So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game
Marlene sneaked out of the broom closet a few seconds after Andrew, a Gryffindor from their year. He was the 3rd guy she snogged in the last two days, and even though she treated it like a competition now, she enjoyed the knowledge that there were a lot of men interested in snogging her. The previous two boys were Amos' friends, which surprisingly didn't mind the fact of being almost used in the slightest. She straightened her skirt, not too precisely, same with her hair. Now it looked perfect, just like after a snogging session that was supposed to be hidden. Walking into the common room she looked around and noticed James with Sirius on one of the sofas. She made her way towards them and sat next to James.
"Hi Jamie, what's up?" she asked cheerfully while he looked her up and down. If she looked across the table she'd notice a pair of grey eyes piercing her, but that wasn't necessary as she felt them on her skin anyway, and no checking would help her.
"Marly, what have you been up to?"
"Oh, I was just studying with Andrew. You know Andrew, don't you?" with that she looked across the common room at a tall brown eyed boy and smiled at him, which he returned. When she turned her gaze back to James he was squinting at her "What?"
"You study a whole lot in the past days. How many tutors did you have already?"
"Not enough, apparently. I'm seeing Gilderoy tomorrow."
"As in Lockhart?" James managed to spit out.
"Do you know any different?"
"Mar, is Gilderoy really your type?" she heard Lily sitting next to her.
"Not really. But he really wanted to meet, so why not? Maybe he'll turn out not to be as bad as we think. He's got quite nice abs."
"Dan from Hufflepuff has great abs, if you'd ask me." Both Marauders present looked at Lily in disbelief, but Marlene didn't even look up. She felt Lily had sensed something and wanted to help her whatever it was. In fact it was rather hard for Marlene to sneak with different guys and make it seem visible to Sirius, and not her other friends. If she could count Black to be her friend of course. Lily's voice woke her up. "I could set you up with him if you want. He's a prefect after all, and I bet he has his eyes on you." James purred angrily and crossed his arms like a princess with, let's be honest he is. Marlene's eyes lit up.
"Really? I would love that. That bloke for sure has a great body." She noticed the look on James' face. "What? He's a fit boy, truly."
"I'm going to head to bed, Marlene, you coming?" Lily stood up and guided herself up the staircase, Marlene followed. The last thing she heard was James' voice 'Padfoot, you okay? You seem frustrated' which made her smile widely.
In the girls dormitory Lily has already sat herself on top of Marlene's bed and waited for her to enter the room.
"So why are you trying to break the snogging record?" She asked lightly. Marly knew, she wouldn't be able to walk away with it, so she sighed and told her about how Black pissed her off some time ago, and how that made her go out with Amos and then again when she decided to snog the life out of many. She skipped the part of making out with Sirius, and replaced it with anger towards each other. Lily just nodded a few times and once Marlene was finished she commented "Okay".
"Is that it?" Marlene raised her eyebrows.
"Yes, I believe so. I understand your motives, and as I would never do a thing, it seems like a thing you would do, and the one of the only ways to piss Sirius Black off." With that sentence Marlene for a hundredth time thanked Merlin for having the most amazing best friend in the whole bloody world. "And if that's what you want then I can help with adding bits like these today. But I need to know what you want to achieve." She looked at the blonde with her emerald eyes. "Apart from making Black furious." She looked at her for a few seconds before nodding again. "I thought so. You don't have any. Then let me just maybe enlighten you then. Don't you think you might have grown some sort of affection towards the well-known womanizer?"
"Sorry?" Marlene spit out. "There's absolute no reason for you to think that. There's absolutely no reason for it to be true. And there's definitely no reason for it being even possible."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive"
"Don't be." The blonde sent her a look.
Three days later she was once again in a closet with a charming boy Everett this time. As much as she wanted to focus on the guy her mind kept drifting off to a conversation she had with Lily. What made her think she had any kind of feelings towards Sirius Black? He was a prat. An arrogant, self-centred, stupid sex addict. She tried to push out of her mind the fact they ever snogged, left alone any feelings for him. The whole idea of them being an item of any sort made her ten times angrier and fierce which caused the boys she was with moan many times. She was expecting Lily to be here any minute, as she had patrols tonight and it was indeed past curfew. They discussed that as Lily is coming with Remus she'll make him check all the closets, which will end up with Mr. Black knowing about everything. As much as Marlene hated to admit she was taking a sick amount of satisfaction from the whole situation. She jumped away from Everett once she heard the door open. Everything went as planned.
She was sitting near the fireplace when she noticed a tall figure sitting next to her. She turned to leave, when a strong arm pushed her back down.
"You don't need to run every time you see me coming" Sirius groaned.
"I'm not interested in listening how unexperienced I am compared to the one and only."
"Nobody expects you to, as you noticed, I am the one and only." He sounded half arrogant half uncertain of her attitude. "You don't need to prove anything to anyone."
"I'm not trying to." She growled irritated.
"Then what? Are you trying to impress me?"
"Not everything is about you, Black."
"Then who is it about? Diggory? Is he okay with you not being oh-so-loyal?"
"Since when is anything involving who I date your business?" She stood up seeing the inscrutable look in his eyes and his jaw tight. "Goodnight Sirius." She whispered and headed towards the staircase to the girls dormitory.
A/N Review pleaaase! Also the next chapter will most likely be the last one, or the one after that. I still need to figure it out :D
