A/N: sorry that it's short, i could hardly think i was so excited, i went to see kelly clarkson last night. It was so good, the best night of my life!

disclaimer: not mine please no suey.

Chapter eleven.

10 am. Sunday morning, Head's common room.

I don't know where Lily is. She's probably still asleep. I found her diary sitting on the table, so I decided to write in it. Wonder why she's sleeping in so late?

She's probably dreaming about James.

Yeah, you can't talk; you spent the last twenty minutes talking about how Sirius Black asked you out!

I know; he was so sweet!

Lily's coming down now! She's got a weird look on her face, of happiness and delight. What has she done?

Nothing.

Tell us, you know we'll get it out of you eventually anyway.

No.

Please?

No

Please?

No

Please!

Fine.

Yay!

Last night James kissed me.

What? Wow!

Knew it would happen!

You going to go out with him?

Maybe, he said he'd take me to Hogsmeade on Boxing Day.

The day after Christmas? That's in like a week. Which reminds me, Ellie we need to go shopping and we have to do our prank.

Lily's helping us Em.

I am not!

You are. You promised you would.

I did not.

You did. You said if we talked to the Marauders about Yolanda, you would help us with the prank.

Urgh, fine! Pests!

We are not!

You certainly are!

Haha, Ellie, you've got to admit it; we can be pretty annoying at times.

It's true!

Whatever, Lily tell us what really happened with you and James.

I already did! We were talking, then I took his hand, kissed him on the cheek then he kissed me back, on the lips!

You didn't say you held his hand.

You sound like an old married couple.

Haha!

Shut up! I'm not the one who keeps confusing Remus!

Yeah, what's going on with you two?

What about you and Black?

Don't change the subject; we can talk about him later.

Fine, I don't know what's happening between Remus and I.

How can you not know?

Cos' I kissed him on the cheek and haven't spoken to him since.

You never told us that you kissed him.

It wasn't a big deal.

Yes it is.

Can we just drop it?

No!

Fine, I sort of like him.

How can you sort of like someone?

Yeah, you either like someone or you don't!

Fine! I like him, ok? I said it, I like Remus Lupin, I like him. Ok?

You don't have to shout it.

Um, Ellie?

What do you want?

You don't have to snap. Remus is standing behind you.

Shit.

Diarecordium Spell.

"Shit." Ellie shouted loudly, then got up and turned to see Remus staring at her with a quizzical look on his face. "Uh, hi." She mumbled.

"Hey." He said confidently, "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I guess you heard my little outburst then huh?" she said with a small smile on her face.

Remus looked different to usual. His robes weren't as tidy as usual, they were messed up, his tie was loose and his hair wasn't sitting normally, it was untidy and windswept. Emma and Lily exchanged glances; they knew his new 'roughed up' look was the work of James Potter and Sirius Black.

"Yeah, sorta." He laughed, "I was wondering, do you wanna come with me to Hogsmeade with me this Saturday?"

"That's boxing day." Ellie said, "Won't you want to spend it with you family?"

"Nah, they're going to Egypt."

"Yeah, ok." Ellie said shyly,

"Great, I'm going down to the kitchens, I have to get Sirius some exploding marshmallows. Wanna come?" he asked,

"Sure." She nodded, he held out his hand, which she took. Then he led her out of the dorm.

"You look different today Remus." She said, "Very roughed up."

Remus went to flatten his hair, when Ellie stopped him,

"Don't, I like it. It suits you." She laughed; she had suddenly become her old confident self again.

They climbed out of the portrait hole and walked off to the kitchens.

Diarecordium Spell Terminated.

Well, that was… weird.

Yeah, it was almost as if they had switched places. Remus was confident and Ellie was shy. That's never happened before. Ever.

a/n: hope you liked it. i do, i like this chappy. please review the round-robin story, it's ny the Marauder Chicks.

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