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“What the fuck Prongs,” Sirius hissed, voice slightly muffled by the carpet. Lily and Peter looked at the two boys oddly, almost not noticing the rest of the room jump out from behind the furniture.
“Happy birthday Pete,” Remus said, smiling and wrapping the short boy in a hug. Peter smiled back, touched that his friends would do something like this for him. He felt himself turn red as he thought back to earlier in the week when he thought his three best friends were ignoring him because they no longer wanted to be his friends. Now that he knew it was because they were planning a party for him, however, he felt foolish that he had ever doubted them.
“Thank Remus,” Peter responded. “This…it, uh…it means a lot.” Before Peter had a chance to say anything else, Sirius and James came over, each wrapping an arm around Peter’s shoulders.
“Did we surprise you?” James asked.
“Yeah. I had no idea. I actually thought you guys were just ignoring me for some reason.” At this, James burst out laughing and Peter gave him a confused look. He didn’t understand what was so funny.
“Wait, so you’re saying you had no idea we were planning a party?” Peter shook his head. James turned and hit Sirius on the arm, the boy wincing quietly as it aggravated his injuries. “You see Pads? He had no idea.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Sirius called Remus freaking out because he thought you knew about the plan and so the fact that you had no idea just makes it funny.” All four boys sat on the sofa and when Lily came over to talk with them, James told Sirius that the boy could just sit on his lap to make room on the sofa. Sirius glared at his friend.
“I am not sitting on your lap James,” Sirius said. James got a mischievous look in his eyes.
“You’re right. You should sit on Remus’ lap.” Remus promptly spit out the water he was drinking, coughing roughly as they started laughing.
“So how did you break your wrist then?” Peter asked Sirius, looking at the boy with concern. Lily also looked over, wanting to know as well. She had yet to hear the entire story.
“You remember how Remus and I went on a date earlier this week?” Peter nodded his head. “Well…it wasn’t just a date. We needed to get decorations so we thought we’d make a date out of it.” Sirius looked down, suddenly finding the cast on his arm very interesting. He was shocked when he felt Lily shaking him.
“Don’t just stop the story! Tell us what happened next!” Sirius sighed.
“I wanted to take Remus to see my motorbike that I’d been working on and I was so excited that, when we walked across the street, I didn’t realize that it wasn’t clear and a car hit me.” Sirius stopped as Lily pulled him into a tight hug.
“Oh my god Sirius! That’s awful!” she cried. Sirius shook his head, squirming out of the hug. Or, well, trying to. When he couldn’t do it without being in pain, James stepped in and pulled Lily off of him.
“Calm down Lils, he’s still probably really sore and your hugs are usually pretty strong.” Lily blushed, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.
“It’s fine. The guy who hit me was really nice. He helped Moony get me to the hospital.”
“So is that why you called me and James so many times?” Peter asked, turning his attention to Remus. Remus simply nodded. Before Peter had the chance to say anything else, James cut him off.
“Let’s just all enjoy the party, yeah?” Everyone nodded and stood up, walking over to the makeshift dance floor. They danced and had fun, celebrating their friend. At one point Remus noticed Peter dancing with Marlene McKinnon and he nudged Sirius, gesturing to their friend. Both boys knew about their friend’s crush on the girl and were happy to see him finally get the chance to dance with her.
“I’m glad everything worked out,” Remus said, glancing at Sirius as they stood by the drink table.
“Me too,” Sirius responded. He paused for a few moments before turning to the other boy, holding out his arm. “May I have this dance?” Remus laughed and nodded, grabbing Sirius’ hand and leading him to the center of the room.
“You know,” Remus started, looking at Sirius. The other boy rose his eyebrows. “I can’t decide if the cast kills your punk rock image or not?” Sirius glared at him and playfully swatted at his chest.
“Oh, sod off Moony.”
The party had just begun to die down a little when Peter ran over to the other three boys, pulling them all in for a group hug. “Thank you guys. You’re the best friends I could’ve ever asked for.” The stayed in this position for a few minutes until Remus pulled away slightly.
“We love you too, Wormy.”