Mary woke with a headache. A really bad headache. A really, really bad headache. She also felt sick. Very sick. Very, very sick. She felt like vomiting. The bucket next to the bed was mocking her. There was a goblet full of hangover potion next to the bed, which she gulped down gratefully. Her head cleared and she sudenly felt very hungry. She got ready and ran down to breakfast.

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Sirius woke up with a headache, his head was fuzzy and he wasn't feeling very well. What had happened last night? He could remember up to the point when he started to drink firewhisky with Mary. What happened after that. He groaned and rolled over. He'd been too drunk to put on pyjamas or close his bed hangings.

"James?" he called.

"Yes?" he replied.

"What happened last night?"

"Er... you probably don't want to know. But I'll tell you anyway. You pashed Mary McDonald. If you want to know exactly how bad you looked, or exactly how much you drank, I'm sure Lily would be more than willing to tell you," James grinned.

"Oh, OK," said Sirius, "Mary's pretty hot anyway."Sirius rolled over and, grateful for the Saturday, went back to sleep.

--

"OK, so exactly how bad was it?" Mary asked Lily.

"The party or the wonderful show you and Sirius put on?" Lily said.

"What? What show did we put on?"

"Well there was the whole, 'Your so hot Sirius, You're so hot Mary' and there was the 'You're so much better than my other ex girlfriends who are so ugly, dumb and not very nice, because you're so nice, pretty and smart Mary' and the 'don't tell my girlfriends that I said they suck' and the 'your secret's safe with me' and then there was the best part." Lily recounted. Mary was staring at her with a completely horrified expression.

"What was the best part? Tell me!"

"The best part was the 'let's kiss' part where you and Sirius started making out on the couch for half an hour."

"Oh My God! I can't belive I did that! Why didn't you stop me?"

"Well... we did eventually it was just fun watching you two act like idiots."

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Sirius passed Mary in the hallway after breakfast and was about to stop and talk to her when she blushed and quickly walked away. He wasn't entirly sure but by the end of the day he thought that Mary had been avoiding him. When they were hanging down at the lake Lily and Mary came and sat with them and everytime he tried to get Mary's attentio she just kept ignoring him. He had made at least ten attemps to speak to Mary but had just been ignored. Sirius was beginning to feel rejected. Actually he was beginning to feel like James, chasing after a girl that didn't want him. Wait, that was wrong, Sirius wasn't chasing after Mary, because the girls chase after Sirius not the other way round! And although he actually liked Mary he had gone into a state of denial.

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"Hey Mary, Mary! Mary? MARY!" Sirius called down the corridor.

Mary couldn't avoid for much longer. She was going to have to just turn around and get over her embarassment.

"Yes?" she replied.

"Hey, why are you avoiding me?" Sirius asked.

What? Surely he must know, even if that was something he did all the time, he wouldn't be acting this casual! Mary thought.

"Don't you, don't you know?" asked Mary.

"Know what?"

"Know why I've been avoiding you, what we did last night?!" she whispered.

"Know what we did last night?" Sirius racked his brains, "I think James might have mentioned that we snogged or someething, but come on, we were both drunk and -"

"Sirius, it was a lot worse than you think," Mary interrupted.

"Why, what happened?" asked Sirius curiously.

"Um, are you sure you want to know?"

"I think so."

"The whole story?"

"Pretty sure..."?

"The details?"

"Just tell me!"

"Fine, OK, I'll tell you know."

"Well?"

"Apparently, you told me that I was much hotter, nicer and cooler than your previous girlfriends and that they sucked and then we pashed on the couch for half and hour," Mary blurted out.

Sirius stood there gobsmacked, one of the only girls he had actually liked for reasons beside body image and he'd gone and ruined it.

"Hey..." he said slowly, "we should so get Lily and James completely drunk!"

"Wow, you bounce back fast."

"Then hopefully their true feelings would be expressed in the form of slurred sentrences and hiccups!"

"Yeah, right." Sirius was really dumb sometimes.

"Excuse me for a second, I'm going to go plot how I can slip extremely strong alchohol in James' drink. Bye! Oh, and by the way, let's just forget about the other night, OK?"

"Yeah OK." Mary smiled. She was glad they'd gotten over the other nights occurance. Shed really missed Sirius the twelve hours she had been avoiding him