philophobia-the fear of falling in love
or becoming emotionally connected
to someone...
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This is a story you've heard before, passed down through generations, about a young girl and a young boy who utterly despise each other.
Then, somehow, t...
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cvii||take you out
"I wanna take you out." Regulus chimes as he enters the Potter living room where Maria is sat reading a book and drinking a mug of tea. She raised her eyebrows at him as he strolls towards her with a grin. "I realised we've never really been anywhere so, I bought you a dress and we're going for dinner tonight."
"What? where?"
"It's a surprise." Regulus shrugs his shoulders and Maria smiles at him slightly, placing her mug down on the table and leaning over to kiss his lips softly, Regulus smiling against hers as his hands move from her neck to her waist.
Maria closed her book without breaking the contact of her lips on Regulus' and clambers on top of him on the soft sofa.
"You'd think they'd be more hospitable than this." A voice says from the archway leading from the foyer into the living room and they instantly pull away from each other yet Regulus' hands stay on her hips keeping her on top of him as they both look and sigh.
Stanley Harper stood with his arm slung over Alyssa Greengrass' shoulders and a smirk on his lips.
"You said you were coming at three." Regulus grumbles as he finally releases Maria and she clambers off of him.
"Er, it is three." Alyssa says with a small eye roll as Maria stands and brings the blonde in for a hug. "Your house is humongous."
"It's not that—"
"Don't be so modest, Maria, this is ginormous—colossal!" Stan exaggerates and Maria rolls her eyes slightly, Regulus snickering from behind her. "What are we doing today, then? I say we go get lunch. I'm bloody starving."
"I second that." Alyssa adds, raising her hand and Maria sighs and nods, Regulus slinging an arm over her shoulders as the quartet exit the large house.
"There's this nice place in the muggle village, we can walk, it's only down the road." Maria explains as they walk down the driveway.
"Oh yeah, me and Lyss are together."
"What?!" The couple before the blondes says incredulously and the duo snicker to themselves.
"Since when?" Maria breathes as the four stroll down the muggle street. She had always known they would end up together but it still didn't think Stanley would pluck up the courage soon enough.
"Like. . .Tuesday?"
"No." Alyssa slaps him on the arm with a playful stern look. "Monday."
"Ah yes, Monday." Stanley grins, slinging his arm around the blonde beside him's shoulders.
"Didn't think you'd have the balls." Regulus states honestly as they round the corner of the street, seeing the café on the corner across the road.
"Okay, says you." Stanley scoffs and Regulus looks at him, silently telling him to elaborate. "You were on and off about Maria for like four months. 'I love her!', 'no, I hate her!'." Regulus rolls his eyes at the blonde boy as they enter the café together.
