A/N: Hey guys! I am so sorry I haven't update any of my stories in ages. School has been so hectic latley and I barley had time to write this so I am sorry if it's really bad.

Chapter Seven

'I was wondering if. . . you wanted to go out . . . with me sometime?' he asked, pausing every few milliseconds to see if she was comprehending what he was saying.

Hermione was shocked; she hadn't expected this to be his question. She was expecting it to be something stupid like, 'are we going into sixth year?' but this . . . what was she going to do?

'Ron, I . . . I,' she stuttered, she smoothed her skirt, looking at her feet. 'I would love to,' she said, looking up and smiling.

'Great,' he said, his cheeks returning to normal colour.

Harry, who was standing in the corner, was trying to suppress a laugh. 'Maybe we should go downstairs and get some breakfast,' he said.

Hermione shrugged and took Ron's hand, and started to walk towards the Great Hall, a huge grin forming on her face.

'OH MY GOSH!' someone shouted when Hermione and Ron walked into the Hall, 'look at you two!'

It was Ellie, and she came running towards them with her arms open wide, ready to give them both a group hug.

Jess, Claudia, Emma and Lily came up to them too.

Hermione laughed at Ellie's excited mood and greeted everyone.

'Don't worry about her,' Lily said, 'she's only excited because Remus finally asked her out,' she explained.

'Oh,' they all said, watching her run up to Remus and kiss him on the cheek.

'So what happened with you two?' Lily asked Hermione that night when the lights were out.

'Just after we left he just asked me out of the blue, it was really cute, he went all red and his ears started to go red,' she told her excitedly.

'Cute, you guys make such a cute couple,' she said to her, pulling out a magazine from under her bed. It was called Witch Bride and she opened up to a dog-eared page.

'Ready to get married?' Hermione laughed.

Lily laughed with her, 'no, no. This is Emma's, if you talk to her about something for ten minutes the subject will change to either her wedding or her children and what they're going to be like.'

Hermione giggled at the thought, she hadn't actually gotten a real chance to talk to Emma properly, alone. She put that on her to-do list in her mind.

'She always gives it to me at the end of each month after she's finished reading it, and she always dog-ears the pages she thinks I would like or she really likes and then writes a little comment on a stick-note. I think it's sweet, it's like our tradition,' Lily said.

'So do I,' Hermione said, looking sadly at the wedding book. 'I wish I had a girlfriend at Beauxbatons to talk to,' she said.

'You don't have any friends?' Lily said, her eyes widening in surprise.

'No,' Hermione said giving a little laugh. 'I have friends, just not girlfriends.'

'Oh, I see. Well you always have us,' said Lily, 'do you want to look what she's written with me?' she offers and moves next to her so they can share the book.

'Sure,' Hermione said happily, flicking to the next page.

Sirius, James and Harry were sitting silently in the Common Room when Jesse burst in and shouted, 'you will never believe what happened!'

'No, I won't,' Sirius said lazily and stared at the ceiling, not interested.

'I didn't think you would!' said Jesse excitedly. 'Emma and Paul are dating!'

Sirius kept reading his magazine, pretending not to notice and James and Harry just looked at each other and burst out laughing. 'So?'

Jesse looked put out and she sat down next to Sirius, 'isn't this great? You can now both move on with your lives.'

Sirius didn't look at Jess, but he smiled, which Jess found unnerving, 'she never was "on" with me so she can't "move on" now,' he said and kept reading.

'Oh,' was all she could manage to say and she walked off, punching James lightly as she went passed to show her annoyance that he was still laughing.

Sirius was still smiling as she walked out of the door. He couldn't help but smile, there was no Paul, he didn't even think there was a Paul in the school, but their was a Sirius and he was now going out with Emma. She had wanted some space before she told people and so they had invented Paul, it would only last a few days, maybe not that, but it was wonderful to be secretive about something so special. He found it exhilarating knowing that no one else knew.

Hermione paced the room, thinking to herself. 'Paul? This wasn't meant to happen. How could Emma fall in love with a "Paul" while Sirius was around?' she thought.

'Sirius didn't even look like he cared though. Maybe he had someone too, someone he loved but wasn't telling anyone. That was a reasonable explanation, wasn't it?'

Lily burst through the door, 'do you know how sick I am of Potter?'

Hermione jumped in shock, 'Paul?' she said, letting it slip out of her mouth before she could even think about what she was going to say.

'I mean . . . yes,' Hermione said quickly, trying to cover up her mistake.

Lily was so mad she didn't even notice Hermione's mistake. 'He's so insensitive. He thought it would be a good idea to show me just how much I am "missing" so he shoves his tongue down my throat and thinks it's a great idea.'

'What did you do?' Hermione asked, sitting on her bed.

'I slapped him of course,' she said, waving her hand dismissively.

There was silence while Lily thought about it. 'You know what I'm going to do?' Lily said suddenly.

'No,' Hermione said quickly so Lily didn't get mad at her, she was in one of those moods where if someone did the slightest thing wrong she would burst.

'I'm going to have a bath,' she said and walked out of the door to the Prefects Bathroom.

'Phew,' Hermione sighed and she collapsed onto the bed. Why was this so hard?

'Potter,' Snape said angrily as Harry, Fred, George, Ron and the Marauders went out to play a game of Quidditch.

Harry and James spun around at the same time. Harry scolded himself in thought for turning around to his name. It wasn't his name here.

'What's up?' James said casually, making Snape even angrier. The Marauders sniggered.

Snape turned around to face them, 'you think my hair is funny do you?'

They all nodded and Snape went up to Sirius and whispered something in his ear that made Sirius go pale. He didn't say anything for the rest of the time.

'Change it back,' Snape said to James, pointing to his hair, which was now blonde with purple highlights and some parts were curled.

'Sorry Snape but it was Ellie's spell, so I can't do anything, you'll have to walk all the way up to our Common Room and wait for her to come out,' James said in a mock sorry voice.

They all laughed once he was out of ear-shot.

'Ellie didn't really do it, did she, James?' Harry asked.

'Nope. He'll have to figure out who has and wait ages cos I told Ellie not to come out and not to tell him it was us,' James said happily and kept on walking.

A/N: If you didn't get that whole Sirius thing: Emma and Sirius are dating but no one knows.

Sorry it was so short!