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Title: Don’t Make Me Ask Again
Characters: Susan Bones/Michael Corner
Rating: PG
Word Count: 440
Prompt: 75 – Stars at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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(I feel weird about spamming the community so think I shall wait and post a couple together. Funny, I don't worry about spamming complete strangers and don't feel bad about it with my friends. *hugs*)
Susan had always scoffed at stars. “They’re billons of tons of gas. How is that romantic?” she would ask her friends as they sighed over the possibility of an outdoor rendezvous with one of the boys. After listening to Hannah talk incessantly about it one afternoon, she stormed from their room and stalked to the Ravenclaw tower.
“Why don’t you ever ask me to go look at stars with you?” she demanded when Michael had finally come out. “Why do we only go to the library to spend time together?”
Sensing the difficult position this question was going to put him in, Michael did the only thing a fifteen year old boy could do. He lied. “You told me you hate to watch the stars. Something about…” Now he’d talked himself into a corner because he’d never actually heard Susan’s viewpoint on star gazing. He knew what she thought of Agaeitic’s Third Law of Magical Evolution and every point she’d ever made when arguing for the dissolution of the current form of wizarding government. They’d debated music and fashion and current events until both of them could quote the other’s thoughts as if they were their own.
“Do you want to go look at the stars?” he asked, hoping he could cover over the lie.
“Do you want to?” she asked back, amazed that she’d asked him the initial question that had been bugging her for weeks.
Michael shrugged, leaning casually against the wall as a group of Seventh Year Ravenclaws walked past. “So you don’t like studying with me?”
“I never said that,” she barked, moving closer to him until she was in his personal space. She’d never cared too much about it before so he wasn’t taken aback now.
Instead he let her get closer before asking, “So you want to study tomorrow night until dinner and then go out to watch the stars when it gets dark?”
She considered his request, tilting her head to get the best view of his eyes. The dark color complimented his dark hair and she found that she enjoyed watching the emotion that surged through his gaze when they argued. “Only if I never have to give you grief about this again. The boy is supposed to ask the girl out to places.”
“I did ask,” he protested.
“Yes, but I had to bring it up. And now I’m standing in front of you and you aren’t doing a darn thing… Now that was better.” She stepped away from him then, grinning foolishly as she licked her lips. “Do that again and I may let you study with me tonight as well.”
Characters: Susan Bones/Michael Corner
Rating: PG
Word Count: 440
Prompt: 75 – Stars at
potterverse100(I feel weird about spamming the community so think I shall wait and post a couple together. Funny, I don't worry about spamming complete strangers and don't feel bad about it with my friends. *hugs*)
Susan had always scoffed at stars. “They’re billons of tons of gas. How is that romantic?” she would ask her friends as they sighed over the possibility of an outdoor rendezvous with one of the boys. After listening to Hannah talk incessantly about it one afternoon, she stormed from their room and stalked to the Ravenclaw tower.
“Why don’t you ever ask me to go look at stars with you?” she demanded when Michael had finally come out. “Why do we only go to the library to spend time together?”
Sensing the difficult position this question was going to put him in, Michael did the only thing a fifteen year old boy could do. He lied. “You told me you hate to watch the stars. Something about…” Now he’d talked himself into a corner because he’d never actually heard Susan’s viewpoint on star gazing. He knew what she thought of Agaeitic’s Third Law of Magical Evolution and every point she’d ever made when arguing for the dissolution of the current form of wizarding government. They’d debated music and fashion and current events until both of them could quote the other’s thoughts as if they were their own.
“Do you want to go look at the stars?” he asked, hoping he could cover over the lie.
“Do you want to?” she asked back, amazed that she’d asked him the initial question that had been bugging her for weeks.
Michael shrugged, leaning casually against the wall as a group of Seventh Year Ravenclaws walked past. “So you don’t like studying with me?”
“I never said that,” she barked, moving closer to him until she was in his personal space. She’d never cared too much about it before so he wasn’t taken aback now.
Instead he let her get closer before asking, “So you want to study tomorrow night until dinner and then go out to watch the stars when it gets dark?”
She considered his request, tilting her head to get the best view of his eyes. The dark color complimented his dark hair and she found that she enjoyed watching the emotion that surged through his gaze when they argued. “Only if I never have to give you grief about this again. The boy is supposed to ask the girl out to places.”
“I did ask,” he protested.
“Yes, but I had to bring it up. And now I’m standing in front of you and you aren’t doing a darn thing… Now that was better.” She stepped away from him then, grinning foolishly as she licked her lips. “Do that again and I may let you study with me tonight as well.”
