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~Chapter 9~

~Same day~

A black haired Gryffindor, all but ran out of the potions room, muttering under her breath. Alex made it halfway down the corridor, when someone grabbed her arm.

"You always seem to be in a hurry when leaving potions, Miss Dumbledore," A cool voice came from behind her, Alex turned to glare at the owner of the voice.

"Maybe it's because of a certain blonde arse?" She scantily replied, raising a single eyebrow.

"That wounds me, Miss Dumbledore," he replied, slipping his arm on hers, "Shall I walk you to Charms?"

"I can certainly walk myself, thank you, Mr. Malfoy." She said, going to pull her arm away, but he kept his grip tight.

"Are you planning on going to the ball?" he asked, completely ignoring her comment on being able to walk herself.

"I'm thinking about it," she told him, "Why do you ask?" she asked looking at him suspiciously, still trying to get her arm back.

"Just curious," he asked smirking, "Would you go with me?" Alex looked at him as if he were insane, 'What the fuck?' her head screamed. "Well?" he said breaking her thoughts.

"Can't," she said quickly, "I'm already going with someone," Lucius frowned at that, and Alex took the chance to get her arm back.

"Is that so?" the blonde wizard said, his steel gray eyes narrowing. Alex shifted uncomfortably under his gaze, "May I ask who?"

"Oh, um… that is…" she stumbled over her words trying to figure out what to tell the intimidating wizard. She was about to tell him it wasn't his business, when suddenly someone called her name. Looking past the Slytherin she saw Sirius, "Ah, Sirius." She said out loud.

"Black?" Lucius spat, "Feh, of all the people, Black?" he turned to glare at the black haired wizard, who returned the glare right back.

"Anyway," Alex said, breaking up the glaring contest between the two teens, "Sirius, Malfoy here was just asking me to the ball," she explained, noticing Sirius stiffen a bit at the information. "But I told him, I can't, because you already asked me," she continued, moving to his side and placing a arm around his waist.

Sirius was shocked to say the least, but he recovered quickly and placed his arm around Alex's shoulders. He looked to Lucius, giving him a nice 'in your face' smirk. "Of course," he then looked down at Alex, "May I walk you to Charms?" he asked.

"You may," she replied with a smile, "Have a nice day, Mr. Malfoy," she said over her shoulder, as the two walked away from the peeved blonde.

"Thank you," Alex said, once they were far enough away, "I don't know what I would have done if you didn't show up."

"Well it wasn't the ideal way I wanted to ask you to the ball, but I guess it works," He said sighing slightly, and then looked down at Alex whose face was red.

"You were going to ask me?" she asked in a small voice.

"Of course, who else would I have?" he told her, smirking as her blush grew slightly.

"Well just because I told Malfoy I'm going with you, doesn't automatically mean I'll actually go with you," Alex said without thinking, she didn't notice the hurt look flash across his face.

"Well then, I guess I'm going to have to do this right," he replied. Alex looked up at him confused, and saw the mischievous smile upon his face, "We have a free period after Charms, so meet me in the courtyard." And with that he leaned down and placed a small peck on her cheek and then turned into the classroom before Alex, leaving her there shocked and bright red.

Charms class went beyond slow for Alex, what with Sirius avoiding her eyes and Lucius keeping his locked on her. She just about had enough, so when the bell rang, she left quickly with a relieved sigh.

She made her way to the courtyard, apparently getting there before Sirius. 'Why couldn't I have kept my mouth shut and been happy?' she asked herself, 'I guess I wanted to make sure he really was going to ask me,' she mused slightly. She shook her head slightly to scatter her thoughts, as she rubbed her temples.

"Alex," she heard a voice call her, looking up she saw Sirius right in front of her, "I'm glad you came." He said with a smile.

"Did you think I wasn't going to?" she asked, curiously.

"Oh, well I wasn't sure, I was hoping you would, and you did," he told her, rubbing one hand on his neck. He then gave her a big smile, "Come on let's go for a walk," he grabbed a hold of her hand and gently pulled her out of the courtyard and to the grounds.

"Sirius, where are you taking me?" Alex asked as they neared a part of the Forbidden forest.

"Don't worry," he replied gently, "I've been here thousands of times." They paused right before the trees, and he turned to here, "Do you trust me?" he asked suddenly.

