He froze, shocked, wondering if he should shove her into the nearest snowbank.
He pulled away from the girl too slowly.
Marlene's lips landed on his.
"Sirius?"
Fuck.
He turned quickly, pushing Marlene off of him as he spotted Mia standing outside
of Honeydukes, glaring at the scene in front of her.
"She kissed me!" Sirius shouted, pointing at Marlene. He turned back and glared at
the blond, only to see her grinning up at him with a vindictive look on her face. "You
planned this? What the hell, Marlene?"
"See how you like being left alone!" Marlene huffed and then turned to walk away.
When Sirius turned back to explain and apologise, Mia was gone.
Remus was too restless to sleep. A headache from that morning had edged itself
away, but the lingering symptoms of unease continued to plague him. If there were not
three feet of snow on the ground, he might have thought to go outside and run the energy
off. As it was, he tried to force himself to relax in the common room with a book, until he
felt something hot in the pocket of his trousers and curiously reached down to retrieve the
charmed Galleon that Mia used for their A.D. meetings.
Looking at the coin, Remus raised a brow.
RoR?- MP
She wanted to meet in the Room of Requirement now? Worried that something
happened, Remus stood and made his way over to Peter's bed and dug through his friend's
trunk, knowing that Peter never kept the Galleon on him—always afraid of accidentally
spending it. When he found Peter's charmed Galleon in a pouch in his friend's trunk,
Remus saw that there was no message on it. So Mia was not calling a group meeting. This
message was specifically for him.