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A/N: Ok, here's the rest of chapter 6, I don't know what the hell went on with uploading chapter 6 but it just wont do it! So I've split them into 2 bits! Sorry bout that guys! Here goes!

Chapter 7 (6b lol)

"We're in the cellars of Honeydukes, don't worry, we do this all the time. We've never been caught either." He smiled at her reassuringly. She nodded in return.

The group made their way up the stairs and into the main floor of the shop. They walked past all the many shelves of sweets and through the front door, which Remus had opened with his wand.

When they were all outside and accounted for Remus locked the door again and turned to the group smiling.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Let's jet!"

The six friends all walked down the street laughing and joking with one another. Well that is that Roxie and Lily were laughing around, Jess and Remus were walking while whispering to each other, but James walked silently ahead. Sirius saw his friend and sighed. It looked like he had gone into one of his depressions. He did that an awful lot ever since he had had his flare-up with Lily. Sirius strolled up and dropped an arm casually round his friends shoulder and leaned on him.

"Come on Prongsie, lighten up. We're going to a gig, not a funeral." He said in a soft tone. James looked at him and shook his head.

"Yeah, lighten up. Easy enough for you to say. Roxie's all over you. She actually wants you Padfoot. Lily doesn't want me." He looked to the floor and his shoulders sagged even more. "She'll never want me." He finished quietly and forlornly more to himself then his friend.

"Look Prongs, she really doesn't hate you as much as you think, she even said that after you shouted at her." Sirius said in a matter-of-fact tone. James took one look at his friend and smiled weakly.

"I can't believe that though."

"You don't think I'd make something up like that, do you Prongs?"

"It's not like I don't believe that she said that, it's more like I don't believe that she meant it." He paused for a while and sighed. He then looked up with a smile on his face. "But we can't have everything can we?" He put on a falsely cheerful voice trying to throw off Sirius. The trouble is, Sirius could see through this cover-up. And he knew that even though he didn't look it on the outside, his friend was dying inside.

~*~

Roxie and Lily walked behind everyone else laughing ad joking about everything and anything. Until Lily went serious.

"So, are you really going after Sirius tonight?" she asked in hushed tones.

"Yeah, I am. I mean, I've kept him in the dark long enough, and to be honest with you he drives me crazy!" she said in a high pitched voice.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean well, stuff that he does to me. For example, just before we went into the passageway he grabbed me from behind my waste and told me that I looked good enough to eat. But he said it in this voice that he uses when he's talking to me about that kind of stuff."

"What's the voice like?"

"I don't know how to explain it." She said thoughtfully, "it's like, um, like sex, but in a voice. If that made any sense that is. Honestly, I'm so glad he didn't hold onto me any longer then he did or I would've needed a change of knickers right then and there." Lily smirked at her friend.

"You got it bad Rox." Lily said slyly.

"Well, yeah, everyone wants a piece of Sirius Black."

"I don't."

"Well, you're strange aren't you Lils? Well, fine everyone except you-

"And Jess."

"FINE! Everyone except you and Jess want a piece of Sirius." Roxie paused and looked at Lily who was looking at her with an eye brow raised and a piercing look. Roxie buckled under her gaze and started to fidget with her hands.

"You know I didn't mean it like that Roxie, I mean you really like him. It's more then just lust, isn't it?" Roxie looked down and then up into the emerald eyes of her best friend. Lily's eyes sparkled with shock for a brief second. It was the first time she had ever seen Roxie shy and blushing

"I really do Lils, I can't help it anymore. I really like him, but how do I know that he's not going to love me and leave me. I don't think I could take that." She spoke quietly, as if afraid of voicing her concern.

"Aww babe, you know he wouldn't do that, you're much too important to him for him to hurt you." Lily smiled at her encouragingly, making Roxie smile confidently back at her.

