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Dear Diary,

Broderick Thomas is driving me NUTS! He has taken to chasing me around the halls asking me to the dance even though I blew him off on our date, turn him down every time, and explained about the dare. Oh yeah, I also kicked him in the nads when he tried to snog me. I do that to people so often I forget. It seems to deter most guys pretty well (which is why I do it, I don't enjoy it or anything), but not Thomas. Bloody hell. Now I know how Lily feels, except she and James would make a fantastic couple. I hope she sees it soon.

Hmm…what else? Oh, you should have seen Sirius' face when I told him Thomas said yes to the date, only…you're a book. Well, I felt terrible about making him look so heartbroken, but I guess that means he likes me. Either that or he was just upset Thomas wasn't gay because… SHUT UP BRAIN! SHUT UP! Well, I'm happy as a pig in shit that he (probably) likes me, the rest of the girls thinks he does too, by the way. They said that he kept asking them questions about me when I was out being harassed by Thomas. I wish he would just ask me to the dance already, I've been waiting all for him to all week, but still nothing.

Love,

Adriyana

P.S. - Peter the Slave makes an excellent footstool. And he has like, a secret stash of butterbeer. He's like a packrat. Too bad the week is nearly over.

Dear Really Manly Journal Thing,

Girls write stuff in these to take their minds off of shit. I hope it works, because Adriyana is stuck in my head. I have to focus on something that's important right now, but it's kind of hard not to think about her when my hair is still pink from that potion she gave me. Like fluorescent pink. I mean, I couldn't sleep last night because of my stupid glowing hair. Plus, I think of her every time I look at it…Ok, girls are wrong. Writing in a journal is NOT fulfilling, it sucks! That's it, I'm booking it.

-Sirius

Dear Diary,

Potter has asked me to the dance 23 times now. I must find a date, I'm Going bananas. I wish he would just sit on it, already.

A.F.A,

Lily

Adriyana sat next to Lily in the common room; they had a break before Transfiguration and were doing their Potions essays. Lily was fantastic at Potions but Adriyana was abysmal, so she needed help. A lot of help. "So…what is powdered root of asphodel?" Adriyana asked for the millionth time.

"It's the key ingredient in the Potion…you know, the one we've been writing about for the last half hour..." Lily said, exasperated.

"Right…" she said, knowing that she would forget again in a second. The portrait hole opened, and Sirius walked into the common room. it looked like a flamingo was curled up on his head. He scowled at all the snickering students around him. Lily saw him and broke into hysterical laughter. She never got tired of it! Adriyana looked at him longingly. Lily thought she would hate the idea of her friend and Sirius Black together, but now she wasn't so sure. As soon as he had asked her about Adriyana during truth or dare, she knew that he liked her, and while she trusted her friend, she saw that Sirius might also have finally… changed. Plus, he made Adriyana smile in a way nobody else could when she just i thought /i of him. Hopefully he was about to ask her to the dance. Took him long enough.

"Well, I'm going to go upstairs and get…my…items." Lily said lamely. She took off for the stairs.

Sirius approached Adriyana, who was trying to look studious and smart, but seemed to have forgotten what she was writing about, and was scribbling her name over and over into her essay. "Er…Adriyana? Can I ask you something?" Sirius asked, nervously.

i Finally/i she thought, putting down her essay.

"Yeah? And you can call me Agie. Or Dree, though not many people call me that. Whatever, really," she realized she was going on about nothing and clamped her jaw shut.

"Um…will you… well…I want to know if….will you help me with my Potions essay? It's my worst class." He finished.

She tried not to let him see her face fall. "Er, well, it's mine also. Lily was helping me, but she went upstairs for a bit, so now I'm lost," she thought about letting him see her essay to prove it, but saw that she had written 'Sirius looks so gorgeous, even with pink hair' on it, and hastily shoved it into her bag.

"…Oh," he said. "Well, when is she coming back? She can help me too, if she wants,"

'help in Potions and being able to spend time with Adriyana for the rest of break? Ace!' he thought.

"Sure, I'll get her." she said as she pulled out a piece of parchment from her pocket and tapped it with her wand.

Confused and intrigued, he asked "What is that?"

"Oh, it's how the four of us talk when we're far away...or don't want to be overheard. All of us have a piece of this parchment and whatever one of us writes on it appears on all four papers. We can communicate with them, she should write back any second. Oh, there she goes, see?" She said, incredibly pleased with herself for making such an intelligent speech to him and not acting like an idiot.

She showed him the paper. There, in bubbly purple letters were the words: Lils, come back down. Sirius and I need help on our essays.

Before Sirius' eyes, more writing appeared on the paper. This time, in shining emerald ink, was written: coming…

"So, what do the colors mean?"

