A while later they were sitting on the floor talking.

"So Maeve what's with you and you have to keep going out of classes once a day?" Sirius asked her.

"Um…" She looked at Lily. Lily nodded.

"Well here's the story…"

"First I want you guys to know that I am not a freak ok?" James and Sirius nodded.

"Ok well my parents are witches but they hate being witches. My mum dropped out of Hogwarts. I think they're crazy but they just hate the fact that magic existed. I guess it's because my mum lived with muggles all her life and my dad lived with people who loved the Dark Arts. He finished Hogwarts but refused to use his wand. My mum had already snapped her wand and threw the pieces away. They met up one day in their muggle jobs, fell in love. They got married and I was born. When I was about seven I started seeing that I was weird. When I wanted food so badly, because my parents were hardly ever home to cook for me, my food of choice would appear in front of me. I wanted a pink rabbit and while I was holding my fluffy white rabbit it turned pink. I told my parents and they went completely berserk. They told me to stop doing these things but I liked it too much. It was too cool. I have something to show you." Maeve cupped her hands and everyone stared. Fire was spitting from her palms and soon a fireball appeared. She extinguished it with a wave of her hand.

"So when I was ten a letter came. I am also the youngest in seventh year, just so you know. So my first year passed and the teachers were astounded that I could so many spells. I thought I was just good but then when Lily and I decided to prank Argus Filch a lot, McGonagall got suspicious. I could perform spells just by thinking of what I wanted. I didn't even need to say anything out loud. I thought that that's what wandless magic was. In the end Dumbledore found out, it was my third year. He told me I was a Shayre. They haven't been seen in over two centuries. I could do magic with my hands, all I had to do was point and think. A real muggle witch! I couldn't contain my excitement. But then Dumbledore warned me, I had to think carefully of what I did. People, bad wizards would be after me. It would be wise to side with the good side because if Aurors caught me I'd immediately be fed to the dementors. I've had too many horrors in my life; it would drive me insane! So I started taking lessons. I can now do anything I want; some things that are against the law, so I can do it without the Ministry knowing. I can now read minds, learn to fight in an army. Yes many things. So this is my life." Maeve looked around and saw the shocked faces of the boys. She had them under a spell with her story.

"Guys?" Lily said immediately breaking the spell of Maeve's soft voice.

"Wow, you've been through so much." James said. Maeve just nodded.

"There were times were I've been so exhausted I slept for three days straight. This kind of magic takes a lot of work. I'm training so that I don't feel so tired. It's actually working." She smiled. Sirius looked at her. 'You really don't know what you had until it's gone.' He thought to himself. She was there, so innocent and powerful and he had just hurt her.

"So you're sixteen now?" James asked.

"Yeah I am. I turned on..."

"…on the twenty-seventh of September." Sirius finished for her. Maeve grinned at him.

"Yup." Lily and James looked at Sirius.

"How come you remember that?" James asked him, "You hardly remember my birthday."

"You twit, we dated. Of course I'd remember her birthday."

It was getting late when Lily's mum called them from downstairs.

"Coming mum!" Lily yelled back at her. Lily looked back at the boys.

"Lily wait." James said holding her hand. She looked back at him. Maeve and Sirius went down the stairs.

"I have a Christmas present for you" He whispered.

"James, you needn't…" James bent down and kissed her. He drew back before she even registered what had happened.

"And this." He took out a small box. Lily took it in her hands and looked at it. "Go on then, open it." James encouraged her. She opened it and a beautiful melody filled the room. It was a glass ball that showed the under sea. Mermaids were swimming and different coloured fish brightened the orb.

"James it's beautiful." Lily said hugging him.

"Not as beautiful as you though" James mumbled. Lily didn't hear him but continued staring at her orb.

"Thanks James, really."

"Thank you for the scarf." James grinned at her.

"Bring it here. James gave her the scarf. She took it and mumbled a few words and shook her wand. The scarf was soon flashing different colours.

"Multi-coloured scarf. It will change colour with your mood. When you're happy it will keep flashing different colours." James thanked her. They went down the stairs and saw Mr and Mrs Potter talking the Evans family.

"We are very happy that you could come." Mrs Potter said smiling.

