Loosen Up, Black!

Common Room Secrets

**Another one where they aren't together yet but their close friends. It's late at night and neither can sleep...you'll see why if you continue reading**

Yet another night where I can't sleep it's literally, what two in the morning and all I've done is lie here in my bed, staring at the ceiling, and listening to Lily's soft breathing, Mary's quiet snorting snores, Alice's wide-open mouth breathing, and Dorcas' sharp jagged breathing. I can't take this anymore I'm going down to the common room. I rolled out of bed pulled on my silk Gryffindor robe to cover my white tank-top and soft pink booty shorts and I grabbed my sketchbook along with my muggle pencils and blending stump out of my unspeakables drawer and proceeded to stumble to the door, down the stairs, and into my usual spot on the couch in front of the fireplace. I sat there only for a while doodling in my sketchbook all sorts of things from pretty sunrises to sad girls crying in corners surround by feelings written in different forms of calligraphy. Eventually, I gave up on drawing and just watched the fire waiting for inspiration to hit me, figuratively. I got bored quickly but my mind was racing throwing different things at me and it was hard to calm down or relax so no sleep came, I decided I would draw the fire in the fireplace a detailed as I could make it, so I began my work with my knees pulled up supporting my sketchbook, my tongue sticking out the side of my mouth in sheer concentration, and armed with my pencils and blending stump. I was so stuck in my work I didn't hear the footsteps coming down the stairs from the boys' dormitory, nor did I hear the quiet breathing that was approaching where I sat, I didn't even realize the boy who was now leaning over the back of the couch watching me work over my shoulder. I didn't even realize someone was awake and right behind me until he spoke.

"I didn't know you could draw so good" whispered the voice of Sirius Black. I jumped and shut my sketchbook with a slap and whipped my head around which caused my messy hair to hit Sirius right in the face, Oops, serves you right for starling me!

"H-how long have you been...um...standing there?" I sputtered then laughed at his expression.  His face was scrunched up and his tired eyes were shut tight as he sighed and pulled a single strand of hair out of his mouth crinkled his nose while doing so.

"I sorry," I giggled at him, "and thanks I guess, now you can't tell anyone about my doodles, understand? Only Lily knows"

"'Bout 7 minutes. Those aren't doodles, they're masterpieces everyone should admire! Why can't I shout to at the top of the Gryffindor tower that my best friend is the best drawer in all of Hogwarts?" inquired Sirius curiously reaching his hand over the couch and tried to pull my sketchbook out of my hands. He may be strong but thanks to all these years of chaser training I easily kept a hard grip on my secret possession he gave up, let go, sighed softly, and looked at me as if I were a puzzle whose picture he did not know, but was curious to find out.

"I-I'm not that good, it-it's just my secret hobby, I-I guess people think they know so much about me that them not know about my doodles makes their judgment and comments less true because no one knows the full me" I whispered slightly embarrassed which caused a light blush to creep its way on to my cheeks.

"Oh. I'm sorry, I guess won't tell, just for you," reassured Sirius playfully as he pushed himself up off the back of the couch and walked around it and taking a seat right beside me, in only his grey sweatpants, unintentionally showing off his defined muscles that filled his upper body, "Why are you down here, by the way, it's 3:17 in the morning you should be getting your beauty sleep?"

"I'm gorgeous, I don't get beauty sleep so I can give the other girls a fighting chance," I smirked then continued more seriously, "but I don't usually sleep, my mind just races and spins. It makes me think of all sorts of different scenarios and then it goes through all the possible outcomes focusing on the worst ones. My brain doesn't stop it just keeps going and going, so I can never sleep because I can't relax or calm down. I don't know why I'm telling you this, Lily doesn't even know"