Post 21:

The end of school drew rapidly to a close and Jade found herself wishing desperately that it wasn't. She boarded the Hogwarts Express with much depression that she had on the way to Hogwarts last September.

"Hey... we'll see each other all the time." Sirius said to Jade, who was sitting on his lap. "We're both taking our apperation tests this year. It won't matter that I live in Glasgow and you live east of La Havre. France, Britain, it doesn't matter."

"And we'll visit." Jade said, flatly.

"Yes." Sirius answered. The train ride was fairly uneventful. Remus and Ophelia went off by themselves somewhere halfway through the journey and Peter was sitting with Nancy Phillips and some other Hufflepuffs. So it was just Sirius, Jade, James, and Lily for most of the ride.

After a long while, the train slowed to a stop. Sirius didn't want to go anywhere. Jade felt so good in his arms, he didn't want to have to let her go. She stood up and straightened her clothes. Then, quite suddenly, Sirius pulled her into a deep, passionate kiss. Jade rapped her arms around his neck and felt her body press closer to his.

James and Lily shuffled sideways out of the compartment awkwardly. Jade and Sirius did not notice. They finally broke apart and Sirius pulled Jade into a hug.

Everyone was saying goodbye at Platform 9,3/4. It was very emotional for everyone. They would only have one more year together and then all the fun would be over.

"Evans!" called James, when Lily turned to meet her parents and sulking sister. "Evans wait!"

Lily turned around, James ran up to her.

"Yes?" she asked.

"Well it's just- before you go-" He stopped speaking. Then, he grabbed her and kissed her! Everyone was hooting and whistling loudly.

SMACK!

Lily hit James hard on the face when she finally managed to break away from his strong hold. Then, with absolutely no warning, she grabbed him and kissed him! The hooting and calling went louder than before but they didn't seem to care.

"Wow. You- you kiss good." James said, legs weak.

Lily smiled.

"Owl me." The she turned away and left, Sirius and Remus calling nasty things to her as she went. -"Don't I get a goodbye kiss?"- -" You never kissed me goodbye like that!"-

Jade made her way through the barrier and was back into the muggle world.

She took a taxi to her home and looked around. She would be in France this time next week. Jade went to sleep that night with thoughts of where to start with packing for the next day.

Jade looked around her new home. She lived on the North West side of La Navre. She read Sirius' note again. He would come to stay with her the next day for a while. He passed his apperation test with ease. Jade could hardly wait to see him again.

Post 22:

CRACK!

"Sirius! Hey." Jade said, turning around to see Sirius standing in her living room. He had just apperated.

"Hello." He said, smiling.

"Why are you so happy?" Jade asked, eyeing him suspiciously.

"Because." Then he closed the distance between them and pulled Jade into a long, passionate kiss.

They pulled apart briefly and then started kissing again, Jade moving her hands to his hair.

"I missed you, could you tell?" Sirius said, smiling, twenty minutes later when they finally stopped making out.

"When are you going for your apperation test?" He asked.

"Tomorrow, before work." She answered.

They spent the day together and Sirius apperated home in the evening because both of them were working the next day. Sirius was working for the Comet broom company and Jade was starting her work to catch a dragon that was spotted and move it to a new location. She was on a team of fifty and though she actually wanted to do something, she wouldn't be coming into contact with the dragon.

"I'll see you in a few days." Sirius said before he disapperated.

"I know." Jade said. They kissed goodbye and with another CRACK! Sirius was gone. Jade felt very lonely. She was so used to being surrounded by her friends that the summer was depressing. Just three days...

The next morning Jade got up very early and was picked up by two Apperation test officials. They took her to an indoor football field. One stood with her and the other went to where she was supposed to go. They were only a few feet away from each other.

"Now, just visualize where you want to go, and think you're there." The man said who was standing beside her.

Jade thought about standing beside the other man, and then thought she was already there. She heard two CRACK!s that came one after the other, and when Jade opened her eyes she was standing beside the other man.

"Wow! That was so easy!" Jade said. The man beamed at her.

"They always say that." The wizards moved much further apart, about half the field. Jade did the same thing with ease. Then she did the distance of the field. Finally, she had to apperate to somewhere she could not see. Jade passed the test, got her licence, filled out a few papers, and then apperated home to change for work.

CRACK!

"Hey, how was working with dragons?" Sirius asked when Jade apperated into his kitchen.

"Boring. Well, I got to help stun the thing. It was a welsh."

"In France?"

"Yeah, they were confused about how it got there and some people are looking for muggles who might have seen her. We're transporting it today, so I'm not on, and then we're watching it for a while to make sure she re- adjusts to her habitat. It's only five days of work in total, but its something."

"Nice." Sirius and Jade went to James' house for dinner that night.

"So, how's Lily?" Jade asked casually.

"Oh, she's good. I got an owl today from her and we're planning to do something this summer."

Jade raised an eyebrow and smiled. "So you guys are going out?"

James looked around his den, very interested in the rug, and pretended to not hear the question.

Sirius and Jade walked back to his house hand in hand.

They went into his bed room so he could get something to show her, Jade sat crossed-legged on the side of his bed, and took a piece of canvas from him.

It was a painting of her when she was thirteen years old. He was blushing when he showed it to her and thought that there was no way he would ever be able to show her the one where she was in a bikini, behind the waterfall.

"I didn't know you painted!" she said, looking at it. "Wow, it's really good. You made me look nice!"

"what are you talking about?" Sirius said, taking the canvas from her a putting it on the chest at the end of his bed. "You look do nice." He kissed her on the cheek. "Actually," he whispered. "I think you're a lot better than 'nice'."

He moved his fingers through her short red hair.

He kissed her again.

"Sirius..."

"Shh." he put his finger to her lips and then moved it, making way for his mouth. Jade closed her eyes and kissed him back, her heart beating fastly.

"Can I stay with you tonight?" she asked. "I hate being home alone."

"Sure."

Sirius and Jade went to bed late that night, Jade sleeping in his arms. Both of them were still in their clothes and on top of his sheets.