I stood at the mirror for about 20 more minutes staring at my reflection until I heard screaming, which I immediately recognized as Lily's voice.

'AVALON RUSTLEY! WHAT IN MERLINS NAME JUST HAPPENED?' She was glaring at me now, and I looked at the ground sheepishly, trying to come up with ideas in my head of what to say.

'I'm sorry, okay?' She was still glaring at me, but I carried on 'As much as I completely hate Black, I couldn't do that to him!'

'Why not?' She demanded, and I bit my lip, why couldn't I do that too him?

'Because that would humiliate him, and I wouldn't want that to happen to me, so why do that to him? It was bad enough that I got him slapped, and that I had to pretend I liked him, and kiss him when I didn't want to!' Lily looked taken back at my outburst, and I blushed, but she looked completely shocked.

'Merlins beard…' I raised an eyebrow, what did she just say? 'Avalon, your eyes..' She whispered, like she had seen a ghost. I spun round and ran into the bathroom, grasping the sink and staring into the mirror. My eyes were purple.

'Its nothing' I muttered to Lily, as I turned round to sit on my bed. Her eyes were still incredibly wide and it was quite scary.

'Nothing? Your eyes are purple. You know what purple means?' She said it quite loudly and I glared at her, signalling her to shut up.

'Yes, I happen to know what it means Lily' I hissed at her, then realised it sounded meaner than I meant it to. I continued, noticing how unconvinced she looked 'I know what it seems like, but its not okay? I cant explain why my eyes are that colour, but its not what it seems. I'm going for a walk, see you later' Blushing slightly, I grabbed a jumper and walked out of the dormitory before Lily could say anything. I didn't know where I was going but after a while I found myself in front of the Black Lake, sighing, I sat down and tucked my knees up to my chest. I fiddled with my hair, twisting it in my fingers, before I realised it wasn't its usual chestnut colour. It had turned jet black. Oh god, I thought, Lily is never going to let this go.

After a while of thinking and freaking out, I decided it was about time I went to face Lily. Before I could however, a huge black dog with shaggy long hair trotted over to me and sat at my feet. Uncontrollable, a small squeak escaped me. I loved dogs, especially big ones; the little ones were just too small. I felt like I could sit on them at any moment. This dog was like a small Shetland and it eagerly wagged its tail at me.

'Well aren't you just the cutest thing ever?' I cooed at the dog, which tilted its head to the side and lolled its tongue out at me. I sat with the dog for a while, stroking its head, admitting everything to this one dog.

'I just don't get it, how can I like Sirius? It's impossible. My brains being stupid, that it. I don't like him, he's an idiot and he doesn't like me anyway so' the dog sat there and listening, almost looking like it was smiling. I grinned and kissed its nose, I love dogs. Sighing, I got up and started to walk back to the castle, with the black dog at my heels. When I got to the entrance, it ran towards the Forbidden Forest, I thought about following it, in case it needed to show me something. After a while, I thought against the idea, it was starting to get late and I needed food, I was starving.

Walking to the Great Hall was quite awkward, I avoided eye contact with The Marauders, as well as Lily, and even Izzie wouldn't look at me, I went to sit down with a girl called Marie Tomkinson, and her friend Charlie. Marie had always been nice to me, she sat next to me in Divination and Charms. With short black hair and bright blue eyes, she was exceptionally pretty but never hung out with anyone apart from her close friend Charlie, who looked a lot like Remus, except with more childlike features.

'Oh hey Avalon!' Greeted Marie, I smiled at her and sat opposite Charlie, who was eating the roast potatoes rather violently.

'Why aren't you sitting with The Marauders and them?' Charlie said with a mouthful of food, spitting it all over my jumper.

'Erm… We had a bit of a misunderstanding' I tried to smile, but it came out rather weakly. Marie gave me a reassuring smile and said:

'Hey, did you hear about that transfer student? She was totally snogging the face off Sirius, and then goes and throws potato at him! Ive got to admit, I thought it was hilarious!' Grinning, she reached for the peas and I felt myself blushing at the thought of the prank.

'Yeah… Guess Sirius got what was coming to him' I avoided Marie and Charlies gazes all through dinner, and rushed past Lily and Izzy before they could stop me. I stopped off at the library before going off to the Common Room, deciding to read to take my mind off things. Finding my usual seat, I shoved my bag under the table and flicked through my book on mythical creatures. After sitting there for what must have been about an hour, I heard a familiar voice coming from the entrance to the library.

'Found her! Hey Rusty!' I cringed at the name, I hadn't even figured out how to explain mine and Lily's fight.

'Leave me alone Black' Clenching my teeth, I continued to flick through my book, but with abit more violence.

'Why the harshness? The Marauders and I heard about you and Lily's fight, but Prongs is on Lily's side so I thought id come see how you were' He smiled, and I felt my eyes turn to red. Sides? What sides?

'There are sides?'

'Apparently, but to be honest I think hes being a bit dramatic, probably just doing it to get on his dear Lilyflowers good side' He winked and pulled up a chair to sit next to me. I smiled weakly at his efforts to cheer me up, then realised what colour my eyes were.

'Hey Sirius?'

'Yeah?' Sirius looked at me with concern, and after freaking out that he could see my eyes, I remembered he didn't know what all the colours meant, no one did apart from Lily. I bit my lip (it's a bad habit) Would she have told them?

