"Do we need some of these?" Remus asks lily as he picks up a couple of mangoes from the fresh fruit stall next to him.

"Haha no, but this is more like it" she says as she grabs a carrot, playing with it inappropriately earning her a disgusted look from the old lady next to her.

Remus laughs "Come on you" he says the whispers into her ear "I completely agree."

Remus's phone began to ring as they are walking down one of the isles in the store. He jumped in surprise and grabbed it out of his pocket. Seeing the number he became suddenly nervous. "I think it's him" he said absently while staring at his phone.

"Remus fucking answer it already!" Lily said as she poked Remus on the forearm.

Remus pressed the answer button and lifted the phone to his ear. "Hello?"

"Remus? Is that you?"

"Yes this is Remus, Who is this?

"oh… uhh… sorry, it's Sirius, I got Lily's message."

"Oh…Hi!" Remus said a little too enthusiastically. "I'm sorry I didn't call earlier, I only realised, actually it was Lily that realised that we didn't exchange numbers last Saturday night so Lilly got your number for me from James because…"

"Remus" Sirius says quietly.

"…I hadn't heard from you so that I could call and actually thinking about it now, that was a little creepy and you probably didn't…"

"Remus" a little louder this time. Lily is facing the shelves of the isle snickering to herself at Remus's rambling.

"…even want to hear from me in which case I'm sorry for bothering you and I'll just…

"Remus!" Sirius almost yelled which made Remus startle.

"Yes?"

"I wanted to…" Remus said. "I mean… I wanted to hear from you. If I didn't hear from you by tomorrow I was going to ask James for Lily's number and ask her for your number. I'm glad you called"

"Really?"

"Really."

Remus smiled then remembered his earlier attempt at calling Sirius becoming horrified with himself. "You uhh… did you happen to listen to your voicemail?"

"I did" Sirius answered.

"Of course you did otherwise you wouldn't have gotten Lily's earlier message" Remus groaned in embarrassment.

"Remus, don't worry about it" Sirius said. "I thought it was cute you becoming all flustered.

"Cute?" Remus asked quietly, slightly in shock.

"Yes cute, Remus, you do have a bit of a sailors mouth on you though."

"Haha yes, that I do" Remus responded

"Are you free on Sunday?" Sirius asked. "For our date?"

"Sunday?"

Lily turned around suddenly to face Remus, waving her hands at him, mouthing 'no' at him.

"Sorry no, I can't do Sunday" he said looking quizzically at Lily.

"Well… umm… how about tonight?"

"Tonight?" Lily was waving her hands around at him again even more dramatically than previously.

"No sorry, can't do tonight either"

"Ok" said Sirius sounding a little disappointed "Tomorrow night then, please say yes"

"Tomorrow night?" Remus said looking back at Lily who was giving him two thumbs up and a massive grin. "Yes, tomorrow night is great"

Remus heard Sirius sigh in relief or exasperation he wasn't sure, perhaps a combination of both. "Hang on a sec…"Sirius said to him "James fuck off!" Remus heard in the background. "Sorry" Sirius said in the speaker again "He's flinging frozen peas at me"

Remus laughed "tell him fresh or cooked peas are better, more chance of splatter"

"Haha! There is no way I am telling him that especially if I am going to be the victim.

"true, what is it with vegetables tonight? Lily was just behaving inappropriately towards a carrot, the look the old lady next to us gave her was hilarious."

Sirius laughed. "Do I want to know why Lily was playing with a carrot?" he asked.

"We're at the supermarket, mucking around…" Remus replied, he definitely wasn't going to tell Sirius that he started it.

"I am so telling James that!"

Remus laughed "he's better off finding out now what he might be getting into, it can be quite scary"

Lily punched him in the arm "Oww!"

"I better go stop James from burning the flat down. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night Remus"

"Me two…" Remus blushed realising his slip up."Uhh… I mean I look forward to seeing you too Sirius"

Sirius laughed quietly "Good bye Remus"

"Good bye Sirius" Remus said moving his hand away from his ear and hanging up. Lily was standing in front of him with her arms crossed her weight leaning on the one side and one eyebrow raised at Remus.

"Don't" Remus said to her

"Don't what?" she asked innocently

"Don't say anything."

"Wouldn't dream of it." She responded with a smile on her face.

They continued shopping for a little while longer mostly in silence

"Lily, Why wasn't I allowed to go on the date with Sirius on Sunday? Or tonight for that matter?"

"Well because Sunday is too far away, I don't think you could hold out that long before seeing him again and tonight is too soon obviously so tomorrow night it is"

"Right, makes perfect sense" Remus says, shaking his head at her. It doesn't make sense, to him at least.

"Besides, you and Sirius can meet up with James and I later, and that way there will be less of a temptation for either of us to have breakfast with our respective dates." Lily says matter of factly, as she grabs the cucumber out of their shopping basket. "If you know what I mean."