Okies, here I am, back with another chapter! Sorry if it took too long, I just ain't having enough reviews for it to get me going. Thanks to those who do review though! Here goes:


'Wait! James…' Sirius cried as he turned his head abruptly in the direction of the entrance to the common room. He slammed his fist in his own hand as an to represent his rage. He had been trying to get Lily and James together, and here he was, on the verge of the end of his friendship with the one person he thought he really knew…

Lily, realizing what James must have thought of her hugging his best friend when he was her boyfriend, got up from the hearthrug and looked away. Sirius had seem so… easy to confide in and she didn't even think what image James would get of her because of her actions. She had always thought of Sirius as nothing more than a good friend! She felt disgusted at what James would have thought and wondered how someone could think so…

Sirius was sitting on an armchair with his head in his hand and a grieved expression on his somewhat tired face. Lily felt really sorry for him. He was just trying to get James and her back together… at the cost of his friendship.

'I'm sorry' both of them said at the same time. Lily looked up, a shy smile on her face. Sirius's smile still gave an expression of sadness.

'What are you sorry about?' he asked in a gruff voice. 'I'm the one who should be sorry' he said.

'Nonsense… why should you be sorry? Just to console me… you let your friendship go away! I'm such a …'

'Losing my friendship is my sorrow fate, but… now James is going to get ideas about… you know…' Sirius stopped despairingly.

Lily nodded to show that she understood. Then Sirius went on, ' I'm such a shit! I endangered your relationship! Damn it…' he finished, slumping back on the armchair with such force, that Lily thought he would topple over backwards.

'But… aren't you going to go stop him?' Lily asked timidly to Sirius, she was too stubborn and too proud to go herself.

'I will, but I'll give him a head start in this hide and seek game' Sirius smiled a bit.

'Hide and seek?' Lily asked, clearly befuddled at this unusual remark from Sirius.

'Well, whenever Prongs is pissed off he goes away into a quiet corner and likes to brood by himself for a while. He usually hides away somewhere, and if I'm the one who upset him, I have to go looking all over for him in the castle. Now after a lot of practice of it, I've come to know most of his hiding places. But I know he likes to be by himself sometimes so I let him be. I guess he'll be in some dark, unused classroom this time' Sirius informed her.

A soft 'Oh' was the reply from Lily.

'But, you're right, I think I should go now…'


Stepping outside, James walked swiftly and ended up in an unused classroom. It was dark and dusty, the room gave off a sense of grief and mourn. It suited him perfectly. He shut the door behind him, leant against the cool window pane and closed his eyes. He had always thought of Sirius as his best friend, and he had always appreciated the fact that Sirius had always tried to be friendly with Lily just for James's sake. He never would have thought that… he hadn't even thought of that! Sirius had been noticeably frank with Lily since he had been cured from his injury… now he knew why Sirius kept being so sweet to her. Just the thought of it gave him a gruesome sensation. He never would have thought Sirius could be so… sick. Now he had nowhere else to go and no one else to talk to. Padfoot had always been by his side and he always went to him when and if he was facing such a situation with somebody. Sirius had always been there for him, through thick and thin… he felt completely lost without him.

James was deep amidst these thoughts when he heard the click of a door opening. Turning around, James found himself face to face with his best friend. Or that's what he had always thought him to be…up till now.

'What d'you want?' James shot at Sirius, turning his back towards the one person he had always confided everything in.

'James, you've got the wrong end of the –' Sirius started reasonably.

James held up a hand to silence him. 'I haven't got the wrong end of anything! Do you think I'm stupid? Do I look stupid to you? Don't you think I know what's up when two people of the opposite sex – ' James argued heatedly.

'James! How sick can you get?' Sirius cried, disgusted.

'How sick can I get?' James repeated 'How sick can you get! I always thought of you as my best friend, and you… Instead of being happy at my success of making THE Lily Evans my girlfriend, you were jealous? All this time… I thought you were being sweet and friendly with her just for my sake, and I valued you for that. I never even thought that all you really wanted to do was get her yourself!' James cried, turning to face Sirius again and screaming, so that his voice seemed to reverberate in the empty room.

