Never Alone
It was nearing eleven o'clock though the Gryffindor common room was still full. People were doing their homework and playing games quite loudly.
Sitting alone, away from all the noise was a boy with black hair that fell into his grey eyes. He was bent over his homework trying to ignore everyone else, though every few minutes he would lift his head and his eyes would flicker over to where three other boys sat by the fire.
Sirius Black turned back to his homework again instead of watching the other Marauders. It was his entire fault, he thought and guilt washed over him yet again. He was the one who told Snape how to get into the Shrieking Shack to where Remus was. He was the one who almost got Snape killed and Remus expelled. He thought it would be a great prank, a way to get Snape off their backs but it had backfired horribly. He may be one of the most popular boys ever to have come to Hogwarts but the Marauders were the only people in the world who really knew him. And he'd lost them.
He was brought out of his thoughts when someone sat down next to him. He looked up and found Lily Evans, the girl he hated almost as much as Bellatrix and who hated him just as much, was sitting there.
She offered him a small smile and he wondered what she was doing. She opened her book up and continued doing her homework without an explanation.
Two and a half weeks later found Sirius sitting with the Marauders. They were laughing and doing their homework like nothing had ever happened.
At nine thirty that night though, Sirius got the feeling that something was missing. Something important.
He looked around the common room and his eyes landed on a certain red head sitting on the other side of the room.
Lily, who was sitting with her best friends, Mary MacDonald and Alice Stewart, didn't look up but Sirius understood.
Every night for the past couple of weeks without fail Lily had sat with him, playing games or talking with her friends or else doing her homework in silence but they'd never said a word to each other. Though he understood the message.
At that moment Lily looked up and they smiled at each other before turning back to their friends but knowing that neither of them would ever be alone again.