A/N: This chapter might be a little short because I can't think right today.
Thank you once again to FearIsButFearItself for being a great Beta!
Chapter 6: Secrets
Sirius's POV
"Hide me!" I shouted, running into the Great Hall and ducking behind James.
The other people in the Hall looked up, but when they realized who it was that had shouted they went back to their lunch, no longer interested in the crazy acts of any of the Marauders, as long as it wasn't a prank.
"Honestly, Sirius," Remus sighed. "If you don't like the girl, just dump her."
It had been two weeks since I'd asked Jessica to go out with me. At first it had been fine, she'd hung around with us a bit, but then she wouldn't leave me alone and it was driving me insane! Every time I tried to leave the Gryffindor tower she'd be there waiting for me. It had gotten so bad I'd taken to wearing James's invisibility cloak just to get some privacy.
"It's not that easy," I whined, quickly checking around the Hall for the now familiar mane of black hair. Not seeing her anywhere in sight, I left the protection of James's shadow and sat next to him on the bench.
"Yeah," James agreed, handing me a ham sandwich. "She's so insane she might kill him if he tries."
Peter snorted into his pumpkin juice while Remus shot James a disapproving glance.
"Just dump her and get it over with," Remus said airily, taking a sip of water from his glass.
I shot a glare at him. "If you think it's so easy, why don't you dump her for me?" I asked.
"Me?" Remus looked startled. "Not a chance. I don't want to be jinxed!"
James burst out laughing and Peter nearly choked on his lunch. I was about to point out he'd just proved my point, when Jessica herself walked into the Hall.
"Oh look," Peter pointed at her. "Here's your chance."
James looked up and I didn't like the glint in his eye at all. "Oi! Jessica!" James called, waving his hands at her.
Jessica looked over at where we were and when she saw me, trying to make myself as small as possible, she walked over and wrapped her hands around my neck from behind.
"Sirius!" She squealed happily. "Where have you been? I've been looking for you all day!"
I thought glumly of the invisibility cloak in my pocket and wished I'd left it on. Trying to gather the same courage it had taken to ask her out in the first place, I turned around to face her and removed her hands from my neck.
"Listen, Jessica," I began. "I really don't think this is going to work."
Jessica looked shocked for a while before her eyes narrowed and she glared at me.
"Fine!" She snapped, turning and walking towards the Hufflepuff table. I could see her talking to her friends and two minutes later the girls around her were shooting deadly glares at me.
"I don't believe it," Peter said. "You weren't even jinxed!"
"This could be a good sign!" James grinned and I recognized the look in his eye as the same one he always wore when he was about to do something stupid that included Evans. "Maybe she'll say yes today!"
Without even waiting for us to reply, James scrambled out of his seat and went over to where Evans was sitting with her friends.
"He's a lost cause," Remus muttered, watching as Evans poured her pumpkin juice over James's head.
"Let me guess," I said. "She said no."
James nodded glumly, mumbling a thanks as Remus took pity on him and vanished the sticky pumpkin juice.
"Oh well! Do you know what will cheer you up?" I asked happily.
"A date with Lily?" James asked.
"Probably," I agreed. "But do you know what will cheer you up that's actually possible?"
Remus snorted at my wording, but James didn't seem to notice, instead catching on to what I was on about.
"A prank?" Peter suggested.
"Not just any prank," I grinned.
"A prank on the whole school," James cheered.
"Yep," I laughed. "And we start planning tonight."
Remus flinched and looked up. "Not tonight," he protested. "I have to see my mum tonight."
"Fine," James sighed, a little colder than usual. "We'll start planning when you get back."
Flinching again at James's tone of voice, Remus nodded and stood up. "Come on, we better get to History."
"Oh yeah, cause we wouldn't want to miss that would we?" I muttered sarcastically.
Once seated in class, Binns began to drone on about goblin wars and Peter soon fell asleep. Remus somehow managed to resist the sleepiness Binns voice induced and took notes.
I noticed out of the corner of my eye that James was writing the date in our FRSO (Find Remus's Secret Out) book and marking that Remus was visiting his mum. When Remus looked over to him, James grinned and put the book back into his bag, while Remus looked suspicious, he didn't say anything, just frowning and then continuing his notes.
At around six o'clock Remus left the Common Room with the normal excuse of visiting his sick mum. Realizing none of us were going to get any homework done because Remus was gone, we packed up our books and went up into the dorm.
"This time, someone remember to wake up," James reminded.
Since Remus was the one who always woke us up in the morning, whenever he left school, we always ended up late for class.
Unfortunately, that morning was no different to any other morning without Remus; we woke up nearly twenty minutes late and had to run down to Transfiguration while still pulling on our socks and shoes.
"We're…sorry…for being…late…Professor," Peter panted, flinging the door of the classroom open.
"What's your excuse this time?" McGonagall asked, far too used to us being late.
"Remus is away," James explained. "He's the one that always wakes us up."
Evans glanced back at us before turning away with a look of disgust, obviously not impressed that we were once again late for class. McGonagall seemed to share Evans point of view too.
"Fifteen points from Gryffindor, that's five each," she finally said. "Sit down; we've already wasted enough time."
With a sigh of relief that she hadn't taken more points off than that, we quickly made it to our normal seats at the back and I began taking notes while Peter and James played games on a scrap piece of parchment.
Normally, only Remus took notes, but after the first time he'd left when he'd had to spend every spare minuet trying to catch up, we decided that we had to take turns to keep notes every time he disappeared, that week was my turn.
The only lesson none of us ever managed to copy notes for was History, but luckily for him and with much jealousy from James, Remus was friends with Evans and always borrowed her notes.
A/N: The next chapter is called 'Try outs' and should hopefully be out soon to make up for this short chapter. Please review. :)
