Man! I can't believe it! I have finally admitted to myself that I like this story! Anyways, this is just me being me, normally I don't like what I write... it takes some time before I fall in love with it... And now we've come to the 12th chap. This is just amazing, I would never have written something like this if I hadn't had you! (love and kisses to you)

Yes yes, were was I? I was going to answer a question from Her-My-Own-Nee: Yep I know that Lily and James don't start dating until their 7th year, but James just being thick and he thinks that they have a date... but you can read more about it later in this chap..

Thank you so much for the cookies Faye407, can I have another now since I wrote a new chapter? Please?

Justenjoy (hopefully)reading this now and don't pay all to much attention to my ramblings!

love - Jessica


He picked up a comb and let it run through his hair a couple of times. After awhile he threw it away in anger. It just wouldn't look good no matter how hard he tried. He picked up the comb again and licked his lips when he eyed himself in the mirror. Maybe if he combed it back just a little.

"Now there you go." he thought to himself smiling at the mirror. "Looking good." He adjusted his sweater and now when he really thought about it; the pants looked like a complete disaster. He immediately pulled them off and dispatched them into some dark corner under the four-posted bed. He really wanted to look his best when he had Arithmancy and Ancient Runes. Not that he had a crush on the teacher; god forbid since the teacher was an old wizard with a huge nose. It was one of his classmates that he worked with whenever he got the chance. And even better, they didn't just have those two subjects in common. His crush was a prefect just like him so they would occasionally hang out after dull prefect meetings. Oh how hard he had fallen for Remus Lupin. He did everything he could to get his attention. Since Remus was always being very friendly and amiable it was hard to decide whether or not deeper feelings than 'classmate' existed. But today he felt like it was the right time to ask. A guy in his dorm was turning 17 so there was going to be a birthday party for him later that night. He would ask Remus if he would want to come, he would insist on it. It was perfect timing. He just took a final look in the mirror before he grabbed his books and headed for class.


It was a Thursday morning and Remus was struggling to get out of bed since Sirius was holding him back. Remus had to go to Arithmancy class and Sirius was doing his best to convince him to skip that 'boring and good for nothing class' as he called it.

"Sirius. Don't you think that you could let go of me? Some of us have class…and some of us finds Arithmancy to be very interesting." Remus said reaching for his book that Sirius had kicked out of his bed.

"No please, stay with me? Please please please? Can't you tell that batty teacher of yours that you all of a sudden got sick? I promise that he would believe you, you being a prefect and the best student in his class…"

"You know I'd like to stay with you, I'd like to stay with you very much, but I can't. We're having an exam today and I can't just skip it. Besides you know I'm terrible when it comes to lying to a teacher, that's your area of expertise!"

"Fine" Sirius said letting go of him. "But you will have to make it up for me later…" Sirius said and crawled back in under the sheets.

Remus looked back on Sirius and dramatically threw him a kiss in the air. "I'll see you later in History of Magic…" Before he had thought that throwing kisses and stuff like that made him look kind of silly, but Sirius had ensured him that he liked it very much so he had continued with it.

It had been the most amazing weekend ever. Poor James, or maybe not so poor James, had had to endure having his two best friends, who now were a couple, going at it at several times a day. He suspected although that James was ok with it since he had not left the dorm yet while they were snogging in Sirius's bed. They actually snogged whenever they got the chance. However, they had not yet let anyone else than James know. Instead they did their best finding quiet places rarely visited in the castle when they wanted to be private. James had only left the dorm one time and that was when Sirius pranked James and locked him out of the dorm. Sirius had thought it was hilarious and he had laughed a good while before he let him back in again.

Remus was strolling down the corridor whistling a tune to himself. He had several minutes left, 5 minutes to be exact, before the class started so he took his time rehearsing some of the words in his head that he was supposed to have on the exam. He didn't react the first time when someone whispered to him in the shadows in a narrow passage behind some armour. He reacted the second time though when that someone whispered his name. He stopped and he suddenly got drawn into the shadows.

"Oh hi Severus, didn't see you there." He said when he recognised the person that had pulled him in.

"We were seen, I haven't had a chance to tell you but I thought you should know…" he said barely audibly.

"No, who saw us?" Remus said clutching harder to his books so he wouldn't drop them.

"Some little squealing Slytherin. A 3rd year named Michael I think it was… Lucius suspected that it was you or I should rather say that he was afraid that it was you…"

"You didn't tell him?" Remus said his mouth forming the shape of an O.

"No, couldn't very well do that. I would never put you in trouble like that because he wouldn't let it go out on you alone, I would get my share too of his rage. But you can breathe easily, he bought my lie…" Snape said looking down at the floor. He found it hard to look at what he couldn't have except in dreams.

"Thank you Severus, thank you so much." Remus said and moved forward to give him a hug.

"Hey, easy on the hugging" Snape said although he smiled to himself and enjoyed it as long as it lasted.

