A/N: So sorry it took a while to update, but here is a nice long chapter for you all!

Chapter Four

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters in the story apart from the ones I made up.

A few weeks later I was sitting at breakfast listening to around four conversations at once. James was asking me out, Emma was talking to me about Gary Oldman, Claudia was saying how annoying Potions homework was and Sirius was talking to me about how he takes care of his owl, Turtle.

I wasn't listening to any of them, I was just dreaming about how nice it was to be not single. Hamish (Emma's ex-boyfriend) and I were a nice couple. He wasn't clingy or wanted too much from me and I wasn't clingy or wanted too much from him. It was a perfect relationship.

Except for the fact that James made all the Marauders prank him at every moment the got.

I look at Ellie, who apart for Jesse and Remus, is the only one not talking to me. She laughs at me and then, being a great friend, she starts to talk to me too.

'Would you just shut up?' I shout. They all fall silent, looking at one another.

Then they all shrug and start to talk to each other, completely leaving me out of all their conversations. Not that I would have liked to be in any of them, they were all being perfectly ridiculous.

One by one they all start to leave me and now I feel very alone. Finally Jess and I are the last ones left. She's going to say something sarcastic and I'll bang my head on the table, I bet you that's what will happen. I bet you fifty sickles (because I'm not that rich!).

'We better get to class,' she says and runs off. Damn it! Oh well. It's just as bad as something sarcastic; I don't want to go to Transfiguration, that's my worst subject.

'Miss Evans will you please concentrate and stop talking to Miss Rodgers,' Professor McGonagall shouted. We were doing a theory lesson on how Transfiguration helps people in everyday situations in Africa.

I wasn't paying attention because Emma was sitting next to me and she was telling me about the new mascara her sister is going to write about in Witch Weekly next week. It sounded so cool, apparently you put it on and then sparkles appear matching your outfit! She said she would ask her sister to give her some to give to her friends. Which is me!

'Miss Evans, can you tell me what you think about the subject?'

Shit! 'I think it's good that they can do that sort of thing in Africa,' I said, which, apparently was the right thing to say.

'Good, for a second there I thought you weren't paying attention to my class, which I would find hard to believe from you,' she said.

I turned back to Emma and she was giggling at something Sirius was saying to her, oblivious to what I had just encountered. Which is sad, because I would have liked some sympathy.

Double Charms, wonderful!

'And your homework is to write a three foot essay on Perfume Charms and how the benefit you if you can produce one properly,' said Flitwick. 'It is to be handed in on Tuesday of next week.'

Everyone groaned, except me, I love Charms, especially Perfume Charms, how pretty they were. It's a spell that makes the room smell your favourite scent. For me it was the smell of Lavenders. Jess got the smell of a Quidditch pitch, Emma got Roses, Claudia got the smell of paint and Ellie got the smell of Frangipani's.

'That was one of the best Charms lessons,' Emma said to me when we got out.

'I know,' Jess agreed, 'I love the smell of Quidditch pitches and now I can smell it all the time thanks to good old Flitwick!'

'I love the smell of roses,' Emma said, closing her eyes and taking in a deep breath.

'What did you get, James?' Jess asked.

He blushed slightly and grinned, 'the smell of Lily.'

'Oh, how cute!' Emma said, 'what did you get, Sirius?'

'The smell of some perfume that smells like roses and something else, it's like a mixture of something and roses,' he said.

'I love the smell of roses!'

'Guess we have something in common,' he said happily, ready to get some lunch and eat till he explodes.

It was late at night when we were all together again. After lunch we had all gone to separate classes. Emma had gone to Divination, Jess to Herbology, Claudia and I to Ancient Runes with Remus, Ellie to her singing lesson and James, Sirius and Peter had a free period.

We were all just hanging around, doing our homework. It was nice, just chatting and talking while getting some work done. Claudia, Remus and I were doing Ancient Runes homework; Ellie, Jesse, James and Sirius were doing their Charms essay which I had done earlier that day. Emma was making Peter drink tea so she could see into his future, but she thought something was wrong as she kept getting the leaves to read that he was going to become bad. She wrote it down anyway, then she made Sirius drink tea and wrote down that something terrible would happen to them.

