[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"Ahem," Hamish quickly changed the subject. "What do you want us to do at this late hour?"

"Can't I talk to you if I have nothing to do?" Tahlia asked innocently.

Tony said right away. "sure!"

"You can ask us to chat with you all day!" Billy said with an oath.

"Come on." Tahlia smiled. "If I were your boss, I would fire you immediately..."

"That's good advice, Tahlia," Hamish said with a smile.

Tahlia froze for a moment, then realized. "Billy! You quit your job?"

"Yeah." Billy nodded. "A waiter in the restaurant left suddenly, so I thought, anyway, the salary of my job is not high, so I might as well go back to work in the restaurant and save my salary..."

Hamish smiles. "So now I'm his boss." He said, poking Billy's arm deliberately. "How is it? Have you worked hard?"

"Of course!" Billy said loudly. "And if you fire me for talking to Tahlia, Tahlia will be the first to forgive you—"

"Stop talking nonsense, Billy," Tahlia said meanly. "I never said that..."

"Tahlia—"

"Go away!" Tony finally couldn't stand it any longer and pushed Billy out of the way of the mirror. "Leave him alone..." ignoring Billy's innocent yell behind him that he wanted to look at Tahlia too, and rolled his eyes.

I have to say that Billy is really capable of annoying even the gentlest Tony...

"How's it going?" Josh asked.

"Not bad." Tahlia lied.

"Where's your roommate? Will we disturb her like this?"

Tahlia shook her head. "I asked her...and she said it's okay." Another lie, her roommate moved out before Christmas break, and she had no interest in asking where her roommate lived.

"That's good." Josh nodded. "It's not good to bother her."

"Yeah." Tahlia responded.

It's good that she didn't trouble me...

Tahlia suddenly didn't want to continue chatting anymore. Although talking with her brothers was very fun and she could temporarily forget what happened just now, but after a few words, there were probably [-]% lies... She didn't want to keep talking like this.

"Josh, it's almost time for me to go to bed." As he spoke, he yawned. "There is a class tomorrow morning..."

After hearing this, the brothers didn't say any more. After all, the sleep of their little sister is absolutely important, so they all said good night to her.

"It was a pleasure chatting with you," she said.Really happy, but she can't bear to laugh and tell a bunch of lies to her brothers anymore. "Good night." The connection between the two mirrors was broken.

The mirror flickered, and Tahlia could only see her own face.

The room fell silent again.

She lay down on the bed and closed her eyes.

Soon, there was a regular exhalation sound.

On Sunday, Sirius disappeared all day, not even during the meal time. Tahlia was not surprised. She had already imagined two possibilities. Talking by herself, the second is Sirius yelling at her face, accusing her of wrongdoing, obviously the first one is more likely, it is really hard for her to imagine the scene of Sirius yelling at her, even if it is like that She might be better off...

However, it is always necessary to see in class.

Monday morning Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Tahlia stepped into the classroom and found that James and others were already sitting in the classroom, put on a smile, walked to the seat in front of them and sat down.

"Morning," she said.

"Well, good morning." Remus also responded with a smile.

"Where's Sirius? Why didn't you come with you?" James asked, while helping Peter who was pleading, he casually circled a few key points that might come out in the next quiz.

Tahlia shrugged. "I don't know, I haven't seen anyone since the Quidditch match, and I don't know what to do..."

James didn't ask again, apparently accustomed to Sirius' disappearances, in fact he'd been by Tahlia's side for the past few months which had surprised him.

The door slammed open and Sirius stormed into the classroom, his eyes widening when he saw Tahlia sitting at the table in front of James.

Tahlia raised her hand in greeting. "Morning, Sirius."

Without any response, Sirius hurriedly walked to the seat behind James, took out the textbook from his backpack with a dark face, and began to read it.

Tahlia dropped her hand in embarrassment.

Hold back, theoretically she should not know that he has overheard her conversation with Lucius, hold back!

