Chapter 1
''Remus your on in five'' His manager Marlene ducked her head in his dressing room, and he hummed in acknowledgment staring at the setlist for the night:
1-Disco 200
2-Babies
3-Underwear
4-Common people
Common people was his most recent and the one he was most nervous about. That one was about him. Remus sighed pushing through the doors towards the stage.
''Hello Athens!''
One year ago
Remus barged through the college doors and check ed the watch on his wrist. Fuck. He was 20 minutes late. Of course the first day back was the day his building manager decided to turn off his electricity causing his alarm clock to turn off and his phone to have to battery. He would get to pay the rent he just needed to get paid. Remus rushed down the corridor, with his guitar slung around his back, luckily his first lesson was Music theory and Poppy was his professor for that class. Remus lucked out by getting his counselor as his professor that year. He managed to get to the class and tried to open the door slowly and sneak into his seat. However, the universe had other plans for him. He opened the door and somehow managed to topple backward with his guitar banging on the floor with a bang. The professor stopped mid-sentence to turn and see so the whole class turned to look at him as he got up looking ridiculous as he was six foot and picking himself up off the floor like a child.
He stood up and patted his sweater down suddenly feeling self-conscious of the fact he was still in his sleeping jumper (which had many holes in it) and some old stained jeans. As he looked up he caught the eyes of a total adonis. Jesus fuck is he beautiful. He had pale skin and grey eyes that you could lose yourself in, Remus almost did if he wasn't so distracted by him fiddling with his shoulder-length layered hair that just brushed on his shoulders where he was wearing a leather jacket with a brown vintage top underneath that Remus couldn't quite make out the writing of. They stayed like that for a few seconds just staring at each other, until Poppy snapped him back to reality by clearing her throat. Remus felt himself blush.
''Mr Lupin nice of you to join us, your late.''
''Sorry, Popp- Professor! Sorry Professor'' he tore his gaze away from the man and slid into his seat next to his mate James, who he had only just realized was there,
''Just don't let it happen again Remus'' she replied, subtly winking at him, ''we were just getting started, as I was saying this is Music theory and-''
''fuck'' Oh god Remus just melted from that voice, it was the very same guy he had locked eyes with seconds before, ''crap- shit- I mean sorry I'm in the wrong class'' He rushed out of the class trying staring at his map rushing off to his correct class.
''Holy buggering shit balls'' James said just under his breath and nudged Remus, ''That's Sirius!''
''Who the bloody fu-'' Remus went to ask but was interrupted by his professor,
''Ahem, anyone else wants to interrupt? No? Very well then let begin''
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When the class finished James dragged him out,
''We have to find him'' James was practically running down the school looking through the classes and shoving through the crowded corridors,
''Who? James fucking- slow down Jesus'' Remus tried to run by him but he was too quick- James was captain of the football team after all. Remus dragged him into an empty corridor.
''Sirius! We have to find him!'' James was practically yelling through his breaths,
''Again I have to ask who the bloody fuck is Si-'' Remus was interrupted again by the voice that made him fold just an hour ago,
''Hi'' hi.
''Sirius you bastard!'' Remus was unsure if James was angry or excited- to be honest he never really could tell- but then he hugged him so tight the other boy (Sirius?) went red.
''I'm Sirius'' he said, all Remus could see of him was his yead from over James' shoulder but he responded nonetheless,
''I gathered'' Remus replied, smiling fondly,
''Heck yeah, he is!'' James exclaimed releasing him from the tight embrace, ''Siri I can't believe this! How are you here?''
''Do you think maybe we can get a cup of coffee first? Your friend can come and we can get acquainted properly'',
Acquainted how posh was he? ''Yeah I'm Re-''
''How could I forget, Siri this is Moony! I've got training but you two go grab a drink at Broomsticks? I'll meet you there in an hour?''
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So that's how Remus found himself at his bar with a perfect stranger. Though he wasn't complaining, the said stranger was a total ten, but the stranger also kept referring to him as 'Moony' because he found the nickname amusing despite knowing his name. They small-talked quite a bit:
''Where are you from?''
''Greece''
''I can see that''
''Where are you from?''
''Wales''
''I can see that''
Their conversation went deeper:
''So what brings you to Samaritans College?'' Remus ventured but soon realized that was the wrong choice of words as his face fell just a little bit,
''Well my dads loaded'' He sing-songed and Remus tensed up, ''and my mum's abusive, I met James when I lived at school we went to the same fancy posh school and we were inseparable as kids, but my mum didn't like him at all, out families had some old beef or something, my mum rambled a lot, anyways, we moved away and like I said my dad's loaded and I needed to get out that house so I convinced him to buy me a flat in some posh neighborhood around the corner and I enrolled into this school, I uh study sculpture- don't ask why first thing i could think of. Um sorry, there's more to it but I don't like getting into it too much.''
They stayed in silence for a while, both just staring at each other trying to read each other's expression, only a few minutes passed but it felt like hours that they sat there in silence until the waitress came to take their orders,
''Your dad's loaded?'' Remus smirked, Sirius half smiled and nodded, confusion in his eyes, Remus turned to the waitress ''In that case, I'll have a rum and Coca-Cola''
''Fine'' he smirked making Remus' stomach do twenty flips, the waitress took his order, and in but thirty seconds time he said, ''You know, I wanna live like common people''
''Common people ouch. Sorry, your highness'' he responded dramatically, clutching his chest. They both burst out laughing. That's how James found them uncontrollably spitting Coca-Cola through their noses from their laughter, while Sirius spouted nonsense about wanting to ''live like common people'' and having a ''Thirst for knowledge''. By the end of the night they had exchanged numbers and Remus left James and Sirius so they could catch up. The whole way home Remus was smiling, thinking of all the things they had spoken about. His heart was beating and he had a warm sensation all around his body, it was uncomfortable but nice.
That's new he thought, but then, oh.
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