I said I didn't want to do it so she went and wrote down all the people she had done so far.

'I think this tea is like "doom tea" or something, everyone I have done has been bad.'

'Oh well,' Sirius said, not really caring.

Once we had all finished our homework we just relaxed and started talking.

'Everyone I know is getting stressed from already studying for their N.E.W.T's and I haven't even thought about it yet,' Ellie said.

'Let's not talk about school,' Jess suggested.

James nodded, 'can we talk about each other?'

'How do you mean?' Jess said confused.

'Well, I sit next to Sirius, so if I wanted to talk about him would that count as talking about school?'

'What do you want to say about me?'

'Nothing, I just want to see if I wanted to slag you off, would it be ok?' James said seriously.

'I can't believe you want to slag me off,' Sirius said sadly. Emma kissed him and he smiled, grinning broadly at James as if to say 'you don't have anyone to make you feel better'.

'We could talk about Peter,' said Claudia, 'he's not here.'

'But we haven't established whether that counts as talking about school or not,' said James, grinning at Sirius as if to say 'I'm so much smarter than you.'

'Oh talk about what you fucking want,' Jess said, annoyed.

'Ok, so we can talk about Peter,' James said, looking at Claudia, getting ready to hear whatever she had to say about him.

Sirius cornered Claudia after class when everyone else had gone the next day.

'You can't tell anyone,' he said desperately.

'What is there to tell?' she asked in a mischievous tone.

'You know, you can't tell Emma that we slept together,' he said, his voice wobbling.

'And why would I want to do that?' she asked.

'I just wanted to tell you, I love her, and if you tell her, I will destroy you,' he said warningly.

Three days ago Sirius and Claudia had been at a Quidditch party because the won and they had become very drunk; too drunk to even remember what happened three minutes ago. They had slept together, not realising what they were doing.

'I'll keep that in mind,' Claudia said as she walked off to join her friends.

After lunch Emma, Claud and I were walking to class and we saw Sirius walking by himself. He stopped when he saw us, don't ask me why, I have no idea, and stared into space.

'Coming?' Emma asked, looking strangely at her boyfriend who was standing in the middle of the corridor.

'I was just thinking,' he said as, what I assumed to be, an excuse.

'Great,' she said, trying not to laugh, 'you done?'

'Yup,' he said and ran over to join us.

Claudia started to talk about the Quidditch party that had happened three days ago. Sirius had hosted it for James, the captain, saying how good a captain he was.

'I hope you had a good time on Wednesday,' she said. There was something weird about her tone that made me nervous. It was strange.

'I had a great time, thank you,' he said, looking at the floor while walking.

'I mean, I hope you had a good time, because it's hard to enjoy your own party with people to entertain,' Claud continued, stretching out the word "entertain". I shivered; she made me feel weird using that tone in her voice.

'Damn it, I just forgot I left one of my books in the Common Room,' he said shakily as he left running off, 'I'll see you in class.'

'That was weird,' Claudia said smirking.

'Is something wrong, Claud?' Emma asked, I'm glad she did, I thought it might have just been me.

'No, no, nothing is wrong,' she said as she picked up the pace to get to class.

I was watching James and Sirius the next day at breakfast. No one was talking to me, I was alone again.

'Milk and sugar?' Sirius asked, he had been making James some tea.

'How long have you known me?' James asked, looking at Sirius like he was an alien.

'What has that got to do with anything?' Sirius asked, now it was his turn to look at James like he was the alien.

'You just asked me whether I wanted milk and sugar,' James said again.

'And do you?' Sirius asked, getting confused. Jesse burst out laughing, and James rolled his eyes.

'You can't remember how I like my tea after all these years!'

'You can't expect me to remember every little detail,' Sirius exclaimed, throwing the spoon in the air.

'It's not a little detail, it's a fundamental part,' he explained to Sirius.

'Tell you what,' Sirius said, getting angry, 'next time you make your own fucking tea.'

James stared at Sirius and began to make his own tea; Sirius went on making his own tea, stirring the cup so the tea spilt everywhere.

'Great, now I've got my tea. One spoon full of sugar and a drop of skim milk, just the way I like it,' James said, placing the tea right in front of him so Sirius could see.

