14:13

Severus slowly gathered his books and put them into his back pack. He cleaned up his cauldron and put his supplies away. He then looked over towards the other side of the classroom. The only children left were a few Gryffindor girls looking over towards the other remaining few students; James, Sirius, Peter and Remus. Severus sighed and returned his gaze towards his books again. Feeling defeated and hurt he fell back into his seat.

'I'll just leave when everyone else is gone. I can just nap during lunch in the common room.' thought Severus pretending to organize stuff in his bag. His gaze slowly shifted towards Remus who was telling his friends to go ahead of him. Severus went back to 'fixing stuff in his backpack' and looked over towards Remus through his greasy black locks. To Severus's surprise Remus was walking over towards him. His head was down and from what Severus could see of the boys face it had a light dusting of red across his cheeks.

The Gryffindor stopped in front of the Slytherin's desk. Severus looked up. The boy was still staring at his feet.

"I-I'm sorry" stuttered the Gryffindor. Snape glared at the boy 'So he thinks he can just apologize and everything will be okay' thought the Slytherin angrily. Remus looked up his face was red and looking depressed with a mixture of fear. The greasy haired boy felt his insides melt away along with the anger he was hold a moment ago. His face flushed and looked away from the other.

"Its fine…" muttered the Slytherin stealing a glace from the other boy who was looking directly at him, his face as red as the Slytherin with eyes that glistened with despair. "Is that all you wanted to say"

Remus shook his head violently. "No. I also wanted to return the leech juice you lent me. And to ask a favor of you." The Gryffindor held out the tiny bottle that Severus had lent him earlier.

"Thank" said Severus taking the bottle from the boy and shoving it roughly into his bag. "and what favor would you wanna ask me" snapped Severus.

"w-well I was kind of wondering if you could maybe…um…" said Remus trailing off. He was nervously playing with his fingers. Severus grew steadily impatient, until he finally snapped.

"Oh spit the bloody thing out already. Get on with it" Remus looked up at the angered Slytherin and replied with a really quick response.

"Iwaswonderingifyouwouldbewillingtotutormeinpotions" said Remus in one breath. Severus looked taken back, almost unsure of what to say next. Before Severus could respond Remus started to talk again. "I understand if you don't want to, but I think it could work out for both of us I n the end. You could help me with potions and I can help you with anything. I could help you with charms or something." His voice was a little high and cracked once or twice.

Silence.

After a while of Remus looking at his feet and fidgeting Severus broke the silence.

"…I will think about it." said the Slytherin looking away.

A huge smile formed on the Gryffindor's face. "Sounds good! You think about it. And um send me an owl or something or talk to me in class. Oh I have to run now. Bye, bye Severus." Remus's face turned a new shade of red then bolted from the potions room.

Severus sat there for another second before he headed up to the Slytherin common room.

--

Severus collapsed onto his bed; he threw his stuff to the side and kicked off his shoes. He sighed heavily as he recalled the events that had unfolded a few minutes ago. Severus, even though he already knew what he was gonna say but he still wasn't sure what he was gonna do about James and Sirius.

'If they find out they will torture me, more than they do now."' thought Severus rolling his eyes. 'Not to mention he's a Gryffindor! The guys would kill me if they found me hanging out with a Gryffindor. '

Confusing thoughts clogged Severus's mind as he soon fell into a light slumber.

He was woken up about 25 minutes later when the bells range signaling lunch was over and their next lesson would begin shortly. The Slytherin got out of bed and gathered his supplies. He slippe don his shoes and exited the Slytherin common room. He walked up several stair cases and around different corridors before he reached his destination. Defense against the dark arts.

Today was doubles with Gryffindor's again. Severus toke his usual seat in the front of the class next to a Slytherin girl whose hair was pulled back into two large pigtails. She would have been slightly attractive if she wasn't always wearing a disgusted look on her face.

Severus looked over towards the table that held the marauders. Remus was gazing lovingly at a piece of paper that, as far as Severus could tell, had nothing on it. Sirius noticed as well and waved his hand in front of Remus's face. Remus seemed to snap out of it and apologized to Sirius. Severus returned his attention to his backpack and began to unpack some parchment, quill and ink, and his defense against the dark arts text book.

"Disgusting" muttered the girl looking over at the marauders. "Filthy Gryffindor's. Why should we have to be stuck in the same class with those?"

