Sirius Black was the sort of boy at school who you always remembered. He was good looking, charming, popular (especially with girls) and talented. He had dark shoulder length wavy hair and a slim but wiry physique like a dancer's. In fact he did dance; effortlessly well, sang beautifully and played several instruments. He loved to sit some evenings, when he was in a contemplative mood and sing, strumming along on his acoustic guitar, sometimes writing his own lyrics and music and putting on performances for his friends.

Because James had gone off to be alone with Lily that night, Sirius and Remus had decided to spend time with some girls themselves. Peter had been ordered to stay in the common room for a while and told he could come back up in a couple of hours after they'd had the chance to have some fun behind the closed curtains of their individual four poster's.

Now, Remus and a girl called Celia Bartrum were sitting on Remus's bed, Sirius was sitting on his bed with a girl called Flora Lovegood, Peter and a couple more boys were also lounging their beds, listening.

Sirius was singing a love song and playing a melodic tune along with it on his guitar. Everyone was rapt with attention, listening to his beautiful, soulful voice and effortless playing. The one who was paying him the most attention was the girl on his bed, who was lying on her front, head in hands and feet waving around in the air. She was wearing one of his shirts and very little else as Sirius's silver tongue had managed to talk her into making love with him. Flora was the latest in a long line of girls he had previously dallied with and he was rather fond of this one, though he would not have admitted it to her.

He could never commit himself to just one girl for very long, he just wanted a bit of fun and no more. He wanted to enjoy himself and experience being with as many girls as possible. He never chickened out of chatting up any girl he fancied, if they said no, it was their loss, if they said yes, they were in for a good time. Even though they knew what he was like, he was still popular with most of the girls and they enjoyed flirting with him. Some of the girls hated him, thinking he treated girls shabbily, but for now and for the most part he was getting away with it. He tended to feel that the girls knew what they were getting into when they went out with him and should be able to handle the consequences.

He was also popular with most of the boys, his fearlessness and sheer nerve on tackling practically any dare, (except ones that would get him thrown out of school) no matter how difficult or dangerous, got him a pretty good reputation with them too.

There was one time when he and his friends had been jokingly discussing which female teachers they would kiss if given a choice between them. After much thought Sirius had said McGonagall as she was probably the best looking even though she was twenty years older than he was. They had all hooted with laughter and then James issued a dare to him, to actually kiss Professor McGonagall.

Sirius had agreed and the next day he and his friends stood waiting for her to come out of her transfiguration classroom. The other three hid a little way out of sight to watch. He had, though, asked to borrow James's invisibility cloak to disguise him self. As soon as she had come out through the door he had reached up and pecked her on the cheek. She was shocked at first, but with her excellent 'cat-like' sense of smell, she guessed who it was right away. They all ran off down the corridor, as fast as their legs would carry them, with her shouting after them saying "I know it was you Sirius, you naughty boy!" But her tone was not too serious. He could charm the pants off practically any female, (sometimes literally!) even the teachers.

James and Sirius often used his invisibility cloak for more dubious activities; things that Remus would often try in vain to talk them out of. Like watching the girls in the showers after a quidditch match or throwing things at unsuspecting passers-by, tapping them on the shoulder or hexing them, and falling about laughing as they span round looking confused as to why they couldn't see their attacker.

As for his ability with girls, his experience was quite extensive for his 18 years of age. He had lost his virginity when he was 14 to girl called Colette, who had her-self been 16 at the time.

As he was pretty much estranged from his mother he stayed mostly with relatives or James for the summer holidays. This one time he had been staying at his favourite cousin Andromeda Tonks house for a while. Colette was the daughter of friends' of the family, from France. They had spent 3 weeks of the summer having a great time together getting closer and more intimate, then had a memorable last night, before she went back home. She'd had no idea that he was only 14, she had presumed he was the same age as her, as he not told her different. He also looked older than his years, having been an 'early bloomer.'

He had lost no time since, having built up quite the reputation as the school 'Casanova'.

The song finished, he put down his guitar and bowed to his clapping audience.

"That was beautiful, Sirius!" said Flora, looking up at him admiringly "but when are you going to write a song for me, like you promised?" she said, pouting.

"Look I always keep my promises, I will do it" Sirius said in a placatory tone, looking at her smiling, his dark hair falling across his clear brown eyes. He brushed it back absently, making it fall to the sides again, then leant back against his pillows.

