Chapter 13

--- January 22 ---

Lily woke up with a sinking feeling in her gut. She knew what was going to happen today and she had been dreading it. She even prayed to the muggle God the night before to not let today come. But of course it came.

Lily made her way to the boys dorm and cautiously entered James' room. She immediately spotted him with his unruly hair. She delicately sat on the edge of his bed and watched his chest rise up and down evenly. After debating with herself she finally gave him a shake to wake him up.

James opened his eyes looking annoyed but smiled when he saw his girlfriend. "Why didn't you wake me with a kiss? I would of enjoyed that more." James said with a smile taking his glasses from his nightstand and placing them on his face.

Lily offered a weak smile. "Sorry."

James face changed to concern. "Is something wrong Lily?" James said placing his hand on her shoulder.

Lily's eyes went down. "Don't you remember what happens today?"

James' eyes widened. "It's been a month already!" He shouted in anger. "Things have been so good around here lately except for Sirius of course. What was Dumbledore thinking when he decided to let Tia come back?"

"I don't know James but I'm really scared of her now." Lily said looking into his eyes for support.

James pulled Lily into a hug. "I won't let anything happen to you Lily." James said reassuringly.

James pulled away slowly. "Let me just slip my robes on then we can go get some breakfast together." James said pulling his cover off revealing his hot pink boxers.

Lily sniggered a bit and James laughed with her as he looked at his shocking boxers. Once James was properly dressed the two walked out of the room and headed for the Great Hall.

Lily sat down on the one side of the Gryffindor table next to James and to her disgust Tray Vance sat on her other side.

"What?" Lily asked rudely.

Tray put his hands up in a surrender. "Can't you even give me a chance to talk?" Tray asked almost pleadingly.

Lily kept her face stern but motioned for him to speak. "Tia has been writing me she told me everything that happened. So I guess you know she's coming back." Tray said.

"Of course I know I've been dreading this day ever since." Lily said angrily.

"Right." Tray said apologetically. "Well just to let you know I broke up with her the second I heard what she did. As much as I like picking on you she's just crazy and I just want you to know I had nothing to do with that at all."

Lily nodded. "I never thought you were part of it."

"Good I just wanted to make sure everything was alright between us. Maybe sometime you can come around to being my friend again." Tray said with a smile.

James gave Tray a dirty look thinking Tray wanted to be more than just a friend. "Don't push your luck Vance." Lily said turning to James trying to give Tray a hint that she wanted him to leave.

"One last thing Lil." Tray said to the back of Lily's head.

Lily turned back to him. "Call me Evans please I don't know you well enough for you to call me by my first name." Lily said sourly. "What do you want?"

"I've seen that blonde friend of yours hanging out with Zack a lot lately." Tray said.

"Your point?" Lily said getting more annoyed.

"Make sure she's careful." Tray said giving one last smile as he exited the Great Hall.

Lily furrowed her brow and turned to James. "What do you think that means?" Lily said getting a little worried.

"I have no idea." James said. "We'll keep an eye on him but he seems nice. Though I think Sirius was a much better pick."

Lily smiled. "Same here. Andi makes Zack seem so perfect there has to be something wrong with him. Zack also seems really boring. I know for a fact when Andi was going out with Sirius that she enjoyed life more. I think Zack's just a phase for her. She'll be back with Sirius in no time."

"I hope so Sirius has been really down ever since the break up. He even had a heart to heart conversation with me which he never does. He told me that he didn't think he'd ever get over Andi. That's really weird if you ask me." James said with a smile.

Lily smiled too. "Aww my little Cyprus has a sensitive side." Lily said.

James chuckled. "Yep I guess he does. You done yet?"

Lily looked up at him. "I didn't get to touch any of my food." Lily said defensively.

"We need some alone time though we haven't had any for along time. Just grab some toast and we can go to the prefect's common room." James said with a cheeky grin.

"Sounds great!" Lily said grabbing a piece of toast as James rushed her out of the Great Hall.

