Who: Paul Coote & Sylvia Peakes
Where: Gryffindor Common Room - maybe, idk?
When: November 3rd, 2023 (slightly backdated now); After Dinner
What: Monthiversary Gift Exhange
Rating: S for Sappy.



It was safe to say that they'd been unbearably cuddly all day. They weren't the sort of couple that snogged during classes or in the halls but Sylvia and Paul had their own brand of PDA. For them it was about holding hands, little smiles across the room during classes, carrying books and eating off each other's plates. There had been an abundance of it in every class and every meal. Their friends were probably used to this sort of behavior but it still had to be a bit annoying. It wasn't actually like it had gotten that much more intense when they'd started dating last Spring though. This was what was normal for them. It wasn't as if complaining was ever going to change how close they were or how they did things.

They were teenagers. They did teenage things sometimes. Kisses were pretty much only pecks on the cheek or lips but nothing was ever extreme in public. They were smart enough to keep private stuff private. They were old-fashioned in that.There was never any rush or push to do much of anything that they didn't feel like doing. They just did things when they felt like doing them. There was no real pressure to do anything or to be anything that they weren't. That was why they worked so well with each other. It didn't hurt that they'd known each other for so long that they could finish each other's sentences sometimes. Knowing Paul inside and out was an asset.

That was why Sylvia was excited for their monthiversary. Alone time was infrequent with their clubs and Paul's prefect duties. They also had to make time for their friends. It worked out that they happened to share a lot of the same friends and so they were still technically spending time with each other. There was a difference between uno parties with their yearmates and getting to go off somewhere alone. Even if they were never shy about the fact they were in fact together, they did have some modesty. Maybe not a whole lot but a little.

There wasn't some big plan about what they were going to do or where they were going to do it. Sylvia hadn't really done much planning aside from wanting to spend time with him without having distractions or comments around (depending on who was hanging out with them). She'd slipped upstairs for a few minutes after dinner to brush her hair and grab a sweater in case they decided to venture out of the common room. She had his present rolled up with a ribbon around it in her left hand when she came down. She had found her green ink and completed it. She hadn't actually spent money. They had lots of monthiversaries though the fifth month anniversary was totally an acceptable month for something homemade.

When she reached the common room again, she sat in her and Paul's favourite corner of the Common Room and decided to wait. There were a few people around but it wasn't that overcrowded yet.