Author's Note: I cannot remember the names of the stores at the Lake of the Ozarks. So anyone who has been there and does not recognize the name of one then it's more then likely the result of a memory that can't remember anything.

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~Blushes, Gushes, and Boxer Fun~

After breakfast, Remus had explained to Jason that Sirius had forgotten some of his clothes at home and that they needed to go shopping. Jason, of course, agreed to help them in anyway Remus saw fit. Sirius thought it was rather nauseating.

"These things happen," Jason chuckled slightly, "Need any money? I'll gladly lend you some."

"No, no," Remus protested, "We have enough money, but thank you anyway, Jay."

"Then I'll give you a ride into town. I need to do a few things, also, and I enjoy taking my car so I'll drop you off wherever you would like to go."

"That's awfully nice of you," Remus smiled.

"Think nothing of it!"

This whole conversation made Sirius think about a pure sugar filled candy, covered in even more sugar. You know, the kind that gave you an instant cavity after eating just one.

The three piled into Jason's car and took off towards the town. Jay drove, Remus sat in the passenger seat, and Sirius sat in back.

The ride was mostly short and silent. Jason pulled up to a nice looking store called 'Top Ace'.

"It's a muggle store, but you should like it. They have very nice clothes."

"Thank you, Jay," Remus opened the door and started to get out, but Jason grabbed him by the arm and pulled him back into the car. He leaned over and whispered something quietly in Remus's ear. Remus smiled and nodded his head.

Sirius watched the whole event occur with a sour look on his face. To his surprise, he looked down and saw his hands were clenched together so tightly that his knuckles were turning white.

Sirius shook his head trying to clear his mind, 'What's gotten into me?'

Sirius couldn't answer his own question, even after stepping out of the car, following Remus, and watching Jason pull away.

"Come on, Sirius, we had better get started," Remus urged.

"Hey," Sirius stopped Remus with a tug on his arm before he knew what he was doing, "what did Jason whisper to you in the car?"

"Nothing really," Remus smiled, "He just told me to apparate back to his house by one o'clock because he has a surprise for us."

"Oh."

"Now come on!" Remus pushed Sirius into the store.

It was a moderate style clothing store that was neither too fancy, nor too plain. They easily found the section they were looking for and could have gotten out of there in under ten minutes, but Remus knew better. Shopping with Sirius was no easy task. He was really picky with what he wore on his body, which was why most of the time the man preferred to go around with nothing on at all.

"What about that one?"

"Too frilly."

"This one?"

"Too restrictive."

"That one?"

"Too pink."

"That's red!"

"Looks pink to me."

Remus sighed in exasperation, "It isn't that difficult, Sirius!"

"I don't like any of these!"

Two hours had they been doing this. Two hours! Only Sirius could spend two hours on boxer shopping and still have his hands empty!

"Excuse me gentlemen," a male employee interrupted Remus's rant, "there are more in the back of the store if you do not like any of these."

Sirius vanished leaving Remus behind, "Thank you."

Remus chased after Sirius towards the back. Indeed there were more, a lot more. This was the only store Remus had ever seen in his entire life that had so many selections of boxers!

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Another two hours later, the two walked out of the store, Sirius with a bag in his hands.

"Thank Merlin that is over," Remus moaned.

"It wasn't that bad, Remmy. Besides, I got what I wanted."

"Of course you got what you wanted, Sirius," Remus rolled his eyes, "There were so many different types of boxers that if you didn't come out of that store after all this time without even one pair I was going to decapitate you and leave your body in a dumpster somewhere."

"What were you going to do with my head?"

Remus thought for a moment, "Probably take it with me to show everyone so they would actually believe me that I got rid of everyone's problem."

"Hey!" Sirius shouted.

Remus laughed.

"I see how it is. You're just warming up to me and being my friend so you can kill me. I get it. The picture is clear to me now," Sirius put on a fake pouty look complete with puppy eyes.

Remus rolled his eyes and smiled. He ruffled the raven's hair, "Come on, Paddy, you know I love ya."

A fluttering feeling settled at the pit of Sirius's stomach. It sort of took him by surprise as he raised his hand to his abdomen.

"Hungry?" Remus asked.

"Must be," Sirius muttered, "What time is it?"

Remus looked at his watch, "Shit! It's ten after one! We're late!"

"Calm down, Rems. I don't think he'll care if were running a bit behind."

Remus acted as if he didn't hear him. He grabbed Sirius, shoved him down an alley, and apparated back to Jason's house.

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Jason was waiting patiently, leaning on the doorframe of the backdoor as the two men poofed out of nowhere.

"Sorry we're late, Jay," Remus rushed out, "Sirius took forever."

"There you go blaming everything on me again!" Sirius smirked.

"And, yet again, because it was your fault," Remus shot back.

"My fault? It was *your* fault!"

"*My* fault?! You're the one who couldn't pick out anything until we went in the back!"

"You should have made me take something then!"

"You...! I...! We...! Urrggg!!! Sirius, you are driving me out of my mind!"

"Yep," Sirius gave the blonde a wide smile, "that's my job."

"And you are succeeding very well at it!"

Jason coughed to get their attention, "So anyway, about that surprise I told you about, Remmy."

Sirius's head shot up at Jason. He held back the urge to knock Jason's head off... once again.

"Follow me," Jason waved for them to come with him around to the front of the house.

