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“You’d be surprised! I bet it’s somebody’s Amortentia.” Another laugh fell from her. “But I imagine if someone was around it as often as you are, it’d be easy to get sick of it. I know I can only stand so much of it… But I prefer the smell of tea anyway. More variety.”

“I’m sure,” Mary assured her roommate with a laugh, shaking her head. “But even if you did, I think people are into that sort of thing these days, so you’d fit right in. Besides, are you doing anything that requires you to smell like fresh roses?”

“Good,” Lily nodded, feeling relieved at her friend’s words. “There’s no way people are into this smell. It honestly becomes a bit nauseating after a few hours.”

“Totally. I don’t know how I feel about the eye, though. It’s a bit creepy.” Glenda laughed, and shrugged again. “I mean, sort of. It’s been a while, though, so I don’t know if the secrecy part of it is as exciting.”

“That’s what blindfolds are for, obviously,” Lily replied with a roll of her eyes. “By all means then, who is it?”

Glenda laughed loudly, rolling her eyes, “Yeah, I find it super sexy. Obviously he’s not allowed to take it off during sex,” she hummed. “No, but like I’ll tell you if you really want to know,” she shrugged, “you just can’t tell Marls because she would literally never let me live it down.”

“Obviously, it’d ruin the whole thing if he did,” she nodded seriously, rolling her eyes. “Only if you want to. I’m sure the secrecy of the whole thing only helps the mood.”

“I’m not sleeping the Minister of Magic,” she laughed, mostly at the irony. Because honestly, it wasn’t like Lily was completely off. “He does work at the Ministry, though.”

“Fine, you’re not sleeping with the Minister,” she replied with a laugh, never having suspected that an actual possibility to begin with. She nodded for a moment, her expression thoughtful before she continued, “Ah, okay, so you’re obviously sleeping with Moody then. To be completely honest Glen, I never saw you as the kind of girl into the whole pirate peg leg thing. But to each their own, I suppose.”

“Y’know, I can’t say I even thought about it when applying.”

“I’d have been completely shocked if it hadn’t gone well.”

“And I’m sure you would have never let me live it down.”

“Okay, just tell me when you’re feeling a bit too red,” she teased, leaning back in her seat. “You make it sound so dramatic,” she laughed. “He’s hardly mysterious.”

“Because it is dramatic. You won’t tell us his name or practically anything about him. For all I know you could be fucking the Minister of Magic and we’d be none the wiser.”

“It worked perfectly,” he nodded, shooting her a smile. “Which was absolutely no surprise, so thank you for that.”

“I’m glad to hear that, not that I had any doubts about my capabilities.”

“Do you want to go back in?” She asked, squinting as she looked over, hand hovering over her eyes.

“No, it’s fine, we can definitely stay out for a little bit longer,” she replied with a shrug, “Besides, I’ve yet to hear an update on this new mystery man of yours.”

“I have sun cream with me,” she noted, gesturing to her bag with a grin.

“You underestimate my ability to burn.”

“Because it’s too warm?” he questioned with a small laugh.

“It went alright,” he nodded, accepting the cup of coffee with a quiet ‘thank you’. “Pretty uneventful, honestly.”

“That’s good,” she nodded, “It sounded like it should have been pretty easy. Did the Polyjuice work okay?”

“At least we’ll get a good tan out of it.”

“No, you’ll get a tan. I’ll just get burned.”

“Isn’t it?” James agreed with a soft sigh. “We were doing drills in this heat yesterday, it was torture,” he complained, exaggerating ever so slightly. 

“Sure, I’ll take a coffee,” Sirius nodded, thankful.

Lily nodded, making her way into her kitchen to pour him a cup of coffee before returning to the table to hand it to him. “How was your thing with James this weekend?”