Elegantly Wasted: Sirius Black

22- Talk

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15th December 1976

The sound of thunder rumbled in the sky. It was one of those miserable kind of days and Laurie was stuck in Transfiguration class.

The girl had stopped paying attention a long time ago.

Instead, she was peering over at the raven-haired boy who was two desks down. Sirius had a few of his top shirt buttons undone, his tie was tied loosely around his neck and he had completely gotten rid of his jumper and robe.

Laurie couldn't help but look, she did feel a little bit like a creep though.

She didn't know what to do about her newfound feelings towards the boy, she didn't know how to act around him so whenever he was around she tried her best to bury them as deep as she could so she could simply act how she used to.

One thing she noticed was how much he involved himself in her life. It seemed like whatever she was doing, he was there. Wherever she was, he showed up. He had even wedged himself into her classes, how he begged Slughorn to do the project together and sat beside her in a lot of classes.

Laurie didn't mind it. She liked it when he was around, it just made it harder to be normal.

She hadn't told anyone about how she felt. Laurie knew that if her friends knew they would look at her whenever he walked in a room or said something and she knew the moment they did she would go bright red.

"Like what you see, Devereux?" the voice of the boy that plagued her thoughts snapped her out of them.

"Piss off, Black" she huffed and turned her attention to Professor McGonagall.

Laurie could feel her cheeks getting hotter and could only pray silently that she was going red. Nobody even knew and she was going red over a single interaction. Yep, she was complete fucked.

***

Leaving the classroom, Laurie felt someone link their arm around hers when she turned to look she saw Sirius.

"Hi" she greeted with a smile.

"Hello, we have the next two classes together, just the two of us," Sirius said as they began to walk the halls.

"What do we have?"

"We have charms and herbology"

"Devereux!" Mulciber shouted and ran up beside her "still fucking Black, I see"

"Why don't you go and find a cousin to fuck?" Laurie bit back, annoyed at the boy's sudden appearance.

"Lovely as always, I need to talk to you"

Laurie contemplated it for a second.

"Alright, talk"

"Uh in private"

"Whatever you have to say you can say in front of me," Sirius said protectively and pulled her slightly closer to him.

Laurie looked up to Sirius "Can you just wait here?"

He looked at Mulciber then nodded reluctantly and leant against the wall.

Mulciber pulled Laurie to walk to the other side of the hallway.

"What do you have to talk about?" she asked impatiently.

"I am sorry about what I said"

"No, you're not"

"I am. When you didn't show up on Halloween, I was disappointed" Mulciber put his hand on her face and caressed her cheek.

"That's no one's fault but your own"

"I miss you, baby"

"I am not and never was your baby, Mulciber you fucked up your chances. All I ever was to you was a mindless fuck and that all you were to me" Laurie asserted.

"If that's all it was then one more time couldn't hurt" he went on.

"I have to go"

Just as she was about to leave Mulciber leant down and caught her lips in a kiss.

Sirius saw from across the hall and in an abrupt flood of anger he stormed off just in time to miss Laurie push him off.

"Classes are about to start" and she walked over to where Sirius was supposed to be.

Instead, she found him missing. He just left her. Alone.

***

The last two lessons went by quickly enough. Laurie was still annoyed that Sirius left her and Sirius was still annoyed that Laurie kissed Mulciber. They both sat next to strangers for both classes rather than their usual seats beside each other.

Sirius stormed into his dorm. James, Remus and Peter were already there.

"What's wrong with you this time?" asked Remus who was reading on his bed.

"She kissed him!" he announced in disbelief.

"Who?" implored Peter.

"Laurie! She kissed Mucliber and I was right across the hall, I could see everything"

"But they're not even potions partners anymore," said James.

"He asked her to talk and they were talking then she kissed him!" he scoffed.

"Pads, it was probably nothing" comforted James.

"Yeah! Maybe he kissed her and she didn't want him to" Peter added.

"The next thing I'll find out they had sex" Sirius lay on his bed.

Remus's eyes went wide but kept them directed at his book.