A/N: Hey! I'm Updating YAY!!! School's going well so hopefully once I get English done for the year (I only have 5 – very hard- things to turn in and that class is done!!! YAY!!! ) I should be updating sooner. Enjoy!!

Chapter 3: Return to Hogwarts

The Marauders settled into their compartment, silent. No one knew what had happened on Christmas a week ago. While the others settled into a game of exploding snap, Sirius thought about what had happened after Shelby left.

They went to bed, two days later, the Potters came back, it was very hard for James to keep it in, Sirius had to elbow him in the ribs a million times. Now he's on the train to Hogwarts, he wondered where Shelby was. She should be here.

Ha ha you like her! Said Sirius' annoying conscience

I do not! I barely met her!

You like her

No I don't

You know she's interesting

Yeah, but that doesn't mean I like her

But you do.

I do not!

You want to THINK you don't like her but you just can't admit it can you?

She's a friend I happen to be dating because of a stupid wish.

And it came true, boy your lucky

No I'm not, it wasn't a real wish I was joking.

You sure sounded sincere when you made the wish

I don't like you

I know, it's my job.

Then you're fired

YOU can't fire me, cause I AM you,

My evil twin

Exactly, now that you understand who we are, Shelby completes you and you know that.

SHE DOES NOT!

Yes she does, you're small mind won't realize it until later, like always. You know, we should switch places, I'd get you everything you wanted and I wouldn't have to listen to you.

Hey, this is MY mind here!

I AM your mind,

I'm not listening to you!

There you go doing it again, your gonna hafta learn it the hard way, like always, I'm just offering you the simple way out, but you never, ever listen to me, without me you would not exist because of those very FEW times you actually listened to me!

Shut up.

Fine, be that way, loser.

"Padfoot? Padfoot? HELLO!!!"

"Huh? Oh hi James, are we there yet?"

"No, what were you doing? You looked like you were about to kill us or something. "

"No not you," said Sirius

"Then who?" asked Remus,

"Uh….my…conscience."

Oh sure blame the conscience,

Shut up or I'll happily kill you.

You can't do that

I'm a Marauder, try me,

"Don't feel bad mate," said Peter, "I hate my conscience all the time."
"Thanks, Wormtail."

"You should change into your robes now." Said Lily peeping her head in civilly, "Oh, you guys are in here." She quickly shut the compartment door before James could speak.

"Darn it!"

"I'm going to go change," said Sirius feeling like he needed a walk.

"Ok, have fun," said Remus

"Oh I will," said Sirius sarcastically, "I'll be having a party."

Sirius shut the compartment door with his robes and headed for the bathroom. Normally he'd just change in the compartment like the others but he secretly wanted to find out which compartment Shelby was in…

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"Peter, I need to get to my trunk."

"Sorry,"

"Ow!"

KNOCK! KNOCK!

Remus, James and Peter quickly finished buttoning their shirts and opened the compartment door. A Ravenclaw prefect was standing at the door.

"Oh I'm sorry," he said "I was just looking for my girlfriend,"

"No problem mate," said James, "What's she look like, we might've seen her."

"Well, she's in Ravenclaw, very pretty, brown hair, kind of long…" he trailed off, struggling to remember any really defining attributes of his girlfriend. "And she's real nice,"

"Nope haven't seen her." Said Remus, "Hope you find her,"

"Thanks, umm, continue changing, sorry to bother you." James nodded and shut the compartment door.

"Was it just me or was he sort of describing Shelby?" asked Remus

"Oh come on Moony," said James, "Do you know how many brunettes are in this school? He could be thinking of anyone!"

"I'm back," said Sirius opening the compartment door.

"Oh hey," said Peter "Did you see Shelby by any chance?"

"No, like I'm looking for her, I mean it'll be much easier once we're in the Great hall, I mean all I have to do is stare at the Ravenclaw table."

Soon they all arrived at Hogwarts. All seemed pretty well, they were on the way to the Great Hall, Sirius scanned the room for Shelby. Success. Shelby saw him too, and waved. She made her way across the crowd towards the Marauders.

