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Chapter 8 – Concerned?

Remus knew from the instant he woke up, that he was late. Why hadn't anyone waked him up? he wondered as he jumped around like a maniac, trying to put his socks on and looking for his dressrobes at the same time.

Remus tried to catch his breath before entering the great hall. His eyes instantly locked on his friends. Peter was eating his toast as if his life depended on it, while he made small nods at James' remarks. James was chatting merrily not noticing that Sirius wasn't listening, but sat, absentmindedly, playing with some bacon on his plate.

Suddenly Sirius looked up and noticed Remus. Sirius' grey eyes locked on Remus' amber-eyes. For less than a second, barely noticeable, Sirius' features softened, his left hand stopped brushing a strand of black hair from his face. His right hand stopped in a motion and he dropped the fork. Then the fork loudly clattered at his plate and the moment ended.

James looked up and saw Remus. He got to his feet, and ran to Remus. When he reached him he pulled him in to a tight hug.

"I thought you were going to die or something," he said. Remus didn't question this weird remark, why would he be dying? He'd just locked himself in a classroom. That was just that kind of thing James usually said.

James became aware of how unmanly it was, embracing his friend like that and pulled back, casually stroking his hair to make up for the scene he'd just made. The entire hall was staring at them.

Lily joined them "Remus" she exclaimed and embraced him. When she let go of Remus he saw James mouthing "Thank you" to her. Lily's flushed slightly and smiled back at him.

Peter shook Remus' hand. And Amy joined them, hugging Remus.

Remus was in a state of shock, they all acted like he'd returned from the dead or something. Sirius had joined them, standing with his hands in his pockets.

Remus coughed and awkwardly said: "We'll be late if we don't hurry up"

"Ooh, you're right" Lily exclaimed.

They all grabbed their bags and headed for transfiguration.

On the way Remus and Lily walked slowly, making sure they walked a bit behind the others.

"Why are they all acting so strange?" Remus whispered, "It's like I've been terribly ill or something"

Lily shot him a quizzical look "They've been extremely worried for you, don't you know?" When Remus lightly shook his head, she continued: "They're always trying to protect you, you know. James got very concerned when I asked him if he knew where you were. He said he'd expected you to be with Amy and me. Sirius got this weird look and suggested, that you might be in the DADA classroom, but he didn't want to come, said something about homework. Homework? We're talking about Sirius here. James told me, that when he returned without you, Sirius started pacing up and down the floor, James said that he couldn't even be in the same room as Sirius" Lily noticed Remus' confused expression and explained, "James and Peter fled the dorm to get away from Sirius, and joined me and Amy in the commonroom instead. Anyway, suddenly Sirius sprinted from the dorm and out of the portrayhole. It was after curfew, but he didn't listen when James shouted after him to bring the cloak"

Remus couldn't believe the changes in Lily's attitude towards James, just the day before yesterday she'd told Remus about how awful James was, and now she seemed to be getting along with him quite well.

Was it true that Sirius had been concerned for him? No, it couldn't be, Sirius didn't even think of him as a friend, he'd made that quite clear yesterday. But then, why had Sirius gone looking for him? Stop being stupid, Remus firmly told himself, he wasn't looking for you. He was probably looking for that slytherin-girl from yesterday and accidentally bumped into you on his way. Sirius' smell, an arm around him. No, no and no Remus told himself as he felt his cheeks grow hot. No!

"Oi, are you two coming?" James shouted. He stood in the door leading to the transfiguration-classsroom. Remus and Lily hurried up.

As Remus placed himself between Amy and Peter he suddenly realised something. He and Sirius were transfiguration-partners. He felt the cold horror clutch him. He couldn't handle Sirius right now, he just couldn't. The panic was running through his body, making his limbs numb. He became aware of a hand on his arm.

Amy was eying him with a concerned look "Rem, are you all right?"

"I'm fine" Remus said, smiling calmingly. She squeezed his arm lightly and turned her attention to Mcgonagall who'd just entered the room. Amy's hand'd had a soothing effect on Remus and the feeling slowly returned to his body.

They were to practice a non-verbal bird-conjuring charm in pairs.

Remus had always been fairly good at transfiguration, but he just couldn't concentrate today. Sirius got a concentrated look that made all the hard, cold features disappear. Remus quickly closed his eyes, it would be embarrassing if anyone caught him staring at Sirius, and tried to concentrate again.

Sirius yelled as a tiny canary sat in his hair. The bird had shot out from Remus' wand. "Very good, Mr. Lupin" Mcgonagall said "And Miss Evans too I see. 20 points to gryffindor. Now help your partners"

Remus spent the rest of the class helping Sirius, but without results. Sirius hadn't succeeded in conjuring as much as a yellow feather. It was odd Remus thought, Sirius was usually quite bright, but he continually made the wrong movements, forcing Remus to correct him.

"Oh for Merlin's sake Padfoot, left to right, not right to left" Sirius opened his eyes and smiled brightly at Remus. As the class had went by the awkward atmosphere had disappeared, and Remus hadn't even considered his use of his friend's nickname. Then he remembered Sirius' use of "friend" and was relieved when the lesson ended.