Deafening Silence

Remus wants so badly to tell James to pick his jaw up off the floor but it's amusing watching him stutter out a reply as he clenches his fists against the doorknob. They had walked in and James hasn't even looked at Remus. His eyes immediately flew to Lily, and he hasn't looked away since.

"James? You okay in there?" Remus asks, a hint of amusement in his voice as he leans on the door frame.

"Oh! I forgot my bag in the car, i'll be just a second" Lily turns around and walks away, James' eyes still glued to her.

"Who's your friend?" He looks at Remus as if he's in a daze. Remus looks back at Lily, rummaging through the car, then at his desperate friend looking at him with pleading eyes.

~

JAMES FLEAMONT POTTER

occupation: ACTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER

current concern: he can't walk to women

["I don't get why that's my current concern. I can talk to women, it's just hard" ]

~

"Why don't you ask her?" Remus smiles as James' eyes widen.

"I can't talk to her! Have you seen her? I will die! Is that what you want Remus? For me to die?" James raises both his eyebrows runs a hand through his hair.

"You're so dramatic.." Remus mutters, looking past James and down the corridor "Is anyone here yet?"

"Just Peter.." James opens the door further and Remus walks in. "How have you been doing anyway? You haven't answered my texts so I had to go as far as to email you."

"I'm fine James." Remus turns around to look at him. "I just don't go on my phone that much anymore"

"You don't seem to do much of anything anymore" James says but quickly regrets it when he sees his friend's expression change.

"Hey Remus!" Peter walks up to his friend and smiles. Remus turns around and waves at his friend.

~

PETER PETTIGREW

occupation: baker

current concern: he can't seem to perfect his strawberry cake. though many people compliment it, he always feels like somethings missing.

[ "I don't understand how Remus hasn't gotten sick from the amount of chocolate he eats, but oh well." ]

~

He is wearing a long sleeved tan and white stripped shirt with a short sleeved v neck dark brown jumper, along with brown slacks.

"Hey Pete, how are you?" Remus looks down around him "Still as short as ever"

"Yeah this is why you aren't getting any chocolate biscuits." Peter smirks as he watches the taller man's expression fall.

"Wait! I was just kidding!" He frowns as Peter laughs. Remus turns around when he hears Lily's voice.

"I live just across the street from Remus, but we practically live together!" Lily laughs, James stares at her as she does. "My names Lily Evans"

"Potter" Is all he says, Lily raises an eyebrow at him and stops smiling.

"Oh, okay then" She nods and walks towards Remus.

"Hello! You must be Lily, right?" Peter asks and Lily smiles. "I'm Peter Pettigrew"

"Peter I was joking about the short thing i swear.." Remus groans as his friend completely ignores him.

"Yeah, I'm Lily Evans. I've heard a lot about you from Remus. Specifically about your chocolate biscuits"

"Yeah, I've made some, just through here" Peter walks down the hall and turns a corner, Lily following. As soon as she's gone, James is right in front of Remus.

"I told you I couldn't talk you her! Did you hear what I said? Did you hear it Remus?" James shakes Remus' shoulders. "Are you even listening?"

"Chocolate biscuits.."

"Remus?!" James groans. "Listen, i'm sorry about what I said before, i was just joking around"

"Huh? What did you say?"

 "Before? About you not doing.. You know what? It doesn't matter" James smiles "Now back to Lily- where are you going Remus?...Remus?!"

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"Wow, this is beautiful" Lily walks through the door, Remus follows. They are at the top of a staircase, that leads to the garden. Since it was getting dark, fairy lights are all around. The lights spread out onto the flowers and onto the path that led deeper inside.

"It is. Where are we gonna sit?" Remus looks around frantically, Lily scoffs and walks down the stairs.

"Remus, look at this! You need to absorb the beauty" Lily holds on to the railing, lights wrapped around it.

"Absorb the beauty? What are you even talking about right now? You watch way too much rom cons" Remus mumbles and follows her down.

Lily puts her bag down on a table, grabs Remus' arm and starts to walk.

"This place is massive! And we have it all to ourselves for like.." She looks at her clock "20 minutes! 30 if we're lucky"

"If we were lucky we wouldnt be here" He says, then frowns when he processes what his friend just told him "Oh god.. everyone'll be here that quickly?"