Sirius woke up and lazily put his school robes on. Once he got to the common room he heard Andi's familiar giggling. His face fell when he saw Zack tickling his exgirlfriend.

Zack and Andi noticed Sirius's entrance. Zack immediately returned his hands to his side and the two stared emotionless at Sirius.

Sadness was clearly shown on Sirius's face. "Didn't mean to interrupt." Sirius said heading for the door.

Andi watched as the portrait shut behind him. Her heart ached a bit for Sirius. His sullen appearance took all her happiness away. "I have to talk to him." Andi said walking towards the door.

"Wait I thought we were going to the Great Hall for breakfast." Zack said pleadingly.

"Go on without me hopefully I'll be down then." Andi said turning to give Zack a wave.

"Bye." Zack said defeated.

Andi went through the corridors at a fast pace using Sirius's strong cologne as a guide. She finally saw Sirius' tall figure ahead of her. He appeared to be heading towards the Room of Requirement.

She waited until he entered the room then softly slipped in after him. Andi looked around the room. The walls were all painted a depressing color and the whole room seemed to suck all the happiness out of her. It was empty other than a small unwelcoming couch and a picture frame which Sirius had in his hand.

Andi slowly and quietly made her way to Sirius's side. Andi caught a glimpse of the picture and her heart clenched at the picture of her and Sirius at the Ball in October.

Sirius jumped a little when he saw Andi by his side and he quickly slipped the picture frame in his robes. "What are you doing here?" Sirius said lightly.

"I was a bit worried about you. You looked so sad. What's wrong Sirius?" Andi asked.

Sirius looked over at her almost annoyed. "You know what's wrong. I know you saw the picture I was holding." Sirius said pulling the picture back out.

Andi nodded. "Yeah I did see it. Sirius I hate to see you like this it breaks my heart." Andi said laying her hand lightly on his arm.

"Stop getting my hopes up." Sirius said removing her hand from his arm. "You already made it clear that we're over and you sounded like friendship wasn't even an option."

"No!" Andi said in shock. "I want us to be friends I really do but I'm not sure if we can be anything more."

"That's what I was afraid of." Sirius said heading towards the depressing couch.

Andi sat down next to Sirius. "I don't understand Sirius we only went out for two months and we broke up almost a month ago."

Sirius looked up hurt. "You're wrong Andi. You broke us up there was no 'we' in it. And the reason I'm so hurt is you were my first real relationship. Andi I never stayed with a girl longer than a week."

Andi looked down unsure what to say. "Sirius I didn't mean to hurt you but what you did was extremely uncalled for." Andi said looking up at Sirius's face.

Sirius grabbed his long hair and pulled hard as if trying to rip his beautiful locks out. Andi grabbed his hands and managed to get them off his head. "What's wrong?" Andi said looking at him nervously.

"This whole thing is what's wrong!" Sirius said angrily. "No matter how many times I apologize to you you're never going to forgive me."

"Sirius you shoved me into a wall!" Andi shouted defensively.

Sirius sighed. "I know Andi and I would do absolutely anything to make it up to you."

Andi sighed. "Class starts in five minutes we have to go." Andi said quietly.

Sirius let out a long sigh. "Let's go." Sirius said standing up. "Oh here, I want you to have this. Just promise me you won't destroy it." Sirius said handing the framed picture of the two to her.

"Thanks." Andi said tucking it into her robes.

The two walked silently on the long walk to Transfiguration. Andi had no clue what to think of Sirius now. She thought things were confusing before but after their conversation everything seemed twice as confusing.

Once they got to McGonagall's room the two took their seats and didn't pay much attention to the lesson.

When lunch finally arrived James, Lily, Sirius, Remi, Remus, Peter, and Andi headed to the Great Hall.

Lily let in a silent gasp as she looked up from her food. The other six followed her gaze to the Great Hall entrance where Tia stood. James took hold of Lily's hand under the table and gave it a light squeeze.

