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Lily woke up to find herself looking directly at the sun. It was Sunday so she didn't have to go to classes. She looked over to see Kate still sleeping soundly. Lily smiled. Kate was never one to wake up before noon when she doesn't have to. Then she turned her head the other direction and her smile dropped. Tori wasn't in her bed. Her bed wasn't made, as usual, Lily guessed she had slept in it and just woke up early this morning. Which didn't sound like Tori at all. Like Kate, Tori loved to sleep in.

Last night when Lily had gone up Tori was laying her bed and staring at the ceiling. She didn't say a word the whole night. Lily still didn't know what happened and she wanted to find out. She had a feeling it had to do with Sirius coming back all beat up and James leaving her in the middle of a song.

Lily got out of bed, took a shower and put on some clothes. She was wearing jeans, white tank top, and a huge green sweater on top. For her hair, well she just put it up in a messy bun. She slipped into her flip-flops and went down to breakfast, hoping to find Tori there.

Lily was right. Tori was in the Great Hall eating breakfast. She was sitting alone and just staring off into space.

Tori had two sausages and toast on her plate. The toast had a bite taken out of it, but the sausages looked untouched. Except for the fact that she started stabbing it with the fork.

"Hey, what has the sausage ever done to you?" Tori heard a voice from behind her.

"Oh, hey Lily." She said as Lily took a seat beside her.

Tori went back to her staring.

Lily tried to follow Tori's gaze, and soon her eyes fell on something she didn't expect to see at all. Chris was kissing a 6th year Hufflepuff girl named Laura.

"Oh my gosh. Is he cheating on you?" Lily asked surprised.

"No. He broke up with me yesterday." Tori said quietly looking down at her food.

"What! What happened?" Lily asked even more shocked than before.

"Here, let's go somewhere else. It's too noisy here." Lily said taking Tori outside the Great Hall. They went outside and sat under a tree.

"Tell me everything that happened yesterday." Lily said.

"Remember my last birthday?" Tori asked.

"Yeah. You had a great time. You told me that was the only time when nothing bad had happened." Lily said recalling Tori's 16th birthday.

"Yeah well you're right. That night Chris had taken me out to dinner. You know, like a date. Our first date actually. And that's when he asked me to be his girlfriend. Well I thought that maybe, since I have, or had, Chris, this birthday would be just as great." Tori said looking at Lily.

"Go on."

"Well, in the beginning everything went great. I was talking to people, laughing, and having a great time. Then Chris asked if we could go for a walk. I agreed, thinking maybe he has a surprise for me or something. Well, what was coming next was definitely a surprise. We talked for a little while and then he started talking about you guys. He said I hang out with you guys more than I do with him. And that I haven't gotten to talk to him much lately. Well we just came back from our Christmas Break what was I supposed to do? Then he starts going on about how I am more of Sirius's girlfriend than I am of his."

"Are you serious? What kind of an idiot is he? I mean why would he think that you would get back with him after… after…after that…thing!" Lily yelled.

"That's exactly what I thought. But he was an idiot like you said. So I went back to Hogwarts and just sat down in the middle of the Quidditch pitch. And started stabbing the ground. Then James came running. And he talked to me. Then I just went back to the dorm and fell asleep." Tori said leaving out the part about accidentally spelling out the word SIRIUS in the ground of the Quidditch pitch.

"Oh. I'm sorry. I never thought Chris would do that." Lily said staring at the grass.

"So I heard you and what's his face broke up." Tori said trying desperately to change the subject.

"Oh yeah. That stupid, arrogant, idiotic, son of a bi—"

"G-rated Lily." Tory said trying to sound like Remus.

They both laughed.

"Now instead of defining the boy, try telling me what actually happened." Tori said.

"Well, I was getting bored and the songs started playing so I decided to go find Brian so we could dance. Well after a couple minutes of looking I gave up and just relaxed by a closet door. Well I started hearing noises coming from the other side of that door. It was getting pretty annoying so I decided to go check out what was there. When I opened the door I saw Brian snogging Emily. That's when I broke up with him." Lily said.

"Brian… that was his name." Tori said.

"Tori! Were you even listening?" Lily hit Tori on the arm playfully.

Tori laughed.

"Yeah. James told me the rest. He said you danced with him. Never thought I'd live to hear that." Tori said smiling.

"I was just trying to make Brian jealous." Lily said matter-of-factly. Though she was blushing.

Both girls walked into the common room laughing. Tori had now gotten a little better and went off to find Alice. Lily went up to the girl's dorm to wake Kate up and tell her what happened.

Tori was walking down a hallway when she saw Sirius. She immediately turned around and started walking the other way. But it was too late. Sirius had spotted her.

Sirius had wanted to talk to her since last night. He knew what had happened and thought Tori now hated him. He wasn't sure because she was acting very weird towards him.

"Tori! Hey Tori! Wait up!" Sirius yelled running after her. He finally caught up with her but she wouldn't look at him.

"Tori? Would you please tell me what's wrong? Why aren't you talking to me?" Sirius asked.

Tori stopped. She was being pretty harsh to him. After all, it wasn't his fault Chris broke up with her. Well it wasn't exactly his fault. Okay maybe it was his fault, but he didn't actually do it on purpose. And the poor guy probably has no idea what's going on.

"Tori I'm sorry about what happened yesterday. And I want to know if we're still friends." Sirius said surprised by what was coming out of his mouth. He thought he would first talk to her a little bit then bring up the whole friends thing. Guess not.

Tori smiled. She felt sorry for him. He wakes up one morning and all of a sudden one of his friends isn't talking to him. Poor guy.

"Of course we're still friends. Sorry about yesterday. I was still recovering from what had happened." She said trying to find a good choice of words.

"Oh. Um okay." Sirius said. He hadn't expected it to be this easy.

He watched her go. When she was finally out of sight he jumped up in the air yelling "YES!"

Everything was now back to normal. Or as normal as they could get. If you go to Hogwarts, you're usually nowhere close to normal.

I'm back! The camp was great! Thanks for the reviews! Keep reviewing! I won't update until I get a lot more reviews! I'm still not sure what I should do about the Sirius thing.