Shocking Confessions

"Pregnant...?" Isabella whispered in disbelief. Lily put an arm around her shoulders. They were sitting in Lily's dorm room, on her couch.

"It's okay Izzy...The baby is Sirius's...right?" Lily asked. Isabella glared.

"Of course it is! What kind of person do you think I am, Lily!"

Lily flinched. "I'm sorry Izzy, but when did you two...um.."

"Have sex? New Years. After you and James left. Oh Lily! What am I going to do?! How do I tell Sirius?!" She started to cry into her hands. Lily hugged her, and started to rock her.

"Shh, it's okay, everything will be fine. I'll help you, don't worry." The room was silent, except for Isabella's crying and Lily's comforting words.

Lily looked at her watch. "Izzy, it's lunch time, are you hungry?" Isabella nodded. "Do you want to go to the Great Hall?"

Isabella shook her head. "You can go to lunch if you want, I don't want to face Sirius yet."

Lily nodded and stood up. "I'll bring you something to eat and don't worry about classes, I'll tell the Professors that you're sick."

"Thank you Lily. Please don't tell Sirius."

Lily smiled. "I won't. Don't worry Izzy, everything will be fine." She walked out.

Isabella sighed. "I wish I could believe you."

Lily sat next to James and started to grab food. The Marauders shared a look and Sirius was first to talk. "Remus said that Isabella went to the Hospital Wing, what's wrong?"

Lily smiled. Sirius never cared about any of his previous girlfriends this much, I'm glad. Maybe he'll stay with Izzy. But then again...

"She's fine Sirius, just a stomach ache."

Sirius was still a little confused, he looked at James.

'Time of the month.' he mouthed

"Oooohhhh, right." Sirius said in realization.

Lily hit James over the head. "Ow..What?!" She just glared.

Remus chuckled. "Will Isabella be going to classes tomorrow?"

Lily paused. "I hope. She..she really doesn't feel well."

"Feel hopefully she'll be well enough to come watch us beat Ravenclaw for the cup next weekend. I feel sorry for next years Quidditch team. They won't have the best Chaser that ever lived!" James said smirking.

Lily nodded. "Yes Slytherin just won't be as good when Morrison is gone."

James looked at her shocked.

Sirius let out a bark-like laughed. "Ooooo Jamie, she got you there."

James glared. "Shut up Padfoot." He threw an apple at him.

Sirius dodged laughing. "Getting rusty there Prongs, guess you aren't as good as you think." He laughed didn't dodge the mash potatoes thrown at him. Remus, Peter, and James laughed while Sirius wiped the potatoes off his face. He looked at a strand of his hair.

"You got it in my hair, my beautiful hair!" He whined.

Lily rolled her eyes and pointed her wand at Sirius. Tergeo With a flick of her wand his hair was clean.

Sirius sighed dramatically. "Oh thank you, my wonderful Tiger-Lily. You just saved you boyfriends life. For I would have hexed him for getting my hair dirty."

James snickered. "You sound like a girl Sirius, I don't know how you got Isabella to like you."

Sirius looked at himself in his spoon. "With my ruggedly good looks and high intellect."

Lily smiled. "Wow Black I didn't even know you knew what intellect meant."

James smirked. "Oooooo, she got you Siri." Sirius threw a napkin at him. James threw a carrot, but Sirius blocked it, making it hit Remus. Remus was just about to drink his pumpkin juice when the carrot hit him, making him spill the juice on an eating Peter.

Sirius and James laughed, while Remus helped Peter wipe his face. "Sorry Peter." Remus apologized, shooting James and Sirius a look.

"Right, sorry Wormtail." James said smirking.

Sirius was still chuckling, James elbowed him. "Right, sorry." He said, not really sounding like he ment it.

Lily rolled her eyes and stood up. "Could you boys be any more immature?"

"We could try if you want." Sirius suggested.

She rolled her eyes and picked up a plate loaded with food. "I'm going to go give this to Isabella. I'll meet you all in class."

Sirius went to stand up. "No. I'll bring it to her."

"NO!" The boys looked at her surprised, she blushed. "Um, I mean, She doesn't want you to see her while she's sick, you know how us girls are, haha. Plus she's in my room, not the girls dorm." She said nervously, before walking out of the Great Hall.

