I awoke to see Madame Pomfrey bustling round the Hospital Wing, preparing everything for the new day. I saw that Sirius, James and Lily were sat on the bed opposite me talking, and Pomfrey didn't seem to mind them being there for once. James caught my eye and nudged both Lily and Sirius. They turned round and spotted that I was awake, Sirius leapt from the bed and gave me a lung crushing hug, and Lily started sorting out the things next to my bed. They had arranged my uniform neatly on the bed next to me, consisting of my white blouse, my red and gold Gryffindor tie, my black robe with a red hood that I usually carried in my bag, my faded black skirt (that was suppose to be knee high but most definitely wasn't), my favourite red and gold stripy knee high socks and underneath the bed were my black converses, which I completely adored and although they were tatty, I wore them most days even though I was forever getting told to change them by McGonagall. Smiling, I hugged Sirius tightly and he let go, he kissed me lightly on the forehead, causing me to blush furiously.

'You guys are amazing' Grinning; James muttered something about already knowing that and Lily looked pink with happiness.

'You should probably get changed or we'll be late for Care of Magical Creatures' James and Sirius coughed nervously and turned round to face the wall while I got changed.

Soon I was done, and after thanking Pomfrey for all her help we all walked slowly down the hill to the entrance of The Forbidden Forest, next to Hagrids hut, where a bunch of Hufflepuff's were waiting.

The lesson was very boring, and I didn't learn anything new from what I had already known about the animals. Most of the time Lily and I were talking about our upcoming Animagus lesson, which was tomorrow, and we were both exceptionally excited about what was going to happen. The full moon was in four days time and Remus said if we had practised enough we could join him in the Shrieking Shack, but only if we knew what we were doing.

Lily had guessed since 5th year that something was going on with Remus, as did her old Slytherin friend Severus. They weren't friends anymore since the middle of fifth year when Severus had called her the 'm' word in front of most of our year, leaving Lily distraught that her childhood friend would ever say something like that to her. I wasn't with Lily at the time but I had been told after by Remus that James had thoroughly beaten Severus up for it, and for once, I was glad James and Sirius despised him.

The day flew by and before we knew it, it was Tuesday, the day of our first Animagus lesson. Friday was the first full moon, so we had most of the week to practise. We met The Marauders in the Gryffindor Common Room, where they took us up to the seventh floor and down the deserted corridor.

'What the hell are we doing here?' Lily asked, but was quickly shushed by Sirius, who was staring hard at the map, with his eyebrows burrowed together. We walked past the empty wall about three times, and on the fourth time Sirius exclaimed:

'AHA! TOLD YOU PRONGS!' I leapt out of my skin at his outburst and quickly followed his gaze to a huge wooden door. Had that always been there? Remus, who seemed to be able to read our minds as he motioned with his arm to the door, that James was pushing open, said:

'Welcome, to the Room of Requirement!' Lily and I gaped at the huge room inside; it had definitely not been here before. The room was empty, but had some sofas at the side, with a tray of cakes and food sitting on the cushions. It was like this room had required precisely when it was needed, precisely when it was required… The Room of Requirement! I had heard of this, it was a room that appeared every time a student needed something, like if you desperately needed the loo, the door would appear and the room would be full of everything you needed, like toilets. Or in this case, prepared for an illegal Animagus lesson.

'Okay, lets get started!' Remus clapped his hands together and we all focused our attention on him, well Lily and I did, James, Sirius and Peter starting eating the food while they watched us. 'Concentrate on your happiest memory, focus on it so much that you can almost feel the emotions, and see what its like to be there. Okay? Then shout, Expecto Patronum! Still focusing on the memory. I doubt it'll take long for you guys, probably two or three times, so! Lets get started, Lily, you go first' Lily screwed her eyes up in concentration and muttered the words to herself before opening her eyes and shouting:

'EXPECTO PATRONUM!' A whisp of smoke came from her wand, and you could almost make out a shadow of a horse, no wait, a stag? No it didn't have antlers, a doe? It certainly looked like a doe, but you couldn't really make it out.

