Sirius woke up with a start. He'd had that dream again. The one about the person he shouldn't be dreaming about. It needed to stop. It was starting to seriously disturb him. Even more disturbing was the fact the he always woke up… wide awake… after that dream. He needed to shag someone or something, because things were getting a hell of a lot worse.

It had started out as inconsequential little dreams about watching said person in the shower and had progressed alarmingly fast. Sirius had never worried about his more unconventional desires before. He knew that everyone had them, whether they said so or not, and there was no reason to worry about them. However, reoccurring dreams about someone he hadn't ever really found attractive before was something new.

Especially when the object of his lust when of the same sex, something he'd never really been into before. Sure, he sometimes found other men attractive, but it wasn't like he wanted to lift their shirts, or anything.

This time; though, Sirius really wanted to lift his shirt. He wasn't even Sirius' usual type. He liked very attractive, well-groomed people, a side effect of being raised by pure bloods. This person never had his hair done, and he never wore nice clothes. It wasn't his fault, and Sirius would never blame him for his lack of style, some people just couldn't afford it. However, this didn't change the fact that he liked his fancies to look a certain way, and this person never would look that way.

Even more, he was a very good friend of Sirius'. They shared a dormitory and often ended up showering together- which Sirius blamed for his fixation. He also got to- had to- watch him undress and get dressed everyday.

Even a saint would eventually take notice of that tight little ass he insisted on flaunting all over the place.

And that skinny, yet somehow still slightly muscular chest.

Even his legs were worth notice, even though Sirius had seen better on both males and females.

Gods, the last time he'd been so worked up was when Charlie had set out to seduce him. She had used all her considerable female charms to get into his pants, and once she had she'd left him in the dust. Being used by her had definitely been a very stirring experience.

However, this new person wasn't trying to seduce Sirius. He wasn't kissing his brains out and turning everything he said to Sirius into an innuendo. He was going about life as he always had, nothing had changed in his attitude towards Sirius.

Why, then, had Sirius' attitude towards him changed? It made no sense. Everything was exactly the same, why would his friend of six years all the sudden become the object of his lust? Sirius didn't think that he had changed so much. In fact, he had probably changed the least out of everyone.

Prongs had become obsessed with Lily in their fifth year, and didn't have any time for Sirius anymore. He also became head boy, which meant he was off doing more important things now more than ever. Wormtail had gotten even odder and more skittish now that Prongs was no longer reliable. Moony was always worried about school and studying with Lily, which drove Prongs more insane than ever.

Sirius was definitely the only one to maintain his values all the way through the years.

Is was his friend that had done the changing. He'd just decided it was time for him to become incredibly sexy so he could torment Sirius. That wasn't very nice of him.

Hell, he wasn't a very nice person, when Sirius thought about it. Not nice at all.

He was so mean, in fact, that he had to choose that moment to wake up and hear Sirius muttering to himself.

"Sirius?" inquired Moony, sitting up. "Are you talking to yourself?"

"No, Moony. I am not talking to myself. I was simply thinking about things and apparently some of my thoughts made it out of my mouth."

Through the hangings Sirius could see Moony scratching his head tiredly. "So who's a tart, then?"

"No one is a tart…" Sirius paused, considering. "Actually, lots of people are tarts, but you don't need to know about this one."

"Who's a tart?" Prongs' voice floated over from the far corner of the room.

Sirius cursed. "Don't you people have anything better to do than listen to me talk to myself? Honestly, the sun's just up, you should still be sleeping or something like that."

Moony laughed. It was a low and husky sound, as he'd just woken up. It was, God damn it, an extremely sexy sound. "I thought you said you weren't talking to yourself, Padfoot. Get your story right."

"I'm allowed to lie if it makes me feel better, and it does. Now leave me alone."

"Geeze, mate, yesterday you were going on about how you weren't getting enough attention, now you're getting too much."

Sirius frowned at Prongs. "Yesterday you ditched me to be with Evans. Today you're listening in on my private conversations!"

"Private conversations with yourself?" Moony was laughing again.

Sirius nodded and pulled the blanket up as discretely as possible. "Just because I'm talking to myself doesn't mean I want you gits listening in."

"Maybe you should try keeping them in your head, then, " Prongs suggested. "Besides, there's no way to 'not' hear you when we're in this room."

"Psh. I'm leaving." Having said this, Sirius got out of his bed and started getting dressed. "I'm going to go have a nice long talk with myself that no one will be listening in on!"

After he left the room, Moony looked over at Prongs. "Any idea what that was about?" he asked.

"Nope," Prongs answered. "He's been weird ever since we got back to school."