Sirius massaged his forehead with one hand and let his best friend steam out. Then, putting a Silencing charm on the walls of the room so that James could scream all he wanted without being heard by anyone who might be strolling outside in the corridor, he said calmly, 'Look, I know that's what it may seem like… but it really isn't what you think it is!' he said matter-of-factly, meanwhile suppressing all thoughts he would have had about Lily and suppressing every kind of emotion he would have had for her in the past. He didn't want to hurt James and he never would even dream of endangering his best friend's precious relationship with Lily.

'Oh yeah?' shot back James, red in the face. 'Then what is it?'

'I went after Lily because of you! I went because she was really mad about what you said and –' Sirius started from the very beginning.

James snorted mockingly. 'That's what I thought at first as well…' he said, folding his arms in a disbelieving way as if to say 'I know it isn't that case!'

'Well, you do have a habit of doing the right thing and then misplacing it with the wrong one' said Sirius, heating up a bit. He had gotten the hint from James's grunt that his best friend was surely not believing one word he was saying. And this thought hurt him deeply. 'I simply wanted to console Lily and tell her that it would be alright. I wanted to keep your relationship from breaking up!' said Sirius, truthfully, ignoring the small voice in his head that he did have other thoughts as well when he had rushed up to console Lily.

'Well, you do have a habit of meaning the right thing and ending up doing the wrong one…' said James, cruelly ironic.

'I can't help it if you're so thick as to take me wrongly! At least I meant good! How could you even think I would want Lily for myself when she was your girlfriend!' said Sirius, trying to suppress his anger that was endangered to burst out any minute.

'That's what I want know… how can you be so gross?' James demanded.

Sirius slammed his fist against the wall. 'That's not what I wanted to do! How else should I explain this little thing? I DID NOT WANT LILY EVANS FOR MYSELF!' he screamed, finally flying off the hook.

'I told you all I wanted to do was to save your relationship from breaking up! You two make such a cute couple I couldn't bear you being separated!' Sirius said, waving his arms wildly.

'Oh? Well, then, why were you… hugging her?' asked James, somewhat sheepishly now that he was trying to understand Sirius.

'That's what you do when you're trying to comfort someone! You try to give them a sense of security…' said Sirius, smiling at the thought of it. Then, scolding himself, he looked at James to search for a change of expression. But James had turned away, he was facing the wall. Sirius could almost see James's brain working profusely. The two sides, one which said that Sirius was a liar and he really did want Lily for himself, and the other which said that Sirius would never dream of doing so and that he should forgive his best friend immediately, in James's mind were in the midst of a battle. Sirius only wished the latter one would win… waiting to see the result, he did not notice Lily Evans outside the classroom door, her brows knitted in a furrow.

When James turned around again to face him, Sirius got his wish… James was smiling. Hurrying forwards, James and Sirius shared a passionate embrace. Lily simply stood out there, smiling and rejoicing at Sirius's success. She loved the type of relationship Sirius and James shared, Sirius really knew James, he knew what made him happy and what made him mourn. Heck! He even knew where James would want to be in solitude if he was angry! They were so cute… just looking at them embracing each other in a passionate hug was more than enough to make her forget all past grief.


I couldn't take all the hassle of James and Sirius fighting so I put it to an end in just one chapter, see? Thanks for those reviewers who made me write on. I hope this was a lot longer than the last one I put up. Thanks a bunch you guys:

Padfootsluvr: Hey there again! Yeah, they are best friends, aren't they? I know they are! And your review made me go over and shorten the time they fought and made them make up, see? Hope this was soon enough for you and you didn't have to wait much! Keep Reviewing, if you stop, I think I'll simply discontinue the story. Thanks a lot man, your reviews mean a LOT to me! XOXO


Signing Off Till next time,

HadsKunwar