A/N: Here's another chapter! Hope you enjoy since I figured it was about time to get some action going on between the two potential lovebirds…Hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: same as always…no change…still don't own HP, but I wish I did!

Chapter Five: The start of something new.

"So…"

"So what?"

"Who are you taking to Hogsmeade Sirius?" James asked. It was a week before the first Hogsmeade date and Sirius Black was still going alone, despite the fact that he was one of the most eligible boys in Hogwarts.

"I don't know." He sighed. It wasn't a lack of offers or options that bothered him, he had many. He had dated plenty of girls at Hogwarts but for some reason it wasn't fun anymore. Surprisingly, Sirius Black had grown tired of dating the same girls over and over again. It was fun at first, the challenge of going after a girl, then you go on a couple of dates, snog them and all is good!

But then it goes from good to bad. Girls start complaining that he doesn't give them all his attention, that he spends more time with his friends. Then, they want to go from a make out session to wanting to talk and tell each other their secrets or whatever it is girls want after awhile. Do girls just expect that he'll drop everything just to please them? It was downright boring after awhile, and Sirius got bored very easily.

"It's not like I don't have any offers you know. It's just that, I'd rather go alone, keep my options open." He added. "Besides, I just want to finish our project."

"What project?" Peter asked.

"Come on Peter! What other project are we doing besides the one we've been on since second year?" Sirius replied, agitated. It was days like this that Peter really got on his nerves!

"You know what we're talking about Peter…the special project we have, the one with Remus' furry little problem." James added. They all laughed, including Remus who had been deep in thought till then. Only James would come up with something as lame as that.

"Maybe you haven't met the right girl yet." Remus interrupted. Sirius laughed loudly, while Remus simply shrugged, It was just a thought.

"Nah. I doubt that."

"No, I agree with Remus. Just look at me and Evans, she's the one." James added, "It's just a matter of time before she loves me too."

"Like in a million years." Both Remus and Sirius couldn't help but laugh at Peter's joke.

"Laugh all you want guys. In the end I'll be the one that's laughing with Lily Evans as my girlfriend." James stated as he walked ahead of his friends. "I always get what I want."

"Well hopefully you're right" For his friend's sake, Sirius hoped he was. James was the best friend he'd ever had and Evans had to blind not to see that. James was also very lucky, he had everything going for him and Sirius couldn't help but wish he was him sometimes.

"Thanks Sirius." James smiled, his smile growing even bigger as he saw who was coming their way. Let the fun begin.

"Hey look its Snivellus!"

"Ada wait! I've been looking for you everywhere!" Jeremy Sinclair yelled through the hallway. Ada stopped halfway through and turned around, she couldn't pretend to ignore him anymore as she had been for awhile.

"Hi Jeremy." Jeremy stopped and began to take deep breaths; he had obviously been searching for her all over the school. He looked exhausted, as if he had run all over the place looking for her.

"Ada, I was…I was….wondering if you wanted to…"

"Want to what?

"Ummmmm….you know. Go to Hogsmeade with me?" A minute passed as Ada pondered her answer. If she said yes, she knew it'd be hard to get Jeremy Sinclair off her back after one date. But then again, she could see if Rowan Alden would get jealous. The second option seemed far off though since Rowan already had a date…go figure.

Then there was that conversation she had with Lily before. And as usual, Lily was right! Why did she have to keep pining after some idiot that didn't even talk to her. And who knows? Maybe Jeremy wouldn't be that bad. A bit of a geek maybe, but a he was a nice boy.

"You know what? I'd love to." She hoped she wouldn't regret saying yes. Jeremy's eyes lighted up as he heard her answer.

"YES!YES! YOU WON'T REGRET IT I SWEAR!"

"Okay, I'm sure I won't, now can you please calm down and stop yelling?" Her words seemed to have no effect on him as he continued to celebrate, even grabbing students that were merely passing by….

"YOU HEAR THAT? SHE SAID YES! SHE SAID YES!"

"WOW! Look at the time! I have to meet my friends at the library so I'll see you later." She replied, while subtlety trying to make her escape.

"Ada wait! Where are you going?" Jeremy called after her, as she continued to walk as fast as she could. Anything to get away from him. Luck wasn't on her side however, as she was eventually held up by none other than the marauder's. They had held up the whole hallway while fighting with Severus Snape once more. As Snape could do nothing more than lay on the floor immobilized, the boys were discussing their next plan.

"So what are you doing to him next James?"

"I don't know Peter...any suggestions? "

"Maybe we should stop now, we're going to get caught."

"Don't worry so much Remus….Hey Ada! Just in time." Sirius called out, obviously happy to see her. This was one girl who he always enjoyed spending time with for some odd reason. It didn't happen often with him.

"No offense Sirius but I need to pass by right now" She replied, a hint of desperation in her voice, out of the corner of her eye she could see Jeremy getting closer.

"But we're just getting started…now where were we James?" The jinx they had on Snape was starting to wear off yet all these two could do was ponder what to do next?

In a matter of seconds, Ada hexed Severus Snape before he could curse James. It was the only way she could get by the boys without resorting to hexing them instead. The four of them cheered as Snape fell back once more.

"Now that's more like it!" James yelled.

"We'll have to make you an honorary marauder for that one kid." Sirius added, his respect for her growing.

"Now can I pass by?"

"No you may not Ms. Kensington." Both Ada and the four boys turned around, out of all people to catch them it had to be Professor McGonagall of course.

"I am appalled at this display of abuse I've just witnessed and from my own house no less!" She continued, angrily.

" Professor, if Ada hadn't done that he would've cursed James or any of us so you could say it was some form of self defense right?"

