Chapter 1- Overheard

Renee Gray surveyed her reflection in the Gryffindor locker room. Same tan face, same gray eyes. Only difference was the bit of frizz in her normally wavy auburn hair, but even that wasn't bad considering she'd just come from Quidditch practice and it was all kinds of humid outside. That was the kind of thing she had picked up from Tarin White, her best mate, over the years; how humidity affected hair, how to deal with breakouts, and what's best for a broken heart. Now if only Renee was the type who cared about that stuff.

As she left the locker room, Renee heard her captain and fellow sixth year, James Potter, and his best mate, Sirius Black, talking through the vent connecting the locker rooms. Ordinarily, she would've kept going, but she happened to hear Tarin's name.

"Mate, I'm telling you, Tarin is finer than frog hair," Sirius said.

Renee rolled her eyes, not surprised. She thought about leaving, but knew Tarin would want to hear exactly what the Sirius Black had to say about her. She stifled a sigh as she stayed to eavesdrop.

"Tarin White?" James asked.

"That's the one," Sirius said, "She's the, well maybe not the one, but she's definitely special. There's something about her… She's different, not like the others."

James snickered. "I bet it doesn't hurt that she's 'finer than frog hair'? What does that even mean?"

"Really, mate, I've never met another girl like her," Sirius said, sounding more earnest than was his norm.

Renee could almost hear James rolling his eyes as he said, "Yeah, and you'll be shagging her in a broom closet by tomorrow, Pads."

"Why, Prongs, I never!" Sirius cried in mock outrage.

They both laughed before Sirius said, "But seriously, pun intended, I'm going to ask her to come to our game this weekend. You know, tell her she can be my good luck or whatever."

Renee couldn't help it, eavesdropping wasn't her forte; she snorted. She clapped a hand over her mouth as the blokes were quiet. She heard them get up and walk away. Hoping they hadn't heard her, she left the locker room. No such luck, they were waiting for her at the door.

She tried to play it off. "Wow, guys, did you hear McKinnon going on in there? Merlin was she loud."

They gave her the infamous 'Marauder look'. It was supposed to be mischievously terrifying, but it wasn't working on Renee. "Yeah right, Gray. Everyone knows you're always the last one out of the locker room. We just want to know how much you heard and why you thought it concerned you."

She rolled her eyes again at his tone, but didn't see any harm in enlightening them. "I heard you guys talking about how 'fine' Tarin is, and I just thought I'd let you know you're going about it completely wrong. You'll never get her to give you the time of day by treating her like all your other fan girls."

James grinned. "What would you know about it, Renee? Have you, like dear Padfoot here, been trying to shag her in a broom closet too?"

Renee laughed. "You know it. You know me, can't get enough. No, you pea-brain, she's my best friend. So I kind of know a thing or two about her various romances. You know, Sirius, it wouldn't hurt to know a little something about girls before you try to shag them in a broom closet."

Sirius' whole expression had changed when she said they were best friends. "You're her best friend? You mean, you know everything about her? You can help me out?"

Renee mumbled under her breath, "Hey look, maybe he's not as dumb as he looks," While distantly noting that he had never sounded so sincere for anything other than Quidditch before.

"Sorry, didn't catch that, Renee dearest," Sirius said, playing nice now that he thought Renee could help him.

Renee smiled up at him sweetly. "I said, Sirius dearie, that I'm not going to help you get into my best friend's trousers."

She smiled to herself as she walked back up to the castle. Hopefully Sirius and James weren't following and Sirius would just give up to go back to his fan girls.

AN:/ Wow. Long time no see, huh guys? I haven't published anything in ohhhhh about twenty jillion years.
But I've been working on this story for ever. Like I think it's about 2 years right now? I didn't want to be a jerk and get half way through a story again (sorry about that, really), so I got this story completely and utterly written. All that's left is to type up the last couple chapters. And if I get enough reviews then I'll make sure to do that quickly ;)

On that topic, actually, here's my thoughts for this story; since it's already written I can really update whenever I feel like it. I could put them all up in a day or I could just do it whenever I remember. However, I don't want to just put the whole story up, so I'm just going to go based off how many reviews I get. I'm not going to be silly and be all "I'll only update if I get twenty reviews!" but there's no point in publishing this if nobody's going to pay it any attention. So, if you're interested in reading more after this very short introduction/prologue, please let me know. Now that I have the story written, I could care less if it gets published. THE POWER IS IN YOUR HANDS.

Ahem. Anyway. Thanks for taking the time to read this and yeah. Tell me what you think, good or bad :)

-Nikky