I have something to tell you

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and Coke.

Interesting... I'm not quite fond of one-shots, but this idea has been annoying me so much lately that I had to write it. Warning! Slash, don't like it, don't read it!


Harry James Potter was a little bit scared. That's just what he told himself, though. Truth is, he had never been so scared in his whole life. Not when he faced 'Quirrelmort' in his first year, not when he fought the basilisk in his second year, not when he saw Lord Voldemort being brought back, not when he saw Dumbledore being killed by Snape, not when he lived for a year on the run despite his parents' protests, not when he faced Voldemort and killed him and not when he had to deal with his parents' wrath for doing it alone. And the last two had been only a couple of months before, so he would know how utterly terrifying those two had been.

But now fear had reached a whole new level, one that was almost unbearable, by the way. He was about to announce to his parents and to his godfather that he was into men. And that he had a boyfriend. And that his boyfriend was there with them that night.

Harry groaned, earning him a curious look from his father, who was sitting beside him, on the head of the table.

"Are you ok, Harry?" James Potter asked, eyeing his son. Harry nodded and gave him a shaky smile. Although his father's expression was still one of suspicion, he let it go for the moment, going back to his conversation with Harry's 'dogfather' Sirius.

Harry took the chance that the two older men were talking to each other to look at the man on his other side. His boyfriend. The love of his life, and probably the man he was going to spend the rest of his life with. Charlie Weasley gave him a large smile that seemed to lighten his whole world up. Gosh, when had he fallen so hard? When had a simple smile become the reason he couldn't breathe regularly?

His boyfriend took his hand under the table and gave it a gentle squeeze, trying to send him as much strength as possible. This seemed to calm Harry down as he gave his first real smile during that night.

It was pretty common for Harry to invite a friend over for dinner, and most of the times it was Ron or Hermione. Sometimes he invited Neville or the twins. There had even been a couple of times when he invited all of them together, but his boyfriend had been a constant since the summer after his fourth year, so his presence wasn't exactly a surprise to anybody there.

"I'm serving dinner!" Lily Potter, his mother, sang loudly just like she always did as she entered the dining room carrying a big tray with meat lasagna, Sirius' favourite. Harry's smile fell and his face slowly grew greener as if he was going to be sick. His mother put the food on the center of the table and moved to sit between her husband and Sirius, across from her son.

"Wow, Lils, this lasagna looks delicious!" Sirius said, looking very much like Padfoot as he licked his lips. James, Lily and Charlie chuckled, while Harry whimpered.

"Don't be such a dog, Sirius!" Lily continued her (rather off-key) song, laughing as she saw her husband's best friend pout and turn towards her looking like a kicked... well, puppy. She served him and James, before turning to Charlie. "Charlie, dear, could you give me your plate so I can put some for you?" She asked, dropping the song with a smile.

"Thanks, Mrs. Potter." he said, his voice in the husky tone that normally made Harry want to climb the walls, politely passing his plate to her. She put a generous quantity of the lasagna on it and gave it back to him.

"I hope you like it, dear. I made it specially for you." She said, still having a fond smile on her face. Harry groaned again, his stomach had started to hurt. Perfect. Maybe he could find a way to not have dinner...?

He was snapped out of his plans when he felt a poke on his arm.

"Is that enough, Harry?" James said with a smirk, having put some lasagna for him.

Harry only nodded, feeling that if he opened his mouth, he would puke all over the table. As they started eating, he saw Charlie chuckling and turning slightly to face his mother.

"Is this Coke, Mrs. Potter?" Charlie asked, lifting his glass, which made Lily pleasantly surprised.

"Oh, so you know Coke, Charlie?" she asked, as James groaned not too different from Harry. Sirius automatically snickered.

"Yes, my father loves it." He said, nodding.

"Well, not many purebloods know about it, right?" Lily said, giggling mischievously. Sirius finally outright barked a laugh while James groaned again, blushing furiously and facepalming himself. Harry tried to laugh as well, but he knew that there was a 50/50 chance that, instead of laughing, he would start screaming and pulling his hair in desperation.

Upon seeing Charlie's curiosity over their reactions, Lily snickered.

"You see, Charlie, dear, when I was still in my last year at Hogwarts, I asked my dear husband on a date." James groaned again, his face still hidden behind his hand, which made Lily and Sirius roar in laughter. She controlled herself so she could continue the story. "So, I took him to a muggle restaurant, just the two of us. He knew nothing about muggle food, so I ordered for both of us."

