A/N: I hope you like this chapter, sorry i didn't update for a while. Everything has been so hectic for me lately...

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Chapter fifteen.


"Ahem." Ellie cleared her throat, "Ahem! Ahem! Oh my god how many times do I have to ahem like that?"

Emma and Sirius sprang apart, with shocked looks on their faces. A grin crept on to Kat's face as she tried not to laugh,

"So… what do we have here?" Ellie laughed,

"Err." Was all Emma could say,

"Go on…" Ellie said,

"Emma, when you said Sirius was spending the holidays with his new girlfriend I had no idea that this was what you meant!" Kat said,

"Well, it kind of just happened." Emma said,

"We knew it would." Ellie said, "Didn't we Kat?"

"Yep. Ellie owes me five galleons though, she said it would happen in January; but for once, she was wrong and I was right!"

"Hey! I was close!" Ellie said, "It's the end of December!"

"Not close enough; now pay up! My money please?"

"I don't have my wallet on me, it's in James' dorm." She said, remembering where she had left it.

"In James' dorm?" Sirius asked,

"Yeah." Ellie said, "He asked me to help him shop for Lily's Christmas present."

"Oh, well we thought…" Sirius began,

"Yes, I know what you thought, and you have a dirty mind!" Ellie scoffed,

"I do indeed."

"Now, we're getting off the topic." Kat said, "Now when did this happen?"

"What?" Emma asked,

"The two of you?"

"Oh, well Emma will tell you." Sirius said,

"I will?"

"Yeah."

"Why?"

"Because you were the one who came on to me." Sirius said plainly,

"Excuse me? That's a lie and a half, you came on to me, he came on to me." Emma said,

"How did it happen though?" Ellie said,

"Who do you believe, me or him?" Emma asked,

"Don't make us decide." Kat said,

"We'll tell you when you tell us."

"Right, okay." Sirius said, "Basically, she seduced me, through the art of seduction she made me go into her dorm room."

"Not true," Emma said, "I was in the library, and he came up and said, 'are you lonesome tonight?' and I said, 'what do you want Black?' and he said, 'I'm lonesome tonight.' And I don't remember the rest, but eventually we ended up kissing."

"And when was this?" Kat asked,

"A few weeks ago."

"And you didn't tell us?" Kat asked again,

"Well obviously not, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation." Sirius said sarcastically,

"So, now tell us, who do you believe?" Emma said,

"Oh, Kat, we have that thing. We better go…" Ellie said,

"Oh yeah, we have a thing." Kat said, following Ellie out the portrait hole,

"Well, I wonder what the 'thing' is." Sirius said stupidly,

"No idea." Emma said, going along with it, "Wanna snog?"

"Okay!"


"James, my boy! What's wrong with you?" Harold asked, "I've never beaten you in quidditch, not since you were four years old!" They sat down on the deck, and rested their brooms against the wall

"I know, but there's something wrong with my arms, I don't know what it is." Lily lied,

"Well, Mrs. Potts next door has gone away for the holidays, so she can't heal your arm for you son."

"Oh, that's too bad." Lily said, "I'm going to go upstairs and write a letter to Sirius."

"Oh, tell him your mother made him a cookie and cream cheesecake."

"Yum, can I have some?" Lily said, she had always heard Sirius bragging about Mrs. Potter's cooking and how good it was, and Peter and Remus would nod their heads and say, 'Yep, it's all true…' and then James would fold his arms and say, 'My mother everyone, the best cook.'

"James, you have the largest appetite in the entire world." Harold Potter chuckled,

"Nah, Sirius does." Lily pointed out,

"Yes, well you have the second largest."

"Yes, alright Dad." Lily said, "Can I still have some cake?"

"Of course, your mother made one for you as well!"


James tried his best to remember the way to Lily's bedroom, and he had gotten it wrong… seven times. He had gone to the study, the bathroom, her parents' room, the laundry, the hall closet, the dining hall and also the library, in hopes of finding Lily's room. It was just about impossible. The house was humongous, just as Lily had said. It had a large kitchen, a huge dining hall a library and seven extra bedrooms. They had maids and butlers and nannies.

It was all because Lily's great grandfather had started a bank, and it grew to be a giant banking chain in England. James' house was big, but not as grand as this. 'Lily doesn't have a quidditch pitch at the back of her house does she? No!' James thought to him self satisfyingly, as he entered one of the spare rooms hoping desperately to have found Lily's room.

"Damnit!" he shouted,

"Lily darling, that is a vulgar word, you ought not to use it!" a voice said, "Come to pay me a visit have you?"

James looked at the large woman sitting in an armchair, who was she? She had an ugly hat on her head; it looked like a fat rat. She was wearing a velvet green coat that made her look even bigger, she also had a very large moustache sitting on her top lip. James racked his brain trying to remember this woman from Lily's training. Aunt Polly!

"Aunt Polly!" James squealed, trying to be Lily-like, she had told him that when in the presence of this woman, you must always be very girly. Polly had never had any children of her own, so she was always fussing over Lily,

"Come here and give me a kiss!" she said happily, outstretching her arms towards James and shoving her moustache his way.


a/n: please review.

signing out,

pinocchio