"Oh, we always write in our eye colors, it's easier to tell who is who, because we can't see each other. It's a habit of mine now," she motioned toward the bottle of purple ink in front of her. "Now I only write in purple ink." Again, showing him her essay as proof was probably a bad idea.

Lily joined them on the couch. Adriyana pulled out her essay and tapped it with her wand roughly, siphoning off some ink. Lily looked at the paper and snorted. "Okay, so what else is there to write?" she asked.

James felt a stab of jealousy when Sirius walked into Transfiguration after him, talking to Lily, his Lily (sort of), and Adriyana. Then he remembered how Sirius liked Agie and not Lily and started to calm down. Especially when Sirius led the two girls over to where he was sitting. Amazingly, Lily followed, though did not look happy to see James sitting there.

"Hey, Lily would you-"

"No, Potter, I will not go to the dance with you! Stop asking before I hex you into a pulp!" she glared at him and her emerald eyes rendered him incapable of a witty comeback. Not that many were available…

Adriyana muttered "twenty-four," under her breath as the three of them sat down and class begun.

Remus and Amber walked into class just before the bell rang, hand in hand. They saw the two girls and two Marauders sitting together, and separated reluctantly to sit in the empty seats next to Peter and Alice. The couple had been dating since their fourth year and had been in love for about a year now.

Flashback

Remus sighed sadly as he saw Amber Carmichael, the love of his life (though she didn't know it, exactly… they had only been going out for a little over a year, and they were young) looking up at him with adoration. This may be the last time those enchanting dark blue eyes ever looked at him in that way again. He had no idea how she would take what he was about to tell her; his deepest, darkest secret. Willing himself not to get lost in the pools of blue that were her eyes, he stepped a little closer to her.

"Amber, there's something I need to tell you, and it's not exactly easy." Remus said. She was sitting against a rock, reading a Transfiguration book.

"Okay, Remus," Amber said, putting down her book (she was already studying for the OWLs, even though it was only October).

They walked out to more secluded part of the lake, and he turned around and grabbed her hands. "Don't hate me for what I say next."

"I would never hate you, Remus." She responded. She looked like she was about to say something else, but she bit her lip.

"Well then, here goes… I'm… a werewolf." He finished, and closed his eyes, ready for the worst. He had heard so many things about werewolf prejudices, and, as much as he trusted Amber, he wouldn't blame her if she never spoke to him again. I mean, he had been a coward for not telling her for the long time they had been dating, right? He was just so afraid to lose her, but he couldn't keep a secret that big from her anymore. It was tearing him up inside every day that she didn't know.

To his surprise and dismay, a sobbing Amber fell into his arms and pulled him in very tightly. He didn't know what to think. His heart broke a little bit with every sob she let out. His gold-flecked brown eyes popped open again.

"What's the matter, love?" He said as she buried her face into his chest.

"Well, you would be crying too if the boy you loved had to go through something that horrible and painful every month and you couldn't do anything to help him!" she said through her tears, pulling him in tighter.

"You…love me?" he asked, shocked. Of course he loved her too, but he wasn't expecting her to say that, of all things. He pulled her away from him slightly so he could brush away her tears.

"I love you, Remus," she confirmed. Her tears were coming slower now.

"I love you too, Amber." He said, pulling her in for a kiss.

End of Flashback

He took the empty seat next to Peter and gazed at her longingly. She had her blonde hair up in a messy bun today, and was eagerly taking notes, even though they didn't have to. He had yet to ask her to the dance. I mean, it was pretty obvious that they were going together, but he was the type of hopeless romantic that things like asking his girlfriend of over two years to every dance. He wasn't nervous; in fact, why not ask her now?

He scribbled something sweet and romantic on a piece of parchment, transfigured it into a paper dove, and sent it over to her.

Yay! A letter from Remus.

She loved how he had transfigured the paper into her patronus. In fact, she loved nearly everything about him, and she had since the first time she saw him, in that bookstore that day in Diagon Alley. She opened it, hating to destroy the dove but eager to read its contents, and smiled. She looked up and met Remus' waiting eyes.

She nodded and blew him a kiss. He smiled at her.

She pulled out her trusty piece of "walkie-talkie paper," as Lily called it, though Amber had no clue what a walkie-talkie was, and tapped it with her wand. Sapphire blue words blossomed on the page:

Guys, Remus asked me to the dance. Any ideas for costumes?

The three other girls pulled their pieces of paper out of their pockets at the exact same time. The parchment got warm when something was written on it, thanks to Lily's protean charm. She heard a quiet giggle and a tap form Lily and Adriyana's table. Seconds later, Alice started cracking up, receiving a glare from McGonagall.

