'Well, basically, I'm addicted to sex!' said Kat.

Everyone was silent for what seemed to be an age. No one looked at each other and suddenly people found the floor rather interesting.

Sirius had a thoughtful face, 'I think I have that too,' he said, breaking the silence.

'Is their any way that this baby's father isn't Sirius'?' Emma said quietly, meaning it to herself, but every one heard.

Everyone wanted to laugh, really bad, but no one knew whether Kat was joking or being perfectly serious.

'Hello? Is anyone going to say anything? Like telling me what they are going to do to help me with this disease?' Kat asked, slightly annoyed.

'We could help each other,' Sirius started, 'since we both have the disease. We could both do it when ever one of us needs it. How bout that?' he said, looking at Kat.

'Um, well . . . I don't know whether Emma would like it,' she said, looking at her floor, where everyone was still looking at from before.

'Sirius, I'm fine with it, go do it all the time with my best friend while I have our baby,' she said sounding extremely sarcastic.

He looked embarrassed and kissed her on the cheek, trying to reassure her that it wouldn't happen. He flashed her his gorgeous smile and she kissed him back.

'So you're serious Kat?' Ellie said.

'Yeah, of course I am,' she said nodding along to every word she said.

Everyone looked at each other and then hugged Kat.

'We're there for you,' everyone said and went off to the Common Room. They all had to do some study and Emma wanted to read some over her notes on her wedding preparations which she was actually ahead of her schedule.

'You should be a wedding planner,' James commented when she pulled out her folder.

'I know,' she said confidently, 'that's what I'm planning to be.'

Sirius turned around. 'What? You told me you were going to be a stay-at-home-mum, in fact that's what you've been telling everyone.'

'Come on Sirius, do you really expect women these days, in the wizarding world to do nothing and just looking after their kids. It's either that or a caterer. I love to cook so I think that would be good.'

He sat down next to her, 'but I thought you loved the fact that you were going to devote yourself entirely to our kids.'

'I did, and that's still one of my choices but what am I going to do when their all at Hogwarts and it's just me and you?'

'I understand. Anyway, so your going to make a witch bridal planner?' he asked her.

'No a muggle one,' she said in a definite voice.

'You're going to work with muggles?' James and Sirius said at the same time.

She shrugged them off and continued with her work. 'Shouldn't you be studying James and not listening into private conversations?' she asked coldly.

'Sorry,' he muttered and went on to study the Potions exam he had to sit, which was the next exam.

'Tomorrow is Monday and we have Potions, Em,' Kat said to her, trying hard to make her study a little.

'Kat I can see what your doing and I do appreciate it but I need to go to Uni and get a business degree so I can set up my own.'

'Aren't you going to study a little bit incase you want to save you kid from something that has to do with a potion?' she asked stupidly.

'Um . . . no, not really.'

'I give up, Sirius you try,' Kat said loudly.

'I can hear you Katherine, but I don't really need your help,' she paused, 'or Sirius' for that matter, I just want to do this and it would be even better if you could leave me alone.'

Lily butted in, 'Em come on she's only looking out for you.'

She sighed, picked up all her bridal magazines and walked out the door shouting that she was going for a walk.

Ellie sighed even louder and sat next to Matt. 'Pregnant women are annoying, aren't they?'

He laughed and gently nudged her playfully. She shrieked happily and nudged him back.

'I was only joking,' she laughed.

He laughed back, grinning, 'I know.'

Remus watched from the other side of the room, not concentrating on his Potions study. He was worried that something was going on with them. But then he doubted it, the two closest couples he knew started out in fights and arguments. Sirius and Emma hated each other, well that's what they said anyway and James and Lily, maybe just Lily, hated James.

He shrugged it off and continued his work, ignoring the giggles and shrieks.

'Do you think we're going to end up like Em and Sirius?' Lily asked James, trying to ignore Ellie and Matt.

'Yeah,' James answered, 'except I don't think you'll be pregnant now and I think you'll be asking Emma to organise our wedding as you'll be so stressed otherwise.'

Lily laughed and kissed his forehead lightly.

'I was actually asking whether we'll get married and have kids, you answered but all you needed to say was yes.'

'What do you think our kid will be like?' James thought a loud.

'Our kid will be so pretty –'

'Or handsome if we have a boy, cos I don't want our guy to be called one of those "pretty boys".'

'Like you?' she asked, giggling.

'I am so not a pretty boy. Emma is marrying one of those.'

'Well you got one thing right,' she said.

'You are in trouble Miss Evans,' James said standing up and taking her hands.

'Mr. Potter what are you going to do to me?' she said in a mock scared voice.

Emma sat near the lake on a bench which she cleaned before sitting on it.

'Hey Em,' a voice said, Emma could tell it was a fake happiness, a fake voice someone was putting on to make her feel safe for a little while.

'Hey Em,' another voice said, but it was the same tone of fakeness.

'I already said that,' the first voice whispered.

'I know, but I thought I would say hello too.'

