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Evan was out with Barty, they had chosen to go to the café on the corner of the main street as a date and a little treat for getting through this week. Work has been a little hectic recently and they barely had the time to talk to eachother before they went to bed. They both worked in a restaurant, Barty as a chef and Evan as a waiter. It was a great job despite all their complaining. They knew that after holiday season was over it would start getting slower again and they wouldn't be tired all the time.
"Did I tell you what Sirius did yesterday?" Barty asked Evan, he had already told him the story and they both knew but he just wanted a chance to say it again so Evan shook his head. "Imagine the scene, me in the kitchen. The phone starts ringing, nobody goes to answer so I go. I answer in my best voice "restaurant Beauxbatons french food for you, how may I help you?" Obviously he recognised my voice, he sighed so hard it was funny, he then said he forgot his and Remus anniversary and needed to order fast, he asked for the special of the moment, I tell him it's a quiche lorraine and then he says he'll take it. I looked at the phone and just deadpanned I asked if he knew it at eggs in it and he said "yes I know I'm french!" He sounded so annoyed, anyway I asks if he's sure-" a waiter came to the table to place their coffees and pastries down. They both thank him before Barty gets back to his storytelling. "Where was I? Oh yes! You could hear the panic in his voice, he kept talking about how it was their anniversary and everything, I laughed and asked if he was aware Remus was allergic to eggs. He suddenly got very quiet, like you could almost hear his neighbours fucking that was hilarious. He ended up choosing the boeuf bourguignon in the end, he didn't even thank me or anything just left the call as soon as possible "
Evan nodded as if he didn't know that story already, them and Sirius weren't the best of friends considering he had abandoned Regulus so Barty would take everything to make fun of him. Thought this time you couldn't really blame him, Sirius should remember their anniversary and more importantly his allergies. Barty and Evan always remembered their anniversary, they watched some sappy rom-com to complain about it together every year.
They drank their coffee in silence, it took a while for Barty to get used to this. He was always used to noise, he always believed that silence was bad until Evan taught him that life could still be appreciated in silence. That didn't mean Barty wasn't as loud as before just that he knew how to exist without having to think of a new topic to talk about. After a bit Barty looked at Evan with what could be said as pleading eyes "can I try your food?" He said in what he deems his cute voice. Evan rolled his eyes and chuckled Barty always does it. He broke a piece of the lemon pie with his spoon and brought it to Barty's mouth, Barty quickly ate it. "Very good!" He exclaimed. Evan shook his head "do you want it?" Barty nodded so like always they swapped plate. Evan got the apple pie and Barty the lemon pie. Evan stopped getting what he wanted and instead got what Barty liked. He was used to his boyfriends antics by now, they had met in school and ever since then they've been inseparable.
"Ev do yo-" Barty stopped talking as someone sat next to his boyfriend. Short black hair, weird clothes, a mean look on his face. Snape. The person who had called them traitors since they didn't want to take their parents business. They both remembered the day he had found out they were dating he had looked furious, he had called them names back then. Said they were even more of a disgrace. "So. How's the restaurant going? Still not closed?" He asked with a snear. That was another thing. He thought they were throwing away their life by choosing to work there. What he didn't know is that Barty was the chef manager now. "Going well thank you" Barty said with a smile, if Snape was gonna play so will he. Snape rolled his eyes and Barty took it as a good sign that he was annoying mean.
Snape placed his arms across Evan resting on his shoulder and Barty looked fuming. He didn't mind getting bullied by Snape but this was too far. Snape smirked and moved his head closer to Evan, the boy looked uncomfortable but there was no way he could go away as Snape was blocking the only way out. "Evan, Evan" Snape said as he moved his head away to look at Evan. "I have a small question for you, you still think you don't need sex in life?" He asked coldly. He had somehow heard of Evan being asexual during school and he used to make fun of it for it. This shows he hadn't changed. "Yes. I still am ace." Evan tried backing up against the wall but Snape stopped him. "So you don't sleep with anyone?" Snape asked as if this will change the answer and he was right. It did.
Evan stared at him and smiled. It looked so different from how tense he was a minute ago. "What, want to sleep with me Snape? You know you could just ask" he said in the most flirtatious voice he could do. Barty looked shocked at first but in the end he had to drink his coffee to stop himself from laughing. Snape moved his hand away from his shoulder as if he had burnt him and moved back. "What- NO! I don't want to. I'm not a fag." Snape explained himself. Evan shook his head in disagreement "but- darling, you keep asking about my sex life and- and the way your hand was on my shoulder, don't you want it?" Evan pouted like a kid, Snape got up and stormed away without saying anything else. Both Evan and Barty laughed so hard their ribs hurt.
"That was hot. Do that more often baby" Barty told him, it was the first time he saw Evan defend himself like this and based on his face you could see he liked it. "I'm proud of you" he added before finishing Evan's his pastry. Barty could kiss Evan right then and there but he knew the other boy was not comfortable with it in public so he didn't. "You're the hot one, I could definitely sleep with you" Evan joked, he knew Barty would never forced him to do anything. They finished their coffee quickly and got out of the café to walk back home. Barty had his hand around Evan's back not wanting to let the other boy go in case something else might happen. "Omg his face" Barty said as he started laughing again. They had never seen Snape like this and Barty couldn't help but think it's MY boyfriend who made him run away like a coward.