"You need to seriously relax."

"Okay, what do you suspect we do?" Remus turns to look at her, knitting his eyebrows together in confusion at her mischievous face.

"Do you remember when we used to pretend we were fairys-"

"Lily! No!" Lily bursts out laughing "That's not even funny, don't even joke about that" Remus shakes his head and laughs. "Don't tell anyone about that"

"That was so funny!" Lily snickers. "Anyways, what was with your friend before?" She whispers, as if anyone's around.

"Who knows?" Remus shrugs. James is confusing, you can never really tell what's going on in his head.

"I thought he was into me then he started being all weird.." Lily sighs.

"James gets like that when he's around people he finds attractive, i don't know why." Remus shrugs. "You should call him Potter though, for the bit." Lily looks at him and grins.

"You're right. Now come on! Let's explore!"

—

"She's beautiful, you don't understand, I'm seriously in love with her Pete." James says whilst walking towards the door. "I've never seen— I won't ever seen anyone that beautiful again in my life!"

"Yeah, I think you're over exaggerating. You've been going on about her for the past hour.." Peter follows him. James opens the door and pauses.

He blinks once. Twice. And slams the door shut.

"James! What are you doing?!" Peter exclaims. "There's people at the door you know." He opens the door and is met with the face of Regulus Black. Then Sirius, Marlene, Barty and Evan come into view.

"Who are you?" Sirius asks and Marlene nudges him. He gasps at her and turns to Evan, who pretends he didn't see the whole thing.

"Hey Peter!" She smiles, shoving past her bandmates and hugging him.

"Hey Marlene! You guys are late you know" He says when she pulls away. He lets them in, watching them as they walk past him.

"Fashionably late" Barty adds on, smirking at Peter.

"James! Don't think i forgot you slamming the door in our faces!" Sirius glares at his friend.

"Actually, it was more like in my face" Regulus states, looking at the man with glasses.

"Yeah- sorry" James croaks out and stares down at the ground.

"The party has ARRIVED!" Sirius yells and walks through the corridor.

"WHOOP WHOOP!" Barty shouts, Evan laughs loudly.

"Stop being so loud! You're all so embarrassing.." Marlene follows them and rubs her face. All four of them turn a corner and their voices become muffled.

"Excuse me, do you have a bathroom I can use?" Regulus asks. James looks up at him and freezes.

"Yeah it.. works pretty boy- " James' eyes widen as he interrupts himself. "Pretty good it works pretty good.. the bathroom.. um"

Regulus raises his eyebrows at him.

"Oh? Well that's good to know." Regulus turns to Peter, who points him in the direction of the bathroom. They thank him before leaving. James stands there in shock before Peter speaks,

"You're an idiot" He taps James' shoulder "It's okay, everyone knew but you."

~
JAMES FLEAMONT POTTER

occupation: ACTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER

current concert(updated): can't talk to women or men

["Oh come on!"]

~

—

"Wow, we are really standing out- oh my god it's Dorcas" Marlene turns around and starts to walk away, Sirius grabs her arm.

"You need to relax." He says, laughing at her utter foolishness.

"Who's that she's talking to? Is that Evan's sister? Oh they're probably dating or in a relationship or something.. I can't believe she moved on that fast" Marlene rambles on, ignoring Sirius rolling his eyes at her.

"What? You know that's not true" Evan scoffs. "If she ever mentioned Dorcas' name you know I'd tell you"

"Shhh! She might hear you" Marlene puts her hand over his mouth and winces as he bites it.

"We're on top of the stairs, she won't be able to..where did Sirius and Barty go?" Evan rubs his temples. "You know what? I don't even care." He turns back around and walks into the house, leaving Marlene to talk to herself.

He walks past a room and stops when he recognises a voice. An annoying, loud voice.

"And I was all like, no Sirius you can't be the only one in the spotlight because we can't play musical instruments in the dark!" Evan rubs his face and sighs before walking into the room. "Like the nerve of that guy- oh hey Evan"

"Hey Barty" Evan goes to stand next to him. Of course Barty was in the kitchen of all places. "Who're you talking to?" Evan looks across the table and stops.

He recognised the man, he had opened the door for him when they got here. But he seems familiar, like he's seen him before that.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" Evan asks, watching as the man shakes his head, clearly confused.

