Both men were currently laughing their butts off. Well one of them was. Remus was trying very, very hard not to but the blown-out cheeks and red face kind of gave away what he thought of the whole situation. I elbowed him. He let loose a long breath and chuckled, something and did not appreciate and I hope my pout told him that.
"Well, that well?" Remus questioned after he had regained control of himself.
Something Sirius had yet to do. I threw a cushion at him which didn't dissuade his chuckling a bit. Actually, it made it worse because it made him look at me which made his chuckles regress to full-blown laughter again. He held a hand up to get us both to stop talking as he struggled to get himself under control. I exchanged unimpressed looks with Remus who just sighed in exasperation.
"Charlie really didn't do many dates, did he?" Sirius asked knowingly.
"I honestly think I was the only person Charlie 'dated' at Hogwarts," I told them cheerfully.
I didn't really mind what happened. Charlie wasn't mean about it, he was just honestly confused, we had some fun and it didn't end with me getting grossly groped. A good day all in all.
"Really? He's quite good-looking," Sirius commented and frowned. "He's the one with the shorter hair and the burn on his chin, right?"
I'm impressed that Sirius could remember that, since this whole Order business started Charlie has only been in the country once. He literally got to know that Sirius was innocent and that Voldemort was back before buggering off back to Romania.
"Wait, you think he's good looking?" I asked, eyebrows raised.
Sirius shrugged. "Well, yeah," he admitted easily. "Not as good looking as me, of course-"
"Of course," Remus and I muttered sarcastically.
"But I can still have an appreciation for the male form." Sirius finished.
"Really? 'Appreciation of the male form', Padfoot?" Remus demanded.
"Well, of course."
I rolled my eyes at my cousin. He could at least try to be subtle. But no, that wouldn't work for the whole 'brash Gryffindor' personality, would it?
"I thought you two really got along," Sirius stated thoughtfully.
"We did. Still do," I amended.
"Then, did you go on more dates?"
He looked a bit too eager for the answer to that question. I unfortunately popped his bubble.
"Nope."
"Not every friendship ends up in a relationship," Remus scolded his friend.
"Good ones do," Sirius said with a waggle of his eyebrows, he really was ridiculous.
"What about you and Lily?" Remus demanded, folding his arm. "He and Lily were very close," Remus added for my benefit.
A brief pained look crossed Sirius' face, vanishing almost as soon as it appeared and he waved his hand dismissively. "Prongs was hers. That's different. Tonksy-" I nudged him in the ribs, "-here said Charlie didn't really date anyone."
"Charlie's not interested in anything except dragons," I informed them matter-of-factly. "Honestly? I don't think the man even has a sex drive."
"Towards humans anyway," Sirius coughed none too subtly.
"Sirius!" I scolded.
"What! I didn't say anything!"
"That's mean," I reprimanded.
Too many people had made jokes like that for my liking. Okay, Sirius wasn't, well, serious about it and obviously didn't mean anything by it but it still shouldn't be said. I wouldn't let it be said. Quite a vicious glare was directed at Sirius. He made a calming gesture but I didn't let up until he looked at least a little bit sheepish. Good. He better not do it again.
"Did you even have your tea after all that?" Remus asked with a raised eyebrow.
I burst out into laughter and shook my head.
"Not in there," I replied then thought for a moment. "Or anywhere actually. We grabbed a couple of butterbeers from the Hog's Head."
"Urgh," Remus said, scrunching up his nose.
Now it was my turn to raise an eyebrow. Did Remus actually have an issue with someone?
"Abe is cool!" Sirius protested.
Remus scrunched up his nose even more. "Abe smells."
"You're just sensitive."
I had to conceal a snort at that. 'Sensitive' was putting mildly when it came to werewolf senses. The two 'men', and I use that term loosely, had a brief scuffle that involved head-locks, ear-pulling and an awful lot of childish name-calling.
"Do I need to separate you two boys?" I asked in my best McGonagall impression.
I was quite good at morphing my voice to hers, if I could say so myself. Apparently, Remus and Sirius thought so too because they sprang apart, looking incredibly guilty. Ha!
"Not nice," Sirius said with a pout as he fixed his hair.
"Not supposed to be," I teased and then coughed, I hadn't changed my voice back yet.
They both pulled faces at me, obviously not appreciative when the tables were turned on them. Hypocrites.
"So that's what a non-date date consists of," Remus said thoughtfully, a grin on his face.
I thumped him. The prat.
"Did you actually finish up the day throwing snowballs at people?" Sirius asked eagerly.
I nodded and laughed. "Yep, that was definitely the highlight of my day."
Not the highlight of a lot of the soppy couples wanting to sneak of for some decent snogging. Me and Charlie got anyone who drifted away from the crowds. Which was actually quite a lot. I don't even want to think about how many points Prefects took from us that day.
Remus was trying very hard to look disapproving. "That wasn't very mature of either of you."
"We were sixteen, I don't think any sixteen-year-old is what you would call mature," I pointed out.
I certainly didn't know of any mature sixteen-year-olds. Hormones were wild.
"You were acting more like six years old! "
I just shrugged at that, not really caring. I knew I was an annoying little bugger as a teen. The Marauders had done far worse and I told him so. Neither man had a retort for that. I gave them a triumphant grin.
"Shut up," Remus grumbled good-naturedly.
Sirius and I pretended to fall down in horror.
"Remus Lupin is telling us to shut up?" I gasped dramatically.
"Wonders will never cease," Sirius agreed, shaking his head in mock disappointment. "I'm afraid we've corrupted him."
"Whatever shall we do?"
"Idiots," Remus told us fondly.
"Pretty sure you're not meant to call your girlfriend an idiot," Sirius said.
Remus immediately blushed and tried to stutter out something. I held up my hand to stop him.
"It's okay," I replied, wrapping my arms around him. "I'm his idiot." I gave him a squeeze for good measure.
Sirius made a gagging noise as me and Remus exchanged soppy looks. Remus threw a cushion at him this time. It got him square in the face.
"Hmpf," he sulked as I pressed a quick kiss on Remus' lips.
"I have an important question about the whole business," Remus announced after clearing his throat.
"Shoot," I said, giving him a slightly nervous look.
Remus let the silence stretch for a bit, building up suspense. It just made me feel on edge, what did he want to ask me?
"Did you win the snowball fight?"
AN: That's it folks! Thank you to all who read, please leave me a review if you enjoyed this and check out my main fics for this series; Not There To See Me Fall and Catch Me Before I Fall. If you liked this, I hope you'd like those as well.