'What happened between you and that transfer student? The whole schools talking about it' I avoided Sirius gaze by flicking through my book again, pretending I'd found something interesting to read. He chuckled and said:

'Ahh, so your jealous?' Winking, he turned to face me and I felt myself blush an unflattering shade of red.

'I'm not jealous' I muttered rather abruptedly and clenched my hands at my sides. Sirius raised an eyebrow, but then frowned.

'Why are your eyes purple? What moods that?' My mouth dropped open and I think my heart even stopped. I rushed to shove the book in my bag and push the chair back that the chair fell to the floor. I pushed it upright and began to walk, quite quickly, out of the library. Sirius continued to follow me, confused and a bit annoyed about my sudden exit.

'Look it doesn't matter okay? Just leave me alone' I hissed at him, and his eyes grew wide. I instantly blushed, but Sirius still looked appalled, and to be honest completely and utterly offended.

'I thought we were just becoming friends?' His voice cracked and he almost squeaked the last words.

'I cant be friends with you. I'll never be friends with you.' My voice also cracked and to my horror, I felt tears streaming down my face. Sirius looked completely horrified and before he could say anything I ran to the Black Lake, and sat there, my knees tucked up, and my chin resting on them. My knees were now wet as I must have been crying for nearly an hour.

My mind was racing, I couldn't stop thinking about everything, the prank, the kiss, mine and Lily's fight, and my talk with Sirius. It hadn't been a one off thing then, my eyes were still purple, and I was still so confused. More than anything I just wanted to back to how things were, when I didn't know Sirius Black, when he was just a boy that everyone talked about, when he was just a distant face…

(FLASHBACK)

It was 4th year, and this was the year Lily and I grew up. Well, Lily did, I still stayed at the 'middle' phase. Where as Lily had grown up, slim and pretty, no longer having frizzy hair, I stayed almost the same. The only thing that had changed was my height, and to be honest, that did not make a difference. Lily was suddenly popular, with everyone. Teachers, students and even the boys that had called her the m word were drooling when she came into the room. She had everyone mystified and as usual, I was the girl in the background.

There was a day I would never forget in fourth year. I was sat in History Of Magic with Lily, when I got hit in the head with a note:

Hey, wanna go out with me?

I turned round to see who had thrown this, completely astounded at the fact that someone was interested in me. It turned out to be a boy called Nathan Hastings, who, upon seeing that I had picked up the note, said 'Ew, its not for you, ugly, its for Lily!' Lily had turned round to see who mentioned her name, and after seeing the note and my horrified expression she quickly tagged on to what was happening and threw the note at Nathans head. However comforting this was, I was still humiliated and proceeded to grab my bag and run out of the classroom. I sat there against the wall crying, remembering my fathers death and my hair instantly turned to a pale shade of blue. Panting, Lily came running down the corridor gasping something about Sirius and 'beating up' Nathan. I immediately jumped up and ran after Lily, who was running back towards the classroom. I was instantly worried, and as I got to the classroom my anxiety turned to horror. In the classroom, Nathan was being pinned to the wall, with Sirius holding his wand against his throat. Through my gasps for breath and the yelling of the crowd I caught parts of their conversation, well, it wasn't really a conversation, more of Sirius growling at an extremely petrified Nathan.

'You don't deserve either of them girls, especially Avalon' Sirius was growling 'You speak to her like that again and it'll be the last thing you ever do!' Nathan gulped, and nodded, making his head look like it was about to fall off. 'Good' Sirius threw Nathan on the floor, who then scrambled to his feet and tried to regain whatever dignity he had left. I stared at Sirius, completely jaw-dropped. He caught my gaze and looked quickly to his feet, blushing an unusual shade of pink. Was I seeing things? The famous Sirius Black, was blushing? The teacher quickly gained control, and after what seemed like years, the class finally ended and Sirius jumped up and headed for the door, quickly followed by Remus, James and Peter.

Without even looking at Lily, I too leapt up and ran after Sirius, desperately trying to push past the river of students in the corridor.

'Sirius! Sirius Black, wait!' I yelled desperately, hoping he wasn't already gone.

'What?' He muttered, turning round to face me. Suddenly I was completely lost for words.

'Ermm…' He raised an eyebrow and turned to walk off 'Wait! Thanks, for what you did just then' I blushed slightly, and he ran a hand through his hair (thinking about it, he always use to do that, even back then!) and muttered:

'It was nothing'

'Well I think it was great of you' He smiled weakly and I said: 'So yeah, thanks' I turned and walked off, still reeling over the days events.

(PRESENT DAY)

Ever since that day, I had known who Sirius Black was, and he knew who I was. He was also nicer to me since, I think he probably remembered it as well. I never really bothered to ask.

After about twenty more minutes, I decided to stop being pathetic and stop wallowing in my self pity. I jumped up, grabbed my bag, pushed my shoulders back, lifted my chin up and walked into the castle, determined to forget about this whole thing.

My eyes were still grey, and my hair still a pale black/grey colour, and Sirius Black? Well he was just a distant memory…

A/N Hello this took a lot of time to write, as I couldn't think what Sirius' reaction would be like to her eyes etc.

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