"I don't want my best friend to get hurt, but I don't know how to tell her without hurting her..." Kara explained.
Amanda Wescott, a 7th year Ravenclaw, was listening with great interest.
"Sirius Black, you say?" she asked.
"Yes. I overheard my brother and the rest of them talking about it..." Kara said worriedly.
"Well, how about I tell her for you?" Amanda suggested.
"Well... ok..."
"So, after six years of being completely hostile towards him, you've finally given the poor boy a chance?" Emma asked.
"Yeah... and I blame you. And Taylor. And Kara. And Marlene. And Alice." Lily stated.
"Well you still love us all." Emma said, grinning.
"Sadly, yes." Lily said, laughing.
"So... Hogsmeade, Slug Club party, or WHAT?" Emma said suddenly.
"What?" Lily said bewildered.
"James, Lily JAMES! WHAT IS YOUR DATE?" Emma practically screamed to the sky.
"You know, I think that there might be a few people in the other side of the world that didn't hear you properly." Lily said, her ears ringing.
Emma stared at her, bouncing on her feet.
"I don't know why I should tell you anyways." Lily said, smirking as she started walking again.
Emma ran after her.
" TELL ME!" she said hurriedly.
Lily rolled her eyes.
"Fine. Valentine's Day Hogsmeade weekend."
Emma squealed in excitement.
"That! Is! So! ROMANTIC!" she said. skipping around Lily as they walked.
Lily couldn't help but smile at her friends wacky ways.
"You know, I think that Sirius makes you happy." Lily stated.
"What makes you say that?" Emma asked, stopping.
Lily also stopped and stared at Emma.
"Before Sirius, you were really kinda closed to everyone... but now your open, happy."
Lily smiled at her before walking away.
-a few hours later-
"Hello. Are you Emma Brooks?" a tall girl with raven-black hair and sparkling blue eyes asked.
"Yes." Emma said.
"I'm Amanda Wescott, Ravenclaw, seventh year. Anyways, I've come to warn you about Sirius..."
Emma gave her a confused stare.
"His whole relationship with you, any sign of affection towards you, it is all a lie. He made a bet with Potter, to get the girl who wouldn't go out with anyone... Once he gets his Galleons, he will throw you out like rubbish. He told me himself. I was warning you because he did the same thing to me. I'm strong about it, but I didn't want someone like you to go down unprepared... Bye now!"
Amanda left a dumbstruck Emma sitting alone.
"I'm... just a bet?" Emma said to no one.
She stood and walked, as if in a trance, to the Gryffindor common room.
"Draconus Major." she said to the Fat Lady, who swung open.
She saw Sirius talking to the Mauraders. She marched over to him.
"You made a BET? That is all I am to you?" Emma hissed at Sirius.
Sirius looked a bit scared, James looked guilty, Remus was wearing a 'Told-You-So' expression, and Peter was watching them like they were a television program.
"Emma... I-" Sirius began.
"James gives you a few Galleons and then you don't look at me again."
"Well... It did start as a bet but honestly-" Sirius began again.
"We are through. I'm acually glad you broke my heart. Just so i can have living PROOF on how right i was about i was about you before. You, Sirius Black, are nothing but a heartless, bigheaded, arrogent GIT!"
And with that, Emma was gone, never to return to the heartbroken shaggy-haired Maurader...