Lines, lines, lines THIS WASN'T AWKWARD [rp with pinksleeves]

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This was going to be awkward, wasn't it. Remus sat on one of the chairs in the study, glancing up from his book every few seconds to examine the fireplace. He really wished Gary hadn't told him about this whole -- crush thing.  Maybe he was dense, but Remus honestly hadn't even begun to suspect that Petey -- liked him.  It -- well.  It wasn't the

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[pinksleeves]

It was just about when Remus was forgetting the fireplace that Petey was tumbling out of it, landing in something of a sprawl, covered in soot and looking very embarrassed. It had been his first try with the whole fireplace travel thing, after all, and considering he hadn't gotten lost or broken anything, he thought it went off really well.

Except that it was really, really embarrassing to be entering someone's house by pretty much falling into it. And Remus was just right there, too, so there was no way he'd missed that.

Getting to his feet, Petey smiled over at him sheepishly. "H-hi, Remus. Sorry, I didn't mean to, um, make a mess. I can clean it up!"

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Remus jumped up in surprise, then grinned. "Hey! Um, no, no, it's fine, here," he said, hurrying over and pulling his wand out of his back pocket. Tapping Petey quickly on the shoulder, then waving it in a general direction at the fireplace. "Scourgify," Remus mumbled.

"You got here okay, though! That's good. You -- um, you okay? Did you hit your head or anything?" He grinned, rubbing the back of his neck with his wand hand.

[pinksleeves]

Petey watched with interest as the soot sort of just... cleaned itself up, looking from himself to the fireplace before fixing Remus with a very large smile. "That was cool! How did you do that?"

He patted his hands over himself, then shook his head. "No, I'm okay. I'm just glad I didn't knock anything over or break anything, that would have been really bad."

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"Um, well. Magic." Remus grinned. "I can show you more, if you want. I grew up with it and I still think it's bloody brilliant at times."

Remus nodded, gesturing and leading them toward the kitchen. "Yeah, well, magic's good for that, too. You hungry or thirsty or anything? S'just about tea time -- I mean, you don't -- have that, but. Doesn't mean it's not quite tasty, er." He was rambling. This wasn't so bad, but still kind of weird.