Re: Alfie/Evie
The most awkward part of all of it was that this would have been a fine day if it hadn't been a date. If they'd just been out like friends like they'd always been before, he wouldn't have felt half as strange and awkward as he moved with her from shop to shop. They'd actually had awkward silences - Alfie thought he might never have experienced one of those before...
He was relieved when they headed back to Hogwarts, but then they were the only people outside the Common Room after everyone else had tramped in, and he remembered suddenly why he'd been so bloody scared in the first place.
She wanted to kiss him.
Kiss. Him.
Right. He shoved his hands into his pockets again, and looked at her expectantly. "So..."