Soon it was winter and everyone had settled into their work, Peter had managed to get a job in the Muggle relations department where he could stare at Jess all day long. They had all attended meetings of the order, but so far they had not been involved in any dangerous missions, which Sirius was very disappointed about.

Lily was in her room getting ready to go out with James, they hadn't been spending much time together recently with all they work they had to do, and James had a surprise planned for Lily.

Laura was also getting ready for her first date with the man she met at the Hospital, he was taking her to a restaurant that he knew in London somewhere.

Emma also was going on a date with Sirius, they were going to the beach. It was quite a strange place to go at night in the middle of November but they always wanted to be different.

Sirius apparated into the kitchen.

"Hey Sirius." Jess said.

"Evening," he said he looked strangely nervous.

"Emma's just getting ready." Jess said smiling.

"Did I hear my name?" Emma asked coming out of her room.

"You look great." Sirius said and he pulled her into a kiss, "ready to go?" He asked.

"Yep." Emma said and she apparated away holding Sirius' hand.

Laura popped her head out of her room, "is he here yet?" She asked.

"No." Jess said, Laura didn't want to come out of her room until her date was here, she didn't want to look desperate.

Laura withdrew her head, it seemed that everyone had a date today, everyone except Jess. But it wasn't very likely that she was going to be going on a date any time soon, not unless the person that asked was Remus, but he was still hung up on Laura.

Why can't he just get over her? Jess thought, it's been so long since they split up.

"Hey Jess." Lily said coming into the kitchen and getting a glass of water.

"You look nice." Jess said, Lily was wear a knee length green dress with her hair loosely curled.

"Thanks." Lily said doing a twirl.

There was a knock at the door.

"I'll get it." Lily said and she went over to the door.

She pulled it open to see James standing on the other side holding a bunch of lilies.

"James." Lily said surprised,, she didn't expect him to come to the door. "why didn't you just apparate in?"

"Tonight is special." James said, "and I wanted to surprise you, and may I say you are looking stunning this evening."

"Thank you." Lily said.

"These are for you." James said.

"Lilies! They're my favourite." Lily said, "how ever did you guess," she added a little sarcastically.

"I had an idea." James said as he stepped inside and kissed Lily.

"So where are we going?" Lily asked putting the flowers in water.

"It's a surprise." James said.

"Please tell me." Lily pleaded.

"Just wait." James said, "now close your eyes and hold my hand." James said, Lily did as she was told and James apparated away with her.

"Don't open your eyes yet." James said, Lily could tell they were outside and she could hear water, normally she wouldn't walk around with her eyes closed having no idea where she was, but when she was with James he felt like nothing could ever happen to her.

"Now open you're eyes." James said and Lily did it, she saw that she was standing on the bank of the river Thames.

"What are we doing here?" Lily asked.

"You see that boat?" James said pointing to a boat on the river, "that is where we are having dinner."

Lily looked at James and smiled, they climbed aboard the boat.

"James this is amazing." Lily said as she looked around, James had decorated the whole place with real live fairies and by a big window there was a small table set out for two.

James pulled out Lily's chair for her to sit in, "thank you." She said.

They both sat at the table, and started out the window, they could se the sky line of London, it looked beautiful with all the buildings lit up.

"James this is amazing." Lily said.

"I wanted to do something special." James said, "I really do love you, so much that it hurts."

Lily smiled, "I love you too," she said, words weren't really enough to express how she felt about James.

They ate their dinner holing hands on the table, and once they were done James got up.

"Would you like to dance?" He asked and he flicked his and music filled the room.

"I'd love to." Lily said and she let James led her into the middle of the room, they wrapped their arms around each other and danced. Lily loved the feeling of James' strong arms around her, and James just still could believe that he was dancing with Lily Evans.

It was like a moment fro a romantic film, you never wanted the dance to end, but you couldn't stay dancing all night.

"I want to show you something else." James whispered in Lily's ear, "now I don't want to seem pushy, and of you don't want to then that's fine."

