Mid-April, 1974
When I returned to school, I thought I would die of relief. New Years Day was horrible, especially when Veronique and Jules' friends came over—they were allowed to come, you see, because they weren't muggleborns. I tried asking Mother and Father if Lydia and Lily could come over before break ended, but they said they couldn't. Their response was that they needed to 'keep up appearances'.
So when I found myself walking to the first day of classes since December, I smiled. It was great. I spent more time with Lily, Marlene, and Lydia again, and the Marauders were never on my mind. I also barely saw my siblings—Veronique continued to pine over that Chris boy, Jules did who-knows-what, and I'm pretty sure Ghislaine was snogging some kind of secret boyfriend of hers in a broom closet somewhere.
However, not everything was great. My life could never be that perfect. No, rumors of You-Know-Who's return spread and mugglesborns were starting to worry. Lily wasn't as afraid, but Lydia was absolutely terrifed. It also didn't help that since I barely saw the Marauders, it was the same for my friends. That meant Lydia saw less of Peter.
There were other things too. Veronique was getting more and more weird and Lily was saying Severus was growing more distance, as well as more involved and interested in the Dark Arts.
I barely saw the Marauders during the months after the return of school, but I soon started to hope that I would bump into Sirius. Not only to confirm all awkwardness was gone, but also to find out if he really knew about the stupid, rumored betrothal.
I had my chance as I was heading towards the greenhouse where I would do some drawing sometime in mid-April. I was trying desperately to open the broken zipper of my bag and so I was distracted. I didn't notice the equally distracted person walking towards me and so we bumped into each other.
"Oi! Watch—oh, it's you."
I looked up in surprise to find myself looking at Sirius. I felt a blush come to my cheeks and I quickly took a few steps away. At this reaction, Sirius laughed.
"You're not still being awkward are you?" He asked. "That was ages ago, Kaiser. And like I said, it's not like you stabbed me. If you did, then I would be mad."
"Well, all right then," I said. "But you can't exactly blame me."
Sirius shrugged and started to salk away. "Whatever."
"Black, wait!" I said, catching up so I was walking beside him. "I want to talk to you about something."
Sirius smiled and walked backwards in front of me, so he and I were facing each other as we walked. "Give me three guesses," Sirius told me, holding up three fingers.
"Fine," I replied, readjusting the bag on my shoulder.
Sirius clapped his hands in victory and then started to think. "You want to talk about Lydia and Peter?"
I smiled and shook my head.
"No? Hmmm... Oh, you want to ask me out on a date!" Sirius exclaimed.
I just knew my face turned red as I punched him in the chest. "Oh, sod off, Black."
He grinned but it faded slightly as he told me his third guess. "The rumored betrothal?"
I nodded, tucking a strand of blonde hair behind my ear. "Correct. Our parents are annoying adamant about it."
"Is that what they talked about when Mother and Father went over for Christmas dinner?" Sirius asked.
"Yes and I actually overheard their conversation," I told him, causing him to give me a thumbs up of approval. I laughed gently. "Anyway, it was agreed upon that both of us are troublemakers."
"Then we have nothing to worry about!" Sirius said, going back to walking beside me. "No sane pureblood would put two troublemakers together. But let's say they do anway. Do you solemnly swear that you'll give your parents hell about it, like I'll do with mine?"
I laughed and placed my hand over my heart. "I swear."
"Then it's settled," Sirius said. After a moment of us just walking in silence, a mischievous smile sprung on his face as he placed an arm over my shoulder. "Oh, but can you just imagine the looks on their faces if they ever knew we kissed?"
I slipped away from his arm and faced him, jabbing a finger to his chest. "Don't you dare."
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So that's the end of year 3! I hoped you enjoyed if and believe me when I say that there will be drama in their next year of Hogwarts. But until then, Read and Review!! Love you guys! :)
