TITLE: Crazy Little Thing Called Love

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HARRY AND CEDRIC

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"Good night, Harry," Cedric said with a charming smile.

They were at the door of Number 12 Grimmauld Place where Harry lived with his godfather Sirius. They had just been on a date to a day long Quidditch match between Puddlemere United and the Pride of Portree, celebrated Puddlemere's victory with Oliver Wood and his girlfriend Katie Bell and then had a nice dinner together at a Muggle diner Cedric's mum used to take him to. It was all very nice and had ended very pleasantly with a nice snogging session outside of this door.

"Night, Ced," Harry whispered, though he didn't move away. He leaned in to kiss Cedric's smiling mouth, again wondering what it would be like to kiss Severus. He had been dating Cedric for three months now and had been crushing on Severus for six. Somehow dating Cedric only made his preoccupation with Severus worse. Cedric was a great guy, though. He treated Harry with respect and was a gentleman and a great kisser. He was very supportive of Harry through his many failed jobs…He had been too focused with Voldemort for too long and helping take down leftover Death Eaters that he had never really thought of an actual career until lately. Luckily he had enough money to survive on and had the time to figure out what he wanted to do.

Cedric was a real Prince Charming, but it was all very boring to Harry. How anyone could resent being in a nice, normal, happy relationship was beyond him but it had happened. Harry wouldn't do anything about it, though. Cedric was great and hadn't done anything wrong. Maybe it was just some phase and he didn't want to bugger things up with Cedric if that's all it was. He was just being silly.

"Lunch?" Cedric asked, pulling away and giving him a light kiss before saying. "Tomorrow?"

"Err…sure," Harry said. He actually wanted to make an excuse to bring Hermione lunch at work so he could see Severus, but that was stupid. He couldn't help but hope that Severus would come see him at the bookshop he was currently working at. Books weren't really his thing, but it was a job and he was trying it out. He had a feeling he wouldn't last long there, but he was holding on for now.

"Great," Cedric said, pulling away. "Tomorrow, then."

Harry watched him go before walking into the house where Sirius was relaxing on the couch reading a Quidditch magazine. "What? No shag tonight?"

"There hasn't been any shagging any night," Harry said, rolling his eyes. Cedric wanted to wait.

"Too bad for you," Sirius said. "No luck for me, either."

Harry found it hard to sympathize. He didn't enjoy walking in on Sirius screwing random men and women all over the house. Sirius seemed to forget sometimes that Harry now lived here, too.

"Are you bored yet?" Sirius asked.

"Because we're not having sex?" Harry asked, a bit offended, and also a bit bothered because he was bored with Cedric. Was the lack of sex the problem?

"It was just a question. You don't seem as happy as someone would with having a nice, handsome boyfriend who takes them on nice, expensive dates doing things he enjoys doing," Sirius pointed out.

"Oh," Harry said. He supposed that made sense. "I dunno, really."

Sirius shrugged. "But you know, relationships are work. Probably why I never had many."

It wasn't work or commitment that bothered Harry, though. It felt like something was missing. While Severus wasn't unnecessarily cruel to him these days, he was still an arse. He imagined they'd never get along, but that sort of appealed to him. Fighting and having angry sex. That sounded like fun. Really, many things were better than Cedric treating him like a girl. What Sirius said made Harry feel foolish though. He really did have a great boyfriend. What more could he want?

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