"WAKE UP LAZY ARSES!" are the few words I woke up to on the morning of Saturday, April 5th during my fifth year at Hogwarts. O.W.L.s were starting soon and everybody was trying to relax for as long as they could.

"What is wrong with you, Marlene?" Lily asked angrily as she sat up and rubbed her eyes. Where was I in all of this? Under the blankets, hiding from any of my insane roommates.

That's when I felt a large force hit me in the back. I also realized that the large force was wet and cold.

"What the hell?" I exclaimed as I jumped out of bed and ran into Mary who was rubbing her eyes.

"Well, you weren't getting up so I decided to wake you up the hard way," Marlene said as the same thing happened to Lily by force of Hestia. The poor girl. I know how that feels.

I stomped into the bathroom angrily and turned on the shower. When the door opened and closed exposing laughter for a half second while I was shampooing, I became very angry. Who dares disturb my shower time?

"Halley? Can I brush my hair and talk to you?" Lily asked as I relaxed a little.

"Sure. What about?" I asked and continued to rinse my hair.

"How do you know if you like someone? How did you know you liked Sirius?"

I had to think about this one for a while. I finally got one.

"You know that you like someone when your heart kind of skips a beat when they talk to you. Or that you start watching what you say so that you can please them," I told her. It was very true. Both of those happened to me with Sirius.

"I think I like Severus then," she answered. "Maybe even a little more than like."

"Are you saying…." Was all I could say.

"NO!" she exclaimed. "Not that. Maybe if he wasn't so into the Dark Arts."

"Wow," I said as I turned off the water. "I don't mean to be rude but do you mind if you could rejoin the banshees for a second while I get dressed?"

"Sure. Please tell me when you're done, though. They're on a roll with the pranking today," She told me sincerely and closed the door.

~O-O~

The five of us were walking out into the courtyard with our bathing suits and towels in our hands. We were going to go for a dip in the Black Lake. We were halfway down the hill when I saw someone floating in mid air. As we got closer, I realized that that was Severus and he was being suspended by James.

When Lily noticed, she ran ahead of us and pushed James away.

"Stop it you numpty!" she yelled at James and then offered a hand to Severus. Severus helped himself up though and then muttered something at my friend.

"Mudblood," I heard a bunch of 'Oh's come from the crowd as her eyes filled with tears and she ran back up the hill and pushed past all of her friends. I looked at Mary, Marlene, and Hestia and spoke to them.

"Make sure she's okay. I'll take care of these bastards," I told them and started down the hill. When the Marauders and Severus started departing I stopped them.

"NOBODY goes ANYWHERE until I've spoken to them!" I yelled and they all stood. I started with Severus.

"How dare you? You are a little pig! She was you're best friend and you call her- that! What the HELL is wrong with that picture?" I yelled at him searching for more words. "You've left me speechless!"

"That's hard to do," I heard James mutter to his friends as they tried to stifle a laugh.

That's when I decided he was my next victim.

"And you!" I yelled at him. "If it wasn't for you picking on him all the effing time that would've never happened! If you wouldn't have tried pantsing him or whatever the hell you were trying to do, he wouldn't have ever said that." When I was finished and he was looking at me with amused eyes, I slapped them off his face.

Then I turned to Remus.

"And YOU! Mr. Prefect! Why didn't you stop you're friend from doing that? If you would've been doing your job than they would've been fine!" I yelled at him and he looked like a deer in headlights so I did my job.

Then I looked at Peter and he cowered in fear so I didn't even start with him.

"You!" I said looking at Sirius now. "You're his best friend right? Well why didn't you stop him from doing something stupid? That's what friends do! You disgust me!" I said to him and whipped out my wand. I sent a curse at Severus and then tried to shoot one at James but it whisked out of my hand. I looked around and Sirius was holding it.

"Sorry. Bros before Hoes," he said and looked at me with a smirk. With one last disgusted look at all of them, I stomped back up the hill and up to the dorm where I found a crying Lily being comforted by our friends.

"Hey," I said to them all as they looked up. I spoke to Lily for this. "If it makes you feel any better, I told them all off. Except Peter. He cowered when I looked at him so I figured that was enough."

"I know," she said with a clogged nose. "I heard you from up here," she added with try at a smile but just started crying.

"It's okay! We'll stay with you all day and talk about random things," Hestia said with a look at us all and we nodded. I could tell that made her feel better.

~O-O~

When dinner came, Lily didn't want to go so I stayed with her and let the girls go down to the Great Hall for some food. I got a letter almost as soon as they left.

Dear Halley,

In case you didn't notice, I still have your wand. If you want it back, meet me in the abandoned Charms classroom on the second floor at 8:15 and we'll do… some other things before you can have it back.

-S

Lily read it over my shoulder and I felt my pocket. Damn! He was right! I turned to Lily for approval and she nodded.

"Just be sure to give him a little slap for me and don't let him do those, other things. Just get your wand and come back," she said as I departed.

~O-O~

I arrived at 8:27 and he was sitting on a desk waiting for me. Will power, will power, will power, I thought. It was extra hard seen as how he was wearing a black shirt that was tight on his skin, thus exposing every muscle on his upper body.

"I knew you'd come," he said as he stood up. He tried to kiss me on the lips but turned my head so he missed me completely.

"I just came for my wand. Give it to me now so I can leave," I told him and tried not to look at how his eight pack abs showed through his shirt.

"Really?" he said as he backed me against a wall and put his hands on opposite sides of my head, blocking me in. "Is that all you came for?"

"Y-yeah," I said and cursed myself in my head at how my voice quivered.

"Uh-huh," he said back as he started nibbling on my ear. He moved to my jaw bone and then I caved. I put my arms around his neck and moved his mouth to mine. He reached for the buttons on my shirt and I helped him by just ripping it off. I felt him smile against my lips in triumph.

I moved my lips to his neck as I lifted his shirt up enough for me to put my hands on his abs. He shivered in pleasure and helped me by just taking his entire shirt off and then moved my lips back to his. He put one hand under my skirt and on my inner thy and started rubbing it and the other hand moved to my waist. My hands floated so that they were now gripping the waistband of his jeans. Eventually it got so that he was in only his Gryffindor lion boxers and that I was only in my black lace bra and in my royal blue skirt.

Sirius was in the middle of giving me a hickey when I heard the door slam open as we jumped apart. Then I heard an oddly familiar voice.

"WHAT THE FUCK?"