Alyssa climbed up the stairs to the boy's room a feeling of dread in her. She had to spend a night with a guy, and that guy from what she'd heard happened to be the biggest womanizer alive. What have you got yourself into, Alyssa? Great, first sign of madness talking to oneself.

She knocked on the familiar door and found that it was opened by a bowing Black.

"Such service"

"Only for you" he said smiling

She noted that all Sirius wore was a plain black shirt and a pair of boxers with broomsticks on it and of course a smile.

Sirius glanced at the girl before him, her hair was loose and she wore a pair of pink pajama pants patterned with snitches and a yellow tank top with 'Your just jealous because the voices only talk to me' on it.

"You're a seeker?"

"No I'm a chaser but I like the look of the snitch hence the pants."

"Stop talking more sleeping" Peter yawned

"I was just being friendly to our guest"

"Your more of a guest than she is" Remus pointed out

Alyssa sat on the edge of Sirius' bed; the one nearest to the window, it faced the window, in fact, on one side and on the other side was Remus' bed. The light floating curtains on Remus' side were closed however giving them 'privacy'. For what reason? Alyssa didn't know.

Sirius lay down and beckoned for her to do the same. She obliged, but tried to keep as far away from him as possible, and faced away from him.

"Now, this won't do. I won't have you here and not being comfortable at least"

With that he pulled her close his strong arms wrapping around her, she resisted but he was far stronger. She breathed in his strong musky scent, manly and intoxicating.

"Now that's better isn't it" he purred in her ear

He was thoroughly enjoying himself; in his arms was a beautiful girl who smelled, not surprisingly of fruity shampoo. It was a nice smell however and he grinned, at this rate he would never get to sleep.

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As the sun slipped over the horizon Remus crept out of bed and 'borrowing' James invisibility cloak he slunk to the open side of Sirius' bed with the disillusioned silenced camera and was delighted to see such cute material for his mission.

Sirius slept his arms around Alyssa's waist; her head was leaning back so it rested on his chest.

He took a couple of photos of that when Sirius stirred. Remus froze; Sirius hadn't heard anything it seemed. He looked around and then at Alyssa and to Remus' surprise brushed a stray hair from her face. Remus took a photo; Lily was going to love him. Then where the hair had been he placed a kiss. Short, sweet and to Remus' delight, on film.

When Sirius looked like he was asleep again, Remus slipped downstairs fully clothed. He wasn't going to let down his dignity in order to have a quick getaway.

"You're late!" Lily scrutinized

"For good reason though, you'll see when you get the pictures"

Everyone else was already there, plus Schlen who had awaken apparently before Holly and Bethany and had followed them out.

The five of them we just magically developing the photos when Ron came stumbling down the stairs.

"What are you doing up so early?"

He then spotted Holly and blushed all too aware of his lack of decent clothing.

"Blackmail" answered Bethany

"These pictures are fantastic!" said Ron looking at the one of Sirius kissing Alyssa "Mind you Sirius will kill you"

Lily looked at the photo, this was worse than she thought; maybe there was something between them. She had to warn the poor girl before it was too late.

Harry and Cheryl wasn't nearly as interesting they had spent the night facing away from each other on opposite edges of the bed, neither of them slept much by the look of it either.

"Ok so no blackmail for Cheryl"

"Plenty for Black though" Schlen grinned "I'm sure he wouldn't want Alyssa to know about that little kiss"

Ron sat back and yawned, he wished he'd stayed in bed, this wasn't that interesting.

They had only just finished developing the photos when they heard footsteps from the boy's dorm. Alyssa came into the room and slumped onto a chair, her hair was mussed up and there was sleep in her eyes.

"How are you?" chimed Schlen.

"Okay, took me forever to get to sleep last night though and I smell like a boy"

"I take offence to that!" said Remus

"You're an exception; you have the only neat corner in the entire room"

"I'm going for a walk" Holly said "To wake me up, anyone coming?"

Ron perked up "I will, be just a second"

Ron dashed upstairs changed in a rush and hurtled downstairs nearly decapitating himself on a side table.

"I'm ready"

Holly looked nervous at his arrival; her eyes flitted around his appearance briefly and scanned the room.

"Anyone else want to accompany us?" she said desperately giving a look which plainly said 'Don't leave me alone'.

Alyssa smiled this would be good for her to be with a guy alone, she needed to forget the past and move on.

"Sorry, I'm a little tired, what I need is hot chocolate"

"I might join you in that" Remus said

"I'm guessing chocoholic?"

"Right"

"Me too"

"You know that's creepy" said Lily

"What's creepy?"

"You two are actually very similar, looks and tastes"

"Maybe they have the same star sign or something" said Peter as he stumbled downstairs "People born on the same day are supposed to be very alike"

"I don't believe in that stuff" huffed Alyssa

"Then when is your birthday, Remus?" quizzed Cheryl

"March 10"

"That is very very creepy. Two people who like books, chocolate, have similar looks, the same star sign and the same birthday!"

