A/N: Lemme just clarify this:
I dont like Peter. I never have and never will, he's just a fat, hairy excuse for a lapdog and he annoys me. He does nothing and says nothing and sucks. Therefor, he will never, ever, ever, ever be in my Marauder stories. Lily has, obviously, taken his place.
Okay? Okay. Glad we could get that straightened out. On with the chapter?
"Wakey, Remy, breakfast at Dennnnnnnnnnny's!" Sirius was singing in a high pitched voice over my bed. I opened my eyes, groggy, trying to get to my feet when I glanced at the clock-it was already 7:00?!
"GAH!" I lept to my feet, not thinking of the mattress of above me that collided with my head and I fell back onto my bed, groaning in pain.
"Someone's damned tired..." I heard a voice say. My eyes scrolled to see Lily, already dressed, her hands on her hips and a playful smirk on her face. I blushed deeply and got to my feet properly, walking past all of them who surely gave quizzical looks to my back as I entered the empty bathroom.
"I'll take a quick shower, I'll be out in five minutes!" I called through the door, to which James replied, "All right, we'll wait, mate." I began to undress before hearing James ask, "What the hell is Denny's?"
Turning on the water with a surely thoughtful look o my face, I began to ponder whether or not I should tell them about my dream.
In my dream, there was me. Not exactly me, however. I was more handsome and broader and wore my shirts with the top two buttons gone and my tie looser than Sirius had ever worn it. I walked through the halls with confidence ([I wasn't me in my dream, but was watching myself.) and girls giggled as I walked past and I felt...up in the air, so careless, like lycanthropy was the least of my troubles.
Then, I suppose, the climax of my dress was Jennifer Strewing skipping up to me, obviously flushed. And I simply stared down at her and she said, "Uhm, Lupin? I just like, wanted to know if maybe you wanted to, you know, go out some time?" She flashed me a dazzling smile and I had known by that look on my face I was taken with her.
I woke up, surprised, and now we're back here. I shook my head and shivered; I'd never want to be like that. Surely my marks would fall and it would give my mother and father another reason to hate me. Despite the cold water, I shivered again. I didn't want to think of my parents of all people. Not them.
But, I quipped myself with a smile. A bit more of confidence wouldn't hurt. After all, this was our last year. Everyone was maturing as myself, so why not make a mark on history, as one of the Marauders that's remembered, one's that's mentioned like-
"REMUSSSS!" The shower curtain flew open and Sirius was grinning at me visibly. My eyes widened and so did his, his jaw dropping in horror, and we both began to scream, his eyes trying to fix themselves upon my face and only my face and I wasn't sure what to do.
I mean, I'd seen the boys naked before. must I recall the Skinnydipping Of The Black Lake? I told them that if they ever were stupid enough to do that again, I would not stay up until four in the morning making remedies and putting ointment on their rashes. That was a hell of a night.
"Sirius!" I yelped, reaching for a towel outside of the shower, but my hand hit the shower head, and water sprayed onto Sirius' head at full force, causing him to splutter and cough as if he were being choked and fell back. I grabbed my towel and wrapped around my waist.
"Uhm...Remus? Sirius?" Lily called carefully, and soon I saw why; all the water had been seeping under the door, surely soaking the carpet.
"Almost done!" I called in a strangled voice, trying to help Sirius up.
"Well, damn it, Remus, I had no idea you'd be naked!" Sirius looked sheepish an d scratched the back of his soaked head.
"I was taking a shower, you blithering idiot, of course I was naked!" I snapped, feeling more embarrassed than I ever had in all my life, pulling a towel around my waist. I pulled my wand from the side of the sink and weakly said, "Evanesco!" Soon, the water was disappearing.
"Sorry." Sirius said, his eyes on the floor. I smiled; God knows I can't refuse that look.
"Why, it's all right.." I patted him on the back. "Just remember next time when I go into the shower, I dont have my clothes with me." Sirius grinned wider and I urged him out.