"Remember, New Years at our house." Mrs Evans reminded her. The Potters' and Sirius saw their guests out and closed the door.

"Interesting evening." Sirius said when he and James where lying; James on his bed and Sirius on another bed.

"Very" James sighed remembering the kiss.

"I gave Maeve a present." Sirius said.

"What?"

"A book of fairytales."

"Fairytales?" James asked him, an eyebrow raised.

"Yeah. She used to read them when she was little. Her parents never really liked her, they liked her older brother more. She always wanted to be different from her family or the people living with her."

"Ok." James went back to his own thoughts. He kissed Lily. He couldn't believe that.

'Wonder what she's doing now.' James thought and his mind wandered to a girl that was not a hundred metres away from him.

"Lily how was it?" Maeve turned to face Lily.

"I got a Christmas present." Lily smiled at her.

"Damn I forgot to give you your Christmas birthday." Maeve got up and went to her trunk. She got a package wrapped in bright yellow wrapping paper with Winnie The Pooh plastered all over it.

"The wrapping paper, great as always." Lily laughed as she took the present. She took a package wrapped in red and gave it to Maeve.

"Your wrapping paper is always boring." Maeve wished she hadn't said that. The wrapping paper came alive and bit her.

"OW!" Lily laughed so hard she fell off her bed.

"See, you insult my wrapping paper every Christmas, birthday, Easter and I decided to pay you back." Lily hummed silently as she opened her present. Maeve glared at her and went back to trying to open the present. She couldn't rip the paper or else it would spit at her. She had to find where it was stuck and carefully peel the tape off.

"Maeve thank you!" Lily got up and hugged Maeve. Maeve laughed. She had gotten Lily her own broom.

"What can I say, filthy rich parents. They just don't know when to stop giving." Maeve looked at her own present. It was a bottle of perfume. She opened it and sniffed it.

"Not bad Evans. Good choice." They laughed and went to bed again.

"Lily?" Lily had her eyes shut.

"Mhm?"

"I think I like Sirius again." Lily opened her eyes immediately.

"Maeve, remember what he did?"

"Yeah, but…" Maeve screamed into her pillow.

"Do whatever you want. I want to sleep." Lily turned over and fell asleep. Maeve stayed up a long time thinking everything.

'I like him…I don't…I do… but he cheated on me. Could I trust him? I trusted them all with a huge secret…' Her train of thoughts faded away as sleep took over. Sirius Black had truly evaded her mind, her thoughts and her dreams.

"MORNING MAEVE!" James Potter yelled in Maeve's ear the next morning. She opened one eye and groaned.

"Potter, what do you want?" She grumbled.

"WELL LILY IS AWAKE SO WE DECIDED TO WAKE YOU UP" James said, still shouting.

"Alright, alright no need to shout. I'm up!" Maeve got up. Sirius couldn't stop staring. She was wearing hot pants and a tank top. Maeve got up yawning oblivious to the stares. James and Lily were talking. Sirius was staring and Maeve was getting her clothes.

Half and hour later they were all eating breakfast in Lily's kitchen.

"Sorry you guys, I could only make an omelette." Lily cut a huge piece for everyone. They ate it with some orange juice.

"Lily, I'm going t marry you if this is what life with you means." Sirius said smacking his lips after a long drink of orange juice.

"I can cook too" Maeve took a bite out of her omelette. Sirius raised an eyebrow at her.

"Alright, I'll marry you then." Everyone laughed.

"A'ight, what are we going to do?" Sirius asked once everyone had finished their breakfast.

"We can swim, study, go to town… you pick." Maeve said.

"Let's go down town. I hear Sound of Music is playing in colour now!" Lily's face shined with happiness.

"Er… ok… how do we get there?" James asked.

"We have to take the tube and then get off at the third stop and then walk from there." Lily stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Lily? What's a tube?" Sirius asked her, his voice full of curiosity.

"It's…. We'll get there and I'll show you."

"It's this cool long thing that takes you places and this weird box that EATS your ticket! So cool!" Sirius laughed at her bright and happy face.

"Sirius that's the LAST ticket you're going to buy." Lily scolded Sirius as he put on a maniacal laugh while going to the ticket-man and bought five more tickets.

"Sirius…" Lily moaned.