James looked at the two people interacting strangely in confusion, hesitated for a moment, then turned to ask Sirius. "What's the matter with you?" Sirius would always choose to sit next to Tahlia, but now there was obviously an empty seat next to her, so why did he go to the seat behind him.

"Nothing." Sirius replied quickly.

James looked disbelieving. "It doesn't look like it's nothing..."

"I said nothing, turn around, don't bother me." Sirius growled impatiently.

James was yelled at inexplicably, looking very innocent, he turned his head angrily, muttering in his mouth. "If you don't say it, don't say it, why are you so angry...?"

Looking at James who hit the wall, Remus decided to take on this important responsibility, reached out and nodded Tahlia, and asked after she turned her head. "Tahlia, what happened to you two?"

Tahlia looked puzzled. "What can happen?"

"Then why doesn't Sirius sit with you?"

Glancing at Sirius who was staring at him angrily after hearing his reply, Tahlia pretended to be calm. "Maybe he doesn't want to attend the class... Sirius?"

"Just pretend again." Sirius replied coldly.

Everyone was confused, even Tahlia forced herself to look confused, but she knew exactly what Sirius meant, be patient, she told herself.

"Sirius, what's wrong with you?" He forced himself to ask.

Sirius snorted, but said nothing.

Although a few people were stunned, they obviously thought that Sirius had taken the wrong medicine, and they all patted Tahlia on the shoulder. "Don't pay attention to him, maybe he'll be back to normal in a while." James had an expression that knew Sirius was not James.

Tahlia nodded, turning her head back to focus on her textbook.

hold back.

After class, before everyone had time to say anything to Sirius, he rushed out of the classroom in a flash, and he didn't even see him in an instant.

Several people looked at each other, they all felt that Sirius really didn't know what was going on mysteriously, and couldn't think of a reason, so they went all the way to the lobby to have lunch.

Monday, Potions class in the afternoon.

Tahlia went back to her dormitory before going to class, and took the potion note that she promised to lend to James and the others. Although Severus was the most powerful, it was clear that he would never agree to lend the note to anyone else. The old notebook that arrived surprised her enough.

Because she went back to the dormitory to get her things, when she walked into the classroom, James and others, including Sirius, were already sitting in their seats, but...

She was embarrassed to see that Sirius forced Peter to sit at a table for two. Usually they would sit with her at a table for three. It was the table that Slughorn had deformed because there were three of them in their group. get her out of the way...

Can the two of them work together?

Without saying a word, she walked directly to the table behind the two of them, sat down, and began to take out the class utensils.

Peter poked Sirius. "Sirius, wait... we're not in the same class as Tahlia in class... but... is it okay?"

"Don't worry about it." Sirius replied viciously.

After being scolded, Peter shrank his head slightly, and didn't dare to ask any more. Until now, he was still a little afraid to talk to Sirius. No stress?

"Peter."

He turned to see Tahlia, smiling to himself.

"Take a deep breath," she said. "take it easy."

James and Remus at the table on their right also looked at him with a smile, with a 'don't worry, it's okay' expression, unconsciously, their uneasy mood was also calmed down.

Watching the interaction of several people, Sirius's face turned darker, and the force of the utensils in his hands became stronger unconsciously, making the utensils bump together and make a sound.

I really know how to pretend...

He thought angrily, in fact, Tahlia didn't want to be friends with them at all, so what's the point of pretending to care about Peter now?

At this time, Slughorn also walked into the classroom. After explaining the potion to be made today, he asked everyone to start by themselves.

Sirius stood where he was habitually, and after a while he realized that no one was going to get the medicinal materials, and cast an impatient glance at Peter beside him. "What are you doing in a daze? Go get the medicinal materials!"

"...Okay...Okay!" Peter stammered in reply, and hurried to the medicine cabinet.

"Peter, here you are."

In front of the medicine cabinet, Peter was almost dizzy from all kinds of potion ingredients with similar colors and shapes. At this time, he stretched out his hands full of potion ingredients, which were exactly what they needed for this class. to the material.

