The next morning, Remus was awakened by a cheerful Sirius bouncing on his bed.

"Moony! It snowed!" He exclaimed.

"Yes, that tends to happen in the winter," Remus grumbled rubbing his eyes.

Sirius pretended not to hear his friend's fail at enthusiasm and continued to list all the various things that the two of them could do in the snow.

"We could make snow angels! And have snow ball fights! And make a fort! And go sledding-we'd have to make a hill first, of course…"

"That does sound lovely, Padfoot, but wouldn't we get cold? And I'm sleepy."

"Well…" Sirius pondered for a moment and then decided to lie down next to his friend. "I could warm you up afterwards!" wink "But if you're sleepy, that's fine too, we could just cuddle."

With that, Sirius snuggled against Remus, laying his head on Sirius' lap. Before he could get very comfortable though, Remus shook him off and got out of bed.

Remus knew that if Sirius continued to flirt with him so convincingly his heart would just break.

"Right, er… I'm just going to go get some breakfast." Remus shrugged on his robes and practically bolted out of the room.

Sirius groaned in frustration, making James who had just woken up laugh. Peter was still snoring, so Sirius felt perfectly free to start ranting.

"I know that he likes me too! I can feel it. I'm being perfectly obvious and I just can't even fathom why he's trying so hard to pull away from me."

"Now, Padfoot, I've explained this to you already. You flirt with everyone, so how can he think that you're serious. Don't you dare go laughing. This isn't punny! This is the love lives of my two best mates! Besides, as smart as Remus is with books, he can be sort of challenged when it comes to a self esteem. He doesn't believe that you could possibly like him. He's thinks he's unlovable."

"What?! No! How could he think that!? Well, I'll just have to fix it. Besides, book-smarts is what I'm working with. The code! I know my Moony could get something like that in a second. He will. By the way, I'm always Sirius." He ducked right away expecting something to fly at him.

James did not disappoint. The pillow flew over his head and Peter caught it. James pulled a face at Peter, making Sirius turn around to see Peter smirking with James' pillow.

"Wait! How are you awake?" Sirius asked Peter confusedly. "You didn't hear what we were saying, did you?"

"Really, for people talking about how oblivious Moony is, you two can be rather oblivious as well. Is Lily going out with you yet, James?"

"Um… not yet," James mumbled. Peter nodded knowingly.

"And Moony is the one who is bad at love-lives?" Peter rolled his eyes, but in a teasing manner. "And Padfoot, how many relationships of yours have lasted longer than a week? None. But yet, it's Moony who is the clueless idiot?"

"Takes one to know one," James shrugged. "Why do you think we're all friends? We can relate to each other well in the clueless department."

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When all four boys were seated in the Great Hall, Sirius decided to make sure that Remus knew the advent calendar was important:

"Mooooony?"

"Yes?"

"Did you open today's chocolate?"

"Mmhmm. Yummy."

"What was the picture?"

"You should know, you made the thing."

"Just say it anyways. Gives you time to work it out, right?"

"Uh sure… it was a picture of a diamond, some yellow stuff and some black stuff."

"Aw, come on! It was gold and coal."

"Um… curious."

"Yep! By the way, the riddle is so that you can give me what I want for Christmas."

"Coal?"

"No silly. The whole thing is a sentence! It explains exactly what I want for Christmas."

"So… an eye… M… well I forget the rest. There was a pirate, right?"

"Just keep thinking."