'Good try Lily! I'm positive you'll get it next time!' James whooped from the sidelines and I focused solely on my memory from a week ago, the memory of the graduation and kissing Sirius.

'EXPECTO PATRONUM!' A silver wolf burst from my wand, prowling round the room and baring its teeth once more. Peter looked petrified, the wolf was quite big, and Sirius laughed before reaching out to try and pat its head lightly. My Patronus wasn't very strong however, and disappeared instantly.

Lily had a few more goes, and so did I. After a while, when Lily shouted:

'EXPECTO PATRONUM!' A slim doe erupted from her wand and pranced delicately around the room, spinning and bucking. Grinning, she watched the animal leap and bound round The Marauders, leaving a trail of silver mist, but James froze and dropped his cake on the floor. No one understood why, except the rest of The Marauders, who were laughing at James.

'You guys are soul mates!' Sirius was laughing so much he almost fell off the sofa, and Remus explained James' Patronus was a stag, and I too fell about laughing at his face. Lily blushed pink and looked at the ground, before walking over and ruffling James hair affectionately.

'Okay, now its time to transform.' Lily and I gulped and exchanged a worried look: 'just concentrate purely on that animal, and picture it in your mind okay? You guys will be fine!' Remus was encouraging us, and Lily and I took deep breathes before closing our eyes and concentrating carefully on our Animagus.

I pictured the grey wolf in my head, with black paws, black ears and a black tipped tail. It had a deep grey coloured nose, and ice blue eyes, but Remus had told me its eyes would change like mine, which would be awesome. Suddenly, I felt my spine change, and my whole body tingled, I felt myself shrinking, and sprouting legs, the balance was completely different. My nose grew, and it tingled in front of me. My eyes burned and my back ached, and as quickly as it had begun, it was over. I opened my eyes and realised I wasn't that small; I was like a huge dog. When I tried to walk I instantly fell over, and I saw Sirius running to pick me up and balance me. Before my eyes I saw Sirius change into a huge black dog, quite a lot bigger than me, with a shaggy coat and big brown eyes. I recognized the dog from somewhere, but I just couldn't remember where…

Lily had changed into a large, but slim doe, with huge brown eyes and a dainty face and legs. She too kept falling whenever she tried, but James morphed into a stag and quickly pushed her up again, and soon, she was running round beside James.

Weirdly, I could hear The Marauders voices in my head, even Remus and Lily's. Peter had changed into a small rat, which I thought suited him well actually. Sirius and I were sat on the sofa, talking to each other when I remembered where I had seen the dog before. I morphed back into myself in pure disbelief and said to Sirius:

'It was you! I talked to you when I was upset! Merlin's beard! I said I liked you! Why didn't you tell me? You let me babble on about me being in love with you and you didn't say anything? Merlin's beard, I feel like a right idiot now!' I sat down on the sofa and glared at Sirius, who had now changed back into human form and was looking sheepishly at the floor before muttering:

'I'm really sorry, but it was cute, and you did say you liked me, therefore you have just admitted it to everyone' Winking, Sirius grinned at me, but I glared at him even more and said:

'Damn you. I cant bel-' Before I could finish, Sirius had leant forward and kissed me, firmly on the lips and before I even knew how to respond he had pulled back, and morphed into his Animagus.

'Damn you Sirius Black'

After a while of talking, and morphing, and fighting between Sirius and I, we all went back to the Gryffindor Common Room, and lounged on the sofas for a while. Sirius was still grinning at me, looking extremely pleased with him. He didn't look so pleased when I hit him over the head with a cushion however, and that started a full on pillow war. Lily and I had decided to be on one team, against the others, and we were amazing at pillow wars. Sirius had decided to try and kill me with his pillow, but me being the clumsy person I am, I quickly tripped over the rug and went flying into Sirius, knocking him over as well. Laughing, Sirius picked the feathers out of my hair and leant forward to kiss me again. Shoving a deserted pillow in his face, I got up and ran for it will screaming:

'MWHAHHAAA! REVENGE!'

