Sirius Black woken up on the morning of one of the six worst days of Remus's life, with a big smile on his face. He'd put an itching spell on Peters underpants and was woken to the sound of him screaming and clawing. Sirius giggled and sat up; he pulled the hangings back on his bed
"What the fuck's wrong with you Pete?" He grinned broadly
"SOME ONE PUT AN ITCHING SPELL ON MY UNDERPANTS AND I PUT MY TROUSERS ON AND THEN THEY STARTED ITCHING AND NOW I CAN'T GET MY BELT UNDONE TO GET MY TROUSERS OFF TO GET MY PANTS OFF" he screamed frantically
"No need to get your knickers in a twist over it" James smirked and suppressed a laugh, he turned Sirius and gave him a sly thumbs up
"DID ONE OF YOU DO THIS?! MAKE IT..." Peter ran out of breath just as Sirius had reached for his wand, he lightly tapped Peter's rather large arse and reversed the incantation "...stop" Peter blushed and laughed awkwardly "ha! Erm... good one guys" he caught his breath and sat down on his bed; he scrubbed his fluffy sandy hair. James went into their bathroom and began to brush his teeth.
"James my dear" called Sirius sweetly
"Wha?"
"Did we have charms homework?"
"No"
"Did we have potions homework?"
"Yesh, d'you do ih?" He heard James spit and begin to gargle
"Bollocks!!! What was it on? Is it something I can do during breakfast?" James spat again and re-entered the room
"Shrinking potions and no, it was an essay"
"UGH! Bollocks! How long was it?"
"About 3000 words"
"Fuck that, I'd rather do the detention" Sirius sat back in his bed and grabbed the mirror on his bed side table, he then began to check his face and hair and Peter awed at how relaxed he could be over the possibility of detention
"Aren't you worried Sirius... they might make you work with Filch all night or... send you into the dark forest or... or..."
"For God's sake Peter, no teacher in their right mind, or even Filch for that matter, would send anyone into the dark forest for a detention, are you thick or what?" Sirius rolled his eyes and got up to dress for Breakfast.
Sirius didn't really eat that morning; they did scrambled eggs again and Sirius hated them more than he hated his house elf. He walked into charms and felt a bit upset when he remembered he had to sit next to Peter now while James got to have fun with his new little half blood friend. He'd tried to warn James about associating with riff raff like Loony Lupin but James had just laughed and said "Who says "riff raff" anymore?" Sirius really hated Lupin, he wasn't quite sure why though. He was just so weird. He use to just sit alone practicing spells and laughing to himself like an idiot and everyone used to take the piss out of him and have no problem doing so. Then Malfoy came along and started picking on him and everywhere Sirius went all he heard was "poor kid, everyone's so nasty to him and he's never done anything to anyone" as far as Sirius was concerned the boy got what he deserved for being such a loner weirdo all the time; he didn't try to make friends, he never even bothered to learn anyone's name and it drove Sirius insane that a half blood could be so rude to pure blood wizards like himself. And now James was making friends with him. It was bad enough that James fancied that mud blood Evans, also a friend of Loony's (blatantly only because she feels sorry for him), but at least she was high upon the social food chain. It was bad enough that he'd been put in Gryffindor after coming from generation upon generation of Slytherin but what if James started making him hang round with these people! Ugh! It didn't even bare thinking about! Sirius spent the entire double lesson ignoring Peter and trying to shoot Loony as many nasty looks as possible, so he knew he wasn't allowed to talk to any one of Sirius's friends outside of whatever lessons they may be forced together in whether those friends liked him or not. Sirius ran up to James while they left the class room
"James! I've told you not to associate with half bloods, especially ones like Loony Lupin" Sirius had used his forceful voice, usually people couldn't do anything but obey him when he spoke like this, well Peter couldn't, James scowled at him and snapped