'What about me?' came a third voice. All of them girls, Emma started to feel a little uneasy and closed her magazine.

'Oh I give up, working with you two is hopeless,' the first voice said and she stepped out of the shadow. It was Bellatrix.

The two others stepped out two, it was Jesse and Claudia.

'I thought we should come and talk to you,' Bellatrix said to Emma, circling her.

'You look so nice,' Jesse said, 'all nice and fat.'

Emma looked down at her stomach and felt sick. Was she fat?

'So your pregnant with Sirius' baby, or isn't his, you can tell us, everyone thinks your cheating on him with that Hamish guy so it would be nice if you could let us know,' Claudia said in a cheerful voice.

She was silent. Everyone?

'Going to ignore us?' Jesse said. 'I think that's rude.'

'What in the name of God do you want with me?'

'I thought we would ask you if we could be the baby's godmother, after all, we are family,' Claudia said.

'Help me please Sirius,' she pleaded to him silently, even though she knew he wouldn't hear her at all, he was sitting up with his friends in the safe and warmth of the Common Room.

Emma got up and started to walk away. It was annoying to hear all those horrible comments about her and her unborn baby.

She was going back to the Common Room; it was starting to get cold anyway.

Dear Mr. Rodgers,

It's Sirius Black, Emma's fiancé.

As you know Emma is currently seven months pregnant and expecting our first baby very soon. We are both very excited and cannot wait for the new addition to our family.

You might have heard from Mr. and Mrs. Potter I am currently living with their son as my family are Slytherin's and I do not fit in at all.

I also have no money what so ever as my family have cut off all connections with me and would rather not have their money anyway.

With that note I would like to add that I want the best for your daughter and our child.

Because we are in school we have no means of making any money and I was wondering if I could just borrow some money – to start off our lives. I will pay you back as soon as I get some money, I'm training to be an Auror and you also need to pay for the training too.

You're my last resort, I don't really want to ask the Potter's as they have done so much for me already, if you don't want to just tell me, I can always get a job and we can try live off that until I have made enough money to pay off the training.

Yours Sincerely,

Sirius Black

'Thank goodness your back,' Sirius said. 'You wanna go get some dinner, you missed it and everyone's in bed already, trying to get a good night's sleep for tomorrow.'

'Sure,' she said, 'I'm starving.'

He smiled at her and took her hand. 'What did you get up to when you were down there?' he asked her while walking out of the Common Room.

Emma smiled back at him and quietly answered, 'nothing.'

'I am so nervous, I mean this is potions, if we don't get this there is no way we get into Auror training or Lily gets into Healer,' James said walking up and down the Great Hall, 'there is no way I can eat.'

The girls laughed. 'Yeah like you're not going to eat. Come on James have some toast.'

'Oh ok, but it's your fault if I throw up,' James gave in. He looked around for Kat as she wasn't in the Great Hall yet and breakfast was about to end.

The owls started to come in, people receiving packages and letters from parents. A few things landed for the group.

Peter got a package from his mother that turned out to be a extra large sized pair of underpants while Ellie got a letter from her orphanage asking her whether she would be returning this summer.

Kat got a letter from her mum and a pair of shoes which she had been wanting for ages since she had seen them in a magazine.

Emma got her subscription from the muggle bridal magazine called Cosmo Bride she also got a letter from her mother which included a book called So you're expecting a boy.

Sirius got a letter, which was unusual for him. He shoved it into his robes pockets and tried to forget about until he was alone.

Dear Sirius,

I can't believe you are even asking me for money – I thought Emma would have told you she's been saving up for a while for her precious baby and for some extra money for nice furniture and things like that she always told me.

But as you say Auror training is expensive and as I'm not poor (excuse my "modesty") I would be glad to pay for it, anything for my family.

There is one condition and it is this: I do not want you to pay me back.

You might disagree and think that you owe me money but I do not see it like that at all. You are a great man and I would rather you than any of the other boys Emma used to bring home to meet me. They were horrid, but you are different and that is why I see this as owing you something.

I also here you have been extremely caring to her and the best man a father could want for his daughter.

So don't thank me, thank you,

Mr. Rodgers or Dad.

Lily and Emma were studying for their last exam when James, Sirius, Kat and Ellie came in from Quidditch Practice.

'Only one more exam and then we can worry about other things rather than a piece of paper with some questions on it,' Emma said happily.

Kat laughed, 'what are you going to worry about next?'

Emma blushed, 'well no one has said anything about it yet but . . . where are we going to live next month?'

They were silent, she was right, no one had thought about it at all.

Lily spoke first; 'I think I'm going back to my parent's house in Surry for about a week and then I'll . . .' she trailed off, not knowing what to say.

'There is no way I am going back to the orphanage,' Ellie said and crossed her arms. No one wanted to make her go but if she didn't find somewhere to live then she would have to go back.

'What about everyone else?' Emma asked.

'You have plan, don't you Em,' Sirius said, sitting next to her. She nodded quietly and then shook her head,

'You won't like the idea.'

'Try us,' Ellie said automatically.