'I'm going to kill you Rusty!' Sirius was running after me and jumped over the sofa before grabbing me round the waist and pulling me onto the sofa and kissing me on the forehead.

'Charmer' I grumbled, and he winked at me, while pulling a disgusted face at Lily and James, who were (very publicly) snogging each other's faces off.

'What do you think Rusty, should we copy them?' Sirius said, winking at me, and I snorted rather loudly.

'In your dreams' I ruffled his hair and he wrapped his arms round my waist. We were sat on the sofa; I was lounged sideways, sitting on Sirius, who was facing normally, making me look a lot taller than I actually was.

In reality, I was at least 5 inches shorter than Sirius. I was 5'5, a decent height for my age, but Sirius was freakishly tall, and was still growing. He was 5'10, but I was guessing he would be 6'0 by the time he stopped growing. It definitely was not normal for him to still be growing at eighteen, but he insisted it was perfectly normal, especially in his family. We never really talked about our family, all Sirius knew was that my father was dead and I lived with my muggle mother, he didn't know how he died, or what my mother was like. I didn't have a clue what his family were like, I only knew he came from the Most Noble and Ancient House of Black, where most of them supported the Dark Lord and were death eaters. I knew from Lily that Sirius had run away from home nearly two years ago, in the middle of fifth year, and went to live with James and his parents. He had lived there ever since but he told me he was buying a flat so he could get out of the way of The Potters, because he had always thought he was a burden, but we all knew the Potters loved him, like he was their own son almost.

I found out in fifth year that Sirius had a brother, Regulas who looked pretty much the same as Sirius, but much more menacing and cold in a way. He was a Slytherin, and Sirius had basically gone down in history as being the first Black to ever be in Gryffindor, as most of them were always in Slytherin. Sirius hated talking about his family, I knew that, and it never came up in our conversations.

We lounged on the sofa till curfew, laughing and talking about the randomest of things. I loved the feeling I got when I talked or even spent time with Sirius. There were always butterflies in my stomach and I felt like a grinning idiot most of the time. He made me laugh, and I loved his sarcastic humour and his charming ways, everything about him was just perfect. And in the weirdest possible way, he was beautiful. His hair that always looked so perfectly messy, and was always uncontrollably long, and his eyes were just mesmerising. They were a sparkling grey, and they seemed to light up whenever he laughed, but they were always permanently sparkling with mischief.

I couldn't place how he made me feel, it was a weird sensation, but I liked the feeling, it felt like I belong, like I belonged with Sirius. And that's how I always want it to feel like.

A/N I loved writing this chapter, Sirius makes me laugh.
Aww, James and Lily being soulmates, i loved it! :D
Do you guys ship James/Lily? Or Severus/Lily? Gotta say, its Jily for me! Even though im a huge fan of Snape, i dont think he deserved Lily, not after what he did.
What do you guys think of Peter? Id love to hear your thoughts, i think its not that Peter was evil, or a death eater, i think he didnt have the choice, and that he was more scared of death than of betraying his friends. Although what he did was wrong, i have full sympathy with him, and think he just didnt have a choice on the matter, and he was forced to. Its not like he asked to join the Death Eaters, so i have complete sympathy for him.
Random thought: What do you guys think of Ginny? Book Ginny, or movie Ginny? I preferred Ginny in the books, shes just much more individual and stubborn. Defintely more fiery and defensive than the films, where she just seems to... Weak? And her relationship with Harry was better in the books, they seemed more compatibly. Movie Ginny was too girly for me, especially when she hid the Potions book, she was just too feminine.
I also loved the scene in the book with the tatoos and stuff, which i really missed in the films!

Anyway, thanks for reading this extremely long others note. I appreciate it!
- SiriuslySlytherin17 x