Chapter 2
"Why…why I'd love to!" Lily said, throwing her arms around Sirius.
"Well, James is going to hex me something awful when he finds out, but that's the cost of love isn't it?" Sirius answered.
Before Lily could answer the others burst into the compartment, all clad in their Hogwarts robes now. James saw Sirius with his arms around Lily and near had a heart attack.
"Sirius! What are you doing with your hands on…MY woman?" James asked.
"She's my girlfriend you dimwit. I'm entitled to hold her and make her feel special aren't I, Prongs?" Sirius said.
"What? But…but you know! You know…You bastard…" James said as he stormed out of the compartment, practically knocking Brooke and Jessica over on his way.
"Do you want me to go talk to him?" Lily asked, trying to be helpful.
"No, really. It's okay. I'll go," Remus said, trying to be the voice of reason, "Don't worry. James never stays mad long…"
"Wow," Brooke said as she sat down across from them, "So you finally asked him Lily?"
"What do you mean 'finally asked him'?" Lily said, "I never mentioned to either of you that I wanted to go out with him!"
"One learns things when one finds Lily's diary left lying open in the common room when she's dozed off doing homework…" Jessica said, innocently gazing around as Brooke stifled her giggles.
"You two!" Lily said jumping up to start tickling the two of them fiercely but Sirius cleverly pulled her back onto his lap.
"Lily, I don't see why it's a problem. The only people who know about it are you, me, Brooke and Jessica…" Sirius began.
"And Esmerelda," Jessica said.
"Yeah…it- it was all her idea!" Brooke replied.
"Don't lie Brooke. It was your idea," Jessica said giving her a look that said "WTF!"
"Okay so it was my idea, but those two were in on it!" Brooke said.
"Well anyway Lily, what does it matter? No one else knows, and now that we're going out, it doesn't matter, okay?" he said nuzzling the side of her neck affectionately.
"Hey, you guys might want to cut back on the PDA…here comes Remus and James, it looks like he's finally gotten him calmed down…" Brooke said, looking out the window on the compartment door.
Lily quickly slid off of Sirius' lap, just in time for James and Remus to enter the compartment.
"Go back to sitting on his lap Lily, I don't care. It won't last long, you'll confess your true love for me once you've seen how boring a relationship can be with Padfoot," James said upon reentering the compartment.
Sirius guffawed as Lily scooted back onto his lap.
"Plus it means there's enough room for all of us in the compartment now," Remus said while gesturing towards James and then making a hand signal to show that he wasn't right in the head.
Sirius gave him a look to say that he'd just go with the flow, and that he was just happy Remus had been able to calm him down.
After a few minutes of idle chit chat the train stopped, and there was a loud scuffling noise as everyone was shuffled off the train. There they stood near the lake, watching as it glimmered in the moonlight. Another year back at Hogwarts.