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6th year, Easter Break

Oh, dear Merlin, she couldn't believe she was doing this. This was specifically what Claire had told her not to do when Mia had ranted to her in a letter a few weeks ago.

Mia was straddling Alex. On her bed in her room (Cassie and Kate were at the Thomas's), over the Easter holidays of her sixth year.

They'd been talking. That'd been all. That's it. They were tentatively a couple – had been since end of fifth year. But at the same time, they weren't really. They were best friends who occasionally hooked up, without hooking up with anyone else.

But this wasn't hooking up. This seemed much too serious for that.

Because Alex was lifting her shirt over her head. And she'd already flung his shirt to the other side of the room. Hers shortly joined it on the floor.

"What?" she asked, breathless, when he stopped kissing her and just stared at her.

Alex grinned and shook his head slightly. "You're beautiful."

Mia laughed. "I bet you say that to all the girls."

"Just you."

And then his lips were back on hers. Taunting, teasing, seducing.

His fingertips ran over her skin, light, teasing caresses that left goosebumps in their wake.

She felt his lips curve into a smile against her own when she moaned.

She kissed down his chest, down to his belt buckle. The same belt buckle she then undid.

Mia gently pulled his jeans down and off, barely realizing where their actions were headed.

All she could feel was the lust coursing through her veins. The desire, the want, the primal need she had for Alex, to feel him against her and inside her, right then.

She couldn't think of anything else. She couldn't think, she could only feel.

Alex's hands skimmed over her. Mia arched her back to accommodate him, barely realizing that she was shoving her breasts in his face.

He didn't seem to mind.

He fingered the bra strap falling down from her shoulder, before pulling the other one away from her shoulder as well.

Their mouths never separated.

Until, just as Alex had finished struggling with the clasp of her bra and had flung it across the room, the door burst open and Rose's voice could be heard, exclaiming a horrified, "Mia!"

Mia jerked back off of Alex, tumbling off the bed and onto the floor. She scrambled to find some semblance of clothing to cover herself with.

"Oh, fuck."

Shit, Mia thought as she heard her dad's voice: Scorpius had just joined Rose at the doorway. Her mum was still gaping.

Scorpius looked stunned and furious at the same time. Mia assumed he was wondering how he was going to yell at the boy who used to have accidents on his bathroom floor before he was fully potty trained.

But, oh, she knew the yelling was coming. It had to be. Alex was sitting on her bed, clad only in his boxers, with impressive lovebites beginning to bruise on his neck and chest, rubbing the back of his neck with his hand and looking anywhere but at anyone else. The problem in his pants was just a bit too obvious for Mia's current sanity. Her parents were bound to notice that.

And then, of course, she had no shirt on – noticeable as her shirt was tossed on the ground, even though she was hidden behind the bed, all except for her head. And her bra was at her parents' feet. Shit.

"Downstairs, three minutes," Scorpius growled murderously, shooting daggers at Alex, and then Mia.

She cowered under her father's gaze.

She'd never done well hiding things from her parents. Had never done well lying to them, either; none of them ever had. She, Cassie, Kate, and Nate were all terrible at lying to Scorpius and Rose. Scorpius and Rose could see through everything. Some parents said that they'd done it all and so knew exactly what their kids were doing; Rose and Scorpius actually had done it all.

None of their kids would ever be able to get away with anything.

Scorpius left and Rose closed the door behind them.

Mia and Alex sat for an awkward two minutes in silence.

"I'm sorry," she finally said. "I didn't know they'd be home so soon. They were supposed to be gone until late tonight."

Alex shook his head and ran a hand over his face. "S'not your fault. We should've thought before acting."

Mia smirked. "Like we've ever done that." She frowned. "Well, you have, lately, I guess."

Alex shrugged and got up off the bed, retrieving his shirt and pulling his jeans up over his hips. "Look on the bright side; this probably would've happened eventually."

Mia grabbed her bra from by the door and snapped it back on, dragging a clean shirt from the dresser over her head. She checked in the mirror over the dresser to make sure she looked relatively presentable, not like she'd just been about to shag her best friend. She looked fine except for her swollen lips and messy hair, but there really wasn't anything she could do about that in the few minutes she had to get downstairs.

"What would've happened?" she asked, moving over towards where Alex sat on the bottom bunk of the bunk beds Cassie and Kate shared – Cassie's bed. "Us shagging each other or my parents walking in on us doing something?"

"Both, I guess."

Mia was silent for a moment.

"Patrick's going to take the mickey for years," Alex remarked.

"There won't be anything to take the mickey of if you two don't get down here in five seconds!" Rose shouted up the stairs.

"Merlin that woman has good hearing," Mia muttered.

"I heard that!"

The following hour, Mia and Alex sat on the couch as Rose and Scorpius alternated between pacing, yelling at them, lecturing, and beginning statements with, "I was giving birth to you just a year and a few months older than you are now…"

Mia liked to pretend that her parents had never had sex and that she wasn't the product of a teenage pregnancy. It seemed like her parents didn't want to honor her system.

She cringed. Continuously. Throughout the whole discussion. Especially when Cassie and Kate walked in, noticed what was going on, and laughed hysterically while Kate mimed 'fucking' behind Rose's and Scorpius's backs.

Kate was a freaking second year. She wasn't supposed to know that stuff!

Mia pretended that thought wasn't hypocritical.

But Cassie shouldn't know it even more so! Cassie was a sweet, innocent, little Aryan-poster child (though the gray eyes did deter that a bit). She and Patrick weren't supposed to do anything remotely like what Alex and Mia had just been caught doing.

Mia cringed. Dear Merlin she never wanted to know what her best friend and little sister got up to.

"Hermia Jane, are you listening?!" Scorpius roared.

Mia's head jerked up to see her dad's face an unnatural pink color with a vein bulging in his neck. Shit. He was really, really pissed.

Rose had her arms crossed, standing slightly behind her husband. They kept switching back and forth between who was doing the talking. One would step up, the other would step back. Apparently it was Scorpius's turn.

Mia already knew that on the 'Angry Scale', her parents were both at a ten. This was one of those problems of having two irrational parents. Opposites really hadn't attracted very much in the case of Mia's parents.

Mia only looked up at the end of her parents' rants. Her ears were burning and she was sure the back of her neck was, too. She hadn't chanced a glance at Alex throughout the whole tirade.

She just kept hearing her parents say things like, "These are the contraceptive charms…", "You know who shouldn't enter into a physical relationship with someone unless you're ready…", "When I was your age…", and "I'm so disappointed in you…"

Mia knew she shouldn't have asked her question. She had this problem where she said things out of spite, especially when she felt the need to become defensive. She was pretty sure it was hereditary. She looked at her mum and snapped, "Oh yeah, when did you lose your virginity, then?"

Rose blanched. Completely. She looked like she was about to faint.

Scorpius grabbed his wife and told Mia and Alex to, "Get the fuck out of here."

They hadn't needed telling twice.

That was when the tirade ended. But Mia and Alex sat on the stairs. She'd had to convince Alex; he felt a little bad about eavesdropping on her parents, but his curious nature took over.

Her dad kept telling her mum, repeating, again and again, "It's over. He's gone. He's not coming back. You're fine. You're safe. I'm here. Remember? You're thirty-four, not fifteen. You're okay. He's gone. In Azkaban."

Mia had looked over and stared with wide eyes at Alex, her own expression reflected back at her.

As much as Mia wanted to say that she was thinking about her mum and whatever secret she had, because they never lied to each other and Mia was concerned, she was thinking even more about just how much she wanted Alex back in her bed.

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