SAME AUTHOR DIFFERENT PEN NAME!!! Just had to get that out there before I started to avoid any confusion :)

4. Confession

It had been almost 5 months since Lola and James had started dating, and the whole school was on the edge of their seats to see what was going to happen next in their rollercoaster ride of a relationship. They hadn't broken up yet, not even fake break ups, it seemed that they both really wanted to make it work out and they were trying hard not to let the little things matter. Once they'd passed the 2 month stage they'd become one of those annoying couples who had annoying pet names for each other, Jamesy-poo and Lola-cake. Once they'd passed the 3 month stage they'd become one of those annoying couples who gave everyone advice on relationships. Once they'd passed the 4 month stage on top of everything else they'd become one of those annoying coupled who make-out randomly in public. One moment they'd be having a civil conversation with someone and the next wrapped up in each other's arms making everyone in a 5 meter radius want to puke. And now, now that they were approaching the 5 month mark, they started to become one of those annoying couples who never leave each other's side, it was like they were attached at the hand. Even some of the teachers had started to split them up in lessons so they wouldn't have to endure "crazy out of control teenage hormones" as Professor Slughorn told them when apparently one potions lesson it had just become too much.

They really didn't know when to stop, when they said good bye they did that annoying missing you already thing, when they had to sit apart in lessons they sent each other love notes, James was constantly in the girls dorms (even though the girls couldn't figure out how he got there) and if he wasn't there Lola was in his dorm. They were one of those annoying couples who pissed everyone off. Their friends were pissed because they had to endure the two of them making love eyes across the room and their more, physical displays of love. The female population was pissed because one of their favourite play toys was off the market, though Sirius benefited from this exceptionally. The teachers were pissed because they had to be constantly on guard for the happy couple. And the prefects were pissed because they'd been assigned extra rounds trying to catch the two, although they really didn't want to see want to see what was going on behind the tapestry.

And all the while Lola and James were completely oblivious, caught up in their own world where it was just the two of them.

All in all, they were a very annoying couple.

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"I can't take it anymore!" Sirius ran into the Great Hall hands over his eyes screaming and sat down next to Marlene.

"Sirius?" She said trying to pry his hands away from his eyes. "It's okay, you're with single friends now. What did you see?" Sirius threw himself into Marlene's arms and told his story to the girls, Remus and Peter.

"I was walking down from the dorm to come here and eat, no-one was in the room but I thought that I'd heard something. That was when I made my first mistake, I ignored it, decided that it was my over active imagination so I got ready and headed down the stairs. Half way down I realised that I'd forgotten my wand, mistake number 2, so I went back up to my dorm and then, then, w-when I-I o-open-ned t-t-he d-d-door." Sirius stopped talking as he was very nearly in hysterics, and cuddled into Marlene even more, at first she was rather repulsed, never being on best terms with Sirius, but decided to let it slide this once and gave him a hug.

"Can you tell us what was inside your room Sirius? Then you can have some waffles. Okay?" Alice persuaded

He took a deep shaky breath and started talking again though still quite tearful. "In my room, on my bed, James and Lola were making-out. But wait, that's not it." He stated dramatically, the whole group on the edge of their seats. "Her hand, was... was, way too low!" As he finished Sirius wacked his head repetitively against the table, as if trying to clear his head of all the horrible images running through it, the rest of the group watched feeling repulsed and trying to get away their own very unwelcome mental images.

"Sirius, are you okay? Talk to me Sirius. SIRIUS!" Remus shook his friend back and forth try to get through to him.

"Remus stop it." Lily dragged Remus from across the table back to his original position next to her, "We have to give him time to become himself again, he's been through a lot these past few minutes."

"I understand, sorry. But I was just wor..." Remus stopped mid-sentence and started to send death-glare to the door, the group followed his gaze and saw the two "love birds" walk in looking flustered.

"LOOK!" Emmy stood up and pointed to Sirius. "Look what you have done to this poor creature, never again will it be able to look you straight in the without reliving one of the worst experiences of his life!" Sirius emphasised this with a wail. "How could you do this? Hmm? You very nearly ended this young boy's live with all your funny business. No more I tell you, no more. I shall not put up with these ludicrous displays of affection." She banged her fist down onto the table and took Sirius' arm. "Come one Sirius, we'll leave the nasty people and go to the kitchens where you can have all the waffles you can eat." And with that she lead the still shaken Sirius out of the Hall.

