Disclaimer: I, Devin Ebony, do not own the Harry potter Series. The only things in this story that I in anyway own Is Catalina and the majority of her family.

Over a whole month had passed since Cat had ran off and refused to talk to Sirius, Black as she now continuously referred to him as. This fact had the boy baffled and confused as to what he'd done to deserve that behavior; they'd actually been getting along for once! Then, all of a sudden, she'd mad at him and refuses to talk to him. He'd been hexed four times in the first week for trying to talk to her, before he finally gave up. It was miserable now, though.

Cat refused to talk to James, Remus, or Peter while Sirius was around, which meant that most of the time she avoided all four of them. That also meant that the other Gryffindor girls tended to avoid them too, besides classes. Once you offended one of the girls in the group, it was like you'd offended all of them; even if you didn't know what you'd done! It was a frustrating situation for all involved.

"Sirius, you have to talk to that girl!" Remus all but growled, finally tired of being avoided by all seven of the girls, "I don't know what you did! She was so happy when she went looking for you! I don't know how you could have made her THIS angry with you that quickly." He muttered under his breath.

"I didn't do anything! She's barking mad, Moony." He groaned, flopping back on his own bed, "All I did was appear in front of her and she got all irritable and ran off. Hasn't talked to me since! Well, at least not in a civil manner." He whined, sounding like a little child.

"Go find her and ask her to talk. Tell her you don't know what you did. Just don't be you-" Remus started.

"Don't be ME?" Sirius stressed, quirking an eyebrow.

"You know what I mean! Don't be loud or obnoxious and she might actually listen to you for once." He snapped in reply, "She's not that bad, Sirius. You just need to know how to talk to her."

Sirius grumbled under his breath irritably. Remus had never gotten on Cat's bad side, he knew this; they were good friends, really. So how would he have any idea how bad Cat could be? He wasn't the one that had been on the receiving end of the hexes! Sirius, for one, didn't fancy getting hit with another stinging hex anytime soon.

"Either you go talk to her or-" Remus started to shout, but a smirk appeared on his face and his eyes lit up; Sirius gulped. That was never good. Remus was the most mild of all of the marauders, but when he had his mischievous moments, they were ten times as bad as anything He or James could do. "On second thought, don't do it." He declared, "I've got a rather interesting idea if you don't." He added.

"You know, today's a great day to talk to Cat!" Sirius announced, hopping off his bed to rush out of the dorm, "I mean, I'm sure she won't hex me if I do like you said." He added, muttering to himself, "Or her hex won't be as bad as whatever idea he has come up with now."

"Evans!" He called, happy to see the red haired girl wasn't off in the library studying once again, "Evans, I need to know where Catalina is. I need to ask her something." He explained, "Do you happen to know where she is?" He knew he really didn't even have to ask her that. Lily almost always knew where Cat was; they'd practically been attached at the hip since the start of the year feast in first year.

"I know where she is." Lily replied coldly, "But I'm not all that sure I should be telling you, of all people, that bit of information." She snapped, "She's not all that fond of you, in case you haven't noticed. "

"Come on, Evans. I need to find out what it was that I did so I can apologize to her. I promise I'm not going to be an obnoxious prat." He bit out, not liking the fact that he was having to beg the girl for her location.

"Whatever you say, Black. If you end up with boils or huge teeth, it's not my fault." She warned, "She's outside. Last I saw she was near that tree by the lake and laying in the snow." She relented, standing up to leave. "Good luck, Sirius. Try not to anger her any more than you already have." She added, giving him a small smile.

"I'll try not to do that…" He muttered, running back up the steps to get his winter jacket and cloak before he went out in to the bitter cold.

It had been overly freezing and dreary in the last few months. It felt as if there was no happiness left in world at sometimes. Sirius posted part of the blame o the tragedies that seemed to be occurring left and right. Just since the beginning of school there had been about twenty plus murders, not to mention ones in the Muggle world that had never been discovered. It was getting out of hand and even the ministry, as ignorant as they usually were, were starting to notice.

