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Chapter 2

6th year

Cira walked onto the train and started to look for her friends. It had been all summer sense she had seen them. She looked through every compartment until she got to the every end one. It was empty. Where could they be. She knew that she was about ten minutes early but she had still sort of expected them to be here early as well. "Oh well. It wont be to much longer until they get here." Cira said to herself.

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Ok where are they. There is only another minute until the train pulls away. They had better hurry up. I should have expected this from James, Sirius, and Remus. But I wouldn't have never expected this from Lily. I thought she was supposed to be a prefect. Oh my god! Why didn't I think about this before. Lily and Remus are both prefects and they are going to have to sit in the front with the other prefects. But that still doesn't explain where the hell James and Sirius are.

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As if on cue the door to her compartment opened and in walked in two of her closest friends, James Potter and Sirius Black.

James looked over to her and smiled. "I should have know that you would be here early, Thomas." He waked over to her and gave her a welcoming hug. He was diffidently her closest friend after Lily. She had always been able to talk with James. They shared the same sense of humor. They both loved to make others laugh, and they both hated the Slytherins'.

"It's good to see you James. How was your summer?"

"Oh, it was ok. My parents dragged me off on there vacation to America. Wasn't that exciting. I got back about a week ago. Just enough time for me to get to Diagon Alley and get all of my things packed. How about you?"

"Oh it was wonderful, except for the fact that I had almost no contact with my friends. I have been trying to get my parents to by me an owl but they seem to think that I can just send letters the old fashion way. But other than that, France and Italy were absolutely wonderful. The old Italian wizards and witches were simply fascinating. Besides you should have seen some of the joke shops that were in France. Oh My God! They were awesome!" Cira went over to her trunk and pulled out a huge bag of joke supplies. She set the bag down in front of James and Sirius. There mouths dropped! "There you go. I figured that the group could use a few new tricks. What do you think?"

Sirius looked from her and then back to the bag and then back to Cira. "Ci Ci these are awesome!"

"…simply unbelievable…"

" How did you get all of these?"

"I cant wait to start using some of these on slimy old Snape."

"So you like them then? Good. So where is everyone else? I haven't seen them at all."

Snape looked up and then looked to James. "Lily, you know, is a prefect so she told us that she would be around after patrol. And Remus was also made a prefect again so he is probably with her. Peter is…"

"I don't really care where Peter is and you know that Sirius. Anyways, have all of you come up with your back to school prank for the year yet?"

James looked at her, as if asking, What is it about Peter that you don't like? Cira sat and listened as James, with some help from Sirius, launched into a full description of what they planed to do to the Slytherins, mainly Snape. She didn't know why she disliked Peter so much, she just didn't trust him. She had never liked him, and that was so unlike her. She got along with everyone. Just from the moment she met Peter, she couldn't help but not trust him.

Sirius took over explaining the finer points of the pranks that they planned to do with in the first week. James sat and sort of drifted in and out of the conversation. I don't know why Cira doesn't like Peter. He is a little slow and he can act more than a little weird at times but he is a good guy. Oh well. Maybe I am just thinking on this to much. James was snapped out of fantasy land as Lily and Remus came into the compartment.

Cira jumped out of her seat and ran to give Lily a hug. The two girls embraced for what seemed like an eternity. Then, Lily went over to sit next to her boyfriend of two months, James Potter. Cira then hugged Remus. While they were not as close as her and James, he was still the first to befriend her on there first train ride to the castle. "It's good to see you again Remus! I missed talking with you over the holiday! You would have loved some of the places I went to! We'll have to talk about it when we get to the castle tonight." Cira went back and sat down in her seat. Remus shortly joined her on the small bench. Cira looked over and smiled at him. She had liked him sense second year, but had never actually expressed these feelings to Remus. She new that they were close friends, but Remus had never given her a reason that he wanted more than friendship. So, that is where she left it.

