Disclaimer: I own nothing. Well... nothing as far as this story is concerned.
Will be slash... later.
Remus was nervous. Remus was very nervous indeed. He thought as he twisted his hands anxiously together. Today was Remus' first day at a new school; a place called 'Hogwarts.' Many other people Remus' age were starting school today and might be as nervous as he was, but he was very nervous. In fact, Remus was so nervous that he hadn't bothered to find a carriage and sit down, no, Remus had been walking up and down the Hogwarts express for at least the past twenty minutes.
This wasn't a good start.
How could this be a good start? How was he supposed to make friends when he was this nervous? Surely there should be nervous limits… or or anti-nervous drugs, but either such a thing didn't exist, or he had just not obtained them as of yet. Remus wanted to make friends, but Remus was scared of introducing himself, because his name was Remus. Remus was hardly a normal name; this would all have been so much easier if he'd been called Matthew… or something. Oh, and to add abnormality to his already eccentric personality, Remus was a werewolf.
"Come on Severus, let's find another carriage." Remus heard a girl's voice say behind him. Did she just call someone Severus? Severus is hardly a normal name if you think about it. And Remus did think about it, a bit. That was until the girl who had spoken emerged from the carriage and caught sight of him.
"Oh, Hello." She greeted him kindly, she sounded friendly. But how could Remus be sure she was talking to him? He turned to face her slowly. She was pretty, red-haired green eyed. She looked about his age and completely astounded by this train. Obviously a muggle-born. She smiled at him kindly, and so, summoning all the courage he possessed, Remus held out his hand to shake hers.
"Hi." He muttered, blushing slightly as she took his hand and shook it gently.
"My name's Lily." She continued confidently. "Are you a first year too?" Remus nodded and smiled his reply.
"My name is…" Remus looked around desperately, only to see the boy that Lily had called Severus looming threateningly behind her. "Remus." He whispered. Closing his eyes and hoping that she hadn't heard him.
"Nice name." Lily commented with a sort of shy smile. "This is Severus." She introduced the boy behind her, who looked coldly directly at Remus. Remus knew it was impolite to, but he ignored the boy.
"Me and Severus were just about to go and find another carriage." Lily informed Remus, apparently unaware of the negative relationship between the two boys, she didn't even notice Remus wince under her grammatical mistake. "Care to join us?" Remus thought that perhaps sitting down might be preferable to wondering up and down the train for the rest of the journey, and so he nodded weakly.
"I'd love to, thanks." He muttered, feeling Severus' cold eyes running across his skin. He hated it. He hated this boy already, and the judgmental way in which he'd greeted him. Lily, on the other hand, seemed like someone who he could be good…
What do they call it?
Friends.
"Friends." He tested the word on his tongue, it sounded alien coming from him. Lily laughed and smiled at him again.
"Yeah, I'd like us to be."