October and December seemed to pass in a huge blur. Lily and I helped Sirius and James fix up their place (which looked nice, though of course not as nice as our sweet little cottage). There weren't any bad fights between us and the guys, so no need for any pranks...yet. And Lily and I were getting pretty good grades on in all our classes. All in all everthing was going perfectly, except Remus has gotten sick two more times since last time, he says it's just his immune system working up though, and everytime he had to go to the hospital wong, Lily and I would bring him soup and sit with him all night. Strangly enough though Sirius and James seemed to have bad bruises the next day, but they refused to tell us what happened. But Lily and I figured that maybe we don't want to know, so we leave it alone, (though I know it still bothers her, cause I can't stand not knowing, and well, you know how alike Lily and I are.) But everything's going good and it seems that our guests just got here.

"Well hello Samantha darling," Sirius says rather smoothly as he takes my hand and kisses it, "aren't you looking lovely tonight?"

I pull my hand back, "Why yes, I am looking rather lovely, no need to tell me."

"Always so fiesty. I simply adore it!"

I roll my eyes and leap excitedly into Remus's arms, "Remmy! I missed you!"

He laughs and sets me down, "I just saw you today in Potions."

I sigh dramatically, "I know, and it's been ever so long!"

"But potions was just two hours ago!"

I gasp, "That long ago? Why, me must catch up immediately! Quick to the kitchen!"

And with Lily going, "Da dadada!" in the background I quickly grab Remus's hand and sweep him away into the kitchen.

He laughs once we're alone, "You know Sirius hates it when you do that."

I grab a popsicle out of the freezer, "Do what?"

"Flirt with every guy that comes within a ten foot radius of you."

I look at him, disgusted, "I do not flirt with every guy that comes within a ten foot radius of me!"

He raises his eyebrows and gives me that look at female best friends usually give you, (You know the one I mean! Where they're pretty much saying ya-right-you-know-you-so-do-that-you-just-don't-want-to-admit-to-it look. And for all the guys reading this, it's pretty much eyebrows raised, pucker the lips and move them to one side of the face while still being able to somewhat give a knowing smile, and nine times out of ten, there's hand on the hip.) and says, "You most certainly do do that! And I swear to Merlin if you laugh at do do, I'm shoving that popsicle down your throat."

I quickly hide the smile that it threatening to surface and simply reply, "That's how I am Remus. I talk to people. Girls and guys. And plus I don't really care if Sirius likes that I apparently flirt with every guy or not. I'm not his property!"

"That's not how I see it..."

"Well maybe you need to clean your eyes! Yeah I'll admit that he can be sweet and that we do have our moments, but he's still extremely arrogant and stubborn, and conceited, and a man-whore, and-"

"Okay, okay, I get it. But it still bothers him."

"Listen to me now and hear me later, I do not like Sirius Black. At times I can barely stand being in the same room as him. Why do you think I drug you in here, I hate it when he kisses my hand and he knows that! Actually I hate when he kisses any part of me!"

"You like it, sometimes at least."

I sigh, "Okay, in the moment it's nice, but like I said, he's arrogant, and conceited-"

"Alright, alright," Remus smiles, holding his hands up in defeat.

I know he doesn't believe me, and to be honest, I'm not even sure if I believe myself...

"Are we going to watch the play or not!" James yells as he barges into the kitchen, "Oh my god! Put your clothes on! And Samantha, get that part of Remus out of your mouth!"

"WHAT?!" And Sirius comes busting through the door, nearly knocking it off of its hinges.

I look at the fully clothed Remus, who is sitting clear on the other side of the table from me and start laughing.

"You ass!" Sirius yells and punches James in the shoulder.

"Ow! It was a joke, man!" James yells as he rubs his shoulder while following Sirius out of the kitchen.

I brush the tears out my eyes, "Ready to go Remus darling?"

"Yupp, let's go."

"Tickets! Hand me your tickets children! Hendricks! I need your ticket!" McG's voice could be heard all the way from the back of line.

"We've been waiting here forever!" I groan, leaning my back against Lily to take some of weight off of my feet.

"It's only been twenty minutes," Sirius says, looking up at the clock that hangs above the Great Hall.

"Ahh! It's been even longer than I thought!" And I slumped onto the floor.

Sirius, of course, sat beside me, getting all up in my business might I add, "You really do gorgeous tonight Samantha."

