Chapter 2

"Sirius get up!" Peter yelled.

Sirius eyes fluttered open as he realised where he was. Back in his comfortable bed in Hogwarts where unfortunately his peace was being disrupted by his roommates.

He let out an annoyed groan and turned his face back into his pillow.

"Pads," Sirius hated James and his damn voice in the morning. "Get the fuck up. You have ten minutes before breakfast starts unless you don't want any food?"

Sirius begrudgingly sat up and made his way to the bathroom. Sirius brushed his teeth and threw some water over his face and got into his school uniform.

"Sirius for goodness sake you look awful. Can you smile or something?" Remus asked. Low and behold Sirius looked half asleep and half murderous. He had to get used to getting up early again.

"It's 8 in the fucking morning. No one looks good at this time." Sirius defended. Remus rolled his eyes and walked down the stairs to the Great Hall for breakfast.

Marlene was just about to walk into the Great Hall for breakfast when she saw the Marauders. She waited, giving them a smile as they approached.

Almost embarrassingly, Sirius' mood improved as he saw Marlene standing by the entrance.

"Morning Marls." He said.

"Oh my gosh." She said exasperatedly looking at his unruly state. "You look awful what the hell happened to you?"

"Funnily enough, Remus said the same thing." James said. Sirius glared at everyone.

Everyone was starting to enter the Breakfast Hall and the corridor was become scarce. Marlene started to fix Sirius' collar and ensuring his robes sat nicely on him.

"He looks like he's in good hands, we'll see you two in there." Remus said as the rest of the boys walked into the hall.

"Thanks Marley." He said softly.

She smiled at him, "Don't mention it." She went to tighten his Gryffindor tie so that it sat perfectly around his shirt but he was quick to stop her.

"I think it looks better loose." He grinned.

Marlene threw him an unimpressed look. "You're such a rebel Black." He reached for her tie to unloosen it too and she whacked his arm away.

He smiled satisfied, "There, now you'll be getting in trouble too."

With a fleeting look to see if anyone was around, Marlene reached out to Sirius and planted a kiss on his lips. Before Sirius could react Marlene pulled away with a wicked smile.

Sirius chuckled, "You're such a minx McKinnon." He said pinching her butt, to which she whacked him hard. "Ow! When do you want to start doing our little homework club together?" He asked.

Marlene raised an amused eyebrow, "Did Sirius Black just ask to start homework? On the first day of school?" Marlene feigned surprise her mouth open as Sirius rolled his eyes and pulled her towards him so he could hold her waist.

"I actually like studying with you." He said as she reciprocated his actions putting her arms around his neck clutching on to him.

She scoffed. "Yeah, because every time you start complaining, I'll kiss you! It probably makes you complain even more."

"God yeah, I fucking love complaining now."

Marlene glared at him. "Just because OWL's are over does not mean you're allowed to slack off. You still need to be studying although you still manage to infuriatingly pass when you don't..." Marlene started.

However she never finished what she was saying before Sirius kissed her hard. Gripping his soft unruly hair Marlene couldn't help but kiss him back. The feel of his soft lips moving against hers as his hands rested on her hips made her mind go fuzzy. Sirius on the other hand was just as distracted. He could feel how close she was to him, her perfume intoxicating. In a dark corner of the corridor next to the Great Hall the two were hidden from sight which allowed them to keep kissing and kissing. Marlene parted from Sirius and started to nibble on a little section of his neck and then kissing all down his neck.

"Marlene" Sirius sighed as she continued kissing his neck.

"Yes?" She said innocently.

"You're killing me." He dragged her hands away from his chest. "You need to stop we need to go to breakfast."

Marlene was playing with his hair now which drove him up the wall and his self-restraint was wearing thin.

"We could tell everyone I forgot something and we went to eat in the kitchens?" Suggested Marlene.

Sirius answered by continuing to kiss her.

She pulled away and laughed, "I take that as a yes?"

Sirius kissed her hard, "You're so full of good ideas and I love it."

She winked and pulled him towards the kitchens.

"And your ass looks so good today!"

"Mr Black! Miss McKinnon! Can you explain to me why you are already late on the first day of school of your first class of the day?" McGonagall's stern expression was enough to scare a new born puppy. But not Sirius Black.

Marlene winced and turned to face her. She was regretting her lapse in judgement now and she was especially regretting letting Sirius talk her into sneaking into class. McGonagall's arms were crossed and brows furrowed with a severely unimpressed look on her face. "Well Minnie," Sirius started,

"DO NOT call me that!"

"We were going to breakfast when Marlene realised she had forgotten her textbook and went back to get it." He said smoothly whilst Marlene concentrated solely on trying not to turn red.

Professor McGonagall rolled her eyes, "Well you didn't need to go with her Black. Five points from Gryffindor and sit down or are you looking to further disrupt my lesson."

Sirius grinned and saluted her whilst Marlene blushed even harder at the scene he was making and went to sit next to Lily.

McGonagall continued her lesson on human transfiguration and Marlene quickly recovered and began to furiously take down notes, similarly to Lily.

When McGonagall had left them to get on to their own work, Lily who had been itching to know asked Marlene, "Where did you and Black really go?"

"Well I went to the dorms to get my textbook and he went to the kitchens to get us breakfast because by then we'd both realised we had missed out on a good portion of it." Marlene said smoothly. She conveniently left out the part where they had been late for breakfast because they'd been making out on the common room couch and eating cinnamon buns and drinking coffee courtesy of the house elves. But those were just minor details. As much as Marlene felt guilty lying to her best friend, it was just easier that they didn't tell anyone else about their arrangement for now. James would fly off the handle and into overprotective mode. Her friends for sure would raise suggestive eyebrows and push for them to get together and ruin the lovely predicament she was in. It was easier to enjoy Sirius' company this way. At this point, Marlene was just trying to kid herself into thinking she didn't fancy Sirius just a little bit. She could never understand how a player like Sirius Black could be such a gentleman even when he and Marlene were just snogging.

"Miss McKinnon, first you are late to my class and now you are staring at a wall." McGonagall said loudly making Marlene jump.

And with an apologetic look, Marlene blushed, looked down and continued with her Transfiguration notes.