Hey, this is Chapter 2, as you can see. This chapter is pretty long, it's a bit weird, mostly about Emma and Sirius, so sorry about that. Next chapter will probably be better cos Katherine is writing that one. Anyway, you can tell us what you think in a REVIEW!

Chapter written by: Beachbabe12

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"Hi Lily," called James from the other side of the Great Hall.

She held her head in her hands and pretend to cry, "hi Potter," she said duly.

"Why so bland?" he asked, he had run up to her and sat down next to her, knocking over Ellie in the process.

"Dunno," she lied.

"Well we have a free period first, so it's all good."

"Black, get over yourself! You think I would fall for that? I made that prank up in first year!" shouted Emma, Sirius had tried to prank her.

Lily, Ellie and Kat cringed.

"This is all we're going to hear about for an hour," said Kat.

Sirius sat down looking hurt beside James, which knocked Ellie again; this was not a good morning.

Emma sat next to Kat and started talking about Sirius.

"He's an idiot, why is he such a prick? I made that prank up in first year and then he tries to pull it off?"

"Emma, I'm just here, you don't need to whisper so I can't hear you," he said sarcastically.

"Since when are we on first name basis, Black?" she asked, crossing her arms and looking at him.

"Sorry," he spat, "I thought you would let something as little as your name pass."

"Not when you use it," she hissed.

"Why do we go through this everyday?" asked Kat.

"Dunno, it might be like a tradition for them, you know instead of saying "hi", they yell at each other?" suggested James.

"Good thinking."

Someone sat down next to Ellie, which pushed her over again, she was about to yell at who ever it was, when she noticed it was Remus.

"Hi Remus," she said smiling.

"Hi Ellie, did I miss it?"

"Nah, they're just having their break, you know that five minute space where they think up nasty comments to yell at each other?"

"Oh damn it, I thought I missed it," he laughed.

Bellatrix and Claudia walked passed, shooting all the gang evil glares, following them were Jesse, Snape and Narcissa.

"There goes your cousins, Black," said Emma, this would be a good comment to make when someone hates their cousin, but the fact that she did it every morning wasn't helping.

"Do you have to say that every morning?" he asked her.

"Do you have to say that every morning?" she asked back at him, they did this every morning.

"Do you guys have to?" shouted James.

"Yeah, it's kind of like our morning ritual, you know," said Sirius.

Kat burst out laughing and Ellie and Lily joined her. Emma and Sirius looked at each other and quickly looked away.

"I have to do my holiday homework now," said Sirius, looking at his watch to see how much time he had.

"That would be right, Black hasn't done his homework," said Emma.

"Laugh it up Rodgers," Sirius snapped back, "I was actually doing things over the holidays, unlike you."

"Black, that wasn't a good comeback because I spent the holidays with you and James," she said, her parents had gone back to America and had left her to stay with her Aunty, Uncle and her only cousin, James. The thing was, it was a meant to be a secret because the girls hated the Marauders and the only reason why they sat with them was because Ellie was dating James and the boys sat with them. Emma clapped her hands over her mouth quickly, realizing her mistake. It was too late, everyone had heard.

"You what?" shrieked Lily.

"Haha, that was a good comeback," Sirius said happily, "now I have to get acrimonious because I have homework to do."

"You have to get acrimonious?" Emma repeated.

"I can explain," Remus said quickly, "I tried to teach him the word acrimonious, but obviously it didn't work."

"Oh."

"You spent the summer at Potter's, with Black?"

"Yeah, my parents decided to go back to America and they left me at James' and Siriu-Black was there," she quickly corrected herself.

"At least there's a simple explanation," said Ellie, who had started to hyperventilate. She was very protective of James.

"Shall we get acrimonious then?" said Emma, using Sirius way of talking; they all laughed at him on the way back to the Common Room.

In the Slytherin Common Room, three girls were talking about things that Slytherin girls found very important.

"Stupid mudbloods, think they know everything," spat Bellatrix.

"Actually Evans and Katherine know quite a lot, as a fact," said Claudia to her sister.

Jesse and Bellatrix ignored her.

"And blood traitors," added Jess, "Black, Saint Potter and Rodgers. Black is madly in love with that Rodger girl and Potter is in love with a mudblood but is dating another blood traitor."

"Sirius is in love with Rodgers?" asked Claudia.

"Yeah, he just tries to conceal it by fighting with her," said Bellatrix. "They'll get married and I'll be related to another blood traitor."

"So will I," Claudia put in.

