I know this chapter is long overdue, but in my own defense it's really long and took me forever to write, which is a horrible excuse I know, but it's the only one I have. Except that I was busy for a few weeks with church stuff.

Anywho, I included an anime reference in here. I wonder how many people will get it? :)

The next day:

Remus woke up early, much earlier than he had set his alarm. Robert Smith had said that muggle schools started much earlier than wizard ones, so Remus had already set his alarm for 6:00. Unfortuately, a loud blaring noise outside jerked him out of his sleep. He bolted up out of bed and hurried over to the window, peeling back the curtains and scanning the dark city below. Sirius pushed himself up on his elbows and rubbed his eyes groggily. "Rem?" he said, his voice hoarse from sleep. "What are you doing up? It's still dark."

"Didn't you just hear that?" Remus asked, finding it hard to believe anyone could hear through that wailing sound, like a... A dying alien elephant or something of that nature. Then again, Sirius had once slept through James setting the dorm on fire.

"Hear what?" He asked, bewildered. Remus sighed and didn't respond right away, instead scanning the streets for signs of unrest. No one else seemed to be bothered by it; perhaps loud dying alien/animal sounds were normal in the muggle world? Remus shook his head and left the window, not wanting to think about it anymore.

"Never mind." he said. Sirius seemed to battle with himself on whether to ask more questions or go back to sleep. Remus smiled gently and leaned down to give him a quick kiss before glancing at the clock. "We'd have to get up in half an hour anyway." he told him, gesturing to the alarm clock which read 5:36.

"Half an hour I could have spent sleeping." Sirius grumbled. Remus laughed quietly and turned to rummage through his bag. "Aren't you going back to bed?" Remus shook his head.

"No, I'd never get to sleep anyway. I'm going to take a shower." he said, pulling a light green shirt and a pair of dark jeans out of his bag. He laid them on the bed and turned to go into the bathroom. Sirius looked like he was about to object, but he simply shrugged and rolled over.

The shower water was pleasantly hot and it helped Remus to relax, something he hadn't been able to do at all over the past two weeks. He was so worried about what would happen with this alleged Gay-Straight Alliance. Just because they were accepting didn't mean all the other students would be, and from the pamphlet in looked as though everyone knew exactly who was in it. Remus was no muggle expert, but he was pretty sure that even though it was obviously compromised of people who were both gay and straight, the whole student body would automatically assume anyone who signed up must be gay. It was unfair, yes, but teenagers were hardly ever fair.

Remus tried to redirect his thoughts, tried to let the hot water relax away all his stress, but it wasn't easy. His mind insisted on turning back to the upcoming day. Finally, Remus gave up and got out. He dried off and went back out into the room to grab his clothes just in time for the alarm to go off. Sirius payed no attention to it and continued to sleep, so after dressing himself and shutting off the annoying blaring thing, he was forced to shake Sirius awake and practically pull him up and push him in the direction of the shower, all the while listening to a steady barrage of insults being thrown at him by his half asleep boyfriend.

While Sirius showered, Remus grabbed the two backpacks that had been provided for him. He and Sirius would be juniors at the high school, which apparently was the muggle equivalent of a 6th year. Muggle education confused him. First little kids were sent to elementary school where they took kindergarten and then 1st grade (which was actually their second year) up to 6th grade. Then the 7th and 8th graders went to college- no that was wrong, they went to middle school. 9th - 12th grade was at a high school, but they called the grades freshman, sophomore, junior and senior instead. And then college, if you wanted to go. Remus shook his head. It was all so complicated.

He knew he had some time, so he decided to look and see what he would be studying in each class. His math book said trigonometry, whatever that was. He put both math books into their respective bags without a second glance. There was a book on chemistry. At first Remus was confused; they were taking a romance class? But it turned out to be the muggle version of Potions. He groaned; Potions was by far his worst subject. Apparently he was also going to be taking a photography class, by the looks of another book with his name on it. He shrugged and put it into his own bag.

Sirius emerged from the bathroom in a much better mood than he had gone in. He was already dressed in a black shirt that had a band name on it, Judas Priest, and a pair of light blue jeans. Remus gestured at the shirt and asked, "What is that?" Sirius looked down at his shirt and back at Remus with a grin.

"Oh, just a new band I discovered from the muggle world. They're good. I'll show you after school today." he said. Remus was skeptical at the least. The last time Sirius had shown him a "good" band his hearing had been muted for a week. Nevertheless, he nodded his consent and followed Sirius downstairs to breakfast.