"Tah...Tahlia." Peter called weakly, hesitating to take it.

Tahlia firmly placed all the materials in Peter's hands. "If it's too slow, Sirius will be angry... It's my job to get the materials, so I'll give it to you." She turned around and started another round of getting materials. "I'll just take mine, soon..."

"Okay...okay." Peter nodded, and after confirming that Tahlia really quickly started picking potion ingredients again, he hurriedly returned to their table with the ingredients this time, and collected them all in one go. Put it on the table.

"You have been away for too long." Sirius was still in a bad mood, and of course what he said would not be easy to hear. "Go and deal with them."

Peter hurriedly started handling the herbs, and it wasn't long before Tahlia returned to the table behind them with her own herbs.

As the time passed by, Tahlia would look at Sirius from time to time, fearing that if she didn't pay attention, it would cause a catastrophe, and sure enough...

"Sirius!"

Suddenly she let out a cry.

Sirius was frightened, the movements of his hands paused, and he turned his head, and when he realized that it was Tahlia who called him, his face darkened again.

"This time the jumping stems are to be ground into powder, not cut into pieces..." Tahlia ignored Sirius' expression of not wanting to talk to her, and said directly.

Sirius glanced at the jumping stem in his hand with a strange expression, compared it with the jumping stem powder written on the blackboard, and glared at Peter angrily. "What are you dealing with!" he growled, causing Peter to shrink back toward the corner of the table.

"Don't do that to him," Tahlia couldn't help but say.

Sirius suddenly turned and glared at her. "Don't do this to him?" There was a pause, then a smirk. "Yes, you really know how to say, I understand." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and grabbed the jumping stem, roughly and quickly ground it into powder, and then put it into the cauldron.

Tahlia curled her lips, feeling the astonished gazes from James and Remus, feeling uncomfortable in her heart, but this does not allow turning back, there is no retreat, even if she regrets, she has to keep going...

After class, Sirius was about to rush out of the classroom, but he was pulled back by James who couldn't refuse.

"What the hell is going on with you and Tahlia?"

"What?" Sirius said impatiently.

"What else are you asking..." James rolled his eyes and said angrily. "The devil believes that there is nothing wrong between you."

"What could go wrong?" Sirius smiled coldly, turning to look at Tahlia.

"How long do you want to act?"

Tahlia's eyes widened, but she spoke anyway. "What's the meaning?"

"What do you mean?" Sirius raised his voice. "What do you mean I will? You know best yourself!"

Ignoring everyone's confused expressions, he continued talking. "It's wronged you to be friends with us, isn't it? What purpose did you approach us in the first place? Ah, after reading so many books, you already knew that being a Muggle would make things difficult for you, so you just found someone Rely on the mountain!" He laughed at himself. "It turned out that you really found it, didn't you? Both of them are pure blood..." Bibi compared himself and James. "Later, I found out that we couldn't protect you, and even my family discriminated against people like you. Do you regret it?" After a pause. "It's really hard to keep pretending..."

"Sirius! Enough!"

Seeing Sirius say a series of targeted words, and Tahlia's face turned pale, James immediately reprimanded loudly.

Sirius didn't stop because of James' words, but lost control of his emotions even more. "Not enough!" He pointed at Tahlia's nose. "How long have you been in cahoots with Malfoy? I heard with my own ears that you begged him to get rid of us, what do you say!"

James' eyes widened.

"Ha, I still want to say when Narcissa was so kind. It turns out that he was instructed by Malfoy to persuade me to get in touch with you. If I agree, will it be easier for you?" Sirius said in a breath He was breathing hard, his fists were clenched tightly, and his whole body seemed to be stretched on strings, which might break at any time.

Everyone looked at Tahlia in astonishment, waiting for her to speak.

Tahlia did not speak, but lowered her head.

After a while, she raised her head, but there was a distant smile on her face.

"Ah," she said. "So you were there yesterday." After a pause. "Then let's stop playing this house-playing game, don't you?"