"Should really be going to class now." Remus said when he threw an eye at his clock. two minutes left until the class would begin. "And by the way… Potion study tomorrow?"

"Of course, you still need all the help you can get…" Snape said with a smile tugging in the corner of his mouth.

"See you later" Remus said and waved as he headed down the corridor towards the classroom.

Snape still stood in the shadows. He smelled his robe and picked up the faint scent of what was Remus. He closed his eyes and drifted away into some other places that was completely his own. He took a deep breath and stepped out of the shadows and headed back to his dorm.

Remus had run the last two corridors before the classroom. He stopped when he arrived to see that the teacher had not come yet and all the other students were waiting outside the classroom. He leaned back against one of the walls catching his breath when one of his classmates from the Rawenclaw house came up to him. The Rawenclaw was a bit shorter than Remus and he had brown hair that reached just above his shoulders and his eyes were brown too. He leaned back against the wall next to Remus.

"Man, I'm totally gonna flunk this exam…" he said and sighed.

"Like you would ever… if you just focus you'll see that this will be a cakewalk."

"Sure, of course you can say that being the best in class and all…"

"Come on Luke, you don't suck at this… you're just worrying to much…"

The boys were interrupted when their Professor Edwards came and locked up the classroom.

"Alright boys and girls, I want absolutely no talking during the exam, the first part of this test…" he said loud and audibly as he walked between the desks.

Luke who was sitting in the desk next to Remus whispered "Good luck."

"Good luck to you too" Remus whispered back before he put his full attention into the first part of the exam.


"So Jamie boy…will you tell me how that date of yours went with Lily? I have been asking you all week!" Sirius said as he and James we're walking in one of the corridors heading to the Arithmancy classroom to wait for Remus.

"No I will not tell you! It was embarrassing! I made a complete ass out of myself!"

"Oh come on now, it can't have been that bad?" Sirius said and stopped.

"What? Are you some kind of a love doctor? I tell you, it was horrible!"

"Seriously James just tell me now and let me decide how horrible it was on a scale from one to ten."

"Alright… you know I said we were going to Madam Puddifoot's? I totally assumed that it was a date and I tried to catch her hand a couple of times and then I tried to kiss her. That's when it got bad! She flinched away from me and said 'James Potter! Did I ever say that this was a date? Is it impossible that I just want to be friends with you? We can't go to Hogsmeade together without it being a date? God you're impossible!' I managed to calm her down after a while. I promised I wouldn't make anymore romantic suggestions and that we would just be friends. Then she decided that I should get another chance. We're going to study Transformations together tomorrow…"

"That wasn't horrible at all, trust me! It could have been ten times worse than that. Well, at least you get to be her friend; she might just change her mind one-day. You never know with girls mate…you just never know…Hey there Remus is!"

Remus made his way through the crowd of people standing outside of the classroom discussing how hard the exam had been. The Rawenclaw boy Luke tagged along. This was great timing to ask if he wanted to come to the party.

"Was it hard?" Sirius asked raising his eyebrows.

"Nope, was an easy exam." Remus said not reacting to Sirius wink.

"I wasn't referring to the exam…"

Remus smiled to himself. He knew exactly what the little pervert Sirius Black was referring to.

"Remus, you know John right?" Luke said swaying slightly where he stood.

"He's in Ancient Runes with us? Tall, blond guy?"

"Yep, that's the one. I was just wondering… if you have nothing else to do tonight, you could tag along to his birthday party. I promise that it will be fun…" Luke said looking away from Remus. "You guys can come too…" he added when he noticed that Remus was looking over at James and Sirius.

"Sure, we'll come" Remus said when he saw that James and Sirius was nodding. "About eight?"

"Eight's perfect!" Luke said and was impressed by himself that he had managed to ask without neither blushing nor saying something stupid. "See you at eight then" He said before he left them.

"Where did you dump Peter?" Remus said and walked up close to Sirius's left side.

"Actually he's in the library, studying with that little ferret looking girl in Hufflepuff…"

"Oh, looks like Peter's finally got it made…"

"I had no idea he had it in him, honestly…" Sirius said putting his arm around Remus's shoulder.


Later in History of Magic Sirius whispered to James so no one else could hear. "Who's that guy that invited us to the party?"

"Luke, he's a Rawenclaw. He has classes with Remus in Arithmancy and Ancient Runes and they are both prefects… how come? Are you worried he will make a move on your Moony?" James said smiling to himself.

"No not really… but if he tries I'll just have to teach him that Moony's already taken…"

"I'm actually impressed that you're taking this so…easy…"

"Well, I really don't consider that Luke guy being a bigger treat than old Snivelllus… although Luke acted a bit strange around Remus… anyway, it's gonna be fun with a party! To bad for Luke, he's just got to find someone else to snog with since I will be all over Moony."


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