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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR:
The One Where Sirius Is A Great Friend
October 1976…
When Sirius was paired with Lily for an assignment in Potions at the beginning of sixth year, James was seething in jealousy. He needed to find reasons to be near Lily if he was going to convince her to fall in love with him. And he would convince her.
He knew it.
He just needed to give her time to get to know him a little better.
Being her partner in her favourite class and the class that he happened to have a famous father for, was the perfect opportunity for this to happen.
But only if he could be her Potions partner.
"Come on, Padfoot! Trade me partners!"
"No way," Sirius insisted. "Annoying Evans is way too much fun. Plus, she's way better looking than Pete. I'd much rather ogle her tits."
James swallowed, his eyes widening. His best mate was ogling her… he froze. Merlin, no. His heart was beating in his chest and he hoped that his voice didn't break when he asked the next question.
"Are you… are you interested in her?"
"What?" Sirius exclaimed, looking at his friend in surprise. "Prongs, no! Come on; I would never do that to you!"
"That doesn't answer my question, Sirius," James said carefully, trying to keep the panic from his voice. "I know that you would never do that to me, but how you feel is something else entirely."
Sirius shook his head. "Jamie, I don't like Evans that way. She's beautiful, yes, and of course I've thought about it, but as soon as you made yourself clear in fourth year that you wanted her — I never thought about it again."
James' lips curved into a smile, relief coursing through his system. "Fuck, you're a really great friend, Siri."
Sirius laughed. "Damn bloody straight! I'm fucking awesome!"
James snorted and Sirius grinned.
"Let's be honest here, Prongs, she's not my type; besides, she'd never go out with me in a million years! I would only be in it for the sex. Evans is not the one-night stand kind of bird, which we both know is the kind that I like best. We also both know that you two would work out so much better. But she does have some really great tits."
"Yeah, she does." James muttered wistfully before turning his attention back to his friend. "If she didn't hate my guts, maybe we'd work out. It seems like nothing I ever do is good enough for her." He sighed and stretched out on his back. "It's like an ache, Siri. Every time I look at her it's like she takes another piece of my heart and leaves me with nothing. I don't know what to do to prove that I'm not the bloke she seems to think that I am."
"My guess would be to take Moony's advice and grow up a bit, Prongs. But not too much okay, because I still need a good prankster buddy from time to time," he said, wiggling his eyebrows at his friend. "Also maybe stop being so bloody cocky around her; I don't think she likes that and I think it puts her back up right away."
James sat up. "If you were to tell her that…"
Sirius snorted. "Jamie, I've been telling her good things about you for years. She ignores me. This one is all on you."
James sighed. "Fine. All right, so about switching partners…"
Sirius made a rude hand gesture and grabbed his books. "No bloody chance."
James pouted as he watched his best mate walk away towards the woman of his dreams. It was all right, he would find a way to get her attention in a good way. He just needed to think on it. When Peter knocked over the bowl of newt eyes with his elbow, he sighed.
Potions had just gotten a lot less exciting.