I dried myself off and began to get dressed, of course, since breakfast would start in minutes, I presumed. By the time I was done, I saw James, Lily and Sirius mindlessly walking around, waiting.
"All right, lets go, guys." I smiled and we all rushed down the stairs and attempted to get out the door, but I was stopped in my tracks by Jennifer, standing with her friends. She turned around with seemingly clueless look, like she had no idea what was going on, before she smiled. She seemed to be chewing gum-how much did she have.
"Hi, James.." She giggled, wiggling her fingers at him in a strange wave and on her other hand was spinning the silver hoops in her ears. Could she be any more beautiful?
"Hey." He said nonchalantly and walks past with me and Sirius. But from my bag, a book dropped and turned back to get it when I saw Lily walking with us before Jennifer had an instant grip on her arm. She merely glared forward, not noticing me and not facing Jennifer.
"Yes, Jenny, dear?" She asked in a mock-sweet voice. Jade and Marcia sneered at her.
"We had a deal. So, watch your back, Evans. Because Potter is mine." She hissed with such ice in her voice I'd never heard other than the spun-sugar she had usually used.
"You don't love him. Not like I do." Lily whispered carefully, and I dropped another book accidently. Lily loved James? The same man she had called an 'ego-infused baby Mandrake'? It wasn't in my nature to eavesdrop, but I felt as if this was something I had to hear.
"Lets just call him my "Flavor Of The Month." Lily flinched and raised her wand.
"You ungrateful bit-" She began in a strangled voice, raising her wand to Jennifer's forehead. I popped up, both books in hand and cried, "Lily, coming?"
She looked at me, eyes widened and instantly dropped her wand. Jennifer smirked and as usual, didn't notice myself. "Remus. Yes." Lily bumped Jennifer's shoulder with force and began to walk to me.
"What's a Flavor Of The Month?" I asked quietly, feeling a lump grow in my throat and hoping to God it wasn't what I thought it was.
"Listen, Remus." She glanced over, and the boys were long gone down the hall. "Dont mind anything that little skank says, okay? She doesn't know what she's talking about..." I could see, in her green eyes, that it was definitely something that worried her. Something she definitely feared.
"Lily," I began flatly. "Do you really love James?" She opened her mouth to speak and hissed, "You weren't supposed to hear that, I-"
"If you do..then..don't put him through this." I suddenly spilled, speaking what I truly thought. James had been going in inner turmoil just to get her to admit it.
Lily shook her head and walked past me and I looked after her, feeling guilty. Had I upset her? But I followed her from a distance never the less. We had reached the table and she seemed fine.
"Where were you two?" James asked suspiciously, arching a brow.
Me and Lily exchanged looks and said at once, "I dropped my books."
James blinked, then shrugged. "Okay." We had began to eat when the food appeared. I had taken out my DADA book and was flipping through while eating bits of toast, sipping black coffee when a sudden surge of brilliance overcame me. Except now, I'd call it stupidity.
"James, Sirius, Lily." I declared their names formally, so much that they all looked up quizzically.
"What's up, Moonsies?" Sirius mumbled in between bites of egg, being the only one that hadn't stopped eating.
"I.." I cleared my throat. "I want you three to teach me something." Lily dropped her fork.
"Teach YOU something, Moonsies? You're still trying to teach me how to lift up my wand!" Sirius remarked/ Lily and James smiled at this, as did I.
"I'm being serious. I need you to teach me how to.." I sighed. "How to be cool." It was Sirius' turn to drop his fork. Then, to mine and Lily's utter horror, and the rest of the Gryffindor table, Sirius and James burst into tears.
"Remus! I have been waiting for the day you'd ask me that!" James sobbed into the table. All of our table was staring at him flabbergasted.
"Oh, our boy is growing up!" Sirius lunged forward and grabbed my head, pulling me forward and my tie, probably in my coffee and kissing me hard on the cheeks.
Oh, hell, was this a bad idea.
A/N: Hahahhaha. Like it again? Well, review:D