Sirius's POV- (same day)
"We will meet you guys down there, we- uh have to do something" I said, when Tatum, Marlene, Alice, and Lily left the common room
"Sooo, how are you going to ask her?" James said eagerly
"I am not sure, got any ideas?"
"Well Padfoot, you could just go up to her and ask? She seems like the kind of girl that doesn't want to be asked in a big way" Remus suggested
"True, but what do I say, I don't want to say ' hey, wanna go to the dance with me' like that is boring"
"How about you ask her with her favorite flowers" Peter suggested
"But what are they?" I liked the sound of asking Tatum with her favorite flowers, but I have no idea what they are, if I can't find out, I will just ask her with roses
"Um, I think she likes lilys" James laughed
"I think she does, but I don't think those are her favorite" Remus intervened
"I will just ask Lily or one of her friends, but when do I ask her?"
"How about you ask her when she gets back from Hogsmeade?"
"I-"
"Oh! Sirius! You know that you guys do before practice and games, you could let her win, so you would have to ask out your crush, isn't the score tied?" James suggested
"Oh that's actually a good idea-" I said sarcastically
"Hey!" James yelped
"It was a joke, anyway, Once I let her win, I would ask her on the 15, the day before the dance"
"Padfoot, if you wait that long, she might already have a date? Why don't you ask her right after she wins the race thing"
"Well, we just have to make sure she doesn't get a date before the 15th"
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After discussing a few more ideas on how I was going to ask Tatum to the dance, we decided on the first one, and James would ask Lily on what Tatums favorite flower was
We were now making out way to Hogsmeade
"Zonkos anyone?" I asked, even though I knew the answers
"Yes!" James cheered
"Sure" Remus said, Peter just shrugged
Walking to the shop, I saw Marlene and Alice wandering inside, but I didn't see Tatum or Lily with them
"Hey guys" James greeted Marlene and Alice
"Took you guys long enough" Alice laughed and went down another isle
"What were you guys doing anyway?" Marlene asked
"We were discussing ways I could ask Lily to that dance"
"James you know what her answer is going to be"
"You never know, she could say yes" James said and walked off to a product
After a hour or so, we gathered all our supplies and left to go have some butter beers at the 3 broomsticks
"Who are you guys up against on the 14th?" Remus asked
"Really Moony" James groaned
"It's the last match of the year, the news has been all over the school"
"Will you stop scolding me and just tell me who else is participating in the match"
"Slytherin"
"Oh, I think I know that" Remus laughed
"I swear to Mer-" James mumbled, but cute off my someone behind us
"Hey!" Turning around I saw Caspian running up to us "Sirius, can I talk to you?"
"I will meet you guys inside, mind getting me a butter beer" I said and James nodded, the 3 of them walked into the pub
"Sorry to bug you but I have a question"
"Shoot"
"Are you going to ask Tatum to the dance?"
"I was thinking about it, why?"
"Oh ok" he sighed "if you don't know how to ask her, please make it simple, she is not one for attention"
"Yeah, I was planing to ask her with her favorite flowers on the 15th, do you know what her favorite flowers are?"
"I think she likes those red tuberous begonias, but don't ask her with roses, she hates those"
Well there goes that idea
"Oh, thanks"
"Why the 15th, she might already have a date by then"
"Well we have a thing we do before each practice and match, and the score is currently tied, and the loser has to ask out there crush, so if I let her win, I will ask her out the next day, just to give me time to plan it out"
"That's a good idea, but I have to go, Regulus wanted to go to Honeydukes, see ya" Caspian waved and started to make his way to Honeydukes
I walked into the 3 broom sticks and found my friends sitting at one of the tables
"What was all that about?" James asked
"That was Tatums brother, he was asking if I was going to ask her to the dance"
"Wait wait wait, she has a brother?" Peter exclaimed
"Long story" I sighed and took a big swig of my butter beer
We at around and talked for about another hour, at some point we stared to dare each other to do stupid things
"Ok, one last date before we leave" Remus sighed
"Oh I know! Padfoot want a dare?"
"Hell yeah"
"Ok" he smirked "this is a good one, I dare you to go out side with only you underwear on for an hour"
"How about a coat, he would freeze to death in 20 minutes without it" Remus said
"Your on"
Long story short, I did the dare, but James being James, he ran up to the castle with my cloths so I was left outside with only underwear and a coat on
It has probably been an hour since the sun had set when I heard someone come my way
"hello?" they said, the voice sounded way to familiar
"h-he-hel-hello"
"how long have you been out here?" yup, this was Tatum
well, this is embarrassing
"when did the sun go down?"
"about 45 minutes ago, why?"
"well, James dared-"
"Sirius!" She exclaimed
"what!" I shouted back
"you did a dare! that James told you to do!"
"well, I am not one to pass up a dare-"
"Sirius! you can die staying out in the cold Like this" she motioned to me, probably because i was in my underwear and a coat
"but I am still here" I laughed, trying to defuse the tension
"my my Merlin, lets just head down to Hogshead, were are the rest of your clothes?" she sighed
"James took them" I said and started to walk towards Hogshead, seeing as I was freezing my arse off
"you just let him take them!"
"yup"
"you are a complete idiot" She shook her head, I wanted to say 'but you wouldn't have me any other way' but the more I thought, that was supper cheesy, I should tell James to tell Lily that
"like you wouldn't pass up dare" I settled on saying
"if the result was death or sever frost bite, yeah, I would pass it up!"
"oh, you are just trying to make me feel bad"
"what? how?"
"I will tell you later" I smirked "since you are focused n getting me warm"
"frick you" She laughed, but I saw a little blush creep up n her face " hello sir, do yuo have any 2 bed rooms available?"
"I am afraid we only have 3 rooms open, all of them have 1 bed"
Tatum looked u to me, I already had a grin going from ear to ear, when she turned back with even more blush, I turned to the worker
"we will take one of those rooms" I said and once he left to get a key, I turned to Tatum, who had the look of disbelief "no need to frown, its not like we haven't slept in the same bed"
"Sirius that was different"
"how so?" I smirked, but the worker came back with a key
"how long will you be staying?" he asked
"just until tomorrow morning"
"up this way" he said and started to go up the stairs, Tatum and I followed, when he opened the door, Tatum's face got even more red
This will be fun
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