The 3rd motion law of Newton.
Remus bursts into the common room and almost tackles Lily.
“Remus what-”
He pulls me away and drags me to his dorm and locks it right after.
“I am in love with Sirius.”
“That took you long enough!”
“Lily?! What?!”
“Come on, you were oblivious to it the whole time! The way you looked at them, the way they looked at you. They sleep with your jumpers Remus.”
“You mean that you knew?! How did you know before me?!”
“I’m Lily Evans, Remus. Do I need another reason?”
“What do I do?” All of his panic disappeared and is replaced with pure sadness.
“Oh Remus,” I take him into a tight hug, “It’s okay, it’s gonna be okay.”
“What if it doesn’t? What if he never sees me that way?”
“Then you will get over it.”
“I don't think I can Lily. I love them like breathing, it’s so easy to love them. And to stop loving them I'll have to stop breathing. Not loving them will kill me because I’ll choke on all the things we could have been.”
I have nothing to say to him about that. It sounds so pure when he says it, like pure love. I know that Sirius likes Remus, but Sirius doesn’t know it yet. He’ll have to figure it out themself first before something can happen. But it’s so tragic seeing Remus like this.
“Try to talk to them later, okay?”
He nods into my shoulder and I keep holding him.
~~~
“Remus? Where are you?!” I hear Mary yell.
“I’m here! What’s going on Macdonald?”
“You are still choosing the music right? Care to play ABBA again?”
“Mary come on, only the girls like ABBA!” I sign. It’s not that I hate ABBA it’s just that it really isn’t my taste in music.
“Oi! That’s not true, James likes it too, and Sirius when they are drunk.”
Sirius yells from the stairs, “You can’t spread lies Macdonald!”
“I”ll play a few, happy now?”
She kisses me on the cheek, “Absolutely ecstatic! "Thank you love!”
She leaves and I pick out a few albums from me and Sirius our collection. “Remus, where is the firewhiskey again?” Peter asks.
“Under my bed, Pete.”
“Thanks mate.”
The party can start any moment now and I walk downstairs with the albums, sitting them on a table.
“Oi Moony, want a drink?” Sirius comes up to me.
“Sure, why not.” We both take a shot and smile. Sirius is wearing their famous leather jacket with a white crop top and a red tie. As pants they are wearing a black loose black jeans. They are also wearing their iconic black all stars that look like they’ve been through hell and back, gold rings and gold star earrings. Their hair is curled and hanging lazily on their back.
“What are you looking at Remus?” Sirius laughs.
“You look gorgeous.” I slap my hand on my mouth. Fuck, why did I say that?! I know I had a few drinks before this one but I didn’t think I was this drunk already?!
“Well, same goes for you Moony, you look beautiful, as always.” Sirius winks at me, and I feel my whole face getting hot. I know they were joking, but that thought still can’t slow down my heart rate.
“I- the music- I need to play the music. I’ll be back later, I promise.”
I leave Sirius alone and walk to the stereo, taking a drink with me on my way. Oh where did I get myself into?
“Oi, Moony! Play Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy for me please!” James half screams, because he is on the other side of the room. I see Lily next to him, they are holding hands.
I put the plate into the stereo and the music starts, I see couples dancing with each other all around me. I see Peter and Sybill dancing together, they look awfully cute. Lily and James are dancing together too, but they don’t have that look in their eyes. They have a look that says ‘I love spending time with you, but I don’t know if I love you.’, even tho they don’t realize it. I love Lily and I love James and I will always support them, but I don’t think they are made for each other. As friends they are a great team, but romantic looking is a different story. They are like a puzzle. Them as persons are the box the puzzle comes in, on the box it says that all the pieces are in it. But then you make the puzzle and see that one piece is missing. With James and Lily, that piece represents romantic love. They love each other so deeply, just not in the right way.
After this song is done Lily asks for an ABBA song, “You can choose Lils, I’m going away from the music for a sec.”
