"Hello Remus dear," I said taking a seat next to him in the Great Hall the next afternoon at lunch, "Make any good bets with anyone lately?"
He sighed audibly, "Please don't hate me."
"Oh I could never hate you," I reassured him quickly, "I just like to tease."
"So what, you guys are friends now?" He asked changing the subject slightly.
I shrugged, "yeah."
He hummed and went back to eating his lunch and I got myself something to eat.
"Remus have you-Oh hey Juliet," I looked up and saw James had come over.
"Hello," I said before taking a bite of my sandwhich.
"Anyways," James sat down across from us, "Remus have you seen Si-...my uh...book? Yeah my book."
He was giving Remus a knowing look. It was obvious to anyone in a ten foot radius that he wasn't actually looking for a book. I didn't want to pry, because it was none of my business, so I concentrated on my sandwhich.
"Which book?" Remus asked plainly not giving into his bullshit.
"The one for...herbology," He stammered.
"Okay stop being an idiot," Remus said, "I know you're not looking for a book. Are you looking for Sirius?"
"Yeah," James said slowly giving me a side glance.
"We're friends now you don't have to turn him into a book in conversation," I spoke up, "especially herbology, what's up with that."
"Oh," He said then shrugged, "Well then have either of you seen him?"
I shook my head.
"I haven't seen him since breakfast," Remus said, "he might be up in our dorm. Why don't you check the-why didn't you just check up there first?"
I frowned questionably looking between them.
"Because I uh didn't think to look there first," James replied strangely taping his hands awkwardly on the table.
"I'm starting to reconsider knowing any of you," I said filling my cup with pumpkin juice and casually taking a drink.
"Okay forget it, finding him isn't that important," James said then directed his attention at me, "So how have you been?"
I raised my eyebrow at him, "Oh you know just been my usual delightful self all the time."
Remus laughs.
"That's good," James nodded, "Yeah, wish I could say the same."
"I can't get Lily to go out with you," I stated.
"What? No. I wasn't," He scoffed, "That's just crazy. You're crazy."
I blinked at him.
"It was worth a shot," He grumbled the got up, "I'll be going then. Off to find Sirius. Pleasure talking with you Juliet, and Remus I'll see you later then."
He waved and left the Great Hall.
I sighed, "What has my life come to."
"Hey, you knew we were weird before you signed up for this," Remus kindly reminded me.
"Yeah I know," I said, "It's just sometimes I forget and then I'm reminded all over again. Plus I've been friends with you for some time now and I'm used to you acting strange, it's just the rest of your friends that I need getting used to."
He chuckled, "So what are you planning on doing with the rest of the day?"
"I was going to meet up with Lily at the library to get some homework done," I said and finished my juice.
"Cool, mind if I tag along?," He asked, "I got a few things I still have to finish up."
"Sure, I don't mind," I said.
"Alright I got to go get a few things, but I'll meet you in the library?" He suggested.
"Sure sounds fine," I said getting up, "hey, you can help me with my potions essay because you're such a nice person."
He rolled his eyes getting up as well muttering an agreement. We walked out of the Great Hall together then went in opposite directions. I headed for the library, taking my time really because I didn't want to write this essay.
"Hey!" A voice shouted from behind me. I turned and saw Sirius running to catch up with me.
"Hey," I said when he caught up, "you know James is looking for you right?"
"What? Oh yeah, I just saw him. He just told me about this thing for a thing," He trailed off scratching the back of his head.
"Right," I nodded, "Because that was convincing enough. If it involves you guys having the possibility of getting in trouble then I don't want to know."
"So like pranking a teacher wouldn't be something you wanted to know?" He asked.
"The more ignorant I am the better," I said.
"Alright," He laughed, "so where are you headed?"
"Library," I answered, "I'm meeting up with Lily and Remus actually."
He nodded, "I'll let you be on your way then."
"Alright," I said a little baffled as he started walking away from me.
"Hey," He stopped turning on his heel, "Don't we have an essay that needs to be done?"
"Oh yeah," I remembered, "I don't think that's due till the end of the week, but we should probably work on that soon."
"Well what a perfect opportunity to join you in the library," He said walking back over to me.
I raised my eyebrows at him, "Really? You want to go to the library and work on an essay?"
"Well why not?" he asked, "It has to get done anyways."
"Alright," I said trailing off as we started walking again.
We made it to the library and I located Lily who was scribbling on her parchment, "Hey a couple other people will be joining us, because they're really into getting some work done today apparently."
She looked up from her work, "Alright sounds fine as long as they're actually doing work."
