn't like his tone of voice or where the argument was heading and she knew that retaliating would make everything worse, but she wasn't going to let him walk all over her.

"And tell me, Sirius," she said angrily, "What exactly was I supposed to do? Walk around with a sign on my head saying 'Daughter of Lord Voldemort'? That would have really gotten me a lot of friends, wouldn't it!"

"Well it would have been better than lying! You know what they say Serena, like father like daughter! You're a liar, out to hurt whatever you can get your claws into!"

Serena looked like she had just been punched in the stomach. Her tear filled eyes looked into Sirius' maddened ones. Of all people, she didn't think Sirius would act like this. He was one of the first people to realise that Remus was a werewolf, and one of the most understanding. Serena was beginning to feel a lump in her throat, so before she could give Sirius the satisfaction of seeing her cry, she ran up the stairs to the girls' dormitories.

"Sirius, that was uncalled for," said James in a quiet voice

"Well what was I supposed to do, just tell her that it didn't matter? Her father killed my aunt and uncle if you remember James," Sirius said angrily, at this, Lily felt that she could no longer keep quiet.

"If you remember though Sirius, her father also killed her mother, I believe you have one of those, don't you? You also have Grandparents don't you Sirius? Serena doesn't, because of her father, to whom she is so much alike!" Lily stormed upstairs to go after Serena and Sirius stormed out of the common room.

It was a week after the argument between Sirius and Serena and they still weren't talking, Sirius seemed to know that he was the one in the wrong, but that didn't make him apologise. He was too proud to do that, too proud to admit he was wrong. Remus and James had tried to make him say sorry many times but it was like fighting a losing battle.

Lily had stopped talking to Sirius and had turned slightly cold towards James. She said this was because although James may not have totally agreed with Sirius on the matter of Serena, he still took his side over Serena's even though he knew what was the right thing to do. Altogether the atmosphere between the fifth year Gryffindors was very tense and the awful situation didn't seem to be getting any better.

Serena was sat in the Common Room, it was one o'clock in the morning but she couldn't get to sleep. She had so many things running through her mind. As she sat there on the rug, next to the warm fire with thoughts bubbling in her brain, she heard soft footsteps coming down the boys' dormitories. She knew she didn't have time to hide or leave so she sat still, in hopes that the boy wouldn't see her, whoever it was. She wasn't in the mood for company at the moment. When she saw who the person was though, she suddenly wished that she had tried to hide or run. Sirius was coming down the stairs yawning wearing some jogging bottoms, Serena turned towards the fire. She didn't want to get another earful off Sirius, this time she wasn't sure whether she would be able to hold back the tears.

"Serena?"

'Damn' she thought, he'd seen her. 'Here we go.' Serena turned around slowly, not exactly looking Sirius in the eye, "Yeah, it's me."

"Good, cause I didn't really fancy going into the girls dormitories to find you. If I'd gone to Lily's bed instead of yours you would have never seen me again, she would of murdered me right there."

"You mean...you...you were coming to find me?" Serena was so surprised she didn't bother to misdirect her eye-contact, she looked him straight in the eye, "I thought you never wanted to speak to me again, I thought I was a liar..." at this she trailed off, she really wanted to be angry at Sirius, he had said some horrible things to her, but she couldn't. The guilt that she felt was too strong.

"I shouldn't have said all them things, I know. I should have realised that you've been through so much. I can't believe some of the things I said, I didn't mean them," Sirius sat down on the rug next to Serena, "I'm...sorry," he said this as though it was the hardest thing he had ever said, but Serena knew that he had meant it. Sirius was never one to say sorry, never one to admit that he was in the wrong, and Serena admired the fact that he just had.

"It's okay Sirius, I should have told you sooner, and I should have explained it better," Serena said soothingly. As they looked at each other, they knew that it was sorted, to Serena's great relief. "Lily will be pleased. She's been moping around like a wet weekend in Blackpool all week. She decided to stick on my side, so she hasn't been talking to James. If I didn't know better I'd say there was something going on between them two, or rather there was until my unexpected news."

"Nah, they'll get it sorted back out, James really likes her, he won't let her go that easily. So tell me, why are you down here? I have an excuse, I was on a mission, but you shouldn't have been up at this ungodly hour," Sirius said with a mischievous grin on his face. He knew fine well it was because she couldn't sleep, but Serena decided to play along with his games anyway.

"Well, I was actually going to wake up my fellow fifth year friends and pull some rather memorable pranks on the school but you showed up and I was side-tracked. Which is why we can't waste anymore time. Come on, you wake up the lads, and I'll wake up Lily and Alaine. Don't wake up Lucas, he isn't really into pranks, Alaine is though."

The two of them separated and ten painfully slow minutes later, everyone one was downstairs, wondering why they had been dragged out of their nice warm four-poster beds. Sirius stood in the middle of the circle with a cheesy sunshine grin plastered all over his face.

"Right this part concerns everyone except Alaine," Alaine nodded, she didn't really mind. She was a really nice girl and lately Serena and Lily had tried to involve her more in their group because Reemi and Penny, the other girls in Gryffindor, had started to push her out, "It isn't important, it's just to say that we're all friends again. Right, now back to why we're here, we have decided, that this year we have not pulled enough pranks, in fact, I don't think we have pulled any major ones at all, and in the light of the fact that we are all again friends, and that we have found a new member of our gang," everybody's eyes wondered to Alaine, who blushed right to her jet black curly hair, "I think we have something to celebrate, so tonight, we are going on a mission. A mission to cause as much havoc in one night as is humanly possible. Let's see how much trouble we can really get into." Said Sirius, his eyes sparkling with mischief.

