Chapter One
Pairing: Sirius/James
Rating: Teen because DM is a potty mouth.
A/N: The first chapter is drabble length. I doubt that the other chapters will be as short. I just needed to set the mood, and there is is.
I saw him for the first time.
I was sitting in Potions class and he walked thought the door, late. His hair was ruffled, and he had a dazed look in his eyes. I had seen him so many times before, but this was the first time I actually saw him.
"Hey, did I miss anything?" he said as he sat beside me.
I am not usually one who would be flustered by the presence of another, but I was out of words.
"What's wrong with you, mate? You don't look well," he said, running me over with his eyes.
"Nothing, it's just the heat from the cauldrons," I said quickly. Maybe that was it. It was all just the heat. I was hallucinating, that's all. That was my perfectly logical explanation.
"Maybe you should have a lie down. Actually, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. I think I'll tell ol' Slughorn I'm not feeling too well, either." He ended his sentence with a playful punch on my shoulder. I nearly jumped at his touch.
I don't know why I did it. It was the sort of thing that mates did all the time.
"Geeze, you're acting like Peter. Are you sure you're okay?" the jest in his face being replaced by concern.
"Actually," I said, my voice rising a few octaves higher than normal, "I think I'm going to pay Madam Pomfrey a visit."
After all, it wasn't normal when a seventeen year old boy begins to fancy his best mate.