"What was that about?" Sirius asked, sitting down.

The other boys shrugged.

"Did you bring any pickles and butter?" Isabella asked.

Lily nodded and gave her the plate she made. She grimaced when Isabella dipped the pickles in the butter and eat it. "Does that actually taste good?"

"Yes and for some reason I've been craving it for a while. Thanks for helping me Lily." Isabella said.

Lily smiled and sat on the bed next to Isabella. "Your my best friend Izzy, of course I'm going to help you. I've already figured it out so no one else has to know that your..pregnant."

Isabella looked at Lily, surprised. "How?"

"Well, you said that you've been pregnant ever since the end of December, it's now March. That's two and a half months. We graduate in June, then you'll be five months in, you won't be that big, and your robes will cover your stomach. You just have to make sure no one gets close enough to touch your stomach."

Isabella smiled humorlessly. "Lily I think your forgetting who my boyfriend is. Sirius is rather dense sometimes, but I think he'll be suspicious if I avoid letting him touch me."

Lily looked away and shrugged. "You could always tell him."

Isabella stood up. "No! I don't want him to know. It would be unfair, he'll feel like he's responsible."

"He is responsible." Lily muttered, Isabella glared.

"It's my fault. I...I didn't ask him to use protection. I don't want him to know, I want him to become an Auror, live his dreams."

Lily stood up. "What about your dreams, you want to be a Healer."

"I can still be a Healer, after I have the baby. Sirius doesn't have to know!" Isabella said loudly.

"But what about after you have the baby, I think Sirius will notice when your stomach is as big as a basketball and a baby appears! And what about your parents! You have to tell them sooner or later!" Lily yelled back

Isabella turned her back to Lily. "Then I'll leave! After graduation I'll go back to Italy or to Bulgaria. I have family there!"

"So you're going to tell them! If that happens then they will tell your parents!"

"Then I'll go to America. I'll start over, live as a muggle, I don't care." Isabella muttered.

Lily walked over to Isabella and grabbed her shoulders, turning her to face her. "Do you know how stupid you sound?! It would be so much easier if you tell Sirius and your parents!" Isabella started to cry again and Lily hugged her. "Just tell him, he'll understand."

"But...but what what if he doesn't and he dumps me?" Isabella whispered.

Lily hugged her tighter before looking her in the eye. "Then he's not the right guy for you, then he's exactly the man I thought he was. Before you came Sirius would go from one girl to another, there is something about you that he loves. He wouldn't let you leave that easily. If you leave without telling him why, he'll forget about becoming an Auror and spend his life trying to find you. Just tell him."

Isabella closed her eyes and nodded. "I'm tell him, but after Gryffindor plays Ravenclaw, and win the cup."

"Why?" Lily asked confused.

Isabella smiled a little and sat on the bed. "You don't understand Qudditch Lily and you don't love Qudditch it as much as Sirius and James do. I don't want to ruin the most important game of the year, their last game in Hogwarts, because of something that could have been prevented."

Lily nodded and sat down in one of her chairs. "What about your parents?"

"I'll tell them after graduation."

Lily leaned forward. "How will they take it?"

Isabella laid back. "Papa will be angry. Ever since Antonio died he's been very overprotective. Mama will be disappointed, but also a little happy, she has always wanted grandchildren. So when Papa tries to kill Sirius, Mama will stop him."

Lily laughed and looked at her watch. "Class is about to start, do you want to go?" Isabella shook her head and didn't get up.

"You go, Miss Head Girl, wouldn't want to keep you from your classes for long."

Lily mock glared and threw a throw pillow at Isabella; it missed her. Isabella smiled a little as Lily left.

She stared at the ceiling in a daze. "I have two weeks until I have to tell Sirius."

"GRYFFINDOR! GRYFFINDOR! GRYFFINDOR! GRYFFINDOR!"

Lily covered her ears as the Gryffindors cheered. She moved through the crowd and sat next to Isabella, who was sitting on the couch halfheartedly drinking water, knowing she couldn't have any of the firewhiskey they were passing around, much to Lily's displeasure.

"So when are you going to tell him?"