Sirius was almost falling off his chair, so hard he was laughing, while Lily laughed but controlled herself. "He had burger and fries and coke. He loved it, principally the beverage." James groaned yet again and hit the table with his forehead. "He made the mistake of opening the lid of the cup to see what it looked like, and he was more than mildly surprised to see it was black."

Lily had to stop again to laugh, while Charlie also joined their laugh. Sirius had long before fallen from his chair, rolling on the floor. Harry giggled, happy the tension wasn't as strong now.

"S-so, he a-asked me 'L-lily, honey. This thing is black! Can w-we actually ha-have this? I-isn't it p-poison?'" The woman almost couldn't continue, trying to catch her breath. She controlled herself once more and continued, still snickering. "I had this awesome idea for a prank and told him it was dementor juice, to make him pay for being a prat all those years!"

Sirius was definitely suffering from lack of oxygen. He tried for some seconds until he finally managed to get a hold of himself, knelt so he could see Harry and Charlie on the other side of the table and inhaled. When he thought he was able to speak, he finished the story.

"I wish you could have seen him. He almost didn't sleep that night, afraid of the effects of it." Everybody but the Potter boys roared. James lifted his head from the table. He was red with embarrassment, but he had a grin on his face.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh at the poor pureblooded child who doesn't know muggle stuff." He said. Lily kissed him on his lips, silently stating that she loved him. However, she, Sirius and Charlie were still chuckling. "I still think they should have found another word for it. I always think you are cursing when you say it." He continued, as he, Charlie and Sirius laughed a bit harder, while Lily giggled.

"It's 'soda', Jamsie, not a swear." she said, chuckling.

"You see!" He said, loudly, disregarding what she had said after 'soda'. "And you got angry with me when Harry's first curse was 'sod off'." It was Lily's turn to groan, and they all laughed, even if Harry just did it for a second.

The family continued eating and talking, with smiles on their faces. This was a typical meal with the Potters, happy, full of stories and someone embarrassed to no end.

James and Sirius, being Head Auror and Second in Command respectively, started updating the others on how the hunt for the last Death Eaters was going. James, Sirius and Charlie complimented Lily's lasagna lots of times as well, causing her to blush and thank them every time. Harry, however, had yet to say a single word, and, as time passed and as the frequency in which Charlie gave him side glances increased, he started getting progressively greener.

'Control yourself, Potter!' he thought. 'You're a Potter, a Gryffindor, the one who defeated Voldemort! You can do this!' Seizing his new found courage, he cleared his throat to call everybody's attention. On the spur of the moment, though, he didn't control the volume of it, causing everybody to look at him worriedly to see if he was choking. Hardly, he had barely touched his lasagna. But having everyone look at him threw his courage out the window again. He considered the possibility of running upstairs to help Dobby clean Potter Manor or something.

He saw Charlie discreetly send him an encouraging smile.

He could do it! He was going to do it! "Harry, is there anything you wanted to say?" James said.

He couldn't do it! He wasn't going to do it!

"Em... yes... uhm..." Harry started, trying to swallow the lump formed somewhere in the middle of his throat. "Yes. I h-have something to tell you all." he managed to spit out.

"Go ahead, son. You know you can tell us anything." James encouraged after waiting for a whole minute without Harry continuing. His parents and Sirius were looking at him, not exactly worried, but still a bit concerned. Charlie also looked a bit worried, but Harry knew it was for a whole different reason. He gathered his courage again.

"Dad, mum, Sirius..." He looked at them, staring back at him, expectantly. "I'm... gay."

Sirius, James and Lily smiled at him, clearly and quite visibly relaxing a bit. Harry was looking from one to another, disbelief clear on his face, making Charlie and them chuckle.

"We knew, son." James said, still with a smile. "We might have realized it even before you did, in fact."

Harry groaned. "Am I that obvious?" He said, facepalming himself, which caused another round of chuckles.

"No, Harry, that's not it." Lily said calmly with a smile. "We just know you very well, that's all." Sirius and James nodded, as if to confirm what she was saying. Harry felt a heavy weight being lifted from his shoulders. He smirked, but he should have thought it was a bit too soon, as his mother soon continued. "We could always see how you blushed and stared at your father's and Sirius' chest muscles when we went to the pool." James and Harry groaned, both of them blushing furiously, while Lily, Charlie and Sirius laughed. "I don't judge you, though. It's impossible to like men and not develop a crush on them after seeing them shirtless."

