The Marauder Girls (Book 1)

Chapter 57

-Eve's POV-

"Sirius, I can make it back to the castle fine by myself." I sigh and start walking off the quidditch pitch. "But I wanna make sure you're alright." "I'm fine." "You sure?" "yes I'm positive." "How do you know?" Then I turn around to face him. "Listen to me alright?" He nods. "I don't know what happened up there, but this DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE BACK TOGETHER!" I yell in his face. "But-" "But nothing! I'm still dating Josh." "But he's a Slytherin!" I groan and turn on my heel and start walking away.

I'm next to the forbidden forest when he calls my name again. "What? Gonna criticize my boyfriend more?" "No....you might want to turn around. I think Merlin escaped." "Merlin?" "Our hypogriff. For care of magical creatures." I turn around and,of course, there stands 'Merlin'. "His name isn't Merlin" I say,approaching the hypogriff. "It's Buttercup." He raises his eyebrows at me. "Buttercup? His name is Merlin" I bow to the hypogriff, ignoring Sirius. "Hey buttercup" I coo. "How'd you get out buddy?" Buttercup bows back so I go up and pet him. "C'mon buddy, let's take you back to the forest." Sirius raises an eyebrow at me. "How're you going to do- no!" He stares at me in disbelief as I mount the hypogriff. "C'mon you'll thank me someday when you need to ride a hypogriff." "Who says I'm coming?" A smile creeps onto my face. "C'mon Padfoot, we run around with a werewolf once a month, riding a hypogriff will be a piece of cake!" By now I'm sitting on buttercup looking down at Sirius. "Fine." He sighs. "But if I die its on your conscience." I laugh. "Ehh I can live with that. Now get on the hypogriff."

Soon we're flying through the air, Sirius complaining the whole time. "I'm telling you, you'll thank me eventually when I'm not here and you've got to ride a hypogriff." He snorts. "Yeah.. Like that's gonna happen." I turn around and look at him. "Just you wait" Buttercup makes an abrupt dip just above the black lake and both of us almost fall off. I steer buttercup back over to the forbidden forest and we slowly start losing altitude.

As I hop off I turn to Sirius. "See that wasn't so bad..." He's got a hand covering his mouth. "Oh god...I think i'm gonna be sick." I smirk at him "wimp." He glares at me then tackles me to the ground and pins my arms down. "Who's the wimp now, Eve?" There's that old sparkle in those grey eyes that still mesmerize me. Then I'm staring at him and he'a staring back at me. There's awkward silence between us then before I know what's happening, he's off me. "I-I shouldn't have done that.." He sighs and looks down. I look at him. "What shouldn't you have done?" I'm walking closer to him. "Um tackled you..." He'a obviously bothered by my closeness. "Really Sirius?" I ask. "You're bothered by that?" Now I'm right next to him. He doesn't say anything, just looks at me with wide eyes. "Eve what are you doing?" I laugh. "I'm talking to you. That's what it's called when words come out of your mouth." He rolls his eyes at me. "You wanna go back to the castle now?" I look at him with puppy dog eyes. "I'm tiredddd. Can I have a piggy back ride?" He sighs then lets me on his back.

There's just one thing bothering me. After we got on buttercup, I didn't think of Josh once.