Chapter 7

Finally the day to go back to Hogwarts came, Mea couldn't wait to see everyone again, and to get away from her house and Aaron, who hadn't left her alone much that summer. Mea soon found Lily running towards her, "Mea!" She yelled, with Sandra and Stephanie close behind.

"Yay, you found me!" Mea jumped with joy when she heard another voice again.

"Hey Evans, have a good summer?" By the look on Lily's face she could tell who it was. And as she turned around she knew, James. There beside him was Sirius, looking as great as ever. Mea could fell her great feeling suddenly turn to nervousness. If there was one person she thought a lot about that summer, it was him.

Lily turned to Mea, Stephanie, and Sandra, "Come on, let's go get on the train." And with that the four of them left to get on the train. Mea looked over her shoulder once last time at Sirius who was talking to James, looking rather bored.

Once the girls had gotten all their things away they sat down, telling each other about their summers. Lily had gone to the states, "They are quite strange over there and rude too." She told the others. Stephanie stayed with her grandparents and Sandra, like Mea, had stayed home most of the summer.

"Hey Evans," James was back, as was Sirius, "Why did you leave?"

"Because," She said exhausted, "There were better things to do."

"Now is there?" He asked trying to sound casual as he sat down between Lily and Mea. Forcing Mea to scoot towards the doorway, where Sirius was standing.

Her leg bumped into him, "Oh sorry." She said looking up at him, he just nodded and stood there looking bored again. She looked away at Stephanie and Sandra who were busy talking about some boy Stephanie had met over the summer, and Lily was cornered by James who was begging for a date.

"For the last time NO!" Lily screamed. "Please leave." She said to both him and Sirius.

"Fine by me." Sirius said. And James, looking stunned walked away with Sirius.

A few weeks later Mea found herself sitting in the common room staring at the fire. "I'm bored. And no, I will not do more homework." She said to Lily who had been telling her to do her work. "I'm going for a walk." She got up.

"Be careful, you don't want to get caught." Lily called out as Mea left.

Wondering down the many corridors Mea found herself thinking. What was the big deal with being out in the halls at night? Why did the teachers, like her parents, make everything such a big deal? Mea soon found herself quite lost. "Damnit." Mea swore.

Just then she heard voices, "How could this thing be locked? It does shut for hours."

"Maybe we took a little longer than normal this time." Another voice answered it.

Just then Mea realized they were stuck behind the door she was standing in front of. Laughing, Mea pulled out her wand and called out, "Lumos." Soon her wand had a great yellow light coming from it. She heard another voice say, "Hey, listen."

At that moment Mea pulled open the door and shined the light onto the people's faces. "You guys?" She laughed.

"Mea?" Remus said confused.

"What are you doing here?" James asked annoyed.

"Helping the four of you get out of trouble." She said quickly.

"We didn't need your help." Sirius said.

"Fine." She turned around, slamming the door in their faces. Just as she started down the stairs she heard them come out from behind the door, but she wasn't listening to what they said, until a hand clapped over her mouth. She looked up at who it was that scared out of her mind.

Sirius was whispering, "Teacher." He pointed to behind the corner she was about to turn. Nodding, he let go of her as he grabbed her hand and started running with her up the stairs towards the other three. All together they started running another direction, another way to the common room they told her.

"It will be useful if you ever sneak out again." Remus said smiling.

"Yeah, what are you doing out here?" Sirius asked.

"I got bored, so I left." Mea said with pride.

"You just left; with no where to go, knowing quite well you could easily be caught." James said sarcastically.

"Of course." Mea smiled as Sirius turned around and smiled at her. "What are you guys doing out here? And how did you now there was a teacher around the corner?"

"That for us to know, and by this." James said holding a map. It was of Hogwarts and every person in the school was shown on it, she even found herself and noticed Lily was up in the dorm, sleeping most likely.

"Wow." Mea gasped.

"And you better not go tell anyone we have this." He added.

"Now do you boys honestly believe I would do something like that?" Mea said sarcastically. They all stopped and gave her looks that made her say, "Okay, fine, I won't tell a soul." After a pause she asked, "Uh, so where did you get that?"

"We made it." Peter said too proudly.

Mea laughed as she got looks from the rest of them. "We really did." Said Sirius.

"Oh, sorry. I thought he was joking." Mea stopped laughing.

"Well it's nice to see someone else out when they're not supposed to be, its hard being the only ones breaking the rules around here." Sirius joked, trying to think of something to say.

"Well it doesn't look like you guys are having a hard time; in fact I think you all may have perfected it." Mea said stepping forward as they reached the common room, "And thanks for helping me guys. I'm going to sleep." Mea said as they walked into the common room.

"Me too." Remus said as Peter nodded and James followed them upstairs to their dorm, leaving Mea with Sirius.

She closed her eyes for a quick second, "Goodnight." She said and started upstairs as she noticed Sirius just sit on the couch. "Don't you ever sleep?" She asked him, exhausted.

"Nope." He grinned and put his feet up on the table in front of him.

"Why?" Mea asked slowly walking back down the stairs.

"I don't need to. Okay, I just don't feel like it." He said.

"Oh." Mea said quietly. "So you're just going to sit here?"

"Yes, I am. Why? Don't you have to study or something?" Suddenly his voice changed from friendly to sort of mean.

Mea just blinked, "No, school just started. Why would I have to study?"

"Well after last year you said you need to study rather than see me again." He said quietly.

"What?" Mea yelled in confusion. "That's not what I meant by that. I just thought for our O.W.L.s we needed to study, rather than take breaks doing... wow. I get what you mean now." Mea looked apologetically at him. "Sorry for that."

He just stared into the fire, "Yeah well..."

"I know that sounded like I was trying to completely blow you off but that's not what I meant by it. I still didn't trust you; I wasn't sure what to do when you took me up there." Mea tried to explain.

"What are you saying?" He looked her confused.

A wicked grin showed up on Mea's face, "Let's just say you're cute when you're confused." She kissed him and went to her dorm, leaving him laughing.