"Hello!" She beamed "How was the rest of your holiday?"

"Pretty good," said James.

"And yourself?" asked Remus

"Very good, thankfully my family never noticed I was gone on Christmas, which was very odd... I laughed."

As the five of them strolled towards the Great Hall, Shelby suddenly grabbed Sirius' hand. They both looked a little shocked but they relaxed into it after a few seconds.

"Must be the spell." Shelby muttered.

"What you don't want to hold my hand?" asked Sirius pretending to be offended.

"Oh no! I just wasn't thinking about doing it now, that's all."

"SHELBY!" Shelby whipped her head around to see another Ravenclaw, who Remus, James, and Peter recognized as the guy looking for his girlfriend on the train.

"Hi Dylan, how was your break?" said Shelby smiling, but the look on Dylan's face made her face small, "What's wrong?"

"What are you doing?" he said jerking her away from Sirius' grasp.

"What's wrong with holding my boyfriends hand?"

"Your what? Shelby, hun, I'm your boyfriend."

"Dylan? Are you ok? We were never going out-"

"What kind of a girl are you?" He pressed his lips against hers. Shelby shoved him off.

"What are you doing? You're scaring me."

"Leave her alone." Said Sirius stepping in.

"No, you leave her alone," said Dylan dangerously, " I don't know what you did to her, but she is my girlfriend and you can't take her from me. "

"Come on, Shelby" said Sirius, Shelby shook her head.

"No," she said, her eyes welling up in tears. "I think I need to eat alone tonight." And she ran off.

Until they could no longer see her or hear her distant sobs, they finally continued their way to the Great Hall.

"This isn't over, Black." Said Dylan as he parted with the Marauders to the Ravenclaw table.

James and Remus grabbed Sirius with Peter tagging behind and sat them in an empty part of the Gryffindor table.

"Listen," said James, "We met him earlier,"

"When?"

"On the train, " said Remus, "He came here looking for his girlfriend, and he described her to us,"

"We suspected it might've been Shelby but, it never really occurred to us that it really was her." Said Peter

"Thanks for letting me know." Said Sirius,

After the sorting Sirius tried to pay attention to his food but, sadly, he could not.

"What have I done guys." He said "I made a stupid wish and I separate a really great girl from her life, and because of it, she doesn't even remember her boyfriend. Why did the star choose her of all people, she probably was really happy. Now because of my wish, she's suffering, trapped. If I had known…"

"I don't know," said James, "But I hope it gets better for you."

"Thanks,"

"Hey I saw you guys earlier with a Ravenclaw girl and she ran off crying, what did you do to her?" asked an upset Lily Evans as she walked up to the and sat down.

"I honestly am confused." Said Sirius, James accidentally put his elbow in his potatoes.

"Why? I found her in a girls bathroom, crying and I asked her what was wrong and she mumbled something about a star, two boyfriends, and spells." Sirius bit his lip.

"You know something that I don't." said Lily "What did you do to her?"

Sirius reluctantly retold the entire story to Lily,

"And I admit it was my fault, but I didn't know it would be this way, it was an accident, I didn't even see the bloody star. "

"Well I think you should go talk to her." Said Lily, "I'm impressed with your honest answer, but it's your fault so you must deal with it."

"I will," said Sirius

"Um Evans?" finally finding his ability to speak

"Yes, Potter?"

"Um, would you like to go with me to the next Hogsmeade weekend?"

"Why am I not surprised, I don't know why you do this, Potter, but please, don't tick me off tonight. I've got enough on my hands." She got up and left them.

Shelby never showed up for dinner that night. Sirius wished Lily had told him which bathroom she was in. He decided to give her some space and decided to wait a day or two. He tried to make the best out of the night by getting good nights sleep, which should help him out a lot. He laid down on his bed saying good night to everyone and soon fell asleep…

A/N: Wow, my chapters have been getting a lot longer, I'm so proud of myself! Please review! I love them! If you review I'll update sooner! I apologize for this chapter to be kind of sad but it gets better!