Detention
Sirius changed into muggle clothes up in his dormitory.
'What do you think detentions going to be like?' Sirius asked James and Lupin.
'Don't know mate,' James told him, 'Katie sure is mad.'
'Who knows how long this row will last between the two of you,' Lupin told him.
'You deserve it,' James whispered. Sirius turned to him a little angry and a little upset.
'I deserve it?' Sirius asked.
'Yes you deserve it!' James told him, 'How would you feel if you found your date dancing with the most loathsome person in the school. She is horrible! Her and her friend! The way they treat people!' Even though Sirius knew he was partially right he could not stand being wrong,
'She is not the most loathsome! Sure she isn't the nicest person, we just have different opinions on things!'
'She's horrible Sirius and you know it! No wonder Katie is upset, you chose Kaycee Handley over her!' Lupin told him.
'I did not choose Kaycee! Katie left! What was I supposed to do!' Sirius exclaimed looking at his two best friends for help, James told him;
'you were supposed to go after her.'
Sirius entered McGonagall's office and found that Katie was already there. She looked over at him and for a second looked a little sorry for what she did but then went back to her glare. McGonagall motioned for Sirius to sit down next to Katie and across from herself.
'Alright Sirius, Katie,' McGonagall started, 'There is two options. You guys can split up and have a one long night detention or work together and have two short detentions.' Sirius would normally have gone for one long night detention however he wanted to talk to Katie and this would be a perfect opportunity. Before Katie could open her mouth Sirius said,
'I'd like to do the two nights Professor.' Sirius smiled over at Katie who looked confused. She clearly wanted to have one long detention rather than spend two nights with him.
Sirius and Katie were working away sorting all the books in the library. McGonagall confiscated their wands until they were done.
'Why are we doing this?' Katie asked.
'Last time I checked I was late for class and you turned me into a shark on land and then a skunk.'
'I meant why are WE doing this. I mean I could be doing one thing and you could be doing another.' Sirius went over to pile some books onto a shelf.
'I wanted to talk to you,' Sirius told her.
'Then talk,' she told him. 'I can't stop you. After all I am wandless.' Sirius nodded and then thought for a second about what he had to say.
'I should have gone after you,' he told her quietly putting another book on the shelf. Katie walked to the other side of the shelf where she could see Sirius through a gap in the books. 'I wanted to go after you.'
'You didn't.' She told him.
'I know.'
'Why?' she asked seriously, 'I thought you liked me.' Sirius looked into her brown eyes from the other side of the bookshelf.
'I did like you,' he told her and then quickly corrected himself, 'I do like you.'
'Well if you really liked me you would have stayed with me, explained to me why you danced with her. You would have told me that you liked me and that what you did was wrong. You would have apologized. You wouldn't have opened your mouth and not spoke a word. You wouldn't have gone and danced with Kaycee afterwards and I wouldn't have caught you with her in a deserted corridor.' Sirius could see her eyes watering slightly. Katie moved back around to his side of the shelf so that she could look directly at Sirius. 'Sirius…if you liked me. You would be with me now, I would have forgived you because I liked you.' Sirius bit his lip, 'But it's too late now,' she whispered. She went back to sorting books and they didn't say another word for the rest of the night.
Sirius went back to the common room after his second day of detention which was spent without a word spoken as they cleaned out old potions flasks and labeled new ones. Chloe, James, Lupin and Lily were sitting around the fire.
'How did it go?' Chloe asked Sirius.
'The silence was deafening,' Sirius told them all. Sirius sat down next to Lily and buried his face in his hands.
'You could start by breaking up with Kaycee…' Lily told him, the comment went ignored. Sirius looked over to James and Chloe who were holding hands on the couch. James actually liked Chloe, it started off because Evans wouldn't go for him but then he realized that he actually liked her. Sirius wished that everything would go the same for him and Katie as it was for James, then he changed his mind. No matter how much James liked Chloe…Lily would always be in the back of his mind.