"What the hell do you think that you're doing Lola?" Alice questioned

"It, it was n-nothing, just a b-bit of fun is all." She stammered no looking anyone in the eye.

"Fun? How moronic are you. We're 16 Lola you idiot. 16!" Lily shouted.

They were attracting some attention from the other Gryffindors and some of the other houses now.

"Look, guys, we can't help it can we Lola-cake?" Said James, putting his arm around Lola as she nodded her head.

"BAH! Well you should at least try, we cope with it because we want you to be happy but I know that I don't just speak for myself when I say this but you're going too far. I can't stand to be in a 10metre radius of you two sometimes, you make me physically sick. And in all honestly, I really can't be bothered." Remus told then in an angry tone. He walked out of the hall the others in the group following him.

Alice stopped as she passed Lola and James. "It's not that we don't want you to be together, but just think about what you're doing before you do anything that you'll regret.

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Since then Lola and James had became more careful, their friends had no doubts that they were still expressing their love physically, but they didn't do it in a way that made you retch, in public anyway.

Everyone was in high spirits due to the second Gryffindor match of the year, if they won this match against Slytherin it meant that Gryffindor would be in the final, again. They'd won the Quidditch cup 5 years running now and no-one on the team or in the house wanted to end that streak. Lily was grateful that they'd won the year before she came to Hogwarts because she was sure that if they'd started their winning streak when Sirius and Potter joined the team their heads would just about explode due to serious overdose of confidence. There were a lot of 5th years on the team, Potter and Emmy were chasers and Sirius and Marlene were the beaters, everyone had to admit that those two made the perfect beater team and were two of the best beaters in the history of Hogwarts. It was funny, Marlene had always been disgusted by Sirius and his player ways, and he had always hated that she was the one girl standing between him and his goal of getting all the girls in their year to go out with him. (Lily, Alice, Emmeline and Lola had given up to the puppy dog eyes in 3rd year and each endured him for a day.) But when it came to beating they were perfect for each other, they both had brute strength and startling accuracy, they helped each other out and also targeted the opposing team's members perfectly legally in a way that couldn't possible give penalties. On the pitch they forgot all their difficulties and hatred and focused solely on the game they were playing.

As nearly the entire school made its way into the stands the atmosphere was an intense jumble of hostility, excitement, nerves and fear. They all waited on the edge of their seats until the game finished, Amy Brown caught the snitch and Gryffindor cheered like crazy people.

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"Congrats guys." Lily gave all her friends a hug in the common room after the game.

"Thanks Lils. It was a terrifying experience, those Slytherins are fierce, especially when two of them want you dead. But Sirius Black has never ever been one to deny a challenge and I fought till the very end, it was a near death experience Lily m'dear. I'm lucky that I survived with all my limbs." Sirius made several dramatic hand gestures to accompany his over exaggerated speech.

Marlene snorted "Of course you're such gallant hero. I mean, that snitch has it in for you, it was right by your ear one time, you are defiantly lucky to have survived." She laughed and made her was up to the dorm.

"I think that you were very brave Sirius." Laura Plateworth walked past winking at him.

"I'll be right back guys." He shouted as he followed her out the portrait hole.

"Will he ever learn?" James asked himself more than anyone else

"Of course not, he's that great doosh bag that the sluts call when they get lonely, and he goes running, just like a little puppy." Emmeline started barking after she finished speaking tackled Alice to the ground to lick her face like an over excited dog.

Lola and Lily glanced sideways at each other wondering how exactly they became friends with this nut case.

Emmeline suddenly stood up and left the room, still emitting a few barks making those around her stop and stare.

"I still don't get her." James said scratching his head.

"Does anyone?" Lola asked, slowly pulling her boyfriend away from the group into a more private location, Lily, Alice, Remus and Peter quickly diverted their eyes.

"I'm beat, sorry to be boring but I'm going to hit the hay guys." Alice walked off rubbing her eyes.

"Me too." Peter agreed heading in the direction of the boys dormitories.

