After all the excitement of Emma's surprise wedding and Lily and James' new house, life seemed to be getting back to normal for everyone.

Lily and James were settled into their new house in Godric's Hollow, and they hadn't been able to get a moment to themselves. People had been in and out of the house all the time, but Lily didn't mind that much. It would be nice when everyone had children, they could all grow up together, have some where to go when they didn't want to be at home anymore.

Emma was now rapidly growing in size, she was now seven months pregnant and could hardly move without complaining of a sore back or heart burn.

"God having children better be worth all this pain," she moaned to herself as she lay on Lily's sofa reading the notes Laura had made for her in her lectures. She had had to stop going to training as she couldn't anymore, so now she stayed in Godric's Hollow all day, watching day time TV and eating Lily and James' food.

"Emma, what are you doing here?" Lily asked her best friend as she apparated in.

"Sirius and I don't have anywhere to live yet and the flat is so small, your house is so much more comfortable," Emma said. "anyways what are you doing here?"

"I've come home for lunch," Lily said.

"Where's James?" She asked.

"He is finishing his work, he's left it until now when it's supposed to be in tomorrow." Lily scolded rolling her eyes.

"Well at least I have company now, I've been watching chat shows all morning and I can't bare listening to another woman called Tracy complain about how she thinks her husband is having an affair, or how a fat girl is jealous of her skinny sister and thinks she ignores her." Emma said.

Lily laughed, she had brought a TV because she found listening to the WWN rather boring all day and she liked watching it, she had grown up watching TV after all. She had also brought a fridge, just for convenience.

"Why Don't you try going for a walk, or listen to the radio?" She asked.

"Go for a walk?" Emma grunted, "do you think it's easy lugging this load around?" She pointed to her bump.

"A bit of exercise will do you good," Lily said, "you should know that, you are training to become a healer."

"Whatever," Emma murmured, "I don't really feel like walking, how about I give you a sack of rocks the size of my babies to carry around, you wouldn't feel like doing much exercise either."

"Well I'd love to sit here and listen to you moan all day, but this afternoon we have some practical experience." Lily said, "apparently there has been a lot of Death eater activity lately and we are going to see if we can catch some."

"Have fun," Emma said and switched on the TV and watched a programme about muggles buying houses abroad.

Remus was in the kitchen of his flat when Jess apparated in.

"Hello?" She asked, "anyone home?"

"In here," Remus shouted.

"Hi, sorry to drop by, but there was no one at home and I was lonely." Jess said.

"Don't worry, I was just making some dinner, do you want some?" Remus asked.

"If there's any going," Jess said, "thanks."

Remus finished cooking and dished up the food onto two plates.

"Peter is driving me up the wall," Jess said as Remus came and sat at the table with her. "I give him some files to put away, the simplest task, and he does it wrong."

"How can you do that wrong?" Remus asked.

"I know, I don't know what's going on in his head, but obviously it's not very much."

"Well he never was the sharpest pencil in the box, but his heart is in the right place, most of the time." Remus said.

"Well if he doesn't pick up his game he'll be fired," Jess said.

"You're going to fire him?" Remus asked.

"Not me, I don't have the power to do that." Jess said, "but my boss does and when I was in there today handing in my resignation she told me to have a word with him."

"You're resigning?"

"Yeah, I'm going to be an obliviator, I applied and they said that I could start the training at the end of the month."

"That's brilliant." Remus said.

"Anyway enough about me, what's been going on in your life?"

"Not much, what do you want to know?" Remus asked.

"Well, lets see, who's the teacher training course going?"

"Fine, it's difficult, but it's OK."

"Um, anyone special in your life?"

"In what way?"

"I mean as in a special girl?" Jess asked, she was starting to come to terms with the fact that nothing was going to happen between them, and she wanted him to be happy, whoever it was with.

""Well," Remus said thinking, "there is someone I think I like, but I'm not really sure."

"Really?"

"Yeah, she's smart, funny beautiful, and a wonderful person, but I just don't know." Remus said he was actually talking about her, he did like her, but he had already been out with her best friend and he had always thought there was a rule with girls that you couldn't go out with anyone your friend had been out with.

"She sounds great, what's the problem?"

"I don't know it's just complicated, that's all."

"Well I'm sure if she's right for you you'll know about it." Jess said.

Later that night Jess was back home with Laura putting the world to rights.

"I need to get away," Laura said.

"What do you mean get away?" Jess asked.

"I mean like leave the country." Laura said.

"Like on holiday?"

"A little longer then a holiday," Laura said thinking, "I've always wanted to go travelling."

"But what about you healer training?"

"That's not as interesting as I thought it'd be, and I can always pick it up when I get back. I'm just sick of working all the time, I've just finished school I want to have some fun."

"I know what you mean, I basically have a whole month free until I start my obliviator course. There is hardly anything to do in the muggle relations department except filling." Jess said.

"Well why don't we do it, go travelling for a little while. We can go for a month and you can be back to start your training." Laura said her eyes wide with excitement.

"I don't know," Jess said.

"It's just a month, it will be fun, come on what do you say?"

"I still don't know," Jess said.

"What do you have to loose?" Laura asked.

"I'll have to think about it." Jess said, she wanted to go and have fun, but her head was telling her it would be the sensible thing to do.