"And are you among those I shouldn't trust, Severus?" She thought she kept her voice neutral, but she could hear the slightest tremor to it as she followed after him toward the door.
Was he warning her? Threatening her? Her eyes played over his face as she fell in beside him, and if not for the current track of conversation, the nearly tangible tension between them, it could have been like the start of last year. Best friends, heading off to their next classes. They'd come to a corridor and part ways with backwards glances, maybe a face on her part before she focused on where she was walking.
What would it be like now? Cold shoulders and snipes and no looking back?