Chapter 26: Forgiveness

Lily woke up early on August 29th. She ran a hand through her tangled hair and sighed. She yawned and then picked up her pillow.

"Wake up." Lily said hitting Faith in the face with the pillow. Faith groaned and turned over.

"Morning already?" Sarah moaned as she sat up.

"We yawn have to get to Diagon Alley early to miss the rush." Lily said getting out of bed and groaning.

"Why can't we just go on the 31st?" Faith asked yawning.

"Because everyone goes that day" Lily said hitting the pillow that was covering Faith's face. Reluctantly the three girls got up and ready. Lily dressed in a forest green shirt that hung off her shoulders and a pair of light blue pants. She put her hair half up and half down and fastened it with her butterfly clip. Sarah dressed in her favorite light blue shirt and a pair of medium blue jeans, and wore her hair down. Faith wore a white shirt that tied around the middle, and a pair of dark blue jeans. She also put her hair half up and half down and let her bangs sweep over her right eye.

They managed to get out of the house with out being stopped by Petunia. They gathered up their Floo powder and arrived at Diagon Alley. The place which was usually bustling with witches and wizards had considerably less people than usual.

"See I told you it was much smarter to come here." Lily said nudging Faith. The girls just laughed and walked into Flourish and Botts. The girls looked at their list and then went off to different areas to get the books. Faith found the book she was looking for upstairs. Of course the book was at the very top of the shelf. Faith groaned and reached for it. Her fingers barely grazed the binding of the book. Suddenly a hand shot out and grabbed three copies of the book. Faith whirled around and saw the last person in the world she wanted to see. Sirius Black.

Sirius handed the books over and Faith snatched them from his grasp. He could see in her eyes that she was not pleased.

"Come on, I'm sorry." Sirius said as Faith turned around and started to walk off to get the other books. Faith then spun around to face him.

"If you were sorry you wouldn't have done it." Faith said glaring at him. Sirius walked up to her and she backed up. Into a corner. She was trapped. Sirius raised an eyebrow and looked down at her, his hair falling gracefully into his face.

"What does that mean?" He asked.

"I don't know but my father always says it and I was angry so it seemed to make sense at the moment." Faith said still trying to look angry but found herself almost smiling. Sirius smiled widely.

"Listen. I'm really sorry. Ok?" Sirius said taking a much more serious tone. Faith looked up at Sirius and thought about it. She figured she might as well forgive him.

"Ok." Faith said slowly nodding. Sirius smiled. He would have liked to kiss her at that moment being that they were so close but thought that would be a bad idea since she just forgave him and all.

Lily was approached by James.

"What do you want?" Lily snapped at him.

"A guy can't even apologize for being a jerk?" James said shrugging.

"No" Lily said flatly crossing her arms over her chest.

"Don't have an eppy on me. Just let me say sorry." James said pleadingly.

"Ok." Lily said brushing the hair out of her eyes.

"I'm sorry....wow....that was a lot less eventful than I imagined." James said shuffling his feet.

"Good. You said your sorry your conscious is clear now go pester someone else." Lily said brushing him off with a wave of her hand. 'What a stubborn woman' James thought going off to find Peter.

Sarah was reading the back of a books jacket and didn't notice Remus come up behind her.

"That's a good book." Remus said. Sarah jumped and turned around.

"Oh. Yeah I've heard it was." Sarah said smiling at Remus. Remus gave a slight smile.

"So how have you been?" Sarah asked staring up at Remus with her big blue eyes.

"I can't complain." Remus said shrugging and smiling back at her.

"Sarah!" Lily's voice called out.

"I..." Sarah said.

"Gotta go. I know." Remus said. Sarah nodded and ran after her friends.

Remus joined up with his friends.

"Lily still hates me." James said sourly. Remus didn't even seem to hear him.

"Faith forgave me." Sirius said with a little bounce in his step. James looked at Sirius jealously.

"What?" Sirius asked obliviously.

"Shut up" James said watching the girls walk off.

(A/N: Heres what you can look forward to in year 6: 2 jealous people, 1 fight, 1 invisibility cloak, A new years party that's great fun.)