And, for the first time in Romeo Mather's life, his timing was perfect. Thanks to the sun's bright rays shining directly onto his pillow and scorching his retinas, he woke up just minutes after Lily signed onto the program. Despite the fact that on a normal morning, he would have sought out a toothbrush, breakfast, and other such necessities, something on this morning prompted him to immediately pull out his laptop. It was a rusty old thing--he was lucky it still booted up half the time. But the chat was easy enough to use and his computer only lagged a little, so he supposed he should be grateful.
However, he appeared just after Sirius made his statement about casting a tickling charm on Andromeda. Aha. This was his chance.
[callmemontague just signed in]
callmemontague: I don't think that will be a problem.. callmemontague: The tickling charm, I mean. callmemontague: I'll be there to protect her.
Satisfied, he settled back to watch as the conversation developed. His heart was thumping deep in his chest, his body having realized that he had just stood up to Sirius Black, who could easily make his life a living hell. His breathing was shallow, and there were butterflies in his stomach, but hey! Who cared? He was dating Andromeda! He was supposed to be like this! REAL MEN WERE LIKE THIS.
Then a terrifying thought hit him. He was such a chauvinist!
callmemontague: Not that Andromeda can't take care of herself.
He originally had an exclamation point instead of a period, but forced himself to delete it and replace it with a period in order to seem more composed. Even if he absolutely wasn't.