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Sirius Black had always known that he was considered objectively handsome with his defined cheekbones, sharp jawline, piercing grey eyes and, most of all, his luscious raven curls. This fact was made even more prominent a few weeks before every Hogsmeade weekends where he gets asked out a handful of times between every classes and gets love notes from people that he was pretty sure he never talked to nor does he know their names.
Now this was nothing new for Sirius except that he had somehow convinced himself that things would be different this year after having gotten together with his best mate and love of his life over the summer. While he still expected the meaningless love notes from enamored third years, he did not expect people to still be actively trying asking him out to a date for the upcoming weekend.
This was how he found himself storming into the library and plopping down on the nearest armchair beside Remus with a huff. Remus, being quite used to his radical moods ever since he left Grimmauld Place after being disowned, merely grunted in greeting and did not bother looking up from the Transfiguration essay he was working on.
“You’d think by now they’d be over their meaningless crushes.” Sirius muttered as he buried his head in his arms.
Remus snorted and lifted his gaze to see where Sirius was seated. “Mate, that’s not happening. You should just get used to it.”
“I know that but repeating myself every five minutes is quickly getting old. I wish I could just hex them like I used to but you being the nice prefect that you are insists on me being nice and respectful when letting people down.” Sirius replied, finally lifting his head to face Remus and rolling his eyes sarcastically, as if to make sure that Remus was aware that he is, in fact, rolling his eyes at him.
At this, Remus narrowed his eyes at Sirius suspiciously.
“I know, I know. I didn’t hex anyone!” Sirius quickly defended, lifting both his arms in surrender.
After the fiasco involving the Whomping Willow (which they agreed to never talk about again), Sirius promised to rein in his temper and not resort to violence as much as possible. He had decided that although dealing with idiots patiently and calmly was very tedious, it was still far safer and it would prevent him from making the same mistake that almost ripped apart their little group.
“Besides, I’m dating James now and I hate how he gets all tense and possessive whenever someone comes up to me. I know he trusts me and all so he tries to be more subtle about it but I know him better than he knows himself. It bothers him.” Sirius continued, rolling his eyes fondly as he mentioned James’s possessiveness.
“If it bothers you both so much, why don’t you just… I don’t know… make your relationship more obvious? They can’t deny or feign obliviousness if the evidence of your relationship is right there...” Remus responded logically.
“Well that hasn’t worked so far has it? Aren’t you the one who keeps saying that we already behave like honeymooning couples with the way we spend every waking minute together?” Sirius replied, quirking an eyebrow.
“Look, I appreciate the problem, but can’t you just take this up with James and let me finish my essay?” Remus sighed tiredly.
“Maybe he’d let you snog his face off to get people to leave you both alone…”. Remus muttered sarcastically before he suddenly froze and slapped a hand to his mouth as he realized what he was suggesting.
How could he be so stupid as to suggest that his two DORMMATES should act more lovey-dovey when he and Peter would surely be caught in the crossfire of it all. He can only hope that Sirius did not hear him properly or he simply took his words as a throwaway comment and not take it seriously.
One glance was all it took for Remus to realize that it was no use because Sirius seemed to perk up as if to seriously consider the suggestion.
“Moony, you are a genius!” Sirius declared loudly before sparing a glance towards Madam Pince’s piercing glare, who looked up at the sudden noise.
He lowered his voice, a smirk forming in his face, before continuing, “Y’know what? I’m gonna go find Prongs. The next person to ask me out is getting front row seats to a full-blown snogging session between the two hottest men at Hogwarts.”
He then abruptly stood and strode out of the library, suddenly eager to face his admirers.
Later that evening, James and Sirius were found comfortably squished together on the loveseat by the common room fire. James had an arm wrapped around his shoulders while he used his other hand to guide Sirius’s head to rest on his chest. James continued to run his fingers through the smooth strands of Sirius’s hair as they enjoyed the comfortable silence between them. However, this silence was soon interrupted by Davies, a 7th year Gryffindor, who walked up to the two and stopped to face Sirius.
“Hey, Sirius, do you want to go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend?” Davies said while smiling disarmingly.
Since this was nothing new, everyone around them simply glanced up at the sound for a second before returning to their business. Everyone knew where this was going. The new guy will try to woo Sirius into going out with him while Sirius politely declined. They’d have the usual back and forth depending on the guy’s stubbornness but in the end, nothing changes because no one told Sirius Black what to do.
“Sorry mate, I’d rather not.” Sirius replied, still leaning his head on James.
“C’mon why not?”
“I’m going with James.”
“You do know you don’t have to spend every minute of the day with your best mate right? Why don’t you try something new?” Davies argued while smirking suggestively.
At this, Sirius sighed before shooting a look at Remus, who was seated in an armchair across from them beside Peter. He then abruptly threw one leg over James’s legs to sit on his lap and straddle him. He proceeded to place his hands at the back of James’s neck while leaning forward, aggressively pressing their lips together.
James, clearly startled at the turn of events, froze for a moment before relaxing into the impromptu snogging session. He wrapped his arms around Sirius’s waist before responding eagerly to Sirius’s mouth.
The two raven haired boys clearly forgot about everyone else as they passionately tried to devour the other until Davies, who was still rooted to the spot looking flustered, coughed and mumbled an apology before walking away to nurse his wounded ego.
The two boys moved apart momentarily to glance at the spot he recently vacated as if confused and disgruntled by the interruption before proceeding with what they were previously doing.
At this, Remus merely sighed and shook his head at them because his throwaway suggestion clearly worked and he just knew that he and Peter will surely be having unwanted front row seats to many more snogging sessions between their two best friends.