I like this chapter because there's conflict, scandal and suspision! Sorry it took so long but i was waiting for my beta, who hasn't gotten back to me because she has a life (unlike me) so i'm assuming nothings wrong with this and posting it. I have a billion assignments for school and my mum's told me i can't go on the computer until i clean my room, so i will have to write when I have time and privacy. Hopefully that will be soon because I have a great ending. Thanks for all the reviews and support. Thanks to Kim for everything and i hope Marley is ok (If anyone finds a cat fitting Ris-Ris's description wandering in Quakers Hill, tell me) and thanks to Nick for the password. Now to the story...


Chapter 37
Wasted Me

Sirius heaved James's trunk onto the train and jumped on after it. He pulled it to the nearest empty compartment. He watched as James kissed his parents goodbye and ran his hand through his hair, then got on the train to find him. He had only just sat down when Remus, Ebony and Lily entered.

"Weren't you guys at school? Why are you on the train?" Sirius asked.

"Good to see you too." Ebony huffed. "And we were out late last night and we missed the last train back to Hogsmeade so we stayed at the leaky cauldron."

"Oh, well that makes sense. Well, did you have breakfast? I slept in and I'm absolutely starving. Do you reckon Doris would let me get in early?"

"You can try Padfoot, and get me a couple of cauldron cakes while you're there." Remus said as he handed over a couple of sickles.

"And I haven't had a chocolate frog for years. Can you shout me one?" Ebony added.

Soon Sirius had set off with a list of orders from the others.

He had been gone for about fifteen minutes when someone else entered.

"Hi Kim." James said, oblivious to the nervous glances between Lily and Ebony. "How were your holidays?"

"Oh, uneventful. I was kinda bored, just doing homework and stuff, you know." Kim said as she sat down next to James.

"Liar, liar." Ebony yelled as she jumped up off her seat and pointed angrily at Kim.

"You're a conniving little slut bitch." Lily added. "You've been seeing Lucius behind Sirius's back…"

"And now you're getting married…" Ebony interrupted.

"And you haven't got the guts to break it up with him." Lily continued.

"Married?" Kim said slowly. "I'm not getting married."

"But Lucius proposed and then you were hugging him." Ebony spat, glaring icily, her left eye twitching slightly.

"I was only hugging him because he was crying." Kim explained.

"He was crying with happiness." Ebony yelled.

"Because you finally said yes." Lily added.

"He was crying because I told him I never would and told him that he was ruining our friendship by wanting more from it. I told him that he might as well marry someone who loved him, like Narcissa…"

"Narcissa, that stupid bitch. Why are you talking about her?" Sirius said as he entered the compartment with his arms full of food. He dumped the pile in James's lap, unaware of his confused expression and turned to Kim. "How are you going?" He asked, forgetting his last comment and turning his full attention to her.

"Great, now you're here." Kim said as she accepted a kiss from Sirius and sat next to James.

The train ride back to school was as uneventful as Kim had said her holiday was. The boys talked about the upcoming Quidditch final for most of the journey, but Ebony and Lily spent their time giving each other meaningful looks and glancing at Kim nervously from time to time.

Sirius was too busy staring at Kim lovingly to notice.


The first few weeks of school flew by. To everyone's surprise, the teachers were reasonable with their homework and the students had time to relax and do other things that teenagers do.

It was late Friday night when Lily and James were interrupted from their usual Friday night hobby, which took place in a wonderfully private room that only four people knew the existence of. Too bad one of the four was Remus.

"James, Lily, are you guys decent?" He asked as he entered, eyes shut tightly.

"Yes Moony." James replied, lipstick smudged across his mouth.

"Oh great. I just wanted a quick word with Lily. Um, you know the prefect bathroom?"

"Yes." Lily said nervously trying to tidy her hair.

"Well the password's changed."

"Oh, yeah. They changed it last week…when you were…you know." Lily said relaxing slightly as she realised that Remus was likely to be spending the night doing worse than what she and James had been doing. "Thinking about having a bath, hey?"

"Exactly." At that moment Ebony's voice sounded from the doorway, asking if Remus had the password yet. "I didn't say I would be alone." Remus said, grinning.

"The password is tamariki." Lily grinned. "Have fun."

"I will." Remus assured her as he left the room.


