Still confused about what Sirius had said, I entered the classroom for Potions. The first thing I noticed was that it was the room was brighter, though not by much. The second thing I noticed was that Professor Slughorn was standing at the desk located at the front of the room, I'd half expected to see Snape scowl at me from across the room. SNAPE! Omg, Snape! I remember Harry telling me about how his dad went to school with him. That means I now go to school with him...
Pulling myself from my thoughts, I looked around the classroom that was already filled with students; Gryfinndors on the right, Slytherins on the left. Sitting down in the seat that Remus had saved me, I scanned the room and noticed a few heads turned towards me, most of them were Gryfinndors, but a few were Slytherins.
"Why are they staring?" I asked no one in particular, turning to look at Sirius and Remus.
"What?" replied Sirius, turning his head to look at the other people in the room, "Oh it's cause I'm here, they all love me." He said, wiggling his eyebrows.
"Yeah right mate, I think you'll find their looking at your hideous hair" Remus stated, trying not to smile, but failing.
"Excuse me, my hair is anything but hideous" Sirius said, gesturing to his shiny, black shoulder-length hair. "Unlike your's, that so happens to look like you were dragged through a bush" He finished with a grin. Though before Remus could reply, Slughorn cleared his throat, indicating that the lesson was starting. Leaving Remus glaring at Sirius, and Sirius grinning. I couldn't help but smile at the two boy's interaction, they seemed so natural and playful, unlike whenever I'd seen them together in my time. Sure they joked, but these versions of Sirius and Remus were so carefree.
"In today's lesson, we shall be looking at Shrinking Solution" Slughorn's voice rang out into the room, "Does anyone know what this particular potion does?" His eyes looking around the room.
Shooting my hand straight up, his head nodded towards me, "It causes creatures to shrink to a younger form of its self." I answered confidently.
"Ah, correct, thank you Miss..?"
"Oh..um Spencer."
"Well, thank you Miss Spencer, 5 points to Gryfinndor." Slughorn turned away from me. "Does anyone know who created it?"
Quickly, I put my hand up however a Slytherin with long platinum blonde hair and pale blue eyes stuck her hand up quicker. "Zygmunt Budge, Sir." A cold, crisp voice spoke out.
"Very good, Miss Black, 5 points to Slytherin." She smiled triumphantly and then shot a glare my way. What the hell is her problem?
"Don't mind her," Sirius whispered in my ear, making me jump with how close he was. "She's a bitch." Twisting to look at him, I saw hatred in his eyes as he looked at the blonde witch.
And then it dawned on me. Slughorn had called her 'Miss Black' and Sirius hated his family. To what extent I don't know, but the look in his eyes made me think that it was a severe amount. His eyes then flickered to mine and softened, though some anger remained deep inside.
"Right, turn to page 332 in 'Book of Potions' and get on with it then." It was Slughorn's cheery voice that caused me to turn back around and try to shake the image of grey eyes from my mind.
I opened my book so quickly, that I almost knocked my small pot of ink on the floor.
"Shit" I whispered under my breath, leaning forward to move the pot. Hearing chuckling coming from behind me, I turn around to see Sirius and Remus watching me, both with smiles, all trace of anger gone from Sirius' eyes. "Do you two want to go get the ingredients or am I going?" Jumping up from my chair, trying to hide the blush that had occurred when I had caught them watching me.
"Sorry, love, I'm very busy right now," Sirius said quickly, emphasizing the gesture of opening his book and turning to pages painfully slow. Even though his face was turned down, I could tell that he was wearing a small grin.
"I'll help," Remus said, whilst rolling his eyes at Sirius and getting up from his seat, "Knowing him, he'd probably get the wrong ingredients." Sirius snapped his head up and glared at the smirk that Remus now wore.
"Oi! That happend once" He argued.
"Yeah and you turned James' hair blue!" Remus pointed out and caused Sirius and I to burst out laughing.
"Oh come on, that was bloody brilliant!"
"I know it was, James' didn't think that though." Remus said, trying to keep from laughing, however failing.
"I think it's best he doesn't get the ingredients then," I said once I'd stopped laughing, "Come on, Remus."
Starting to walk towards the back of the classroom towards the supply cupboard with Remus at my heels, I looked around the classroom and spotted a boy with long greasy hair and a hooked nose looking at us then at Sirius then back. Why does he look so familiar? It's like I know him but I just can't figure out where from...It's right on the tip of my tongue...
Once we reached the cupboard, I started searching for the ingredients that were needed, forgetting all about the familiar boy.
"Did Sirius really turn James' hair blue?" I asked, turning to see Remus looking through the upper shelves, presumably for Cowbane. He twisted his head round to look at me in confusion and then his face broke out into a smile.
"Yep, in our fourth year, when we were brewing the Girding Potion, he put in caterpillars instead of Doxy eggs. James' was stuck like that for a whole week, he was so pissed that he threatened to cut Sirius' hair off," He said, laughing at the memory. "And there's one thing you should now about Sirius and that's that he would rather die before he would let anyone ruin his hair." I couldn't hold my it in any longer and erupted with laughter.
At that moment, an image of a blue haired James chasing Sirius with a pair of scissors came to mind, making me to laugh even more.
Grinning at the picture in my head, I replied. "I'll keep that in mind." Smiling at Remus, I was sure that he saw the glint of mischief in my eyes before he turned back to the shelves.
"AH! Found it!" He shouted abruptly, turning around with a jar of Cowbane in hand.
Once we'd collected all the needed ingredients, Remus and I started walking back to the desk that Sirius was still sat at, however instead of flicking through his book, he was now writing on a torn piece of paper.
"What you writing?" I asked, sitting down in my seat and leaning over to see what was on the paper.
"Uh, uh." He said, pulling the piece of paper out of view and wagging his finger at me. "Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's rude to read over someone's shoulder?" He smirked with his eyebrows raised, his iron eyes locked with mine.
"Ha!" Remus barked, joining the conversation, making Sirius and I jump and turn to him. "Like you ever care about manners!"
"Um, excuse me," Sirius grinned, "I am the king of manners."
"Sure, sure" Remus responded, rolling his eyes at Sirius and starting to juice Shrivelfigs and adding them to the cauldron.
"Anyway," I said abruptly, making Sirius turn away from Remus and lock his eyes with mine once again. "What were you writing?"
"Ah, you see," His expression a mock look of serious, "That's for me to know and for you to find out." He added, shoving the piece of paper into his pocket. "Shouldn't we be doing the work, anyway" He finished, his serious expression gone, replaced with a beaming smile.
What the hell does he mean? That's the second time he's confused the hell out of me! Bloody hell, the Sirius in my time wasn't this annoying!
Eventually, I turned back to my book that lay open on the table, ignoring the iron eyes that were staring at me and the light blush that now coated my cheeks.
Fucking hell! I've hardly been here a day and I'm already getting distracted!
There's the fourth chapter! I quite like this one and its probably because I really like writing the conversations between Sirius and Remus, honestly it's so much fun!
It took a little bit of time to get this chapter out but I hope you liked it, also hopefully I have another chapter out before Christmas but if I don't then Merry Christmas and if you don't celebrate Christmas then Happy Holidays!
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Kaitlin xx
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