Sonder -S. Black-

~5~

Luca was not ready for detention. Heck, she would never be able to face the fact that that would be on her permanent record forever. She could only imagine what her parents would say when she gets home for the Summer. Man, if they thought she needed to be better now, Luca would have to lasso the sun for them to be mildly impressed with her ever again.

On the other hand, for the handsome Marauder, it was no big deal. He already was disowned and had a new family, the Potters. The Potters were used to this behavior from already having one troublemaking son, so for him it was no big deal.

As Luca was slowly trudging through the halls on her way to her doom, she suddenly felt a arm around her shoulder. As she looked up she was met with the face of the long haired boy that got her into this very mess.

"Well, look at that, seems like we meet again, Little Red, since your here, we might as well walk together." said the boy giving her his famous smirk.

Boy, if Luca had her thoughts with her, she would've ripped that shaggy haired boy a new one. Unfortunately, her anxiety was clouding all judgement. So, she merely just let him walk with her.

After about the longest 5 minutes of her life, they arrived back at the very classroom where this whole mess began.

"Ah, Mr. Black, Ms. Volkov, you're finally here." said McGonagall as she looked up from grading their latest assignment.

"For this detention, I want you to clean the desks, Ms. Volkov, and you Mr. Black, you already know what to do." she said as she handed Luca some soap and water. "Now I am going to need your wands please."

Luca took out her 11 3/4 inch black walnut wand, and handed it over to her teacher. Sirius followed her action and handed his over as well.

"Now, I will be back to collect you in 1 hour, I expect the work to be done, and Ms. Volkov, see me after please." and with that Professor McGonagall walked away.

Luca immediately started to clean the desks, she already got in trouble, she didn't want to make it worse. As she was scrubbing the desks with the utmost care, Sirius on the other hand, was sitting with this feet up in one the desks in the back row.

"You know, we have an hour to do this, you want to do something fun?" asked the unruly boy.

Luca looked over at him and gave him the harshest glare she could muster. She was boggled, how could this boy blatantly disrespect what the teacher told them to do.

"No, I don't want to "go have some fun" I am in here because of you, so I don't want to be here again. So why don't you get started with what she asked you to do and stop talking to me." said the angry red headed girl, as she turned back to her work.

Sirius just softly chuckled in response. When he usually asked girls if they wanted to do something with him, they said yes. Heck he had never been told no by a girl, and Luca had told him no at least 5 times.

"Fine," Sirius said as he got up from his seat. "If I do this though, you owe me."

Luca scoffed.

"Why would I owe you for getting me in detention, the least you could do is you dang job."

"Well, you see love, I am doing you a favor, I am getting you less detention, so I am helping you out. Minnie knows I never work, but for you I will." said the boy as he walked over to the shelves and started dusting them.

Luca thought that since Sirius was working he wouldn't talk and they could get this over with quickly, she however was wrong. The long-haired boy, didn't like silence. Silence reminded him of his home, where he would sit alone locked in his room, all the summer without anyone.

"So," Sirius started, "I don't know much about you, Little Red, tell me about yourself." said the boy as he dusted.

"Personally, I am more of a work in silence type, so I will have to take a raincheck." said the girl as she scrubbed away.

Sirius turned and looked at the red head that caught his attention, "Well love, I am afraid I am not, if you aren't going to answer the questions, I am just going to sit down and sleep till this is over." he said as he headed toward one of the desk chairs.

"No, no, no, no, I will answer the questions, just please work, I don't want to be in even worse trouble." the girl hurriedly said.

"Good, we are on the same page then doll." said the smirking boy as he got back to work.

"So, tell me doll, where are you from?"

"East Yorkshire."

"Ah, I see, beautiful place, family?"

"5 older brothers, mom and dad."

"Are you close with them?"

The radiant girl laughed, close with her family, never has been. Sirius, judging by the laugh, took it she was as close to her family as she was his. Guessing she didn't want to talk about it, he changed the subject.

"Hobby?"

"Reading books, painting, things like that." said the girl as she tried scrubbing away some guck from a failed transfiguration.

"Oh, nerdy, no wonder you get along with Moon- I mean Remus."

Luca, hands on her hips, turned to look at the rabble-rousing boy.

"Reading doesn't make you a nerd, it makes you an adventure seeker." said the girl matter of factly.

"Nerd" Sirius coughed.

"I don't even know why I am arguing with the likes of you about this." she said as she turned back to her bucket and sponge.

The two talked about life for the remaining time of detention. If bystanders saw them, they would think that those two people liked each other, heck, were even friends. To her, it was passing the time, to him, he felt like he was getting somewhere with his conquest.

When McGonagall came back Sirius was free to go, Luca still had to chat with her though.

"Ms. Volkov, please sit down." said her Professor are she pointed to the front desk.

"I hope you don't make this a habit. I don't like seeing you here Ms. Volkov, you are one of, if not my best student. I wouldn't like to see you getting involved in Black and Potters unacceptable behavior." she said sternly.

"I promise, it was a one time thing, I will not become a heathen like those two." the girl said in disgust.

"Good, I will see you in class tomorrow, Ms. Volkov."

"Yes, goodbye Professor." said Luca as she grabbed her things ad headed down the hallway.

One thing was for certain, Luca Volkov would never get involved with the likes of the Marauders if she could help it.

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Woo, longest chapter yet at 1,162 words. The others have been like 700. I hope you are enjoying Sonder. I will work harder to make al chapters this long. It took me two days to write this because I lose interest in writing for long periods of time. Anyways, happy reading!