"Like dear Andromeda, in Ravenclaw, not as bad as Gryffindor but still," Bellatrix said, she was clearly disgusted by the idea of her sister not being in Slytherin.

"She's dating some guy named Greg, and he's a mudblood," Jess informed them.

"She should be looking for someone to marry at our age," said Claudia.

"Your so right, Claud. Although I'm not sure you and Avery make the best couple," laughed Bella.

"So you and Rodolphus do?" Claudia shot back.

"Yes, we do," Bellatrix informed her sister.

"My brother is very happy with you," Jess saidhappilly, "I think you make a good couple, Rodolphus seems to think so."

"And so does dear Cissy and Malfoy, they're in fifth year now," Claudia informed Jess.

"And Andromeda is in sixth?" Jess asked.

"That's the one, another blood traitor, mother will have a heart attack if she found out she was dating a mudblood. She's wasting the family name!" shrieked Bella.

"Well all our family names will change when we're older," Jess said.

"Dear Claud, you will probably end up a Snape," Bellatrix told her sister.

Claudia hated it whenever someone told her Snape liked her; she liked Avery, and was sure she was going to marry him.

"Don't say that again, or I will say you won't end up marrying anyone!"

Bellatrix took this lightly and they all laughed.

Later that night Lily, Kat, Emma and Ellie were talking in their Dormitory.

"And then he was like "date me, Evans, I know you end up with me, there's no point denying your love for me" and I just walked off, I'm sick of hearing it, he's ruined my love life, threatening all the guys I go out with that no one wants to bother."

"Well at least it's someone good looking," Kat said sadly, "you don't have Peter hanging around you all day."

The girls laughed, it was common knowledge that Peter liked Kat, but when she was dating someone he wouldn't prank them endlessly until they broke it off, he would just mope around quietly until their relationship ended.

"And you don't have Black yelling at you all the time, it hurts sometimes, he's stupid and acrimonious, really," said Emma.

The girls laughed at her choice of words.

"The day he's mature, doesn't prank anyone and doesn't ask me out, is the day I will go out with him," Lily said, knowing that it was never going to happen. What she didn't know was that Sirius was standing outside the door listening to their conversation. He had found a way past the stairs years ago and was now putting that to good use.

"Prongs! Wake up sleepy head. PRONGS!" Sirius yelled in his friend's ear.

"What is it Padfoot?" James yawned sleepily. "This isn't going to be like the time you woke me up to tell me Peter said something in his sleep but you can't remember, is it?"

"No, it's not as important as that, is about-"

James turned over and pretended to fall asleep.

"Lily." Sirius finished.

James sat upright in his bed, "what about her?"

"She said the day you stop pranking people, don't ask her out and become more mature was the day she would date you."

James was going to ask Sirius how he knew this but he had just collapsed on his bad and started to snore loudly.

James thought about what he had to do, this was going to be the best thing ever. He tried to get to sleep for several hours but with Sirius' constant mutterings about Emma in his sleep, it was hard.

"And then, he said we weren't meant to be together and he said we shouldn't see each other anymore," cried Claudia into her sisters shirt.

"Claudia, I feel really sorry for you but now you can go and date Snape."

Claudia whimpered, "you know he's only a half-blood. His dad wasn't a wizard."

Bellatrix stared at her sister for a while, "you're joking, he's always acting pure and, wait, how did you find this out?"

"He told me, thought I ought to know."

Bellatrix and Jesse were silent, the door burst open and three boys came into the Common Room laughing.

"Rodolphus!" Bellatrix shrieked, wrapping her arms around him.

"Hey babe, what are you girls up to?"

"Comforting Claudia about Avery dumping her," Jess said sadly, but then noticed a particular boy; his name was Tyler, from a pureblood family and adorable eyes, according to her.

"Hi Jess," he said when he noticed her staring at him.

"Hi Tyler, what were you laughing about?"

"Oh, we were just laughing about the latest Black and Rodgers incident, he tripped her up by accident, then when trying to help her up, they knocked heads, and then he dropped her when he saw his latest girlfriend coming. It was a disaster."

Jess laughed, "I wish I had been there."

"Have you seen Narcissa, she was meant to meet me here ten minutes ago," said Lucius.

As if on cue, she came waltzing down from the girls dormitory and ran up to embrace him in what looked like, a very uncomfortable hug.

"You are a complete idiot," shrieked Emma, she was having another tantrum, even after the incident in the hallway he mad her get a detention for the rest of the week because when a teacher came to see what all the fuss was about, she only saw Emma swearing and yelling at Sirius.