I walk into the crowd. I drink and complain to Marlene about how I don’t like the music. I drink more and sing along with Angeleyes with Mary. I drink a lot more and search for Sirius while Honey, Honey is playing.
At this point I am VERY drunk. Lay All Your Love On Me is playing now, I see James with Lily, “Hey, did any of you guys see Sirius?”
“Not yet, sorry mate,” James says.
I hear someone sing at the top of their longs, “I wasn't jealous before we met
Now every woman I see is a potential threat. And I'm possessive, it isn't nice.
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice.”
I look around trying to see where the most beautiful voice I have ever heard came from. I see someone with black hair standing on a table using their wand as a microphone. Oh my god.
“I think I found them Remus,” Lily tells me while laughing.
I keep looking at them in awe, Sirius continues singing, “But now it isn't true
Now everything is new. And all I've learned has overturned. I beg of you.”
They drop on their knees, hand sliding over their body, “Don't go wasting your emotion,” Sirius looks at me and grins, while still holding the eye contact they sing, “Lay all your love on me.”
I am blushing so hard and my heart skips a beat, why do they have to be that attractive?!
“Hello? Earth to Remus?”
“Hm? Oh, yeah.” I clear my throat.
James looks at me with a curious expression, “Wait Remus, did you realize?!”
I sigh but nod anyway, “A few hours ago actually.”
“And you never told me?”
“A. Few. Hours. Ago. James did you expect me to apparitate to you while panicking the fuck out because I just realized I have the biggest crush on my best mate?”
“Well, yes. I would have helped you!”
I raze my eyebrow at him.
“Okay I would be very happy first and after that I would have helped you. But ey, on the bright side now you know it!”
“James, that doesn’t make it better.”
“Why not? Your crush on Sirius could form into a relationship!”
“Do you think Sirius even likes me? They literally just broke up with Mary.”
“But they also just announced they were gay. They also just sang a love song and looked you straight in the eye. They also fall asleep cuddling your sweaters. They also-”
“Okay James thank you I got it.”
Lily giggles and starts clapping her hands. James and I both turn our focus on the table again, the song has ended and Sirius is drinking the last bit of vodka straight out the bottle. They make a deep bow and jump off the table.
Sirius is walking towards me, so Lily and James leave me alone. “Tell me if they can’t snog so I can bully them with it okay?” Lily whispers in my ear before leaving.
“Heya Moony!” Sirius says very happy.
“Hello Pads. So you do like ABBA?”
“Shut up,” They playfully push me and smile brightly. Of course I return the favor.
“I actually have an album under my bed from them,” Sirius confesses.
“Why did you hide it?”
“Because I thought you would think it’s stupid.”
“Well, sure I don’t like the music because all the lyrics is sappy as fuck but I think it’s stupid to hide it from me Sirius. I could have bullied you with it years ago, but no, you had to be smart and hide it from me.”
They laugh very loud and bold, like they always do when they are drunk, “It’s still there you know, we could listen to it upstairs while you make stupid comments on it and bully me?”
“I would love that Sirius.”
They light up and grab my wrist, “come on then!”
Sirius pulls me with them and finds us a way through the crowd while still holding onto my wrist tightly. My eyes find Mary, she looks at where Sirius is touching me, then looks at my face and theirs, and she just smiles. She smiles like she knew all along. I don’t doubt that she knew, she is Mary Macdonald, that girl knows everything.
We walk up the stairs, a bit wobbly but we make it to the dorm. Sirius runs to their bed while I grab us 2 fire whiskeys.
“Here it is. My guilty pleasure.”
“And the joke of your life, come on, play it!”
The first song is S.O.S, which to be fair, isn’t even that bad. I give Sirius his fire whiskey and we go lay on their bed.
“I didn’t like Mary in a romantic way,” Sirius says out of nowhere.
