/N Right, some James/Lily, some Sirius/Kayla, some Brock/Samantha...okay alot of Brock/Samantha! If only the same thing would happen in real life... Read and Review.

My Last Breath

Chapter 6: Happy Ending

By Monkeys Like Cookies (sam, i wanna cookie at lunch!)

The next morning the Marauders, Lily, and Kayla, trudged sleepily in through the bathroom window, feet dragging heavily.

"Ugh, I feel like I have a hangover!" James complained, an arm wrapped around Lily's waist. Remus followed close behind, drifting in and out of sleep.

"And my brain is going so slow right now that I feel like a cave man," Sirius muttered stupidly.

"Yeah, you don't look much different either!" Kayla trased. Sirius glared at her menacingly. "Er, a cute caveman?" she covered up swiftly, blinking her eyes innocently. Sirius laughed and put an arm around her shoulder, Kayla surprisingly letting him. The two couples flopped down onto the commons room couch, Remus and Peter returning to bed.

"So, may I ask you a question?" Sirius asked.

"Depends on what the question is," Kayla replied.

"Well, why did you say yes when I asked you out in the Shrieking Shack, but in Potions class you harshly rejected me?"

"That's an easy question to answer!" Lily exclaimed. "She's liked you for a while, she was just afraid that if you went out with her, you'd dump her within the month." Kayla smiled sheepishly and nodded in agreement.

"What made you change your mind?" Sirius asked, cocking his head to the side like a confused dog would.

"I guess it's 'cause, first of all, you tried to save my life by jumping in the way of that spell, and second of all, you let me choose whether or not I would go out with you or not. You told me I didn't have to even though I said I would if James and Lily kissed." Sirius squeezed her hand reassuringly.

"I'm not gonna break up with you," he whispered into her ear. She smiled and blsuhed slightly. Suudenly a blonde haired boy walked out of the boys dorm; Brock. When he saw Sirius and Kayla holding hands his eyes widened and his mouth hung open.

"Okay, in just one month ago in November, you two were tearing eachothers throats out. Now it's December and you're holding hands?" he shrieked, completley shocked. Sirius shrugged and nodded.

"I guess so," he answered.

"Wow, the pervert and the shy girl are going out!" Brock sneered.

"Keep going, Peters, and you'll be castrated," Kayla snarled. Brock nervously stared at her worriedly and scooted away inch by inch.

"Uh, I think I'm going to go get breakfast now!" he called, running to the other side of the room. Just then, Kayla's stomach growled and she pouted.

"We should go get food too, y'know," she suggested, struggling to pull Sirius up off his place on the couch.

"But I don't wanna!" he whined like a little kid, holding back stubbornly.

"Please!!!"she pleaded, sticking out her lower lip and staring up at him with bright eyes.

"Why'd I have to teach you that look? That's my puppy dog look!" he complained.

"Is that a yes?"

"Yes, but only 'cause you're so damn cute," he muttered, reluctantly getting up and following her to the breakfast table.

"Wow, me and you, Sirius and Kayla, now we just have to get Brock to like Samantha!" Lily laughed, laying against James.

"Are you kidding me? He adores that girl!" James retorted. Lily looked surprised.

"Well, she is obsessed with him!" she said, thinking of a clever plan. She leaned in and whispered her idea to James. He slapped her a high five and his brain went into motion, after many years of being dormant.

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Brock walked into the boys' dorm, only to be pushed out again by James Potter.

"Uh, what's in there that you don't want me to see?" he asked James nervously.

"Nothing, it's just I need to ask Kayla something, but I don't wanna go to the girls' dorm by myself," James lied.

"Why? You've done it before."

"Yes, but Leandra is still there, you know, the one from Ravenclaw? Well, she hasn't left for a while, and she adores me! I don't want her to hold me down and attemp to kiss me, I have a girlfriend!"

"Fine already! I'll go!" Brock shouted grumpily, allowing himself to be pulled along by James. Just as James was about to knock on the door, he "accidently on purpose" coughed, signaling Lily to play her part from the other side of the door.

"So, Samantha. have you asked Brock out yet?" she asked. Brock tensed and put his ear against the door, eager to hear more.

"No," Sam sighed, "I'm afaraid he'll reject me. If he really liked me, he would have been the one to ask me out by now."