"Right we'll split off into pairs," said Sirius, "James and Lily, you go together, Alaine, you and Remus can go together. You know Remus, don't you Alaine?" she smiled and nodded, "Good. So that leaves me, Serena and Pete. Also, don't tell the others groups what you're going to do, I want it to be a surprise for everyone in the morning!" Sirius grabbed Peter's and Serena's hands and added to them, in an undertone, "Our pranks are gonna put theirs to shame," Serena smiled at him and laughed.

"I didn't know this was meant to be a competition, Sirius," she said, still smiling at the hungry look on Sirius' face.

"Yeah well, what can I say, I'm a very competitive person. Now, can we please go, I want to get a head start on everyone else," he said impatiently, walking towards the portrait hole, Serena and Peter had to run to catch up with him.

"What do you have in mind, for these pranks I mean?" Peter asked Sirius as he led them through the dark corridors, "and where are you taking us?" he asked impatiently.

"Well, I'm taking you to the great hall of course! Where else could we start?" he asked Peter, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

As they walked into the great hall, Serena stayed as close to Sirius and Peter as was humanly possible. She didn't like the Great Hall in the dark, every one of her footsteps was echoed five times over, she was sure that they were going to get caught. There was one thing she did like about the Hall at night though, the ceiling looked absolutely amazing. Every star seemed to gleam in it's own beauty.

"Serena! You there?" Sirius asked her, she had been in her own little world looking at the magnificent ceiling. She quickly snapped out of it though.

"Sorry about that...where do we start then?" she said, in an anxious tone. She didn't think this was a good idea at all. What if they got caught? Sirius seemed to realise what she was thinking.

"Don't worry Serena, nothing will happen. I know exactly where to go in a chase!" somehow this didn't put Serena's mind at ease. She gave him a funny look, which he returned with a grin. "Right, the first thing we need to do is put a charm on the plates, it makes the food backfire into your face-

"Wait a minute Sirius," Peter said, "We aren't doing that to our table are we?" he said this with a frightful look on his face.

"Of course we aren't, this ones for the Slytherins. You know that charm don't you Pete?" he nodded his head slowly, "Well go on then! Serena I want you to make the floor really slippy, like ice-

"That ain't gonna work Einstein! How will we get out of here without making loads of noise if we're falling all over the place?" she said to Sirius with a superior look in her eyes.

"Well, if you'd let me finish!" he said, "You can put a time delay on it, until tomorrow morning, do you know how to do that?" he asked, as if he were talking to a child.

"Of course I know how to do that you cheeky little-

"Well go on then!"

She was just about to retaliate to his cockiness but she changed her mind. She liked being Sirius' friend again, and she wasn't keen for things to go back to the way they were. So she nodded at him respectfully and got on with charming the floor. Sirius had decided to make red and gold streamers fall from the roof. This was apparently his idea of being a "True Gryffindor". Serena tried to tell him about ten times that this would surely get them caught, but Sirius wasn't listening. Instead he was happily transfiguring anything in sight into streamers and making them fly into the hidden corners of the roof. Although the Hall would definitely look effective, this job only took ten minutes so before they knew it, they were back in the common room (after stopping off at the kitchens) sipping butterbeer. About five minutes later James and Lily came into the Common Room, both looking very flustered.

"Filch almost caught us!" Lily said, in a frightened whisper, "If you hadn't been making all that noise, we wouldn't have had to run all the way back!" Lily had venom in her voice. Serena instantly felt sorry for James, if she was in his position, she would have been quaking in her boots. James was obviously made of stronger stuff though, he stood tall, a look of anger on his face that almost matched that of Lily's.

"Well if you hadn't have panicked we wouldn't have had to run!" he said angrily. Both of them sat down on the sofa near Peter, who sensed danger and backed away. They refused to look at each other.

"Awww bless! It's their first lovers tiff!" Sirius said affectionately. Serena laughed loudly at this remark which earned her, along with Sirius, a pillow in the face.

"Firstly, we are not lovers!" Lily said with a maddened look on her face. Her deep red hair was askew and her cheeks were a sort of tomato red colour.

"And" said James loudly, "We never will be!" His hair was also askew, even more than it usually was. Lily and James were saying these remarks to each other, rather than to Sirius, Serena and Peter. Serena had never seen her best friend this angry before. She knew that Lily had a temper but she had never guessed that it was this bad. The pair gave a last angry look at each other and stormed off in opposite directions to their dorms.

"I've never seen James so angry," Peter said, he sounded astonished, "It really must be love!" Everyone laughed loudly at this remark. Peter could catch on sometimes, bless him. Sirius heard some mumbling at the portrait hole.

"Must be Remus and Alaine, I hope those two aren't at each other's throats," just then Remus and Alaine walked into the common room. To Peter's relief they both looked perfectly happy, but very flushed.

"Filch is guarding the corridors you know," Remus said casually, "We got away from him though, wasn't hard. Lily and James made the distraction for us," Remus had a sly grin on his face.

"Unknowingly!" Alaine said laughingly.

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