Sirius sat in his Potions class, staring at the words on the blackboard and letting a yawn escape him. He sighed and moved his eyes from the board to his teacher. Professor Kumar was possibly the stupidest teacher Hogwarts had seen and was most certainly the easiest to prank. He didn't have the brain capacity to remember Sirius and James's names so they didn't often get in trouble. Sirius didn't want to play a prank, though, he just wanted to get out and go somewhere else. So he waited until Professor Kumar had turned his back and then quietly got to his feet. It wasn't long before he had made his way across the classroom and snuck out the open door. He could hear the cheering of his classmates echoing through the dungeons and grinned as he imagined Kumar's confused expression at the sudden outburst. He jogged up some stairs and thought vaguely about heading to the Quidditch pitch, but then remembered that Kim had History of Magic when he had Potions.

It wasn't hard to get into Kim's class. Sirius had shown up to History of Magic late for almost six years and Professor Binns had never noticed once. Kim was sitting in the back corner writing feverishly.

Not even Moony takes notes in History. I never knew Kim was so into class.

But when he sat in the empty chair behind her, he realized that she was not writing, but drawing a picture of the Whomping Willow, which was standing perfectly still in the distance. She looked up at Sirius as he sat and turned to a new page of her notebook, an obvious muggle purchase. She wrote the word hi and drew a smiley face next to it.

"He doesn't hear when you talk." Sirius muttered. "At least I don't think he does."

"But some people are actually here to learn. I didn't want to distract them." Kim said quietly.

Kirstin Kent turned from the seat in front of Sirius. "But then some of us just take this class to bludge." She whispered. Sirius noticed that she had almost a metre of parchment on the Wizarding fight against Communism. He sighed, not really caring about how the Wizard's helped muggles fight against muggle politics.

"Do you want to go to Hogsmeade?" Sirius asked Kim.

"Yeah, okay." Kim replied as she packed her bag quietly and followed Sirius out of the classroom. He checked his map and nodded to her. The two jogged towards closest passage to Hogsmeade and made their way to the village.

They spent the afternoon in the three broomsticks and then walked around talking for the rest of the night. Sirius hadn't seen Kim so relaxed for months and wanted it to last as long as possible.

"Do you want to stay here tonight?" Sirius asked as he realized how late it was. "My friend owns a bed and breakfast up the road where we can stay for half price or we could just hang out in the shrieking shack. What do you think?"

"I've already missed out on half a day and I really can't afford to stuff up my NEWTs." Kim argued.

Sirius smiled sweetly at her.

She grinned and grabbed his hand, walking towards the shrieking shack. "We can't spend all day though."


Lily, Ebony and Remus walked alongside the lake, talking about Kim's unusually usual behaviour.

"I can't believe how normal she has been." Ebony moaned.

"We never thought that by spying on her we would find out that she's…evil, or whatever. We just thought that we would keep an eye on her and see if our vague suspicions have any sort of evidence…" Remus started.

"No. I always thought she was evil." Lily sighed.

"Then why has she done nothing but spend her time studying or going out with Sirius?" Remus argued.

"Because she's boring and evil." Lily fought back. "And she might suspect that we're onto her because of the whole Lucius marriage thing. She knows that she has to be careful."

"Well I don't think she really needs to be that careful with you guys spying on her. It's been ten minutes and you still haven't noticed her hanging around the Forbidden Forest." Remus said smugly.

"Where? Oh, so she is. She does look a bit…odd." Ebony whispered, cocking her head to one side as if to make her look less odd.

"Is that Snape?" Lily asked as she pointed to a small boy making his way towards Kim from the castle. "Yes, yes it is." Lily answered herself.

"And that's the package that she had in Knockturn Ally." Remus said as she ran to greet him. "She's giving it to him."

"Why is she giving Snape a package that she got in Knockturn Ally?" Ebony asked.

"Maybe there's a reasonable explanation for this, like if Kim got Snape some hair care products." Remus suggested weakly.

Lily narrowed her eyes and watched the exchange. Kim had simply given Snape the package and then left, heading back to the castle. Lily looked at her friends. "Or maybe we just got our evidence."


I know i just cleared Kim with the whole marriage thing, but I had to have my fun. I've decided that I am no longer doing the sequal, or not for a while at least. But don't worry, I'm planning to write another fic instead.