Dreaming 19

AN: I understand the last chapter contained slash and I apologise to my younger readers and Erin if she ever reads this again, I just thought it would be a nice little twist in the Erin/Sirius triangle really. I will not write slash if it puts my readers off and please don't complain to me about it 'not being natures way' to like a girl. Now more Lily and James!

James loved Lily and there was nothing that would stop him from being with her now as everything they had been through was enough. When Jackie has demanded to know where James was going he shrugged her off insisting that his business was his and not hers. She had gone of in a huff mumbling something about Lily and idiotic redheads but James had grown tired of her constant mumblings over the past few weeks. The one thing James could not get it out of his mind was his scared flame and he was terrified that Lily would be torn away from him just because he cared for her deeply.

Kirsty had spent the afternoon in the library revising and had returned to the common room that evening with nearly a dozen books and as she entered the common room she was surprised to see Erin and Sirius in a most uncompromising position.

'What the hell are you two doing,' Kirsty demanded toppling the books onto the table in front of them

'Laughing, its not a crime is it?' Erin said and cracked up laughing again by just looking at Sirius.

'Its not funny,'

'Okay,' Kirsty said slowly 'what's going on here?'

'Sirius has a particular taste in witches don't you, I'm sure Kitty would love to hear how and why Rose turned you down,' Erin said through bursts of laughter, Sirius was sat with his arms folded glaring huffily at Erin across the table.

'A girl turn you down and I thought Rose Rain had no taste, I was sure she would go out with you,' Kirsty said patronisingly to Sirius who looked furious and replied

'She doesn't like wizards,'

'I'm sorry,' Erin said giggling 'say it louder, I don't think Kirsty heard that,'

'I fell for a lesbian, happy now?' Sirius roared at Kirsty but Erin was sent into another fit of giggles 'and anyway Erin, I don't know what your giggling at its you she obviously fancies!'

Erin resumed a straight face almost instantly and realised the complications of the matter, but still find it very hilarious that Sirius had yet fallen for another girl and failed to recognise she wasn't really his type of witch. But it made Erin think more carefully about which situations were a laughing matter and which were a cause for concern.

'See didn't think like that did you,' Sirius remarked smartly 'looks like girls are seriously attracted to you,'

'The way I see it,' Kirsty began 'is that Erin can now appeal to all audiences, best of both worlds,'

'Excuse me,' Sirius said startled

Kirsty caught Erin's eye and Erin shook her head, indicating that she did not want Kirsty to divulge that particular piece of evidence for real. Sirius ran his fingers through his shoulder length black hair

'Well as much as my humiliation is entertaining the two fo you I think I've had enough of it for one day and I am going to bed,'

James greeted Lily with a brief kiss before handing her the most beautiful carved wooden box with green emeralds encrusted on the side and the lid. Lily admired it in awe and James urged her to open it.

'I know you have a necklace from me already but I thought this one was just perfect for you,' and James slipped it around her neck gently.

'James it's beautiful', she admired the necklace closely rubbing over the cold silver gently with her fingers 'where did you get it?'

'I bought it from Magic Mush, that time we were in Hogsmeade I returned afterwards and bought it,' James explained 'I bumped into Regulus on the way down and he suggested that I treat you the way that I feel about you, and I think Im falling head over heels in love with you Lily and I cant stop how my heart feels,'

There was silence around the grounds, the crescent moon shone high in the sky and the stars twinkled against the velvet sky over Hogwarts lake and the cool night air whipped through the branches of the trees standing along the waters edge. The castle looked more magnificent tonigh than it ever had before, the lights shone from the Astronomy tower where students would be sat outlining star charts. A golden beam of light shone from the tallest tower where Dumbledores office was situated.

But at the top of the Divination tower stood a most terrifying figure.