"Maybe I should just give up," This time, I really did bang my head on the table. I was with Avery at our usual seat in the library. I had just finished telling him everything that had happened last night.

"I'm sure it wasn't that bad," Avery, being the great friend that he is, tried to reassure me.

"It was that bad! I had the words in my head but I couldn't say it. Why is it that I could muster up the courage to rest my head on his shoulders, but I couldn't work up enough balls to ask him to go to Hogsmead with me?"

"You rested you head on his shoulder after he put his arm around you, right?" I nodded. Avery looked really thoughtful for a while. "Well, I guess we know who the girl in the relationship is."

"Oh, shut up!" it took me a while to understand is joke. He grinned at me. "This isn't funny!"

"Okay, okay, just trying to have a little fun," Avery raised his hands up defensively. "But you really should make a move on."

"Why?"

"Because word about Sirius possibly being bi had spread to the entire castle and there are some guys who aren't afraid to test that possibility."

"What?" I felt my jaw dropping.

"Everyone knew that Sirius was every girls dream. A bunch of the guys were attracted to him even before they found out he was bi. And so now that it's out there, they're willing to try it out. So if you want to get to him before other guys do, then you better act fast."

"Great," I banged my head on the table once more. If I don't figure out this flirting business I'll never be able to get to him first.

"Remus, why are you hitting your head on the table?" I turned around and saw Lily staring at me curiously.

"He found out about the other guys who want to ask Sirius out, too." Avery answered for me.

"Why don't you just ask him out then? Before someone else does?"

"Because he's the kind to be asked, not the one who does the asking,"

"I always thought you'd be the girl in that relationship,"

"LILY!" I can't believe my ears. I just found out that I probably have like five other people who are going to try to beat me to Sirius, but all my so called friends seem to care about was that I was the submissive one in this relationship.

"I'm sorry," Lilly giggled. "But Sirius is much more dominant than you."

"That's beside the point!"

"Girls can ask guys out," Lily pointed out. Are they going to look at me like I was a girl now?

"Remus is too shy in the asking out department," Avery answered.

"He should take tips from James," Lily mentioned with a small smile.

"The only way this is going to work is if we get Sirius to ask him out," Avery quickly told her what had happened between me and Sirius. "It seems that Remus can follow a lead, but he can't start something."

"That's never going to happen. Sirius will never ask me out."

"You said that Sirius liking guys will never happen, and here he is openly saying he thinks he might be bi," Lily pointed out. I guess she did have a point there. "Maybe I can help,"

"How?" Avery and I asked in unison.

"I can ask James to plant the idea of asking Remus out in Sirius's head. Maybe he'll give it a shot."

"He doesn't like me like that," I said glumly.

"Now is not the time to give up," Avery threw a crumpled piece of parchment at me. "It took you forever to agree to ask him out in the first place."

"I'll talk to James," Lily patted my shoulder before walking off.

Avery and I stayed at the library until it was time for dinner. I walked towards the Gryffindor table and saw some students staring at me forehead. I hit my head on the table a few more times after Lily left and my forehead was still red because of it. I wonder if it'll bruise.

"What happened to your forehead?" Peter asked as soon as I stood down.

"I hit my head on the table," I answered calmly, piling food onto my plate.

"How hard did you hit it?" James asked.

"Hard enough to make it red," I shrugged. I rather not tell them I repeatedly banged my head on the table because I was frustrated about asking Sirius out. Especially when Sirius was sitting right next to me.

Sirius was acting strange. He hardly said a word during dinner despite my feeble attempts to strike up conversation. I wonder what was going on with him. I felt Sirius giving me odd looks all throughout dinner. Did my forehead look that weird? He and James shared looks I didn't understand whenever James saw him staring at me. I wonder if Lily talked to James already.

After dinner, we all went up to the common room to sit by the fire. After a while, both James and Peter disappeared, leaving me alone with Sirius, who was still acting strange. After a few minutes of silence and the occasional awkward conversation, I decided to ask him what was wrong.

"Siri, what's wrong?"

"Huh?" Sirius looked at me as if he wasn't sure what to think.

"You've been acting odd since dinner. You're just sitting there being all quiet. That's unlike you."

"Oh, it's nothing Remmy, I'm just thinking."

"Thinking about what?"

"Just something James said."

"What did James say?" I asked, even though I had a feeling I knew what it was.

"Nothing. Hey Moony, can I ask you something?"

"Sure Pads, what is it?"He wasn't going to ask me out, was he?

"What's it like to kiss a bloke?"

That question wasn't on the list of things I expected Sirius to ask me.

"Why do you ask that?"

"I was just wondering. You know, with this whole bi thing…"

"You aren't having second thoughts about being bi, are you?" please say no.

"No, it's just that I've never been with another bloke. I was just wondering."

"It's the same as kissing a girl, really," I answered. "The only real difference is the person you're kissing is a bloke instead of a bird."

"Oh…"

We fell into an awkward silence after that. Or, it felt awkward to me. I couldn't really read Sirius's face. He looked very thoughtful though.

"You know, I got asked out by a bloke today," Sirius after a while.

"What?" I nearly choked on the word. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap. Someone already beat me to it.

"It was that huge guy, Mark or whatever, from Hufflepuff."

I knew Mark. He was a few years younger than us. I think he's a fifth year—fourth year at the least. He had tried to ask me out last year. He was quite huge and very temperamental. I had said yes because I felt bad for him. Our date ended after an hour. He gets upset when you don't pay attention to what he's saying and he loves to gossip too much for my tastes.

"What did you say?"

"Well, he asked me to Hogsmead," Sirius shrugged.

"And?" There's no way Sirius would have said yes, right?

"I told him I already had plans."

I felt a wave of relief flood through me.

"I'm sure he isn't that bad a guy," Sirius continued, "But that would have been the first bloke I went out with, and for some reason, I didn't want it to be him. I can't really explain it."

"Oh, I see," what kind of guy did he want his first male date to be I wonder.

"Yeah, now I need something to do so he knows that I didn't lie to him."

I nodded. Ask him out! I was practically yelling in my head. Now was another good time. Sirius needed something to do this weekend, why not ask him to spend it with me? I have nothing to do either. But my mouth didn't seem to listen to me; no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get it say the words out loud.

"So, want to go to Hogsmead with me?" Sirius asked.

"what?" did I hear him right?

"I said, 'want to go with to Hogsmead with me'." Sirius repeated. "I don't want Mark to know I lied to him. Unless you have plans already…"

"No," I said almost too eagerly. "I don't have plans. I can go with you."