Remus-9
DAM! Remus was on such a high. He had Sirius back! And he had come out! IT WAS ALL AMAZING! Okay... Breathe... Chill... He practically sailed back home after their second ‘date’ and collapsed into bed that night with a smile engraved onto his face.
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The next morning, he awoke to his phone having a fit, pinging every five seconds with messages. He scowled and rubbed his eyes, picking it up to see:
57 new messages from Maraudersssssss ;)
4 new messages from Siriiiiiiii <3
8 new messages from Jamieeeeee
‘Jesus Christ,’ He thought, ‘What is going on.’
He decided to go through the Marauder’s messages first, then James and Sirius. There were a lot of new messages, so he skim read them, and the jist of it was that they were going to have lunch with Sirius’s group of friends at the Hogs Head to apologise formally to the whole group for being jerks and to get to know them better. Remus smiled at that. He couldn’t wait for that. Going through James’s messages was basically him freaking out over having lunch with Lily Evans. It was pointless him freaking out seeing as, according to Sirius, Lily hated James. Especially after what happened to Alice, so Remus just hoped James wouldn’t do anything to make her madder.
He sent a quick text to James, telling him to chill and not do anything rash, then he opened Sirius’s texts. (The best ‘till last. Hehe.) He was telling Remus about the lunch meet and... And... What?
Can we meet 15 mins earlier. Just u&me? We can go to the Shack again if u want. We don’t have to. S’up to u :)
Wow. Sirius wanted to meet up beforehand again. AAA! YES! No. Remus chill. He quickly texted back saying yes, but not the Shack. Could they go to Dervish and Bangs since Remus needed to get his guitar fixed before his grade six. Sirius instantly agreed and Remus was left smiling as he drove to college.
The morning passed slowly, while Remus had triple English and music practice. He left his practice room with his guitar to meet Sirius at the gates of school. He was early, so leant against the sign, scrolling through his Instagram feed.
“Reeeeeemuuuuuus!”
He looked up, one eyebrow raised, at the call, but grinned when he saw it was Sirius.
“Siiiiiiiiiriuuuuuuuuuus!” He sang back, making Sirius laugh.
“Hey! We going to Dervish?” Sirius asked.
“Yup. Let’s go,” Remus said, pushing himself off the sign and hoisting his guitar bag onto his shoulder, walking next to Sirius through Hogsmeade to Dervish and Bangs. It only took ten minutes for the guitar to be fixed, and the boys kept up a steady stream of chatter, laughing together, careful not to mention anything about yesterday.
“Come ooooooooooonnnnnnnn. We need to meet the others at the Hogs. Reeeeeemuuuuuuus!” Sirius tried to pull Remus out of the music shop as he was looking at guitar straps and Sirius was bored.
“Oi! I didn’t complain when you wanted to browse Tomes and Scrolls yesterday!” Remus said, shoving Sirius playfully while they walked out of the shop, thanking the shopkeeper and making their way towards the Hogs Head.
“That’s because yesterday we weren’t meeting our friends for lunch,” Sirius said matter-of-factly, and Remus rolled his eyes.
“Sod off,” He said good-naturedly. They arrived at the Leaky and saw that all their friends were their already, making awkward small talk and sipping their drinks.
“Dam that looks awkward,” Remus whispered to Sirius as they made their way past the table (their friends still hadn’t spotted them) and towards the till to order drinks.
“It sure does. We need to go back and break the tension,” Sirius whispered back, giggling softly. Remus loved it when Sirius giggled. His eyes and nose crinkled, and his mouth turned up in a smile. God, it was so cute. After ordering their drinks, they walked back to the table to meet their friends.
“Wassup bitches,” Sirius grinned at his friends and smiled shyly at Peter, James and Frank, who smiled sheepishly back.
“Siri! You took your time,” Marlene said, standing up to kiss Sirius’s cheek.
“Dammit Marls you’re my girlfriend! You can’t go around kissing everyone you want,” Dorcas pulled Marlene back down and hugged her close, while everyone laughed.
“My deepest apologies for being so utterly irresistible,” Sirius sniggered, sitting down next to Marlene, “And it’s not my fault someone had to get their guitar fixed.”
“Hey! Shut up,” Remus said, sliding in next to Peter, “Budge up Pete.”