"I'm sorry, like I said before, it was an accident," he said genuinely.

"For what, giving me a detention every night for the rest of the week or making me look like an idiot."

"You already are an idiot," Sirius said automatically, Emma shot him a dirty look and punched him in the nose. He fell over backwards and hit his head on the back of the couch. Emma was about to rush over to him and say sorry when James came down the stairs, holding his hand over his nose.

"Women," he said loudly and she heard Sirius mutter,

"Tell me about it," under his breath.

"What happened?" Emma asked.

"Lily just punched me when I asked her out and told her accidentally that I was the one that made Hamish brake up with her."

Sirius laughed and then groaned in pain, "bloody hell, Emma. You punch hard, plus you made me hit me head on the bloody couch."

"I didn't mean to make you hit your head; I thought you, being a Quidditch player, would have quick reflexes."

"Well you thought wrong."

Ellie sat on the couch wondering what to do, her boyfriend kept asking her best friend out, even with her standing right next to him, and she wondered whether it was really going to work out.

"I'm sorry Evans, but you didn't have to punch me, that was uncalled for," she heard James yell.

Lily yelled back at him, "uncalled for? You asked me out after you told me you made Hamish break up with me!"

Ellie sighed and decided she would just have to break up with him, it was no use trying to make him stop, so many girls before her had tried, it was like trying to stop Sirius and Emma bickering.

There was one other thing too, it was Remus. He was kind and gentle, and his girlfriends weren't objects to him. She had always liked Remus, but never known if he liked her back.

Lily hit herself on the head, hard. She had just said no to James, again.

She liked him, but why did he have to go and muck everything up, he always tried really hard, but would she be just another one of his blonde bimbos that were rejected after a couple of days?

"You can't copy my homework, Black! Especially after what you just did!" Lily heard Emma shout from the Common Room.

"But I said I was sorry, and then you punched me, I think that made up for it!" came the voice of Sirius.

"Oh you do, do you? Well I don't, a couple more punches like that and I might forgive you."

"Well maybe if that's the case, I don't want you to forgive me!"

"I HATE YOU! YOU PRAT, YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TO BE MY FRIEND!" Emma screamed so loud Lily was sure people down at dinner could hear her.

"Emma, that's not what I meant," Lily just heard Sirius say.

Emma came up to where Lily was, sitting in their Dorm.

"Don't even mention it," Emma muttered, and fell backwards on her bed.

Lily went to sleep listening to the subtle sobs of Emma, and when she woke in the morning, she was gone.

"Have you seen Emma?" Sirius asked worriedly at breakfast the next day.

"For Christ sake, Sirius, NO!" James shouted at his best friend, James had sworn to himself that the twelfth time Sirius asked would be the time he shouted at him. "Oh no, wait, she's right behind you," said James, looking up from his cereal.

Sirius turned around and shot up, "I'm so sorry," he said and hugged her.

The Great Hall was silent, waiting to see what happened next.

Sirius let go, realizing what he did, and smiled awkwardly at her. She returned the awkward smile and sat down next to him.

The Hall returned to its normal state, of gossiping and chatting.

"Where were you?" James asked to his cousin, who was helping herself to some pancakes.

"Flying," she said simply.

"You were flying?" choked Sirius, "But you suck at flying."

"Thanks," she said smiling, taking no notice of his last sentence.

Sirius looked at her weirdly and wondered if she had really been flying, her buttons were done up weirdly and her hair was put up in a messy pony tail.

Hamish Blake entered the hall, his buttons were also done up weirdly and he had lipstick on his collar.

Emma looked up at him, grinned at him and watched him wink at her. She giggled softly and went back to her breakfast, not knowing that Sirius had seen that whole encounter.

Kat looked up at Sirius, he was glaring at Hamish. She looked over at him, he had a lipstick stain on his collar and his hair looked like it had never been brushed.

Kat had always liked Hamish, not in a boyfriend way, but he was funny and made her laugh, a lot. He was her Potions partner and was hilarious. His best friend, Andy Lee was the guy she liked. Katherine now turned her attention to James; he was as usual, staring at Lily.

Ellie was staring at Remus, who was reading a book, oblivious to everything. She wondered whether everything would turn out alright in the end, whether James and Lily ended up together, Sirius and Emma dated and got married; Ellie and Remus got their acts together and kissed already and whether she ended up with Andy. Guess she'd just have to wait yo find out.