Title: I Wish I Didn't Want Her

Characters: Sirius Black and James Potter.

AN: Having a crush on the same person for ages is not always fun… just saying!

Word Count: 360

Sirius Black walked with his head directed to the floor until he reached the final step and heard James voice. It sounded darker, emotionless and came from the other end of the room. Sirius looked towards the source of the sound and saw James leaning his back against the cold wall while his feet hung on the outside of the tower. He was nowhere near close enough to the edge to fall. His raven hair was messier than normal as if he had viciously been running his fingers through it and his glasses rested further down against his nose.

"How did you know that I was here?"

Sirius didn't even bother trying not to laugh. "Really? Are you really asking me, how I knew that you were here?"

James laughed. "Yes, I guess that was a stupid question."

"It was a really stupid question." Sirius nodded in agreement. He sat down on the empty spot next to James and leaned back onto the palm of his hands. "So, how did your date go?"

James shrugged and let out a disinterested groan. "It went fine I guess." He sighed deeply. "Lily saw us."

"Ah. What did she do?"

"Nothing," James aggravatedly ran his fingers through his messy hair. "She just looked at us."

"I'm sorry Prongs."

"Don't be." James shrugged. "I didn't go on a date with Emmeline because I wanted Lily to react. I didn't do it because I wanted to make her jealous or anything. She's never been interested in going on a date with me before so why would she suddenly be interested because I'm dating someone else?"

"I don't know." Sirius replied and tapped his head then his chest. "But the mind works in strange ways. One's heart and mind doesn't always play nice together."

James laughed. "Yeah, you're right about that Pads. Because my heart can't seem to let go of this crush I have on her even if it's only causing me pain and my mind is doing a bad job at convincing it to stop even if…"

"Even if?"

"Even if…" James looked at him with tear-filled eyes. "I wish I didn't want her."

The end