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Chapter Two

"Bye!" Sirius had walked Charlotte to her Charms class, not caring that it would make him even more late to his History of Magic class. He had to be at least fifteen minutes late, maybe even twenty. A new record, he thought to himself. Sirius knew that Binns would give him detention. But detention would be nothing: he just had talked to Charlotte, alone, for over ten minutes! Never had she shown such interest in him. Maybe he was growing on her.

Of course, all she had really talked about was homework, Quidditch, and.Lupin. She was wondering why he hadn't been talking to her recently, and what he was up to. Sirius didn't have the heart to tell her the truth: that she scared Lupin, and he was afraid that she would find out that he was a werewolf and tell everyone. Since he knew that if she found out and told everyone he would be sent home, he avoided her like the plague. This, of course, hurt her feelings. She didn't understand all of this, because Sirius couldn't tell her. He instead would feed her all this B.S. about Prefect duties, studying, and being behind of homework. She was still a bit miffed, but Sirius wasn't complaining. This meant more time for him and her to be alone. Her grinned, thinking about what he would like to do with her completely alone.

"Kindly explain why you are over twenty minutes late to my class, Mr. Black!" Professor Binns stood in front of Sirius, looking livid.
"I- I, uh, I was, uh.. I was in the hospital wing, but I. I changed my mind," Sirius managed to stammer out. He knew immediately how bad that sounded. 'Changed my mind?? What am I thinking?' Sirius knew that he would be feeling the full wrath of the History of Magic teacher in a moment.
"You changed your mind, did you?" Professor Binns shouted, "Too bad you didn't change your mind with a baboon! There would have been some improvement!"
The whole class started cracking up, especially James, Peter, and Remus. Sirius joined in the laughter, which served to make Binns more agitated.
"Detention, Black! Tonight, seven o'clock! Meet Filch; he'll give you something to do."
Sirius nodded, grinning. He was determined not to let anything ruin his good mood. With that, Binns began droning on, lecturing the students about Giant Warfare. As usual, his wheezy voice had the students in a stupor in moments. Most of them played quiet games, wrote notes to each other, or just slept. Sirius daydreamed that he was dating a certain Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain.

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