Knowing anything Alice thought was i that /i funny couldn't be good, she looked down at her own paper and gasped. Of course she was right. There, in glistening purple ink, were the words:

How about a pimp and a 'ho?

She glared at Adriyana. In response, she wiggled her eyebrows and winked. Amber was relieved. Of course she was kidding, Adriyana knew her well enough to know she would never do that. Still, it was pretty funny. She looked down, and saw that turquoise words appeared under the violet ones. Alice.

Brilliant! That's hilarious!

Fine, then you and Frank do it! Her own dark blue writing again.

Really? Thanks! Frank will love that one! he would, too. Frank loved to try new, exciting, and sometimes inappropriate things, to prove himself as a good friend of The Marauders, but he was still mostly the sweet boy-next-door type. The male equivalent of Alice.

Fine Am, how about Romeo and Juliet, then? Came the purple bubbly writing again.

Ooh, I'm sure Remus would go for that! Lily's electric green scrawl.

But Amber was already in love with the idea.

Back at Lily's table, things were a bit more… active, to say the least. They were turning knives into paper airplanes and since all four of them were extremely competent, they had stared a contest to see who could do the most before class ended. The table was covered in heaps of knives and paper airplanes, which they were rather carelessly swinging about, each of them trying to impress someone at the table, except for Lily, who just wanted to beat James. Sadly, he was the one who was winning.

"Why am I not winning? I'm brilliant!" Sirius wailed.

"Says the guy whose head looks like the rainbow spewed on it…" Adriyana said, snickering.

"That reminds me… how the bloody hell do I get my hair to change back! I've tried everything!" He said, and Lily and Adriyana laughed.

"Did you try washing it?" Lily asked, grinning.

"Yes! At least I think so. Wait…er…no," he said, feeling very stupid. The ONE day he decided to skip a shower, and they found out…

"WHAT is going on here? Knives are not a plaything!" thundered McGonagall, who was standing over them now.

"Professor, we were just having some fun!" Sirius said, running his hand through his neon hair.

"Oh yes, it's all fun until someone gets hurt!" she retorted.

"Yeah, then it's hilarious!" said Adriyana. Everyone went hysterical.

"Miss Dumbledore!" McGonagall gasped.

"Ohmigod! Did I just say that out loud?" Adriyana covered her mouth with her hands.

"Yes, and I will see you back here at six for detention!" she yelled back. Lily looked at Sirius' face, to see if he was going to defend her. Then again, how could he? She was clearly guilty! Her eyes traveled past Potter, who, like most of the class, was still laughing at Adriyana's unintentional cheek. Sirius, however, had an odd grin on his face. Lily noticed that it was partially his 'I'm planning something' grin, but also….relief? Happiness?

How very odd…

"Romeo and Juliet? That's brilliant! I love it!" Remus exclaimed, as he and Amber walked back to the common room holding hands after class.

She smiled appreciatively. Of course he loved it. He was the same kind of hopeless, tragic romantic as Romeo, minus the suicide part, and she would love nothing more than to be his Juliet. "I knew you would… Adriyana came up with it." She responded.

"Did she, now? I would expect something more…risqué…from her."

"Like a pimp and a 'ho? Because she said that first,"

"Yeah, that's more like her…a pimp and a 'ho…" he started laughing, and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

After Transfiguration, Lily tried to track down Sirius on the way to the common room. It was killing her that he had been smiling when Adriyana got detention. Didn't he like her? Were all of them wrong about that part and he really hated her guts? No, it couldn't be. He was probably just planning some stupid prank. But what did it have to do with Adriyana? She caught up to him. "Black!" she gasped, "What are you planning?"

"I beg your pardon, old chap?" He said, trying to maintain his composure.

"Why were you smiling in Transfiguration when Adriyana got detention?"

"Because of that 'hilarious' thing Agie said. That was funny, wasn't it?" he said. And he walked away, grinning.

Later that night, Adriyana was practically limping back to the common room. Her arms were numb. She had just been scrubbing out the girl's toilets for the last two hours. Stupid spontaneous personality. Why did she blurt that out? She already knew the answer to that question. It was sitting across from her at the time and making her brain malfunction.

She reached the portrait of the Fat Lady and said the password tiredly. "Snickerdoodle," According to Lily, it was some kind of Muggle foodstuff.

"Rough day, dear?" said the portrait consolingly, as it swung open. She stumbled through the hole.

"You don't know the half of it." It was true. Between waiting anxiously for Sirius to ask her to the dance, and detention, she was utterly exhausted.