They ate their meal of eggs and bacon with toast fairly quickly before lining up with Professor Ling and Smith outside the hotel. When neither made any move to address them, the students gradually spread out until there was no one left behind the two adults. When a large yellow vehicle stopped in front of them, Smith called them together and explained get quickly.

"This bus will take you to the school. At the end of the day, it you get back on this same bus, it will bring you back. All of you should have maps in your bags incase you decide not to come back on the bus and walk instead." he then ushered them on.

Remus was a bit frightened by this huge machine he was expected to climb inside of, but not one of the muggle teenagers looked very unnerved, so he tried to hide his discomfort and climbed up the bus stairs. One by one, the other students followed him and took seats closer up to the front. All the Muggles stared at them; obviously they weren't used to new comers in such large numbers, although there was only about 10 of them. Remus ducked down in his seat slightly, not keen to draw attention to himself, but Sirius had a different idea. Before the bus left, he grabbed Remus by the wrist and pulled him back further. They settled in a seat behind two boys with identical dark brown hair, bright green eyes and tanned skin.

"I'm Garrett and this is my brother Jake." said the one on the right in one of those strange American accents. Sirius grinned.

"I'm Sirius and this is Remus." he introduced them. Remus attempted to smile.

"You guys Brits?" asked Jake. Sirius nodded. "Everyone in England have weird names?" Garrett hit is brother upside the head. "Ow!" Jake said loudly. "What was that for?"

"For being rude." he said. Then, to Remus and Sirius, "Sorry. He doesn't think before he opens his mouth. Or at all really." Remus laughed. He decided that he liked Garrett more than Jake. Not that he could tell the two apart.

"So what grade are you?" Garrett asked.

"Juniors." Sirius said, a hint of pride in his voice Remus suspected came from having remembered the word.

"Same as us!" said Jake, grinning. "Do you know who you have yet?" Remus remembered a sheet of paper he had found in the book pile hesitantly pulled it out of his bag and handed it to the twins. Garrett took it and looked it over.

"Great, you're in Trig with me and Chem with Jake. And we both have English with you." he said, handing it back and turning to Sirius. "What about you?" Sirius looked to Remus for help, not having packed his own bag. He rolled his eyes and held out his hand for Sirius's bag, unzipping the first bag and producing a similar slip of paper.

"History with me." Garrett reported. "Trig too. And woodshop with Jake." he handed it back and Sirius looked over it, obviously as bewildered by the paper as Remus had been. He quickly handed it back to Remus, who stowed it away safely in his backpack.

A few minutes later a large building with a sign out front reading "Lincoln High School" out front. The bus slowly pulled around to the front and Sirius and Remus climbed off with the other students, making sure to stick close to Garrett and Jake.

"Which lockers are yours?" Jake asked. Sirius looked at Remus, who shrugged.

"No idea." Sirius said. Jake asked for his schedule and Sirius handed over the paper, having understood enough from what Garrett said to determine that's what I was. Jake pointed to the top left corner where the number 349 was written. Remus quickly retrieved his own and saw 350 written on his.

"There you go. You guys are on the third floor. Stairs are in the science hallway." he said, pointing off to his left, although Remus couldn't see where he was pointing through the crowd. "I have History first, so I'm on the second floor. Otherwise I would show you where your lockers are. But your first period is Trig, your both with Gar."

"Yeah I'll show you two around." Garrett piped up. They reached the science hallway and climbed the staircase to the second floor where Jake left them.

"So where in England are you from?" he asked conversationally.

"London." Sirius answered at the same time Remus said, "Manchester." Remus silently cursed himself as Garrett gave them an odd look.

"You don't live in the same town?" he asked, confused. Remus did some very quick thinking and spoke, cutting Sirius off before he said something stupid.

"We go to... A private school." he said. "People come from all over England to go."

"Wow. Are you guys rich or something?" Garrett asked, impressed.

"I am." Sirius said, although he said it with a bit of a scowl. It was a well known fact among Hogwarts students that Sirius Black hated his family. "But Remus isn't."

"I got in on a scholarship." Remus said quickly before Garrett could ask. Garrett nodded.

"Well, those are you lockers, but our classroom is right down there." he pointed to the end of the hall. Remus glanced to his left and saw the numbers 349 and 350 carved into silver metal plaques attacked to red metal doors. Remus noticed the locks - a bright silvery color. Remus doubted the metal was real silver, but it still worried him. He had no time to take a closer look now though; he followed Sirius and Garrett down the hallway to his first class.