'Well I received a letter from my father yesterday and it told me how he had been thinking about where I was going to live as he knew teenagers don't want to live with their parents after leaving Hogwarts. He also knew that we were all pretty close and so . . . he bought us a house in a small Wizarding community where we could live together until we have enough money to buy our own houses.'

It was silent for ages, everything thinking about how to reply and what everyone else was going to say. It was a huge offer. What would their parents say? When could they move in if they took up the offer?

'I'm going in,' James said. Emma hugged her cousin, 'I didn't want to be the only one there,' she said.

'But there is a "but",' he continued.

She frowned, 'go on.'

'I have to pay some rent.'

'Will everyone else come if they're allowed to pay some rent?' she asked them.

They all nodded, including Matt and Peter. Matt couldn't believe he was being asked and Peter wet his pants, which everyone ignored as it happened quite frequently.

'We're going to be living together!' Kat shouted, and she was soon joined by everyone else, clapping and shouting, not containing their excitement.

'One other condition,' Emma shouted over the noise.

'Oh, I don't like conditions,' Ellie commented.

'Sirius and I are going to be married, and we're going to have a baby. You're going to have to put up with the noise of a baby and help around the house. Like clean up your dishes and things like that.'

'Fine with me,' Lily said, everyone agreed.

'Then it's done,' said James happily, 'The nine of us are living together when this year is done.'

Dear Dad,

Thanks for the house, everyone appreciates it so much. They were so glad when I told them, I was right, no one had even thought about it.

Everyone might go back to their parent's house for week while I decorate the house (I won't have time during school hours). I have thought of some really good ideas for my baby's room. I'm going with blue and white, and lots of toys and books. I want to get him to read early. I also want him to know and be fluent in four languages; French, English, German and Russian, just like Mum is.

I'm also going to make one part of the house Sirius and mine. I'm going to create a mauve boudoir for me and a study for Sirius and the rest of them as they are all going to do some kind of training. I also thought of the idea for a 'green room' as like a billiards room where the boys could just talk and stuff.

Talk to you later and thanks again,

Emma

James, Ellie, Sirius and Katherine were at Quidditch training. Peter, Remus, Lily and Emma were watching them.

They had agreed to have a practice game with Hufflepuff. It was the semi-finals. Gryffindor were up against Ravenclaw and Slytherin were up against Hufflepuff. So they thought they could do with a bit of training in an actual game.

The game was good, Gryffindor won and no one had been hurt or had fallen off their brooms.

'Good game,' Remus said to Ellie, she gave him a quick kiss on the lips and told him she had to go have a shower.

'Did you see me play?' James asked Lily happily, as he ran up to hug her. She giggled and kissed his cheek.

'Course I did,' she said, 'I watched every second of it.'

'I'm going to have shower,' he told her and he ran off in the direction he had come from.

Everyone was relaxing in the Common Room when Kat came in holding a bright blue piece of paper, shaking it around.

'What is it, Kat?' Ellie asked her before anyone else had even noticed she had come in, she had very good hearing.

'They're holding a graduation ball on our second last night at Hogwarts!' she shouted.

'Oh, how cute, that's so sweet of them,' Lily said, taking the paper of Kat to read it for herself.

'You know that graduation ball is next week,' James pointed out. 'We better have something to wear by then. I think they let us know too late personally. How are we going to get something to wear by then?'

'I don't think you should have said that,' Matt said, looking at the girls, 'I mean it's alright for a guy to get something out of a closet and put it on but for a girl, it takes them months to find the perfect dress.'

Sirius snorted, 'you should have seen them last ball.'

Emma punched him, 'but let me remind you, Sirius, I think it was you that took the longest to decide what tux you were going to wear.'

'Shh.'

'I was thinking,' Lily started, 'that if we all had our all dresses we could use them again, you know, as a weird thing we can do to laugh at.'

'I think it's a good idea,' Ellie said, 'especially as I know all the girls still have our dresses and they were so nice.'

'Yeah, good idea Lil,' Kat said, 'I loved my dress, I'm so glad I kept it.'

Everyone turned to Emma, who was the only girl who hadn't said she liked the idea. Emma blushed and said, 'I really want to but I'm not good with charms so I would have no idea how to make mine bigger.'

'Bigger?' Ellie said, confused.

'Incase you haven't noticed, I'm pregnant and I wasn't this big the last time we had a ball,' she said coldly.

Ellie shrugged the comment away and said nothing. Lily said she would do the charm to make it bigger around the stomach.'

'Thanks Lily,' she said.

So the ball dresses were settled and no one had to even ask who they were going with. Two people were confused though; Matt and Kat (A/N: Hey, hey that rhymes!).

Matt wanted to go with Ellie, but he knew that she would be going with Remus. SO he didn't have a partner.

Kat didn't want to go with anyone; she thought it would be nice to just hang out with her friends. If she was going to go with someone, she wanted the person to be special and really like her. This ball wasn't for flings. So when Matt asked her whether she would like to go with him, she had no idea what to say.