Snape shook his head but remained silent. He was thinking of a way to let Remus know he was going to tutor him without anyone else noticing. He decided that a note would be the best and he would simply slip it into Remus's bag or something. 'I sound like a girl writing him a love note' thought Severus as he dipped his quill in some ink.

In neat cursive the Slytherin wrote.

'I will take up your offer. Meet me in the library tonight at 7:15 after dinner.

-Severus'

Severus put his quill down and folded up the note. On the front of the note he neatly wrote Remus's name and with that he put the note back into his backpack.

"Settle down students" said the teacher as he entered the classroom.

--

As the class exited the classroom Severus quickly walked over towards Remus's table. He stealth fully slipped the note into Remus's bag before walking out the door of the class and towards the court yard. Right now it was his break period so hurried up to catch up with Luscious who was sitting on a big tree with Narcissa's his girlfriend.

"Hey Sev! How were the Gryffindor's?"asked Luscious playing with Narcissa's hair.

"Boring and troublesome. They exploded my potion in potions so that's why I wasn't at lunch. And I didn't hear anything the teacher was saying because that ruddy James was making such a racket. I hate those twits" said Severus leaning back against the large tree.

"I don't understand why you just don't curse the idiots" said Narcissa leaning against Luscious's shoulder.

"Because there are four of them and one of me. I can't curse them all at once." said Severus pulling out a book from his backpack and opening up to a random page.

"I suppose." said Luscious shrugging. He turned his full attention back to Narcissa. Severus ignored them and went on to read his book until the book was ripped from his grip.

"Snivellus what do you think you are doing here?" asked a voice that Severus immediately recognized as James. Severus looked up to see James and Sirius hovering over him, Remus and Peter were nowhere to be seen.

"What do you what do you want Potter?" hissed Luscious, Narcissa was glaring at Sirius.

"We just wanted to have a little chat with Snivellus here" smiled James. "Don't worry we will bring him back in one piece" Sirius grinned. Luscious and Narcissa were glaring at the two. Severus looked as though he was about to rip the two bys heads off.

"Come on already of we will drag you. Lets get going." Said Sirius smirking down at Severus. Severus forced himself off the ground and followed the two boys. They walked over to the large witch statue in the center of the courtyard and pushed Severus up against the statue.

"So Snivellus care to tell me why Moony was so late for lunch? You were the only one in the room and Slughorn was dead asleep. And when he got to lunch he was spooing happiness. Fess up what did you do to moon?" asked Sirius. Sirius and James were completely blocking all ways to escape.

"I didn't do anything. He talked to Slughorn and I packed up. Maybe Slughorn told him a way to bump up his grade? I left before him." Offered Severus glaring at the two boy. He figured he would stay away from the topic of the private lessons, he didn't want the two boys to interrupt their study sessions. 'Only time I can actually hang out with him without these twits. My only chance to be with him will not be ruined by these guys' thought Severus angrily.

"Oh is that so. Cause if you left before him then why didn't we see you at lunch? And talking to Slughorn doesn't take 20 minutes. Fess up what did you and Remus do?" said James sounding arrogant as usual.

"I don't know I told you I left before him how would I know what he was doing. And I wasn't at Lunch because I wasn't hungry and I wanted to take a nap. So I went back to the common room if you must know. Now leave me alone I didn't do anything to your little friend, I want to get back to my book" said Severus pushing through the barrier that was James and Sirius. Sirius pulled back Severus by the collar of his shirt.

"If we find out you are doing anything with Remus we will get you." Whispered Sirius Severus's ear. Severus shook him off and stomped back to the tree where Luscious and Narcissa were glaring in the direction where Severus was.

"So what did they say?" asked Luscious when Severus got back to the tree.

"They were going on about how I did something to Remus. Even though all I did was talk to him. And it wasn't about anything important." said Severus angrily plopping on the ground.

"Wait you talked to that one? Why on earth would you start a conversation with that filthy Gryffindor?" said Narcissa disgusted. Severus inwardly kicked himself but quickly came up with a lie.

"I didn't start it off first off" truth "He just came up to me whinny and complaining about something or other, I wasn't listening" Lie " Then I told him off and he walked out of the classroom" lie "and that's how it happened" lie.

"That sucks man, I'm sorry that that happened to you. Just curse him next time" suggested Luscious. Severus nodded and picked up his book again.

He continued reading it till he hurried off to herbology with Luscious and Narcissa.