When he walked in, a middle aged woman with a tight red bun glanced his way. She wore a simple white long sleeved shirt with beige pants. A matching jacket hung over her chair.

"Take you seat, Jacob." she addressed Garrett. "Your just on time." Remus stood in the doorway, unsure of whether to enter or not as Jake walked down the aisle to the third row and took a seat. The teacher turned to them.

"And you two are?" she asked.

"Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." Sirius said, pointing at each of them in turn. "We're foreign exchange students." he explained. She nodded.

"Yes, I remember getting that note." she said, gesturing at her desk. "I'm Mrs. Talcott; nice to meet you, boys. Let's see..." she looked around her classroom. "There are two seats in the back row, why not sit there?" Remus followed Sirius to the desks she had pointed to. Sirius sat behind Garrett, and Remus next to him. Garrett turned and grinned at them before facing front again.

"Who here can tell me how to find a tangent half-angle?"

"So how'd you like your first American class?" Garrett asked them on the way back. Remus grinned brightly.

"It was fantastic!" he exclaimed. Garrett laughed.

"You're the first to say so. No one likes Mrs. Talcott." he informed them. "She can be a real bitch." Remus hadn't the slightest idea what that meant, as last time he checked only dogs could be bitches, but he nodded anyway, accepting it was an insult.

"Well, at least someone enjoyed it." Sirius grumbled. "I didn't understand a word she said."

"That's because you didn't take Arithmancy." Remus informed him. "If you had-"

"I would have committed suicide long before now." Sirius finished for him. Garrett looked confused.

"Arithmancy?"

"Our math class." Remus said quickly. He mentally kicked himself; that was a stupid thing to say surrounded by Muggles. However, this didn't seem to clear things up.

"You have math as an elective?" Garrett said. This was the second time in the span of 5 minutes Remus hadn't known what he said. He felt a bit stupid, and stupid was one thing he wasn't used to feeling. He didn't quite like the sensation so far.

"Er... Yes?" he suggested. Garrett rolled his eyes.

"You didn't understand a word of that, did you?"

"Not really, no."

"Now you know how I feel," Sirius commented,"whenever you open your mouth." Remus punched him lightly while Garrett laughed.

"An elective is a class you can opt not to take." he explained to Remus.

"Oh. Well than yes, it's definitely an elective. But you can only take it after sec-" he stopped himself and did a mental calculation. "after seventh grade." he finished. Garrett scratched his head and chuckled.

"Wow, England is a lot different." he said. Sirius grinned.

"I've heard it's really just our school." Remus said, hoping to cover his tracks in case Garrett ever ended up in Britain and remembered this conversation.

Sirius and Remus stopped at their lockers before their next classes. Garrett showed them their combination numbers which we're also located on their schedules. Remus could tell just by the look on Sirius's face he was starting to think these Muggle schedules were the solution to everything, even though they were basically the same idea as the class lists they received at Hogwarts. Although he had to admit, he too was wondering if his schedule could tell him anything else.

Garrett held both slips of paper side by side. "Well," he said, "It looks like neither of you have anymore classes together, but you have lunch and free period at the same time." he told them. "But at least one of you is normally with Jake or I."

So both went their separate ways until lunch period, Remus with English, Chemistry and History and Sirius with Photography with History and English following. By lunch, Remus was exhausted, if only from running around the entire school to get to each class. Then there was the actual class itself. Remus only payed attention to the first 10 minutes of History; after that he simply couldn't concentrate. However, it didn't seem this teacher was used to being ignored. He was a great teacher, funny too, and obsessed with a Muggle movie called Star Wars to which he constantly referenced, but Remus simply didn't have the energy to deal with class.

"I'm sorry, sir." he said when the teacher had to call his name 3 times to get his attention, sending the class into a fit of laughter. "It's just that there are more classes a day here than at my old school and I'm having trouble finding my way around, so I'm very tired." The teacher - Mr. DiBattista - seemed to take pity on him and didn't mention it after that.

When Remus saw Sirius at lunch, he almost thought he had had it easy. At least he had understood most of what was talked about (except in Chemistry. He never was good with Potions, so this ought to be a nightmare.), but Sirius wasn't even a good student in the Wizarding world. This must be extremely hard on him. He had collapsed at the lunch table and was quietly dozing when Remus had gotten there. Jake and Garrett grinned up at him.

