Summary: Marlene McKinnon never wanted the Black boys to fight over her. She never even expected it. She was pretty, yes, but she didn't think Sirius Black would ever take notice of her. Regulus she could understand. She was engaged to him because of her parents so she could see how he was protective of her. Who will Marlene McKinnon choose? Sirius Black, troublemaker, heartthrob of Hogwarts, and runaway from a family who hated him? Or Regulus, a man who loves his family, a good person, and a respectable pureblood?

A/N: Hey guys! So this little story popped into my head and I had to write it down. Anyway tell me what you think of the first chapter! Who do you like better so far Regulus or Sirius? Also I need a cover photo for this story. If you're interested in making one for it PM me.

Prologue

Two black haired boys played in the meadow with a blonde girl.

The oldest of the boys was running in the lead. His steel gray eyes searching the horizon. His black hair was trimmed up to his neck recently. It had once been down to his shoulders. His black robes blew in the wind. He was the bigger of the two boys by far. His face promised he would handsome. A bark like laugh fell out of his mouth as he ran from the other two children.

The younger of the boys followed his brother quickly keeping up with him. His eyes were gray as his brother and his hair as black. He was smaller than both the girl and the boy. His was slimmer than his brother. He moved quicker than his brother sometimes pulling ahead of him.

The girl was the last to come. She couldn't keep up with the boys in her yellow sundress. Her blue eyes keeping them in sight as if trying to run with her eyes. Her long blonde hair whipped behind her. Her legs moved faster as she pulled her dress up. Her dress was too long for running in a meadow.

The two boys laughed as the girl tried to keep up with them in her dress.

"Guys, wait up!" the little girl called almost falling over.

The older boy stopped and waited while the younger boy walked over to the girl.

"Are you alright?" the younger boy asked, offering his hand to help her up.

"Of course, she's alright!" the older boy huffed. "Come on, I want to get going!"

The younger boy glared at his brother before turning back to the girl. She smiled sweetly at the younger boy. The older boy glared at his brother when he saw this though the young boy was unaware of it. The girl got to her feet and she and the younger boy moved over to his brother.

"Are you alright?" the older boy asked looking down at his shoes almost sheepishly.

"Yes," the girl replied.

"I'm sorry for not coming back for you," he apologized his toe hitting the dirt and uprooting it.

"It's alright," she told him smiling.

The older boy smiled at the girl and she returned his smile. Suddenly the younger brother felt as if he were looking in on something privet like his mother and father kissing. He didn't understand why his older brother and his friend looked at each other in such a way. He was only four after all.

"We should get going before our parents find us," the girl suggested.

"Yes! To the forest!" the older boy shouted.

The two boys had planned it all out. They were going to run away and take their friend with them. The older boy had been talking to some muggle children who had told him about Neverland where children never grew up. He thought that if they got far enough than they would find Neverland.

"It's hot," the girl complained after a moment. "I don't want to go any farther."

"Come on, we're almost to the forest," the older boy encouraged her.

"Yeah, just think about all the adventures that await us!" the younger boy told her.

"I don't know if we should be doing this," she sighed. "Mummy and Daddy wouldn't approve."

"Who cares what Mummy and Daddy approve of?" the older boy mocked.

"Maybe she's right," the younger boy relented.

"Fine, be a bunch of cowards," the older boy pouted before stalking off.

"I'll talk to him," the girl said as she saw the younger boy's eyes fill with tears. "Stay here."

"Hey, you buffoon! Slow down!" the girl called after the older boy.

He stopped with his arms crossed over his chest. "You didn't have to be so cruel," she told him when she reached him.

"Whatever."

"Why are you so mad?"

"Because you wanted to come on this adventure now you're backing out."

"I never said that. I just said that Mummy and Daddy wouldn't approve of it."

"If you don't want to go just say so."

"I want to. With you and him."

The older boys smiled at her. "With me?"

He took a step toward her.

"With both of you."

She took a step away from him playfully before he started to chase her. The younger boy watched as his sibling and his friend played. She had calmed him down, but that didn't matter. He wanted to be the one she looked up to. Not his brother. Sighing he stood up and waited for them to stop playing.

"Marlene! Marlene!" a woman's voice called from the house that stood nearby.

"I have to go," the girl explained as she stopped running. "My mother wants me."

"But what about running away?" the older boy asked.

"Next time. We can't tell anyone about it though," the girl whispered.

"Alright," he replied nodding his head.

The pair started to run to the house hand in hand while the younger boy followed them.

A woman waited for them. Her blonde hair was tied up in a bun on top of her head. Her face which had once been youthful now had frown lines. The beauty was still there though. She watched as the children came running toward her. She thought of when she was young and had played with the children her age.

"Did you have fun with Sirius and Regulus?" she asked the girl.

"Yes, Mother, I did," the girl replied.

"That's good," the woman told her daughter. "Now you must tell them good-bye until the next time our families meet."

"Can't they spend the night like last time?" she asked innocently.

The woman chuckled. "I'm afraid not. Their mother wants them home."

"Alright," the little girl sniffed.

She turned to the boys, tears in her eyes. "Bye, Sirius. Bye, Regulus," Marlene said quietly.

"Bye, Marlene," Sirius and Regulus chorused.

Little did Marlene know that her contact with the Black boys would be cut off until her first year of Hogwarts. By then she had forgotten the boys she had played with when she was six years old. Now in her seventh year the two men with cause a rift in her life that even she didn't see coming.