Sirius Is A Genius
The morning after, Sirius weirdly woke up before anyone. Usually the order is James, Remus, Sirius and I for last. But today the ravenette woke up with a pounding head and an achey neck. “Agh..everything hurts..” He got up and went to the bathroom and washed his face. After numbingly staring at the mirror for about a minute, everything he did the night before surfed up in his memory and flooded his brain. “...SHIT.” he whispered-yelled while panicking in the bathroom. “Oh dear heavens, how the FUCK am i going to UNfuck the situation-” He said, now pacing back and forth in the small room “I’m just going to pretend like nothing happened. Yea, great idea. Lie to your best friend about the handjob you gave him when you were drunk. GREAT IDEA.” he said sarcastically but then what other thing could he do? Confrontation is scary enough as it is, so lying goes well enough. Sirius shook his body a bit and seamed to calm down. Then he took a quick cold shower to get rid of any last drunkness and went to get changed and dressed. In the mean time he woke James up and james woke me up. It was a terrible wake up, i was feeling tired and my head was hurting a bit but the most irritating thing was the nausea and the dizziness. We all got ready and I didn’t know what to do about the whole Sirius thing. Why did he do that? While we were walking to main hall i reached for Sirius’ coat and got a lil close to him “listen Sirius.. about yesterday..” “what about it?” he said. “what do you mean” “Did i do..something?” he said with a voice that was basically telling me to fuck off and looked at me weird, like i was about to pull a prank on him “ I- yes.You- you..” i started getting red in the face, it was so embarassing even to say that “I what? Is this a prank?” I look at him a bit wrong. How could he- “How can you even say that?!” “Elias doesn’t know how to pull pranks for his life Sirius, he has a terrible poker face” James said yawning “heh yeah. Anyways, i’m sure you’re just overreacting Elias, take a breather or something idk-” then he walked away and I was kind of left there. What the hell was that. In three years that i knew Sirius, i never EVER got spoken like this from him. It was just, so unreal and the dizziness was getting pretty bad,i had to sit down.
Then classes started and i felt completly bad all the time. I messed up my potion five times, i almost took out a classmate in DADA because I shot a spell on the cieling and a chandelier fell behind him, andon my way to herbology i dried up half a dozen terrariums and accidentally took their life force. Which caused me to vomit dirt for an hour. Today was a total wreck. Then it was lunch break and i couldn’t eat again, my poor stomach was going through a lot, so i went to the garden to chill out and it worked. I also smoked a cigarette, today was too much for anyone. I accidentally zoned off for i think an hour and James was shaking me “Huh..?” “We are late for class! Come on!” he yelled and basically dragged me to the dark forest where Sirius was there too, surprisingly. “Ok, today you have to reach the target before it gets lost in the woods for a very long time. You have to turn into your animals and you have until sundown. If you find the target shoot a green lamp spell, if you’re lost then a red lamp spell. Ok bye” and then the coach disappeared. We all transformed in our animals and started chasing the target, James was ahead of all of us but i wasn’t that much far behind. Sirius on the contrary was very distracted so i pecked him a couple times on the snout and he went back to the chase. I was feeling much better but flying was exausting, especially flying fast. But i had to push through and so i cought the target before anyone. James came right after me and sirius took 5 more minutes to catch the target. We all transformed back panting and tired and shot the green firework spell into the sky. The instructor appeared before our eyes. “You did so much better than i thought you would” He said shocked. “well those targets were fast but the golden snitch is faster” I said “Ah are you the seaker of the quidditch team?” “Oh no sir” i replied “At home i trained to be the seaker, but i got the beater position” the teacher nodded and showed us some objects “now since you are all too young to be animagus you have to have a channelling object that you will use until you will graduate, or until you’ll feel sure enough to transform without using it.” The objects were a silver pocketwatch with the broken glass, a pendulum made with black colouredresin, a vile half filled with sand, a chipped teacup, a necklace with a jade pendent, a turquoise ring made out of stoneand a bracelet made with gold leafs that looked like a crown.
I took the jade necklace, sirius took the broken pocketwatch and james the the golden bracelet. The instructor then made disappear the teacup, the vile, the ring and he smiled “great choices boys, now you will be able to control your animagus and your transigurations will be easier. But you have to be careful, if you’ll loose it you will not be able to transform and it will be very difficult to channel your animagus” we nodded and then we wore our new accessories. “well then, i’ll be going” the teacher said and disappeared again. Even when it was a sunny afternoon in the dark forest the light was very difficult to see and so was the path to get out. I got closer to Sirius “Listen Sirius, i know that you remember what happened and-” Sirius cut me off “Elias, i already told you i have no idea of what you’re talking about! Stop pestering me!” then he ran off leaving me standing there, shockedand angry. I couldn’t belive what was happening. James pulled my arm “Elias? What happened?” I instinctly broke away from my best friend’s hold and looked at him with sadness pouring out of my eyes along with the frustrated tears “oh elias” james softly talked and pulled me into a hug “we have to get back to the hospital, today is Remus’ day of leave for the week! He is still weak but the nurse told us that he can stay for the evening and then go back tomorrow” i nodded and dried my tears in a quick motion of my arm. I had no time to be upset and i felt a little better at the thought that i’d be with one of my best friends soon, maybe Remus can help me with Sirius and we can go back like before. “let’s go” i said cleaning my face with a sleeve of my cloak and then we went on and about our ideas for the games that we wanted to play with Remus.
