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Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and Katie!!

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"Katie wait!" Sirius shouted after her as Katie ran back to the common room.

Sirius followed her, sprinting after her through the corridors until finally in a deserted corridor he caught up with her and grabbed her arm pulling her back.

"Katie please-pant- wait up-pant. Merlin you run fast." Sirius said through panting, his hands on his knees doubled over.

"What do you want Sirius?" Katie asked impatiently.

"I wanted to say I'm sorry. No please just listen," he said taking her arm as she began to walk away.

"Katie I'm sorry. I honestly didn't plan for James to be there. I just well... I wanted to ask if you em..." Sirius stared mumbling.

"Yes? You wanted to ask me...?" Katie asked.

"Well I wanted to ask if you wanted to go to this week's Hogsmead trip with me?" Sirius asked nervously.

"Seriously?" Katie asked with a smile.

"Ha yeah. So what do you think?" Sirius laughed nervously.

"Of course I will!" Katie said as she jumped on his enveloping him in a huge hug.

"Um sorry." She said as she let him go.

"Ha it's fine." Sirius said, "So um do you want to go back to the common room or what?"

"Yeah sure."

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The next day was spent up planning Katie's outfit, hair and makeup.

After many different possibilities they finally decided on a simple outfit of a cute denim mini-skirt and a red top with cut little pumps. Her makeup was very light consisting only of a little eyeliner and mascara.

Her silky, black curls were left down freely except little bits from the side pinned back.

On the day of the trip Lily and Katie woke up at nine thirty and got ready.

"How do I look?" Katie asked nervously.



Lily walked over to the vanity and put her hands on Katie's shoulder comfortingly saying "You look great."

"Really?" Katie asked with a smile, her confidence increasing slightly.

"Yes! Now are you coming to breakfast or what?" Lily asked as she walked over to the door of the dormitory.

"Yeah I'll be there in a sec. I just need to do something first." Katie said.

"Um...ok I'll see you down there then yeah?" Lily said, her brow creased.

"Yeah sure." Katie said with a smile.

Lily went down the stairs, through the common room and out into the hall. Just as she began walking to the Great Hall James came up to her and, matching her fast walking pace, began to walk with her.

"So Katie's going out with Sirius then?" James asked looking sideways at Lily.

"Don't tell me you're jealous?" Lily asked annoyed.

"No I just...I dunno I just wanted to talk to you." James said looking at the ground.

"About what exactly?" Lily asked not looking at, or near him.

"Just about anything. I just wanted to talk to you."

"Why's that?" Lily asked still not looking at James but icily ahead instead.

James reached out and grabbed hold of Lily's arm pulling her back and forcing her to look him straight in the face "Will you just tell me what I did to deserve the cold shoulder from you? Please what did I do?" James pleaded with her.

"What opposed to me being all smiles and chirpiness with you before? I was never like that with you." Lily said looking at him full in the face this time. Lily sighed and pulled her arm away from him saying quietly "I'm going to breakfast."

James just watched her walk away from him a defeated look on his face before he decided that he had had enough and was going to try and get over Lily Evans. And this time he would stick to it.

He would only talk to her if completely necessary and he would stop staring at her during all his classes and even try to listen in some of them. This was it. That was the final straw for James Potter. He was finally finished.

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Katie was just going into the Great Hall when she saw Sirius racing towards her at a great speed.

"Sirius are you okay?" Katie asked concerned for her date.



"We need to go. Now." Sirius said looking behind him as he grabbed her arm and started pulling her away from the Great Hall.

"Um why do we need to go?" Katie asked concern replaced with confusion.

"Would you still go out with me if I was beheaded?" Sirius asked confusing Katie to no ends.

"What? Why would you need to know that? What did you do?" Katie asked.

"Well um...it was supposed to be a harmless prank but...you know it kind of got out of hand." Sirius said as they stopped jogging down the empty corridor.

"Sirius what did you do?!" Katie asked getting worried.

"Well you know the way it's McGonagall's birthday today?" Sirius asked, looking behind him worriedly.

"Yeah..." Katie said unsure of whether she wanted to know the rest or not.

"Well um... I kind of thought that it would be fun to have this big banner saying 'Happy birthday McGonagall now your 60' but it came out wrong and now it says 'Happy birthday McGonagall now you look 600'! And I couldn't remember the spell to change it and it was too late to take it down because she had already come in and now she's after me! I'm scared." Sirius said a worried look on his face.

Katie just looked at him with a serious look on her face until he and she burst out laughing.

Sirius looked horrified saying. "What are you laughing for? I could die!"

"I'm sorry. It's just funny because-oh Merlin my tummy hurts-because I was just thinking this morning about how old she must be and the first thing that popped into my head was 600!" Katie said between laughs.

"Are you serious?" Sirius asked smiling and beginning to laugh despite the situation.

Katie could only nod as she was doubled over laughing. Soon enough Sirius had joined her and they were both rolling around the ground in a fit of giggles.

As soon as they had recovered from their giggles they got up and headed out to Hogsmead hands clasped tightly.

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