For Disclaimer see chapter 1

Hurray! I overcame my writer's block! Woohoo! Thanks to everyone who reviewed and offered suggestions! OMG! Guess what!!!!! This guy I met the other day looked just like Sirius should. I was staring at him and I didn't realize that I had been and I guess he saw me because he started blushing. Oops.lol. If you had seen him you'd understand. (No, I'm not psycho, lol!) Well, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and please review, this chapter was hard!

"I came to see if Miss Brannigan was doing better," Dumbledore said, then his amused smile appeared yet again, seeming to mock them in their abashed position. Dumbledore paused for thought and looked at the two with his aged wise eyes. "But it seems she is in perfect health."

Riley blushed harder and tried to avoid Dumbledore's unnerving gaze that sat upon her and Sirius by diverting her eyes. He turned to leave and then turned back around suddenly with a thought-provoked expression.

"Oh, yes, I remember now." he mumbled to himself, "I'm not sure you've heard yet, but we've decided to have a Yule Ball during the holiday vacation."

And with that, Dumbledore left at last, a pleased smile framing his face as soon as he hit the hallway, away from their eyes. Ron turned to Harry with an arched brow and sly smile.

"A Yule Ball, huh? Now, I know what Dumbledore is up to. This is going to get interesting."

The spell skimmed over the next few days, showing them the highlights. Over the next couple of days, the sparkle in Sirius' eyes, whenever Riley was near, intensified. Sirius' fellow marauders treated Riley with a certain respect and as an equal. During the course of the next few days, Riley's personality was unobstructed and she began to reveal herself to them. It seemed Riley had many marauder-like qualities and she began to get involved with their practical jokes. The marauders were very impressed with her sense of mischief and she even showed them a few tricks of the trade. But, no one could produce mischief at the drop of a hat like the marauders could. Riley noticed this immediately and did not interfere when it came to marauder-only-like pranks. The boys made her laugh until she cried, but she laughed hardest for Sirius.

Riley didn't hang out with other girls, she always was with the boys, to their envy. Harry and Ron noted to each other the jealous stares Riley received behind her back, but if she saw them, she ignored them. Riley didn't seem to mind much and she grew closer to the boys. Harry and Ron waited though with anticipation as the days drew closer to the Yule Ball and Sirius had still not asked Riley to be his date. They watched as Remus and James, both, asked two girls to be their dates and they were accepted. Riley cringed in her dorm whenever the girls began to talk excitedly about the Ball, their dresses, makeup, and hair. She made it seem on the outside like she didn't care if she was going or not, but inside she was dying to go. Harry and Ron pitied Riley when she was asked whom she was going to the ball with. "I'm determining who." She told them over and over again until she was blue in the face. The truth was several boys had asked her to go the Ball, two Hufflepuffs, one Ravenclaw, three or four Slytherin, two Gryffindor, but she turned them all down. Unconsciously, she was waiting for Sirius, but she had no clue that she did care for him like she did. She was oblivious to her feelings and hid most of them away. Sirius, on the other hand, had fallen for Riley the moment he had first laid eyes on her. He would pace back in forth in his dorm wondering whether or not to ask her, getting nervous at the thought of it.

Riley rested herself on the soft couch in the Gryffindor common room, it being empty, lying down on her stomach, her head resting on her hands.

"What's the matter, Sirius?" she asked, looking up at him as he paced the silent room right in front of her. Sirius stopped and peered down at her with a pondering expression upon his features.

"Just thinking." He told her and began to pace again. Riley grinned, sitting up and tugged on his hand when he passed her yet again causing him to fall on her lap accidentally. He appeared dazed when he collapsed on her and she sat him up on her lap, with laughter in her eyes.

"You look tired." she commented, playing with his limp fingers, avoiding his gaze. Her touch made him feel tingly all over and he shivered involuntarily.

Sirius nodded, "I am tired. I haven't been able to sleep lately."

Riley's eyes clouded with concern, "Really?"

"Yeah." He mumbled, watching her fingers brush his with a playfulness.

She smiled, "Hey, have you ever heard a Muggle song before?" His face showed nothing but confusion and curiosity.

"No." he told her shaking his head, his dark hair sweeping across his cheekbones. A grin spread wide upon her face, "Then I'll have to have you listen to one."

Riley dashed upstairs to her dorm and tiptoed in, careful not to wake anyone up. Sirius pondered when she came back down with a portable record player and kneeled down next to it, placing it on the table.

"Ry?" he asked with wonder, using his recent nickname for her. She winked at him with the confidence in her that he adored as she placed an Elvis record on the player.

"This is one of Elvis' recent records." She told him, though he wondered who this Elvis was and his significance. She turned down the volume a notch and placed the needle down as the record spun slowly. With that, Muggle instruments sounded a beat and a soothing male crooned, 'You look like an angel, walk like an angel.' in a slow sweet tempo.

"(You're the) Devil In Disguise!" Riley cried happily, naming the song, standing up, and grasping Sirius' hand in her's, pulling him up on his feet. Starting to slow dance with him, Riley, in lead.

But the song broke the gentle wafting pace into a fast flow, ".you're the devil in disguise!" Elvis wailed, causing Riley to dance faster and making her laugh at the confused expression swarming Sirius face at the change in tempo. But soon enough, he got into the song and laughed along with her, dipping and spinning her at random intervals. Harry smiled, Riley always seemed to make Sirius' day brighter.

Sirius and Riley collapsed in laughter on the couch, flopping next to each other, after the song ended, each breath coming short, raspy, and hard from their mouths. Sirius' eyes cried out with laughter, he grinned from ear to ear.

"Ry?" he asked, panting.

"Yeah?" she responded, taking large gulps of fresh air.

"W-Will you go to the Yule Ball with me?" He asked, a cheerful glee on his face. Riley gave him a brilliant smile, her pearly teeth gleaming.

"Of course!" she told him, putting her hand on his knee.

A/N: If you haven't heard "(You're the) Devil In Disguise" by: Elvis, you should, it's great. And in a way, it kind of seems like a Riley song in my opinion, lol. (Oh, the song is on the "Lilo and Stitch" soundtrack.)