I blink at him, totally taken out of the sudden change of subject. But they don’t even notice, “I thought I liked her because she is so perfect for me, but that doesn’t mean that we have to be in love right? She is sort of my soulmate. No one ever said that soulmates have to be romantic. I don’t like her romantically.”
“That’s good that you found that out Pads.”
“I like someone else I think.” Sirius is staring at the ceiling.
My heart stops beating for a sec, “Yeah?”
“I’m not sure if he likes me back. I’m not even sure I like him myself. I definitely like him, but I don't know if I like him romantically you know? Everything is so confusing, and I’m so scared to do it wrong because I was wrong with Mary too wasn’t I?”
I take a sip from my drink and Sirius does the same, “He likes you.”
They turn their head and look at me, “Yeah?”
“Yeah.”
I move my hand a bit closer to theirs and they do the same, our pinkies are touching each other.
We just stare at each other. I stare in their beautiful blue eyes with long lashes surrounding it. I stare at their perfectly done eyeliner and their glitter gold eyeshadow. I stare at the beautiful red blush that flows over their face. I stare at their lips.
I feel Sirius their gaze on me too.
It feels like our hearts have magnets in it, Sirius is the positive pole and I’m the negative one. Positive and negative are always drawn to each other, that’s physics. But all rules of physics fall away when our lips meet, meeting each other in the middle. No rules apply for our kiss, it breaks all the laws. The law of gravity crashes because I feel like I’m flying on a cloud called love. The law of power collapses because I feel like all my muscles have lost their strength. The only law that didn’t shatter apart is the 3th motion law of Newton. ‘For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,’ our kiss is equal and at the same time, and our personalities are the opposite, but that just makes the law complete. That makes us complete.
Sirius their hand is on my cheek and my hand goes up into their hair. Their hot warm mouth against mine. Sirius bites softly on my bottom lip and I moan quietly in their mouth. They open their mouth more to let my tongue in and I don’t hesitate a second. I need more of them, I need to feel more of them. Like Sirius can read my mind they grab my shoulders and roll me on themself. I kiss them on their mouth, then on their cheek, on their neck and bite them a bit. They tilt their head backwards so I can reach their neck better. I kiss them and I bite them and I do it over and over again, feeling like I can never get enough of them. I feel Sirius’ hands on my hips and struggling with taking off my jumper.
After I’ve thrown it off they say, “You really have to do that more.” I laugh and kiss them hard. I pull Sirius out of his crop top too and let my hands slide over their chest. I place my hand on their hips and give Sirius kisses from their neck to the belt of their pants.
“Can I?”
They giggle, “You can, love.”
While I’m struggling with their belt they say, “We are so drunk.”
I pull the belt off and throw it carelessly away, “Yeah. Drunk on my love for you.”
Sirius laughs and I smile into their skin.
There isn’t much talking after that.
~~~
“Did anyone else see that or do I need to get my eyes checked again??” I say to Lily and Peter.
“Did Sirius and Remus go upstairs together? Like almost hand in hand?”
I see Mary walking to us, “Did Sirius finally get their shit together or do I need to borrow James’ glasses?”
“I think you saw it good Mary, oh my god I’m so happy for them!”
Lily says, “That took them quite a while didn’t it?”
We all laugh and out of nowhere Marlene almost falls into our little circle that we formed while talking. She is clearly very drunk but also looks like she is having the best day of her life.
“Potter,” She is pointing her finger at me, “You owe me 15 gallions!”
“Wait, what were you guys betting on?” Peter asks.
Mary begins laughing and tries to explain, “Oh my god yes I remember! Half a year ago Marlene and James made a bet on when Sirius and Remus would fuck, before or after chrismas break. I personally thought during Christmas break but I guess Marlene is right for once.”
“Oi, Mary. I am a woman, of course I’m right!”
That deserves another round of laughs.
“I’m glad that they got their shit together tho.” Marlene says happily.
And no one can disagree.