Lily ran into Charms just seconds before the bell rung. It was hard enough getting there on time on a normal day, but Sirius had decided to molest her on the way today. He had said that he was passing a message on from 'Prongs' and grabbed her arse.

It had taken all of her considerable strength to not hex him. She wished that James would have thought about this before he cursed Sirius. He'd made all of her efforts into nothing, and all he'd gotten for it was detention. And, of course, he thought that it was more than worth it.

It was strange, though, Sirius' reaction to everything. He hadn't laughed or cursed like he usually did, but he seemed oddly put-off. Almost like he was disappointed or something.

It was most likely because Lily hadn't cursed him. Getting a rise out of James was easy, so Sirius was probably trying to get one out of her with that stunt. All the more reason for Lily not to hex him, no matter how satisfying it would be.

And it would have been very satisfying.

Oh well, perhaps another time.

"Why were you almost late?" Alice whispered from behind her. It was a very rare occurrence for Lily to be anything but early.

"I ran into Sirius and James on my way, and Sirius decided to molest me," she explained.

"And of course James retaliated?"

"Of course."

"And he was given detention for said retaliation?"

"It's the only outcome that makes sense."

Alice laughed. Lily was the envy of the school, with James always following her around, and, as a result of James' affection, she got more attention from Sirius than almost any other girl in the school. The two most attractive blokes were attached to her, any girl would give everything to be in her situation, and she would give anything to be out of it.

Alice knew that Lily really did enjoy James' company, even though she would never admit it. He was simply too intelligent for Lily not to see something in him, no matter how annoying he was. The girl couldn't help but be attracted his brain, it was her one weakness. It was true that James didn't put any of the intelligence into school work, but that didn't change the fact that it was there.

It would pop up at the most random of occasions and take everyone, particularly Lily, by surprise. Sure, Sirius would usually ruin the moment by loudly demanding a high-five, but, by that time, Lily would already be hooked. James; however, was never able to reel her in. He always went to fast and ended up scaring her away. If he would be more subtle, Alice was sure about this, then Lily would be his.

He was getting better, a lot better, to be honest, but he had six years of being awful to make up for.

Remus was getting very worried about Sirius. He watched the back of his head as he yelled at James, who was seated across the room. Sirius had been late, which was no surprise, but he had entered class upset. And not angry, which would have been no surprise, but upset about something.

James seemed completely oblivious to it, in the way only a male best friend could be. It didn't matter that he knew Sirius better than Remus did, he just refused to believe his best friend could be anything but completely happy whilst he was by his side. Remus wasn't exactly the sensitive type, but he'd known Sirius for six years, and it was obvious that something was wrong. For the life of him, Remus couldn't figure out what it could be. He'd recently gone through a lot of trouble with his family, but there was no reason for him to be distressed about it right now. He and Charlie had recently fought, but Sirius was far too proud to let that get to him.

Remus suddenly remember how Sirius had acted that morning. He had been very defensive, as if he was hiding something. He had no idea what he would have to hide from James, but maybe Remus would be able to get it out of him. After all, there was no sacred manly code or vow between them, as there was between James and Sirius. He knew that the two of them couldn't be closer, yet they had a very strained relationship when it came to relationships, both the one they shard an their outside fancies.

Sirius didn't like Lily Evans at all, for the sole reason that she sometimes caused James pain. He was very loyal, and seeing his best mate shot down again and again got on his nerves. And James hated Charlie, she was the Slytherin seeker and had stolen the Quidditch Cup from Gryffindor last year. Remus knew that Sirius wasn't serious about Charlie; though, he wasn't serious about anyone. And whenever the two got in a fight with each other, they couldn't be more stereotypical about it. They would hit each other, then forget they were ever mad. God forbid they talk it out, that would be too gay.

Maybe it was Lily that had Sirius upset. Remus had heard about the incident on the way to class, everyone had. Perhaps the fact that James would curse him for Lily was what had gotten him upset. Then again, it was nothing that hadn't happened before, so why would it get to him this time?

Sirius was almost acting like a skirt at this point, and it really didn't make sense to Remus. He had always been the most clear-cut of the marauder's, now his role had been completely reversed. Not even James understood his motives at this point, which saying something very big.

The thing that honestly worried Remus the most was, he forced himself to admit, was that Sirius's attitude towards him had been the biggest change in the last couple of weeks. He was either extremely distant or almost flirty. Although he secretly liked the latter, it made him uncomfortable the Sirius had changed his attitude.

He really just wanted everything to be as it always had. He was terrified of loosing one of his best friends. And he was terrified that this friend had discovered something that he had attempted to hide. Something that would explain his change in behavior.