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eyes at the sight, and Sirius took notice and let out a laugh. "I'd have thought you'd be the
romantic. Aren't you and Moony always quoting poetry at one another?"
"Not always poetry," Mia argued, turning back to look at him. "As for our breakup,
I told you. We made better friends."
"But you're willing to come on a date with me?" Sirius asked. "Does that
mean our friendship isn't worth saving?"
"Where do you want to go first?" Mia asked, ignoring his questions.
"You lead." Sirius shrugged and began following her through the street. "So, if you
and Moony are better as friends, why do the two of you still sneak off together?"
Mia turned, gaping at him. "What?"
"You and him are hiding something." Sirius stared at her. "I know you are. He
sneaks off in the middle of the night sometimes, comes back into the room smelling like
the soaps from the prefects' bathroom."
"I imagine he's leaving to shower, then. What does that have to do with me?"
"You smell like the same soaps," Sirius pointed out, and he felt a growl deep inside
his chest forcing its way out when he noticed the skin of her neck flush at his words.
"Taking trips together up to the private baths for a little post-breakup snog?"
She turned and snarled at him. "Green is a hideous colour on you."
Sirius glared back at her, feeling the hair on the back of his neck stand on end the
way that his fur did in his Animagus form. "I don't share."
"I'm not yours."
"Funny, the way you cursed all those girls this morning sure seemed to say
otherwise."
"I would have done the same thing for Jamie or Remus," she insisted.
He rolled his eyes, not believing her for one minute. "So, let's get some things in
the air, kitten," he said as he continued following her, casting a dirty look at Snape while
he watched him enter Dervish and Banges. "Are you pissed at me because I kissed you a
few years ago and then walked off, kissed you last Christmas and then walked off, or
because I told James that I wouldn't touch you?"
"None!" she snapped. "All!"
He sighed irritably. "Merlin, you're bloody frustrating. When did you and I stop
being able to just... I don't know? Talk?" He reached for her hand, pulling her around to