Ok, so a review today made me realise that I'm really bad at starting stories but not finishing them, so I've decided over the next few weeks to fisnish all of my current stories, starting with this one. sorry it's been so long, please review! xxx
The next morning, the three boys woke with a sense of loss. In a matter of hours, they would leave Hogwarts for the summer; they would leave their home behind. They knew, however that the summer would be awesome. Not one of them could guess just how awesome it would turn out to be.
"Hey Pads, have you got those trainers you borrowed last week?" James asked as he haphazardly tossed his belongings into his trunk. Sirius grunted and threw the trainers precariously close to James' head, prompting a very high pitched squeal from James which made the boys laugh. A lot.
"Are you guys going to breakfast?" Sirius asked as he located an old potions textbook from under his bed and threw it in his trunk with a clang.
"Nah, I'm okay. I think I'll just get something on the train" Remus smiled from beneath the book he was reading whilst lying on his bed; his belongings already all packed the night before.
"Yeah me too I think. Besides, I only have an hour to pack all this crap and find that McAvoy kid to get my styling stuff back. He borrowed it a week ago! I don't even know why he bothers, no amount of expensive styling products could make his hair look like mine. I'm pretty sure he's in love with me. He follows me round everywhere like a bad smell. Weirdo."
"Pads, you think everyone's in love with you" James sniggered, peering at his own messy hair in the mirror affixed to the wardrobe door.
"Most of them are in love with him" Remus grinned which made Sirius feel like he might faint.
"I'm really gonna miss Lily over the summer" James sighed "but it's gonna be fun anyway. What day are you coming down Moony?"
"Wednesday, hopefully" said Remus who was spending a few days at home with his parents at their home in the countryside near Manchester before they set off to Romania and before their son caught the train to the Cotswolds where James and Sirius would be waiting. Peter had begged his mother to let him stay with the rest of the boys but to no avail. She had simply stated that they hardly ever saw him as it was, without him setting off to stay with school friends for the entire summer. So it would be the three boys staying at James' for eight whole weeks before they started their final year at Hogwarts.
"Anyone want a chocolate frog?" Peter offered; not contented with the decision to skip breakfast and not fully believing that he could last until ten o' clock without having eaten anything. The boys muttered their gratitude as the box was passed around the circle in which their beds lay, discarding it on the maroon carpet when it was emptied.
An hour and a half later, on the train, the boys were deep in conversation. They had picked a carriage towards the rear of the train which tended to be quieter. The lady who went from carriage to carriage selling a variety of delicious treats had been and gone so the space was filled with the aroma of cakes and pastries. Sirius was just tucking in greedily to a pumpkin pasty when the door slid open abruptly and Harriet Baker strolled in. Even Sirius was entranced by this girl. She just had a certain presence which rendered everyone incapable of normal human interaction. Everybody just sat there and gawped, throwing all composure out of the window.
"Remus, can I have a word outside, please?" she asked from the doorway. He nodded calmly and followed her out into the corridor leaving Sirius, James and Peter gawping in the carriage.
Sirius craned his neck to see through the glass pane in the door much to James' amusement.
"Lip-reading, mate?" James smirked.
"Huh?" Sirius shook his head back into real life, as if trying to shake himself out of the trance in which he was intertwined.
"He won't fall for it, you know. He won't fall for her" James said in a half whisper.
"He seemed to fall for it the other night. And anyway, why not? She's stunning! He's only human, after all." Sirius sighed.
"He was totally bladdered! I'm pretty sure his blood was about eighty percent firewhiskey that night. She hasn't got any substance. Moony isn't like the rest of us. He doesn't just go for looks, he likes girls with something up top." James smiled, knowing that he was speaking the total truth.
"Well I'm definitely doomed then!" Sirius snorted though James knew that laughing was the last thing that he felt like doing. Sirius glanced through the glass again but Remus and Harriet were nowhere to be seen. "Hmpfh, he's probably shagging her in the toilets" Sirius grimaced.
"Dude, that's so not Moony's style! If anything, they'll be doing it in a spare carriage" James grinned.
"Yeah thanks, Prongs, that's really helpful" Sirius couldn't help but smile, though he did wonder where his best friend had got to. He wasn't sure he wanted to know.
An hour later, the train was beginning to slow and the terrain beginning to level out. There was still no sign of Remus anywhere and Sirius was beginning to worry.
"He'll be fine, you know. He's a big boy." James said with his annoying tendency of knowing exactly what Sirius was thinking.
"Yeah I know, I just wanted to be able to say goodbye to him" Sirius sighed.
"Pads, you will see him in four days, it's hardly long!" James grinned, absent-mindedly flicking his hair out of his eyes as he spoke .
"Yeah I suppose" Sirius mumbled as the train came to a complete stop in Kings Cross station where James' parents were both stood on the platform waving madly. Sirius knew that he was totally welcome with the Potters and a pang of jealousy shot through him as he wished that he had a family who loved and supported him as James' did.