"You're right Lils. Sirius Black isn't going to know what hit him tonight. Woohoo! Watch out Black, here I come!" and with that last speech Roxie and Lily walked through the door of the Flaming Bolt in high spirits. Nothing could go wrong now.

~*~

A few hours of drinking and talking later the six friends were well and truly ripped.

Jess and Remus were in the corner kissing with wandering hands, Lily and Roxie were dancing, oblivious to anyone else and James and Sirius were at the bar where a very drunken conversation was taking place.

"You know what Prongsie Wongsie? I've just realised that Remus and Jess are in loooooooooooooove!" Sirius sang the last word just to make an impact.

"I know that Padfootsie, it's depressing to watch isn't it?" he slurred, one eye half closed.

"Why is that depressing then?" Sirius said before taking another swig of his sex on the beach.

"Because I'm in love and she doesn't love me…did you know that you're drinking a girl's drink?"

"This may be a girl's drink but it tastes good and it works because you're getting more and more attractive by the second. And what do you mean you're in love? You don't love Lily!" Sirius exclaimed nearly falling over.

"I do love Lily! And I know I do because seeing her and Rox surrounded by all those guys makes me want to hit them like a beast. I reckon I could get some really good moves in…" he trailed off and slowly stood up swaying a little bit. He started to chop his hands through the air thinking that he looked good.

Sirius would have found this hilarious if he had been watching but he wasn't. Instead his attention had been turned onto Roxie. As sure as James had said it she and Lily were surrounded by men. These men did not consist of Sirius so this pissed him off. She was supposed to be his tonight! He managed to catch her eye, and instead of her backing off from the guys dancing with her and Lily, she smirked and got closer. She was playing a game with him.

'Well, two can play that game Roxie.' He thought to himself

Sirius walked over to the nearest good looking girl and asked her to dance, of course she immediately said yes. He led her to the dance floor where people were jumping around while listening to The Clash. He chose a spot where he could keep an eye on Roxie, and also where she'd be sure to see him. When he had found that spot him and the girl started to dance and jump along to the riffs.

Roxie was dancing oblivious to her surroundings. She was high on alcohol and music, and Lily seemed to be enjoying herself too. She looked over at Sirius and saw him watch her dance with another man. He looked pissed off and…jealous? This made her smile, Sirius never got jealous of anyone.

'I wonder how far I can push him until he grabs me and whisks me away to kiss me all over.' She thought to herself, she had drunk so much that even her inner voice was slurred.

She watched his reaction as she got closer to the guy she was dancing with. She didn't even know his name but she didn't care, and neither did he by the looks of it. Then something happened she did not expect, she saw Sirius ask a busty, blonde girl to dance, and they were getting quite cosy.

Roxie felt a stab of jealous run through her system. In retaliation she pulled her guy closer, running her hands over his chest and down his back, she then leaned in pressing her body as close to him as she could. She turned her head and watched Sirius, daring him to rise up to the challenge. And he did.

Half an hour on the dance floor passed and both Sirius and Roxie had gotten very adventurous and inventive with their dance partners. Each step more intimate then the previous, but Roxie had won out in the end. She had kissed her dance partner.

Sirius stopped dancing as soon as this happened. He thought this was a simple game that she was playing, but this had caused an ache in him he didn't know could exist until that moment. He turned and left the dance floor leaving his blonde bombshell standing there in his wake.

As soon as she saw Sirius's reaction Roxie knew she had gone too far. She felt guilt wallow up from her stomach and also…nausea.

'Ah fuck, I really shouldn't have drunk that much…shit.'

She ran away off out of the Flaming bolt and into an alley next to it where she started to throw up all of the cocktails she had been knocking back a couple of hours before.

Sirius had taken his post standing next to an ever increasingly drunk James. He stood in silence, scanning the dance floor. Roxie wasn't there, and neither was the guy she had been dancing with.

"James! I…I don't hate you…I never really have…in fact these past couple of weeks I…I've missed you." Lily lookek@