"Lilyyy…" Sirius moaned back. Lily looked at him and her nose flared.

"Watch what you're saying."

"Watch what you're saying." Sirius mimicked as he put his third ticket in the machine. Immediately he and Maeve laughed at the machine.

"What a sad bunch we hang around with." James whispered in Lily's ear. Lily laughed.

"What? What?" Maeve asked looking from James to Lily and from Lily to James.

"I think they're just crazy!" Sirius whispered but loud enough so that James and Lily could hear.

"Hey I resent that." James said laughing.

"Yeah, we haven't been laughing like maniacs at the ticket barrier. Have we?" Lily gave a stern look that she kept only when scolding James and Maeve.

"Yes well…" Sirius was at lost for words. Maeve opened her mouth as well but se shut it quickly when she couldn't find words to say.

"We're sad aren't we?" She said looking at Sirius.

"Yeah we are." They both collapsed in laughter. James and Lily looked at each other,

"Ok," James said turning around with Lily following him. They walked until they reached the tube and they got in. Sirius and Maeve still laughing.

"You guys we're getting off in a couple of stops." Lily yelled over the noise. James looked white and he didn't notice her Sirius and Maeve were speaking and laughing… there was a ring around them that no people occupied they would rather be squished against the door than being near the hysterical Maeve.

"Oh dear, do you think we should call a hospital?" An old lady with a high voice said while staring at Maeve who was no balancing uncontrollably.

"I don't know, how much alcohol have they consumed? Is it safe to go near them?" A man was holding on the pole answered the old lady's question. Lily heard them and burst out laughing.

"Oh my! There goes another one." Thankfully they arrived at their stop and Lily dragged them all off. Maeve was holding onto Sirius with one hand and with the other she was holding her ribs. James looked pale and sick.

"James, are you alright?" Lily put a hand on his shoulder. He shook his head because he was scared that if he opened his mouth, it wouldn't say anything nice. They walked for a bit and he started getting his colour back. Sirius was rubbing Maeve's back because she was stiff from all the laughing.

"That's it!", Lily burst out, "LAST time I am going with ANY of you downtown. That includes YOU Maeve." As she emphasized the you she pointed at Maeve.

"Gee Lils, what got your knickers in a twist?" Lily glared at Sirius.

"Let me see there's one who looks like he's going to show us his breakfast any time soon, there is one who was in hysterics and everyone thought she was a drunken maniac, and then there was another who, quite frankly, wasn't that much better." She ticked them all off on her fingers.

"Oy! I'm sorry I got sick down there. That tube-y thingy went WAY to fast and it was underground. There were far too many people and I get claustrophobic." Lily looked at him sympathetically.

"Ok then, but I was on the tube with TWO maniacs." Maeve huffed.

"Oy, drop it ok Lils?" Lily looked at her.

"Fine then"

"Evans! What are we going to do?" Sirius asked casually draping an arm across her shoulders. He pulled Maeve and draped his other hand across her shoulders.

"Whatever you want." James came up to them.

"Hey! I feel jealous." And he draped his hand over Lily's shoulder.

"How come Lily gets two guys?" Maeve asked in a fun way.

"That's because James is worth half a guy and I'm worth three." Sirius whispered but loud enough for James and Lily to hear. Lily burst out laughing while James sulked.

"Sirius that wasn't nice."

"James… er… That wasn't nice… why are you giving me the polite talk all of a sudden?" Sirius grinned at him.

"Ah well I'll say then… Sirius shut you big trap."

"That's my boy!" Everyone laughed.

"Hey Sirius, when you say that you're three times a man, does that mean you have three…"

"Maeve…" Lily and James yelled. Maeve looked sheepish and Sirius grinned at her.

"No Maeve," He looked at the bulging eyes of Lily and James, "What? I'm answering her question," He looked back at Maeve, "Only one girl at a time."

"Ew Sirius that's horrible!" Lily looked sick. James laughed.

"Don't worry my dear Lily, I'll save you from this sick bastard." His grip tightened on her and she felt relaxed. It was a feeling she never felt before with previous boyfriends.

"Hey where are we heading?" Sirius said looking at the dark alley ahead of them. Lily looked wildly around. With the bickering and being perverted they didn't concentrate on the road.

"Shit."