I woke up the next day feeling terrible about what I did to Sirius. I was thinking screw James and let me at Sirius. But then I thought about what he'd think and how he'd feel. I decided that Sirius, as hot and nice as he was, I didn't think that'd be the best choice if he wanted to live.

At breakfast, Sirius was sitting down the table a little ways. Before I could say anything to him, my dorm mates came into the room. Mary MacDonald, Hestia Jones, Marlene McKinnon, and Lily Evans all came and sat down around me laughing like a bunch of crazies.

"Tell Halley that joke you told me, Mary!" Marlene said between giggles.

"No, that's okay," I said dazed, still staring at Sirius even as his friends came in and sat next to him. It seemed that he was doing the same.

"Sirius! Are you paying attention?" James yelled at him and he whipped his head around to face him.

"Uh, yeah," he replied with one last look at me.

I needed to talk to him but I didn't know where or when.

~O-O~

I was so worried about what happened with Sirius that I wasn't paying attention in any of my classes.

It was about 8:30 at night when a brown eagle owl came into the room with a note and rose in its beak. I immediately knew that this owl belonged to Sirius and that scared me. I was afraid of what this note could say the rose gave me a happy thought. I read the note and it scared me about what could happen.

Dear Halley,

I know you don't want anything to happen between us for James's sake but I still need to talk to you. Meet me in the room on the seventh floor, near the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy. I'll be waiting for you.

-S

P.S. - I knew roses were your favorite

I did what he asked and when James asked me where I was going, I said to the kitchens. I got to the room and in the beautiful and romantic setting was Sirius sitting by the fire. He heard me walk in and he was looking hotter than ever seen as how he was wearing a shirt that complimented his six-pack and muscular build. When he saw me, he stood up and smiled, lightly.

"Hey," I told him.

"Hey," he replied.

There was a little bit of awkward silence that I broke.

"Why did you want me to come here?" I asked sitting down while he followed and got a little closer than what I would've liked.

"I wanted to ask you why you don't think you can date me or even kiss me?" he asked making his face oddly close to mine.

"Don't make me sound like the bad guy! I'm doing this for your own good! Unless of course you want James to totally hate you!" I told him and we laughed a little.

"Who says he has to find out?" he asked as he, once again, started leaning his face closer to mine if that was even possible. This time, I didn't object.

Our lips met and I felt a shiver run through my body. He licked my lips for entry and I was happy to let him in. He pulled at the buttons on my shirt and I helped him by unbuttoning the rest of them and ripping the shirt off and throwing it away from the couch so that now I was in my pink lace bra. He pulled me from the seat right next to him onto his lap. Then he started giving me a hickey on my jaw bone as I bit my lip in pleasure. His hands found their way to the small of my back and he started drawing pictures that I couldn't make out. His other hand went and got tangled in my hair. My hands found their way into his sleeked back hair and I felt him smile against my neck. I then started at the buttons of his shirt. He tore of his shirt and I almost thought he ripped it. He reached for my lips one last time as he softly but still passionately kissed me. After what seemed like so quick, we broke apart.

We were both breathing hard, we both had messed up hair and we were topless, although, I still had a shirt on, thankfully. He smiled at me with somewhat swollen lips and I smiled back. That's when I realized that now, instead of being on a couch and me being on his lap, we were now in a canopy bed next to the fire and I was straddling him. I was a little confused.

"Weren't we on a couch a second ago?" I asked him.

"Yes but we're in the Room of Requirement so what we want and need appears to fit that need. Apparently the Room thought we were going to need a bed," he said with a smile on his face. I punched his arm playfully in response. "Do you know what time it is?" he asked me and I looked at my watch.

"11:06. Holy shit! We had a long snogging session!" I yelled at him as he pushed me off his lap and laughed while he tossed me my shirt. I quickly did up all the buttons and then helped him with his. I felt more like a mother than a girlfriend at this point. We ran out of the room and started towards the Gryffindor Common Room.

When we arrived at our destination, I heard two voices one being my best friend's and the other being my darling brother's.

"-Eh Evans?" was all I heard from my brother and when I could see him, he was waggling his eyebrows in a very stupid way.

"Potter you are a complete and utter numpty!" Lily yelled at him as she stomped up the stairs angrily. James shook his head and then looked at Sirius and me.

"Where were you guys? It's like eleven fifteen," James said looking at Sirius and me with suspicious eyes.

"We had a late night study session at the library," I told him and started toward the girl's dormitories.

"Wow, Padfoot! Since when do you go the Library and Study?" James asked surprised but still suspicious.

"I guess I'm changing for the better," Sirius said as he gave a wink in my direction and with that, I head up the stairs. The only other person in my dorm was the girl I had seen stomp up to it previously and she was pacing and muttering to herself. She tends to do that a lot. I ignored her, skipped in happily and flopped onto my bed with a giant sigh.

"Someone seems happy," she said and walked over to my bed and sat down by all of my big comfy pillows.

"I am indeed," I said, still happy as ever.

"How come?"

"Sirius and I started secretly dating and we had a giant snogging session in… um… I think he called it the Room of Requirement," I replied enthusiastically. I didn't even realize that I had just blown our secret.

"So you don't want me to tell anybody else, do you?" she asked and that's when I came to my senses.

"No!" I exclaimed and it looked like I scared her out of her knickers.

"Okay! Jeesh! Now before you bite my head off, can I ask you something?" she asked me.

"Of course! Shoot," I said and sat up to listen.

"Why is James so persistent with me? Why hasn't he given up?" Lily asked me with sincere eyes.

"He said that even though you punch him and call him names, he feels differently about you," I told her.

"Wow. I'm sure he'll give up eventually, though, right?" she asked me with a nervous look on her face.

"Yeah," I said in the most assuring voice I could possibly do. She obviously didn't know the same James that I did.