"I'm sorry Mr. Lupin but your excuses won't save any of you today. I plan on deducting house points and giving each and every one of you detention until you learn your lesson."

"I shall be informing you when and where you're detentions will be and don't expect to be paired up!" She added, looking straight at James and Sirius. Both frowned knowing detention would be less fun now. "Since you enjoy spending time with Mr. Snape I'll be pairing him with you Mr. Potter."

"But?"

"And Mr. Black can spend his detention with Ms. Kensington. Mr. Lupin and Mr. Pettigrew can go together." James took a step forward, ready to fight the decision. Professor McGonagall had other plans however,

"That is final Mr. Potter. Maybe you and Severus Snape can find something in common during detention."

"She hates me…I know it." James frowned as she walked away. He was in for a rough detention. Sirius didn't envy him at this point.

"Oh well it was worth it." He continued, shrugging.

"Well this doesn't look so bad. All we have to is clean all of this without magic."

"I think we'll be scrubbing for hours Sirius. Plus, this rag stinks, yuck." Ada threw the smelly rag on the floor.

"It could be worse. We could be with Snivellus right now."

"Poor James."

It was two days after the incident with Snape and they were finally at detention. Both Ada and Sirius cheered after hearing that their detention would consist of cleaning "some" empty potions vials and things of the sort. There is always a catch of course and after seeing the amount of things they had to clean, they knew better than to cheer anymore. Both of them began cleaning.

"So I hear you're dating Jeremy Sinclair?" Sirius teased. Out of all people for Ada to date who would've thought, considering the fact that she'd avoided Jeremy for years and lusted after Rowan Alden for about the same time frame. But who really knows what girls think anyway? Ada groaned.

"Ugh don't remind me…and it's just one date by the way." She replied, scrubbing a sticky spot on her first vial.

"Who are you going with?"

"Me? I'm going alone." He answered while cleaning his piece at his own pace.

"Sirius Black without a date? I don't believe it. I'd thought you'd have girls lined up to go on a date with you."

"Well they did but I figured I'd go alone, maybe keep my options open." He smiled, "Besides, I can't always keep the ladies satisfied, I need time for myself too." Ada laughed, he was such an idiot sometimes!

"Alright, you can start deflating that big head of yours."

"It's not my fault the ladies can't resist me."

"So why Jeremy Sinclair? I thought you would've asked Rowan Alden by now." Ada who had just finished, her first vial, turned towards Sirius.

"He doesn't care about me so why should I care about him. It's his loss anyway. Besides, Jeremy's a nice boy…weird but nice." Sirius started laughing. Jeremy was a bit of an idiot really.

"Why are you laughing?" Ada asked impatiently. She wasn't one for being mocked. She waited a couple of moments before throwing her dirty rag at him. He immediately stopped laughing as soon as he caught the rag.

"That does really stink! And don't frown at me like that! It's just that I can't really picture him with a girl, especially not a girl like you."

"A girl like me?" Oh Sirius Black had some real explaining to do now.

"You're cool Ada and Jeremy well, you know…I can just picture him asking you out on a date and not even knowing what to do. I bet you he's never even dated a girl in his life!" Jackpot! Sirius couldn't be prouder with his answer.

"And you know what to do with girls on dates? Ada asked tilting her head to the side. She was curious to what sort of lame excuse her friend would come up with now.

"Of course I do. I'm sure you girls gossip, you must've heard something right?"

"No not really." That'll teach him to act like he's some sort of Greek God or something. It seemed to have the opposite effect though as Sirius took a step towards a smirking Ada.

"Well, you can always sneak away with me sometime, I'm sure I could show you a thing or two about how to treat a woman."

"Oh really?"

"Of course, if you're not scared." He whispered in her ear. Ada turned to face him, if he wanted to be slick then two can play this game.

"No thank you. I have plenty of experience and I'm definitely not afraid." She replied, her face leaning closer to his "Now, can you hand me back the rag I threw at you?"

Neither could recall what happened next, as they both reached for the rag on the table. They hadn't planned to grab it at the same time and yet they did, their hands touching instead.

Ada couldn't remember if her heart had ever beaten that fast before, if her knees had ever felt so weak and her stomach in knots. As close as she was to Sirius, she could feel his breath on her skin. They were close enough…close enough to kiss.

Like many times in his life, Sirius didn't really give much thought to what he was doing or the fact that Ada was his friend. He leaned in closer, memorizing every feature on her face, her blues eyes, her lips, the way she was looking at him at that moment. He felt nervous for once and was sure she felt the same way. And while his rational mind was telling him to run far away, he couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to kiss Ada Kensington.

But at the very same moment he decided to figure it out, Ada pulled away, grabbing the rag and walking towards the other side of the room. Sirius shook his head trying to forget this moment of temporary insanity. Was it really worth kissing her? Would she pass from being a good friend to being a needy girlfriend? Did she even like him in the first place or was she pretending? Playing at his own game? Maybe the best thing was to avoid temptation for good. He walked toward his corner of the room, making sure he wasn't going to slack off in his work. The sooner he was done, the sooner he could take a cold shower and forget this ever happened.

Ada tackled the task at hand furiously. What was she thinking? It must've been some moment of temporary insanity! She couldn't allow herself to lose control of her emotions like that again. It was wrong. Why ruin a perfectly good friendship like that? Besides, she knew him too well, he'd pursue her, date her and eventually get tired of her. No, it was definitely for the best! And then there was Claire! She continued to scrub the next vial, determined to push any thought of Sirius Black out of her mind under any means necessary. The sooner she was done, the sooner she could get away and forget what almost happened.

Next Chapter: Detention isn't over just yet! They have plenty more to talk about! Please Review…