finally! one of the truths in this chapter. :)
9. JEALOUSIES
They all laughed and James said pointedly, "I had to wait years for this! Gimme a break," and he pouted at Lily. She thought he looked so adorable. She pinched his cheek and kissed his nose.
Sirius copied what James did and kissed Jolie on the cheek as well. The eyebrows of Peter, James and Lily shot upwards. Lily even giggled a little. Jolie laughed and rolled her eyes.
Remus didn't even worry to look and he took Jolie's laugh as one that involved a furious blush. He grimaced like someone was sticking pins into him and said through gritted teeth, "They forget we're here."
They all noticed Remus' tone and Sirius stopped kissing Jolie. Remus stood up without any breakfast and said, "Well, I'm off to the library to finish my essay for McGonagall." He stressed his words, and he was off.
Sirius said, "I think we better follow him. See what's wrong."
The others spoke all at the same time. Peter and Jolie said, "when I finish eating," James said, "when Lily decides to leave," and Lily said, "when James decides to leave."
Sirius grunted at his friends and he left alone, going to the library to see what was up with Remus.
He saw Remus writing in the library.
"Hey, Moony."
"Padfoot."
Sirius looked at the essay Remus was writing—he could barely make it out. He was writing so hard on the parchment that there were tears in it, and ink blots. The ink also seeped through the back of the parchment that it marked themselves on the table.
"Are you okay?"
"Oh, I'm fine." Remus gnashed his teeth again.
"What is wrong with you?!"
"Oh, I don't know," Remus had awful sarcasm in his voice.
Sirius ogled Remus as if he was a difficult math problem and slowly opened his mouth to speak. "You like her."
He said it, not asked it. Oh, God. Padfoot knows! Remus thought.
He stopped writing. "What are you talking about?" he tried to cover it up.
Sirius sneered at how silly Remus was. He couldn't lie to him, it was no use.
"Remus, how dare you keep it from me! You're madly in love with—" Sirius said, as heads turned towards his direction.
Remus covered Sirius' mouth and whispered, "Don't go shouting that, you idiot! Especially in HERE!"
Remus removed his hand from Sirius' mouth. Sirius said nothing but simply stared intriguingly at Remus.
"Okay, I like her!" Remus hissed.
"And you were jealous," Sirius pointed a finger at him. He actually made Remus jealous.
Remus was fighting his words, "Yes, I was!" He hissed harshly. "You try corrupting her innocence again, and I will personally hex your face to fall off!"
Sirius' eyes went wide with shock and amusement. Actually, he taken a liking to Jolie as well, but he knew it was nothing compared to what Remus felt. And so, Sirius didn't tell him what he was feeling for Jolie.
"If you like her so much, then why are you hiding it from her?" Sirius asked, confused.
"Padfoot, you know full well that I cannot profess my love because of what I am—"
Sirius scoffed, "Moony, here you go again, your 'woe-is-me-and-I'm-too-dangerous-to-love' attitude. Give yourself a chance! For all we know, she might feel the same way."
"Of course not, she'd never—"
"She could! She would! Come on, Moony. Do you honestly think your friends are as judgmental as you think they are?"
"Well—oh, don't be stupid—of course not, but my being what I am might make her act differently towards me. For all I know, she might suddenly hate me or—or never look and talk to me again and—"
"Remus. We all know she's not the kind of person to do that." Sirius stated firmly.
Remus buried his face in his hands. "What am I supposed to do? I'm too tense to tell her and I'm—"
"JUST TELL HER." Sirius hissed.
"What am I supposed to say?"
"The truth."
Sirius and Remus stared at each other, as if having a conversation inside their heads with each other.
Lily, James, Jolie and Peter saw them. James asked, rather bemused, "What in the name of Merlin's pants are you two doing?"
Remus and Sirius looked around at their friends and started huffing and puffing their chests and grunting in a manly way.
Jolie and Lily decided to joke around with them. They winked at Peter and James and put on a convincing act.
Jolie covered her mouth with her hand, acting shocked and Lily looked like she was on the verge of tears—
"Oh my God!"
"I can't believe it—"
"Are you alright?"
"You're confused, aren't you—?"
"You're gay!" they said together. James and Peter started to stifle their laughs.
Sirius and Remus shouted, "WE ARE NOT GAY!"
"Ssssssh!!!" the people in the library hissed at them.
Lily sniggered and said, "We're kidding. I could hardly believe that you guys are gay."
Jolie went forward towards Sirius and Remus and spotted the piece of parchment on the table. Her eyes went wide when she saw how abused the parchment look.
She picked it up with two fingers as if it was dirty trash. "What is this?"
Sirius tittered, "Remus' Transfiguration essay."
"Oh. This'll surely get an O," Jolie said with funny sarcasm. They all laughed and she turned to Remus, "Are you alright? You suddenly ran away from all of us."
Remus looked straight into her eyes, "I am now."
Jolie smiled, amused, and Sirius shook his head lamely at how pathetic Remus was at flirting.
remus? flirting? YEESH! i can't imagine it. =)) but that's how my story goes, anyway. who knows what remus' personality really was when he was seventeen? :O
