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ok, 'sup my noble readers? How are all of you. Ok, so I know I haven't updated in like forever, but I got busy. Ok, so I'm lying, I got lazy, but I'm putting up like 3 chapters. So, enjoy!

Dedication: To me! Because there's only 11 days 'til my birthday! So, as a birthday present for you, here's the next chapter.

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Aly's gut feeling proved to be true by the next day.

James and Sirius had set up a trap outside of the Slytherin common room. Whenever a student would come out they'd get covered with garbage. It was actually a pretty good prank until Professor Stevens, head of Slytherin, had it happen to him. James and Sirius were sentenced to their first of many detentions to come.

Aly felt so bad when the two sucked in a third meme r to their party. The sandy-haired boy, Remus Lupin, was suddenly seen with the two trouble makers. Apparently, he had given them an idea to make all the food on the Slytherin table float out of reach whenever someone went to reach for it. From then on, he was one of them.

Since there were five beds in their dorm and John Grayson had a twin brother who was in Ravenclaw and therefore never hung out with the Gryffindors that left on lone boy. That boy was Peter Pettigrew. He was a small, mousy looking boy. It was James who had drawn him into the group. (A/N: no, James, no!) He had found him drawing pictures on a fogged up mirror in the bathroom one day during break. Sirius and Remus were both rather reluctant about letting him into the group since he wasn't very bright and he was very clumsy. However, James won out in the end and soon after it wasn't a rare sight to see the four trekking around random places in the school or pouring over books looking for new charms and spells.

Lily and Aly had also picked up a third member for their group. Melanie Burwell had friends in other houses, but when curfews took effect she was left alone in the common. Lily was the first ot approach her, which surprised Aly since Lily was always so shy. Soon the three had become friends. Melanie ate with them and did homework with them; otherwise, it was just Aly and Lily left alone to take on the four boys, who, it seemed, had decided to make it their mission to pester Aly to her breaking point. Which really didn't take much.

The boys, mostly James and Sirius since Peter was so stupid and Remus so laid-back, spent most of their evenings in the detention. This didn't seem to bother them, though, because the teachers hadn't quite picked up on the fact that they should separate them. Evening detentions became their planning times. Aly had secretly agreed with filch when he said they should be hung from their toes in the dungeons.

What bothered Aly most was that since James and Sirius had spent so much time with her father, they seemed to think that since they were on speaking terms with him that they were on speaking terms with her also. It also bothered her that they always seemed to know where he was when he left the school and she didn't.

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It wasn't long before Aly had forgotten about her disappointment from the beginning of the school year. As, September turned into October, and the warm weather turned colder, she was so happy with her life and so caught up in her school work, she wasn't even aware of what day it was.

So she never even noticed when October 13 rolled around.

"Happy Friday the 13th!" James announced to the Great Hall as he entered.

"Oh! I hate days like this!" Lily moaned covering her ears with he hands.

"What do you mean?" Melanie asked.

"Everything seems to go wrong on days like this," Lily mumbled.

"Hello ladies!" James exclaimed as he sat down next to Lily.

"See what I mean," she moaned.

Aly smiled and turned to see Remus and Peter sit down by Melanie and was caught by surprise when a bouquet of fresh daisies fell into her face. She turned to see Sirius smiling.

"Happy Birthday!"

"Is it?" Aly gasped.

"Yeah, October 13."

"How did you know?" she asked skeptically, taking the flowers.

"Well, I spend enough time in your dad's office, so I've come to see it as what's his, is mine. This includes a little book with certain important things in it, like, well, like his only child's birthday," he said sinking down next to her and watching her. "A girl only turns 12 once, you know."

"How did you know that daisies are my favorite?" she asked smelling the flowers.

"Really?" Sirius sat up straight and smiled looking very proud of himself. "Well, I just figured pretty flowers for a pretty girl." He rubbed his neck and ducked his head almost bashfully. He peeked up her as she studied him through narrowed eyes.

"You're going to hit me with the flowers now, aren't you?" he asked scrunching up his face as if to prepare himself for the hit he thought was coming.

"And waste such pretty flowers on you? No, don't think so." She looked back at the flowers. "It was really s-sw-sweet," she wrinkled her nose and added, "I can't believe I just said that about you."

"Neither can I," Sirius said turning back towards his plate, but sneaking another look at Aly from the corner of his eye.

Aly giggled and after realizing what she had just done, covered her mouth and whispered, "Stop flirting with me!" and pushed Sirius' shoulder.

"Me flirting with you? I think not Miss Dumbledore," he replied with a smile. They both smiled at each other for a moment until James bellowed, "Awww! What a touching moment!"

Aly turned to see that they were being watched. Lily and Melanie made kissing noises.

"Stop, Aly exclaimed swinging the flowers at Lily. Lily grabbed them and said, "What's the occasion?"

Sirius looked around Aly and answered puzzled, "Aly's birthday."

