A/N: This is my second fanfiction and my second Sirius/OC story. I'm not giving up on Faded Photographs I'm just stuck on how to go about Raelyn and Sirius time but I am trying. I know what I want to do after that I'm just stuck on that one part. Any suggestions you have are welcome. Until I can get over that hurtal I'll be working on Goodbye Lullaby.
Story Summary: Every summer was the same. He'd sweep in through the diner doors with a melting smile and comforting words. Each time he'd steal my heart away. When summer came to its end he would leave with a last kiss and a promise of return. From September to June I wonder why he never notices the little Ravenclaw two seats away.
Chapter One
It was like clockwork.
The first day of summer would find me wipping down the counter in my family's tiny little diner wondering if our afternoon customers would even qualify for being a lunch rush. Just as the clock struck five past twelve he would stroll in through the door with a melting smile stretched acoss his face. He would slip into the seat directly across from where I was working. Once he was settled two words would escape his lips, 'Hello love', and I would be lost.
Through out the rest of summer our afternoons and nights would be spent together but never mornings. Promises were always made, ones I knew he had no intention of keeping but secretly hoped he would. But I knew what to expect because each summer would be like the one before it. I wasn't the girl he left behind because he cared about me. I was the summer fling he could always count on.
Through every smile, word, and secret glance I could lie to myself and almost believe that things would change. I would convince myself that he would suddenly realize that I stole his heart just as much as he had stole mine. But it never happened. Just like I knew how he would come back into my life I knew how he would leave it.
We would stand outside the diner with our arms wrapped around one another. He would give one last, lingering kiss and a whispered promise he would return. I would take the promise and let go. I would watch him leave taking my heart with him.
This summer was different. He still left with a kiss and a promise but this time he had left a part of him behind. Around my shoulders he left the heavily scented leather jacket telling me to keep it. I couldn't help but feel a little bit of hope that he would final recognize me away from the diner and the heat of summer. But I knew once school started I would be nothing more than the little Ravenclaw who sat two seats away, quietly studying, lost to those endless grey eyes.
September came and changed into October. The leaves continued to change and fall to the ground while the air became charged with excitement. With October came Quidditch, Hogsmeade, and the Halloween feast. What October didn't bring, however, was sudden realization.
Since September second I have sat just two seats away, scribbling away on a piece of parchment with my quil. I wasn't blocked from his view but I wasn't right in front of him. Still a single glance could be enough to raise suspicion. I was within reach and he didn't notice.
Or maybe he had noticed and just didn't care. Maybe he just wanted to keep me as a summer secret. Maybe I should have been the one to tell him. Maybe I'm overreacting.
"Anya help me easedrop," a whisper to my right came.
I titled my head slightly to find May Bay looking at me with a hopeful face. Dark haired, dark eyes, and dark skinned, May Bay is the Rita Skeeta of the sixth year class. She had nothing better to do than spread gossip about anyone and anything. She has the uncannyability to twist and turn anything anyone says into an interesting, need-to-know story. She can make any story so believable that even the people who know it's a lie won't question it. All in all May Bay sent chills down back, and not in a good way.
"Who are you trying to easedrop on?" I asked, not entirely sure way we were whispering. Professor Binns was so far gone in his lesson that we won't notice if the classroom was on fire. Not that it would really worry him considering he's already a ghost, though I'm not entirely sure if he knows that.
May's eye lit up and her mouth turned up into a Chesire cat like grin. "The Marauders. They're discussing Sirius' summer disappearances and I for one want to know everything about them."
I will admit that I was curious as to what Sirius would say. If the other three Marauders were questioning him in the middle of a History of Magic lesson then he clearly never said a word about me during the holidays. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that.
"I don't really care, May," I lied. "Easedrop on them yourself."
She huffed but said nothing. Instead she pulled her 'Gossip Book' out of her bag and prepare to write down anything she found interesting. She tapped her nails against the table for a good ten minutes without writing a single word. Obviously whatever the Marauders were saying they didn't want anyone else to hear.
