A/N: Well here's chapter two, hope you like it, reviews are very well received and appreciated hehe, thanks to all of you who put me on alert and favourites or left reviews, You rock!
Warnings and Disclaimer can be seen in the last chapter because frankly I don't want to write all that again.
Chapter Two - Busted!
"Oh no, Oh no"
Sirius entered the common room, closed the door behind him and twisted his face in a pained expression.
James, Lily and Peter immediately were by his side. "What happened Sirius? Did Snivelly finally beat you?"
Sirius looked at James briefly and shook his head "No, worse"
Lily blinked "well now I'm curious"
Sirius looked at James and Peter and gave them a significant glance "The plan did NOT go smoothly" Both their eyes widened and the all sat down. "Did he notice?"
"What's all this? I want to know too!"
The marauders ignored her and continued whispering "It was all right, at first, well not ok because it's an outrage! That's what this is. Complete and horrible outrage! I'm being forced to spend a month of my life with that nobody! You guys, he's a prefect! He's the enemy!!"
"The enemy?! Don't be so mean Black, you don't even know him" Lily crossed her legs and leaned back against James. "And I don't know what's so wrong about being a prefect"
"There's nothing wrong with being a prefect babe, Sirius is just being an ass" James stroked her cheek lovingly and she slapped his hand away.
"Don't call me babe, Potter"
Sirius laughed and James decided to stroke her hair instead. "Leave it Lils, he's never going to listen to us, plus, I think he knows him a bit better than you think" he said smirking over her head at Sirius, who was shaking his head frantically.
Lily's eyebrows furrowed in confusion "What do you mean?"
"Don't you dare!" threatened Sirius.
"Don't you dare what? You better tell me Potter or no sex for a month"
"SiriusspyedonLupintoday can we please please still have sex?" begged James.
Lily's eyes widened and an evil smile spread on her face "You did What?!"
"Well I needed to make sure he wasn't a total psycho! and anyway, it didn't' work out"
"Sirius, you are a total psycho" said Peter snickering.
"I know! But that doesn't mean I want him to be a psycho. After all, I'm like a celebrity here, he could be some groupie and follow me around everywhere or something"
"God! I don't know why I put up with you, if your head gets any bigger it'll swallow your body and I'll laugh" The three marauders (and everyone else in the room) turned to Lily with their eyebrows raised. "What? It could happen" She huffed and crossed her arms.
"Riiiight, anyway, it was merely a precaution, and now I'm sure he's not a psycho, or a groupie, he's just plain boring. As I was saying before this lovely interruption, everything was going smoothly, James lent me the cloak, I had my parchment ready for any special annotations and I was ready to do some serious spying…"
Before today, Sirius had never as much as looked at Remus. The truth is, Sirius doesn't need to look beyond himself, because people are usually drawn to him as if he were a very strong magnetic force.
Sirius doesn't need any more friends, or groupies, and he doesn't want them either. That's why today, he decided to follow Lupin around hidden in James cloak, and had the most boring day of his life.
Lupin was always alone. He ate breakfast, lunch and dinner alone at the very end of the table; he only stayed for a few minutes in the Great Hall and then he arrived to all of his classes ten minutes before it started. He always sat with a different person in every class and talked to no one.
When someone asked him a question he would answer politely, not warmly or even enthusiastic, just politely. It was as if he didn't want any friends, as if he didn't care anymore.
Sirius was bored out of his mind when Lupin decided to spend the afternoon in the library. He watched Lupin as he sat at the last table of the room, completely alone. If it weren't for the flickering light of a small fire Lupin conjured, the place would be submerged in darkness.
It was almost eleven when they left the library; Madam Pince didn't even bother to tell Lupin to leave, he was probably there all the time. When Lupin finally decided to leave that god damned place, Sirius followed him to the common room; he would've never thought the Ravenclaws had to answer a question to enter, it must be exhausting. The common room was painted in a pale yellow and shades of blue. It was a very serene place, perfect for reading or studying. Lupin passed right through the room without even glancing at anyone, and so Sirius followed him up to his dormitory. Bad bad idea.
As Lupin was changing, he looked away very quickly and the cloak swished noisily and Remus' head snapped towards him; in a swift motion, he grabbed the cloak and pulled hard.
"I knew I felt someone following me! What do think you're doing?!"
Sirius' mouth opened and closed but no words came out, he was completely mortified "I- I just wanted to check if you weren't a psycho" he stuttered.
"Oh right, because I am the one following someone around under an invisibility cloak, are you crazy
Sirius gave him a winning smile "I am actually, but that's not the point, you see the thing is I'm supposed to work with you for a whole month and I'm quite popular here so I just wanted to make sure I wa-"
"Oh please Black" Remus interrupted "You have nothing to worry about, I'm not some fan of yours, I don't know you, I don't like you and more importantly, I do NOT want you to follow me around anymore, understand? Now I'd love it if you left so I could sleep" With that, he got into bed and charmed the curtains shut.
Sirius blinked several times and got under the cloak again. Ten minutes later he arrived at the common room, still a bit mortified.
"And that's that"
Lily coughed loudly trying to hide her laughter until James snorted and the three of them burst and Peter fell to the floor clutching his sides.
"It's not funny you guys, he'll hate me even more tomorrow" The laughter didn't stop so he got up from the couch. "Bastards! I have no idea how I'm going to deal with Lupin tomorrow"
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The next day, as he arrived (a little late) to History class, he saw that everyone was already paired up with their respective partners. He searched for the skinny boy that was his partner and spotted him at the very end of the classroom. His head was bent over some books and as he glanced at Sirius his gaze hardened.
Sirius looked right back at him and sighed as he began walking towards him. Oh well, he thought. Here goes nothing.
So? Whaddaya think? I'll try to update regularly, but I'm writing the chapters as I post them so I won't promise anything. I will finish it, though. :D
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