Walking through the snow slowly, Sirius had to stop a few times to free himself from rather dense areas of snow. They'd just had another blizzard not even a day ago and the snow had accumulated atop the snow left over from the previous storms. It made walking on the grounds fairly difficult and chilling (when you got stuck in a pile of snow). Sirius was more than pleased when he finally saw Cat, laying on the snow, not far away; he wouldn't have to walk much more in the mess. Just the whole way back to the castle…

"Cat!" He called as he trudged over, startling the half asleep girl. "Cat, we need to talk-"

"Merlin, why?" Cat exclaimed dramatically, looking up to the sky, "I was perfectly happy, enjoying the snow, Black. Why did you choose now to bother me?" She growled, turning back to the boy in question.

"You like this?" He shouted incredulously before he could stop himself.

"Yes, I do. Do you have a problem with that, Black?" She interrogated coldly, her eyes clearly showing her irritation.

"no, Of course no." Sirius responded defensively, "But it's like I said. We need to talk. I need to know why you're mad at me, Cat." He explained, sitting down on the snow next to her and giving an involuntary shiver.

"I'm mad because-" She began shouting as she sat up straight, but then stopped for a second, her face heating up, "I'm just mad at you Sirius! I don't want to explain it." She shouted with a groan, falling back into the cold snow.

"Come on, Rostov. Just explain it to me! You refuse to talk to me and avoid me… The girls all avoid me, too! Half the time my friends are with me, so they get ignored. Do you know how many times I've had James, Remus, and even Peter yell at me in the last month because none of you guys will speak to them around me?" He finally yelled, sounding just as frustrated as she was, "I deserve to at least know why you won't talk to me. We were actually getting along this year, could have almost been considered friends. Then you just get mad and won't talk to me!"

"Alright." Cat relented, sitting back up and pulling her knees to her chest as she looked over the lake.

"Finally…" Sirius muttered under his breath to himself, happy to finally be enlightened as to what exactly he'd done to make her so angry.

"So I'm sure you remember what you were doing that day." She began explain, her voice sounding slightly snappish, "You'd asked me out that morning I'd told you to try no. But then I talked to Lily about it because I felt bad. I mean, you've asked me out a lot since third year. Not like James does to Lily, but still a lot." She paused for a moment, taking another breath, "Well Lily and I talked, and I told her that I was thinking about telling you once for a change. She was ecstatic about it, but I guess I was weary. Most guys chases and chase, and then once they get a snog out of the girl, they drop her. I've had enough of those boyfriends." Her voice took on a slightly snappish tone once again, "So anyways… I wasn't sure, but Lily convinced me to go tell you. I went to find you, and I found you with Ashley. It got me thinking, I guess." She shrugged, letting some of it soak in before she continued onward. "I couldn't help but wonder about you. I mean, you ask me out that morning, snog Ashley a few hours later. I know you're not usually off snogging girls, despite what rumors those girls would have us believing, but still. If you can just bounce back from me saying no like that, then who's to say you won't just dump me after a few days? Then I got mad at you for asking me out in the first place if you weren't going to be serious about it, I guess." She let out a breath, happy to finally have all of the anger off of her chest.

"That was it the whole time?" Sirius asked with a groan, "Merlin, Cat! That was a fan girl! She dragged me into the closet a few minutes before and wouldn't let me out. Didn't you see how messed up her clothes were? And how upset she looked? I was trying to get out the whole time I was in there. She was holding me captive! I wasn't snogging the crazy bird!" He exclaimed, "If we'd talked about this a month ago.." He teased, grinning as he noticed the flush that was now appearing across the girls cheeks.

"Shut up, Sirius!" She shouted, holding her face in her hands to hide her flaming cheeks and her laughter.

"So it's not Black anymore?" He teased some more, getting a punch to the stomach in response. "Shesh, Woman!" He groaned jokingly "That hurt so much." He mocked, his grey eyes sparkling slightly. "So, Rostov, now that we're over our jealousy…" He began.

"BLACK!"

"Only joking, dear." Was his defensive response, "What would you say to a date next weekend?"

AN: Glad I finished this one today! Two chapters in one day! I'm happy. Hope everyone is enjoying the story.
I know in most stories Sirius is portrayed as a player… But I wanted to take a different approach. So he isn't a total man-slag in this story. Hope that's okay with everyone! That's not going to mean he won't get in trouble with girls, of course; he's got Cat, his fan club, and the fact that he is a man to give him girl trouble.