"Mand can I talk to you?"
"Sure Si, what's up?"
He took her hand and pulled her to one of the tables in the corner of the room.
"Mand what's going on?"
"Well I was playing chess with Pete, why?"
"Be Serious, I mean between us."
"Oh"
Both looked down at the table not meeting the others eye. It was a moment before anything was spoken
"This is stupid we're friends."
Amanda grinned at Sirius
"Of course we are."
"We've over come arguments before."
"Yep we've cursed each other and everything."
"So why's this different?"
Amanda just shook her head at him she couldn't figure it out and judging by the look on his face he couldn't either. She met his eyes before speaking.
"We've kissed before haven't we so why should this be different?"
"We hadn't kissed like that before Mand that's why it's different."
"But we're friends so it shouldn't matter."
He nodded his head at her looking around. There were so many couples sitting together they looked happy and almost like it was easy. Relationships always seemed easy from the outside but maybe they were harder than they looked.
"Where do we go now Mand?"
"Friendship"
His eyes shot to met hers
"You mean you don't want to date me."
"Date you! Merlin no, I just want to be friends with you."
"Why not, I'm a great catch!"
She grinned at him taking his hand.
"Yeah you are that's for sure but I think we're better as friends than anything else don't you?"
"Well yeah I wanted to say I only want to be friends."
"Wait so you're mad with me because I don't want to date you but yet you don't want me either."
He grinned slugging her lightly
"Oh I'll have you, just when you grow a bit shrimp!"
"Oh really and what makes you think I'll want you."
"The way you kissed me last night, I know you want me."
"Oh like you weren't kissing me back."
They looked at each other and burst out laughing. People were looking at them maybe it was the way they had been slowly raising their voices.
"What are we fighting about Si?"
"Nothing!"
With that they went back to what they had been doing and things went back to normal throughout the house.