5th Year Baiting
"So who's your boyfriend this week, Nyx?" Sirius grinned devilishly at her, his usual mischief glinting behind his grey eyes. Theia deadpanned at him, then dropped her face into an expression of mock-shock. Lily and Harper did their best to bite back the grins that were already starting to peak through; Black and Nyx antics were always an amusing way to spend the few minutes between class.
"Shit... wait, do you mean to tell me it isn't you?" One of her hands ran through her hair as her face changed into an exaggerated look of concentration and she gripped her chin with her thumb and forefinger. "Well hold on a second then..." Sirius' heart thudded against his ribs for a few beats before he shook himself of the perplexing reaction and continued to watch the show she was clearly putting on.
"Hey Owens!" Theia waved at the sandy blonde-haired boy, who lifted his head up from the conversation he had been having with his friends a little ways down the hall, "Be my boyfriend?"
Connor's face matched his scarlet robes for the half a second it took him to respond to the ambushed question, "Yea, 'course." He sent a lopsided smile at her, and Theia blushed prettily at her own antics and his relieving answer.
"Now see that Evans, that's how you say yes to a date!" James almost couldn't help himself, if Padfoot and Nyx weren't going to sort their shit out, him and Lily certainly didn't have to follow their lead. If only Lily would realize that.
"I am not saying yes to anything Potter." Lily's posture stiffened into the stubborn stance she was much too familiar with in his presence.
"Well you're not, not saying yes." Theia murmured under her breath at Harper who let out a loud guffaw and brought her hand up to her mouth to stifle it from becoming genuine open laughter.
"I am NOT saying yes!" Lily whirled her head around at her teasing friends, her dark red locks fanning out behind her. James felt his heart give a swift kick to the back of his sternum as his favorite little spitfire unleashed her temper on a different target; it was one of his favorite things to watch. Sirius couldn't decide which was making him smirk harder, the blush on his best mate's face or the particular sparkle Theia's eyes took on when she was being intentionally devious.
"Yes Lily, we heard you." Harper conditioned her face into a mask.
"You're not, not saying yes." Theia finished Harper's train of thought for her, slipping in the second 'not' so quickly and faintly that if you weren't paying rapt attention, you'd have missed it. She was almost mirroring her mask-like expression, with the exception of the glint of excitement she could feel peaking through her eyes from inciting Lily's legendary temper in front of James.
"NO! I am not saying yes!" Lily's voice jumped up an octave in exasperation. She knew she was rising to the bait Theia was dangling, but the thought of anything but complete loathing for Potter was just too much not to react strongly to.
"Yes, Lils we aren't deaf. You said you're not, not saying yes to James." Theia raised her hands in surrender and giggled when Lily twitched menacingly towards her wand at the mention of James' first name. Unfortunately, the boy in question chose that particular moment to release a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding while watching the scene unfold. At the sound of his continued existence, Lily twirled back around towards the boys posted up against the wall, looking like a red angel of wrath.
"Piss. Off. POTTER!" Lily half screeched at the frozen teens, turned back and began to walk determinedly in the direction of her next class, wherever that was, she couldn't quite remember through the rage addling her brain. Harper and Theia followed just behind her, giggling at their own terribleness, but they didn't want poor Lily to walk herself into any abandoned wings of the castle on accident in her fit of frustration.
"Can I walk you to class?" Connor stepped out from his group of friends as the girls passed.
"Yea, 'course." Theia mimicked back at him and glided over to where he stood with his arm held out for her to take. When she took his arm she gave him her best winning smile, then peaked over her shoulder and raised an eyebrow back at Sirius, him having been the original antagonist of the entire exchange.
Sirius watched Connor mutter something under his breath into Theia's ear and heard her emit a throaty chuckle at whatever it was as she pulled her gaze from him and turned it back onto her newly acquired boyfriend.