(Sirius' POV continued)

Light streamed onto my bed and across my face causing me to scrunch up my face against it, letting out a small moan of disapproval.

"C'mon Sirius! I'm hungry." James' voice rang through the last traces of my dreams. I shrank down under the duvet pulling it above my head in a last desperate attempt of escape, only to have the covers snatched away by a still hovering James.

"Padfoot! Get up you lazy git." I let out a small growl and croaked out,

"Don't you know to let sleeping dogs lie?" He chuckled softly, and dropped the now cold duvet back onto me.

"Wormtail's just followed Moony down to breakfast seems like he rushed outta here the crack of dawn…" I was awake now, James glanced up at me to try and read my reaction, I casually swept my hair from out of my face and rubbed the sleep from my eyes, "yeah?" my voice thankfully still croaky from sleep and so couldn't give away my real feelings.

"Dunno what's up with him at the moment, I know he's usually quiet, but not this quiet, he seems abit on edge around us aswell. Have you noticed anything?" I turned so I had my back to him so he couldn't see my face under the pretext of changing into my robes.

"S'pose…come on then, let's head down there, I'm starving." I turned and playfully pushed him towards the door, he shoved back before complying.

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(Remus' POV)

"You gonna eat that?"

"Huh?" Peter pointed at my slice of toast still untouched on my plate,

"Oh sure." He snatched it up off my plate and proceeded to eat it, my mind returned to night before and the sense of panic over what I should do. I went over how I thought the inevitable moment of seeing Sirius was going to be. I continued along this train of thought as Peter continued stuffing his face beside me.

"Remus you should have something to eat, you don't look so good…" He said, between mouthfuls,

"I'm not hungry."

"The rat's right you know," My eyes snapped up to the face of Sirius, "You should eat something, never know what the day will bring." He lowered himself onto the bench opposite me. His eyes never leaving my face, he offered me a piece of toast, I took it mumbling my thanks and looked down while trying to force a mouthful down my throat. He continued looking at me, I kept my gaze lowered trying not to see the anger that would be in his eyes. I finished the bit of toast as fast as my dry mouth would allow, then all but bolted out of the Great Hall, muttering the excuse of "transfiguration homework…" I could feel the eyes of my friends on my back as I left the Hall, I continued down the corridor a while round the first corner, then slumped back against the wall, taking big sobbing gasps of breath. After several minutes my breathing had returned to normal and my heart was thumping considerably less than it was before.

You knew you were going to see him my head drooped forwards, my golden brown hair following suit, falling softly around my face. Merlin he must hate me, I thought, and for good reason another part of my mind scolded. I heard footsteps approaching and quickly began walking towards the common room.

"Remus!" My walk became faster, pretending not to hear Sirius' call.

"Remus please!" I started to jog, all pretending forgotten. Sirius however was always faster than me, and quickly caught up, and stopped me with a hand on my shoulder.

"Just stop, please." I turned slightly towards him, still not meeting his eyes. The silence was heavy, broken only by our slight panting. He removed his hand from my shoulder seeming to just notice that it was still there. My heart dropped at this small action.

"Remus…" he started, I stayed silent. My eyes locked on the base of a statue the other side of the corridor. "Remus… last night…why…"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for it to happen, I'm really sorry" I gushed out, startling him.

I looked up as he ran both hands through his hair not noticing when it fell back down round his face.

"But why….how…..if that was your way of saying your gay, you could have just told me, not…" his hands motioned wildly. I frowned slightly at his choice of words.

"I mean… that was what you were telling me right?" He looked slightly fearful at this, so I comforted him somewhat by saying,

"Yeah, I guess…" He let a sigh and a smile.

"I'm sorry, bout…." It was my turn to gesture wildly. "I'll understand if you don't wanna hang around as much."

"Oh don't be stupid Moony! I'm not gonna drop you for that! I'm glad you told me…..well showed me." A slight blush tinged both our cheeks. After a couple of uncomfortable seconds, Sirius threw an arm around my shoulders and turned me back onto the track to the common room.

"C'mon, I know you were lying bout the fact you hadn't finished that piece of homework but I on the other hand was too worried bout you to do it!"

so thats ch 2. plz review, will be back soon with chapter 3 and more ahem intimate moments between the two maurauders...