Torn Apart – Prologue

A/N: The prologue is the only part in this story that is set in Hogwarts. The rest will be after they graduate, unless it's a flashback or something. This story will be pre-Harry, but then there will be a sequel that is during Harry's time. I've got the whole thing very well mapped out so I hope you like it and stick with it. The normal chapters will be longer…this is just shorter since its just the prologue.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter in any way shape of form.

Torn Apart – Prologue

Sirius looked at the map again, for what seemed like the hundredth time in the past hour.
They were still in the exact same spot. It was enough that they were together, but them being alone together was what bothered him most. Especially since they hadn't moved in the past hour. That was what was driving him crazy. What could they possibly be doing just standing…or sitting…or laying in the exact same spot for an hour. He tried not to think about what they could be doing.

Sirius sighed and looked at the clock on his night stand. It read 8:04, which meant that he was officially insane. It had felt like he had been staring at the map for at least an hour when in reality, it had only been 4 minutes because their date had started at 8. This was pure torture. He groaned and put the map on his night stand next to his clock. It had only been 4 bloody minutes. That's what she did to him. That's just how crazy she made him. He had to think about something else or he wouldn't even be able to sleep tonight. Why did this girl affect him so much? What was so special about her? They'd never even had any civil conversations between them, all they did was argue. So why did he think about her all the damn time? He groaned again and got up from his bed, deciding to try and find James to keep his mind off of her. As he was walking down the stairs he saw his sister Mira and Remus reading a book together on a couch next to the fireplace, and he rolled his eyes. It didn't really bother him anymore that one of his best friends was dating his baby sister, but he just wasn't in the mood to see everybody all lovey dovey around each other. Which is why he was glad to see Lily in a corner of the common room by herself, because it meant that James was probably alone somewhere and he could help him keep his mind off of girls and relationships in general. He looked around the common room to see if he could find him. When he didn't see any sign of him, he headed for the portrait hole. After he scrambled through the portrait hole, he saw James walking toward him from down the hall.

"Where have you been?" he asked James as he came a little closer.

"The library," he said, "what's wrong?" Sirius had never decided if it was a good think or a bad thing that they could read each other so well.

"Nothing just bored," he said, "let's go to the kitchens…I'm kind of hungry."

James gave him an odd look but turned around and said "ok".

As they walked towards the kitchens, they made idle conversation. James would keep giving Sirius odd looks, knowing that something was wrong, but whenever asked, Sirius either said, "nothing" or "I'm fine".

They turned a corner and ran head on into a girl coming from the opposite direction, who landed on the floor.

"Hey Kayla…sorry about that," said James, holding out his hand to help her up from the ground.

Kayla smiled and shook her head, "its fine James…I should have been paying attention to where I was going."

Sirius just stared at her. "What are you doing here?" he demanded.

Kayla turned to him, gave him a cold look and replied, "Not that it's any of your business but I was on my way back to the common room."

"So soon?" asked Sirius, a little rudely. "What, did you get tired of snogging Higgins already?"

Kayla's eyes widened and flashed as she said, "And what exactly is that supposed to mean?"

"You know damn well what it means," he said.

James, wide eyed, was standing with the two, not really knowing what to make of the two. Sure, they fought all the time, but not like this.

"If I knew what it meant I wouldn't have asked you for an explanation!" she said, her voice shaking with anger.

"Oh don't give me that! I see the way you look at him and how you spend all of your free time with him!"

"For your information, Josh and I are just friends and we were just studying together.

"Oh I bet that's all it is. That's also what you said about Pingley and Meyers, and we all know how those ended."

"Sirius!" snapped James. "What has gotten into you?"

Sirius looked at James as though he were seeing him for the first time before he slowly exhaled.

Kayla, however, was looking at Sirius with a mixture of disgust and horror, before she stormed by the both of them, making her way back to the Gryffindor common room. The two boys watched her for a few seconds before James turned to Sirius with an incredulous look on his face. "What the hell is wrong with you? What was that all about?"

Sirius looked at James a second before he rubbed his face in his hands and said, "I don't know," he said, 'But I wish I did' he thought. He felt even worse now than he had before he had found James. That's always how it was between him and Kayla. They fought constantly, but when they weren't around each other, she was all he could think about. What was worse now was that before she walked away, he could have sworn he saw tears in her eyes.