Cassi entered the hall later that day for dinner with Lily, no sooner had the two of them entered than a girl with fiery red hair approached the both of them.

"You Cassandra Montgomery?" She asked staring at Cassi

"That's right, my friends call me Cassi, but you can continue to call me Cassandra, and if you really piss me off you'll find yourself calling me Miss. Montgomery. You must me Nikki." Cassi hissed.

"It's Nicola to you." The girl shot back,

"Well, Nicola," Cassi smirked, "what can I do for you. You better have a damn good reason for keeping me from my dinner."

"I just wanted to set the record straight." Nikki glared.

"Last time I checked we didn't have a record," Cassi retorted, glancing around she noticed a small audience had gathered.

"Oh shut it, I just wanted to make sure you and Sirius are over with."

"Sirius and I are not over until it's a mutual decision between him and I and last time I checked it wasn't. Enlighten me why exactly do you give a damn." Cassi snapped.

"Cause Cassandra, he's gonna be mine, so why don't you do everyone a favor and except that it's over." She barked.

"Maybe you've been stuck in your world of butterflies and getting your way for to long but he's mine so you're gonna have to deal with the harsh reality that you're nothing in this picture. Furthermore, you owe me a big ass thank you." Cassi glared.

"What the hell, what did you ever do for me?"

"I didn't kill you when you kissed my boyfriend! But now, you're starting to make me whish I had." Cassi shot.

"I'm supposed to thank you for not having the guts to hurt me." Nikki grinned.

"I swear to God, you little-" Cassi didn't even finished as she lunged at Nikki, however she didn't make it to the girl. James had grabbed her firmly around the waist.

"Cassi let it go, come on I said lets go." He said pulling her robes

"Let me go James, she asked for it!" Cassi said struggling to release herself. As she watched Nikki laugh. "You little asshole, you don't know how lucky you are."

"Why cause 'big brother' intervened." She glared.

Cassi wasn't aware of escaping James grasp, but before she knew it she and Nikki were being pulled up off the ground and looking in to the faces of a very angry Professor McGonagall. "Ladies come with me please." She said as she started walking. "Under most circumstances I would be putting both of you in detention, however, seeing that you seemed to have punished each other and that I must be out of my mind, I will merely take 25 points from each of your houses. Now both of you listen to me," she continued, "you are free to go, but if I ever see such conduct from you ladies your punishment will be far worse. Miss. Montgomery this is warning number two the next time you behave out of line I will have no choice to contact your parents."

Cassi trudged up the stairs to the girls' dormitory later that night, glad she hadn't run into Sirius, or anyone else for that matter. Stopping in front of the mirror Cassi surveyed the damage Nikki had managed to inflict. It wasn't to bad, some scratches, a split lip, and a slightly bruised eye, nothing she hadn't run across before. Reluctantly she climbed into bed and gave into the sleepiness.

When Cassi woke up the following morning, she found it somewhat difficult to open her right eye. Shrugging it off as another battle scar she climbed out of bed and went down to the common room.

"That's quite the shiner you got there Cassi." Remus grinned.

"Ya, well all I can say is that I hope she came off worse than I did." Cassi smirked.

"Don't worry she did." Lily replied.

"Where is Sirius?" Cassi asked as she sat down.

"Miss him do you?" James smirked. "As funny as it may seem, I think he's in the library. Yes Cassi, I passed the message to him. This is for you." He finished as he passed her a note.

"Thanks." Cassi said as she took the note from James and opened it.

Cassi
Sweetheart, again, I am incredibly sorry for what happened last week. You have to believe me; I would never do anything to hurt you. I know your still not comfortable talking right now, just send a message via James, Lily, or Remus, whatever you want darling.
All my love,
Sirius

"Umm, alright, thanks James. Lily wanna come get some food with me, please?" Cassi said in a tone that hopefully conveyed to Lily that she need to talk to her.

"Sure Cassi let's go." Lily replied as she kissed James and headed out with Cassi. "So what's up, what do you need to talk about, Sirius?"

"Ya, I'm so confused on what I should do right now." Cassi sighed.

"I don't understand where the confusion is, you believe him and want him back, and he wants you back." Lily replied.

"It's just that, well," Cassi stammered, "I don't just wanna take him back and look like the girl who takes her man back no matter what he does; I don't wanna come off like a total bitch though either. I just want to seem a little hard to get ya know?"

"Ya, I get what you're saying. To be honest Cassi, I mean you've been playing hard to get since Nikki kissed him." Lily answered. "But, I suppose, well, I could tell Sirius that for you, so at least he knows you want him."

"Oh Lily, thank you so much! Go talk to him now please! I'll go and start studying for exams or something." Cassi beamed as she hugged her cousin.

"Alright, fine, I'll go now. Stay in the common room, alright?" Lily smiled as she walked off toward the library.

Sirius glanced up from his potions essay as he saw Lily walk into the library; he desperately hoped that she was bringing news from Cassi.

"Hey there Lily, what's up?" He asked as she took a seat next to him.

"I talked to Cassi . . ." Lily started as she told Sirius what Cassi had told her.

"So what am I supposed to do then Lil?" Sirius questioned after Lily had finished.

"I'm not one hundred percent sure Sirius, but you and I both know that she's stubborn as hell; you're gonna have to work hard." Lily sighed.

"So what do I do, flowers, candy . . . what?" Sirius pressed.

"Those are good, but I get the feeling she wants you to in a sense 'court' her. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

"I think so, I need to surprise her and stuff, right?"

"Exactly, tell you what, James, Remus and I will help you. Don't worry Sirius, you'll get her back." Lily smiled.

A/N: Please take a second and review, I absolutely love hearing from you, it keeps me writing! Thanks much! I want to thank unforgiven the wonderful review.