Chapter Nine

"My dad sounds like a jerk." Harry said flashbacks from his experience in Snape's mind quickly coming back to him.

"No, your dad was a pussy cat." Rowena nudged Harry with her shoulder. "He just had absolutely no idea how to act to becoming the most popular kid in school and he did quickly."

"I know how he feels." Harry gave a half smile.

"No, Harry you were already famous, and if someone had pulled you a side and said look you are going to be famous it wouldn't have been half as bad, your father was just popular."

"I don't see the difference." Harry looked at his feet.

"Come on, you know you want to kiss me!"

"You know Black, you have the biggest ego in the world and you are going to implode when your head deflates." Rowena gave him a snide smile and kept walking toward the front doors. Sirius for the second time stepped directly in front of her.

"Come on give us a kiss." Rowena had a idea.

"What is the point of arguing fate, do you really want a kiss?" Rowena mustered all her will and gave the idiot a sweet smile. He looked a bit stunned but smiled. "Close your eyes and pucker up." He did as she said. She quietly summoned a flubber worm from the Care of Magical Creatures pen and levitated him to Sirius's mouth level and ran into the school.

She sat down beside Lily panting hard.

"What?" Lily looked at her friend. Rowena looked at her friend and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

They sat in the Great Hall in their dress robes. It was the Christmas ball and they looked fabulous. Lily wore a green dress that was off the shoulder with sheer sleeves that clung beautifully to her arms, it had a fishtail skirt that complimented her perfect figure to no end. Rowena wore a purpley red dress that had one sleeve on the right side. It was tight fitting to the ground and at the back there was a slit that went to the back of her knees.

Sirius Black came ragging into the hall looking furious. Rowena smiled sweetly at him from across the room and gave her waved that she used for all the male Ravenclaw players on the quidditch pitch. Sirius started across the room.

"What have you done?" Lily looked at Rowena to Sirius. "I thought you had called a truce since I started dating James?"

Rowena smiled at the reaction of all the fourth year girls who fell Sirius. He was always the center of girls attention, all except Rowena. Especially when he came back for their fifth year absolutely ripped.

"The jerk gets the impression since you are my best friend and James is his we should date." Lily smiled at Rowena. "What?"

"You know you talk in your sleep about him." Rowena's hand flew to her mouth.

"I don't!"

"You do." Before Rowena could start ranting, James came over to their table.

"Hope I can interrupt you girls, but I was wondering if I could ask the love of my life for a dance?" He smiled.

"Of course James." Lily got up and took his arm. As they headed toward the dance floor Lily looked back at her friend and stuck her tongue out. Rowena stood up and stormed out of the hall in a sulk.

Rowena through her self in one of the comfy chairs in the Gryffindor common room, that for once was empty. Since this guy Voldemort had made him self known almost every student had stayed at school, all except the Slytherins that was. All of a sudden she heard the common room door open.

She looked at the door from her seat with the most morose look she could muster. Sirius walked in and she felt the look melt off.

"God, what a face!" Sirius burst into a fury of his loud laughter.

"Oh shut up!" Rowena looked at the fire.

"Hey! With what you just did to me, I deserve and apology." She looked at him. He did look amazing with his dress robes that were jet black hanging around him nicely.

"I think not." He walked over to her until he was standing at her feet.

"You are so hot when you are mad." He gave his half smile.

"Oh charming." She looked at him.

He feel forward but caught himself with his hands on the arms of her chair. She wasn't about to be intimidated, with this hormone crazy boy.

"Come on, I know you want to kiss me." His face was really close to hers now.

"Oh why not, I have been told I love you."

"Exactly." And before she could stop him he leaned forward and gave her a kiss. The kiss it's self was amazing. Perfection. A kiss for the record books! But she soon snapped out of it. She pushed him off the chair until he fell to the common room floor.

"I was being sarcastic you jerk!" She marched up to the girls dorm and slammed the door.

"He kissed you!"

"Yes."

"How was it?"

Rowena a stared at her friend Lily crossed her arms, took a deep breath and said "Amazing." In a grudging voice, Rowena could never lie to Lily. Lily burst out laughing.

"Oh shut up!" Lily had thrown the questions at her when Rowena finally came down to breakfast.

Sirius Black wandered over to the Gryffindor table and stopped until he was directly in front of Rowena. He gave a smile and said. "Hey lover."

"Oh shut up you. Didn't James call a meeting for the Gryffindor quidditch team?"

"Yeah but my beating skills are so honed I don't need to practice."

"Yeah you must be delirious from all the bluggers that have hit your head." Rowena got up and left the hall, stopped realizing she had no where to go and sat on the marble staircase.

Sirius left the great hall with a piece of toast in his mouth and wandered over to Rowena, he almost made it until his fourth year girls pose surrounded him. Rowena couldn't help but smile as he smiled politely and tried to wade through them, when Professor McGonagall yelled at them he got over to the staircase . He sat on the banister next to her. He smiled goofily down at her.

"I saw you managed to get through the pose."

He blushed! For the first time in five years of knowing him Rowena had never seen Sirius Black blush!

"I had hoped you hadn't seen."

"How could I not? You were the only one in the hall!"

"Anywho," He slide off the banister as Mr. Filch walked by and once he rounded the corner Sirius got back on the banister. "Why won't you go out with me?"

Rowena looked across the hall not really seeing the first years exiting the Great Hall. "I don't want to just be the perfect group." She looked at him and he rose an eyebrow obviously not getting her. "You know, me, you, James, and Lily. Practically school flag material."

"Ohh." He slide off the banister and sat beside. "Look, (He pulled her chin with his fore finger until she was looking at him) I like you for just you. Not to be the perfect group. I like you from the second I saw you." She knew he was telling her the truth. They learned closer until they were kissing once again. The perfect kiss.

"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!" James came storming into the Entrance hall as Sirius flew away from Rowena. "WE NEED TO PRACTISE!"

"Didn't you know James, Sirius has perfect beating skills already?" Rowena said laughing as she and Sirius rose and headed upstairs.