Lily just looked at him puzzled and followed him over to a door in the corner.

James pushed it open to reveal a cabin with one big bed in the middle covered in lilies and candles lighting the room.

Lily gasped, "it's beautiful." She said stepping inside.

"Now I'm not pressuring you into doing anything, I just thought that it would be a nice-"

Lily put her finger on James lips, pulled him into the room and closed the door.

Laura sat on her bed, her date was late picking her up and she was beginning to think he wasn't coming.

She heard a crack from outside her room, and she stood up.

"Finally," she said straightening herself up and getting ready to leave her room, but then she heard Remus' voice and she slumped back down on her bed. "What's he doing here?" She asked herself.

There was a knock at the door.

"Coming," Jess shouted from the kitchen, Laura heard the door open and muffled voices. "Laura." Jess shouted.

Laura stood up again, she wished that Remus wasn't here, it was difficult enough knowing that he loved her, but him watching her going out on a date with another person, she couldn't imagine how that would make him feel.

She took a deep breath and went out into the kitchen where Jess, Remus, and David, her date, were standing.

"Ready to go?" He asked.

Laura nodded, she noticed Remus eying David warily. "See you later," she said to Jess, "Bye." She added to Remus a little uncomfortably and she headed out to door.

Remus only took his eyes away from the, when he could no longer see them.

"Remus, your not still hung up on Laura are you?" Jess asked as she put a hot mug of tea down on the table in front of him. Remus had come over to spend the evening with Jess as he was also the only one at his flat not going out tonight.

"No, not really. It's just strange seeing her going out with someone else." Remus said.

"But why, if you don't still love her?" Jess asked.

"I don't know, just because we were so close when we went out." Remus said, "anyway that's enough of that, the chapter of her and me is over."

"So you would say you're ready for a new girlfriend?" Jess asked, maybe there was hope.

"If the right girl came alone." Remus said, "why do you know someone?"

"You could say that." Jess said.

Emma and Sirius sat on a beach flooded with moon light, Sirius had prepared a picnic dinner which they had already devoured most of as they sat on a blanket on the sand.

Emma had made a small fire with her wand to heat them with, after all it was November.

They sat snuggled together on the sand as they watched the sea lap against the Shaw.

"I have one last thing for you." Sirius said and he picked up what looked like a teacloth tied in a knot.

"What is it?" Emma asked.

"Just open it." Sirius said and he held his breath as Emma carefully prised open the tea towel. She rolled it open it reveal something small and gold. She picked it up and found that it was a diamond ring, but not just any normal ring an engagement ring.

Emma started at it unable to say anything, just moving her lips like a goldfish.

Sirius picked up the rind between his two fingers and knelt down in front of her on one knee.

"Will you marry me?" He asked, Emma just stared at him with her mouth open rather unattractively.

They stayed like this for a few minuets before Sirius stood up, "well it was just an idea, if you don't want to that's fine." He said fingering the ring. "I'll just go."

He was about to apparate away when Emma put a hand on his shoulder. "Why are you leaving, don't you want to marry me?" She asked.

Sirius' face broke out into a smile, "is that a yes?"

Emma nodded and flung her arms around Sirius' neck. Sirius held her tightly and kissed her neck.

They broke apart and Sirius slipped the ring on her finger, it was a perfect fit.

"It's beautiful," Emma said her breath catching in her throat and tears of joy welling up in her eyes.

Sirius suddenly swept her off her feet and spun her around, he couldn't believe it, the most beautiful girl in the whole world had agreed to marry him, it was like he was floating on air.

They stopped swinging and Emma pressed her lips against Sirius', they stayed like this for some time, just kissing, then they toppled onto the blanket where they stayed until the sun rose the next morning, the beautiful diamond shining on Emma's finger.

Right, I have finally made a plan for this story, it's going to be quite long so I hope that's OK!

I'm probably not going to update for a while coz I'm going skiing on Thursday with my school for 10 days, but I'll see if I can get another chapter up before then.

Hope you liked this chapter, & please review!