Isabella sighed. "In a little bit, maybe after the party."

Lily sighed. "You can't keep this from him much longer, your already three months along." She followed Isabella's gaze; she was staring at a laughing Sirius.

"I just want him to celebrate his victory." She drank the rest of her water. "James was looking for you, he said that it was something important."

Lily looked around. "Where is he?"

"Ummm, waiting outside the common room, he looked really nervous about something." Isabella shrugged.

Lily raised an eyebrow. "Thanks, tell me how it goes with Sirius." She got up and walked away.

Isabella watched her go and didn't notice someone take Lily's spot on the couch. "Tell her how what 'goes with Sirius'?"

Isabella turned surprised. "Sirius!"

He smirked. "The one and only. Now what was Lily talking about?"

Isabella looked down. "We need to talk." Sirius's smile faded a bit.

"Well that doesn't sound good."

Isabella got up and Sirius followed. She walked up the boys staircase, then into the 7th year dorms.

"Why are we in here?" Sirius asked confused, Isabella closed the door, all sounds from the party becoming muffled.

"To be alone."

Sirius smirked and tried to wrap his arms around Isabella's waist, but she quickly avoided him. "Not for that Sirius. I need to talk to you about something."

"What?"

"You might want to sit down." Isabella said not looking him in the eye.

Sirius looked worried. "Isabella, what's wrong? You're not..breaking up with me, are you?"

Isabella shook her head and Sirius let out a sigh of relief, but was still confused. "Then what's wrong?"

"I...want to..congratulate you on the wonderful Qudditch game you played today. And...yeah." She laughed nervously.

Sirius smirked. "I know that's not what you wanted to talk about, but thanks."

Isabella shuffled her feet. "Well...Are you sure you don't want to sit down?" She said avoiding the point.

"I'm sure."

"Really? Because it might be easier-"

"Just tell me what you want to say!" He yelled

"I'm pregnant!" She covered her face with her hand and leaned against the wall.

Sirius's eyes were wide. "What?"

She looked into his eyes. "I'm pregnant."

"Who's the father?"

Isabella glared. "You are, you idiot!" She started to cry and slide down the wall, legs stretched out in front of her.

Sirius sat next to her, putting his arm around her. "But we only did it once." He muttered.

Isabella shrugged. "Sometimes, that's all it takes."

"What happens now?" Sirius asked, looking straight ahead.

She wiped the tears from her eyes. "Well, after I tell my parents I'll live with them, if they let me. When the baby is old enough I'll start my training to become a Healer, then buy my own house. Then...I don't know."

Sirius looked at her. "And what about me?"

Isabella shrugged. "You can become an Auror, liked you wanted, and do what you planned to do after graduating." Sirius stared at her blankly and Isabella looked away, closing her eyes.

More tears fell when Sirius removed his arm from her shoulders.

She opened them in surprised when his hand rested on her stomach and the other wiped the tears away. "After graduation I plan to be with you. I love you, nothing can change that." He rubbed her stomach. "Nothing."

Isabella smiled. "Thank you."

Sirius cupped her face and smiled. "For what?"

She closed her eyes and leaned into his touch. "I was so scared. I thought that you might leave me."

Sirius leaned his forehead against Isabella's. "Is that what you really think of me? That I'll run away when trouble comes, that I won't support you?"

Isabella shook her head. "No, but I wanted you to."

He smiled. "Well, to bad, I'm not going anywhere. I guess you stuck with me."

Isabella smiled back. "Oh woe as me, what ever am I to do?"

"Well I can think of something." He put an arm around her waist.

She leaned in close and his lips met hers in a sweet and gentle kiss. She leaned back and smiled.

"I love you Sirius."

"I love you, too Isabella."

Their lips met once again and they became oblivious to the word around them.

"Oh darn, it seems this room is occupied." Isabella looked up surprised and Sirius annoyed.

A blank Remus and a blushing Peter stood in the doorway.

"Kind of busy here Moony." Sirius told him. Isabella stood up and dusted off her robes.

"No, I think I'll leave and let you boys have your room back."

As Isabella was closing the door she heard Sirius whining. "Aaawwwww Moony, you had to ruin the moment."

She laughed.

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