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Sirius's POVI think Snape was already mad at us before he saw me talking to Lily. Wait, he's constantly mad at us.
But he should have learnt to expect pranks at the breakfast table every once in awhile. And the dinner table.
And in the corridors.
And his Common Room.
And his dorm.
"You're still talking to that Lily then?" Peter asked, when I fell into my seat a second later.
"Yes. Why wouldn't I be talking to her?"
Peter shrugged. "I don't know. It's like James said, she's only in sixth year."
"So? It wasn't that long ago we were in sixth year ourselves," I replied.
"That's true," James agreed, twirling his fork in his breakfast.
We went off to Potions, where we got the most unbelievable amount of homework ever. I know that the NEWTs are coming up and everything, but do they think we have no lives?
It'll have to wait until Thursday. I had Quidditch practice every night until then, and homework just can't fit into my agenda.
The next few days went by with nothing much happen, besides the practices. I did hear the phrase 'Tall dark stranger' mentioned a few times, but I didn't have a clue what that was about. It was usually followed by a lot of giggling though.
Whatever.
Since James hadn't done his Potions homework either, we decided to just go to the Library on Thursday night. That way we had all the books to look answers up in.
But we were side tracked as soon as we stepped into the place.
This girl Lorredana walked up to us and just started talking away.
I like Lorredana and everything but... she gets a bit annoying. She's gorgeous, don't get me wrong, but she never shuts up either.
Tuh. Having beautiful girls throw themselves at you day after day. It's not easy being me.
". . .So I was just like 'no way!' but she went and did it anyway. Can you believe that?"
"Huh. No, I can't. That's simply amazing," I replied flatly.
Next to me, James forced a laugh. "She did it anyway? Whoa!"
Apparently she doesn't quite understand sarcasm. Bless her.
"I know! But it worked out okay. Martine just ended up-"
"Hey! Lily!" I cried, noticing her sat with her friends. Anything to get me away from Lorredana. "Sorry Lor, I've got to say hello to someone. . ."
"Oh. Okay. So anyway James-"
I stopped listening as soon as I started walking away. I did notice James glare at me for leaving him alone with Lorredana but. . . hey, every man for himself.
Lily's POV
I didn't speak to Sirius again for a few days.
Not that I minded. Much. I had a lot of things to keep my mind busy. Like. . . um. . . oh, I got Helen and this boy Paul together.
"Hey, Tess?" I said, looking towards her.
We were in the Library. Not exactly working, but we got bored of the Common Room.
"Yeah?"
"Do you think that I. . .?" I trailed off as I noticed Sirius and James were in the Library too. Talking and laughing with someone behind Tess.
It was Lorredana. She's this girl in their year. Pronounced 'Lor-reh-dar-na.' It's Italian. She's got Italian blood in her some where along the line. She doesn't speak Italian or anything, but she's got that really gorgeous Italian look.
You know those people who are just born beautiful? Who can just roll out of bed in the morning and not even have to brush their hair? She's one of them.
Lucky thing.
"What?" Tess asked. She turned in her chair to look behind her. "Who are you looking at?"
I tore my eyes away from them. "Nobody. . . so anyway! What-?"
"Hey! Lily!" Sirius suddenly noticed me, and grinned. He quickly said something to James and Lorredana before walking over to me.
"Hi," I smiled, as he took a seat opposite me.
"Hi! So how've you-"
"Thanks for that," James said, rudely joining us.
"Thought you might want some alone time with her," Sirius smirked.
Ooh! So James liked Lorredana. Okay.
Not that I'd have been bothered if Sirius liked her anyway, of course.
James rolled his eyes. Then he looked at me and smiled brightly. A little too brightly.
"Hi! So, like, who's going out with who?" he asked with false enthusiasm, looking at me intently and resting his chin on one fist.
Fine. You don't know me, but mock me why don't you?
"Funny," I replied, deadpan.
James smiled innocently, and then picked up a quill, looking down at something he was working on.
"So. . . what are you concentrating so hard on?" Tess asked him a minute later, obviously not wanting to be ignored.
I smiled to myself, and then turned to look at Sirius when I felt him touch my hand.
"So. . ." he started, and then hesitated.
I stared at him. "So. . .?"
"You got any plans for this Hogsmeade trip?"
"No," I replied. "I'm going, but not any real plans. . ."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"So we can still hang out with you, can't we?" Helen asked in our dorm that night.
"Sure," I smiled, pulling a brush through my hair. "He's still gonna be with his friends, so I can still be with mine."
"Great. I still can't believe he asked you out though," Tess said, looking thoughtful.
I can't either, but did she have to make it sound as if she didn't ever expect me to get a date?
"Why?" I demanded feeling annoyed.
"No, no. I don't mean it nastily. I just mean. . ." she trailed off.
"That it's Sirius Black?" I offered, and Tess nodded. "You're going to have to get over that," I giggled.
"I know. It's so cool, every girl hates you," Helen squealed.
"Yeah, thanks," I laughed.
I don't know how I quite feel about that.
No, it's good. Practically every girl in the school envies me! And that's quite a good feeling, actually. . .
"Oh please, practically every girl in the school is jealous of you anyway," Tess rolled her eyes when I told her what I was thinking. "You're pretty, you're popular, and you're smart. . ." she listed things off on her fingers.
Isn't she sweet?
James' POV
It turned out Lily and her friends had to come to Hogsmeade with us.
Why Sirius asked her to come, I don't know. It only meant we couldn't do any of our usual stuff, like get into the Shrieking Shack, or use our passageways. . .
But she came. Her, Tess and Helen.
"So, erm, what are you doing when you leave school?" Lily asked me in the Three Broomsticks.
Sirius had gone to get drinks, Remus and Peter had gone to stock up on dungbombs and Tess and Helen were at another table talking to some other friends.
So it was just her and me, sat there with nothing to talk about.
I had the feeling she was trying to make conversation.
"I dunno," I shrugged.
She sighed, and I realized I wasn't really helping our little talk along. Still, it wasn't like I knew her or anything. Like I was bothered if I was being boring.
"You know what you want to do yet?" I finally asked, after a minute of silence.
"Oh. I want to work at the Ministry. In that section where you help with Charms," she said confidently, as if she'd known she wanted to do that since for ages.
"Really?"
That's a surprise. I'd thought she'd be the sort of person who just wanted to marry someone rich or something.