The crowds of Hogwarts once again returned as the January frost covered the grounds. Many tired faces sat around the hall early that Monday morning. Remus, Sirius, James and Lily however were wide awake, despite spending most of the night down in the common room. Peter had been with them as they enjoyed their last night of the holidays, but his head was currently drooping lower and lower towards his bowl of cereal as he started to doze.

James had decided that he would try and corner Sirius today. He had been putting it off for over a week now and Lily was starting to nag him. After their last class, James had Quidditch practise, his plan was to drag Sirius along and talk to him either on the way down or way back. Of course, this plan had been checked and approved by Lily, who had made plans with Remus to stop him from interrupting. However, James still found himself slowly sweating through his shirt.

They had double Potions first thing. Remus, who was terrible at Potions, was paired up with Sirius, as usual, and James was with Lily, leaving Peter with Alice. They worked away at their task, Sirius was clearly the best out of his pair and set about working to save Remus exploding the cauldron. Lily and James were on the bench behind them and watched as Sirius grabbed Remus' hand to stop him adding the wrong ingredient. They sent each other sly smirks, both thinking of their plan, before setting off themselves.

Half and hour into the lesson, Alice and Peter's cauldron had exploded thanks to Peter. James had watched this happen whilst adding the last ingredient to his own potion (Why did he even take this class, he hates Potions, and it shows..) James and Lily were the first pair to finish the bulk of their potion and all they had left to do was to brew it for twenty minutes, adding a clockwise stir every five. Sirius bustled by his own cauldron, he had finally managed to convince Remus to sit down and just read out the instructions to him, which was working out a lot better for them. Lily was sure she saw Remus staring at Sirius with a longing look in his eyes, which when she thought about it, was probably true.

When class had finished, they packed away their things and the six Gryffindors left for Ancient Runes. Lily and James were insistently staring at the pair of hopefully "love-struck" boys, trying to catch subtle feelings in their faces and words. Even throughout their next lesson , they would take it in turns to stare at the pair, while the other wrote down notes. All they observed was Remus taking notes and Sirius lying with his head on the desk facing Remus.

The rest of their lessons passed the same way and when the bell rang, James began sweating again and ran up to the dorm to change his shirt. This done, he found Sirius in the Hall.

"Sirius, come to practise with me?"

"Why?" Sirius questioned, looking bored at the thought of it, "Maybe I want to stay with Moony."

"Moony is going to the library with Lily," James stated, Sirius sent Remus an evil look, to which Remus replied with a laugh, "Just please come with me Pads?"

"Fine!"

"Let's go then."

"What? Now? It's too early isn't it?"

"Erm.." the truth was that it was far too early, but he wanted to talk to Sirius now so that he could think it over during practise, "not for the captain."

Sirius stood up from the table and made to leave, James in tow.

Once down at the pitch, James led Sirius to the changing rooms. His sweaty palms slipped on the door handle, but he finally managed to get it open. Sirius sat down on one of the benches and slumped against the wall.

"Why did you want me to come?" he asked, James could sense his curiosity from the other side of the room.

"Well, it's just there is something I want to talk to you about," James started as he slipped out of his robes.

"Oh great(!) What is it then?"

"Okay, this is going to be hard for me to say so I would really appreciate it if you didn't interrupt, got it?" James continued without waiting for an answer from Sirius, "Okay, well, I've been noticing certain things recently. Certain things about- about the way you act around Remus."

"Oh."

"No interrupting! So I've been noticing these things, like the way you tend to- to stare at him," James was finding it incredibly difficult to string words together, he suddenly felt very self-conscious and was reminded of when his friends had tried to asked him if he had feelings for Lily, "and the way you two are always really close together and stuff like that, and I was just wondering if you have feelings for him maybe.." James had his Quidditch kit on now and chanced a glance at Sirius. His face was empty of the little colour it normally had, his jaw was clenched and his eyes seemed about ready to pop out of his skull. He was refusing to look at James and stared fixedly at a spot on the floor, "You don't have to tell me about it- well I would like if you did, but you don't have to- but maybe it's just something you should think about."

The conversation had ended there because the rest of the team came piling in and Sirius fled the room and took a seat in the stands.

He sat with his head in his hands as the team started off their practise. James knew, or at least suspected something. Would he tell Remus? Would he tell Lily? Lily was sure to tell Remus, she loved to meddle with people like that, she would say she was trying to get them together, but really, it would just make Remus hate him. Remus hated him. Sirius would bet that Lily had already told Remus and Remus was sitting in the library right now, completely disgusted with him.

Wait, James had figured it out, so what if Remus had figure it out too. Remus was a lot better at noticing things than James. But what if Remus had figured it out and then told James about how disgusted he was with him and asked James to talk to him. Yeah maybe that was it. But either way, Remus hated him. He wanted to yell, and scream, and also wanted to curl up on his bed, his bed that was right next to Remus', if Sirius lay in the right spot he could smell Remus' scent on his pillow. He hit himself across the head, 'thinking like that is what's got us in this position!' He couldn't stay there anymore, he wanted to be shut off from the rest of world. How could he have messed things up so badly? Sirius left the stands and crossed the pitch, however he was spotted by James. He heard him call out to everyone to continue and flew down to Sirius.

"Sirius, where are you going?" James sounded slightly concerned as he looked at his friend.

"Away from here," Sirius still wouldn't look at James and refused to stop walking, making James fly along side him.

"Pads, look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you or anything, I just thought maybe it was something you should think about," Sirius had reached the castle steps and simply walked inside, leaving James.

He pondered going to find Remus, but thought against it and instead made his way down to the kitchens. When there, he stocked up on sweets and a bar or two of chocolate incase Remus could be persuaded to be his friend again.

Slowly walking back to the tower, Sirius pondered ways in which Remus could not hate him. None came to mind. But it was then that he bumped into real Remus, and Lily too.

"Hey Pads, I thought you were at practise with James?" Remus spoke to him with a small smile pulling at the corners of his mouth. Sirius was gobsmacked. Remus didn't hate him? Why? But then he noticed the look on Lily's face. A sudden realisation dawned on him. Remus did not know, it was Lily who was involved in this, not him. It was Lily who had noticed not him. Remus was still oblivious! That was great! Or was it? Sirius admitted to himself that when he thought Remus had known about his feelings, it felt- well, it felt like a weight had been lifted, and even though Remus would hate him, he felt like at least Remus would hate the real him and Sirius wouldn't have to lie anymore. But now, Sirius felt disappointed. Remus was utterly and completely oblivious. Maybe that just proved that Remus didn't feel the same way. Sirius didn't know, but he did know that he had been having this epiphany for the last five minutes and had not replied.

"Oh, er yeah I was but it was really cold and I was starving. I got you some chocolate from the kitchens," he added, retrieving the bars from his pocket and giving them to Remus. His eyes lit up as he looked at the bars, Remus loved chocolate more than anything, Sirius smiled at Remus' face before remembering Lily was watching him and straightened his face. He looked at her and she raised one eyebrow sceptically.

When James joined Sirius and Lily by the fire in the common room. Sirius immediately stood up and left to join Remus and Peter in the dorm. Lily sighed at she heard the door close. She had just managed to get information out of Sirius but he refused to be there should she tell James. Sirius had told her of his feelings towards his best friend and of course she had encouraged him to talk to Remus about it. Sirius had of course refused, and that was when James came back. The pair filled each other in on what they had missed, including Lily's conversation with Remus about his feelings towards Sirius. Together, James and Lily came to the conclusion that their friends where in love and that neither of them trusted James with this information.

A/N thanks again for the reviews, you guys are amazing, thoughts?