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Holy fucking shit- Those are the first words that invade my mind as I finally find my best friends standing in a corner with Euphemia and Fleamont Potter talking animatedly with one another.
Sirius Black
That's the only thing on my mind, I'm unable to even move my limbs, I just stand there with my mouth hung open, until James, thank Merlin it's him and not the other guy, spots me and waves towards me. I try my best to wave back at him, I don't think it works because he is smirking at me.
As I trudge forward making my way through the hundreds of Hogwarts students and their guardians, I just look at the wonder known as Sirius Black.
He is in his usual black leather jacket but this time it has spikes on it. Ripped jeans and a white Queen t-shirt. But that's not all, he has a fucking tattoo on his neck of …...of a lion and by the looks of it, it's a Muggle one. It makes me want to pounce on him in the middle of the whole station. His hair is open and it has that just shagged look to it. I want to run my hands through it but no- he is just my best mate and nothing else. It could never be more than that, ever.
"Hey Moons, you look great!" I register Peter's voice and I realize that I'm standing right in front of them and ……. probably staring as well. I quickly avert my eyes towards my two other best friends.
"Yeah, Re. I agree with Pete. You look incredible. Doesn't he, Pads?"
I feel blood rushing to my cheeks and I look back at him, only to find him staring at me with wide eyes and an open mouth.
"Pads?" James jabs his elbow at his ribs, that seems to work as he blinks and starts stuttering, “Wha- Yeah Remus you look good, great actually."
Okay, this is weird, I don't think I have ever seen Sirius stutter, like everrr.
"Thanks y'all but I disagree." Before all of them could even start disagreeing, Mrs. Potter comments, "Darling, you really look nice but you boys can argue all you want after getting on the train, it would leave in about ten minutes from now. You won't want to miss it, now would you?"
All of us collectively groan at the 'boys' part which makes both the elderly Potters laugh. We after bidding our goodbyes, start walking towards our compartment at the end of the train. Everyone knows better than to occupy that compartment, and the first years rarely, if ever, go that far behind. We must have been the only firsties to do so, and now that is our exclusive compartment since year one.
Sirius, as always stayed back, saying he would join us soon. He always stayed back for a minute or two, talking with the Potters- thanking them, hugging them.
James beside me starts, as soon as we are out of their earshot, "So……." Ugh the dramatic pause, he must have learned that from our drama queen.
"Moony, is there anything we should know or anything you have to say?"
"I think he does, don't you Moons?" Now even Peter is on their side, just great!
"Why I don't know what you guys are on about?"
"Oh is that so?"
"Must be, Prongs. Moony wouldn't keep anything from us, would he? Even if it's a crush, right Moons?"
"Whose crush?" Sirius asks as he rejoins us.
“No one’s.”, I say far too quickly, shooting death glares at my traitor friends. He doesn’t pry and we at last bode the train.
As the train starts moving, I as,” I heard you became Head Boy, Prongs?”
“Yep, that’s me, bitches!”
“You’re not even a prefect, god knows how and why Dumbledore made you Head Boy ?” Peter adds, with an awed tone.
“Well, at least this would mean I won’t be the only marauder in the hoard of perfect nerdy prefects.”
“Remus you are a nerd, so please stop,” Sirius smirks- damn I wanna wipe that smirk off his face.
“Haha Hilarious, Pads! At least from now on, I won’t have to attend all meetings, I can use that time to device more pranks. You lot are hopeless in that case to be fair.”
“What the hell, Moons!”
“Moony that is not true.”
“You gonna pay for that one, Re!” Padfoot lunged forward from his seat across me and tackled me on the old train seats. He stared directly into my eyes, what was supposed to be mischievous turned into a heated gaze. Those grey eyes-almost black with flecks of white, staring at me as if he can read whatever is behind them. I don’t know, maybe after a lifetime, someone-James, that bastard, clears his throat and he moves away from me and sits back beside James.
An awkward silence descends which Peter clears by stating he is hungry and asks what we want from the trolley. After taking our requests from the trolley, he leaves in search of the trolley lady, whose name I’m yet to know.
Just as he leaves, Lily walks past, peering in the compartment windows clearly searching for someone, she stops and looks again, her face brightening with a wide smile and gentle eyes. She opened the door and entered, looking at me, all the while her eyes flickering towards Prongs.
“Hey, Re! I just heard that the new Head Boy is a Gryffindor so I came to congratulate you. Congrats, it should have been you only. Who else could be better? We would be the duo of the decade.”
“Yeah, Lils. About that-”, He was interrupted by James.
“Good to know that you became Head Girl, Evans. It would be great working with you. Maybe we would be the duo after all.” He smirked- just a little as he stared at the open-mouthed, feisty Lily Evans, who for the first time since Remus has seen her was rendered totally speechless.
“What the bloody hell?! You- you are the Head Boy. You’re not even a prefect.”
“Oh yeah, I’ve noticed. What can I say? I’ve such charm.” Lily looked as if she was about to explode, but instead, she kept it to an eye-roll.
“Shut up, Potter. Move those legs and let’s go to the prefect’s meeting. We both, unfortunately, are needed.”
“Sure, Evans. Whatever you want.”, he had a small smile on his face as he got up from his seat while Sirius looked as if he was trying to control his laughter, evident on his pretty face.
“Re? Are you not coming?”
“Nah, there are some perks when both the Head Boy and Girl are my mates. One of them is being personally being informed of my duties, thus I don’t ever need to attend a meeting in person, ever again.” he grinned at her and James, both of them sporting amused expressions.
Soon both of them left and it was just him and Sirius in the compartment. They smiled shyly at each other before narrating their summers to each other, although they had been together for most of it. It was nice to hear Sirius’s soothing, musical voice so he wasn’t complaining much- or rather at all.