"Oh boys," May did not give up easily, "would you mind speaking up? I'm not getting anything to tell my listeners (the gossip whores of Hogwarts)."
From the corner of my eye I watched all four Marauders turn their attention to May without sparing me a glance.
"It's none of your business Bay," Sirius' voice seemed to have an edge to it. One I've only ever heard when someone or something was about to snap his last nerve.
"Yeah, it's no use Bay," James Potter's annoyed voice seem strangely out of character. "We can't get anything out of him."
"What are you trying to get out of him?" May was all innocence, acting like she didn't already know.
"Where he goes during the summer," James didn't seem to be having a problem sharing this Marauder secret.
"Oh." Even May couldn't hide her curiousity.
"For the past three summers Sirius here has disappeared during the day and the occasional night," James begin the detail I already knew. "I didn't think much of it as first. Remus and I figured he was sneaking off with some Muggle girls for a snog here and a shag there."
I have never shagged Sirius, something that only seemed to bother him when things got a little too heated in the past summer.
May's had flew across the pages of her book, quickly filling them.
"James that's enough," Remus Lupin is always the voice of reason. "This is between you and Sirius."
The tension between James and Sirius suddenly became clear. I didn't think it was possible for two Marauders to be mad at each other, but here was the proof. James Potter was mad at Sirius Black and vise versa. I couldn't blame James though. He just figured out that his best friend, who was more like a brother, has been keeping something from him for the past three years.
"Then came the last night of this summer," James continued despite Remus' warning. From where I sat I saw a muscle jumping in Sirius' neck. "He left with his leather jacket in hand and came back wihtout."
"I told you I lost it," Sirius snapped.
If it wasn't for the fact that I was the one causeing this I might have laughed at how James and Sirius sounded like an old married couple.
"And I told you that's bullshit. That thing is like your Holy Grail."
At that point I stopped listening. Instead I sat with my back straight with my hair covering the right side of my face as I stared forward. I could tell by the lack of scratching like noise that May had stopped writing. I could also feel her eyes boring holes into the side of my head.
Despite the discomfort her gossiping could bring me, May Bay was my best friend. When it came to people I could trust May topped the list. Even with her strange obbesion for gossip I never made the headlines, not even when I did something extremely embrassing. When my name did start to slip from person to person May was there to make sure the story got changed and made sure I was never in the lime light for the wrong reason.
Being my best friend May had seen the worn and weather beaten leather jacket sitting in my trunk back in our dormitory. A long with being a super smart Ravenclaw it didn't take May long to realize where the jacket had come from and what role I played in Sirius Black's summer disappearances.
"Anya..." May's voice was barely a whipser.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
"Why didn't you tell me?" May's voice had become loud enough for the Marauders to hear.
"I didn't know you were so concerned." I couldn't see their faces but I'm pretty sure that the Marauders looked as confused as I felt.
Sirius and I were never meant to be anything serious, just summer friends. Okay so maybe we were more than friends but it was only supposed to last over the summer. There wasn't supposed to be any strings attached. We had made that rule the frist time we met. As long as there was no one else and we still wanted to do it than we would have a summer of fun. A summer that was it. No matter how hard it got to watch him walk away at the end.
"Of course I'm conerned!" May was fixing her slip up and addressing the Marauders but I knew this wasn't over between the two of us. "If Sirius gave away his jacket that means we Hogwarts girls have some serious compettion. Doesn't it Sirius?"
Sirius answered with a grunt.
For the first time since fourth year I prayed that Sirius wouldn't notice the little Ravenclaw sitting two seats away.
A/N: I don't know. The title might change. The rating might go up because I feel like there's going to be a lot of swearing and maybe a little more graphic a lone moments but no lemons. I don't write those, they make me feel awkward.
Anyway I don't know.
~Katie.