"I think he's had it for today." Garrett said. Remus grimaced.

"I have as well." he told them. "I almost fell asleep in my last class."

"What'd you have?" Jake asked.

"History." Jake flinched dramatically.

"Ooh, Mr. D must've loved that."

"Very much." he replied sarcastically. He patted his shoulder sympathetically.

"So you guys allowed to do the after school stuff?" Garrett changed the topic. Remus nodded. "Anything you guys wanted to look into?" Remus hesitated. He wasn't sure how much to give away; after all, he had no idea how they would react. Remus hadn't seen them in the photo for the GSA, and he wasn't foolish enough to think that one small group of open minded students equaled a large school of them just because the same students went to school here.

"Well..." he started. "There was one..."

"What one? Stop being so shy!" Jake prompted him, but this didn't give Remus much courage. He shifted in his chair.

"You see... Before we came here, we saw the brochure and there was club with a small paragraph that looked interesting - I mean, we'd never heard of anything like it so-" It was as though a lightbulb flicked on in both twins head at the same time. Their eyes lit up with understanding and they nodded, slight smirks on their faces. It was a bit scary.

"Oh, I know what you're talking about." Garrett started.

"Gay-Straight Alliance." Jake finished.

"Are we right?" they asked in unison. Remus hadn't seen them so in sync before. It was unnerving, but he tried to hide it.

"Er... Yeah. Yeah, that's the one." he said slowly. "Do you know anything about it?" he asked.

"Oh yeah." Jake said.

"It's a huge deal here." Garrett told them.

"You're definitely not the first visitors to ask about it." Jake put his head in his hand while Garrett leaned back in his seat.

"Not exactly a common thing, is it?" Garrett commented. "Be warned though, anyone who goes there has basically branded themselves queer until they explain they're a foreign exchange student."

"You don't want to be branded queer." Jake continued his brother's explanation. "You'll never get another moment of peace. The Jesus-freaks will be after you from that moment on."

"Jesus-freaks?" Remus asked before he had time to run the phrase through his head. "Oh!" he said as it dawned on him. "You mean Christians." Jake nodded.

"I thought England was predominantly Roman Catholic?" Garrett asked. Remus had no idea what Roman Catholic was, but he figured it must be Christianity. He nodded and did some quick thinking.

"Uh, yes, but... In my section of town... Most people aren't." he said, not knowing what else to say. "So I wasn't raised Christian." They nodded, although they seemed slightly confused. Remus knew his story had been shoddy at best, but there was no taking it back now. He simply waited to see what they would do.

"I see. Well, they can be vicious when they want to when it comes to these sorts of things."

"I remember having to start dating some underclassman I've never even been friendly towards to stop the rumors." Jake said, cringing at the memory. "Worse month of my life. Luckily, she cheated on me so I had an excuse to dump her." Remus was slightly confused by that statement, but he chose not to say anything about it. Garrett gestured to Sirius's sleeping form.

"Is he going too?" he asked. Remus nodded. "Think you'll go regularly?" In Remus's point of view, this was a trap. If he was honest and said yes, they would figure him out in a matter of seconds, and he wasn't sure he was ready for that. But if he said no, and then it turned out they did, he was hiding something, and they would figure him out just as quickly. He almost panicked, but quickly caught himself. He almost laughed at his own line of thought; he was too suspicious. Why couldn't he just trust someone for once?

"We might." he said, somewhat truthfully. "If it turns out to be any good, I mean. It is the Gay-Straight Alliance after all." he reasoned. He thought it was relatively clever. The way he said it, they would assume that he was straight when in fact he had never said anything of the sort. He wasn't lying, but he wasn't being truthful either. Garrett clapped him on the shoulder, chuckling.

"My friend, your the first person I've met who noticed the word 'straight', I congratulate you on being able to read." Remus laughed.

"Well, this is it." Sirius said as the stood outside Music Room 3. They had gone to the Administration Office to find out where they could find the club meeting, and they hadn't known - of course, Remus cursed himself. Garrett had said they kept the meeting places were kept secret. No wonder they didn't know. They had found it by the sheer luck of running across a girl they recognized from the pamphlet picture, who had pointed them in the right direction before running off. "Are you ready?" he asked. Remus chewed on his bottom lip, nervous as always.

"No." he admitted. "I'm nervous, really. I've never been... You know, out, to a bunch of strangers." Sirius put an arm around his shoulders and pulled him closer.