"No, I don't think so." He says, his voice soft. Evan nods slightly and leans on the table. He looks down at the table, at the book in Barty's hands.

"Oh!" Evan stands up straight "You're that baker. Peter right?" He smiles, at ease knowing where the familiarity came from.

"You may have seen me on tv a couple of times but-" Peter looks down and plays with his hands.

"Oh yeah! You made that pie!" Barty grins. Peter nods, his cheeks pink. He's extremely humble, if Barty knows this guy he must be famous.

Evan nearly rolls his eyes as Barty starts a one sided conversation with himself (it only being one sided because he won't let anyone else get a word in) about how pies and cakes are the same thing. Still, Evan sits on a stool and watches the man talk, he's used to Barty doing this so it doesn't bother him.

He glances over at Peter, who looks lost and nearly laughs. Once Barty starts, it's hard to get him to stop.

—

Sirius walks through the seated crowd and down the path.

It was beautiful, he'll admit. Once again, James has out done himself. But he doesn't want to sit down and indulge himself in boring conversation with people who he barely speaks to. No, he wants excitement.

So he walks further down, ignoring the second glances he got from other people. He hates James' entitled actor friends. They're all full of shit. 

As he walks, the music and talk turn into a quiet buzz, and is replaced with something else. Whispers. 

Sirius stops himself, intrigued at the private conversation. He walks closer to get a better look, stopping in front of a tree wrapped in lights.

From where he is stands, he sees a red headed girl and a man a tall man. Taller than him anyways, Sirius is 5'9 (basically 5'11, he argues), but the man was definitely over 6'0.  They have their backs turned to him so he can't see their faces. Instead of walking away, and minding his own business, he leans on a tree and listens in.

—
"Remus you do realise we can't hide out here the whole night right?" Lily scrolls through her phone, looking up and seeing her friend's face. "There's so many people here! We could make so much friends"

"We aren't hiding out! We'll go.. in a second" Remus look up at the moon and sighs.

"Remus." Lily crosses her arms and looks at him knowingly.

"Okay okay! We can go, fine"  Remus sighs. He knows he's being stupid, he just doesn't like being around too much people.

"Honestly, I would hide out from this party too." A voice says. They both turn around and are met with the gorgeous face of Sirius Black. A man, close to his age Remus assumes is currently picking at his nails.

"I mean, like no offence, James is my mate and all but where's the alcohol, you know?" He looks up and immediately locks eyes with Remus'. The man's playful smile slowly drops, his expression completely changing.

This man was like nothing Remus has ever seen before. When their eyes meet Remus thinks he might die.

He starts with his hair- that hair. Some of it was tied back, it would look messy to anyone else but Remus absolutely loves it. Strands were lose around his eyes and around his ears, framing his face. And shit, his face.

His cheek bones are a completely different thing all together. His grey eyes dark and mysterious, dancing around Remus' face. His pink lips, parting as his tongue parks out and drags along his top lip. Remus knows this action fast but he's seeing the whole thing in slow-mo.

His outfit made everything better and as Remus gives Sirius another look up and down he finds his eyes lingering at his chest before looking back up into his eyes.

For a second, he feels as if he's dreaming because no way someone's that good looking? Right?

Sirius slowly smirks at him.

"Hey." His voice changed. What was before very playful and teasing, is now serious with a hint of something else, Remus can't quite put his finger on it.

"Hi." He says immediately after. Lily looks in between them and narrows her eyes. "I'm Remus Lupin."

And he doesn't even know where these words are coming from because Remus is so shy around new people so what is he doing?

"Sirius." The long haired man reached his hand out to him "Sirius Black"  Remus takes it and shakes it.

Sirius' hands are cold, shorter than Remus'. When they put their hands back down Remus wants to shake his hand over and over again.

"I take it you aren't enjoying yourself?" He asks, as he speaks Remus notices a piece of metal on his tongue.

"I mean, I've just been stood here the whole time so.. if I said no it wouldn't really be fair." Remus rubs the back of his neck, Sirius nods.

"Well I just got here and everyone looks so boring." Sirius laughs and Remus didn't think he could find him any more attractive but hearing that laugh he was obviously incorrect.

"Everyone?" He says, so quietly.

