Wolfstar || Everything but straight

CHAPTER •°• eleven

     SIRIUS WINKED at Maggie a second before he took a step outside of her dormitory and the stairs momentarily changed into a huge slide. Sirius immediately fell down, but he was ready for this - he got out of Maggie's dormitory every time in just that way. 

He straightened out his legs and shouted 'weeeeee' as he quickly slid down, into the floor of the Hufflepuff common room. Right behind him the slide turned back into the stairs once he stopped touching it.

Sirius stood up with a lazy gesture, ignoring a few Hufflepuffs, for whom him sliding down from the girls' dormitory like this was still a news.

He did that almost ever since he met Maggie and even though she hated the way that she had to transport him upstairs, the two of them still met there quite regularly. Mostly when Sirius's dormitory was occupied or when Maggie was too lazy to go to him, so he had to come to her.

Black sighed deeply. He did not wish to go to the lessons just yet, but he didn't have much choice. His first class that day was Defence Against the Dark Arts and Sirius already skipped the previous double block. He normally didn't mind being there, but lately they were practising the stretching spells and he was able to cast them well enough after two lessons. 

It was similar with Remus, but Remus didn't skip classes, as a rule. It didn't mean that he always paid attention to them, but he was there. Sirius couldn't understand that for a long time, but somewhere in fifth year he noticed that almost all the teachers seemed to be much more indulgent, when Moony was the one to break a rule then when Sirius or James did exactly the same thing.

But then it was too late to start behaving like Remus - Black already had a certain reputation and while he could try to change, he knew that it would demand a lot more time and determination from his side than he was willing to give. And besides, a know-it-all role didn't suit him and neither did it suit his 'casanova' position.

"Sirius Black?!" He heard suddenly, as he was almost about to close the door from the Hufflepuff dormitory behind himself. "Sirius?" Called him someone again and only then Padfoot turned around, just to see a third or maybe a second year student from Hufflepuff, running after him.

He frowned. He never saw that girl before and he didn't think she expected him to know her. But she was smiling brightly at him so Sirius simply smiled back, even though he had no idea what she wanted from him or how she knew him, he said.

"Hi?" He laughed awkwardly and the girl smiled even wider at him.

"Hi." She said, stopping just right next to him. "I don't want to bother you, but uhm..." She hesitated and Sirius quickly reassured her.

"You don't." He said.  "What is it?"

The girl took a deep breath, and visibly flustered, said.

"I just wanted to tell you that... ehm... it's probably going to sound creepy, but my friends really wanted me to say this." She threw a glare behind her back and only then Sirius noticed that on the other end of the corridor there were a few other Hufflepuffs, looking at them from afar.

He frowned slightly.

"Okay?" He half stated, half asked and only then, the girl finally explained what it was about.

"Uhm... it's just." She giggled awkwardly. "We wanted you to know that you and Maggie are like the best couple ever." She finally announced and Sirius blinked, perplexed. "You guys just look so good together and you walk her to the classes and give her those adorable gifts..." She sighed dreamily, but then, seeing Sirius's confused gaze, she quickly took out a piece of paper out of her pocket and handed it to him. "Malinda even wrote a poem about you... it ends bad, but it's only because Malinda is kind of edgy." The last part of the sentence she whispered, leaning gently in Black's side. "She hates good endings. But me and the others wish you everything that's best." She smiled as Sirius took the piece of paper.