"I'm nervous too." he told him. "But it will all be fine." Remus chewed his lip for another moment before nodding.

"Let's go." he said, his attempt at sounding more confident than he actually was was shattered by the trembling of the last syllable. Sirius pressed a quick reassuring kiss to his temple.

"Together?" Remus nodded and they both put a hand on the doorknob.

"On one-"

"-two-"

"-three."

They swung open the door and were faced with a room packed full of musical instruments, including a piano and xylophone. A table of teenagers looked over at them, apprehension in their eyes at being discovered. Sirius, being the braver of the two, cleared his throat and asked, "Uh, is this the Gay-Straight Alliance?" he asked. The girl at the head of the table nodded slowly. Sirius's face was slowly turning red, as well as Remus's. "Ah - I'm Sirius Black, and this is Remus Lupin, my - my boyfriend." he said the last part quieter. Suddenly, everyone else seemed a lot more welcoming, presumably because they knew they weren't here to insult or assault them.

"Ooh, new members!" said a girl with long brown hair excitedly. "And their foreign! Where are you from?"

"England." Remus said quietly.

"I have family in England." said a blond boy, his eyes narrowed at them. "It's a rather large family in - ah - my community. I don't suppose you've heard of them? Malfoy?" Sirius and Remus's eyes flew open in surprise. Malfoy?

"Er, yes. My family is related to the Malfoy's." he said slowly. The boy smiled, but it was a strange smile. Remus wasn't sure whether to be glad about this or upset. The boy was most likely a wizard, but what was he doing in a Muggle school? Why wasn't he at Hogwarts or some American Wizarding school? Or maybe he was a Squib? Remus decided to put it out of his mind. The boy stood and came to shake their hands.

"Orion Malfoy." he introduced himself.

"That's my fathers name." Sirius observed. Orion nodded.

"For who I was named." he explained. "My mother was close to him when they were children." Sirius was looking at the boy with slight suspicion, but that was to be expected; the only pureblood he could stand the sight of was James, and this boy was from a pureblooded family. But still, Remus couldn't help but wonder whether or not he knew something about this boy that was making him give Orion this look.

"The others are Jennifer Downey, Angela Williams, Shariah Green, Daniel Gray, and Mary Hitchcock." Each nodded at them in turn and they gave an awkward wave in return.

Shariah grabbed two chairs from a rack against the wall and dragged them over, placing them side by side against the table. Sirius and Remus murmured a thank you and sat down. There was another moment of awkward silence.

"Well, what do you do in a GSA?" Remus inquired, finally finding his voice. "I mean, what do you talk about?"

"Anything we want." Jennifer said, smiling and shrugging. "We were just talking about whether or not we were out to anyone, besides the other members." she gestured at the table. Then, to the rest of the group, "Anyone care to fill the newcomers in?"

"I'm completely out." Daniel said, shrugging. "I don't care who knows. But I've been out ever since middle school, so people have pretty much forgotten by now. All the gossip has died down. Kinda odd for such a huge school, but there you go." His face broke out into a wry grin. "I'm one of the lucky ones I guess." Sirius looked impressed; Remus knew he certainly was. Tell everyone in Hogwarts that he was gay? He would sooner die.

"I'm not even out to my parents." Shariah admitted. "They're really... faithful, I guess you could say, to God. They would kick me out of the house if they knew I was... If they knew about me." Remus felt for Shariah; he wasn't out to his parents either, but she was nervous talking about it even with other gays.

Jennifer went next. "I'm out to my parents. And my girlfriend, but I think that goes without saying." she grinned at Mary, who smiled back.

"Same as Jen." said Mary.

"I'm out to my parents. I don't live with them anymore. I live in a group home." Orion said, but he didn't seem even upset or saddened by it. He simply stated the fact.

"I'm only out to you guys, same as Shariah." Angela said. She turned to Sirius and Remus and, with a slight blush, said, "I even have a boyfriend. Not because I'm ashamed or anything, I'm just scared what will happen if people find out."

The entirety of the GSA turned to face Sirius and Remus. Sirius cleared his throat.

"I'm out to my best friends James and Peter." he said.

"I as well." Remus continued.

Jennifer nodded. She seemed to be the leader of the little group. She sat at the head of the table and everything.

"Was it hard?" Shariah asked. "Telling your friends?"

They considered this. "Well..." Remus said thoughtfully. "Looking back on it now, I don't know how I could have possibly thought it so terrifying, but it really was. I didn't think they would accept us." Sirius nodded.