"Well, not everyone" Sirius keeps watching him. Remus feels himself blush, but he seriously can't help it. He's never felt like this. Usually it takes him a while to realise he's attracted to someone. Sometimes Lily has to point it out to him.

But this time, he knows.

"Yeah?" Remus feels himself smirk as Sirius' cheeks turn slightly pink. The kind of pink you only notice if you're really looking. And Remus is looking.

"Yeah." Sirius replies, his adams apple bobbing as he silently gulps.

Sirius was about 5'10, Remus 6'0. They're height difference isn't all that much but Remus still enjoys seeing Sirius look up to him, even if it's just a little. And Remus suspects the Sirius' platforms add on a some height for him.

"Remus? I was meant to go to Peter about something so.. I'm gonna go do that." Lily starts walk away and Remus finally looks away from Sirius to give hers pleading look that says,

'Please don't leave me here with this beautiful man.'

But she only smiles and walks off.

When he looks back he realises Sirius is closer and feels himself blush again.

"You're pretty." Remus blurts out and nearly slaps himself. but he really can't help it. The man is pretty, very pretty.

"Pretty?" Sirius tilts his head slightly. Remus' eyes fall down to the man's lips, then back to his eyes.

"Yeah. That." He mumbles, neither of them breaking eye contact.

"I haven't hear that one before." Sirius smirks and tucks a hair behind his ear. Remus watches this action before answering,

"Really? I don't believe you." Remus says and Sirius laughs.

"No?"

"Nope" Remus replies, Sirius smirk only gets bigger.

"You know, if I didn't know any better I'd say you were flirting with me Remus Lupin" Remus stares at Sirius' lips as his name rolls of his tongue. And suddenly Remus is so hot, as if the cool air of outside has disappeared, and has been replaced by something so much hotter.

"And if I am?" He doesn't know why he says that. It's so stupid, Sirius isn't remotely interested in him. He can't be, Remus barely did anything.

--

"I wouldn't be opposed to the idea" Sirius feels himself grin as Remus blushes. He doesn't know who this guy is, but this party just got interesting.

--

"So you're like.. a baker?" Evan tilts his head slightly. Peter nods slowly and glances at Barty, who is currently looking through Peter's cook book.

Peter doesn't even know how he got himself into this situation. Lily and Remus left and then they came in. He can't ignore how attractive they are, no matter his hard he tries. Barty with his piercing eyes, Evan with the way he carries himself. It's just overwhelming.

"Do you not talk?" Barty asks, shutting the book and picking at his nails before looking at Peter.

"Maybe he just doesn't want to talk to you" Evan hisses at him and laughs as Barty shoves him.

"Yeah, I do talk sorry." Peter looks around nervously as they both eye him. Barty raises his eyebrows and leans on the table.

"He speaks!" He laughs and Evan scoffs.

"Barty stop it" He elbows him, resulting in Barty holding his side and wincing, Peter laughs and they both turn to him.

"What?" He asks and Evan only smiles in return.

"How come you aren't partying with everyone else?" He asks, leaning his head on his hand as his elbow rests on the table.

"It's not really my thing. I mostly came here to see my friends" Peter mutters and looks down at the table.

"Peter! " Marlene walks in "Ew are you guys harassing him or something? You better stop it" She hits Barty on the back of his head and he kicks her. She gasps and quickly turns to Evan.

"Did you see that?! He just kicked for no reason!" Marlene shakes her head and tuts. Evan gets off the stool he was on and looks at Peter one last time before leaving.

"What the hell!? I didn't do anythin- Evan where were you going? Evan?" Barty rolls his eyes and follows Evan out. Peter looks at Marlene and notices her confused expression, then shrugs.

"Something about the way you're looking at me tells me you've got gossip" Peter raises an eyebrow and Marlene grins.

"Okay so, get this" Marlene begins to go on a rant about how Dorcas looked her up and down. Peter nods his head and laughs at her being so over dramatic.

 "What? It's not funny Peter! If you wanna talk about something funny, let's talk about how Evan and Barty were practically all over you!" She smirks at Peter's confused face.

 "They were on the other end of the table, Marlene. " Peter corrects. Marlene laughs loudly and grabs his shoulder.

 "I mean like.. mentally" She answers, as if it was obvious. 

 "Right.." Peter trails off, looking at her "Are you sure you haven't had anything to drink?" He laughs as she shoves him.

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