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"All Around Me" Performed by Flyleaf Written by L. Mosley / J. Culpepper / S. Bhattacharya / J. Hartman / P. Seals

All Around Me

Sirius sees the boy sitting up against a tree listening to the wind blow. He watches as the boy's hair is blown to one side of his face. As if on queue the boy turns to look at Sirius. "Hey, why don't you come and sit with me." The boy gives Sirius one of his beautiful smiles and he can't help but take up the boy's offer. Sirius starts towards him. But… Wait… The gap between Sirius and the boy grows longer and the earthy scenery turns into a dark corridor. He starts to run down the corridor that doesn't seem to end or go anywhere. Wait… come back… "Sirius" He runs faster toward the voice. "Sirius" Wait…

"Sirius!" Sirius jumps half way out of seat and looks around for the owner of the voice. He doesn't have to look to far; standing next to him is Professor McGonagall and she is mad. "Well, it seems that once again you have took it upon yourself to take a nap in my class. There is a reason why classrooms don't have beds in them. Detention and 10 points from Gryffindor; class dismissed."

Everyone scrambles in a hurry to get their things and leave. Sirius slowly pulls his things into his backpack and stands. He is almost on his way out the door when…

"Black." Sirius turns and looks at Professor McGonagall trying to find out what she's thinking through her facial expression, but he sees nothing. He walks up to her desk and waits for her to speak again. "I have noticed that your performance level in this class has risen quite reasonably. I am rather impressed." Professor McGonagall looks at Sirius with an expression of great admiration. Their eyes are locked for about a second till Sirius looks away in embarrassment. His face starts to turn a light pink.

"This is nothing to be embarrassed about." McGonagall looks over the tops of her glasses and her expression changes from a relaxed smile to a worried frown. "But I am worried about you. Though your grades are going up you seem to be going down. I haven't seen you hanging around with Potter or Lupin anymore. You three use to be inseparable and now I see you off in the library by yourself. And now you are falling asleep in class."

"I do that all the time!" Sirius says with a nervous laugh.

"Yes, but only every once in awhile, not every other day." McGonagall says and then looks away and starts collecting her papers into a pile. "Promise me you will get some sleep." McGonagall says then patiently waits for Sirius' answer.

"I promise." Sirius says and then waits for McGonagall to release him.

"You make go now." Sirius nods a thank you and leaves.

"I'm starting to get really worried about Sirius." James says to Remus while looking at Sirius from across the common room. James, Remus, and Peter are sitting in front of the fireplace and Sirius is sitting in back of the room at a table, writing. "Look at him. He's been sitting there for 4 hours straight, writing."

Remus looks over at Sirius and watches him for a couple of minutes before turning to James. "Maybe I should go talk to him. You seem to just make things worse." Remus smiles and chuckles a little at his own joke.

"Shut up." James says with a very relaxed grin on his face. He looks back over at Sirius and his smile disappears. "Yea, maybe you are right. He'll listen to you. Try talking to him after supper." All three look over at Sirius and wondered what he was up to.

Sirius looks down on the song he is writing. All day long he has been writing this one song, trying to make it perfect, trying to make it have meaning. He stares at his curvy handwriting flowing across his parchment like waves in a sea. Sirius rereads it one last time, trying to feel it flow like a curtain in the wind.

"Perfect." Sirius says to himself. He's finally finished it. He carefully places the piece of parchment down on the table as if it could crumble at the slightest touch. He looks up from his beautiful work of art into the eyes of a beautiful boy. Sirius' heart suddenly starts to beat rapidly. The boy is looking at him! Sirius could feel his face turn red with excitement and embarrassment. Sirius suddenly started to worry that the boy could see right through him. That he could see his love for him and the songs and the dreams.

Sirius couldn't handle it. He stood up out of his seat, grabbed his things and started to run out of the common room. He could feel the warmth of his tears burning his eyes as he races to get out of the gaze of his secret love. He was in such a hurry that he didn't notice that he dropped his beautiful, precious work of art.

When Remus saw Sirius running to the door with tears in his eyes he knew that now was the time to do something! He jumped out of his chair and ran to meet Sirius before he disappeared outside the common room, but a piece of parchment that Sirius dropped caught his eye. He picked it up and read it. It was a song called "All Around Me" and Sirius himself wrote it.

"My hands are searching for you / My arms are outstretched towards you / I feel you on my fingertips / My tongue dances behind my lips for you / This fire rising through my being / Burning I'm not used to seeing you / I'm alive, I'm alive / Chorus: I can feel you all around me / Thickening the air I'm breathing / Holding on to what I'm feeling / Savoring this heart that's healing."

It was pretty well written and it had a nice flow to it. But the lyrics made him wonder. Is this the reason Sirius is acting this way? Does he have a secret lover or is secretly in love with someone? And if this was true, then who? This was definitely the time to act.