Chapter 5

The four friends were sitting around trying to devise a plan. Sirius had drawn out a list of conclusions. He looked down the list. His frown turned into a scheming grin.

"I'VE GOT IT!" He yelled, looking extremely pleased with himself.

"What is it then? What are we going to do?" Remus asked, looking up from his DADA assignment.

"What is the one thing that makes people blurt out their true feelings?" he asked slyly.

"Veratasium?" said Jess. Sirius furrowed his brow.

"Well, yeah there is that, but what is the one thing that makes people blurt out their feelings and act on them?" He looked around the group hopefully. No one answered. He shook his head.

"The one thing that does all of what we need is that little thing called al-co-hol." He finished as if talking to two year olds. A large grin spread across Roxie's face.

"Brilliant! And I have just the plan. Have you heard of the new band 'The Clash?' Well, they're English and they're wizards, word around is that they are about to get signed. But they're playing one of their last gigs in Hogsmeade on Wednesday. They're not playing in The Three Broomsticks, but in some proper bar called The Flaming Bolt. It's a huge place, and they will be expecting loads of people to go from all over, but not from Hogwarts as it's a weekday. In other words, we could easily get served as long as we don't let slip that we are indeed from Hogwarts." Sirius looked ecstatic.

"Rox! You are nothing short of brilliant!" said Sirius before he grabbed her into a hug and kissed her messily on the forehead. He realised what he had done two seconds later and let go of her hastily.

"Uh…um….sorry, I got carried away." He blushed a little. Remus looked shocked. Since when did Sirius Black ever get shy around a girl?! Roxie also blushed.

"Its ok, I didn't mind." She looked up at Sirius and smiled sheepishly, Sirius smiled back.

"Hem hem, if we could get back on track here people!" Jess said interrupting the couple. "Look, we have a problem here. How the hell are we going to get them both to come? They've been holed up ever since they fought and it would be hard enough getting one to come, let alone both!" Sirius and Roxie exchanged looks then smirked.

"Leave them to us." They said in unison, and walked out of the common room. Remus looked at Jess, Jess looked at Remus.

"Uh oh, I smell trouble brewing." Jess nodded.

"Me too."

"Hey Jess, check this out, we're all alone…" He lifted an eyebrow suggestively. She didn't need to be asked twice.

Remus grabbed her hand and pulled her up to his old dorm room. Dumbledore had assured him that his bed would always stay there in case he ever needed to be with friends.

~*~

James was once again sitting in the Quidditch stands. He tended to spend a lot of time here since he had blown it with Lily. Every time he thought about that, he felt wretched. The horrified look on her face, the tears flowing silently down her cheeks. It was like fourth year, except it was mow him with the broken heart.

Sirius sighed, he was watching James. He had come to find him and once again he found him in the stands with his head in his hands. He approached him, feeling his pocket making sure he still had the bag. He sat down next to James.

"How you doing Prongsie, mate?" James just shrugged in reply. Sirius took the bag out of his pocket and threw it down at James feet.

"You up for it?" James actually looked up to face Sirius. He smiled weakly.

"Hell fucking yeah." Sirius grinned; he would tell James about the gig when he was in a better, or drug induced, mood.

~*~

Roxie went up to Lily's room and knocked on the door.

"It's open!" Lily yelled through the door. Roxie pushed it open and was pleased when she saw Lily. She had given up on her sex kitten attitude by the looks of it. Lily looked at Roxie and noticed she was checking her over.

"I decided that it just wasn't me, I don't want those guys following me around any more." She was speaking quietly. Her hair had been pulled back up into a neat pony tail and her face was devoid of all make up.

"But, I feel so…plain now." Roxie smiled sympathetically and sat down next to her. She pulled her into a comforting one arm hug against her shoulder.

"Lils, you don't have to be either one extreme or the other. You can just wear a bit of make up to make your self stand out. And it wasn't so much your appearance that attracted those blokes. I mean, it helped, but it was just your attitude. That was what wasn't you. I thought you looked stunning when you did yourself up. Even though, your skirt and shirts! What the hell did you do! Use a shrinking charm on them?!" Roxie laughed and so did Lily.

"Only on my shirt, I just rolled up my skirt." She smiled sheepishly and then laughed and sighed.

"Hey well, I came for more then one reason. I obviously came to cheer you up, but you know that band we went to see at the beginning of the summer, you know, 'The Clash', well, they're playing I Hogsmeade this coming Wednesday, and we are going!" Lily looked up smiling genuinely for the first time.

"Merlin, Rox! Are you sure! Ahh! I'm so there! But wait…Wednesday? That's a school night, so we won't get permission to go." Lily looked down sadly.

"Poor naïve Lily, we're not going to get permission, we're going to sneak out!" Lily looked startled.

"And how do you propose we do that? We can't exactly walk out the front door can we? And if I get caught it could be my badge!"

"Ok, well first things first, we're not going to get caught. We're going with the Marauders. Secondly, we're not going out the front door but through one of the passages leading into Hogsmeade, and lastly you need to have some fun."

"Fine. And I guess that Potter's going as well then." Roxie frowned.

"Yeah, I suppose he will be. But don't worry Lils; they're playing at The Flaming Bolt. It's huge in there, and as they won't be expecting any Hogwarts people we'll easily get served! Go on, what do you say?" Lily smiled.

"I say I can't believe I let you talk me into this!" she then squealed and threw her arms around her friend's neck. Roxie returned the hug. She smiled, well; her side of the plan was done. She just hoped that Sirius's method was just as effective.

~*~

Sirius and James were still sitting outside in the Stands, but James felt much better already.

"Its just that, I…you know…yeah, you know?" James spoke with a slow voice.

"Oh yeah, I know Prongsie, I know." Sirius took another drag on his spliff.

"Actually, I don't know. What were we talking about again?" James looked at Sirius and his faced cracked into a goofy grin.

"Er…I don't know." They looked at each other and fell into hysterical silent laughter. Their shoulders were shaking so violently that every time they looked at each others shoulders they'd start all over again. Sirius looked up at James. Tears of mirth rolling down his face.

"So anyway Prongsie wongsie old buddy old pal-"

"What is it that you want now Padfoot Wadfoot?" James started to guffaw again. Sirius chuckled.

"I don't want anything! What do you want?" James started to sing.

"Pass the Doobie to the left hand side!" Sirius passed James the smoke and pissed himself laughing again. But stopped as quickly as he started.

"But seriously, I do want something-"

"A shag?"

"Well, yeah, that but I want you to come to a gig on Wednesday, it's in the Flaming Bolt. Its going to be huge…I really want a shag right now."

"Yeah, I'm up for a gig. I'll be there!"

"Cool, good one, I don't think I could get it up though, I'm so fucked right now." Sirius said with all modesty.

"Me too!" James said and raised his hands in the air in triumph.

"Come on Prongsie wongsie, let's head back to the castle, I have a craving for carrots and chocolate."

"Me too, old boy, me too." James slapped him on the back in a brotherly fashion and they stumbled back across the grounds occasionally stopping for a breather.

A/N

So that's the fifth chapter! YAY! Once again thank you for the reviews! I e-mail all of my reviewers back, but I forgot to express my opinion on Tom Felton to The all mighty and powerful*M! He is sooooooooooooooooooo hot! Its cool as well, I live well close to him, my ICT teacher has a little bro that goes to the same school as him! And my friend who is also called Sam has a friend who goes to his school and actually went out with him last year. Grr! But he broke up with her. Shame *evil me*

Read and review!

Tell me what you think!

Soon to come: at the gig! Sirius and Roxie on the Hogsmeade (official) trip!

Luv ya!

Snake xx