Here's my submission to the Hogwarts Online prompt of the day. I had a flash of insiration while writing the beginning, but luckily I'd already used the prompt so it didn't matter it didn't fit perfectly. The prompt was- "I just want to be loved"

Disclaimer: I will never own anything to do with Harry Potter, even if it upsets me.

"I just want to be loved." Lily wrapped her arms around me comfortingly.

"I know you do Lucy." We sat together for a few hours in our dorm, eating all of our secret chocolate supplies and crying over all our past heartbreaks- not that Lily (poor thing) had many. Every time she got a guy James Potter would blow a fuse. Lily was just lucky he had the sense to draw the line at hurting any of them.

"We'll find someone one day." I smiled wryly as my best friend said this, wishing more than anything that she was right.

Lily really did know everything. I made a mental note to give her a massive hug when she wasn't joined to James by some point of her body. Yeah...none of us saw that one coming either. Actually, nobody had seen in their wildest dreams who my lover-boy would turn out to be.

Today he'd insisted we stay back from the Hogsmeade trip to instead lounge about in the Common Room and relax for a few hours. NEWTs really were stressful- both for Madam Pomfrey and for us. I'd lost count of how many people had needed a calming draught.

Still, exams aside it had really turned out to be my year. While last year my only close friend had been Lily I now had Alice and Sophie, and while Miss Evans would always be special I was adjusting to having a social life with relish. Then there was Him. He'd appeared in front of me before the monthly Hogsmeade trip and completely out of the blue asked if I could help him with Transfiguration. I'd been confused because his best mate was easily the best in our class at that very subject, but seeing as I didn't have much to do any way I agreed.

Just before he left to go to bed, he'd turned back to look at me and asked with the biggest grin whether I'd go into the village with him. I remember being completely struck dumb, with just enough self control left to nod and close my mouth. That windy day down in the village was easily the best of my life (bar getting my Hogwarts Letter of course). My date was kind and amusing, wasn't over-bearing...and at the end of the day he apparently felt the same way as he asked me if I wanted to see how things would to between us.

Right now we were both curled up on the sofa directly in front of the fire, he cheerfully contradicting me when I told him he didn't really know me yet. We had only been dating for a month after all.

Sirius Black grinned at me, brushing an errant strand of hair out of my eyes. "Maybe sometimes we know people so well there are no words. Maybe sometimes that's enough."

My over-logical brain wasn't happy, but my madly romantic heart was swooning. "Maybe..." I sighed in contentment and curled deeper into Sirius' embrace. With my head in the crook of his neck, I could feel his fingers running through my tangled locks, one arm holding me tightly to him.

A worn fluffy blanket pooled over us in a layer of warmth and security. My mind was in a haze, the rest of me sunk deep into Sirius and his love, his heat. "I love you." He murmured, pressing his lips to my forehead. I didn't reply, but I didn't have to- he knew. It was in that moment I really understood what he'd said earlier. I knew him; I couldn't explain it, but I did.

And he was right: it was enough.

Eh...I don't think it's my best. But I sort of like it, especially when she's lying in the Common Room with Sirius. I'm just not sure about the beginning.