Lily looked shocked. She even dropped the flowers. "Your birthday?" she squeaked. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"It's no big deal," Aly replied airily picking up the flowers. "My birthday's never been a real big deal. That's why I didn't tell anyone."

"Well, you obviously told him," Lily proclaimed.

"Actually, no," Aly snapped. She wasn't sure why Lily's reply had upset her, but she had a bad feeling it had something to do with the way she has said 'him.' She pushed the feeling aside. "He found out on his own. And like I said, it's not a big deal." She turned towards Sirius, "Thank you again for the flowers." She stood, grabbed her books, and left the hall. She needed fresh air, badly; something about what had just happened had upset her.

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Black. That was all she could see. There, in the distance: blurs, colorful blurs. There were screams and a flash of bright green light. Then it was over. Everything came back into focus. She was on her back in the middle of the hallway.

"Are you alright, dear?" an elderly witch in a portrait asked her.

"I'm fine," she mumbled before running off to the library.

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"Hey!"

Aly looked up over her book. "Look, the flowers were really nice, but it's not a free pass to bother me. So, please, just go away. I'm studying."

"Geeze, what crawled up your butt and died?"

Aly looked up at the boy, "What?"

"Anyways," he said shaking his head and sitting down, "That's what I wanted to talk to you about."

"My butt or you bothering me?" Aly asked frowning.

"No, studying, but we'll have to come back to your butt," Sirius said raising his eyebrows and smirking.

"Ha, ha," Aly replied sarcastically.

"Hey, you set yourself up for that one."

She rolled here eyes and looked back down at her book.

"Ok," he said, "I'm stuck on potions."

She looked back up and him and he stuck out his lower lip and let out a whimper.

"Fine, let me see your notes."

He handed her his notebook and she flipped it open. "What's this?"

"What?"

"This isn't potions, it's a couple maps of classrooms."

"Oh, uh," he snatched the notebook from her hands and stammered, "I guess, um, well, see the thing is, I forgot my potions notebook in the common room." He looked rather upset with himself for letting her see the drawings.

"Fine, let's go get them." She snapped her book shut and stood, gathering her things.

She started towards the door, and turning saw he was watching her walk away.

"You coming?" she snapped.

"Oh, yeah," he said jumping up and following her.

As they walked back towards the common room, Aly could tell Sirius was holding something back. He kept looking at her weirdly and then twitching the corner of his mouth, almost as if he was fighting not to say something.

"What?" she asked irritably.

"Don't bite my head off, ok?" he started.

She stopped and turned to face him. "Go on."

"Well," he looked for a moment as if he really didn't want to say what he had on his mind, but then he blurted out, "What the hell is your problem? I mean no offenses, but since yesterday, you've been really bitchy. I mean more then usual anyways."

Aly stopped short. Her eyes clouded and her shoulders slacked. She turned, walked over to the wall, and after dropping her bag, slid down it onto her butt.

"What's wrong?" his voice had changed. He came and sat down next to her.

"I had a thing happen yesterday."

"What do you mean?" he asked, "Like a thing thing or a girl thing? 'Cause if it's a girl thing, I can't real help you. I mean I could try, but --"

"No, it was just, well, it was weird thing," she explained closing her eyes and leaning her head back.

"Care to explain?"

"I had a, well, it was like, hmm, well, like a vision."

"What kind of vision?" She could feel him watching her intensely.

"Like of the future. Well, I think it was I'm not sure. It was kinda blurry." She opened her eyes and looked over at Sirius. He studied her and looked as if he didn't really believe her.

"You can laugh if you want. You can call me nuts too because I probably am."

"I believe you," he said even though his voice told her he didn't. "Its just, you mean you saw the future?"

"Yeah, sorta, I guess. I'm not sure. It was something, though."

They sat silently for a while. "What did you see?" Sirius ventured.

"I dunno, but I'm sure I saw something and I know it made my insides crawl."

Sirius nodded.

"And then after it, Lily kept being a pain abut the whole birthday thing!" Aly cried.

"Oh, yeah, about that." Sirius said uncomfortably, "There's a surprise party up in the common room for you. Lily went all out for it too. She even got James to steal food for her from the kitchens. But you don't have to go if you don't want. I can tell her I couldn't find you or something."

After a moments hesitation, Aly said, "Alright, I guess I'll go. She'll be mad if I don't."

They both stood up and started towards the common room together.

"Promise you won't say anything about the whole vision thing," Aly asked trying to sound casual about it, but Sirius could here a note of pleading.

"As long as you act surprised," Sirius responded.

Once they reached the Fat Lady, Aly took a deep breath and said, "Let's get this over with," and climbed through the hole in the wall.

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Ok, there's chapter . . . what am I on now? Oh, right, there's chapter six. I hope you enjoyed it. Once again I have to ask that you bear with any spelling or wrong words and that you please REVIEW. That's the bet part of writing these things. Ok, over and out.