"Who is this?" Sirius said as he and James finally descended the stairs.

"Lyssa and Remus"

"Hmmm" groaned James

"Well were leaving now" Holly said over the crowd, she was sick of waiting and didn't want to be part of this particular upcoming debate. She strode out to the beach Ron scurrying at her side. Both were lightly dressed. Holly wore a light white beach dress and was barefoot and Ron was wearing a maroon top which clashed horribly with his hair and black board shorts.

"For someone who doesn't go to the beach often you have quite a collection of beach gear"

"Hermione and Ginny dragged us shopping for all this"

An uncomfortable silence followed, Holly as much as she was wary of Ron as any guy still wasn't doing to walk in silence, otherwise it might be a little too obvious that she was slightly uncomfortable.

"What Quidditch team do you support?"

"Chudley Cannons, ninth in the league" he said proudly

"The colours would match your hair then"

"Nah, its just a shade difference making it clash as badly as this maroon. My mum is always making my stuff maroon, jumpers. I honestly don't know why"

Holly bit her lip so she wouldn't laugh

"Stop it" he whined affectionately "It's honestly not my fault"

"Have you told her not to give you maroon?"

"Yes, but it works like corned beef no matter how much I tell her she never stops it"

"Not a fan of corned beef?"

"No" he pulled a cute face at this. Holly tried to get her head back into the zone, stop falling for his charm.

"What about you? All these questions and I haven't heard a word about you."

"Well you would have to ask"

"Quidditch Team?"

"Wollongong Warriors; so far they have a winning streak over the Thundelarra Thunderers, this year"

"Nice, their colours would be?"

"Gold and Red"

"Gryffindor colours, nice"

"Gryffindor?"

"One of our four houses at school" He continued to explain the four houses at Hogwarts to Holly including the trip to Salazar Slytherin's lair"

"Sounds like you three get into loads of trouble"

"As Harry puts it we never go looking for trouble, trouble usually finds us"

"Well, my trouble is usually self made"

"Are you a prankster?"

"Some of the time" she smiled indulgently and nearly hit herself for it, 'stop it' she commanded herself 'It's never worth it'

"Favourite magical creature?"

"Runespoor or a Unicorn"

"How girly"

"What's yours then?"

"Griffin"

"Oh how much of a typical boy you are"

She watched as his eyes glinted with laughter, as if someone had rippled their blue waters.

"What are you afraid of?" he asked

Holly tensed; she couldn't tell him it was bad enough her friends knew, her brain searched for a substitute.

"I'm afraid that's classified information"

"Fear is nothing to be ashamed of, I'm afraid of spiders myself"

"Interesting. But I am afraid we will have to head back"

Ron puzzled over the reaction to his last question, there was some hurt there a wall which stood between her, and he remembered that pain behind her eyes and saw that this was an emotional wound stretching further than just skin deep.

They reached the deck and went back into the house where the boys still sat slumped on chairs looking sleepy. Harry and James weren't even dressed properly being still in boxers and t- shirts. Sirius didn't even have that much as he lounged on the couch still in his boxers. His shirt lay nearby soaked with what looked like hot chocolate.

Ginny, Lily and Hermione were cooking breakfast. Bethany, Cheryl, Peter and Schlen seemed to be playing a heated game of exploding snap. Remus and Alyssa sat sipping hot chocolate at the breakfast bar discussing what sounded like Arithmancy with Lily and Hermione interjecting every now and then from the kitchen.

It actually seemed like a group of friends who had been friends for years, not having only known each other since the last night.

Cheryl looked up "Holly, you're back"

"I was last time I noticed. And really boys get some clothes on"

"Ohh, you know you can't resist me"

Sirius got to his feet and flexed his muscles.

"Leave her alone, Sirius, she'll be scarred for life" Alyssa said

Sirius walked over and wrapped his arms around her his head on her shoulder

"Don't Sirius; I'm fed up already about last night"

"You know you love me"

"Hands off Sirius"

Sirius grinned and held on tighter.

"Really Sirius, she said get off" growled Lily

Sirius narrowed his eyes at her but never the less obeyed "Yes Madame Lily" he said with a pretentious bow.

"And get some clothes on while you're at it. You too James and Harry otherwise suffer the consequences"

"What would they be?" asked James

"I could dump you, you know"

"Cruel Lily, I'd have to live with his whining again. I had enough the first time"

This made Lily glare at Sirius and James as if daring them not to go. Obediently they left, Harry had seemed had already gone, he had been told and by his mother. This meant a lot to him, he'd never had a mother to yell at him before so he wasn't complaining

"Now" said Lily serenely "Where were we?"