Chapter Ten.

"Hey Guy's wait up!" Remus called sprinting to catch up to his friends.

"We didn't think you'd make it to class this morning Moony."

"Well what can I say OWL's are this year and I wasn't feeling as awful as normal so I figured I should show up."

"Typical Moony," Sirius said nudging James with his elbow "He has the best excuse ever to miss class and he comes anyway. And here I thought we were having an impact on him."

"Whatever Padfoot, lets just hurry up and get to class before we all get put in detention… again." All four marauders headed down to the edge of the forbidden forest which was where their care of magical creatures class was located. As the four of them reached the rest of the students Remus saw Lily on the other side of the class, their eyes met and they exchanged a small nervous wave. They both then turned away and began to blush.

Sirius looked over at Remus about to ask him a question but when he turned he saw Remus looking across the class at none other than Lily Evans, this was shocking enough but it was nothing compared to how shocked he was to see them waving at each other. He noticed them both blush as they turned away from each other. " What the…" he mumbled to himself. Sirius cleared his throat making Remus jump.

"Sorry mate I didn't see you there." Remus exclaimed trying to hide how truly he shocked he was. He wondered if Sirius had noticed him waving to Lily.

"Clearly…" replied Sirius with a grim look on his face that told Remus everything. Remus's mind began to race. What was Sirius going to do? He wouldn't tell James would he? All these questions raced through his mind and for the entire class he was not able to focus. He had nearly bitten by a Knarl, if hadn't been for James grabbing his hand away just in time.

The day past in a blur, before Remus knew it he was back in the Gryffindor common room with his homework sprawled out in front of him.

"I don't understand how the teachers expect us to do all this homework!" whined James.

"It's not that much" Remus said clearly lying they had been given an essay on distinguishing the Knarl, a two foot long essay on different fungi for potions and another foot long essay on how wand movement effects the spell your performing.

"Easy for you to say, you always get all your work done." James replied. " Oh whatever I'm going to bed." Remus looked at his watch, it was almost eleven o'clock.

"Really mate? Eleven o'clock only what's with you?" Sirius asked.

"Well I was thinking that maybe…"

"Maybe what?" Remus said absent minded while looking for his quill.

"Well of asking Lily out tomorrow." James said. Remus who had been leaning over to grab a book off the floor toppled off his chair and hit the floor with a thud. "You alright?"

"What… Oh …yeah … fine" He stumbled over his words.

" Well thanks for the reassurance guys." James spat with immense sarcasm.

"James," Sirius said in a very serious tone, " it's just we don't want to see you get shot down again."

" I won't get shot down," He said with hope in his voice, "I'm going to try just talking to her without trying to hard. Now I'm going to bed before you lot change my mind." With that James headed up to the boys dormitory. Once Sirius was sure James was out of earshot he rounded on Remus.

"What the ruddy hell do you think your playing at?" He screamed. This is what Remus had feared.

"W..What are you talking about." Remus replied , but he knew instantly that it wasn't going to work.

" You know Damn well! I saw you today, waving at Lily."

"It was an innocent wave."

"No it wasn't I could tell, just by the way you were looking at each other. Now tell me what's going on." Remus hesitated "Fine I'll go get James and you can tell him instead." Said Sirius giving Remus a stern look.

"Alright…" he proceeded to tell Sirius the entire story. As he finished Peter who had sat entirely still the whole time gave a low whistle that made the other two jump because they had forgotten he was their.

" Are you mad?" Peter said in a low voice "If James ever found out he'd kill you!"

"I know… I tried to stop it but…" Remus look at the floor fighting back tears "I just couldn't. No matter what I did it just happened."

"You should have tried harder Remus." Sirius said not even looking up at Remus.

"Sirius surely you don't think…"

"Remus he's your best friend! He became an animagus so that your transformation would be easier, and you steal the girl he's loved since first year."

"Alright, that's enough! I know it's low but I can't help it… Please Sirius try to understand, she's the only girl who's ever even looked twice at me. You and James have all the other girls in the school fancying you. Besides Lily absolutely despises James."

"I wish a girl would fancy me." Said Peter causing Sirius to punch him extremely hard in the arm "OWWW! I was only saying!"

"Sirius please" Remus pleaded, "if anything give me at least two weeks and then I'll end it. Just two weeks."

"I don't know Remus, I really don't know."

"PLEASE!"

"Alright fine, but if it doesn't end in two weeks either I'm gonna tell him or else you are." Sirius got up slowly without saying anything more and stalked off to the boys dormitory.

Remus got up and ran out of the common room tears pouring down his face. Peter was left sitting there all alone, he mumbled to himself "to much drama for me." With that he got up and also went up to bed.

A/N: Hey! I'm back. Sorry to all for how long it's taken for me to update. My comp was down and I haven't been able to get on one long enough to finish anything. So I hope you all like this chapter I'll try to get the next one up soon thnx for reading