"You know, he is probably thinking the same thing," Kayla retorted. "Besides, guys have the job of proposing, I think it's only fair that the girls shouldbe the ones to ask them out."

"No! What if I proposed once I'm ready to be married?" Samantha asked innocently, earning a snicker from Kayla. Sam through a pillow at her angrily.

"You can't ask a guy to marry you, 'tard!" Hope exclaimed, unaware of James and Lily's plan.

"I guess you'll have to move on then," Lily told Sam.

"I guess, but it's really hard. I broke up with him in fourth year because I fell for that Pettigrew kid (no clue how) and then I realized how much I still liked Brock."

"Tut tut, so sad. Sob sob, okay, I'm over it!" Kayla joked. Samantha glared at her and Kayla began to inch away slowly.

"You're lucky I don't have a pillow right now," Sam growled, searching for something else to throw at her. "Darn it, why did Sirius have to corupt you?"

"Actually, it was Leandra!" Kayla piped up. Lily cleared her throat as she tried to stay on subject.

"So how long will you wait before moving on?"

"Until midnight," Samantha answered gravely.

Brock could feel the heat creep up his face as he hastily tried to get away from the door. James smiled, happy that part one of their plan was over. A sudden tap on the shoulder practically made him run into the door, and he whirled around to face his attacker.

"Hi James!" Leandra flirted. "Looking for me by the dorm?"

"Uh, no, not exactly. I was trying to ask Kayla something, but I forgot, bye!" James rushed off, Brock close at his heels. Leandra pouted but returned to the girls' dorm in a hurry.

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"Ah, Sam, will you come with me to the commons room to get my homework?" kayla nervously fibbed. Samantha looked up at her with a confused expression on her face.

"Why?" she asked suspiciously.

"'Cause I'm afraid of the dark," Kayla blurted out, mentally slapping herself.

"Since when have you been afraid of the dark?" Kayla couldn't think of anything to say so with an aggravated tone she lied,

"Since I started going out with Sirius."

"Okay, ew! Yes, I'll come with you," she agreed, and Kayla smiled secretly. She led Samantha into the dark commons room, pretending to look for her homework, but then she saw James with Brock entering as well.

"Um, here, hold on a second, I forgot something!" she exclaimed, dashing back into her dorm and locking the door behind her. She fell into a heap of laughter at what she had done, which was really not anything at all.

Meanwhile, Samantha stood frozen at the edge of the commons room, staring at her ex-boyfriend. He stared back, but glanced away hastily.

"James, can we just find your wand and leave?" he pleaded, but James was no longer there. He had gone into the boys' dorm and locked that door as well, leaving Brock and Samantha to themselves. They stood there in awkward silence for a moment until Brock started chuckling to himself.

"What's so funny?" Samantha snapped, her heart secretly fluttering inside.

"Oh, nothing, it's just that I wanted to ask you a question and now is the perfect time to do it," he clarrified. Samantha's heart leapt into her mouth as she waited nervously for his question.

"I know this may sound kinda weird, but um, will you got out with me?" he finally spat out, regretting his words moments after for fear of getting laughed at.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Samantha shouted, prancing around the room like an idiot. Brock snickered and stopped her by grabbing her arm.

"I do think, though," he shared, "that we were set up."

"Yes, I agree."

"James! Kayla!" They both roared in unison.

"Don't look at me, it was all James and Lily's idea!" Kayla yelled back from behind the door.

"Nah uh!" Lily denied.

"Yes huh!"

"Nah uh!"

"Yes huh!"

"Fine, fine, yes huh!" Lily gave in.

"James, now it's your turn to explain yourself!" Samantha demanded.

"Er, and how would I do that exactly? By saying that you two ended up together so no hard feelings?" James suggested. Samantha and Brock were about to snp back at him but a loud yell made them shut up.

"PEOPLE GO TO SLEEP, I'M TRYING TO SMELL KAYLA'S PILLOW HERE!" Sirius' voice echoed throughout the comons room.

"What?!?!?" Kayla shrieked, throwing open the door, her hair a mess.

"Erm, James, that door better still be locked tight or she's gonna kill me," they heard Sirius whisper.

"Ya think?" she yelled, pounding on the door.

Brock and Samatha laughed, glad that this story had a happy ending.