He had started letting himself daydream, imagining that maybe it could be more and Sirius might feel the same way. He had even played with the idea of telling him. They got on after all, they were best mates, and they obviously found each other attractive, maybe it wasn’t so mad. He’d got half way to convincing himself it was worth a try just a week before but then something had happened that had jerked him back to reality, made him realise just how idiotic he was being...