Weird
Sirius Pov.
Last night Sirius had woken up to some weird noises. They weren’t loud but Sirius had a very light sleep.
It was because of his mother. Sometimes when she was in a bad mood she would go to one of their room’s and drag them out of bed. Then she would bring them to their father. He was nearly always drunk. They would scream at them and then they would hit them. Sometimes they had bad night’s, on those nights they would use the cruciatus curse on them. It brought them joy to see their kids in pain. They laughed at them as they screamed.
And that’s why Sirius had learned to wake up at the smallest noise. The sounds came from James’ bed. Sirius lifted his head to see his best friend better. He was climbing back into bed.
Technically this wouldn’t concern Sirius at all and he would just go back to sleep but the thing was that this had happened almost every night before the holidays. And now it started again?!
He had asked James and he had not gave him a properly answer. That was weird because James and Sirius told each other everything. He couldn’t think of anything that was so bad that James wouldn’t tell him. It made him worry about his best friend. Maybe he should go and talk to Remus about it.
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The next morning James had seemed incredible exhausted. Peter had told him that and he just said he didn’t get much sleep. That was obviously a lie.
When James went to the bathroom Sirius turned around to look at Remus.
“Why is James acting so weird?”
“I have no idea. But I’m sure it’s not that big of a deal,” Remus said. He took a step forward and reached out for Sirius’ hand.
“You’re just saying that to calm me down. And it’s not working.”
“He’s definitely hiding something from us,” Peter said, looking over to them from his bed.
“Why would he do that? It’s James, he can’t keep any secret especially not one that involves being away for half of the night,” Sirius shook his head.
Remus sight. “I will talk to him. Maybe he’ll tell me something but if he won’t we shouldn’t pressure him to.”
“Fine,” Peter shrugged his shoulders and got up from the bed,” let’s just go get breakfast then.”
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Remus did talk to James but he didn’t got clear answer either.
It made Sirius kind of mad. Why didn’t James trust him?
Sirius had started to open up to James a long time ago. He knew everything about his parents and how they had treated him. Sirius even lived at James house together with his parents. Sirius trusted James with everything, he didn’t understand why James didn’t trust him too. It made him feel worthless. Maybe James didn’t want to be his friend anymore. It hurt Sirius to think about that but it made sense. Why would anyone want to be his friend?
Sirius hadn’t even realised that he had walked to the library till someone interrupted his thoughts.
“I would be really pleased if you could move out of my way.”
This made Sirius look up. He stood in frond of his little brother regulus who looked at him with absolutely no expression on his face.
“Reggie.”
“Do not call me that,” regulus interrupted him harshly.
“Sorry,” Sirius said. He was hoping that regulus couldn’t hear the pain in his voice. He always used to call regulus this when they were little. When they were still brothers.
“Where are your thoughts?” Regulus asked him not sounding like he cared.
“I’m just thinking about James,” Sirius mumbled. He knew he didn’t have to tell regulus this because he didn’t cared but it was somehow comforting. When they were kids they would always tell each other everything.
“What’s wrong with him? He didn’t seem weirder than he already is.”
“First of all that’s rude. You don’t even know him. But it’s just…” Sirius didn’t know how to continue. James was not acting normal.
“He is acting weird, right?” Regulus said. He was not looking at Sirius but now he did sound like he was interested.
“Kinda. But I don’t know why.”
“Maybe he‘s in love with someone and is just not telling you,” regulus told him. This time Sirius could hear that regulus was grinning.
“He wouldn’t!”
“How can you be so sure about that. Maybe you just don’t like the person and he doesn’t want you to be mad.”
Sirius laughed at this. But not because he thought it was funny. He knew that regulus could be right but he didn’t have to know that.
“Yeah sure. Who is that he’s in love with? You?”
Sirius joked so that regulus wouldn’t see that he was actually not happy at all.
“Sirius you’re too childish to talk too,” regulus said and walked away.
Sirius looked after him brother. He had a weird feeling in his stomach.
Then he decided to go back to his doom. He needed to talk to Remus about the whole situation or he would go crazy.