Lily Evans was finding herself more distracted than usual during class, her pale and delicate fingers idly toying with one of the wooden runes instead of performing a proper Five Rune Spread as they had been instructed to do. With her fourth year coming to a close, the red head thought that her biggest concern would be OWLs, but boys were becoming more and more of an...issue.

Her green eyes flicked first to James, who she hated to admit was growing on her, and then to Severus. Merlin why did they have to be more complicated than Ancient Runes?