That was when one girl was brave enough to flick her platinum blonde hair over her shoulder and waltz up to Sirius. Rowan recognized her being in their year and a Ravenclaw but couldn't remember a name to match with her rather fake face. Sirius had been with so many girls that Rowan couldn't remember who was who but knew these two were constantly on and off. She frowned deeply at the two of them flirting and muttered to James that she was heading back to the common room. Sirius paid no attention to her as she pushed back people to escape the all of a sudden crowded corridor.

Rowan headed to the Astrology tower where she knew no one would being having classes. She often went there to be by herself and only Remus knew of her little hiding place. She climbed what felt like (and probably was) hundred of steps to the tall tower. One of the things Rowan hated about being friends with Sirius was that she had to constantly watch him flirt with other girls. "Good looking bastard," she muttered under her breath collapsing on the pillows which lined the floor, leaning against one of the pillars of the tower. Rowan pulled her legs up and lent her chin on her knees as she wrapped her arms loosely around her legs.

She sighed deeply as she placed her cheek against her knee. Rowan was tired of watching Sirius going from girl to girl, disposing them when he got bored. In truth, Rowan liked Sirius. More than the friendly relationship they had and she often wondered what it would be like if they were more than friends. She knew it would never happen as he wouldn't be interested in her. She was short, had pixie like blonde dirty brown hair and boring brown eyes. Hardly his type.

Rowan didn't notice Sirius enter the Astronomy Tower until he sat down next to her. They sat in silence for a while, Rowan refused to look at him but then Sirius spoke.

"What's up?" He asked

"Nothing," she mumbled

"Rowan Lockwood, you are the worst liar known to man," he said, poking her shoulder lightly

"It's none of your business Sirius," she replied, still avoiding eye contact

"That's a child's comeback,"

"What do you want Sirius? Me to tell you my deepest secrets!" Her voice broke at the end of the sentence and she was close to shouting. She was annoyed with him prying. There was no way she was going to tell him.

"You could at least look at me," Sirius said. He turned her head and saw the unshed tears swimming in her eyes.

Sirius instantly regretted what he said when he saw that she was close to tears. He pulled her into a hug and placed his chin on top of her head. He stroked her back in soothing motions. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have pried." He continually apologized and mumbled other things as she cuddled against him. She did not cry as she thought it looked like a weakness. One thing she promised she would not cry in front of him. They sat like that for most of the day. Until they saw the sun setting. Sirius stood and held out his hand for her. Rowan smiled and grabbed his hand. He then pulled her up to her feet and they walked to he Fat Lady's portrait. They received an odd look from her but ignored it and said the password, allowing them to enter the Gryffindor common room. They let go of each other's hand as the stepped inside and saw the other three Marauders sitting in front of the fireplace. James looked up when he heard the portrait close.

"Where have you two been?" He asked as soon they sat down

"On the Astronomy Tower," Sirius said, a smirk on his face

"And what, may I ask, we're you two doing on the Astronomy Tower?" James asked

"What do you think we were doing?" He said, his smirk growing ever larger

"We were talking, that is all," Rowan interrupted, tired of this conversation

"You're no fun," Sirius said, poking her in the ribs. He had a pout on his face and everyone started laughing.

After a while everyone started heading to bed. Rowan went first, then James and finally Peter leaving Remus and Sirius. "She cares about you, you know." Remus said after a few minutes of silence

"What do you mean?" Sirius was confused. He didn't understand what Remus was saying.

"Rowan. She—" Remus stopped, thinking how to word what he was trying to say

"What about Rowan?" Sirius was curious as to what the werewolf was trying to say

"She likes you. She gets jealous whenever you're flirting with girls. You're wondering why she walked off this morning, that's why."

"We're just friends Remus nothing more." Sirius said, ignoring what he said. There was no way Rowan liked him. She wasn't interested, he could tell. "Now if you don't mind I'm going to bed." And with that Sirius stood and headed to bed. He shook his head at his idiotic friend and followed. Neither of them noticed Lily listening in on their conversation. So neither worried about anyone overhearing and slept peacefully. Little did they know that Lily would be heading upstairs to question Rowan about what she overhead.

Lily stormed into the girls dorm and opened Rowan's curtains which surrounded her bed. Rowan mumbled under her breath and told her to go away. Lily, of course, did not meanwhile managing to wake up their other roommate Marlene. She sat up and looked at the other girls in a questioning manner. Rowan turned her head to look at the other girl and aised her eyebrows.

"What's up Lily?" Rowan asked in a lazy way

"What's up?! What do you mean what's up?! I just overheard Sirius and Remus talking." Lily almost shouting

"And?" Rowan looked quite confused at her friends behaviour

"And," she exaggerated the word, "Remus is saying you like Sirius!"

"Yeah, as friends," Rowan rolled her eyes and face planted the pillow

"He was saying you like him more than friends and that you get jealous when you see him with other girls. Which is kinda true you know. I've seen you looking at him when you think no one's looking." At this point Lily and Marlene were sitting on Rowan's bed.

"That maybe true but he would never date someone like me," she mumbled into her pillow

"Oh come on Rowan. The guy sat with all day in the Astronomy Tower and you say he doesn't like you," Marlene interrupted poking Rowan's shoulder

"How did you know that?" Rowan sat up and looked over to her

"I have my ways," she grinned widely

Rowan rolled her eyes and kicked them off her bed, claiming she wanted to go back to sleep. The two other girls just looked at each other and shook their heads before heading to bed. They left Rowan thinking about what she had just heard. Shaking her head she tried to go back to sleep.