#tw:summer

“Look whose the queen of the beach!”

“You mean the queen bitch.”

“There’s no difference, sweetie.”

Marlene McKinnon in the rocky cliff before she jumped down.

“That moment when you’ve been in a relationship for so long that all you want to do is just sit together and bask in each other’s presence.”

“When Dorky and Remy are just relationship goals.”

Dorcas and Remus in Potter Manor’s ‘backyard’ just happy being by each other’s side, the summer before their last year.

“Uh… what are they doing?”

“James! Sirius!”

“Haha, can’t keep up, Pads?”

“Look, I’m a grown ass man and I can’t fit in this thing. Let me get my bike and we’ll see who’s faster.”

“Nope. Haha.”

“That, Harry, is your Dad and Uncle Pads. Don’t grow up to be like them.”

“Da Pa!”

James and Sirius playing around the muggle park to the astonishment of others around them. They brought Harry here to play and the adults are the ones playing around. People were talking damn it.

“Sirius! Arms!”

“Go, Alice, I’ll catch you.”

“Aaaahh -- THUD!”

“For such a little person, you’re pretty heavy.”

“HEY!”

Alice Fortescue and Sirius Black having some fun during the summer in the Potter’s ‘backyard’.

“A Black, Marls? Of all the damn guys in Hogwarts, you go for Black?”

“Marlon, just because you don’t get any doesn’t mean you can judge me.”

“It’s big brother prerogative, Marls. Besides, you should be glad I’m the first to know. As soon as the big boss hears of this, you’re boyfriend’s a dead meat.”

“You didn’t tell Mason?”

“Wow. Apparently, I’m now the tattletale.”

“Okay, that was one time.”

“You told Grandmamma about my boyfriend. You know how much of an old school she is.”

“Ah, ‘old school’ - the days of blood purity, racism, homophobia, and witch burning.”

Marlene being cornered by her brother before her date with Sirius. Apparently, the McKinnon Grandmamma isn’t very happy with the Blacks.

“Working hard, beautiful?”

“What are you doing here, Sirius?”

“I heard you got a new job, so I’m visiting.”

“The shop is closed. Next time you want to ‘visit’, go do it when it’s open. And order some things.”

Marlene McKinnon after hours. She was in charge of closing the shop and was the only one left behind to finish cleaning.

“What are those two doing?”

“Making memories, so they say?”

“They’re gonna fall, you know.”

“Yep. They’re gonna have memories of that.”

Dorcas Meadowes and Marlene McKinnon making memories on their last summer before Hogwarts.

“Whoa, hey! Marlene!!”

“Haha, gotcha, Sirius. Who’s the Master Prankster now.”

“Still me. That’s not even a prank.”

“Ohohoho, it is on.”

Marlene McKinnon pushing Sirius Black down the water.