"MUM!" Harry yelled, while James said "LILY! I really don't want to think about... that, regarding my son!". This made the trio laugh even more.

"Hey, I never 'developed a crush' on dad!" Harry continued hotly. "I only thought he was... really fit, that's all." Both Potter men blushed as the others controlled themselves to stop laughing.

James seemed thoughtful for a while, and then decided to add. "I used to be scared as fuck thinking you had a crush on Sirius, though." This time James joined the other three laughing, while Harry repeatedly hit his head on the table.

"You didn't, did you, Harry?" Charlie asked, mockingly frowning and looking at his boyfriend with a lifted eyebrow.

"It was only when I was a child!" Harry shouted, looking at his boyfriend aghast. "It's over, I think of him as an uncle, I swear..." Harry stopped his rant when he noticed the other four were laughing. His own boyfriend was mocking him! Harry fumed, crossing his arms over his chest and pouting childishly, which, of course, only intensified their laughter. When everybody calmed down, Harry decided to continue. "There's another thing. We, I mean, Charlie and I, are dating."

Lily groaned while James and Sirius stood up laughing and made a small dance of celebration. Harry stared at them with disbelief, his mouth gaped, while Charlie looked a bit uncomfortable. Lily looked at Charlie and realized how her reaction might have looked.

"Oh, no, dear, we love you, we're happy Harry found someone like you." She said, smiling at him. "It's just a stupid bet we had." She mockingly glared at her husband and Sirius, who were still laughing. She looked back at Harry. "Your prat of a father and your idiot of a godfather bet with me that you'd find a redhead to yourself, while I said you wouldn't." Harry and Charlie smiled at each other, lovingly.

"It's the Potter thing, Lily, you'll never understand!" James said, proudly, moving so as to stand behind Harry's chair, putting his hand on his son's shoulder. Harry smiled, reaching up his father's hand and giving it a gentle squeeze. He felt a pang of absolute happiness for knowing that his parents and godfather, whom he loved so much accepted him and loved him just as much.

"It's a curse." Sirius said, earning him an indignant 'hey!' from the two Potter men, while Lily and Charlie laughed, until they realized that offended them much more than the Potter men, which made it their turn to shout 'hey'.

"I was scared for a while you were going for Neville, with all that time you spent with him in your bedroom during those summers..." Harry's godfather added thoughtfully, much to his horror.

"Excuse me?" Charlie said, glaring at Harry with his eyes narrowed. This time, Harry could feel his boyfriend's anger, and it was very real indeed, there was no mocking there.

"NO! It was nothing, love, I swear! We were kids, we just talked and played! He's dating a girl, he's straight!" Harry tried to defend himself. Charlie only nodded, serious, while Lily, James and Sirius cackled. Harry knew Charlie was extremely jealous, so he knew he would still have lots to explain later. (Cedric Diggory's black eye during Harry's fourth year would confirm this. Only because the boy told Harry to 'take a bath with the egg', Charlie had given him a 'free make-up' session. And Charlie and Harry hadn't even been dating then yet, only flirting. In the end, Charlie was right, because Harry did date Cedric for a few weeks later that year- but that is another story entirely).

"Don't worry, son." James said, chuckling, as he saw the tension between the boys. "That's the problem with the red-haired ones we love so much, they are explosive as hell." Lily glared at her husband. "See?" He said matter-of-factly and blowing his wife a kiss, making them all laugh.

The rest of the night was calm and nice. Harry and Charlie were super happy, telling the others all the things couples normally tell other people. They had dessert and moved on, talking about other unrelated stuff. It wasn't until close to the time to go to bed that Lily focused on them again.

"So... have you guys told the Weasleys yet?" James, Sirius and Lily laughed as Harry and Charlie stared at each other with wide eyes and gulped.


A.N.: There you have it. It's not perfect, but I think it's fun. I really hope you like it. Yes, Lily is very carefree and childish. Well, she lives with James and Sirius... It was bound to happen, I guess...

Also, if you like stories in which James and Lily are around, check my other two stories, just click on my profile. I hope you try them!