The five of them were soon joined by one of Cira's close friends, and Sirius's girlfriend, Coral Parker. Soon the six of them were talking and laughing. After about an hour Coral launched into what had happened over her summer. "…so I shoved everything in my bag and stormed out. After that…" Coral was interrupted by the fact that the compartment door slid open. In the door way was a mousy haired, short, pudgy boy. The other three Mauraders shouted different greetings to there friend. Lily and Coral both said hello, while Cira just sat and glared at him. Peter looked over to Cira and shivered as she glared daggers at him. Peter ignored Cira and sat down by the window. They again turned to Coral and finished listening to her story. They talked excitedly as the day grew on. Cira became less and less vocal as the day continued. For some reason her brain just told her to stay quiet. She was afraid to say to much, or anything at all in front of Peter. Again she thought back to the questioning look that James gave her when she flat out said that she didn't like Peter. Maybe she was taking this too far. She didn't know why he bothered her so much. Just give him a chance, maybe he's not that bad after all. Just give him a chance.

They arrived to the castle a little after six. As usual the first years took boats across the lake and the rest of the school got into the carriages and were pulled off to the school. Once in the school they headed straight for the Great Hall. Sirius, Coral, James, Lily, Peter, Remus, and Cira made there way to the Gryffindor table. They all sat down and started talking again. Peter, James, Sirius, and Remus were all talking about there wonderful prank that they would pull on the Slytherins. Coral was talking with one of the other sixth year Gryffindors. Lily turned to Cira and looked at her, as if expecting Cira to know what she was thinking.

Finally Cira gave up trying to guess what Lily wanted and asked, "What is it Lily, so I have something on my face or what?"

Lily laughed. "No, no. I was just wondering, are you interested in Remus?"

Cira froze. No one new about her crush on Remus except for James. James wouldn't have told her, would he. No, he promised me that he wouldn't tell anyone. I don't think that he would tell Lily. Should I tell her? Oh, god I don't know if I should or not. I mean she is my best friend but, how would she react? Would she tell Remus?

"Cira? Are you ok? You look like you just saw a ghost."

"What? Oh, yeah Remus. Um yeah I do like him, I guess."

"Oh my god, Cira. You have to tell him. He would flip out. Oh my god, this is too perfect, you have to tell him. He would absolutely freak!"

"There is no way on earth that I am going to say anything, and you have to promise me that you wont say anything either. Lily, you cant say anything, please?"

"Don't worry Cira. While I am sure that he wouldn't mind learning that you like him, I wont be the one to tell him. Does anyone else know?"

"Um…yeah. I told James in our third year."

"You mean to tell me that you have liked him sense third year and didn't bother to tell me?"

"Um.." Cira was saved from having to answer, as Professor Dumbledore stood up. They had talked trough the sorting and didn't even realize that the professor had stood up until Remus leaned over and told Cira to shut up.

The Great Hall, now being silent, looked up to there headmaster. He gave them the typical beginning of the year speech and then the food appeared on the table. Everyone was to hungry to talk, so Cira was spared having to answer Lily's looks.

At the end of the meal, after all of the plates had been cleared away, Lily and Remus lead the Gryffindors to there common room. Everyone had had a long night and went straight up to there dorms, except for Lily, James, Remus, and Cira. Lily and James said there goodnights and then left Remus and Cira alone in the common room. Cira sat down in one of the armchairs by the fire. She sat there for about two minutes and just thought to herself. She was about to get up and go to bed when she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Can I talk with you for a minute, please?" Remus looked into Cira's soft brown eyes with his cool gray ones. Just tell her you idiot! Just tell her that you like her and ask her out! Just get it over with you fool. "I was wondering if, um, if you, um, if you would be, um, able to help us with our prank on the Slytherins?"

Cira looked at him oddly. This wasn't what he had really wanted to talk to me about. What on earth was making him so nervous? I wish that he would just tell me whatever it was and be done with it. "Yeah, of course I'll help you guys with the prank. Didn't James tell you that he asked me on the train ride here? Oh well. I'm getting tired so I'm gunna go up to bed, unless there is something else that you wanted to say."

"No that was it. Good night, Cira. Sweet dreams." Before Cira could react, Remus pulled her into a hug. He held her there for a few moments and then let go. "Sorry about that, I'm just going to go to bed. Night."

"Night, Remus. Sweet dreams." Cira's voice was barely above a whisper.

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