The next two weeks passed without much exciting happening. Fifi and Darren where officially a couple. Sirius was acting very depressed. Remus and Gabi had been able to have very little time to their selves but where still going strong. Peter, Margo, James, and Lily flirted from a far but nothing really exciting. The friends were all sitting down by the lake and talking suddenly Peter decided they should go around in a circle saying who they each liked. James was first.
"Well, as you all know. I like Lily," he said flashing her a smile. They all laughed and she groaned. Remus was next to him.
"I like …" he began not sure what to say "girls."
"So Fifi, your turn," Gabi cut in before anyone could make Remus say anything more.
"Well I … uhh," she began.
"Do you not like Darren?" Margo questioned her. Everyone sat up straighter and leaned forward not wanting to miss a thing; this could be a big deal.
"Okay. He is great and sweet and everything, but he just isn't S," she began and realized who all she was talking to "he isn't what I want." Sirius looked much more happy. She didn't like Darren. But who was the s? Snape? Smith? Steve? It couldn't possibly be him – could it?
"Why don't you break up with him then?" James questioned her.
"I'm planning on it. I just don't know when," Fifi responded before they all got up and headed back inside. The girls went upstairs to help her get ready for what Fifi hoped would be her last date with Darren.
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It was later than usual. Darren had taken more time doing everything tonight than he usually did. The castle was dark and deserted.
"Darren, we need to talk," Fifi began
"No, we don't," Darren, replied pulling her into an empty classroom "we need to make out." He began making out with her and touching her not caring that she wanted to leave. When he uncovered her mouth she screamed
"STOP IT DARREN! STOP! HELP ME." She heard running, someone was coming to help her. The door bust open and she saw him. He dropped the food which he had obviously picked up in the kitchens. Sirius. Her best friend and the man of her dreams. Her tears began to slow.
"Didn't you hear her? Stop it," he yelled at Darren.
"Mind your own business," Darren snapped at him. Sirius grabbed him and punched him in the jaw. Darren fell to the floor. Sirius ran over to her.
"Are you alright Fifi?" he questioned dumbly looking into her beautiful eyes.
"I will be. Thank you," she said as he helped her into the common room.
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The next morning when they were all going to head down to breakfast, the boys where sitting down in front of the fire waiting for the girls.
"I am so hungry," Si told his friends.
"You are always hungry," Moony replied to him dryly.
"If I wasn't so hungry I would take offense by that," Sirius said. They saw the girls coming down the stairs – but Fifi wasn't with them.
"Where's Fifi?" questioned James because he was curious of how her breaking up with Darren went.
"She came in really late last night, cried for a long time, and was still lying on her bed thinking at three when I woke up from a nightmare," Lily told them "so we decided to let her sleep.
"That was nice of you," James told her, flashing her a smile. Oh, how much she wanted to admit that she liked him. But she couldn't, she had too much pride.
"Let's go," Peter yelled at his friends. They started making their way to the portrait hole when suddenly Sirius spoke up.
"I'm actually not very hungry," he said looking a little confused "I'll just go get some more sleep or something."
"You're not hungry?" questioned Gabi "that's like a first ever occurrence.
"Ha-ha. Yeah, "he replied. Sirius tried to ignore the look her was getting from the boys who knew he was hungry.
"I just need to think," he told them.
Sirius sat around in the Common room for a while. He new his friends had gone down to the lake after breakfast but he wanted to wait for Fifi – no matter how long she slept. A few hours later, which he passed thinking about Fifi and trying to decide if she liked him, he saw her come down the stairs and sit in her normal seat by the fire without even noticing him.
"Hey Fifi," he said. She jumped a little, but realized who it was. She felt safe with him.
"Hey Si." There was a silence around them for a few minutes, but it wasn't awkward. It was comfortable. "Thanks again for last night."
"I'm just happy I had decided to go to the kitchens and get ice cream because if I hadn't …" he trailed off a little thinking about Darren and what a horrible person is.
"Me too," she replied, "where did all our friends go?"
"Breakfast and lake."
"Why didn't you go?"
"I wasn't hungry."
"YOU WEREN'T HUNGERY?"
"Yeah. I was tired and wanted to sit here by the fire."
"Okay," she replied looking at him skeptically "want to go meet them?"
He looked at her and smiled. "Yeah sure."
Inside her minds her thought were rambling "oh, I love it when you smile," "I love Sirius Black," "He's so sweet," "Why was he not hungry? He is always hungry." "I am ganna figure this out."
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