"Fuck off Sirius, your Mummy's not here; you don't have to pretend to believe in that Pure Blood bollocks anymore". Sirius was amazed; James had just defended Remus Lupin! Loony half blood Lupin! Once more he was amazed at just how much what James had said bothered him. James rarely said or did anything that was deliberately intended to hurt people, but when he did he knew exactly where to poke a sharp stick. Why did he have to go and bring up his mother? His hateful, prejudice, insane, shrew of a mother. He wondered how James knew that the part of his mind that warned him against mud bloods spoke in his mother's voice. He wondered how James knew he didn't really believe in all that pure blood bollocks. He wondered if there was any point in him trying to uphold the Black name, he wasn't like the rest of them. He knew he wasn't like the rest of them. That was why he'd been put in Gryffindor in the first place. To begin with, he'd ignored his placement, he'd told his mother there'd clearly been a mistake and he started hanging round with Slytherins, almost all of them wanted to be his friend, even the older students, none of whom would miss the opportunity to gain a connection with the Black family. But as he grew closer with his old firend, James Potter, a pure blood who not only had he know since he was a baby but shared his love of mischief and pranking but may have just been one of the most awesome people he'd ever met, he also began to fall out with his Slytherin friends; it seemed Sirius was all talk when it came to his hatred of mud bloods, he always refused to join in with them when they tormented any student that wasn't a pure blood and he occasionally found himself slipping into respectfully calling them muggle born or half blood. He'd decided to dump them for good to hand round with James and the other Gryffindors in May of first year; of course he'd told the Slytherins that he wasn't going to hang round with them anymore because they'd started talking to some half blood, Severus Snape. James and him became best friends and Snape has hated him ever since.
After their small argument, Sirius caught up with James on the way to potions
"I suppose you and Loony are pretty friendly now"
"I suppose we are" James replied frowning and nonplussed
"He isn't going to start wanting to hang round with us, is he?"
"I don't think so... he's... he's...erm..." James tailed off mid sentence, he'd been distracted by the sight of Evans arse. Her robes were getting a little tight on her hips, causing her bottom to be highlighted quite clearly, especially while she was walking. Lupin's eyes had briefly flicked over his shoulder, even Peter could've noticed where James's gaze was fixed, he tapped Evans on the shoulder and gestured towards James. Lily tutted and pulled at her robes self consciously, James winked. Sirius couldn't believe the prick had winked. She quickly pulled out her wand and jinxed James, splitting his bag and scattering his books all over the floor
"HARSH EVANS!" called Sirius as she and Lupin walked away, her giggling, Lupin shaking his head. Sirius thought Lupin would be the sort of person who shook his head a lot.
"What were you saying before you started drooling over Evans?" asked Sirius as he bent down to help James pick up his books
"Oh... er, I was going to say that I think he likes to be by himself anyway, oh, and I don't think Lupin would start just hanging round with us, he seems like he'd need a formal invitation first, bless him"
"Yeah... bless him..." Sirius frowned a little at James "Er... James?"
"What?"
"You know what you said before"
"Yeah, sorry about that Sirius, it was low for me to bring up your mum like that"
"No, it's okay James. I hate that I sound like my fucking Mother, and I don't really care about muggle borns and half bloods and... Stuff. You're right"
"I am?"
"Yes, James, you are"
"This means a Black has admitted defeat... Should I send a letter to the Daily Prophet?"
"No, my Mother would probably have me taken off the family tapestry if she found out I'd admitted I was wrong" Sirius laughed and James joined in tentatively, it was funny, but Sirius's family scared the living daylights out of him.
After they'd been let out of potions a little earlier than usual (The Professor had forgotten to take in the essays and Sirius did a little dance in his chair when he realised he'd escaped detention) Sirius and James walked down to the great hall together.
"James?"
"What?"
"We won't have to sit with that Lupin kid, will we?"
"Oh for Christ's sake Sirius! No! But honestly, I wouldn't mind it if he did, he's a bit weird but who cares! I thought you liked weird! Normal is boring as fuck! And, you know what?"
"What?"
"I bet you'd like him if you got to know him"
"You think?"
"Yeah probably" James shrugged and smiled "Where's Peter?" Sirius snorted
"Do you care?"
"Not really, I'm just getting used to him following us around, he's a bit like a big fat smelly puppy" before Sirius could laugh at James, he was interrupted by Lucius Malfoy, who'd marched to the front of the great hall, his voice magically booming;
"Excuse me everyone, I have an announcement to make"
