ONCE AGAIN

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06_Hold me

He and Lis were at his family's house at Torbay. Her pale skin was a bit tanned now and he could feel her warmth while he strewed the sun-tan lotion on her back.

She sighed with satisfaction when his hands started to make a slow, sensual massage on her. Melissa turned on her back to face him, still laid on the sand, and smiled. He felt something revolve inside of him at that sight. He bent closer and closer to her, almost laying upon her, and whispered on her ear: "I hate your bikini."

She passed her arms around his neck and brought him even closer, until their mouths were almost touching. "Maybe you should take it off."

He smiled. Slowly, he undid the knot of her top at the same time he claimed her mouth. He felt the could water from the sea brush their bodies as he begun to pull away her panties...

"WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!" Dianna shouted on his ear.

Sirius jumped, his eyes widened open. He sat on his bed, breathing hard. "What?!" looking around, he saw Lily and Dianna with a dangerously sweet smile on their faces; Peter stood leaned against one of the posters of his bed, snoring; Remus was trying hard to open his eyes again every time he blinked; James's head kept falling on Lily's shoulders and he would jump startled every time she poked him on the ribs; his other dormmate head a pillow covering his head.

Sirius groaned. "Oh please! Let me sleep..." he even tried to lay down on his bed and pull the sheets above his body.

Dianna tut-tuted at him and Lily pulled away his sheets. Sirius rolled on the bed and fell on the floor.

"You need to hurry, Sirius!" Dianna said as she swiftly picked some things on her brother's trunk.

As they do with children, Dianna forced a T-shirt down Sirius head while Lily bathed him with cologne. Meanwhile, Remus head given up opening his eyes and James was smiled amused at the scene.

"Prongs, help me!" Dianna was trying to dress him with a pant. "Dianna, damn it, I can dress myself!"

Lily sighed and grabbed his face between her hands, pressing his cheeks and making Sirius look like a fish. "You have to go after her."

"Affer woo?"

"Melissa!" she finally freed him. "She borrowed James cloak, and we saw on the Map that she took one of the secret passages to Hogsmeade."

Sirius, now totally awake – you can't say that his looks were nice, though – frowned. "Is anything wrong?"

"No." His sister answered. "But it's a perfect time for you to go and properly talk to her." She stopped to think for a sec. "Or maybe you should just kiss her until she can think no more. Then her brain won't be able to architect stupid ideas."

Sirius smiled, kissed both Lily and Dianna on the cheek and hurried out the door.

James groaned. "Great. Everything's resolved now. I'm going back to bed." Remus, Dianna and Lily laughed and headed to the door, but James held Lily by the arm. "You're staying."

Sirius kind of knew where to find Melissa. She was sat at the same hill where they first kissed, her hair tied on a loose ponytail.

He cautiously approached her, without making any noise, and covered her eyes with his hands.

Melissa smiled. "It's not funny Sirius. I always know it's you."

Sirius sighed exaggeratedly and sat beside her. "You can't blame me for try!"

They sat in silence for some time, until Melissa spoke. "Who told you I was here?"

Sirius grinned wickedly. "Would you believe if I said it was a pixie?"

"Unless your pixie is called 'Dianna and Lily', hardly."

"Well, this time, I can only thank them."

Melissa took in a deep breath and looked at him. "I'm sorry. I should've listened to you before anything, but... Well, it's hard to know your boyfriend actually has a girlfried that is not you. You should have told me, anyway."

"I know, and I'm deeply sorry for that. But yesterday you said I was forgiven... Can I get my hopes high?"

She laughed. "Yes."

"What do I have to do to get a straight answer from you?" he framed her head with one hand and sneaked closer to her. "Yes, I can only get my hopes high or yes, I can have more than hopes?"

Melissa smirked. "Well... You see, I'm still deciding. Maybe I should request some clauses like: Never ever hug me against my will when you are sweaty and stinking after your Quidditch matches..."

"Well, baby, you better hurry. Cuz this piece-of-art - that is, me – won't be waiting for ever."

"I'm sorry, Mr.-God's-gift-to-the-world, but I'll have to refuse your offer..."

