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Chapter 21: Forbidden Love

Soon it was March. James had turned sixteen in November and Sirius did too, in January. Remus and Peter were the youngest of the four and, interestingly enough, had the same birthday. Both of them turned sixteen on February second. Lily's birthday was next month, in April, Andrea's was in May, and Ylan and Jenna had theirs in the summer.

As soon as Lily had dumped Ricky he went crawling back to Gina. A week later she had come up to Lily, who had resumed her position of most popular girl.

"Hey, guess what, bitch," she said. Lily just looked at her. "Ricky and I? Yeah, we slept together. Take that, loser."

Everyone around the two was quiet, just like every other time Lily and Gina "talked" to each other. No one knew or could guess what Lily would do.

Lily stared at Gina for a moment or two. Then she burst out laughing. Gina glared at her and stomped away. She was still a trophy to the guys and was really pretty and everything, but that was the only reason anyone liked her at all. Miranda, Megan, and Tina, however, had no choice, because even when your leader loses their social status, you can't abandon them. Not until you find someone else, anyway, because, even as we speak, they were planning to figure out a way to get back in Lily's good graces.

All of the Gryffindors were sitting in their common room, doing homework, playing chess, or just hanging out. Lily, Ylan, Andrea, and Jenna were deep in discussion about a secret Andrea had just revealed.

"You guys, what do I do? This is HORRIBLE!" said Andrea.

"In a way. I mean what if he feels the same way and finally GROWS UP enough to see women as people and not trophies?" said Lily, glaring in the subject's direction. "Then again, if he doesn't…he could break your heart." She said this slightly…wistfully, as if she knew what it felt like.

"Lily?" Andrea said, immediately forgetting her troubles. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, why?" said Lily, composing herself. "I just want to make sure you don't have to go through that."

"It looked like you…never mind," said Andrea, vowing to get it out of her sooner or later.

"Ok…," said Jenna looking at the two. Even though it had been Ylan who had first met Lily, Andrea had become closest to her. The two often told their secrets only to each other. While this bothered Jenna and Ylan a little bit, they ended up doing the same. After all, they always had been closer to each other than with Andrea.

"Anyway, let's get back to The Problem," said Ylan. "How did it happen?"

"I don't know," said Andrea. "I was in the bleachers of the Quidditch field with Jack (Jack was her latest boyfriend) and we had just finished making out and were just sitting there with our arms around each other and he just…flew by. He kind of smiled at me and his hair was blowing in the wind and he looked SO CUTE in that uniform with the bat…and after that all I could think of was him. Even when Jack and I were kissing again!"

"So that's why you broke up with Jack?" asked Lily.

"Yeah. I told him I just wanted to be friends, and it turned out he felt the same way."

"Really?" said Jenna.

"Well after he figured out that I liked, you know, Him," said Andrea, smiling sheepishly.

"What? How did he know?" asked Lily.

"He said it was the way I looked at him when he dumped that porridge in my lap, on Thursday. That it wasn't the glare I usually had but more of an…amused look? Whatever, I don't know but the point is, we broke up but we're still really good friends and I have NO IDEA how I'm going to handle this. Should I just wait for it to pass?"

"I dunno…" said Jenna.

"Ok, tell me something," said Ylan suddenly, shifting her position from lying with her head upside down on the couch, to upright and one leg crossed next to the other (like when you're sitting on the ground with your legs criss crossed except in this position only one of them is) . She was the love expert in the group. One of her best clients was Lily, because as we can see, she hadn't been making too many great choices about boyfriends.

"What?" asked Andrea.

"What color are his eyes?"

"Um. Is this a trick question?" asked Andrea.

"Just answer it," said Ylan, sighing exasperatedly.

"Well, okay. Most of the color is gray, but it's this really soft gray, like a cloudy sky. But it's like those clouds that just look so soft you want to float up there and sleep on them. And then there are these little white specks that look sort of like snow. The soft powdery kind that you just love to touch and don't care about the cold," said Andrea wistfully. The other three girls looked at each other.

"Okay," said Ylan. "This isn't going away for a LONG time." Andrea looked confused.

"What? What are you talking about?" Her friends laughed at her.

"When did you get close enough to inspect his eyes so thoroughly anyway?" asked Lily.

"Inspect his eyes…? What are you talking about?" said Andrea.

"Just answer it. I've never seen you close enough for you to be able to notice little details about his eye color."

"Well, he tried to kiss me under that huge mistletoe that was in the entrance hall, after the Christmas Feast," said Andrea, turning slightly pink. Lily, Ylan, and Jenna giggled. "Now, what do you mean 'inspect his eyes'?"

"Andrea, hun, his eyes have 'little white specks that look like soft powdery snow'? You're totally in love with him," said Jenna.

"I am not!" said Andrea, looking around defensively. "I can't be in love with him! It's – it's forbidden!"

Lily smirked.

"Oh yeah? Who's forbidding it?"

"This might sound totally cheesy but, my heart is. It doesn't want to get broken!" said Andrea.

"Hm. Well, it does sound a little bit cheesy, but I get it," said Ylan.

"You're just going to have to face it, though," said Lily. "You're in love with Sirius Black."

I'm so so so so so so so sorry for how long it's taken me to update! At first I was too lazy to update and wanted to update a lot at the same time (for a lot of different stories) and was planning to start but then my computer got completely swarmed with viruses! My dad's finally fixed it but still I've been totally swamped with tests in school and projects and homework and sports and everything. But just so everyone knows, I haven't abandoned any of my stories! I promise! Now that school's started, it's just going to take me longer to update. Although, if I had someone to change The Marauders and Lily read Harry Potter book 3 into story format for me, it would go quicker…if you're interested, let me know.