She entered the common room to see Sirius standing off to the side of the room. His hair was that amazing shade of black again. He was looking down with an extremely nervous expression on his face. He was wringing his hands. She would have gone over and talked to him, but now she really wanted -needed- a hot shower. She trudged up to her room. It would be empty now, as Lily was on prefect duties, Alice was probably snogging Frank in his room, and Amber and Remus were working on their costumes in the Room of Requirement, she knew because she ran into them on the way back here. Remus had a very odd look on his face, like he was holding in a secret.

She entered the room, flipped on the light (which turned on the…torches?), and let out a scream of surprise.

Nobody was there, but in no way was the room empty. Every inch of the room was full of vases of red roses. They were on the tables, the floor, the ceiling (really). They were in the sink, stuffed in her shoes, dangling off the posts of her bed, EVERYWHERE!

Then she noticed the envelope on her bed.

She ran over to it, tripping over a vase of roses on her way. Even if she wasn't running, it was hard not to, as there were so many vases. Her name was written on the envelope. She opened the seal and pulled out the letter, which was written in grey ink. She smiled at the tribute, and her heart jumped. There was only one person besides the girls who knew about the ink thing, and only one she knew who had grey eyes, and they were the same person. Heart pounding in her chest a mile a minute, she brought the letter into the light to read it.

Adriyana,

I'm really bad at romantic notes…but…I think you're... beautiful. Not just for the way you look, either (though the way you look doesn't hurt). Trust me, I don't do this for just any girl, but trust me, you're not any girl. You're smart, beautiful, funny, gorgeous, outgoing, nice, pretty, a great friend, a true Gryffindor, really good looking, an amazing seeker…I could go on and on. You make me smile whenever you enter the room. Some of my favorite things about you are the little things that make you… you. How you only write in purple ink, how you can't turn down a dare, even how terrible you are at Potions. You're just like me in so many ways. I really like you, and I can't believe I haven't told you this sooner, but…will you be my date to the Halloween dance? I'm waiting downstairs for your reply. Please let it be yes.

Sirius

She was already halfway down the stairs when she read the last few sentences. Tiredness forgotten, she bolted out the entrance to the girls dorms and flung herself into Sirius' waiting arms. His warm embrace felt so right, like she belonged there. She could probably stay like this forever.

After a minute…ten minutes….who knows, really... they pulled away. He had a grin on his face that threatened to break it in half. He spoke first. "So, you'll go with me then?"

She laughed and thought about telling him something like 'no, I think you're gross' but really only felt like saying, "Yes. Of course I will."

"And…you feel the same way?" he said, still looking apprehensive.

"Yes," and she hugged him again.

Lily walked into the common room a minute later to see her best friend sitting on the couch with Sirius, sitting very close together and talking quietly. Then she noticed that they were holding hands.

She walked up to them. "Finally! He asked you!"

Adriyana looked away from Sirius and up at Lily. "Go see for yourself." She motioned towards the dormitory.

They waited together for Lily's scream and the thundering footsteps a second later. "Sirius…how?" she stuttered, returning to them.

"I was wondering that myself." Adriyana said.

"Well, if you must know, Remus told me to give you flowers. Then I got the idea to use a ton of flowers, so I asked Professor Dumbledore what your favorites were. He told me that you loved red roses, so the other Marauders and I found these in the forest and picked them. Then I enlisted the help of the first years and some other girls to get the flowers up to your dorm and put the note on your bed. That's why I was smiling when you got detention. I would have had to ask Lily to distract you, and this way was easier. I'm sorry she put you on toilet duty, though." By the time he had finished, Adriyana was grinning from ear to ear.

'wow. He did all that for me,' she thought. Part of her couldn't believe she actually trusted him, while the other part was already regretting the "no kissing until the third date" rule. At least the first one was coming up.

"Well, Sirius, I'm extremely impressed. Who knew you had a romantic side?" Lily said warmly.

"I don't, really. That's my brilliant side in action. I just decided to use my powers for good instead of evil." He put his arm around Adriyana.

"Only one thing left to do now!" she said, smiling up at him.

"Oh yeah? What's that?" he asked. He was kind of hoping for a kiss, but also kind of wanting to wait for the perfect moment.

"Pick out our costumes, of course!" she said.

i that works, too/i He thought, as they walked over to the couch by the fire, laughing as Alice, who had just entered the common room, called behind them, "if you even think about picking a pimp and a 'ho, I'll kill you!"

A/N: Well, there's chapter three! I went over this one quite a few times and kept adding stuff, so it got pretty long, a lot longer than I thought. Sirius' letter was especially difficult; I had to make him sort of romantic while still maintaining the "player" vibe a little. I'm not so good with fluff, so that flashback bit was sort of hard as well. Review and tell me what you think! i'll give you a cookie (possibly)!