march 30th, 1986
march 30th, 1986
the next morning everyone had breakfast together, which they had all prepared together in the kitchen, somewhat as a thank you for letting them stay there.
“oh children! there was no need!” Eliza sighed as she came down the stairs at approximately nine am. the boys had been up since seven; James leading them, since he was the only one who knew how to cook. Pete liked cooking too, he just had no talent for it whatsoever.
she helped them put the dishes on the outside table as she called Lily and Regulus awake. Lily arrived downstairs not even ten minutes later, something that took Regulus about half an hour, and yet he was sitting at the table with a moody face.
“Jesus, Reg.” Sirius sipped his coffee, earning a glare from across the table.
“what.”
“…”
“bugger off, Pads.” Regulus tried to stay serious, but he burst out in laughter again, the other boys and Lily laughed too.
“oh ha ha.” Sirius started eating the eggs that were on his plate with a certain annoyance.
they all finished off breakfast and the boys head upstairs to pack their bags again, which didn’t take long, since they never unpacked in the first place.
they thanked Eliza and her husband for letting them stay, and later said goodbye to Lily and Regulus in private.
“James?” Lily suddenly asked, her head sticking through the doorway, making James turn around immediately.
“yeah?”
“can i ask you something, in private?” she smiled, as James’s cheeks lit up immediately, making the boys snicker.
“sure.” he smiled and went with her.
“he’s definitely getting boned right about now.” Sirius giggled suddenly, as it had been a couple of minutes.
Pete laughed out loud at that, and Remus chuckled too.
“good for him, i guess.” Remus laughed, catching Sirius’s eye from across the room. he turned away immediately and packed some of his last clothes into his weekend bag again.
not much later James returned, flustered and holding some type of note. Lily appeared shortly after him, helping the boys pack a little more organized as they had originally done it.
“well, it looks like you guys are done!” she said happily, zipping up the zipper of Peter’s bag.
“thank— thanks” James sputtered out, earning a laugh from Sirius. James glared at him and Sirius just raised his brows.
the boys packed up the last of their things and made their way downstairs, Regulus and Sirius hugged each other goodbye and Regulus gave him the number of the house as well, mainly so he could call anytime he wanted.
Remus and Pete loaded their stuff into the car while Sirius and James stayed behind for a bit longer. it wasn’t a lot of stuff, so they didn’t mind packing the car.
Remus closed the trunk and walked behind Peter towards Regulus and Lily who were still talking to the two other boys. Remus hugged them both and thanked them for the stay, which they kindly nodded at.
“and you guys,” Lily said, looking at Pete and Remus, “don’t be afraid to come back here anytime, either!” the boys smiled at her and waved.
“safe travels!” Regulus yelled one last time, waving as well. with that the boys rode of the property, and made their way onto the main road once again.
it had been a while, and the boys were already far gone from the house, by now.
“it’s my turn to choose music now,” James pushed Sirius’s hand out of the way and pushed a mixtape of his into the recorder. “finally.”
“it better not be—” Sirius started, but James started laughing already.
“say hello to the BEST band ever;” he made those drum sounds. “TEARS FOR FEARS.”
Sirius sighed heavily and lit another cigarette, this was his seventh one in less than an hour, or so Remus thought, he didn’t say anything of it, though.
“i’m actually convinced this is your theme song, James.” Remus said as head over heels started playing. Remus didn’t dislike Tears for Fears, nor did he absolutely love it; he was pretty much alright with it, same with Pete, Sirius, however, had, for some weird reason, such a massive hatred towards their music, and would sulk every time one of their songs came on.
“you keep your distance via the system of touch, and gentle persuasion. i’m lost in admiration,” James dramatically turned towards Sirius who was glaring at him like he’d killed his mum — scratch that, Remus thought, he didn’t think Sirius would mind it very much if James killed Sirius’s actual mum.
“could i need you this much?? oh you’re waisting my time, you’re just, just, just waisting time!” for the last part Remus joined in as well, heavily smiling.
“SOMETHING HAPPENS AND I’M HEAD OVER HEELS! I NEVER FIND OUT, ‘TIL IM HEAD OVER HEEEEEEELS!” the three of them chanted out, Peter now joining as well, like it was all they had ever known.
Sirius looked like he was about to brutally stab someone.
“i don’t get why you guys like this music, it’s so cheesy.” Sirius said, letting his head fall back against the head rest.
James didn’t listen and happily sang along to the song playing still. Remus heard Peter and Sirius laugh in the back, he didn’t even bother asking what it was about, he didn’t really care.
“James? where you wanna go next?” he asked him, as James grabbed his map again, which had notations all over it by now.
“fancy some ice-cream?” Remus nodded and smiled, looking over at James’s map to see where he was supposed to go to.
“Children,” James said as he turned around to face Sirius and Pete in the back. “wait for uh,” he looked at Remus, who mouthed ‘fifteen’, “fifteen minutes, and we’re gonna get ourselves some ice cream!”
“okay.” Pete said, laughing. he continued his drawing he was doing on Sirius’s hand, Remus really wanted to see what it was but he couldn’t really take his focus of the road.
not a lot later they arrived at the ice-cream shop and they all made their way inside, ordering—
“for me uh,” James peered at the huge buckets of ice-cream. “for me a scoop of chocolate and another one of mango!” eventually said happily.
“pardon me?”
“ew.”
“gross.”
James turned to them and gave them an annoyed look. as the girl gave him his ice-cream he mumbled something like ‘sorry ‘bout them’ to which the girl just giggled.
“i’d like a scoop of mocha and a scoop of pistachio, thank you.” Remus said, thanking the girl and handing her the money that should be enough for the lot of them.
“uh can i have two scoops of lemon?” Peter’s mouth literally fell open at that, Sirius laughed and thanked the girl too, Peter ordered a scoop of strawberry and one called ‘grandma’s cheesecake’, which Remus thought looked really good.
“seriously though, James, what kind of combination is that.” Sirius said a couple of minutes later when the lot of them were eating their ice-cream on some bench.
“it’s SO good! i swear on my mum it’s good!”
“it definitely sucks, i stand by that.”
“oh bug off, you’ve obviously got no taste,” James eyed Sirius’s ice-cream cone and laughed. “double lemon? i mean, that’s just sad.”
“okay so,” Pete said. “i’ve obviously got the best combination, no one can even disagree. Moony’s is something my grandpa would order, may his soul rest in peace. Sirius, sorry mate, but what the fuck, and that’s the same for you, James.”