“Sirius are you…are you okay?”

“Do I look okay?”

“Well no, that’s why I asked.”

He laughed his frightening, bark-like laugh. “Thank you for your concern, “ he said in a mock-polite tone “but I’m afraid it’s none of your business.”
 

“What party?”

Louisa looked at her bemusedly.

“What do you mean what party? Sirius's seventeenth – everyone’s going – I thought you’d have been one of the first to be invited.”
 

“If you didn’t want it to go any further between us you could have just said.” Lily told him..."I don't chase after boys who don't want me."


"But I do want you," he said, and before she had a chance to respond, his lips were on hers. 
 

“Get off me Black,” she almost shouted, shrugging his hands off her shoulders and spinning out of his grasp. She tripped backwards over the hoop and fell into the arms of James Potter, who happened to be the closest person to her. Could this get any more embarrassing?
 
 

“He knows it seems a bit much…” Lily invented hurridly, with a flustered glance at Sirius.

“A bit bloody unreasonable!” Sirius shouted at her. “And why’s he asking you to talk to me? Does he even know you? And - more importantly – Why are you listening to him?”
 

“What’ll it be Prongs?” Sirius anticipated, a little too enthusiastically. James thought for a moment.

“Kiss.” he said, and whirled the empty bottle round, with his thumb and first finger.
 
 

The night air was cold and awakening as it rushed at her face and whipped her hair out behind her. She clung tight to Sirius’s waist as they sped across the grounds towards the castle entrance, realising only at the last minute that the gates were locked.

“Oh my GOD, Sirius!!” Lily yelled down his ear, “Slow down! We’re going to crash!"
 
 

So, did you see much of her over Easter?”

“Who?”

“Lily, of course!” James laughed. “Should I take that as a no then?”

Sirius laughed awkwardly. “No, no – I saw her quite a bit actually..."

 

“The restricted section.” he muttered into her ear, as he pushed her back against a bookshelf and lowered his face to hers. “How appropriate.”

 

“Look,” he said. “You can still go and have a good time with your friends can’t you?”

“I’ll go, but not with my friends,” Lily retorted, her mind made up. “If you can have a date then so can I.”

 
 

“Did you see the Prophet this morning?”

Lily started. She’d attributed Sirius’s bad mood simply to watching her and James together, but maybe she was being vain.

“No,” Lily answered. “What’s happened?”

James pushed back his hair, looking upset. “ Regulus again.” He said.
 
 

" I hate it when you’re mean to Severus." Lily said. "You’re so nice, it’s horrible to see you acting like an idiot. Why do it?”

James opened his mouth to speak, but before he could, Sirius had cut in.

“Why do you think, Lily?” he sneered, contemptibly. “And what gives you the right to lecture him? It’s not like you’re the saint you pretend to be, is it?”


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Suddenly the air was filled with a horrible cacophony of sound. Growling and grunting and howling, and beneath Lily, a tangle of bodies burst forth into the clearing.

(just a note - ive made it so when sirius and James transform back and forward into animals they're fully clothed - just so it isnt awkward :) 
 
 
 
 
 
 

“Lily, you’re an idiot.”

Her eyes flashed.

“Don’t talk to me like that.”

“You need to be talked to like that. And you are an idiot if you let him get away with this. He’s a Death Eater – get that into your head.”


 
 
 
 

 There was a moment of silence, then Sirius drew himself up tall, ready to face James’s anger like a man.

“And I’m sorry James. I’m just – so sorry.”


 
 
 

 Sirius laughed. “C’mon Lily,” he said. “Talk to me. We both know that you sabotaged my friendship with James, and I dumped you and broke your heart. But we’re still mates aren’t we?”

 
 
 
 

“Lily,” James said. “I’m going to say this before I chicken out, or common sense kicks in.”
Lily held her breath.
It's the penultimate chapter! Bit of a long one.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The final chapter!!