Someone To Understand

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"Bingo!" Exclaimed Sirius excitedly; he had finally spotted a pretty girl that he hadn't yet been out with at the Ravenclaw table. She was petite and slim with shoulder length auburn hair, caramel coloured eyes and a pretty face, and better still she was looking over at the Gryffindor table watching him with a dazed expression, so she was definitely interested. "Its almost too easy," he thought giving the girl a lopsided cocky grin which made her blush horribly as well as causing a goofy smile to spread across her face.

It was at this point that Prongs seemed to notice what had captured his friend's attention and smiled, laughing at the girl's extreme reaction to Sirius' charms.

"Your well in there mate!" He laughed good naturedly whilst Peter began gushing about how pretty she was and how good she would look on Sirius' arm.

Remus meanwhile rolled his eyes at his friends' childish behaviour before saying seriously, "Just don't break her heart Sirius," at this point he fixed his friend with a penetrating stare and continued, "Sienna Morgan is a nice girl, she doesn't deserve to get hurt."

"Oh come on Moony lighten up!" Sirius demanded, "She's just another girl..." he began before noticing the dark expression on Remus' face, "and anyway," he quickly covered, "its not like I'm setting out to hurt her, we'll just have a little fun…" He finished lamely, realising that he wasn't going to be able to get himself out of the hole he had made if he kept digging. He sighed realising that this close to the full moon, pissing off a werewolf, like Remus, was probably not a good idea. If Remus had decided, for whatever reason to protect this girl from him perhaps he should just accept it and exercise a little more caution than usual around her, after all he was really only trying to show James how easy it was to ask a girl out.

Now that that was sorted in his mind he would now have to figure out how exactly he was going to ask her out…

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Crystal couldn't believe it, how could Sienna, a smart girl, be grinning stupidly and blushing because of that arrogant prat Sirius Black? Was she really taken in by that stupid cocky smile of his?

In irritation at Sienna's still glazed expression Crystal snapped her fingers in front of her eyes, hoping to bring her out of it. Fortunately she snapped out of it quickly, but then realising what she had just done she blushed again and, to Crystal's dismay, promptly began babbling incoherently about how Sirius had smiled at her, and it was a 'sign' that he was interested in her.

Crystal couldn't believe her ears, what exactly was Sienna thinking to be getting this worked up about Sirius Black? Sure Sirius was gorgeous and cool and popular, but he was still just another guy to Crystal and not even a particularly nice one, he was far too vain and arrogant for a start.

So surprised was Crystal by this turn of events that she didn't even notice as Sirius Black himself, approached the Ravenclaw table from behind…

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Sirius had decided that the best course of action for asking out Sienna was to catch her while she was still flustered so that he could startle her into saying 'yes'. So, explaining his theory to his fellow Marauders, he casually grabbed his school bag from under the table and began to stride purposely towards the Ravenclaw table.

Reaching the table in seconds Sirius gave Sienna his most debonair smile and began flirtatiously with the line "I noticed you from across the room and I just had to come over and introduce myself." Before continuing with "Your name's Sienna, right?" Hoping to flatter her with his intimate knowledge of her.

It worked but perhaps a little too well as Sienna was now so flustered that all she could manage was a feeble "Yes." Before blushing scarlet, and refusing to meet his eye.

Deciding to carry on with his mission regardless Sirius continued with a short and very sweet offer of a date, more specifically a "Marauder tour of the castle" that evening, whilst hoping against hope that Sienna would pull herself together enough to answer. He was not disappointed and after a few seconds of stunned silence at her good luck Sienna happily agreed to the date.

Sirius was delighted, he had proved his point! James had seen the whole exchange, and would hopefully 'learn' from it, and he now had a pretty new girlfriend to hang around with, until he became bored of her at least. He stood grinning cockily at Sienna for a minute before some movement to her side caught his eye…

The movement turned out to be a girl, and not just any girl; she was the most strikingly beautiful girl he had ever seen in his whole life. She had fiery blue eyes, long curly, luxurious ebony hair, porcelain skin and refined aristocratic features. She was absolutely stunning, so how was it that he had not seen her from across the hall?

The answer to this riddle quickly became apparent to Sirius as the girl shifted in her arms a huge, not to mention ancient looking tome, which would effectively block her face from view from where he had been sitting at the Gryffindor table. He couldn't help but stare at her, but to his shock and horror when she noticed his attention she merely rolled her eyes and turned back to her book. Shocked at the unknown girl's lack of interest in him Sirius recovered himself enough to give Sienna a last winning smile before deciding to head off to Defence Against the Dark Arts early, it would give him time to ponder the girl's reaction.

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Over at the Gryffindor table the Marauders were not the only ones watching Sirius' display with interest. A group of 6th year girls were also watching Sienna's reaction to Sirius' advances with amusement.

"Its disgusting how these girls just drool all over him." Exclaimed Lily Evans with distaste, "No wonder he thinks that he's God's gift when they react like that to him!" She said waving her hand dramatically in the direction of the Ravenclaw table and the, even now, flushing Sienna.

"I know what you mean." Concurred Maya Goldberg, a pretty blond and former conquest of Sirius' "You'd think that they'd learn but they never do."

