HEY HEY HEY, read this first. Since I hate all the sad things that are already revolving around my life, I'm going to take SOME of the sadder things away from this story. So basically, there will be NO Voldemort, NO evil Wormtail, only stupid bloody Slytherin gits who can't stand mudbloods and Marauders. But of course, since life won't be life without any sad things, there WILL be some angst things happening in this story. Angsty stuff, you know? My FAVOURITE. So - on with the story!!
.:|Chapter One|:.
//God, he's so beautiful.\\
15 year-old Sirius Black stared in awe at his best friend and crush, Remus Lupin, who was sprawled on the floor with a book with his lap, transfixed. //He is just so beautiful, pure, and... innocent.\\ Sirius' eyes roamed over the haunting golden eyes and the sweet looking, tender and soft lips, down the smooth neckline, past his petite and slender body, looking so pale and fragile (with his eyes stopping a little on the way when he came by past the waist a little, not that he could help it), down his long, lengthy legs, and back up to his eyes. Beautiful, haunting, golden eyes, ones that tell oh so many times of sorrow and pain. Poor thing.
"Padfoot?"
Sirius jerked back to reality to see Remus staring back at him, looking confused yet amused. //Oh shit, he caught me staring.\\
"Why were you staring at me?"
//Come on, mind, make up something! ANYTHING!\\ Sirius put on a fake, lovey dovey voice, "Oh, Remus, I was going to tell you how much I love you! You are just sooooo beautiful, Remus DAR-ling!" he exclaimed.
Remus smiled, a "fine, whatever you say" smile, rolling his eyes a little. Sirius felt as if his heart was in his throat - seeing Remus smile alone could have that affect on him already.
"Oi, Moony," called James from his corner. They were in the Library, researching and reading on a books that would help them with their Potions project. "What time is it now?"
Remus looked at his watch. "Ten minutes till dinner. Fancy going down now?"
Sirius jumped up from where he was. "Dinner! The thing of life!" he yelped. Madame Pince, the librarian, turned, and glared at the black haired boy. Sirius blinked at her, tilting his head slightly, then pouted, enormous puppy eyes staring innocently back at her. Madame Pince felt her anger melting at the sight of his adorable puppy eyes, and, after giving him a stern and disapproving look, turned back to her work, processing some new books that had been sent in by the headmaster.
"Come on everyone," said Remus. Peter, James, and Sirius all got up, and the four of them proceeded down towards the Great Hall.
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When they reached the Great Hall, only few people were there. The four sat down, James next to Sirius on one side, and Peter next to Remus on the other, with Peter facing James. Their respective seats already filled, the four's plates was almost immediately clattered with the food. Sirius' eyes went wide, and charged down the chicken wings. All the other three snickered, and James leaned over to whisper something in Remus' ears, and he laughed.
Sirius almost choked, his heart skipping several beats. That laugh, that wonderful malancholy laugh made his heart whimper with love. He looked up (he was bent over the chicken wings in his eagerness to devour it), and saw that Remus eyes were filled with mirth and happiness, something that only happened when he was around the other three Marauders. He wanted so much to just lean over and kiss Remus full on the lips, but he decided to turn this forbidden action to a look of annoyance instead.
"What are you laughing about, Moony?"
James snickered again, then leaned over to whisper the same thing to Peter. Peter burst out laughing, guffawing, rather. Sirius was getting more and more irritated. "What did you tell them, Prongs?" he said, exasperated. James looked at him, smirking. "You know, for that moment there, you looked like you just saw a girl starkers naked."
Sirius eyes grew wide again, then was about to jump up to give James a good beating when -
"Laughing at your own bemusedly dumb jokes again, MaCowders?"
James scowled, and glared at the interrupting Slytherin crowd: Lucious Malfoy and Severus Snape, plus Alitair Lastrange, Corey Avery, Joe Crabbe and Mack Goyle. "What do you want?" he snarled at them. Lucious smirked. "Severus and Alitair here are in a rather bad mood today, so Corey and I thought to bring them here so they can at least cheer up a bit before we go on with the rest of the day." His gaze shifted to a very quiet Remus. "I suppose you know why?"
It was a well known fact around the school that the three of the famed Slytherin bully crowd - Snape, Lastrange and Avery - were all striving to have Remus Lupin as their own, as did many others in the school. Quiet, shy, gentle, beautiful Remus was the boy of many girls, and guys' dreams. Remus did not look up, but his acute wolf sense told him that the mentioned three were staring at him. Undressing him with their eyes, probably. He shifted closer to the table, and was tempted to lift his legs onto the chair, in hope of curling himself up as close as possible. In front and beside him, both Sirius and Peter had stood up, their eyes wide and glaring, fists clenched.
"Leave him alone," Peter hissed, staring unblinkingly them. Snape laughed. "Or what, you're gonna hex us, Pettigrew? Not that you have the brains."
"Are you claiming that YOU actually have some, of all people?" retorted Sirius nastily.
"Frankly speaking," put in Avery, "all four of your brain put together isn't even a tenth of Lucious' ability."
James snorted. "Did I hear you correctly? Or did you mean stupidity? There IS a difference between the two words, you know."
Avery narrowed his eyes. "No need for you to tell us. We'd never dream of the day when we would degrade ourselves to be actually letting YOU teach us."
James stood up as well. "Oh yeah, you blo - "
"Stop it."
The six of them stopped arguing, and all turned their attention to Remus, who had spoken at last. They were all pretty much shocked - Remus was never one to speak up during fights, except to elbow the other three to tell them to stop arguing. "Stop it," he repeated.
Lastrange was the one who regained composure first. "Well, at last, the beautiful man speaks," he purred, deliberately making his voice husky. "How about spending the night with me in the highest Astronomy Tower?"
"Leave him be!" growled Sirius. Snape chuckled. "Oh now, protecting your little f - "
"What is the problem here?"
Professor McGonagall had come over to see what the commotion was. "Oh, nothing, Professor," drawled Malfoy, "we were just having a little chat with the Marauders. We just want to know what it is like to be a prankster." Sirius and James bristled, and Professor McGonagall raised an eyebrow at the Slytherins. "Well, I'm sure you've had long enough time to chat. Now get back to your own table."
With one last perverted look at Remus, Snape walked away, leading the little group away from the Gryffindors.
McGonagall turned to the remaining four. "Everything alright, Mr. Lupin?" she questioned. Remus managed a small smile. "Everything's fine, Professor." McGonagall gave them a brief smile, nodded curtly, then said, "Right then. I will not bother you anymore." And with that, she marched away back to the Head Table.
The other three Marauders turned to the werewolf, worry etched on their faces three inch deep. "Are you alright, Remus?" asked Sirius anxiously. Remus gulped, then faced them with a slightly false smile. "Yes, I'm perfectly fine. Shall we get on with our supper?" The other three nodded, and the four of them proceeded on with their eating, chatting their heads off, the little incident soon forgotten.
SOOOOOOOOOO... how do you like my story? Guess what Snape was going to say at the very end!!! Please review! *bows* I do hope I'll get good reviews! *puppy eyes*
Remus: *laughs* No one can resist your puppy eyes, Wolfress.
Wolfress: *smiles sweetly at her boyfriend*
Sirius: *scowls* Stop that lovey dovey thing, will you?
Remus: *pulls Wolfress protectively to his side* Don't snap, Padfoot.
Wolfress: Yeah. *sticks out tongue at Sirius*
Sirius: *grumbles*
James + Lily + Peter: *snicker*