Tia made her way to the Slytherin table and sat next to the other sixth years. The seven kept staring at her until she looked up slightly to give them a not so friendly smile.

They all quickly returned their eyes to each other and tried to make it look like they hadn't noticed her arrival. "No surprise there, we all knew what house she was going to be in anyway." Andi said with an unhappy look on her face.

The others nodded and Peter just grunted. He had been quite distant ever since the break for the holidays. None of the others even knew what he had done.

"I didn't want her to come back." Lily whispered so only James could hear her.

"Don't worry now we can get revenge on her and now she won't be taking points away from Gryffindor." James said with his trademark smile.

Lily smiled back. "I just hope I don't end up alone with her ever again."

James nodded. "I won't let anything happen and neither will any of the teachers." James said taking a sip of his pumpkin juice. "Remember my promise to you?"

"No." Lily said confused.

"The prank on Tia." James said.

Lily's face brightened. "That's right!"

"Yeah I'm excited for this prank because Tia deserves this and hopefully planning the prank will make Sirius a little happier." James said looking at Tia for a moment.

"I'm extremely excited. When can I be pleasured with seeing this?" Lily asked.

"Next week sound good?" James asked smiling at his again happy girlfriend.

"Perfect." Lily said giving him a quick kiss.

The seven finished their lunches and went their separate ways. James managed to round up the other Marauders so they could start planning the prank. Andi claimed she wanted to be alone so Remi and Lily decided to go for a walk around the castle.

Andi walked to the Fat Lady's portrait that led to the Gryffindor common room. "Hippogriff." Andi muttered.

"Why so glum my dear?" The jolly women in the portrait asked.

"Long story." Andi said.

"I understand, no one ever thinks that the Fat Lady can help. Go on." The Fat Lady said opening so Andi could enter.

Andi started for her room but before she got to the stairs Zack grabbed her arm and gave her a smile that she didn't return. She just gave him a sigh.

Zack's face fell. "Did I do something?" He asked worriedly.

Andi let out another sigh but this time more dramatic. "Why can't anyone just let me have a minute to myself?" She asked exasperated.

Andi strode to the girl's staircase. "I guess we'll hang out later?" Zack asked confused.

"Yeah sure whatever." Andi murmured as she entered her room.

Andi laid down on her stomach but shifted uncomfortable from something poking her in the stomach. She pulled the object out from under her and sighed once again when she realized what it was.

It was the picture from the ball that Sirius had giving her. She slowly turned it over and looked into the happy faces of herself and Sirius.

She opened the stand and set it on her nightstand. As she stared at the picture she let some light tears gracefully fall down her cheek.

Once she had a good cry she laid the picture down so she wouldn't mess up things by reflecting on the past.

She decided to make a decision on what she wanted and who she wanted later. Now she needed to sleep to stop the never ending thoughts.

"I'll catch up later." Lily said walking the opposite direction of her friends.

"Lily you'll miss supper." Remi said pulling on Lily's robe.

"Andi didn't go to any classes after lunch something's wrong." Lily said concerned.

"I know Lily but you heard her earlier she wants to be alone." Remi said pushing Lily towards the Great Hall.

"She's my best friend I can't eat knowing she's upset. What if she's mad at me or something?" Lily said trying her best to get away from Remi.

"Lily stop." James said wrapping his arm around her waist as he ushered her into the Great Hall. "You know you didn't do anything you can talk to her after supper. Now you need to chill out and eat with your friends." Lily gave up and listened.

Sirius's brow furrowed a bit as he thought of Andi's behavior since their talk earlier that day. Had he upset her? The thought depressed him even more. Would he ever get Andi back?

A/N: Stupid chapter… Yes?? No?? Maybe?? I know you all like hate me now because of Andi and Sirius but I have a plan for them don't worry!!! Next chapter plan on the prank for Tia and more Sirius/Andi/Zack stuff.

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