"Well, perhaps you ought to find someone willing to put up with all the rubbish you talk to snog you," she had meant to sound more dismissive and less challenging, and the fact that she nudged his foot in return certainly didn't help matters. She had started out trying to convey that, that person was not her.

Lily pushed her chair back abruptly, snapping the book she had been reading shut before she looked away from him and down the rows of shelves on her right. "Right then. If I come back and you've found someone to snog, please try not to do it on my homework."

Giving him a prim nod Lily took off, eager to get lost in the stacks, naively believing being in close quarters with large boring books might act like garlic to a vampire in the cinema and keep him from following while distracting her from the idea that maybe if he did follow after her it wouldn't be the end of the world.