I looked down at my dress, it was dark red (Gryffindor!) and closed in around my body until about knee-length and then it puffed out into a huge bush of fabric. It was really hard to walk in, but I thought I looked pretty good in it. And my hair was curly and pulled up, though it looked more sophisticated rather than laid-back.

I smiled at Sirius, "I do, don't I?"

He laughed and the line started to move, he stood up and offered me his hand; I took it.

"We're off to see a play-ay! That's what I say!" James was singing as he excitedly hopped around Lily.

"James, have you ever been to a play?" Lily asked.

"Nope, that's why I'm so excited!"

"This is a sad play though, I wouldn't be excited about it." I yawned once again glancing up at the clock.

"Lily, if you by chance need a shoulder to cry on, I just so happen to have a ncie broad once right here," he smiled, patting his shoulder.

She just laughed as the line slowly crawled on.

"Oh My Merlin! Why would Romeo do that? He had so much left, so, so much left!" James yelled as he began bawling all over Lily's shoulder. She awkwardly patted his back and mumbled, "It's okay."

"Mr. Potter! For the last time, if you cannot control your voice level, I'm going have to ask you leave!" Mc G said for about the millionth time.

"BUT IT'S SO SAD!"

Sirius sighed and looked at me, "I can't take him anywhere."

I giggled and turned my head back to the play, Romeo was taking his last breaths. It was about five seconds after he died and the curtains began to drop. James immediately stood up, "Bravo! Bravo! Simply splendid! Uh! Okay, who's hungry?!"

I shook my head, "Not me."

"But...it's a charity dinner for the inderprivileged of the Wizarding World. We have to eat to help them!" James yelled.

I sighed, "You can eat my share, I'm going back to the cottage. Lily?"

"Hungry." And she started walking with James to the dining area.

I smiled and started to go, but Sirius fell in step beside me, "I'll walk you."

"M'kay." And we walked in silence until we got outside. I shivered in the chilly January air, and was just wishing I had brought the warm peecoat Sirius had gotten me for Christmas when he put his tuxeodo jacket over me. I looked up at him and smiled, he gave me one in return.

"I hope Spring gets here soon," he mumbled, hugging his arms around himself.

"I don't need this." I said, starting to take the jacket off, but he quickly shook his head and continued looking straight ahead.

I sighed and tried to make small talk, "So...what'd you think of the play?"

"It was alright. I mean the story line, great; the acting, not so much."

I laughed, and agreed, and then we just walked the rest of the way in silence.

Once we got back to my cottage, he turned towards me and kissed my cheek, and mumbled, "Goodnight."

Then he walked away and I stood there, watching him go, and continued to gaze into the night for a few more minutes. A cold wind though reminded me that I should go inside, but once I got in, I realized someone else was already in there.

BUM BUM BUMMMM! Epic ending huh??? =]

Anyways, I am so deeply and terribly sorry that this hasn't been updated since like...last August.

I'll give you my list of excuses that probably don't mean anything to you...hehem

1) School started and with that came homework

2) Met this new guy and had a relationship till about the middle of January. Then he ended it and said he needed to concentrate on his winter sport, though surprisingly, started dating another girl just a few weeks later. And apparently the fact that he was my most serious relationship and that I really cared about him more than I have ever cared about anyone else in the entire world, didn't seem to matter to him. So I was mildly depressed, and in case you haven't noticed by my little rant above, I am still not over it. I have never been in love and I thought I mattered to him, but I just turned out to be another number. Oh and by "another number" I do NOT mean sex. I did NOT have sex with him, I am 14 years old, I have no intentions of doing that until I'm older, like 17, 18, and not until I know he's the one, and once we've been together for a long time.

3) Because of the above sadness, I have started realizing how important my friends are to me, and how much they care about me, and have made much more time for them, because I know that despite everyone else in the world that disappoints me, they never will, and they are the one who are important, along with family.

4) Also because of the number 2 reason, I have discovered that shopping helps ease the pain. I know it's not necessarily healthy, nor is it cheap to go shopping alot, but it's my version of therapy.

5) Volleyball Season 333

6) I have like...6 birthday's that I've had to attend in the past two weeks.

7) AndI'm sure I could think of a seventh reason, but as I stated above, you probably don't care.

So I am soooo sorry!

But please, feel free to Review =]

Mean comments are welcome, though nice ones are preferred =]