Chapter 8
Disclaimer: Yeah but no but yeah but no but, oh my God, this is like well sexual harassment, how dare you accuse me of stealing Harry Potter it was all that other girl, you know the one, she like has a new guy hanging off her arm every hour, yeah I saw her take it…Can I have my ten hundred thousand pounds now please?
"How is he brave?"
"I don't know."
"When has he shown courage?"
"In none of my memories."
"Since when is he like a lion, the emblem of Gryffindor?"
"Would you stop asking ridiculous questions about how Argent got into Gryffindor? I'm trying to study!" cried Sirius. He shook his head and looked back down at his parchment.
Remus, Peter and James all blinked.
"What?" asked James disbelievingly.
"Me," said Sirius, pointing to himself, "trying – to – study." He mimed writing something.
James narrowed his eyes. "We've made up remember? Remember the kiss and make up thing we did?"
Remus shuddered.
"Oh, do you think this is me trying to be better than you, do you?" asked Sirius.
"No…Well, yes," answered James.
"Well it's not! I'm just trying to bring up my Potions grade, that's all!" Sirius grabbed all of his things together, lifted his nose in the air, and stalked down the stairs to the common room.
"Well why don't you ask Evans to tutor you!" James yelled at his retreating back. "I'm sure she'd be glad to help you!"
"I might just do that!" Sirius yelled back.
James smiled in a self-satisfied way as he turned back to face Remus and Peter. Remus had one eyebrow raised and Peter looked like he needed to go to the toilet. But then, thought James, he always does.
"Uh, James?" said Remus quietly. "Why did you just suggest that Padfoot get tutoring from Evans?"
James' smile slid from his face. "I…don't…know…"
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"Evans," said Sirius curtly as he sat at the table in the common room.
"Black," Lily replied, in the same tone. She looked to her book then continued to write on her parchment.
"Um…" said Sirius uncertainly.
Lily sighed. "What do you want help with?"
Sirius brightened. "It's this stupid Potions stuff, I can't believe it and I thought you were meant to add like two pints of the stuff, then I get landed with this. And so did James, I mean, we were partners but now we keep snapping at each other and – Oh no! It's the – I gotta go. Bye Evans." Sirius gathered all his stuff together quickly and ran off.
Lily was confused. But she shrugged and continued doing her Charms essay.
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"Remus!" whined Sirius as he ran back into the dormitory. "Why didn't you – Maybe I should have – Can you help me with this essay, please?"
Remus sighed in a similar way to Lily, but he nodded. After an hour of trying to explain to Sirius that adding two pints was of course going to end up with an explosion, he gave up and decided to write Sirius' essay himself.
"Thanks Moony," said Sirius, rubbing his eyes. He leaned back against his pillows and sighed, relieved. "Hey Prongs?" he said.
James had his head bent down over a house that he and Peter were making out of an Exploding Snap deck, but he turned at the sound of his nickname.
"I'm…sorry for being so snappy with you lately," Sirius apologized ruefully.
James grinned. "It's okay Padfoot. But now that we're back on proper talking terms, I can tell you something."
"What?" asked Sirius, always eager for some gossip.
"Peter started it," replied James.
Peter let out an apologetic whimper.
"You know what this means, right Prongs?" asked Sirius, smirking.
"Oh yeah," said James.
Remus shook his head. "Not now, there are innocent little first-years down in the –"
"We're gonna get you Wormtail!" shouted Sirius, running out of the bathroom with two towels. He chucked one to James.
"Thanks Padfoot! Get back here, you rat!" yelled James. The two best-friends-again ran after Peter down the stairs, whipping his ankles with the towels. His shrieks could be heard up in the dormitory, where Remus was trying to write Sirius and James' essays.
"Immature…how do we have anything in common…" he muttered, picking up his quill and beginning to write an essay that he hoped sounded like Sirius.
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"Oh Merlin, tonight was so much fun!" said Sirius, collapsing onto his bed. "Remember the Whomping Willow? Peter, you could have helped. It's hard trying to get away from that in a dog's body."
"Sorry Padfoot," said Peter, while James and Remus laughed at the memory. "What was taking you guys so long anyway?"
"James reckoned he could see Lily from the grounds," said Sirius with a roll of his eyes. "So he stood under the common room's window for ages, hoping that she would see a stag out the window and think it was cool."
"She didn't see me," said James sadly, gently poking the house of cards, seeing how hard he would have to poke before it fell or exploded.
"It was like midnight, Prongs, no-one would have seen you. Get over it," said Sirius.
"Okay, I'll try," said James, still in a sad voice and he poked the cards one last time. They exploded in his face.
"Nice look Prongs," said Remus, while Peter and Sirius were clutching their sides with laughter. "I'm sure soot foundation is what everyone is wearing."
James scowled. "Good-night," he said as he locked himself in the bathroom to have another shower.
Remus smiled and lay back into his mattress. He was really grateful for his friends, even if they were complete idiots at times. At least they cared about his 'furry little problem'…
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