Flora looked up at him and smiled not getting her hopes up too much. Sirius did keep his promises but in his own time. He had a way of putting off things he didn't want to do until you gave up asking for him to do them. She crawled over and snuggled up next to him, resting her head on his chest, her knee over his legs and her arm around his belly. Inside Sirius felt alarmed at how contented he felt with Flora like this but shrugged it off, telling himself it was only temporary. He put his arm around her shoulders and played with strands of her soft auburn hair, tugging them gently, making her sigh with ecstasy. He loved to play with her hair, especially because he knew how much she liked it and that it really got her in the mood.

"I wonder what's keeping James and Lily? I would of thought they would be in by now, it's nearly 11 o'clock!" Remus said suddenly, after a few minutes silence, looking over at James empty bed.

"He should have been by now, yes, Lily likes to go to bed early doesn't she? Maybe they got carried away and forgot the time, I know I've been there a few times!" Sirius said, looking down at Flora, who smiled knowingly back.

"Sirius they've only been going out 5 minutes and I know Lily isn't that type of girl. I just can't shake this feeling that something is wrong" Remus replied seriously

"Look they could be holed up somewhere having a really long.. .conversation or something. James wouldn't appreciate us coming along and barging in, he's really into this girl and we don't want to go and mess things up for him. Let's just leave it a bit longer, then we'll go and look for him" Sirius told Remus

Remus reluctantly agreed but he still looked worried. When 11.30 arrived, Celia got up saying she was going off to bed and after giving him a lingering kiss, left for her own dorm.

Flora stayed longer as to Sirius's delight he had managed to talk her into another lovemaking session.
They appeared out of the now closed curtains, around his bed still kissing. She managed to pull away at last, giggling quietly and after putting on her school robe over his shirt, also left.

Sirius normally encouraged his girlfriends to go back to their own rooms when he wanted to go to sleep, but he had to stop himself calling Flora back and asking her to stay with him that night. He thought to himself that he had better finish with her soon, he worried that he was getting to close. He was terrified of falling in love, telling himself that he didn't want to stop having fun while he was young. But secretly it was because he really did not trust any girl enough to give her his heart totally. Even though he adored girls he still felt that he would get his heart broken and didn't want to take the risk.

Remus and Sirius fell asleep not long after the girls left, but in the early hours of the morning Sirius woke up. He often did as he suffered from bad dreams, a remnant from his rather horrible childhood. He sat up suddenly and saw, in the dim candlelight that James was still not in his bed. He immediately got up and walked over to Remus to wake him.

"Moony, wake up, James still isn't back! We have to go and look for him!"

"What's wrong" said Peter, sitting up and rubbing his eyes.

"James isn't back yet" Sirius told him "come on! We're going to go and look for him"

They all dressed and picked up the invisibility cloak, just in case, then made their way out of the common room. Looking both ways a few times, they climbed out of the portrait hole and made off down the corridors. There seemed to be no one about so they didn't bother donning the cloak yet. They were nearly by the Great Hall when a familiar voice suddenly speaking made them all jump and turn around.

"Where are you boys off to in the middle of the night?"

It was Dumbledore; he always overlooked their more regular night-time activities with Remus, so they didn't expect any trouble this time.

"James is missing Professor, we're going to look for him" Remus replied

"Most of the teachers have already just gone out to look, I alerted them. I hadn't seen them come in so I started to wonder where they could have got to, it isn't like Lily to go off like this normally." As he said this he raised his eyebrows at the three, as if in slight derision. "Well come on, I daresay we will find them soon enough and there will probably be a simple explanation for their absence"

The four of them all walked out of the school together then and marched across the dark grounds, towards the Forbidden Forest. Once there, they lit up their wands and split up into groups of two; Peter went with Dumbledore and Sirius with Remus. After about half an hour a shout went up from Dumbledore that the missing two-some had been found, much to the relief of everyone. Sirius and Remus ran to where there were now many voices talking at once. They saw a very bedraggled and dirty looking Lily and James, in strange robes talking to Dumbledore. Sirius felt quite amazed, 'what had his friend been doing?' When James saw their astonished faces, he grinned.

"Just wait until I tell you what we've been up to," He said, "I know one thing though, when I find out who did this, they're going to pay. They're seriously going to regret messing with me, I'll make sure of it!"