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Remus' heart was beating faster than it should have been at the time like this. The Sorting was happening, and Sirius's knee was resting against his own. He felt a blush creep up into his cheeks as he thought of how warm, and inviting that knee was. Sirius looked at him and grinned, shoving his knee into Remus' with a light chuckle. Remus smiled back, and shoved his knee, sending the warmth away. Sighing, he clapped for the newly appointed first years.
His stomach gave a hungry growl as potatoes, chicken, and lamb appeared in front of him making his mouth water with the smell.
"Hey, Remus, how was your summer?" Susan Carmikle said, leaning over and resting her chubby hand over his long fingered one. Remus glanced up from his plate and smiled at her.
"Very good, thank you Susan. And yours?" he asked her.
"Alright I guess…" She blushed and looked at their overlapping hands. "I missed some people."
"Yeah, it's good to be back."
She gave him one last smile then removed her hand from atop of his and turned back to talk to her friends.
"Merlin, will she ever let up? I mean, c'mon! You two went on one date, like a year ago, and she still doesn't leave you alone!" Sirius said, giving Susan an annoyed look.
"Not jealous are we?" James asked.
Though Remus could hear the joke in James' voice, his heart still gave an involuntary leap at the thought of Sirius being jealous over some girl who liked him.
"No! I'm just looking out for poor Moony here! I mean, she just ogleshim all the time! Does she not get that he doesn't like her?"Sirius said the last bit loud enough for Susan to hear, she turned to him giving him a nasty look.
"Shut up Sirius!" Remus shot, giving Sirius' knee another jolt from his own.
"What? I can say whatever I want." he retorted.
Remus sighed at turned back to his food, but he no longer felt hungry, the whole ordeal that had just happened turned him off the idea of his food.
"Moony?" Peter asked. "Can you smell what's for dessert?"
Remus lifted his head and sniffed the air, focusing his thoughts on the kitchens below them. His lips lifted into a smile as he smelt the familiar scent of chocolate.
"Chocolate cake, pudding, and …pecan pie."
Peter gave him a very large toothy grin to thank him.
--*--
"My, my, the house elves really outdid them self this year… that was incredible!" James said, launching himself onto his four-poster bed.
"Yeah, it really was. That pecan pie was amazing!" Peter groaned, rolling onto his bed and closing his eyes.
"Really Peter, you're ready for bed already? It's the first night back!" Sirius exclaimed, jumping onto the bigger boy.
"I'm tired. It's been a long day."
"No, it has not! We were on a train for hours, and then came the feast, and then this. How was that long?"
"The train for hours part?" James asked, lifting himself up into a sitting position.
"You really are smarter than you look." Peter added, pushing Sirius off of him.
"You two are boring. What about you Moony, what do you fancy doing?" Sirius enquired, turning his body to look at the young werewolf sitting on his bed with his neatly folded pyjamas beside him.
"Crawling into bed and sleeping. I haven't gotten much sleep since the wicked-witch of the east came home, remember?" he replied, walking over to the bathroom which was right across from his bed.
"Blimey, you're all so boring!"
"The only reason you're bored is because you haven't 'gotten any' since last term." James laughed, putting air quotations around the words.
"Yeah…" Sirius sighed, trailing off and looking at the closed bathroom door.
--*--
Remus was ready for school to begin. Remus had missed it terribly over the summer holiday, and needed to learn again. Remus knew this year was going to hard, but he was excited for the challenge. James, Sirius, and Peter on the other hand… well, he didn't know how long they were going to last without asking to copy his homework.
Sighing while getting out of bed, he made his way across the cold stone floors to the bathroom. Remus walked into a very hot, steamy, and nice smelling room.
"Hello?" Sirius called from one of the showers.
Remus gulped. First day back and he was already starting to lose it, if Sirius came around the corner he was going to have to leave and wait for him to finish up. Just as this thought finished the water stopped running and Sirius walked around the corner wearing a pale yellow towel loosely around his waist. Remus couldn't help but watch the beads of water make their way down Sirius' smooth, toned body and disappear under the towel. He looked helplessly at his friend.
"I - uh…" he stuttered, feeling his cheeks start to burn.
"One of those mornings?" Sirius asked, waggling his eye brows and walking over to the sink, grabbing his tooth brush and tooth paste.
"What? - Oh, no. Just have to pee." Remus replied rather stupidly.
"Well, no one's stopping you."
"Right." He walked over the tiled floors and to the toilet in the corner of the room.
"So, how was your sleep?" Sirius asked him, mouth filled with foamy toothpaste.
"Alright, it's good to be back. I missed the bed to tell you the truth."
"Yeah." Sirius spat into the sink. "Me too, the bed at James' isn't very comfortable. Too soft." He rinsed his mouth out with cold water and dried off his mouth with the back of his hand.
Remus finished his business and pulled his pants back up around this thin waist. He tied the draw string as tight as he could and turned around. Sirius was staring at him.
"You know, you really have got to get a new pair of trousers. Those are falling off of you." he said, looking up to meet Remus' eyes. He walked over to him with a sad face. "How much weight did you loose, Moony?"
Remus paused for a minute. He'd lost ten pounds this summer. More than usual, all of the transformations had been really hard on him. "None." He replied, walking over the sink and grabbing his tooth brush.
"Don't lie to me, Remus." Sirius said sternly. "I can tell. You're skin and bones. You don't look good."
"Oh, thanks Padfoot. That gives me a load of confidence." he replied sarcastically.
"You know I don't mean it that way. You always look good…" Sirius trailed off and Remus could have sworn that he had blushed, but Black's never blushed. "You just… you're too skinny."
"Pads, I'm fine, really."
Remus started to brush his teeth, he knew he wasn't really okay, he had no energy, it was a challenge just to get out of bed lately. Remus grew nervous thinking about all of the stairs he was going to have to start climbing.
--*--
"Oh, the first breakfast of the year is always the best!" Peter exclaimed when him, James, Remus and Sirius sat down at their table in the Great Hall.
"Pete, we have the same thing every morning. There's always just lots to chose from." James said, yawning and grabbing a piece of toast.
"Yeah I know, but it always better on the first morning…" He looked off dreamily then grabbed four pieces of toast and bacon.
"I agree with Pete, it always seems better." Sirius added, taking his own helping of eggs and toast.
"You two are crazy. It's the same every morning." James answered, taking another piece of toast while staring at Lily Evens.
"James, mate, you've got to give it up. You've tried to get her for six years, don't you think that's enough?" Sirius asked.
"Why? Why after six years do I have to give up? I know she loves me, she just hasn't figured it out yet…" he replied, sticking the toast into his mouth and ripping off a piece.
"Well, if you keep eating like that ..." Remus said, raising an eyebrow at his messy haired friend. He had to give him credit, James still hadn't given up in six years, and he was ready to give up after only a year. Remus wished that he was that confident. He sighed and looked down at his plate.
"Not hungry, Moony?" Sirius asked, pointing to Remus's plate and giving him a knowing look. Remus' stomach did a flip as he answered.
"No, not really. I think I'm just going to go -" He started to stand till a firm grip on his shoulder pushed him back down.
"Not so fast, Mr. Lupin. I still have to give you your time table for the year." Remus took the slip of parchment from the Professor and looked it over. He had two Potions blocks back to back, a spare block, then Transfiguration and then Divination.
"Nice!" James said after he took Remus' sheet from his hands. "Awe, man, I don't have a spare block at the same time as you and Pads!" James passed Remus' time table back to him and sulked.
Remus' stomach was still flipping. Why did he have to have a spare block with Sirius? It could have been anyone else!