Thoughts of 5th year

Riley smiled as she looked at an old picture of her and Sirius in 5th year. Sirius and her had been slow dancing in the Room of Requirements when Remus and Becca had come bursting in and took a snap shot of us laughing. In the picture it was hilarious because Sirius had given Remus the finger and as it was a magical photo it showed it. I smiled fondly at the two guys; you could just tell they were best friends. After that Lily and James had showed up and to dislike Peter as well. We had an awesome time just being kids.

In the middle of 5th year James got to the height of his cockiness and it stopped when Lily had screamed at him that he was an "Fat headed arrogant prick" I believe, adding that she'd rather date the Hogwarts lake squid. It was that day when they had been bothering the Snape boy.

Truth be told, Sirius was just as bad. But Sirius and I were not a couple and he didn't ask me out every day as did James to Lily. All the same though when I told him I had the same views as Lily on the matter he had stopped.

The picture that I had in my hand was later in the year so everything had cleared over by then. Lily and James had actually started to get along. Sirius and I were still, by the way not a couple. Although apparently Becca and Remus were.

-Flashback-

"Remmmy" Becca hollered as she got back from her quiddich try-outs

"I got in! I got in!" She said jumping up and down in front of Remus who beamed at her.

"Great!" He said

She threw herself down on the couth beside him just as Sirius came in looking sweaty. (He got in the quiddich team 2 years ago and was a Beater.)

"I love you" Becca said to Remus hugging him then they started making-out

"Awwwww isn't that sweet" Sirius said in mock-happiness. "Now get a room!"

I laughed

"Let's go find Lil and James" he suggested holding out his hand I pulled myself up with it and we walked to the command room. (We were in the Room of Requirements which was by then are favorite hang-out.)

We were halfway there when I voice came over the speakers

"Would everyone please report to the command rooms NOW."

Sirius and I exchanged weirded out glances

"Huh" I muttered

Sirius gave me a look that clearly said 'how should I know?'

But we both continued up to the command room anyway.

When we got to there Lily and James filled us in

"Apparently there were some Death Eaters in Hoismade; they were trying to get up to Hogwarts. They couldn't get thought the barriers though." James said seriously

"Yah, it's got the teachers freaked specially Dumbledore" Lily put in

"Wow" was all I muttered

Sirius gave me a worried look as another announcement filled the room

"All students should be down in the great hall in 5 minutes. There are imposers on the grounds. We urge you to walk in groups, and always have you wand at the ready."

Sirius grabbed my arm protectively

"Come on guys we better get going"

James took Lily's hand and we walked down to the Great hall

When we got down the tables were pushed to the sides and there were sleeping bags covering the floor.

(A/N – remember this line from anywhere? Lol.)

Dumbledore was at the front of the huge hall but most of the teachers gone.

We all got sleeping bags closer together

"Wait" Lily said "something's wrong with this picture"

I looked around just the realizing Remus and Becca were not there.

"Where are Remus and Becca?" James questioned

A wave of worry took over me as I thought of what they could be going through at this very moment

"You don't think they decided to stay in the Room Of Requirements?" Sirius questioned looking at me in particular

"I don't think so… Remus is too much of a goodie good and Becca wouldn't take that risk… well I don't THINK so anyway."

"That's it I'm going to go find them" Sirius said "James did you bring the clock?"

By this point I was thoroughly confused

James nodded

"And the map?"

"Yes" James said pulling to small things out of his pocket.

I watched amazed as he pointed his wand at it muttering a spell

Suddenly the 2 things enlarged

There was now I big clock in his hand along with a piece of parchment. He quickly hid them under his sleeping bag as the potions teacher walked past glaring at us.

I heard a loud bang coming from the door of the hall and Sirius pulled me closer to him.

I breathed a sigh of relief as Becca and Remus came in with a more than angry looking Professor McGonagall

Even from the corner of the hall I could hear her ranting at them for not listening to the announcements.

"You could have been killed, what ere you thinking? And Mr.Lupin I am thoroughly confused. You are a prefect and that means listening to the announcements!"

By then Sirius and James were waving at Remus and trying to get him to laugh by pulling stupid faces.

Remus had a clear look on his face however Becca looked as if she'd burst out laughing at any moment.

When McGonagall finally finished yelling at them she gave them a punishment and sent them over to us.

"Hey guys where were you?" Lily asked quietly

"Well first we were in the Room of Requirements and Remmy had the music blasting. So we didn't even hear the first announcement, then we had decided to come find you when the second announcement came on and I wanted to go get my wand. Because I had left it up in my dorm, right so we were just walking down here when McGonagall found us and started freaking out… we tried to explain it to her but we couldn't really explain about the Room of Requirement right? And she probably wouldn't have heard us anyway with the way she was yelling." Becca explained

We all nodded understandingly. Then I suddenly remembered the clock and parchment James had.

"James?" I questioned

"Huh?" he asked

"What was that clock thing and the parchment about?"

I waited for a moment watching James, Sirius and Remus exchange glances. Remus and James nodded at Sirius and he took the two things out from under James's sleeping bag.

"This" he said holding up the clock "is an Invisibility clock"

I just stared

"Wow" was all I muttered

Sirius nodded holding up his arm and placing the clock on it. I watched in amazement as his arm vanished

Becca let out a squeak

"Those are rare" Lily said

"Yah what's the parchment about though?" I asked

"Well aren't you the curious one?" James said smiling

"This" Sirius said holding up the parchment "is a map"

"Huh?" Becca with a raised eyebrow

"Let me show them" James said taking the map from Sirius

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good" James muttered to the so called "map" and touched it with his wand

I was yet again amazed as ink spread onto the map and reviled the castle. There were dots all on it and I was surprised when I saw that they all had names.

I looked into the Great hall drawn on the map and saw hundreds of little dots sprawled out with a name beside each one.

Sirius pointed to the corner and I saw his name and my name as well as James, Lily's, Becca's and Remus's.

"Shit that's cool" Becca muttered

"We just finished it" James said "we've been working on this baby for like 3 years"

"Wow and you never told us?" Lily asked

"Sorry it never came up" James said apologetically

"Okay whatever I'm tired" Lily said lowering herself down into he sleeping bag

I looked around. She was right; it was late more than half of the people in the Great Hall were asleep.

"'Night Lil" James said patting Lily on the head

"I think you should get to bed to" Sirius said Looking at me

I nodded wordlessly and rapped myself in my blanket and as I was falling asleep I could have sworn Sirius muttered

"Night love"

-End of flashback-

5th year scared me. Not just because of Voldemort and his goon's, but also because I was falling in love with Sirius Black. That would be putting it bluntly. Everyone knew he liked me although he never quite got to saying it. But then I was afraid to love him for the same reason Lily was afraid to love James. Because they were both "Hogwarts most wanted men" and some women would stop at nothing to take them away from us.

Hey People,

Hoped you liked the chapter. I don't know whether I liked this chapter … it was sorta boring. But the next chapter is better because…. Well you'll have to wait but I promise it'll be better than this one! I'll update ASAP.

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