Title: A Most Beautiful Day

Characters: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and Penny Singh.

Prompts: Write about someone being reckless Alt. Write about someone having a perfect day. (Dialogue) "Some of us have a job." / "Some of us have fun." / "And some of us are having a really bad hair day." / (dialogue) "But I'm cute. Look how cute I am." / (word) Adventure, (word) declare, (word) dork and (character) Sirius Black.

AN: Written for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments). Assignment #1, Potions: Felix Felicis.

Word Count: 1, 281

Most people considered having to work a negative thing. Well, maybe not most but the people that Sirius was forced to surrounded himself with did as a child and young teenager. He had never heard someone speak of responsibilities as a good thing; they were only seen as the disadvantages of born as a pureblood or otherwise rich person. As a child, he was told that he was lucky to have been born into a rich family because he would never have managed to live like a normal person. Sirius always did believe that they were wrong but up until getting his flat and realising that those costed money he never had a reason to fully prove them wrong.

Sirius Black had a job. The firstborn son of Walburga and Orion Black, one of the two heirs left to ensure the survival of one of the most notorious and powerful pureblood families of all times had a job. It was shocking for everyone, even the brown-haired pureblood rebel himself. He'd pinched himself more times than he wanted to admit to make sure that this wasn't just some crazy dream. The small bruise that was starting to form on his forearm told him that it wasn't. He, Sirius Orion Black, truly was spending the summer by selling ice-cream. A sigh escaped his parted plump lips and a smile graced his face. It was to pay rent for the apartment. The apartment he shared with Penny. His hand became moist from sweat as he dried his neck. It was worth it.

"I can't believe my eyes," Sirius was woken up from his thoughts when the sound of James Potter's voice reached his ears.

The raven-haired boy did not come alone. He was accompanied by two other boys, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, and all three smiled like that cat from Alice in Wonderland. Sirius could never remember its name. His beautiful girlfriend rolled her eyes at them.

"That's what the last customer said too," Sirius replied with a smirk as they approached the counter. "But I promised that I hadn't performed any surgery to look this good and no, I have yet to be contacted by an agent to become a model but I'm anticipating a change in luck very soon."

"Oh, and did she believe you?" Remus asked with an amused tone in his voice.

Sirius eyes sparkled as he nodded.

"And was that after or before you gave her ice-cream?" Penny couldn't help but ask with a sarcasm so thick that one cold almost cut it with a knife. Sirius tilted his head to the side and smiled at her. "You are beautiful babe, I'll give you that. But everyone's attractive when they offer you ice-cream."

"So, if I offered a girl ice-cream before asking for a date she'll most likely say yes?" James thoughtfully pouted his lips when he looked at Penny waiting for an answer. A smile flashed across her face and she nodded briefly before standing next to him with Peter and Remus on his left side. "You give excellent advice. I knew there was a reason I kept you around."

Sirius coughed. In his mind, he thought about the absurdity of them holding onto Penny. He was fairly certain that it was the other way around. She had decided to keep them around in spite of others telling her that it was a bad idea. But he decided not to say that out loud.

"What are you doing here?"

Peter took a step towards the glass-counter. His fingers leaned against the glass and Sirius almost thought that he would start drooling when he looked at the various kinds of ice-creams that was placed in front of him.

"We're on an adventure. We were bored so we decided to come here and support you. At least I think that was the idea, James held some grand speech and said something along the lines of I declare that we should all support each other every time one of us reaches a new milestone," Peter said with a shrug. "Hey, is there any chance of me getting some free ice-cream?"

"No, dork," Sirius said albeit with an amused tone in his voice. Remus looked pale where he stood eyeing the different kinds of ice-cream with a little less excitement than Peter. "You said that you were coming to support me. How is asking for free ice-cream supporting me?"

Penny took a step forward. "How about me?"

"No."

"But I'm cute. Look how cute I am." Penny tilted her head to the side so that her black hair gracefully fell with to the side and ended up exactly where it was supposed to. Her long eyelashes gently graced her skin every time she blinked and Sirius couldn't help but smile. Her eyes glimmered and even if Peter missed the fact that she was joking, Sirius didn't.

"That you are," he agreed. "But no, you're not getting free ice-cream and neither are you Wormtail so don't try to slither in to get what you want."

Peter made a noncommittal sound. James shook his head before turning his full attention to Sirius. "How's the first day going?"

"It's going great, well it was going great until you guys appeared," Sirius said while keeping a lookout for his boss who told him that he would be back later to check on Sirius and see how things were coming along. "Some of us have a job. And I would like to not get fired from it."

"You may have a job but we have fun," James replied with a wink. A grunt from Peter made him look over at the young boy who's longing only grew stronger. "Some of us have fun."

Remus had moved to the nearest mirror and pathetically moved some strands of hair. "And some of us are having a really bad hair day."

"I'm glad you said so yourself Moony because I did think it but I didn't want to tell you," Penny said and was given a not so nice gesture from the boy with the sandy blond hair. "I like you too."

"Yeah, yeah can you guys just leave already?" Sirius said with a laugh as the conversation bounced from one topic to the next. He gestured for his girlfriend of nearly two years to come closer and when she was close enough he leaned down and kissed her. "Consider me supported for now. You have done what you came for. Now, I really have to keep working."

"You're sure?" Peter asked while James wished him good luck. "I can support you a little bit more. I can even try the ice-cream to make sure that it hasn't gone bad or anything."

"Wormtail," Remus said in a sing-song voice from the door and Peter went to join his friends. Penny winked at him before walking out the door. Remus had an arm around Peter's shoulder and James was the last person to leave.

"I'm proud of you mate." He said and offered Sirius one last smile before the door was closed.

Sirius couldn't help but smile. Those were his best friends and his girlfriend. He couldn't help but think that their way of supporting him was random and strange at best. But that didn't matter. Because they had been there. They had come to see him if only for a few minutes as he proved his family wrong. Again.

A sigh escaped his parted lips and Sirius found that when the next customer walked through those doors he didn't have to fake the smile on his face when he greeted them. This was turning into a most beautiful day.

The end