In the end, Sirius did manage to get ready and they made it to class with only seconds to spare. He knew that he had to look quite in a state, and he managed to mumble a weak apology to Mulligan, knowing that he would expect to get an explanation later.<br/>For the time being, he and Remus had just taken a seat next to each other, feeling like that was the natural thing to do, but he wasn’t blind to the looks they were receiving from the other students.<br/>Sirius had a very hard time caring though, the edges of a headache creeping into his vision and making it very hard to concentrate on Mulligan, much less anything else.