You know, I always thought normal people slept in on a Saturday. Well, when you're trying to win Sirius Black's heart, apparently not. I was woken, rather rudely I must say, by Willow jumping on my bed at 7 A.M.

That's right. 7 A.M. In the morning!

"Urgh! Smith! Do you realize what time it is?" I practically yelled pulling my pillow over my head.

"I was going to talk to you last night, but someone got in too late." She said with a wink.

"That had nothing to do with Sirius." I mumbled closing my eyes again.

"Oh really?" She took the pillow away from my face and threw it across the room. "Then who did it have to do with?"

I sighed, realizing she wasn't going to leave me alone until I told her what happened last night and sat up. "I was talking to James and Lily with Remus, and we sort-of lost track of time."

"So, Sirius didn't talk to you at all?" Willow asked, sounding let down.

"Oh, no he definitely talked to her." A voice said as Rebecca and Zara walked in the room, grinning.

"How did you guys get in here?" Willow asked as they both sat on the edge of my bed.

"I dated Edward Pearson last year. He let us in." Zara said with a grin. "I saw Rebecca this morning and she told me about last night. I have to say, I didn't know you had it in you."

I blushed a little. "It wasn't that big of a deal."

"Wasn't that big of a deal? You snubbed Sirius Black in front of his best friends! It was awesome!" Rebecca said.

"You what?" Willow said, urgently.

Rebecca then launched into the story about how I put Sirius Black in his place and completely resisted his chivalrous offer to walk me back to the Ravenclaw Common Room, walking with Remus instead. I choose that moment to lay back down on my bed and close my eyes.

"What do you think you're doing!" Rebecca said suddenly slapping me with my other pillow.

"Trying to sleep!" I replied frustrated.

"You don't have time to sleep!" Willow told me yanking the covers off my bed.

"Why not? It's Saturday!"

"Because, now that you have Sirius's attention, you have to give him what he enjoys more than anything else." Zara said with a mischievous smile.

"Sex?" I said with raised eyebrows.

"No! - Well, actually that is- but that's not what I'm talking about!" She said.

"She's talking about the chase." Rebecca said, "You all ready got a good start last night, now you have to keep him running."

They then dragged me out of bed and shoved me into the bathroom while they picked out some clothes for me to wear. It was a purple spaghetti strap dress with ruffles at the bottom and small white and red flowers that hit me a few inches above the knee. It was actually pretty cute. After that, they straightened my blonde hair and let it hang loose on my shoulders. Fortunately, seeing as we were going outside, I managed to talk them out of heels and into some white flats.

Rebecca and Zara left then, leaving me and Willow to go eat some breakfast before heading out to the Lake to do some homework where Sirius Black would very likely be surrounded by his fan club.

"Hey Iris! Come here!" I looked up from my book to find Lily waving at me from a few people down.

I looked at Willow, making sure I could go sit with her before getting up to slide in next to Lily, "hey Lily."

"Hey, what are you doing studying when it's so beautiful outside?" She asked leaning back on her arms as she closed her eyes and turned her face to the sun with a slight smile.

"I think the question is, what are you doing out here by yourself when you have a crazy-about-you boyfriend running around here somewhere?" I asked her.

She sighed, "He's at Quidditch practice."

"Ah," I said, leaning against my arms as well.

"I don't understand why Quidditch is such a big deal." Lily said. "It's like tennis or something in the muggle world."

I raised my eyebrows at her. "What's tennis?" Even though my Dad was a muggleborn, I grew up completely in the Wizarding World, so I was about as clueless as anyone on matters like this.

"Oh, it's just a sport where you hit balls over a net back and forth to each other." She answered.

"On the ground?" I asked in general interest.

She nodded.

"That sounds rather dull." I said closing my eyes.

"Now you know how I feel about Quidditch." She said.

We sat in silence for the next few minutes in silence until Lily opened her eyes and said, "Can I ask you something?"

I glanced at her, slightly worried. "Sure . . ."

"Do you like Remus?"

I sighed, "He's really nice, Lily, but I barely know him."

She nodded dropping the subject.

"There's my girl!" James slid in-between us. "Hey Iris," he said after giving Lily a quick kiss.

"Hey James," I said as someone sat down on my other side very closely, and I looked over to the grinning face of Sirius Black.

"Iris," Sirius said.

I gave him a weird look. "Glad to know you finally learned my name Black; do you want something?"

"Yeah, actually, I do." He said.

I raised my eyebrows, "and that would be . . ."

"You to come on a date with me to Hogsmeade next month," Sirius said wrapping an arm around my shoulders.

"Sorry, not interested," I told him quickly, standing up and brushing some dirt off my dress. "I'll see you around Lily and James."

Lily waved, giving me a, 'I'm so sorry' look while James grinned.

I started walking away back to the castle, hopeing I could finally get some sleep when Sirius stopped me. "Iris, wait up!" he said, catching up with me and wrapping an arm around my waist and whispering in my ear. "Come on, one little date won't kill you. In fact, it might be the best night of your life."

I swiftly pushed the chill threatening to go down my spine away. "A little arrogant aren't we?" I asked being careful not to pay any attention to him.

"I like to call it confidence." He said one of his hands sliding across the bare skin of my arm.

"Well, I like to call it trying to get in my pants and failing." I said not missing a beat.

He seemed momentarily shocked, but recovered quickly. "I think you might be making some assumptions -"

I turned around then, glaring him straight in the face. "Just because you've never noticed me before Black, doesn't mean I haven't noticed you, and I happen to know that you currently have around three girlfriends, so don't even try to convince me to date you, because it won't work." I turned on my heel then and stormed away.

"So, you're quite the popular girl in Gryffindor right now." I looked up from my Ancient Runes essay to see Remus grinning at me from across my table in the library.

"Oh really?" I said sarcastically, "and why is that?"

"Sirius Black getting turned down for a date is not something that happens very often." Remus replied, sitting down across from me. "I must say, you bruised his ego quite a bit."

I turned back to my essay, "he's a manwhore Remus, I've told you that several times."

"Yeah, usually he is -" Remus started saying.

"Usually?" I said in disbelief. Was Remus really going to stick up for him?

"Okay, well almost all of the time, but maybe you should give him a shot." Remus said.

"You're joking right?"

Remus shrugged, "I think you would be good for him. You might make him 'change his ways'."

I could not believe these words were coming out of his mouth.

"I think what you said to him earlier really got to him." He continued.

"He told you what I said?" I asked, slightly ashamed he heard that.

Remus nodded, "it was completely true and he's been sitting in the middle of the Common Room staring at the fire for the past hour."

"Remus, he barely knows me, he can't be that upset -"

"Rebecca tried to get him to make out with her and he said he didn't feel like it."

My mouth dropped in shock. "And you're saying that's my fault?"

"No! Of course not! I'm just saying you got to him."

I shook my head and ran a hand through my hair. "Please, you're making it sound like no one has ever turned him down before."

Remus didn't respond.

My eyes widened in disbelief. "You're kidding me. No one has ever turned down Sirius Black?"

Remus shook his head. "Not that I can think of."

"Well, maybe it was a nice blow to that monstrosity he calls an ego. He needs it." I said standing up and sliding my bag over my shoulder before looking at Remus again. "I'm not saying I would never date him Remus, but he's going to have to change a lot before I ever consider it."