Sonder -S. Black-

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Luca was panicking. She has just learned that Sirius's birthday was in two days. She had only been friends with the boy for about 2 months, but she always got people gifts. It was her thing. She had no idea what to get the dashing boy.

She had tried to ask James, but he got sidetracked and started talking about Lily. She then went to Remus, who was no help mind you, just blabbed on about, its the thought that counts, Peter, oh sweet little Peter, if Remus was no help, then that boy was just about as helpful as a stick.

Luca tried to think about all the things that Sirius had told her about. From what she remembered, he liked a muggle band called Queen, but Luca had no knowledge of things like that or where to get them. So that is what lead her to the stunning red head.

"You want me to do what?" asked Lily.

"I want you to please take me to a muggle music store." said Luca.

Lily could not believe what she was hearing. Her sweet, goody two shoes friend, the one that never stayed up passed 10 wanted to leave school grounds, for a boy!

"Luca Anastasia Volkov! you want to break school rules for this.. this troublemaking, no good, boy! I cant believe this." said Lily as she got up from the table they occupied at the library to put her book away.

Luca, quickly scrabbling after her, tried to persuade the green eyed girl to help her. After about 20 minutes of begging, some chocolate she had gotten from Hogsmeade the week earlier, promising to do some of her homework, and keeping James away from her for a week, Lily finally agreed to help the desperate girl.

"Fine!" said the annoyed girl, "I will help you sneak out to London so you can get him the album, ok?" said Lily as they left the library.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" said Luca as she hugged her friend and ran off to Ravenclaw tower so she wouldn't be late for curfew.

Lily simply just watched her friend run to her tower while laughing to herself quietly.

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The following night, Lily told Luca to meet her by the Gryffindor portrait. Luca, quietly slipped on some pants with a plain t-shirt and grabbed a black hoddie. She made her way out of the common room and to Gryffindor tower without getting caught.

Luca was greeted with the sight of her fellow red head waiting for her. They were about to leave when they were suddenly greeted with the sights of the Marauders coming up the stairs. To say they were both surprised to see each other was an understatement.

"What are you guys doing here?" asked a confused Remus.

"We could ask you the same thing." said an angry Lily.

"Well, my Lily -pad, we were just coming back from midnight walk, isn't that right, Moony?" said James turning to his furry friend.

"Well," said Luca stepping in, "why don't we pretend we never saw each other, yeah?" said Luca as she and Lily attempted to slip by them.

"Not so fast." said Sirius as he grabbed Luca's hood. "Where do you think you're going?"

"Away from this situation." said Luca as she attempted to get out of Sirius's grasp.

"Now, now little red, where are you going at such a late hour, and on a school night no less?" asked a sarcastic Sirius.

"Well," said Luca trying to formulate and excuse, "We were going to go do help Professor Sprout with something for Herbology." said the girl hoping that Lily would catch on.

"Yes, that is where we were going" said Lily catching on to her best friends lie.

The boys, not quiet believing the two, but were too tired to argue, let them go after that. After muttering something that sounded like goodnight the four marauders went off to bed.

The girls, letting out a sigh of relief, went on their way. Their plan was to sneak to Hogsmeade, then use the fireplace in the Three Broomsticks, and floo their way to Diagon Alley.

Luca knew some secret passage ways. After all, she had a lot of free time on her hands. They went through the secret passage way that lead them to Honeydukes, snuck out of the store, made their way to the Three Broomsticks, when they got there, they had a rather awkward conversation with Madam Rosamaria, asking for some Floo powered, used the powder, and ended up in the Leakey Caldron.

To say they were proud of themselves was an understatement. They were surprised that they actually did it. They had made it to London.

Luca had asked Lily earlier that morning if she knew any music stores, Luckily she did. They came across a music store called "Rose Morris" (a/n, don't hate me if this is not a thing, Google guys, Google.)

They walked into the store, they were greeted by the worker who was a middle aged man. Luca headed over to the Rock section, immediately spotting "A Night at the Opera" the Queen album she was buying for Sirius. She quickly paid with the money Lily gave her and they started their journey back to Hogwarts.

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November 3, Sirius's birthday. A special birthday, his 17th. He was officially an adult now. He bragged about it all day long. To say the least, everyone in Hogwarts knew it was is special day.

That night as everyone was giving presents, Luca was dreading it. She hoped he liked it.

James had given him some pranking supplies, Remus gave him some chocolates, Peter gave him an assortment of sugar quills, and it was finally her turn.

Luca got up and handed her nicely wrapped present to the boy. To say the least he was surprised. He didn't think that Luca would've gotten him anything. As he carefully unwrapped the gift, he couldn't believe what he saw. he had no idea where she had even gotten this.

Surprising Luca, Sirius got up and gave her a big hug.

"What did she get you that was so great you hugged her?" asked a confused James.

Sirius handed him the album. James was also shocked.

That night to say the least was the night that Sirius Orion Black III, knew that he was undoubtedly crushing on Luca Volkov, and he wouldn't have it any other way.

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Another installment of "Oh Crap I have to write a chapter!". I missed his Birthday, oh well. Also yesterday I saw Bohemian Rhapsody, a MASTERPIECE! I love Queen so that was amazing, Rami Malek killed it. I wouldn't be surprised if he got an Oscar. Anyways, happy reading!

~-s-v-t