The Art of Persuasion

Chapter 16 : Snog After Snog

"Look at her face, Lily. Doesn't it just scream love?" Alice asked as I entered the dorm. I had just finished perhaps the best detention I have ever had. Although I haven't gotten that many detentions, this detention still ranked number one.

I didn't even have half of my thoughts collected as I stumbled towards my bed. All I could think about was how Sirius's hands felt as they crawled up my sides. My body gave an excited shiver to memory of the feeling. I put my hand over my mouth as it stretched into a slight grin.

"More like 'Sirius Black just snogged me senseless!'..." Lily muttered back as she flipped through pages of Witches Weekly. Alice giggled at this while my face reddened at Lily's correct guess. Though...I think it was me who initiated the whole...event. I mean Sirius was leaning in but something inside of me exploded as I grabbed his face. Half of me expected him to push me back but he had responded just about right away. What surprised me was that I didn't really feel overwhelmed this time. Perhaps I had been used to his kisses or maybe I was used to him, period.

Although the whole...'snog session' lasted only thirty minutes, I felt entirely sure that I did fancy Sirius Black. And if I do say so myself, I believe it raised my confidence that Sirius feels somewhat the same. Why, I bet that tomorrow...

Oh, shit, tomorrow.

My confidence disappeared as fast it had appeared. It didn't occur to me think about tomorrow. Would it really be different? I mean it really was different for me now. That was the first I ever kissed someone with such passion. It wasn't that angry passion either; it was pure bliss. What if it had been one of those situations where the girl gets attached to the boy but the boy is just annoyed by it? I certainly didn't want to be annoying to him. However, I wasn't really attached to him that much. It's not like I slept with him or anything. It was just a few bloody kisses; nothing too special.

Besides, knowing Sirius, he won't say a thing about it and move about on things as usual.

...

He will, right?

"Evelyn, get up before Potter murders Geoff at breakfast." Lily said a bit too loud for my liking in the morning. My hand stumbled around my nightstand for a clock to look at. Finally, I managed to pick up an old hand watch to which my hand clutched tightly. I brought it close towards my eyes and focused on it slightly. Hmmm, it read Nine-twenty.

My God! Nine-twenty! That only gave me ten minutes to get ready. I stumbled quickly out of bed and rummaged through my trunk for my uniform. About two minutes later, I was hastily running a brush through my hair while my tie hung around my neck, untied. I rushed out the dorm with my outer cloak in hand.

I soared down the stairs of the Common Room and run out the Portrait Hole. Then I rushed down the corridors till I reached the Great Hall. My eyes quickly scanned the usually busy room for where Lily and Geoff were seated. I spotted them quickly next to none other than the Marauders.

"EVELYN! WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?" Geoff exclaimed as he threw his arms around me. I groaned as his weight pulled me down slightly.

"Geoff, please, I overslept..." I yawned as I took my seat across from Sirius. He glanced up at me and gave me a smile and then went back to talking to Potter. I found myself grinning back like an idiot in return.

"Evelyn," I looked towards Geoff as he fingered my tie. "May I?" he asked as he started to tie my tie. I nodded slightly and looked towards Sirius, who was staring at Geoff tying my tie.

"Evelyn, don't move so much or it will come out all disfigured." Geoff tilted my face towards and then continued to tie my tie. I stared absent-mindedly ahead of Geoff till he let out a small gasp.