"No promises with this one, but Remus should be here soon," I said sitting down looking through her stuff for what was mine.
"Hey," Sirius protested sitting down as well, "I'm offended. I know how to do homework."
"Great, then you can go find some books for our essay and I can finish my other essay," I replied.
He straightened his shoulders, "Fine, but I'm not doing all the work."
I rolled my eyes at his childish joking tone. He pushed himself out of his seat keeping eye-contact with me, "See? Here I go."
Then he proceed to walk away.
"I expect him to come back with nothing," I said turning to Lily, "He's probably forgotten what we are supposed to even be writing about."
She laughed. Her eyes went past me, "Hey Remus."
"Ladies," Remus greeted sitting with us.
"Wow would you look at that, greatest person in the world. Here to help me with my potions essay because he's such a nice person," I said in an all too cheerful tone.
"Let me see what you have," He sighed with an amused look on his face.
I handed him what I had, "None of it is worth keep, I just know it. Just rip it up and throw it away if you hate it, cause I do."
"Juliet would you let me read it?" He asked.
"Sorry," I smiled and tapped on the table impatiently while he read my essay.
"You're a child and your essay is fine just write your conclusion," He said sliding the paper back towards me.
"Are you sure? It get it point across?" I asked worriedly looking at my essay.
"I'm sure. It is a very lovely essay and it actually helped me where I was stuck on mine so thanks for that," He said.
I sighed and rolled my eyes at him while picking up a quill to finish my essay.
"You know if you didn't sleep so often in that class you wouldn't freak out over every essay," Lily pointed out.
"Well, my dear, that is what the wonderful Remus is for. I have been blessed with his friendship so he can proofread all my essays so I don't fail, but I can also sleep soundly… in class," I resorted.
"You're insane," She stated.
"You've always known this," I said setting down my quill, "Why must you act as though this is new information."
"I found these three that are loaded with some information on Kneazles," Sirius said returning to us dropping some books on the table creating a loud thud. He acknowledged Remus with a nod
I jumped and looked over the books slightly impressed. I picked up the first book and flipped through it until I found Kneazles. Skimming over the words I said, "These could work. We should probably get reading then take note of what we want to talk about in our essay."
"You should probably be warned that she is crazy organized when it comes to writing an essay and does not mess around," Lily warned her eyes not leaving her paper.
"Oh boy," He muttered picking up a book opening it.
I rolled my eyes leaving my attention in the book in front of me.
We all sat around working on any homework we had left. Not that Sirius constantly trying to throw my attention off of our actual work was helping anybody, we got minimal work done.
"Okay so does that mean were done with the essay?" Sirius asked after a while later, Lily had left us but Remus stayed to read.
"What?" I asked bewildered, "No this is just the notes, we haven't even written the essay yet."
He groaned a little too loudly and was shushed by Madam Pince.
"You're joking," He questioned lowering his voice. Remus chuckled at our banter.
I shook my head and looked from our notes to him, "Do you want to start writing now or save it for tomorrow?"
"It's about dinner time, why don't we save it for later," He suggested in a tired tone.
"Fine," I said and rolled up the parchment putting them in my bag that Lily had left for me. We cleaned up the rest of our mess - Remus finally putting down his book to help - then the three of us left the library and started walking to the Great Hall.
"Moony, Prongs said that we should finally be able to get the stuff we've been working on done," Sirius spoke to Remus as I walked beside them staying out of their conversation. They speak vaguely around me I've noticed, but I don't really care if it's about things that'll probably get them in trouble. I'd rather not know any of that information.
"It's not really necessary," Remus said, "You guy have been working on it long enough with no success."
"Yes but Moony my dear friend this time," He used his hands dramatically to emphasize his words, "this time it will work."
"Whatever you say Padfoot," Remus said shaking his head.
I promptly stayed quiet as we entered the Great Hall. My eyes found Lily and I waved a farewell to them as I walked in her direction.
"Hello my darling friend of mine," I greeted sitting down next to my fiery friend
"Hello dear," She replied, "Get some work done?"
"Yeah we got some good notes down and should be able to write this essay soon," I said.
"You normally don't take too long with essays especially for care of magical creatures," She pointed out.
"Yes but this is my only opportunity to torture him into doing some quality work," I said, "plus last year my essays in that class sucked because I rushed to get them done so I'm turning over a new leaf."
"I see," she hummed.
"Don't give me that tone," I said, "You always lectured me last year to put more effort into those essays, so I am."
"Whatever you say dear," She said.