Peter grumbled but budged up all the same. The tension seemed to lessen as Remus and Sirius joined in the chatter, and everyone was more comfortable in each other's company, laughing and bantering together. Actually, Remus noticed that James and Lily seemed to be getting cosy together. He kicked Sirius under the table and nodded his head subtly at the pair. Sirius looked at them, then turned and beamed at Remus.
“They are so cute!” He whispered.
“I know,” Remus said, “I hope they get together.”
“Me to,” Sirius said.
“Oi, Lupin.”
Remus looked up to see Alice watching him, smirking.
“Yeah?” He said.
“Hurt Sirius and you’re dead,” She smiled sweetly at him, and he blushed, whilst everyone else laughed.
“We’re not dating Al,” Sirius called.
“Uh huh. Sure,” Frank said, and Remus blushed even more.
“Shut up Frankie,” He mumbled and kicked Frank under the table, narrowly missing James, who was so intent on talking to Lily. Jeez. He must be in heaven. They were interrupted from their chatter by the waiter, who came and took their order. After ordering, they went back to talking, until the waiter came back half an hour later with their food, which they all dug into eagerly. College life was hard, and they were all hungry teenagers who needed their food.
“Hey. Remus. Remus. Lupin. Hey. Reeeeemuuuuuuus,”
Remus looked up at Sirius, who was grinning and nodding his head at James and Lily. The two were talking intently and were so close together it was a wonder Lily wasn’t already sat on James’s lap. Lily was also stealing some chips off James’s plate, since she had finished her food already. It would’ve been cute, if they were a couple. Now it was just annoying that they weren’t a couple. It seemed as if they had talked before this lunch and were quite close. All the Marauders knew about James’s massive crush on Lily, and all of Lily’s friends thought she hated James, but apparently not.
“They need to get together. Like so bad. If they aren’t together by the end of this week, I will personally lock them in the history classroom until they are together,” Remus said, and Sirius sniggered.
“Good plan,” He said, “Oi, Lils!”
Lily turned her head towards Sirius, and the smile on her face was amazing.
“Yo, Siri,” She said, grinning.
“Are you and Jamie a thing yet?” Remus said before Sirius could say anything else.
Surprisingly, both James and Lily blushed, “No. James and I aren’t a thing yet.”
“You on first name terms already?” Sirius grinned, and Lily’s blush only darkened as she scowled her friend.
“I think we should all be on first name terms,” Alice said, “You guys are cool, and I’m sick of being called ‘Mandip’.”
Everyone agreed and went around the table saying their first names, and Remus and Sirius were beaming.
“Our friends are friends,” Sirius whispered excitedly, unknowingly making Remus’s heart beat faster.
Sirius was just amazingly cute. His smile, his laugh, his excited whisperings. It was all too much for Remus’s heart to deal with. He was about to be overloaded with cuteness. It wasn’t fair that he and Sirius weren’t together. James and Lily were working their stuff out and would most likely be together by the end of the week, but him and Sirius? Would they be together soon? Remus really hoped so. He wanted to hold Sirius, braid his hair, kiss his lips, hug all his worries away. He wanted Sirius. But he couldn’t have him. Or could he?
Sirius was bi. He knew that. So, they might have a chance. If Remus could find enough courage to ask Sirius out. ‘Embrace your inner lion’ his mother always said. Be strong and brave. Be courageous. Ha. Easier said than done. Sirius was beautiful and cute. And Remus so wanted to ask him out, but he just couldn’t get the words out. It was very frustrating. Not fair.
“Aight lads,” Marlene said, getting up off Dorcas’s lap, “’Fraid I have to go. I have law in ten minutes.”
“Aw sucks to be you Marls,” Sirius teased, earning himself a death glare.
“Maybe we should all go,” James said. Everyone agreed and stood up, making their way out of the Hogs Head (after paying of course) and back towards college.
“Cheers for that,” Dorcas said when they got to Hogwarts, “It’s nice to know you lot aren’t complete arseholes.”
The Marauders grinned. They all said goodbye and disappeared off to their classes.
“Remus,” Sirius called, “Thanks for meeting earlier. Was nice.”
“No worries. I’ll see you ‘round,” Remus said, giving Sirius a quick hug before he sped off to get to his music lesson, beaming the entire time.