Lily watched as Branwen walked out of the common room with Peter and moved over to the large sofa dropping down into it. Remus and Sirius had moved back to their chess game but Amanda was still on her feet looking at the portrait hole.
"Who was that girl with James?"
Remus looked up and studied her for a few moments before answering.
"His date. It's that Avadne Coleman."
"Oh, since when has he been dating Avadne?"
"What, jealous?"
"Oh shut up Si, I was just asking, is all."
She jumped onto the sofa next to Lily as Remus looked up at the pair.
"What? You two can't be dateless on Valentine's Day!"
Lily scowled at him
"Yes we can, and does it matter."
He shrugged his shoulders and moved his queen
"Ha, checkmate! I win again!"
Sirius pulled a face looking around.
"I'm hungry. Anybody want to come get food?"
The four stood up and headed down to the Great Hall, it was quite empty with only second and first years filling it. They moved to the Gryffindor table and instantly Amanda and Sirius were shovelling food down their throats.
Lily looked around and her eyes landed on Remus he looked much paler than he normally did and small bags were beginning to form under his eyes.
"Remus, are you okay?"
He turned to look at Lily and smiled weakly.
"I think I'm coming down with the flu, I might have to stay in bed for a few days if I don't feel any better soon, although I doubt it will make much difference; it's nearly the weekend."
"Ya thould thee Pomfe."
Lily wrinkled her nose as bits of half eaten food flew at her from Amanda's mouth.
"Hasn't anybody ever told you not to talk with your mouth full?"
She swallowed the food in her mouth and grinned sheepishly.
"Sorry, what I said was that you should see Madam Pomfrey."
"I will if I don't feel better soon."
They finished eating and then headed back up to the common room. Lily ran up to her dorm and fetched down her book curling up on the sofa and getting lost in its pages. While Remus excused himself to bed.
"Mandy, let me beat you at chess."
"I always let you beat me, Si!"
He grinned at her making puppy dog eyes.
"If I don't win I'll tell Dumbledore you were the one that fed Fawkes the chocolate frogs that made him combust early."
She grinned back just as slyly.
"Yes and then I'll tell him you were the one who slipped the cockroaches onto Aunt Victoria's plate at lunch last week."
He moved his knight across the board and looked back up.
"And I'll tell him you were the one who dared me to do that."
She moved her queen to take his knight.
"Yes and then I'll say about how were the one that charmed all Flitwick's books so that they floated five feet above his head for the day."
He positioned his bishop in front of her king
"Check. I'll tell Malfoy that you were the one to send her the box of maggots today."
She moved her knight to take his bishop.
"Yes and then I'll tell Ddraig you were the one who broke into his room and charmed his books to swear at him every time he tried to open them."
He quickly moved his queen and looked up at her.
"Check. I'll tell James that you have a crush on him, and got all jealous when you found out he was on a date with Avadne."
Amanda's head shot up and she stared at him. Her eyes were wide and her mouth open. Then in one quick movement she laid her king down and shot him a look of death.
"If you ever tell James I was jealous, I'll get you so bad you're grandchildren will still be paying for it."
Then she spun around and headed up to her dorm room for the night. Lily looked up and grinned weakly at Sirius.
"You're for it now."
Then she quickly headed up after her friend. Sirius stood at the bottom of the stairs and yelled up.
"What, don't I get a Valentine's kiss?"
From above a yell was heard.
"No Si, you don't."
He laughed as he headed up to bed.
Okay so here's another chapter for you all. I must say I'm happy with how this is shaping and HBP didn't really mess this up since there wasn't a lot of background, okay so there is one major mistake or maybe two but on the whole it's okay.
Jessie midnight buying you're lucky there isn't anywhere around here except for Tesco's where I could have got the book at midnight. So I ordered it from Amazon and I was up at six waiting for Paul (our postman) to turn up. He got here at ten, he said nobody had opened the door that quick for him, he hadn't even knocked. But who cares I got my book and I finished it by the Sunday (or Monday depends on what you count 2am as!)
Firewalker You need guys like that so do we, the only guys around here are the ones that look down your top. Yep Joe is so strong but that doesn't mean that Remus isn't going to have fun, in fact fourth year will be a good one, so much is planned to happen then it should shake everyone up.
The summers nice here it's pretty sunny we've had three days of cloud and drizzly rain but its sunny again now, I'm not seeing much of it now I'm working four days a week and then my mate had her baby home on Monday so we're all over the place at the moment.
Anyway this story will not contain any spoilers to HBP so don't worry if you haven't read the book yet. Now please review for me and I shall post more next week.
Kris