Chapter 5: Misread Stares

A/N: Twas the Night Before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for a little Harry Potter Geek with a laptop and a head full of ideas! I Hope you enjoy this. It'll be the only chance I get to write because I'm going away on boxing day. You see, my dad's a pilot so we fly really cheap, almost free, but can only get on planes if there are enough seats left. So we were going to go to Paris, and I was so exited, then a bunch of idiots bought tickets and now there's no room for us on the plane, then we were going to go to London, same thing! So now we're going to Cancun. I'm not complaining but, Paris! sad sigh C'est la vie!

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The Marauders sat at the Gryffindor table eating breakfast. From the enchanted ceiling Sirius could see that it would be a drizzly day. The clouds were dark and grey, not letting even a hint of sun peek through. He hoped Kettleburn wasn't planning anything big for his Care of Magical Creatures class that morning. On days like this all he wanted to do go back to the dorm to the comfort of his large four poster bed.

He looked around the table at his friends, Remus was reading the daily profit, Peter, scarfing down as much food as he could before breakfast was over, and sneaking glances at Mary, a girl who was a few seats down. James was glaring at Lily Evans who was sending notes in the shape of birds, and butterflies over to her apparently as of two days ago, new boyfriend Snivellus. James slammed his fist on the table when he saw Lily laugh at something the slime ball had written.

"I can't take it!" James yelled. Some people nearby looked started. Peter was glaring at James. Startled by James's outcry he had spilled pumpkin juice all down his front. Remus just sighed, and continued reading the Daily Prophet.

"Come again? I couldn't hear you. A little louder this time." said Sirius with mock seriousness.

"Oh shut up! Don't tell me it doesn't bother you."

"That Snivellus got the girl and you didn't?" Sirius questioned.

"For the record, Snivellus did not get Lily. She has merely had a lapse of judgment which I will help her overcome. I mean look at me!" He finished smiling. Whatever he was planning, it probably wouldn't work, but Sirius was too tired to say anything. It didn't matter anyway. James was always very stubborn when it came to the plans he cooked up to win Lily's heart. Why did James care so much, when there were so many other girls…?

He looked over at Serena who was talking to some friends a few seats down. She was definitely hot compared to all the other girls: Pureblood, rich, beautiful. Heck, she was a female him, they were meant to be together. She had a great laugh he noticed as she laughed at something her friend Winnie said. Or Windy, maybe Willy, he couldn't remember her name.

Wow, what's-her-name was kind of hot. Not like Serena, but still…

While Serena was tall and chesty, Winry was petite and well, not. Serena had long golden blonde hair while Winry had a sleek dark brown hair just grazing her shoulders. Serena's bright blue eyes were absolutely gorgeous, but Winry's dark brown ones framed in her glasses looked so intelligent and deep.

He knew he shouldn't be thinking like this, he and Serena had gotten back together last night and had enjoyed a great snog. He needed a second opinion to make sure he wasn't going insane. Maybe he was just tired; he and Serena had stayed out pretty late last night.

"Hey Pete!"

"What?" He asked still siphoning pumpkin juice off his robes with his wand.

"What do you think of Serena's friend, um, I think her name's Winnie?" Sirius asked.

Peter looked up and shrugged, "Winry? She's okay I guess. She's helped me out in a few tight spots in potions." He paused and said thoughtfully "She's no Mary though." Peter went back to cleaning his robes and Sirius was left to ponder.

"Ya, she's no Serena" Sirius said to himself, "But she's definitely something"

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"Win, guess what." Serena asked expectantly.

"What?" Winry obliged. They were eating breakfast in the great hall.

"Sirius and I got back together!" Serena said smiling.

"Really, that's great!" Winry really was happy for her friend, but guiltily tuned out of what she was saying. As long she nodded and smiled occasionally Serena would be happy. She looked up at the drizzly enchanted ceiling. What was she going to do about Brett? She'd mulled it over last night, but still had yet to come up with an answer.

She hated drama, but it seemed after years of avoiding it, it had caught up with her.

She looked around the Gryffindor table. She laughed at James glaring at Lily and Severus. Too bad he didn't know that they were making a big show of their coupledom just to bug him. She should know, it was here idea after all!

Beside James was Sirius. What the heck, he was staring straight at her. Um, not cool, hmm he did have nice eyes though…

What are you thinking Win!? He's staring at Serena, she's dating him after all.

"Are you even listening to me?" Serena demanded.

"Yes of course, what happened next" Winry faked curiosity and interest

"Well, then he said you're the only girl for me………….."

Winry looked back at Sirius to see he was talking to Frank Longbottom, probably about their amazing new girlfriends.

She felt a pang of jealousy. Even though she and Brett were technically still together, realistically it was over. She wished she had someone to love her like Sirius or Frank, but no, she just wasn't that type of girl. She helped them with homework and they asked her to set them up with Serena and her other friends. That was the way it worked. She accepted that.

But, as she jumped back into her conversation with Serena, she couldn't help wishing that Sirius had been looking at her.

A/N: Very short, I know! But the next chapter will be at least 2000 words of Sevlily!

I just wanted to get something out before I went away!

Read and Review, please. If you don't I may make that only 1000 words, hah!