"Too late." Sirius pulled her to his lap.

Let's say that he didn't have to persuade her to kiss him. All that time apart... they had a lot to recuperate!

Melissa's fingers entwined in his hair as his mouth trailed kisses further down her neck...

Some distant noise brought them back from their interlude.

Sirius cursed, but smiled when he looked at her; swollen lips, panting slightly, a few strands that had escaped from her ponytail framing her face. He reached out a hand for her. "Com'on. Let's walk back."

They made their way back to Hogwarts slowly, using every silly excuse to stop for a kiss. Eventually, they reached the Fat Lady Portrait.

"Cannonballs" Melissa said the password.

They were about to get him when they heard a "Mr. Black." Coming from behind them.

"Oh, man..." Sirius groaned. McGonnagal was once more there, bearing the same expression she had at the Three Broomsticks. "I just forgot my detention!"

Faster than they wished, the final tests came. And with them, the NEWTS for all the seventh years. Even the Marauders were studying! But that was probably Lily doing...

They spent so much time at the library that Melissa hadn't had the opportunity to think about Sirius' eminent departure. But she knew that, when she started her last year at Hogwarts, it would get hard to meet Sirius.

One night, she was reading her Charms Book (How to never err your spell even if you don't know Latin) when Sirius enveloped her in his arms. Melissa quickly gave up on her reading and leaned against his chest.

"I'll miss you a lot."

"Me too. But I'm still a Marauder, you know. I'll come to see you as often as possible, ok?"

"It's just that... It seems we can't be together for as long as I wish we could."

Sirius smiled gently and pulled her up. "Come with me. I just had an excellent idea!"

"Oh, now I'm scared..."

Sirius showed her the tongue. "Just follow me, woman. You seemed to enjoy the last time a kidnapped you."

After twenty minutes and a lot of secret passageways, they stopped under some kind of door to an attic.

"I found this place some years ago." Sirius explained as he jumped to reach the handle of the door. "It's on the map, but the other Marauders usually don't come here." A stair soared down and Sirius motioned to Melissa to go first.

Her head barely had poked through the opening when she gaped. "Sirius, this is..." Sirius climbed up and embraced her. Above them, stood a magic ceiling, but not like the one at the Great Hall. This one didn't reflected the sky outside, it was, indeed, a sky map. Constellations coved the ceiling and the walls were invisible, existing only to block the weather. "Wonderful."

Sirius let go of her for a moment while he transfigured some old maps in soft sheets. Melissa followed him and laid on the floor.

"So this is the infamous Astronomy Tower..."

"Not exactly." He made her head rest on his arm. "The Astronomy Tower is bellow us. This place is some kind of Observatory."

Melissa turned her head to meet Sirius eyes and frowned. The bloke seemed to be having problems with his pockets, because he had his hand stuck on it and was trying to pull it out.

"Sirius, what-" but she could never finish. Sirius had released his hand and now he had a small velvet box in it.

"I wanted to give this to you before the Leaver's Ball tomorrow." He opened the box. Inside of it, was a thin silver ring. It was polished to perfection and wasn't a perfect circle. In one of the ends was a equally silver star, and in the other was a sapphire crescent moon.

Sirius took the beautiful ring and put it on Melissa's finger. "So you will remember me for always."

Melissa propped on her elbow and stared into his blue eyes. "I don't need a ring to remember you."

Painfully slowly, their lips met. So soft and yet so full of emotions. Sirius wrapped her in his arms and rolled over, so that she was under him, never letting go of her mouth. He was sure Melissa could feel how much he wanted her. He was too close of loosing control, if they didn't stop now...Against his will, Sirius pushed her slightly away.

Melissa looked at him. Both them were panting and their faces were softly flushed. She knew what she had to do. Melissa snuggled together him and undid the first bottom of her T-shirt, but Sirius shaking hand held hers before she could continue.

"You're sure?" he asked huskily.

Slowly, Melissa nodded. She had never been so sure.

Ahhh! Another chapter! Phew, this one was hard to write... I hope it has lived to your expectatives!