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An Apology

"Here." James threw 12 gallons on the floor where his friends were sitting playing poker. "There. I don't want anything more to do with this "bet"."

"Wait." Said Peter putting his cards down for a moment, "You won Potter. Plus...it was three gallons each...not four."

"Shut up Wormtail." Said Sirius taking a puff from his cigar. Smoking wasn't allowed in the dorms...but he had had a rough day yesterday so figured he deserved it. "If he wants to give us extra let him gives us extra." He then smiled at James

"Ahhhh...of course he can give us all the money he wants...but the question is my boys...why is he giving it to us?" Said Remus with a cocky grin. "I'll raise you 3 sickles" he then said. They all through in their share of the money into the pot.

"Don't tell her about it." Said James with a very serious expression.

"Then maybe you shouldn't have made the bet Potter." Said Peter taking a long slow look at his cards. James then grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him up from his seat and made him look at him straight in the eyes.

"If you tell her ANYTHING" James eyes turned to blue fire, "I will make you wish that you were a rat Wormtail." James said fiercely

"Whoa now Prongs...put him down." Said Sirius with a laugh. James did what he said.

"Sorry. But that goes for all of you. I'm not going to let anything come in between me and Lily." He said determinedly

"Well hey. You won the bet James. So how bout you just keep the money. Use it to buy her something pretty. How bout it?" Said Peter trying to make peace.

"Yeah...just take it James...the bet was just for fun wasn't it?" said Remus.

"Yeah, I just don't want her to doubt my feelings for her by having this bet mentioned." Said James pacing the room.

"Don't worry Prongs." Said Sirius and picked up his money and handed it back to him, "Here take your money. Just go and buy her something nice. We will forget the bet even transpired. Won't we boys."

"Yeah" said Remus

"Sure no problem." replied Peter "Hey are we all going to Hogsmede together tomorrow?" He asked

"Uhhh...I'm kind of going with Lily." Said James

"Yeah im afraid I asked Rachael to go with me." Replied Remus.

"Well isn't that peachy. You all have dates! This is just peachy." Sirius said with a pout

"I'll be your date Sirius." Said Peter and he scooted closer to him and batted his eyelashes. They all laughed.

"GET AWAY!!" yelled Sirius laughing.

"Ok. Well I was just wondering because...I can't make it. I've made some plans." Said Peter not making direct eye contact with them.

"Oh. Well whatever then." Sirius said not wanting to even think about Peter getting action. It was amazing...even Wormtail was getting more action this year then he was. "Do you guys mind then if you all met up at some point?" asked Sirius

"Yeah that's fine." Said Remus

"Sure I don't care." Said James, than he looked at his watch, "Look I have got to go meet up with Lily before practice. I'll catch up with you guys later." He than walked out of the room.

"Ok boys put your hands down lets see what you got." Said Sirius

They all put their hands down.

"HEY! Where did my aces go!! I had 2 aces?" Peter said with outrage, "Now I have 2 deuces!"

"Yeah I seem to be missing an ace too Pete." Remus said considerately. Than he looked at Sirius, "Put it down Black." Remus said with laughter in his eyes

"Looks like I have you boys beat....four aces." Said Sirius with a cocky grin.

::Sirius Thinking::

He was here again. How did he always end up here....waiting for her? I guess bad habits die hard. He acted poorly the other day. He shouldn't have done what he did. He shouldn't have grabbed her arm that roughly. He was slowly coming to realize that if she didn't want there to be anything between them...there wouldn't be. And that if he couldn't have her as a girlfriend...he would accept her being his friend, because she was everything to him. She then walked out of the girl's locker room, and he could start to feel his eyes get wet. SHIT Sirius...stop acting like a girl. At least you guys can be friends, you don't want her out of your life do you? She saw him and turned the other direction.

"Cassie! Please wait." He yelled after her. She stopped and turned around. And just looked at him.

"I'm sorry." He said to her, "I'm sorry I hurt you. I'm sorry I screwed us up. I'm sorry I never called you and that I treated you like shit. I'm sorry that I grabbed your arm yesterday..." then he said softly, "and I'm sorry that I never told you that I loved you." She just stared at him. Her heart dropped and she was shocked by his worlds. When he had called her name, she fully intended to keep walking, but she stopped and turned around. And god how she wished now that she had kept walking. He had just told her that he loved her. After putting her through misery the last couple of years...he tells her now that he loves her. All she could do was stare at him. He started to walk towards her, but it was like her feet were rooted into the ground.

"I promise that I wont kiss you." He gave a sad laugh, "I don't deserve that right anymore." They were now face to face, but Cassie couldn't look his straight in the eye yet. "I'm sorry Cass. I wouldn't blame you if you don't want to have anything to do with me anymore." He grabbed her hands and held on to them, "But if I can't have you be my girlfriend....I would love to have you as my friend." She then looked up at him, and he saw that her eyes were glazed over with unshed tears. "Cassie..."he said in a hushed voice, "Please don't cry I can't stand it when you cry it makes me want to..." she could see that his eyes were starting to get wet too so she just hugged him.

"I would love to be friends Sirius." She said next to his ear. And he hugged her tighter. She didn't know how long they stood there hugging, but she knew she had to break the contact. She pulled away from him and could see the longing in his eyes...but she wouldn't go to him. She instead looked at her watch, "Jesus, it is ten to nine I still have to write a Potions essay tonight." She said with a laugh to try and break tension.

"Sucks to be you McAllister." Sirius said trying to get into "friend mode". "I actually had a question for you." He said and they both started to walk back to the common room together.

"What's that?" she asked

"Well...James is going with Lily to Hogsmede this weekend, Remus is going with Rachael, and Peter....has a date..."

"Wait...back up. Wormtail has a date!" she started to laugh "This is priceless."

"Shut up Cass." He also laughed. "But anyway I thought that maybe if you weren't doing anything...you would like to go with me. AND before you say no. I was going to ask Bella too. Because we are "friends" and this is not going to be a date." He said hoping that she would say yes.

"Sirius...I'm sorry bout Amos asked me to go with him. I would have loved to go with you guys but he asked me. I'm sorry. But hey, we could all meet up somewhere right?" she asked

"Oh. That's no problem if you have a date." He said trying not to sound as hurt as he actually was. "I mean if you want to go with Amos then who am I to stop you. And yeah we were all going to try to meet up somewhere anyway." AMOS DIGGORY! He looked in the mirror more the BELLA did! How could she be attacked to that after she had dated him!

"Ok that will be great. Just tell me where and when and we will met up with you." They reached the fat ladies portrait and said the password and went into the common room where Bella was working on homework. "Hey Bella. What's up?" asked Cassie.

"Oh nothing much. Just trying to figure out some charms. Hey Black could you help me a little." She asked Sirius.

"Sure." Walking over to help her, "When I find out the time I will tell ya ok Cass?"

"Yeah sounds good. Have fun you two." Said Cassie and she walked up to the girl's dormitory. Once Bella heard the door shut upstairs she shut her charms book and looked directly into Sirius' eyes.

"I need your help. But not with charms." She said very seriously

"Oookkk. What did you need help on." He asked curiously

"Well actually we are going to help each other. Sirius...we are both going to get the people we want back, if you go along with my plan." She said with a twinkle in her eye.