____________________________________________________________<br/><br/>Remus was mid conversation when stopped himself, something having caught his attention. It was Thursday night, and along with Lily and some of their college mates just excited their regular after hour café when it had called for last round. They had barely walked 10 steps when Remus thought he saw Sirius smoking outside a pub across the street.<br/>Without even giving himself a moment to consider it, Remus excused himself from his company, to quickly cross the street towards the other.<br/>Made bold by the intoxication, Remus reached out for Sirius' side, in one continuous dragging his hand across the small of Sirius' back as he circled him. "Hi, Sirius."<br/>When finally Remus was in a position to meet Sirius' eye, his hands had already left his figure. Remus' expression was bright and flushed and for once, he transparently and shamelessly seemed happy to see Sirius.<br/>"I didn't know you were going out tonight," he said, stuffing his hands into the pockets of his jacket.<br/>Though the tension between them had considerably subsided over the course of the last few days, they were, realistically, not in a place where Sirius would have told him. Regardless, and in spite of his own words, Remus seemed pleasantly surprised by the revelation. Without moving his eyes off of Sirius to confirm his statement, he asked an, "Are you here alone?"