We finally arrived at the castle and we get have the afternoon to ourselves which is a blessing because i can go and visit an aquaintance of mine. He’s a very shy boy, onestly a little cutie but not my cup of tea. He has lots of black hair, crazy straight, the kind of hair that can’t dream of being curled. He has a bit of a crooked nose, and a very aristocratic aurea and his name is Severus Snape. We are potion classmates and we often go to the library together. I really enjoy his company but he really hates my friends, i don’t know why. He told me not to tell my friends about our.. aquaintance so i kept his promise and we’re secret buddies now. Which i enjoy, having friends outside of you friend group is nice, it gives you a bit of a break when you need it. Anyways, i find him at our usual spot, the Whomping Willow, and after being careful and not getting crushed my the secolar tree, i hover over his shoulder “must be a good book for you to not realize i’m here” he jumped and looked at me, the bags under his eyes were dark and deep and his eyes were red. He wasn’t looking very good but i knew that he was happy to see me, i could feel it “Elias, what do i owe the surprise” he said giving me a faint smile “You look like shit, were you reading all night? And, well it isn’t exactly a surprise” i say sitting down next to him smiling, still leaving a bit of space bitween us “i asked you a small batch of veritaserum a week ago if you remember. I hope you didn’t forget about it” i say pulling out a cigarette and giving a quick smile “what are you reading by the way” he stared at my cigarette and slowly replied “it’s the book you told me about last week at the library, it’s very interesting, even though it’s full of loop holes in the story” I laughed lightly and gave him a cigarette because he was just staring at it. Severus wasn’t great at asking..things “well, don’t worry everything will get solved by the end of the book. Do you need a lighter?” He looked at me, confused “Lighter?” “oh, right! It’s a muggle thing” i pull my yellow lighter “it has liquid gas in it that inflames when stimulated by a spark, like this” and i show him “see?” his eyes are so dark that the light is almost absorbed in them, but the curiosity is sparkling behind them “wow. Muggles are.. creative” i snort “yup they are” i gave it to him “here, try” he took the lighter and clicked it and a small flame got out. He was a bit usrprised but then he lit up the cigarette like a natural “Wow you’re good at this” i said chuckling and lighting my cigarette too, taking a puff and leaning on the tree “Anyways, elias, i have your veritaserum” he said pulling a box from his rack-sack, it was really cute, made of wood with a diamond pattern of black shiny rocks, making it look like it was made out of snake’s skin. I took it and put into my pocket and he went back to reading. “Don’t you want.. something in exchange?” He shook his head “no thanks, i have all I need at the moment” i chuckled “is that your go-to answer everytime i ask you the same question?” he nodded in response, still focused on his book, taking the few occasional puffs to enjoy his cigarette and he tucked the hair in front of his eyes behind his ear. I always thought Sirius was, fascinating, but in the misterious kind of way, i actually find him..somewhat beautiful. I realized maybe i was staring too hard and i didn’t want him thinking i was gawking at him. Which i wasn’t. So i closed my eyes and relaxed completly, feeling safe with my secret friend. At some point while i was still in that state when you’re falling asleep, and your eyes are closed but your brain is still working, he probably thought i was sleeping, and i felt him snuggling up to me and carefully hug me, putting his face in my chest. I tried to not react but i thought it was very.. adorable. Severus doesn’t like to touch people so i’m always careful not to get into his bubble, but i didn’t knew he was a cuddler. I let him do his thing occasionally adjusting to get more comfortable and for him to get more snug and i just relax. Eventually i fall asleep and wake up when a ray of hot sunshine flashes on my eyes, and I open my eyes to a beautiful sunset, with orange, pink yellow and blue mixed in the sky and Severus nowhere to be found, but his scarf was resting next to me with a neatly folded and written on the back: “For Elias Azul” i rub my eye and open the letter:
“Dear Elias,
I’ve retired to my dormitory because it was starting to get late, I‘ve left you my scarf in case you get cold, please return safely and have a fun evening tonight with your friends. My best reguards,
the half blood prince”
I smile at the letter and i fold it as neat as before and pick the black and green scarf that was underneath the paper and wear it around my neck, thankful for the heat and i start heading towoards the castle. Once I arrive there the sun is almost completly down and the lights are on, the dinner is almost served and students are getting into the dining hall. I quickly hide the scarf into the inside pocket of the cloak andteleport it into severus’ room, and I start looking for my friends, which i find, and Remus is also there too my heart just is about to explode so I run to him, he sees me and he says “if you crash onto me i’m going to flip you inside out” so i stop immediatly or I try to, and i end up with me shitfaced on the floor right in front of his shoes. They all start laughing and i get up laughing too, not realizing that my nose is bleeding and they all scream at the view of my bloody mouth and messed up nose and I laugh even more, hurting myself because my nose hurts when my face scrunches up. So they clean my nose with a napkin and James uses a spell to get my nose unbroken and we all sit at the table enjoying the dinner and the cheerful dinner.