It had all started during the summer when Hermione, Harry and Ron had spent it at Grimmauld's Place with Sirius and Remus. Hermione thought that it was only a slight infatuation affecting her when it came to Sirius. She had since long accepted the fact that he was quite handsome for his age and after all he been through.
"Oi,Harry, Hermione wake up" Ron shouted as he entered the room from the bathroom.
"What's wrong Ron, there's no need to shout at us" Hermione asked a bit taken back by her friend's entrance.
"Nothing's wrong Mione, it's just that they're serving breakfast downstairs, if there still is anything left, after Sirius of course" he laughed in response.
Hermione's eyes widened at the realization of that fact, she knew that if she didn't hurry enough she wouldn't have any breakfast left as Sirius obviously ate for two. She rushed down the stairs and stormed into the kitchen.
"Hey, never knew you were so eager to see me in the morning" Sirius guffawed at Hermione's entrance which made her stop dead in her tracks.
Slowly walking over to a chair opposite Sirius she started to pile food on her plate, not daring to look at his grey gaze. She knew he was observing her.
"Good morning, Sirius. Slept well?" she asked politely, still not looking the man in the eyes.
"Hmmm...Yes , I did, thank you" Sirius said, knowing that the pause he had just made would make Hermione turn her gaze up towards him. As he saw he was right he just winked at her and she quickly looked down on her plate with bacon and eggs again, only to turn furiously pink as Sirius chuckled.
After a while Harry came trotting down the stairs into the kitchen only to find Hermione and Sirius staring very intensely at each other.
"What's going on here? Have you guys made a dare, or what?" he chuckled as he sat down and took some cold eggs and bacon.
As always Ron had kept him upstairs talking about quidditch. He did that every morning to him because they would spend whole days practicing and playing chess. Harry didn't mind it, just a wave with the wand and the food was served warm again. Nice things you can do with magic he thought to himself.
At the sudden entrance of his godson Sirius just smiled a broad grin as welcome sign and winked to him as he sat down beside him.
"Yes, you could say so, we just made a dare to see who lasted longer gazing at the other one" Sirius answered before Hermione could say anything. She just smiled and stood up.
"Got to go, Harry, see you later, quidditch today right?" she hastily said to her best friend and nearly run out of the kitchen before Harry answered her.
"That was weird" Harry said but didn't give it any importance and continued eating his breakfast while his godfather explained him the news of the day.
The rest of the day passed quiet calm and normal. Harry and Ron played quidditch in the backyard while Sirius was finishing fixing and tidying some rooms of the house and Hermione and Remus played muggle chess.
"You sure that's right move, Hermione?" Remus asked her with a small smile spread across his face, his amber eyes lightning up as she looked confused at him.
"Yeah... why not?" she asked sheepishly while her face acquired a soft pink tone.
"Nothing, just wanted to see your reaction, you seem more stubborn around these two" he answered calmly, pointing at the quidditch-playing guys.
"Well, I'm just used to tell them off" she said and shrugged making Remus chuckle at her remark.
Most days went on that way the two boys playing quidditch, Remus and Hermione playing chess or reading books by themselves in some not-so-dark-now room as Sirius had proven himself to be excellent at house chores. Time swiftly passed and September drifted in making them all aware that the leisure would soon end.
[A/N: I know Grimmauld's Place is like nowhere near to have a yard or garden but let's just pretend it does have a kind of backyard/garden.. pleeaseeee?]