We were all in Defense Against the Dark Arts half an hour later. Learning what Inferni were. It was near the end of the lesson when Professor Jansen made an announcement.

'It has come to my attention that people are getting stressed. So I will be assigning every one with "stress partners". I have gone to a lot of trouble assigning you with people who can help you and you can discuss your problems freely.'

There was a groan and people looked at their friends to discuss what they thought of the whole "stress partners" idea.

'Kenny Fitzgerald?' James exclaimed when he got his piece of paper saying which person would be his stress partner. 'How is he meant to help me? He's a Quidditch captain, he does the same things as I do, how is he meant to help me? The only difference between us is he's an asshole,' James ranted.

'How is that a difference?' Sirius said.

We all laughed. 'He's got you there, James,' Jess said whilst Professor Jansen handed her the piece of paper.

'Su Chon?' Jess exclaimed, looking over at a small boy who was picking his nose.

'Oh, yeah,' Sirius said, 'he's the Chinese bloke.'

'Oh really, is he?' Jesse said sarcastically.

'Ah Miss Clark, is there anything you would like to share with me?' Remus asked Claudia.

'You got Remus?' Sirius asked, shocked after receiving someone who already had stress, so what was the point?

'You lucky bastards,' James said.

'I am lucky,' Claudia said, 'I really needed someone to talk to about my period.'

Remus' eyes opened wide. James and Sirius laughed.

'It was a joke, guys!'

I was with James and Sirius for lunch, just talking. I had got Chloe Beech, who I was already friends with, so it was really easy for us to talk. Neither of us had stress or were even worried about anything, so we didn't have many sessions. Other people, like Remus and Claud, were having a lot of sessions, just talking.

We were on the grass, watching Remus and Claud.

'She's lucky getting Remus,' James said suddenly after about fifteen minute's silence.

'He's lucky getting Claudia,' Sirius said.

'Who would you rather get as a "stress partner": me or Remus?' James asked Sirius, who answered right away.

'Remus.'

'Have some time to think about it,' James said, angry that he was being chosen over.

'Maybe . . . hmm . . . I don't know . . . Remus?'

Remus and Claudia were talking. Sirius had told Remus about Claudia and him. He was waiting for her to bring it up.

'I know about you and Sirius,' he said after waiting for ages.

'You do?' she said, shocked.

'Yeah, he told me, he was really upset about it,' he said. 'He needed to talk to someone about it and he chose me.'

'Have you told anyone about it?' she asked, to be honest, she was more worried about Emma finding out than he was. She didn't want to lose her best friend over it.

'Only Jesse,' he said. After Emma, Jesse was one of the biggest gossips in the school, no secret was safe with her, but for some reason, people kept telling them secrets.

'Arg!' she exclaimed.

'Only joking,' Remus laughed, taking in a deep breath and looking around to see if anyone was looking. 'Sirius told Jesse, not me.'

'Arg!' she shouted.

'Still joking,' he laughed.

'Still not laughing!' she shouted.

'Ok, ok, don't get all shitty on me,' Remus said.

'Did he say anything about me?' she asked him, still looking around to see if anyone was watching or looking at them.

'He didn't say you were good in bed if that's what you're asking,' he laughed.

'No I wasn't. Did he say I was great?'

'No, she didn't, but I can pretend if you want me to.'

'Could you?'

'He said you were great in bed.'

'Excellent.'

'Milk and sugar?' Sirius asked James the next day.

James looked shocked.

'I was only joking!' Sirius lied. When James turned around he put two teaspoons of sugar in his cup and a huge splash of milk.

Lily rolled her eyes and Ellie had a good laugh.

'Eurgh! What the fuck is wrong with this tea?' James shouted when he tasted it.

'Maybe it's the water,' Sirius suggested, shrugging his shoulders.

A/N: Ok so that will be the last update (unless some miricle comes) until in around three weeks. I could possibly update before I leave to New Zealand! But I have to update all the others that I haven't done before this one. I hope that was funny enough for you, I lost inspiration to be funny for a while (as you can see at the beginning of the chapter) and then I got some really good ideas! Please review.