"Yeah I know." Returned Rose Parker in exasperation, "How can they expect him to respect them when they act like that?" She questioned absolutely incredulous at Sienna's behaviour. She herself had been trying to get Sirius's attention for years, as her friends well knew, though until recently he would not have deemed her pretty enough to bother with as she had been a little overweight, and she knew for a fact that she would never act like that around him. Why would she? If she did he would simply see her as another nameless, faceless, conquest.

Rose was therefore being very careful about how she went about getting Sirius's attention herself. She wanted him to respect her and not just see her as a piece of meat, and that meant becoming his friend first or, to make it less obvious, getting the two groups to become friends. It had taken a lot to convince Lily to become friends with the Marauders, more specifically James, but with Remus' help she felt certain that this year her plan would work and she and Sirius could finally get together. However little Ravenclaw tarts were certainly not in her plan.

She sighed and returned reluctantly from her reverie to the conversation. Lily was yet again bitching about James whilst Louise Wilkes, the group's very own annoying tag along nodded in agreement. It was going to be a long day…

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"I can't believe he asked me out!" Screeched Sienna excitedly, for the fifth time in as many minutes.

"I would never have guessed!" Returned Crystal sarcastically, "Now can we get back to brewing this potion or are you going to be off in lala land all lesson!" She finished wearily, knowing full well that in about two minutes Sienna would be back to staring into space and making random Sirius related exclamations whatever she said to try and snap her out of it, she doubted that even Professor Slughorn Viero, the evil tubby potions Master, would successfully be able to capture Sienna's attention for long in this mood, she could only hope that her friend would snap out of it soon.

Unfortunately Sienna was brought down to earth rather harshly at break by Mandy Corner and Patricia Boot their two fellow Ravenclaw 5th years, who they were unfortunate enough to share a dormitory with. Crystal personally couldn't stand the giggly little twits but normally Sienna was on good terms with them, even joining in with their boy-centric conversations from time to time, whilst Crystal looked on with amusement.

The two girls upon hearing that Sirius had asked out Sienna, after using and then dumping them last year taunted her about how he was really only interested in getting back with one of them. Normally Sienna would have simply told them to go to hell but today, for some reason, they were really getting to her and Crystal was forced to step in and tell them to "Get a life". An unusual occurrence, as although Crystal was fiercely loyal, she tried very hard to keep a low profile, and that meant not shouting at people, though she did make exceptions sometimes.

Aside from their bitchy roommates the rest of the day went fairly smoothly for Crystal and Sienna, though Sienna became more and more nervous as the time of her date with Sirius approached. Meanwhile Crystal grew more and more nervous about the inevitable confrontation with her brother Marius about the Marauders' morning prank…

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Sirius meanwhile was still puzzled about the other girl who had been immune to his charms. He, Sirius Alexander Black, had been staring at her and she had rolled her eyes in response, like she wasn't interested in him, but he knew that all girls were interested in him, so what was wrong with this one, and why didn't he know the name of such a beautiful girl?

He couldn't understand the girl's reaction, girls did not reject him, he rejected them! It was one of the few things in his life that he actually had control over, one of the few things that his horrible pure blood family could not stop him from doing, it was not about to change because of one irritating girl!

He spent all day thinking about it, earning himself some strange looks from teachers and the other Marauders for his unusual quietness. Coming to no useful conclusions Sirius decided, in History of Magic, the last lesson of the day, to just let it go, it was obviously just a mistake. He had a date to get ready for, and no time to ponder mystery girls, though he would rather like to find out her name…

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James, irritated with his best friend's lack of attention all day finally snapped at dinner when he confronted Sirius with the angry words, "What the hell has been up with you all day!" Before continuing on with his rant, and giving Sirius a disgusted look, "It has been like going to lessons with a frigging zombie, even the teachers noticed something was up…" for a second it sounded as though James would continue in this vein for some time but then it was as if a light bulb had been turned on in his head, and he exclaimed incredulously, "Don't tell me that the great Sirius Black is actually getting strung out because of a girl!" Before bursting out laughing, and earning himself a smack upside the head from Sirius.

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Sirius was awoken from his musings at dinner by James' angry exclamation, and when he had told him he was nervous because of a girl he could not prevent himself from hitting James upside the head in irritation. He, Sirius Black, did not get 'strung out' about girls, they got 'strung out' about him, he simply could not believe what James was suggesting.

Getting angry with his annoying friend Sirius irritatedly exclaimed, "Yeah right Prongs!" His voice positively dripping with sarcasm, "Like I would be worried about a date, she's just another girl," before finishing arrogantly with, "besides she already likes me so I'm well in there, I've got nothing to worry about!"

It was Moony who was the first to challenge him, logically asking him, why, if he hadn't been thinking about Sienna, did he spend half of the day staring into space?

Knowing that he had been trapped by his clever friend, Sirius flushed and raked a hand through his elegant black hair, brushing it out of his eyes, realising, belatedly, what an idiot he must have looked like, spacing out all day. He decided that honesty was probably the best policy, feeling sure that his friends would laugh at him, but even more certain, that, if he didn't tell them they would probably just find out anyway and make things more difficult for him.

Steeling his resolve Sirius answered his friend honestly, whilst preparing for his other friends' sniggers, and explained carefully about the girl he had seen at the Ravenclaw table, how beautiful she was and how he could not understand why she wasn't interested in him. To his dismay, not only did James and Peter start laughing, but so did Remus as well!