"Yeah, James comes from a pur- a really conservative family." he corrected himself quickly. "So it was possible he would reject us. But he didn't. If he never does a single blasted thing to help me again I couldn't care less. He helped us when we needed it most." he smiled brightly and rested a hand over Remus's under the table. "And Peter just does whatever James says, so that's double the thanks to him for making Petey alright with it." Remus couldn't help but laugh.

Mary looked at them as though they were angels from heaven. "Wow." she breathed. "You guys are so brave. I could never summon the courage to do that."

"Sure you could, Mary." Jennifer coaxed her. "You just need to believe in yourself." Mary smiled warmly at her.

"What about you, Jen?" Angela said. "You're out to your parents, right? Was that hard?" Jennifer considered the question.

"It wasn't as bad as I thought." she said. "The longer I kept talking the more confidence I gained. But it still took almost a half an hour to get it out." the club tittered appreciatively.

Angela leaned back in her chair and sighed. "I envy you guys." she said, looking around at them. "Even you, Orion. I hate living a lie. I hate that every day I wake up and I face my family and my friends and the whole world and I lie straight to their faces. I feel paranoid sometimes, like everyone is watching me, waiting for me to slip up."

"My life isn't as glamorous as you may think." Orion said, no malice in his voice but the words still sounding biting to Remus's ears.

"I know it's nowhere near perfect, but don't you feel... I don't know, like a weight has been lifted from your shoulders? Like your freer somehow?" Orion shrugged.

"Not really." he admitted. "I'd feel much freer if I could love who I wanted without feeling like I was some sort of burden on others." the group nodded.

"Coming out... Angela, I think your glamorizing it." Sirius said, leaning forward slightly. "Sure, if they accept you, that's great. But 'acceptance' and 'understanding' are two totally different things." he paused, trying to think of how to explain. Remus picked up, thinking he knew where he was headed.

"It's... I think what he meant is that even though your friends will accept the fact that you love other girls, you won't be able to talk to them about girls or about your latest crush like they can to each other. They might still feel awkward about it." he tried to say this as gently as possible. Angela sighed.

"In my head, I know you're right. But my heart still has hope that they'd see me as normal still."

"It's good to have hope. Don't let go of your hope." Jennifer urged. "I don't think that's what they're saying."

"I agree." said Daniel, piping up for the first time since talking about being out. "If you lose hope, you lose your purpose. And if you lose your purpose, what do you have left?" Daniel's words made Remus smile. They reminded him of something his mother had said when he was young, sitting in the hospital bed in St. Mungo's while he recovered from Greyback's attack.

'You can't lose hope for a cure.' she told him. 'Once your hope is gone, your purpose is gone too. And when you don't have a purpose, what is there left to live for?'

"My mother said something similar to me once." Remus said quietly, still smiling from the memory. "I was very sick as a child and had I be in the hospital for almost two months. My mother told me not to lose hope that I would get better. There isn't a cure, but I get on just fine. If I lose all hope, if I give up, what is life worth any more." he grinned at Daniel. "So don't give up your hope."

The whole group was silent for a moment. Then a yelp came from the head of the table.

"We're 15 minutes past the end of club activities!" Jennifer said, standing quick. The others followed suit. Jennifer grabbed her bag of the back of her chair and Mary did the same.

"Sorry, but I really have to go. See you guys later!" she called as they jogged out the door. Mary paused at the door and waved back before running off after Jennifer.

"I should get going too." Daniel said. "Great to meet you guys. Are you coming to the next meeting?" Sirius nodded. "I'll let you know where the next meeting is. What's your locked number?"

"349" Remus said. "His is 350." Daniel grinned.

"I'll drop a note in one of them. See ya." he made his way out the door, no sign of a back pack of any sort with him. The other two girls left with him, waving to them and Orion as they went.

"So, a Black." Orion said when they were alone. "I never thought I'd see the day when a Black set foot in a Muggle establishment."

"So you are a wizard." Remus said. Sirius smiled triumphantly.

"I knew it." he said.

"Of course I'm a wizard." he stated this as though it were obvious. "I was disowned by the junior branch of the Malfoy's a few years ago."

"The junior branch is in America?" Sirius inquired. "No wonder we never heard about them." Orion rolled his eyes.

"Well that, and we're all a bunch of filthy blood traitors." Sirius grinned.

"You know what, Malfoy? I think we're going to get along swimmingly."