A/N: What's this? What's this? An update? Can it be? Since I've finished Constricting Pain coughgoreadandreviewcough I decided to make this my new passion to write...and maybe Flavor...mainly this. Soccer's started but I shouldn't be too busy...mainly because I don't do homework but whateverrr. Enjoy loves.

Hmmm this is reigniting my love for Sirius/Lily. LOVE IT!

Chapter 3

They came from separate ends of the train but when they met at the door, both froze and were transported back to their memories of Spain.

When Lily walked down the hallway between the compartments, she wasn't paying attention to where she was going. Her friends were still trying to get her to reveal her mystery guy and Lily was just ignoring them.

Sirius, on the other hand, was quiet and sullen. He wasn't as quiet as he had been at the beginning of the train ride, but he wasn't as talkative as he had been before the summer. Sirius had changed permanently. He knew it, his friends knew it, and everyone who saw Sirius knew it.

Since both Lily and Sirius were leading their group of friends down the train and to the door, their friends crashed into each when they stopped abruptly.

Lily knew she would see Sirius, it was unavoidable. James talked to her constantly and Sirius followed him wherever he went. She just didn't think it would be this soon and in front of a train full of people.

Sirius' eyebrows shot up and his eyes opened in shock and surprise. He had been anticipating this day, but also dreading it. He knew once he saw Lily he would lose the little control he had over his emotions.

"Lily, move!" Stephanie complained as she rubbed her head where she bumped into Lily. Lily didn't respond, though, as she continued to stare at Sirius.

"Sirius, what's the hold-up?" James asked, trying to shove past him to get a better look, the hallways were too small for that to work, though.

Sirius hadn't seen Lily since the summer, he hadn't talked to her, but he thought of her all the time. She was still beautiful. Her green eyes still shimmered, she still had her tan from Spain, and her hair was still long and silky. Oh how he had missed her.

"Lily! Hi!" James exclaimed when he finally shoved his way to the front. Slowly Lily tore her eyes away from Sirius and onto James' smiling face.

"Hi James," Lily said quietly without thinking. Her eyes moved back to Sirius.

A moment of silence passed as Lily's friends looked between her and Sirius. The silence was broken, though, when Sirius could no longer hold Lily's gaze and cleared his throat, looking down at his feet.

"Ladies first," he muttered, stepping back and holding out his arms to let Lily and her friends pass.

Lily glanced at Sirius one last time before rushing off of the train with her friends at her heels.

"Did she just call me James?" James asked after Lily left the train.

"Did she actually call him James?" Emily asked Stephanie as they struggled to keep up with Lily who was pushing her way through the crowd of students. Stephanie just shrugged.

"This is good news guys! Lily hasn't called me James since we first met," James said excitedly as he and his friends rode in the horse-less carriages to the school.

"Why did she ever stop calling you by your first name?" Peter asked.

"Well," James started, rubbing his head self-consciously. "It had to do with a misplaced prank. I think it was our first prank actually." James looked to Sirius for confirmation but saw him staring out the window toward the school.

"Sirius? What are you looking at?" Remus asked, looking out the window to see if he could see anything that might have grabbed Sirius' attention.

"What?" Sirius shook his head and looked at his friends. "What'd you say?"

"I asked what you were looking at. You were staring at something pretty intently," Remus asked again.

"Oh, nothing," Sirius said quickly. "I was just, you know, looking at the school. I guess it's kind of dawning on me that this is our last year."

"Yeah, it kind of hard to believe," Remus said, smiling.

"I can't wait to get out of here personally," James said, leaning back in his seat. "There's still some stuff I've got to accomplish, though, before I get out of here."

"Like what?" Peter asked curiously.

"I've got to get Lily to be my girlfriend, for one," James said.

"You really think that's going to happen after she's rejected you for the past six years?" Remus asked.

"Moony, dear, I'm the master at this type of stuff. Trust me; she'll be begging me to be her girlfriend by the end of the year. Just wait," James bragged.

"He may actually be right this year guys," Sirius said from his seat by the window.

"What?" Remus and Peter exclaimed at the same time. Nobody had ever thought James would end up with Lily, they rarely even suggested it as a joke. Sirius, though, was always the one to joke the most about it.

"She's changed a lot since last year and besides, she did call you James," Sirius explained.

"How do you know she's changed?" James asked.

"She called you James," Sirius said, smiling. "I'm pretty sure that's the most she could've changed."

"What is up with you and you better tell us right now," Stephanie commanded as Emily and her linked arms with Lily.

"What are you talking about?" Lily said with her best innocent face.

"You hold up traffic on the train for, like, five minutes by staring at James and you actually called him by his first name!" Emily explained, her voice rising with each word.

"Why are getting mad?" Lily asked, keeping her voice calm.

"You're in love with James and you never told us! That's why," Stephanie said.

Lily stopped and stared at her two best friends with a shocked expression. After a moment she broke down laughing.

"You-you think I'm in love with J-James," Lily said between laughs.

Emily and Stephanie glanced at each other then back at their friend.

"Aren't you?" Stephanie asked tentatively.

"No way!" Lily said wiping her eyes of the tears from her laughter. "Oh man I can't believe you thought that. I still hate him, trust me." Emily and Stephanie glanced at each other again.

"Then who were you staring at?" Emily asked.

Lily's smile quickly disappeared. "No one," she said as she walked past the two girls.

"Hold on!" Emily said, grabbing Lily's arm before she got too far off. "Who were you staring at?" she repeated.

"No one, guys, ok? I wasn't staring at anyone," Lily replied, wiggling out of Emily's grip again.

"No way are you getting out of this one. Now I'm going to ask again and you're going to answer me, who were you staring at?" Emily demanded, grabbing Lily's arm tight.

Lily stopped walking but didn't turn to face her friends. She knew she would have to tell them eventually but she never imagined it would be this soon. Her plan was to wait awhile until she got to talk to Sirius, but by what happened on the train, she imagined that wouldn't be happening any time soon. Emily and Stephanie were her best friends but she didn't think they would understand. She told them she hated James and Sirius every chance she got. But did Lily Evans really hate Sirius Black? Or was it just because of his association? She had always been so sure that it was really Sirius Black but after this summer….

Lily took a deep breath and faced her two best friends.

"I was staring at the guy I spent the summer with. The guy I accidentally fell in love with, who I'm not supposed to love. The guy who I knew I was going to see eventually but hadn't figured it would be this soon. I was looking at Sirius Black," Lily said, looking at the ground when she was done.

Emily and Stephanie stared at Lily with open mouths.

"What?" Stephanie finally whispered.

A/N: Eh, it's kinda short but you'll survive since it's an update. I vote you review!