"Guess that it's just us two them Remmy." Lily chirped cheerfully.

Remus groaned at his nickname, "You promised that you wouldn't call me that in public."

"Who else is watching us or listening into our conversation?"

Remus looked around desperately. Trying to find a way of accusing some random person for eavesdropping so that Lily would stop calling him Remmy, however when no-one was to be found he turned to once again face Lily and sighed in defeat. "Fine, but not in front of anyone else," He said thinking of how his friends would tease him mercilessly if they found out about Lily's pet name for him.

But although Remus wouldn't tell anyone, he had a soft spot for Lily and always had done; she was like the sister that he'd always wanted. Remus had always hated the way that James treated her and was glad when Sirius hadn't reacted the same way. But Remus would never bring up the subject with James, he was too afraid of losing him. You see, Remus Lupin was a werewolf. He already counted himself lucky for having three brilliant friends who had done so much for him and hadn't neglected him as soon as they'd found out. All three of his friends, James, Sirius and Peter hadn't really been bothered about Remus' "furry little problem" as they called it. They hadn't freaked out and deserted him; the only change was that they'd wanted to help him. They were brilliant people in Remus' eyes but he still felt that if he did one thing wrong or said something to upset one of them, then that person would either tell the whole school or worse, stop being friends with him. So even though all three of the boys tried to reassure Remus that they were never going to leave him or tell anyone his secret he still lived in fear than one day, one of them would betray him.

So Remus knew that he would never confront James about any of his attitudes to Lily Evans, no matter how much it killed him inside.

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"Is it nearly done?" Sirius was bouncing around the deserted girl's bathroom on the second floor.

"Will you shut up and sit down or you're going to wet yourself Sirius!" James was getting impatient after tell his excitable friend to sit down at least 6 times.

"But I want to know if I can go tell Remus yet" he whined, now sitting crossed legged.

"Okay, I'm allowing you to go and get Remus and bring him here. But you mustn't, I repeat must not tell him anything. Got it?" James instructed with a stern voice.

Sirius nodded eagerly and sprinted off at fun speed.

"I hope that he doesn't spill." Peter said thoughtfully. "How do you think Remus going to react?"

"He's a prefect, who would flip if he thought that we were breaking a few school rules. How do you think he's going to react when he finds out that we're breaking a few wizarding laws and putting our lives in danger?"

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"Hey Remus." Marlene greeted her best friend cheerfully. "Have you done potions yet? I was going to ask Lily for help but she's disappeared into the great void that is Hogwarts. Did you understand question 3?"

"Erm, yes I'll just go get my paper, you can use that to guide you." He smiled. Remus really enjoyed Marlene's company, and also had a soft spot for her, but not just as a sister. He'd liked Marlene since 1st year when they'd been partnered up in Transfiguration, one of her weaker subjects. From then on they'd become total best friends. They were always partners in lessons and spent most of their time together, that was of course if she wasn't with her girl-friends and he wasn't with his guy-friends. She knew all of his secrets, she was also the first and only person that he told about his lycanthropy (A/N werewolfishness), Sirius, James and Peter had sort of found out. He trusted Marlene with all of his secrets and she did with hers. But earlier this year Remus had started to see her in a different light, but he knew that he could never tell her, scared again that he'd lose the friendship that he'd built up over the years.

"Got it," He wafted the paper in Marlene's face and as she smiled his heart skipped a beat.

"Thanks so much R." She said hugging him. "Want to go down to the lake so I can copy your work and we can catch up at the same time. I feel like we never spend any time together anymore, you're always with James and Sirius and I'm always with my other friends. We're still best buds right?" Her smile turned into a frown.

"Marls. Think a little, could I ever be anyone else best friend?" Remus said giving her a reassuring hug which he wished could mean more.

"Sorry, over reacting I just wish that we..."

"REEEEMUSS. OH REEEEMUSS!" Sirius came bursting into the common room with a flourish, grabbed Remus and started to tow him toward the portrait whole.

"Sirius what are you, uh, I give up. I promise that we'll hang out later M." And with that Remus gave into Sirius and allowed himself to be pulled away from the object of his affections. "Sirius what the hell is this about? It better be good otherwise I'm going to kill you!"

