Second chapter of Fire! Well, what can I say: Read it:-)

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Elena felt very uncomfortable. It was not because of Potter and her friend Lily (though their kissing in front of the whole Common Room was really disgusting). No, she saw them kissing almost every day and holding hands.

No, it was something else, but she couldn't really explain her feeling.

It was something like being watched by somebody. Yeah, she decided that this had to be the answer because she had always trusted her instinct.

So, Elena stopped writing that horrible Defence Against the Dark Arts- essay ("The Power of Trinity strengthens your spells magically. Give historical examples.") and looked around in the Common Room.

Actually, there were some boys who watched the 17-year-old girl. But these guys had not evoked that uncomfortable feeling because Elena was used to these looks.

These boys only knew her name because she was known to be "beautiful".

That had always been the only adjective that people used in connection with her name.

But she was more than that!

She was one of the best students of her year (well, after Potter and Lily), a real bookworm, also very creative and a bit crazy (but who is not crazy?).

She took one streak of her long brown hair out of her blue-grey eyes and sighed.

Nobody was interested in these features because she was "beautiful" and that explained everything for these people.

Oh, how she would love to throw this word back against their heads and scream at everybody who used it! She hated it!

Elena could not understand these people. She never wore very sexy clothes, only normal and often boring clothes.

She had really been relieved when she had come to Hogwarts and had found some real friends – Lily, Nadine, Jennifer, Remus and Peter- who treated her like a normal person and not like a supermodel.

Deeply in thought, she finally found the one who was the reason for her strange feeling, but it was the last person of whom she would have expected to stare at her: Sirius Black!

What was even more surprising for her was the fact that his face turned red and that he immediately looked away when their eyes met and she found out that he was the "guilty" one.

That was quite strange because Sirius usually was a notorious skirt-chaser and he always got what he wanted (in every meaning). She had often watched this Sirius- phenomenon: when Sirius walked along the corridors of the school and saw a beautiful girl (beautiful seemed to be very important), he stepped next to her, started to flirt and had a date with this girl after two minutes.

Of course, that means that more than half of the older female students of Hogwarts had already gone out with Sirius once, some even twice.

And they always stayed dates because the skirt-chaser didn't want to have a girlfriend.

But the biggest mystery for Elena was that not one of these girls was angry at him. No, all of his ex-dates praised Sirius as a "damn good kisser" and almost nobody said a bad word against him.

But Elena really was not able to understand why they loved him so much.

Ok, his grey eyes were a dream; and you could lose yourself in his piercing gaze; and, of course, he looked really, really handsome with his wild dark hair and his body was also muscular; yes, and surely, he moved somehow really-

Elena immediately turned her head around and stared at her homework, when she realized what she was thinking.

"No, forget that nonsense! He's a show-off and seducer!" she told herself, but she could again feel his gaze at her back as the shorter hair of her neck stood up, just like it was electrified.

She grabbed all her stuff, murmured a "feel sick" into the direction of her two friends and hurried off to their bedroom.

There, she threw her stuff onto the floor (well, tidiness was not one of her strengths) and walked through the room for a couple of minutes in order to get a clear thought again, but everything she was able to think about was that look of Sirius.

What exactly had it been? Attraction? – No way! Fear? – Impossible! What then?

And why had his head turned red when she looked at him?

Elena jumped onto her bed and lay down on her back with her arms crossed behind her head.

She decided that she could not believe her eyes because she was sure that Sirius was an excellent actor.

He had to be or he would not be able to get that many dates…

Now, something came to her mind: she was his new victim!

But as she could not be seduced as easily as the other girls (giggling fashion-freaks), he had to use other ways of getting her attention!

And Elena thought that he would never find these ways! He was an idiot, so how could he find them?

Or maybe the boys had made a bet! Sirius had claimed that he could have a date with every girl in Hogwarts and the others had said that this was not true.

So, probably James had suggested the bet (Remus and Peter would not do something like that to her!) and then, had proposed her as the "lucky one" because he knew that she was tough.

Yeah, that had to be the answer!

Her thought went on like that, when Lily entered the bedroom with a worried expression on her face.

Elena had to smile because she knew that she could really be happy with a friend like Lily!

Lily sat down on Elena's bed next to her and looked into her grey-blue eyes: "The others told me that you feel sick! So, what is wrong?"

The red-haired beauty knew that her friend always said that she felt sick, when she had a real grave problem.

"Black was staring at my back and his head turned red when I realized what he did! Do you know if there's a bet between the boys? Maybe, Black shall seduce me!"

"Mmm, well, I don't know anything about a bet, but I could ask James if you want me to! And then, hit him because he agreed on it!"

She showed Elena a very charming smile and so, the other girl could not really feel sad any longer.

She got up from her bed, sat down on a chair next to the window, sighed and looked out onto the grounds.

"Thanks so much, Lil! You are really the best!"

Elena became very quiet after that and just looked at the grounds.

Lily just wanted to leave her friend, when she exclaimed: "Oh no! That can't be true!" She stopped and turned around, waiting.

Although Elena thought that she had found out the truth (the bet seemed to be the solution to everything), she still couldn't get one special thought out of her brain. The fact that she could not stop thinking about this boy, worried her very much! That could only mean…:

"I really have a crush on Sirius Black!"

It couldn't come worse for her, could it?

To be continued...