Disclaimer: the pestering was no good at all, and now J.K. is fixed on NOT handing over the characters to me...I shall now go and clubber her until she does

5. Hogsmeade

They arrived in the little magical town shortly after ten and decided to go to Honeydukes first. Well, Remus and Maggie together with James and Lily decided it, Sirius just tagged along. Upon entering though, he excused himself and headed for the Three Broomsticks. At this hour, it was near empty and he found himself a comfortable seat at a table in the back and ordered a butterbeer. A big one. Madame Rosmerta brought it to him and, seeing his gloomy face, sat down with him.

'What's with you, Sirius?' she asked. They were pretty friendly with each other.

Sirius simply dropped his head in his arms. Rosmerta chuckled.

'Girl problems?'

He moaned in acknowledgement.

'Never thought I'd see the day…So, who is it?'

He raised his head. 'Anna.'

'Anna?' she was silent for a while, and then her face lit up with realisation, 'Anna Smith?'

'That's the one.'

'Picked one of your own rank, then? Pretty little thing, and pretty popular too, isn't she?'

'And pretty angry with me.'

'What did you do?'

'I told her I didn't like her.'

'Well, that's not too clever. Certainly not if you do like her.'

He dropped his head in his arms again and hit it rather hard on the table. While he cursed, Madame Rosmerta laughed and got up from the table.

'Well, Mister Black, I think you've learned a good lesson out of this.'

'What? Tables are hard?'

'No, you must always be true to yourself.' She seemed to think for a while. 'Unless it would hurt the other's feelings. Then it's okay to lie.'

Sirius smiled at her. 'Thanks.'

'Anytime.' And she walked away briskly on her high, glittering heels.

Sirius stared at his large tankard of butterbeer and put it to his mouth. He was only halfway through it when he felt he'd had enough and put it down again. He got up, paid and left for the castle. On his way, he saw the other four looking at him strangely, but he ignored them. He just didn't want to be here right now.

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As they all went into Honeydukes, James couldn't be happier. Lily actually accepted his arm when he offered it, and she had laughed at his jokes on the way here. When the two giggling girls were lost in the herds of students, he looked around for Remus, and spotted him by the chocolate. He went over to him, pushing a lot of other students out of the way in the progress, and poked him in the shoulder.

'Hey, Prongs, what's up?'

'Nothin' much…' But his enormous grin kind off gave him away.

'Lily's warming up, isn't she?'

'Kind off…I think I could really get her to like me.'

'You don't get girls to like you, mate. They do that on their own.'

'But that would take so loooooooooooong,' James whined.

'You know, sometimes, you're as bad as that Malfoy guy.'

'WHAT! You take that back!'

They both glared at each other for a moment before bursting out in laughter, earning them the odd stare.

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WhenSirius arrived in the common room, he saw Anna busy decorating the place.

'What in the name of Godric are you doing?'

'I'm decorating. What, have the glitters on your slutty girls' clothes blinded you?'

'No, your bright mood has. Why are you decorating?'

She jumped off the ladder she was standing on, and shot him a dirty look.

'Don't tell me you've forgotten your own party?'

'My own…what in the world are you talking about!'

'P.H.A.R.T., of course.'

'Oh, yeah…'

She shot him another look, one that said 'You are dumb like WHOA!' and continued with her work.

'D'you need some help?' he offered gallantly.

She sighed. 'You could go to the kitchens and get some food from the elves.'

'Right. I'll be right back.'

'Thanks.'

He left again, leaving Anna to her thoughts.

'Okay, so trying to convince myself he looks like a troll doesn't help anything. I hope he didn't notice I blushed, I don't want to seem easy…which I'm not, of course…'

45 minutes later, Sirius hadn't returned yet, and since she was done with the decorations, she decided to see 'what the hell was keeping him,' as she put it herself. She took as many shortcuts as she could on the way to the kitchens, tickled the pear on the painting, and stepped inside. She was immediately smothered with house elves.

'Miss Smith! It is lovely to see you again, that it is. Can Sheila get you anything?'

'Can Kevin get you anything?'

'Can Marcus get you anything?'

'Can Gavin get you any-'

'Stop! Nobody can get me anything, except an explanation about where Sirius is.'

'Mister Black is here, Miss Smith. He is enjoying one of Sheila's pies, that he is.'

She pushed her way through the heard of elves and saw him sitting at the kitchen equivalent of the Gryffindor table, smiling widely at her, crumbs falling his mouth as he did. She glared at him.

'You were supposed to get food, not eat it!'

'What food does miss Smith needs? Gavin will get it!'

'No, Corey will!'

She bent down to be eye level with the house elves, which she accidentally didn't have to do much for, and looked at them.

'Listen, I need food for a party. Our Pre Halloween Annual Relaxation Time is co-'

'It's Pre Halloween Annual Rave Time!' Sirius called.

'Whatever. Our annual pre Halloween party is coming up, and I need food for that, okay? Can you do that for me?'

'Of course! We will do our very best, that we will!' the group of house elves called, and immediately set to work.

She stood up, walked over to Sirius and sat down opposite to him. He grinned at her, and motioned for her to take a piece of pie. Which she did, since she loved eating.

'So, decorations done?'

'Yes, they are. And please don't eat with your mouth full, because believe it or not, I take no pleasure in being covered in Black spit.'

He laughed at this, sending crumbs flying everywhere and earning a deep sigh from Anna.

'What are you going to wear, tonight?' he asked.

'I don't know yet…Lily'll probably have something in her mind, I'll just go with her. You?'

'No idea. Although I liked my outfit from last year, it was nice and airy.'

They both chuckled as they though about it. Last year, the party had been going for almost three hours, and the Marauders were nowhere to be found. Since it was them who had actually introduced P.H.A.R.T. in their first year, everyone thought this was strange. But then, at eleven o' clock, all the lights went out, save for some torches leading up to the boys' dormitories. So, naturally, every head in the room turned that way. And then thy came down the stairs, all four of them wearing nothing but a loin cloth, and grinning their faces off. Once they were all in the common room, 'I'm too sexy' by Right Said Fred came on, and they all started doing a dance that was…hilarious, to say the least. Of course, that was the talk of the castle the whole following week and the guys were all smothered with girls asking for a 'private show.' Nobody had gotten one.

'What on earth led you guys to do that, anyway?' Anna asked, taking a bite from her pie.

'Prongs and me, of course. Needless to say, we were both quite surprised that we actually got Remus AND Peter to join us in that little…thing.'

'So you've got no plans for tonight?'

He looked at her slyly, and she new she'd said it wrongly.

'It all depends on how the party goes, of course…why? Had something in mind?'

She swatted at his arm, which was on the table.

'I didn't mean it like that and you know it! I meant, you don't have any plans for what you're going to wear.'

'That's right. But whatever it will be, I can guarantee you, it will be mind bottling.'

Hope you liked this chapter! And I know that the song I wrote about probably wasn't out yet when this all took place, but bear with me, okay? Next chapter is full of familiar faces (if you watch loads of anime and movies mwahaha)