"You'll see," Sirius said beaming from side to side. "And trust me, it'll be way better than what you had planned with McKinnon."

"Marlene"

"yer yer"

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"Lola we need to talk." Lily approached her friend with a serious look on her face. "I can't do it anymore. Every time that I see Potter I just want to scream at him. I feel like I never get to spend any time with you anymore, sure Potter and I made a deal that we wouldn't fight but it's killing me. He just pisses me off so much Lola but it annoys me more because I'm really trying. I'm trying so hard to make this work out for you two, I can tell that you like him and I don't want to be the one that mucks it up for you. But I really don't see how I can go on like this. I find myself avoiding you just so that I don't see him and end up having a fight with him. I'm really sorry but I have to tell you this, I don't want you to think that I'm not talking to you or anything because I don't like you anymore. I really do, it's him that I hate. And I'm also sorry for taking this long to tell you this, but you're with him all the time and when we're in the dorm all the other girls are there, so again I'm sorry."Lily sighed, she'd been working up the courage to tell Lola how she felt for a while but still knew that she wouldn't feel relaxed or relieved until she heard Lola's reply. Oh Merlin I hope that I haven't screwed this up she thought.

"Lily," Lola's eyes were soft. Okay Lily, that's a good sign. "You should know that after 5 years I'm not going to let a boy get between us, even if I'm going strong with him. You'll always be before anyone, you along with Marl's and Emmy. You guys are my BBF and nothing, nothing could ever change that. I had realise that you weren't there as often but I didn't think that you hated me for any reason. Don't worry Lils, I know how you feel about James and I also know just how much you've tried to be nice to him for me. I really appreciate that, how about we have a girls night tonight, all four of us. We'll sneak out to Hogsmeade, get some chocolate and stuff from the muggle shop; some DVDs or shit. Then we'll just stay in our dorms and enjoy each other's company, how about it?" Lola finished her speech with a huge smile on her face.

"I'd love that Lola." Lily also beamed. Now I can be relieved she thought. "Come on lets go tell Emmy and Marlene. It's already 5 so should we leave for about 7?"

The two girls walked up to the common room chatting intimately.

"Hey gorgeous." James Potter stepped out from behind the door of a classroom grabbed Lola and pulled her into a kiss.

"Okay, okay please people, we've talked about public displays of affection. There should be none."

"Evans. Will you shut up? And Lola, want to come to Hogsmeade with me tonight?"

"Sorry James, but we're having a girl's night." Lola said removing herself from James and going over to link a smirking Lily.

"So what are you doing?"

Lily answered this time, "Going to Hogsmeade, buying chocolate, going to muggle shop, buying DVDs, going back to Hogwarts, watching DVDs and stuffing our faces. Bye." She tried to push past but James blocked the way.

"How you going to get to Hogsmeade?"

"You're not the only ones that know the passages through Hogwarts Potter."

He looked surprised that the girls actually knew the passages in and out of Hogwarts too.

"Well you can't go by yourselves, please let me come, Sirius and Remus too we can protect you."

At this he put on his alpha face that looked like he was constipated and puffed himself up like a peacock.

Lily snorted. "That's one of the stupidest things that I've even heard Potter, you're totally absurd."

"James, trust me, we'll be fine, plus it's going to an all girls night. Bye Jamesy-poo."

"Fine, but I don't like this." He sighed in defeat. "Love you Lola-cake. Evans." he gave Lola a final pech on the licks then sprinted off along the corridor.

"I really don't see the need to run. Anyway, we have to go get ready."

Okay, so firstly I hope that you liked and please review! Now, I'm sorry that this update has been really late, I've had GCSEs and I've been ill and according to my mother if I'm too ill to go to school I'm too ill to be on my laptop. So yes, that's why it's been so long folks. Also I don't know when the next update will be because my laptop has died on me, the only reason that I have this chapter is because I sent it to my big computer so that I could print it off, so the next chapter is on my laptop which I can't access until the computer people fix it, and I can't write any other chapters until I get that one because I haven't finished that one and stuff so it might be a while, I'm really sorry. Alos i just had to update this because the last chapter had joined together and stuff.

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