An hour later, at eleven o'clock, Elena was dressed and ready at the common room, waiting for James. She didn't have to wait for long.

"Hey, ready to go?" James asked as he came downstairs, and Elena nodded.

James had thought of taking Elena the secret way, the way behind the Witch's hump, which led to Honeydukes' cellar. But he decided against it. The marauders (although he didn't care what they thought…much) would kill him, and Elena might not appreciate it. So he took the boring way that everyone else had taken, hoping that he would not end up in a carriage with a) Sirius, b) Lily, or c) Both.

To his gratitude, they did not. A lonely 3rd year Hufflepuff sat by himself in their carriage, and Elena tried to comfort him.

In fact…James had not seen Sirius or Lily since ten o'clock, when the awkward encounter happened. "Elena." James said.

"Mm hmm?" she asked, looking up at him.

"Have you seen them?"

"Who?"

"Them."

Elena knew whom he was talking about. "No, James, I haven't seen" (she rolled her eyes) "them."

James sighed, and just as he did, they arrived at Hogsmeade, and he helped Elena out.


At the Three Broomsticks, James joked with Elena, they laughed together, and he paid for their many drinks. All was well until Lily and Sirius came in, laughing together happily.

Lily's eyes shifted to James and she put her hands around Sirius immediately. James glared at her, but Elena waved timidly. Sirius waved back, and came to sit down next to her (her and James had been sitting across from each other), which gave Lily no choice but to sit next to James.

"We had a great time, didn't we Sirius? Much more fun than going the normal way." Lily said, smirking slightly.

"What do you mean?" asked Elena.

"I mean we went this special way, behind this huge witch." Lily replied smugly.

No! Sirius had stolen James' idea, and he was furious.

"Really? I never knew about that way…James, how come you never told me?" Elena frowned at James.

"I didn't know if you'd think it was stupid." James replied truthfully.

"Well obviously you don't know me!" Elena pouted.

As Sirius tried to comfort Elena, James turned to Lily. "You actually enjoyed it?" James asked her.

"Well of course!" Lily snapped back. "I do know how to have fun, you know!"

"Sorry…but…did you see…"

"If you mean…the…thing on the wall…then…yes." Lily smiled, blushing slightly.

Both of them knew what the other was talking about: the carving on the wall James had made years back, which looked like so: James & Lily Forever.

"It was…erm…nice…" Lily continued.

"That was years back, when I was crazy about you." James replied. 'Not that I'm not still crazy about you' he almost said, before he realized that Elena was in front of him.

"Oh. You mean you're no—"

"Lily, I'm with Elena."

"Well I'm with Sirius."

Both of their smirks vanished and they looked at each other rather jealously, but then turned away.

"I'm going." James said, standing up.

"What abou—" Elena started, before interrupted by Lily.

"Me too." Lily paused and waited for Sirius to object, but he did not. Instead he shrugged, and waved. Gee, how kind.

James walked out of The Three Broomsticks, closely followed by Lily, but not Elena or Sirius, who took over the table and were then sitting across from each other.


Author's Note

Oooh I felt so fluffy while writing this! Ish such a fluffy chapter!!! Ahh…ish coming to an end soon! Oh well, review, review, and review!!! Luff ya alls!