Sirius groaned. Last night had been one heck of a party. They had somehow managed to get muggle alcohol into the common room. And sirius, being the birthday boy, obviously had to drink himself into obliviation. The taste of puke still lingered in his mouth as he sat up. His head was killing him, this hangover was the worst.
It’s the first time he’d drunk this much muggle alcohol. He’d only ever drank fire whiskey, which apparently wasnt the same. Somehow you didnt really get hungover from that. Even though it had felt the exact same the night before, he’d never had a hungover.
Though one time, he stole a bottle of whine from his parents. He’d drunk the whole thing on his own. Thinking back, he remembered that he did feel a bit hungover, but not nearly as much as this. Also the beatings he’d gotten after his mother found out that he’d stolen from her probably masked over the pain from the drinking.
Sirius rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked at his surroundings, he was on a couch in the common room. Marlene was asleep next to him on the same couch. Her hair was tousled and her eyeliner was smudged. All around the room there were people sleeping. Not a single armchair or couch without a passed out person on it. He spotted James asleep in a chair across the room. But what really caught his eye was lily, who was asleep on the same chair, her head on James’ shoulder. Remus was nowhere to be seen though. Sirius believed that he’d gone up to the dorms. He wasnt usually the biggest extrovert and most likely had left when it all became a little much. Peter was also nowhere to be seen, sirius remembered him leaving with that girl Hanna or something. Good for him.
Sirius ran a hand through his hair. It was quite tangled. He’d fallen asleep in his jeans, his leather jacket was on the floor along with his socks. It was quite warm in the common room, he remembered waking up and taking his socks of. Not even moving to sleep in his bed instead, just taken of his socks and gone back to sleep.
He picked up his stuff and started walking barefoot up to the dorm. Tiptoeing his way across the cold stone floors and heading straight to the bathroom. He needed a shower, badly.
As the warm water dripped down his body, he noticed a burning feeling on the back of his neck. Sirius touched the sore spot of what felt like someone had scratched him with something sharp. He got out of the shower and went to the mirror. He couldn’t see anything other that his skin being red and angry surrounding the back of his neck. But there wasnt really anything there other that irritated skin.
Sirius grabbed a smaller mirror and held it in a way that it would reflect into the mirror above the sink. In messy scrawl, making it look like a child, or a drunk teenager, had drawn on his skin.
‘Property of James Poter’
The stick and poke read.
“James!” Sirius shouted angrily. “You’re dead!” He ran out of the dorm and down to the common room. “James!” He shouted again. James woke up with the same confusion sirius had when he woke up. He looked around trying to see who had shouted, his eyes stopping for a secound on the girl next to him. Before he looke up at the very angry sirius. “You’re. So. Dead.”
“What?” He asked before he ran. Lily woke up when sirius climbed over the chair she was in to get to james. James shrieked like a girl when he ran from sirius. People around the common room started waking up by the noice. “Whats going on?” Some of the asked, others only watched in amusement as james, clearly the strongest of the two was chased by the short boy in skinny jeans.
“Come on James, you could easily take him!” Someone were saying. But sirius was like a chihuahua when he was mad.
“What did i do?!” James asked when sirius had caught him in a corner. Sirius pulled his hair up and tuner so james could see. When he turned back, James’ mouth was agape. He stood there for a secound.
“I’m Sorry?” He apologized, more like a question. Sirius glared at him, and punched him in the arm.
“How did you spell your own name wrong?!”
“I did?” James took hold of sirius’ should and turned him around. Sirius held up his hair again, “james poter” james read out loud and started laughing. And when sirius started laughing as well, people around started laughing.
“I hate you.” Sirius said. “I know.” James reassured.