"Huh?" she looked up at him confused.

"Do you trust me?" he repeated himself, "Well, do you trust me to not get us lost, at least?" he reiterated his question. Alex looked back and forth at him and the imposing tress.

"I trust you," she said, with a small nod, making Sirius's face break out in a big smile. He once again grabbed her hand and began waking, this time into the forest.

"After walking for a little while Sirius came to a stop at two large trees. Sirius looked back at Alex with a small smile. Turning back around he pulled out his wand and went up to the tree on the right, he tapped the tree three times whispering, ""

The air around them was suddenly filled with magic, as in front of them a small clearing appeared.

"What is this?" Alex asked in amazement.

"This is my secret hideout," He told her, with a big smile, "No one knows about this place, but me. And well now you."

"Wait, you never even told James or Remus about this place?" Alex asked, shocked. Sirius just smiled, not even replying to the question as he once again grabbed Alex's hand and pulled her into his hideout area. Completely forgetting what they were talking about, Alex looked around the area in awe, "Are we still in the Forbidden Forest?" she asked in a soft voice.

"Yeah," he replied, "I was quite shocked too when I found it, but don't worry I have wards up so no dangerous creatures can enter." He placed one hand on her shoulder, making her look up at him. "You can come here whenever you like, if you want to."

"Really! Thank you, Sirius," The dark haired witch gave him a big hug, accidently knocking him to the ground. "I'm sorry," Alex said, in between giggles as Sirius laughed along with her, in a barking like laugh, which reminded her of the future Sirius.

"Its fine," Sirius said, calming slightly, "You can tackle me to the ground whenever you want." He giant grin, making the witch on top of him blush. "Now I think we should get down to business," he said in a slightly more serious voice, but not by much. As Alex tried to scoot off of him she was stopped by Sirius, who had an arm around her waist, not letting her move.

"Sirius could you let me go?" she asked him, in a small voice, her blush deepening slightly.

"So, the main reason I brought you here was to get you to go to the ball with me," he started, completely ignoring her request. Alex went to say something, but Sirius stopped her by placing a finger to her lips. "But now, as long as you're happy, you can go with whoever you want, but please don't go with Malfoy."

Alex gave a small sigh, as she brought a hand up to his gently taking it in her own. "For one," she started. Looking down at her lap, at their hands, "I couldn't take Malfoy even if I wanted to, I already rejected him. Second, the person I do want to go to is sitting right in front of me." Sirius's face broke out in a big smile.

"Well that's good, because I don't know if I could have actually let you go with someone else," Sirius said as he stretched his arms above his head, trying to sound nonchalant about it. Alex just shook her head at the Marauder, who of course still had a smirk upon his face.

Alex, realizing he wasn't holding on to her anyone, stood up, "You know what I haven't done in awhile?" she asked Sirius as she looked around the clearing. The dark haired wizard looked up with a small 'hm?' of curiosity. The witch just gave a smirk, her dark brown eye twinkled mischievously, as she transformed into her animagus from, and took off running.

Sirius quickly stood up, "Alex?" he yelled, watching the black Border collie run around, yelping happily. He gave a barking laugh at the scene. "Alex," He called her again, "We have to get back soon." The only response he got was a small sad whimper from the dog, as she came up to him. "Come on, one of us has to responsible and make sure we get to our next class." He told her, earning a snort of disbelief from the dog before him.

Alex turned away from Sirius and continued her playing, normally she would listen, but she was having too much fun.

"Alex," Sirius said, in a slight warning voice. Alex looked back at him and with a doggie smile, she went into a crouch, pretty much saying 'Make me' to him.

"You asked for it," he told her, before changing into his black shaggy dog form. 'Here I come,' he crouched and jumped at the border collie, who in turn took off running.

The two of them played all afternoon, and only changed back when they realized they were late for dinner. They made their way back to the castle, and snuck down to the kitchens for something to eat.

A.N. yay chapter 9! Sorry it took so long to get up, I've been busy with college stuff, but I'm starting to get the hang of college so, I'll do my best to get chapters up faster! Anyway, I don't think I'm going to have a scene with James asking Lily, but I do have a plan . so don't worry! Next chapter shall be the Ball!

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