I an so friggen sorry it's taken me over a month to update! Oh God, I'm a terrable person! Please forgive me! Please?!?!?! You should all go over to Deviant Art and thank KiroFan4Life, a friend of mine who called me today and yelled at me to update and inspired me to write this, which I just wrote in the past hour. Thank you so much for everyone who reviews and favorites me and all that shit. I love you. Enjoy chapter 7.

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Chapter 7-Blah Blah Cute

"Hey Remus. How did tutoring go?" Peter said as he walked up behind the tall boy who had his head leaded up against the open door of his locker.

"Oh!" Remus mumbled as he jumped up in surprise. "Hey Pete. It was good. I can't figure out for the life of me why no sophomores understand algebra." He said with a far-off look in his eyes

"Are you okay?" he asked as he looked up at the taller boy.

"Just a bit confused," Remus half-laughed, trying to cheer himself up a little as all the things that had happened over the last few days ran through his head.

"Thinking about Sirius?" Peter said with a small smirk on his face but a worried look flickering through his eyes.

"Umm…yeah," Remus sighed. "I'm just really—hold on a second," he stopped mid sentence and looked Peter in the eye, "I haven't even said anything to you about him. Do people know? Is it already going through the school?" Remus asked, wide-eyed and urgent.

"Relax, Lover-Boy," Peter chuckled at Remus who looked like he was about to start hyperventilating. "Lily told me. She said you either wouldn't want to talk about it or would have already been shagging the good-for-nothing git. And you don't have to be jumpy about the gay thing, you have nothing to be ashamed of," the laugh in his eyes was replaced with a sincere look as he spoke his phrase.

"You know I already have a lot to worry about with the hole 'being accepted by society' thing. And being a homo just added another thing to my list," Remus mumbled as he grabbed his bag and pulled it out of his thin metal locker.

"Yeah but as soon as someone gets to know you they'll automatically say 'screw that list.' You really need to give yourself a break, man."

Remus just sighed as he shut the door of his locker and rested his head against the cool, dark metal.

"He's right, you know," Sirius said as he walked toward the two boys.

"Sirius," Remus jumped as he heard the voice that was getting far too familiar than he was comfortable with.

"I've got to go," Peter said as he gave Remus a secret, teasing smile. "I'll see you tomorrow Rem,"

"Don't call me that," Remus yelled after Peter as he walked away down the hallway.

"I don't know Lupin, I think it's sort of cute. Rem," he smirked as he repeated the nickname and let it roll off his tongue.

"You really are like a teenage girl during her time of the month," Remus grumbled as he turned away from Sirius and started down the hall.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sirius asked as he rushed after the younger boy.

"You have mood swings," Remus said simply, "just an hour or two ago you were calling be a bitch-"

"Cold-hearted bastard," Sirius corrected.

"Whatever," Remus rolled his eyes as they passed the front desk. "Then you snogged me, and now you're all 'blah blah, cute! Blah blah, Rem!'" he said in a camp voice.

"What can I say, baby," Sirius smirked. "You drive me crazy."

"Will you just shut up and leave me alone," Remus said sharply as he stopped and turned towards Sirius just outside the doorway of the school.

"Okay! Okay!" Sirius held up his hands defensively. "I get it, you don't like the flirting."

"It's not the flirting," Remus sighed as he put his head in his hands. "It's just you."

"What's the matter with me?" Sirius asked, looking offended.

"Nothing! And that's the problem," Remus threw his hands up in exaggeration. "You're too bloody perfect for me."

"You're not making any sense, Remus," Sirius raised an eyebrow. "Are you admitting that you like me?"

"Of course I bloody like you! How could I not! You're beautiful and both those times we kissed my heart stopped and we were the only two people in the world," Remus grumbled as he leaned against the brick wall of the outside of the school and sank down to the ground.

"Then what's the problem?" Sirius lowered himself next to the confused boy next to him.

"I just have this tendency to…hurt…people I care about," Remus sighed.

"Well, then I just won't let you hurt me," Sirius said.

"You can't stop me once I snap," Remus growled into his hands. "It's not just like I'll break your heart. I physically hurt people and no one can stop me. It's something… medical."

"I'm sure I can take it."

"No!" Remus shouted angrily as his head snapped up.

"Okay…" Sirius said in a small voice.

They watched a few students and teachers leave and enter the school. Most were already gone but a few had stayed after for club meetings or late sports practice.

"Would friends be fine?" Sirius finally asked after a long silence.

"Pardon?"

"Could we be just friends?" Sirius repeated.

"I guess…we could try that," Remus answer hesitantly.

"Great!" Sirius smiled widely at the other boy as he stood up and offered his hand to Remus. "Let's start now. Do you want to go and get some coffee?"

"Sure," Remus smiled back, not nearly as enthusiastically. "That would be nice."

He took Sirius's hand and allowed himself to be pulled to his feet.

"I have a motor-bike," Sirius said as they walked over to the student parking lot. "We can take that."

"No way," Remus scoffed. "We're going in my truck."

"That's not fun!" Sirius insisted, sounding like a whining child.

"Stop complaining or I'm not going to go at all," Remus jokingly warned.

"Fine," Sirius grumbled.

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So? What do you think? What's Remus' 'medical' problem? Is it really Sirius' time of the month? Will the puppies stay 'just friends'? Find out in the next chapter! All favorites, subscriptions, and reviews and much apritiated and I like criteaqe (how even the hell you spell that).