Sirius made Remus hang back and he quietly whispered, "Since when does he call you Remmy?"

Remus shrugged, "I don't know. That's the first time he's ever done it."

"Well, he can't call you that. James never even called you that! I'm the one who invented the nickname so I have a patent on it! It's mine!"

Remus looked at Sirius very strangely, "Are you alright, Sirius? You've been acting exceptionally weird, even for you."

"Yeah... yeah," Sirius shook his head, "I don't know what came over me."

"Ok...," Remus said, "as long as you're alright."

"Yeah, I'm fine."

Remus let it drop but kept staring at Sirius out of the corner of his eye.

Jason led the two men down a long set of stairs towards the dock Sirius had seen when he first arrived here. He waited for them at the very beginning of the entrance.

"Come on. I'm taking us on a boat ride."

"A boat ride? I've never been on a boat before," Remus looked on curiously.

"No need to worry. This is one of my favorite pastimes, to get away from everything."

Sirius stayed a few paces behind the two as they talked a little more about the lake. He was trying to decipher what in the hell had been going on with him lately. Everything felt really different, really strange. And every time he saw Jason he had to control his temper.

That was when Sirius saw Jason put his hand on the lower part of Remus's back. Sirius, as he grounded his teeth and clenched his fists, decided to think through his troubles later... but first...

Jason led them to the very end of the dock where a slide and ladder were placed off the end so someone could swim. A beautiful speed boat was tied to the dock as Jason led them towards the back to get on.

That was when Sirius saw his chance. A loose piece of board jutted out from the floor of the dock. He hit it just right and 'stumbled' forward pushing Jason. Jason fell, but couldn't catch himself and fell right off the dock and into the water.

"Jason!" Remus gasped.

Sirius tried to act shocked.

Jason came up sputtering water from his mouth and climbed up the ladder on the side.

"I'm so sorry!" Sirius said in his sincerest voice.

"Don't worry about it," Jason waved it off, "It was an accident."

Sirius did not let any emotion show through his stoic features, but his thoughts were laughing hysterically, 'That's what he thinks.'

Jason ran back to his house and quickly got into some dry clothes. Sirius had to resist the urge to push him into the water again.

Even though Jason had accepted the apology Sirius had given him, the raven- haired did notice that the man stayed a little farther away from him, probably in case he had anymore 'accidents'.

Jason swung over the side of the boat and turned around to grab Remus's hand. Sirius was trying very hard not to growl aloud. He began to wonder if he could go to Azkaban if he changed into Padfoot and mauled the other man. Maybe if no one, besides Remus that is, found out that *he* was Padfoot... It had some possibilities.

Sirius shook his head and swung his own self over onto the boat.

"Go ahead and sit down," Jason started, "I have to go grab something I forgot up at the house."

Jason jumped back onto the deck and walked up to the house.

Sirius turned to Remus to ask if he had any idea what Jason was doing, but the look on the blonde's face made him shut his mouth immediately.

"What did you do that for?!" Remus hissed.

Sirius was a bit confused, "Do what?"

"Knock Jay off the dock!"

"It was an accident, Moony."

"No, it wasn't. I saw you deliberately trip over that board. I've known you too long, Sirius, to not know when you've done something on accident!"

Sirius looked away from the peering golden eyes.

Remus started to feel guilty for yelling, "I'm sorry, Padfoot. It's just frustrating."

"What?"

"The fact that you keep giving Jason shit."

"I'm not..."

"Yes, you are, Padfoot. You've been uncomfortable since we met up with him at the airport. I see you watching him constantly out of the corner of your eye or glare at him every time you see him. What I want to know is, why? Why can't you give him a chance? I know you weren't exactly friends with him when he came to Hogwarts, but he's been nothing but nice to us!"

Sirius looked down at his hands that had wrapped themselves around each other on his lap, "I just don't like him, Remus."

"But, why? What had he ever done to..."

"I don't know!" Sirius shouted a little louder then he intended too. A small blush dusted itself over his cheeks.

Remus started to open his mouth to question his friend further on his strange behavior, but Jason had stepped back aboard with a cooler in his hands. He quickly tightened his lips together. Sirius, for once, was glad to see the prick.

Jason didn't say a word as he sat behind the steering wheel and started up the boat. It roared to life as the engine gave off little vibrations. He moved quickly to each side of the boat untying ropes that kept it from drifting away.

Sirius lazily sat at the back of the boat, as far away from Jason as possible. He watched as they reversed out of the dock, squinting as the bright sunlight hit his eyes. The waves gently lapped against the sides of the boat creating a peaceful sound and a few ducks swam nearby.

Jason casually turned the boat around to face the main channel of the lake. Remus settled himself on the seat in front of Sirius and looked around at the view. Sirius really hoped the blonde wasn't too mad at him.

The animagus had just gotten comfortable as they passed some weird buoying things in the water when he heard the engine give a loud roar. He was jerked back heavily and, if it wasn't for his fast reflexes, he would have been flipped off the back of the boat. Jason had hammered the speed of the boat way up!

Sirius had to restrain himself from getting up and throwing the bastard off the boat. In fact, the *only* thing keeping him from doing so was that Remus was here. Lucky for Jason...

Jay reduced the speed of the boat slightly while trying to hide the smirk that continually threatened to sneak up on his lips.