"I don't know how you do it Mar."

Looking up I see my best friend, Lily Evans, make her way over to where I was currently sitting and eyeing the plants suspiciously.

"They are not going to hurt you unless you provoke them Lil." I say laughing and letting my patronus disappear. Lily usually finds me here in the green houses when she has a feeling I am hiding from people. Herbology is after all my favorite subject. She sits next to me under the Umbrella Flowers.

"How are you doing Mary?" She asks concerned

"Fine." I lie. I had just broken up with Peter earlier this morning and I have been hiding in here since.

"I am serious Mary. You can't live on the eatable plants Professor Sprout has in here forever you know." She replies, motioning to the strawberry plant that was sitting next to me.

"No, you are Lily – Not Sirius." I retort kind of sourly, feeling a pang in my heart when I say his name. Her glare plainly states not to joke about this. "Sorry…" I mutter.

"You are my best friend Mary. You can tell me what is bothering you."

Sighing I tell her what happened this morning, which she already knew from James. "I guess I am just confused Lily."

She reaches around me like she is going to give me a hug, but pulls back and bites into a strawberry and smirks when I roll my eyes. "What is your memory?"

"Huh?"

"Your memory. What memory do you use for your patronus?" I mutter my answer, but she already knew the basic. "Then it was the right choice."

"How do you know that, Lily?"

"Because I know that you love Peter enough not to hurt him. And don't you dare say anything about the other night, you were drunk."

"But Lily, I KISSED him. At Peter's birthday party of all places!"

"Mary. What did I just say about talking about the other night?"

"Not to mention it because I was drunk" I reply repeating her words.

"Exactly. Now let's get you back to the castle. You must be hungry and I think the moving plants are annoyed with us being here."

"First Lily, the 'moving plants' are called Screechsnaps," I inform her as I stand and grab a water bucket and sprinkle them with water. The snaps stop screaming immediately. "And second they just needed water."

Lily practically has to drag me from the green houses because I get distracted by tending to the plants. We joke all the way up to the castle and walk into the Great Hall for dinner. Grinning as I see the group; James, Remus, Charlotte, Peter, and – I stop abruptly as I come across his face – Sirius.