"I just don't get why we cant come with him! We ARE his best friends, right?" James was pacing back and forth after Remus had once again told them that they couldn't come with him when he went off mysteriously. He had been leaving early at dinner occasionally, and the next day he wouldn't come to class, he would just lay in bed too tired to move. The only time he ever left the dorm room during those times was to go to Madam Pomfry.
Peter and Sirius were seated on the common room couch, and the rest of the house had gone to bed, or was out on the grounds with out permition.
"Maybe he is a vampire?" Peter offered.
"THAT'S IT!" James shouted. "I bet he is a werewolf. It explains it all, when he's gone, how he is always tired that one day of the month, almost like he has a period. The scar on his face- it all fits!"
Sirius just laughed. Remus? A werewolf? No, he would have told him… Right? So he spoke up.
"James, that is ridiculous. Remus isn't a werewolf. Why would you think something like that? He wouldn't keep something like that from me- I mean us.."
James looked down, realizing why Sirius was acting like this and rejecting everything James came up with, "Well we will ask him about it tomorrow, ok?"
Peter bid them good night, he didn't want to fail the tests tomorrow like the rest of them.
After Peter collected his things and went upstairs to bed, James sat across from Sirius' slouched position on the couch.
"Sirius, mate, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to suggest that Remus was hiding things from you. I know how much he means to you. I never meant to hurt your feelings or anything."
"It's ok, I've had a suspicion for a while that it was a huge thing that he was hiding from us. And he's hiding it from all of us, not just me, so that makes it a bit easier to deal with. I just hope he tells the truth when we ask him."
"Yeah, me too.."
James and Sirius stayed up for a bit longer that night discussing hidden meanings behind everything hottie and greasy said; it was a nice relief from all the thinking Sirius had done about Remus.