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Sirius Black. Drama queen extraordinaire. Remus Lupin had spent the past four years watching him become everything he is today. Sirius was a boy who captured the hearts and attention of every person in every room he walked into. His mere presence seemed to defy any gender expectations, his red lipstick, fishnet stockings under baggy ripped black jeans, and thick eyeliner captured Remus's eyes anytime he entered the room. But Sirius would never like him.
Remus sighed as he crashed to the grass covered ground next to his friend Regulus. Regulus looked up from his book and stared hard at Remus. Remus raised his eyebrows and said,
“Why are you looking at me like that...?” Regulus sighed and shut his copy of Six of Crows
“Because you’re being weird, and you look upset.” Remus scoffed.
“I’m not upset. What would I be upset about?”
A flash of memories flurried through Remus’s mind. The loud thunderous vibrations of bass guitar, red lipstick stains across his neck, the smell of peppermint-
“Remus.” Remus’s head snapped back to Regulus.
“Sorry Reg. I’m not upset. I’m just tired, I pulled an all-nighter studying.” Regulus shifted, uncrossing his legs to reach for his bag.
“What are you doing?” Remus asked, tilting his head and trying to see what his friend was doing.
Regulus turned to him with a steel container in his hands. He opened it and offered it to Remus. Remus looked at him and then, down at the container. It was full of food. Blackberries, tomatoes, a PB&J sandwich, the works. Remus laughed before snatching a stash of mini aero bars from the spot next to the blackberries. He also grabbed half the PB&J. Regulus smirked. “Of course. You go for the sugar.” Remus raised a brow.
Naturally. When have I picked cucumbers over chocolate?” Regulus shrugged and shut the container after grabbing the other half of the sandwich. Remus tore one of the wrappers off a chocolate bar and broke it in half. Regulus looked over.
“Can I have some of the chocolate at least? It is my lunch.” Remus looked at the two small halves of chocolate in his hands and slowly, while making unbroken eye contact, leaned over and put one of the small halves in Regulus’s mouth. They stared at each other for a second before Remus burst into laughter. Regulus snorted and chewed for a second before swallowing. Remus was laying on his back, still howling with laughter.
“Your face- I can’t- breath oh- oh my god.” He huffed out, still laughing. Regulus sighed and pulled his friend up from the ground.
“Pull yourself together Lupin.” As Remus was pulled up from the ground by his best friend, he spotted the other boy who could make him laugh like that. A certain Sirius Black was laughing while pushing his friend James Potter around the yard.
Remus flashed back to that night. They had laughed together, at what? He couldn’t remember. He was far too enamored with how Sirius’s brown eyes sparkled as if he knew all the secrets of the world. The way Sirius had hugged him after he had finally calmed down. His heart pounding far too quickly for it to have been caused by the laughter. Remus could feel Sirius’s heartbeat in his own chest which was also thumping. Sirius had taken in a big breath and muttered,
“Fuck Lupin.” against Remus’s throat. That’s when Sirius had leaned in and kissed him for the very first time. Remus lost all his breath when the other boy’s hand had gone for his hair.
They had been at a party, one of Sirius and James’s infamous house parties. The only reason the two of them were upstairs in Sirius’s room was because Remus had had one too many drinks and gotten dizzy. Sirus had helped him upstairs to cool off and get some water. All of that had been forgotten as soon as Sirius had started laughing like that at something Remus had said in his tipsy state.
Regulus leaned over and followed Remus’s vision.
“Who are you staring at??” Remus flinched.
“No one. Just looking around.” Regulus shook his head.
“No, it’s more than-” Just then the bell rang. Remus laughed and started humming the Saved by the Bell theme song as he walked away. “Love you Reg! Bye~” Remus heard Regulus mutter something in French as he walked off. “Tu seras ma mort Remus Lupin”
Man. He really had to brush up on his French.