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"Lily," He said it so softly she was surprised that she heard. She turned and looked down over the banister to see Sirius below. "We need to talk." But at that moment the portrait hole opened to reveal none other than James.

Chapter 5:

After an awkward moment, which felt like eternity for both Sirius and Lily, they both came to their senses, realising that one of them would have to talk to James. Lily made the decision that it would not be her and with a small smile to James opened the door for Mia's dorm and slid through. Once she was in she through herself across the room and onto Mia's bed. Unfortunately Mia was still in it, so the landing was anything but soft. Laughing Mia's head appeared from beneath the covers and promptly slapped Lily across the head.

"What on earth are you doing here at this time? I wouldn't usually see you before noon at the weekend!" But noticing the look on Lily's face, which could by no stretch of the imagination be called amused, Mia stopped and looked at her seriosuly, "What's wrong? Is it your parents? I thought you said you'd-" but she was cut off by Lily.

"No it's not my parents," at this Lily broke off and looked Mia straight in the eyes, "It's worse."

Meanwhile down in the Gryffindor common room Sirius was left to deal with James, who did not appear to have noticed the tension between his girlfriend and his best friend. Walking over to Sirius with a smile on his face they greeted each other.

"Sorry 'bout last night mate, you understood right?" James smiled over at Sirius who didn't look him straight in the eye, instead concentrating on a cushion, turning it into a flower and then back again.

"Yeah course I do," and changing the subject, "what's the new house like?"

Still smiling James went on to describe the house to Sirius. While these two were downstairs, one thinking all was normal, the other trying as hard as possible to make things feel normal. Lily and Mia were up in the seventh year girls dorm. Lily had just told Mia everything that went on between her and Sirius and was waiting for a response. Mia sat on the bed speechless and then said, "But why? You and James, James and you! Sirius! Why? I dont' understand, Lily, what were you thinking?"

At this Lily thrust herself off the bed and moaned, "That's just it! I wasn't thinking, I was sad and confused and so was he!" Flopping into a chair in the corner of the room, she sighed and kept her eyes glued on the floor, too afraid of what she might see if she looked at her friend.

"What are you going to do? When's James getting back? Have you spoken Sirius yet?"

At this Lily began to sob, "That's the worst of it! That's why Sirius and I went down to the Quidditch Pitch," A look of comprhension dawned on Mia's face and Lily nodded and carried on, "Then James appeared!" Mia gasped, but Lily still would not look her in the eyes, "He came home early, 'coz he missed me," This last bit Lily whispered and then broke down again. Mia got up off the bed and went over to the chair where Lily was sitting.

Bending down Mia looked Lily straight in the eyes and held her gaze, "Does he know?"

Lily, slowly, shook her head, "No, Sirius and I didn't have a chance to talk before he arrived."

"Well, that's not so bad then, you still have time to figure out what to do before you and he, well you know. I mean obviously you won't to yet 'coz of what happened with Sirius, so you can get yourself together, talk to Sirius and then you and James will be alright!" Mia smiled, thinking she had sorted things for Lily and went to get back into bed, but she was stopped by Lily letting out the loudest sob ever.

"For Christ's sake what?" Mia may be sweet by nature, but not in the mornings! "I thought it was all sorted," then Mia understood, "Oh Lily tell me you haven't already slept with him!" When Lily's only response was to sob harder Mia let out a string of swear words. So shocked by this, Lily abruptly stopped crying, she had never heard that sort of language tumble from her friends mouth.

"Mia!"

"Don't you Mia me, Lily Rose Evans! What were you...oh I forgot, you weren't thinking were you?" Lily flinched at the harsh tone in her friends voice.

"P-please don't! I need you right now, I've made probably the hugest mistake of my life and i need my best friend!" Lily broke off and stared up at her friend, her eyes wide, pleading for help.

Mia's face softened, "Oh Lily," she shook her head, "what are you going to do?"

Lily shook her head, "I don't know."

The two friends sat in silence for a while, both thinking of a solution for Lily's predicament. After a short while Mia lifted her head and asked, "This may be a stupid question, but, you don't, what I mean is, you and Sirius, when you...um...slept together, it was purely because you were both confused, right? I mean, there wasn't any feelings there? Lily?" She looked hopefully at Lily.

"NO, no of course not-" Lily broke off and look of confusement on her face, "well-"

Mia interrupted her, "WHAT? So are you going to dump James for Sirius?"

Lily looked appalled at this suggestion, "MIA, no it's not that. What I was going to say was, well when I think back on it yeah there was something there, with me and Sirius I mean, but then as soon as I saw James I forgot everything. It was like the world, including Sirius, fell away and it was just me and James. That's got to mean something right?"

Lily glanced at Mia, whose face was not as supportive as Lily was hoping.

"Look Lily, yeah that sounds really nice, you and James I mean. But the fact that you and Sirius had something that night, well you need to address that," when Lily opened her mouth Mia continued, "and I'm not the person you need to be talking with, you need to find Sirius!"

Down in the common room Sirius and James were laughing about something, neither of them could remember what, when Lily appeared in front of them. Once again Sirius felt that odd, burning sensation in his chest and quickly stopped laughing, finding it hard to breath he sat up.

"Hey," Lily openly addressed them both, but would not make eye contact with either," what are you guys doing? Actually thinking about it, I don't want to know." Before James could ask her to do something she carried on, bravely looking into at Sirius, "Can we go somewhere?"

"What?" These words were spoken by both James and Sirius.

Lily calmly smiled at Sirius and continued, "I still need help on that Transfiguration essay, remember?"

Sirius let out a sigh of relieve and smiled at James, "Sorry mate, looks like Hogsmeade (sorry if i spelt that wrong aswell!) is out of the question."

James looked up at Lily, slightly bemused, "You'd rather spend Sunday studying with the git, than with me?

Lily laughed, trying hard not to cry, "Yup, come on Git lets go!" With this Lily lead Sirius out of the common room, both of them laughing at James, left sitting alone on the floor. However, once they were out of the common room Lily quickly dropped Sirius' hand and her smile fell from her face.

"Where can we go? We need to talk now and I don't want James to find us this time!" At these words Sirius raised his eyebrows and Lily realised her mistake, "While we're talking I mean, this time while we're talking."

Sirius smiled at her, but he could not ignore the tight feeling in his chest and could not stop his mind flashing back to the night they spent together. As if she knew what he was thinking, Lily blushed and then coughed, trying to regain her composure.

"So...where can we go?" Sirius thought for a moment and then decided on the Room of Requirement.

Once they reached the corridor, Sirius explained the room to Lily. "What you've got to do is think hard about what you need from the room and then walk past this piece of corridor three times, ok?" Lily nodded and they both followed his instructions. When the door appeared Lily gasped in amazement, Sirius opened it for her and followed her through. When they turned on the light, they were both shocked by what the room had supplied for the...a bed. Not just a bed, a kingsize with silk linen and an assortment of other...goodies.

Hahaha, I promise they will finally talk in the next chapter, and i'll update very very soon. I've finished my GCSE's today so i have all the time in the world now! What will they do? Will they give in once again? Review if you want to find out! I thought this was going to be a one shot fic but now i'm thinking it's going to be really really long, i'm getting new ideas all the time!

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