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March 10, 1976
Remus was sleeping peacefully in his bed until a bomb fell on him and he jolted awake.
The bomb in question was a black, hairy living being.
"PADS! GETTOFF!" screamed Remus.
The big dog didn't pay attention to him and licked Remus's face, barking and wagging his tail happily.
Then the dog disappeared and a boy with white skin and dark hair appeared in his place.
"Come on Remmy, wake up! It's your birthday!" and he started singing. It was a happy birthday song, modified for the birthday boy, but Sirius was terribly out of tune.
"Sirius, move. And don't call me Remmy." He pushed Sirius off the bed and he sat up, his light hair spiked in every direction and his pajamas crooked.
"Come on Moony, I know you like me" Sirius smiled and sat next to Remus on the bed, then kissed him on the cheek.
"Shut up, son of a whore" said Remus, pouting and rubbing his eyes.
"You know I can't be offended" said Sirius smirking. "anyways. James went to Quidditch practise and Peter went with him for moral support. You know what that means?"
Since it was 7:00 in the morning Remus's brain was still basically sleeping, so he frowned and answered with a flat voice: "what?"
"It means I can do this without Peter making disgusted noises and James turning into a giggling little girl." Sirius smiled again and took Remus's face in his hands, kissing him sweetly on the lips.
When he pulled back he grinned widely and said: "Happy birthday, my love"
Remus blushed despite himself. "Thanks... but I'm still mad at you. Did you really have to wake me up at 7 o'clock?"
"Of course! I had to take advantage of this moment without those two."
Remus got up and approached his trunk, looking for something inside it, and said: "I hope for your sake that I have some chocolate left."
"Why for my sake?"
"Because if you woke me up at such an early hour without making sure you had some chocolate within reach... then you're a dead man."
Remus was still searching through his trunk when Sirius threw a little package to him. The Honwydukes logo was on the wrapping.
"I could never leave you without. I'm not that stupid."
Remus took the package and opened it, to find a bar of his favorite limited edition chocolate with salted caramel chips.
"OH MY GODRIC!" he exclaimed "FUCK, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!"
Remus opened the bar and started eating it. Just in that moment he saw Sirius staring at him shocked, his eyes open wide and red cheeks.
Remus was about to ask him what was the matter, but he realized it by himself: "Fuck- no, i meant... i didn't-" He stuttered, almost going into panic mode.
Suddenly the door opened and Peter walked in.
Both Remus and Sirius turned around to look at him, still red in the faces.
Peter approached James's bed and started looking for something.
"Hi guys. Happy birthday, Moony" he smiled at him, then he went back to rummage through James's stuff, the two boys were still staring at him.
"What?" said Peter "do I have something on my face?"
"Uh? No... nothing." said Remus.
"Oh... anyways, James said to reach him at the Quidditch field. He said it's important." Peter informed them, finally finding what he was looking for, then he walked out of the dormitory with an empty parchment under his sweater.
Remus and Sirius stared at eachother for a while, then Remus got up: "Alright then, I'm going to get dressed..."
He took a pair of trousers, a burgundy sweater and a pair of black Converse with little stars embroidered on them, then he locked himself in the bathroom.
Sirius stood there quietly, still shocked, and when he heard the bathroom door opening again he turned around sharply.
Remus poked his head around the bathroom door and said: "Pads, can you pass me a pair of socks?"
Sirius nodded. He opened Rem's drawer and tossed him the socks.
Around 10 minutes later Remus walked out of the bathroom and the two boys joined their friends at the Quidditch field.
They waited for the practise to end and when James approached them he had an indescribable expression.
"Happy birthday, Moony" he said to remus with a smile, then turned to Peter with a more serious look.
"Peter, the map."
Peter handed James the map and the latter opened it.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" The map came to life.
"During practise i saw Snivellus sneaking into the forest and it looked like he had something in his hand" James explained "I bet he was up to no good."
James scanned the map carefully.
"He's not in the castle. He's definitely still in the forest, let's go!"
He erased the map and started walking towards the forest.
After a few steps to turned around to check if the others were following him, but only Sirius moved.
"Do you guys really wanna follow him?" asked Peter uncertain.
"Of course!" James and Sirius exclaimed in chorus.
Remus and Peter resigned themselves and followed them closely.
They were chatting as they walked, and James was focused to pick up any signal that could reveal Snape's presence.
Sirius though was walking quietly with his hands in his pocket and a stupid love-sick grin on his face. Not his usual grin.
"What's up, mate?" asked James.
"Mh? Nothing..." Sirius replied, but he gave himself away by looking at Remus for a millisecond.
James immediately noticed that look and smiled: "Alright, tell me what happened"
Sirius chuckled "Nothing happened."
"I don't believe you, I saw that grin and how you looked at him. Tell me." insisted James.
"Alright, he... he told me he loves me..."
James almost gasped and brought his hands to his mouth: "What the fuck are you saying!?"
"Yeha, but..." Sirius's smile kinda faded "he seemed weird..."
"What do you mean?"
"It looked like... like it slipped... like he didn't actually mean it."
"Wait wait wait... what happened before he said it?"
"I gave him his gift, literally just a chocolate bar. Limited edition, I knew he liked it."
"Then you're really an idiot" said James "of course he didn't wanna say it that way, he wanted to wait for the perfect moment but he got caught up in the moment."
"You think that's why? It looked like he regretted it." Sirius said, a little skeptical.
"Don't worry, man. He surely meant it but he reacted that way because he wanted to wait for the perfect moment. Or maybe he didn't know if you would say it back. By the way, what did you answer him?"
"Nothing... Peter came in the room."
"What a timing, damn... Antway, talk to him later"
"Yeah, I will"
Sirius kept walking with his hands in his pockets and the gaze lowered.
They kept walking in silence for a while, until Peter announced he was starving so they all decided to go back to the castle.
As they headed back James checked the Marauder's map again. "Snivellus returned to the castle too."
That afternoon the Marauders were all in the dorm. Remus was reading a book on his bed, James was explaining a Quidditch tactics to Peter and Sirius was studying the Marauder's Map.
James looked at Sirius and motioned for him to go to Remus.
Sirius looked at his boyfriend, then at James and shook his head.
James, stubborn, stood up and announced that he was hungry: "Peter, let's go to the kitchens, shall we?"
The two boys left and James urged Sirius once more before closing the door behind him.
Sirius folded the map and sat up in his bed.
"Soooooo..."
Remus raised his head: "What?"
"Ehm... don't you wanna talk?"
Suddenly, Remus felt as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over him. He stared at Sirius, wide-eyed, and after a moment, playing dumb, asked, "About what?"
Sirius sighed. "You know exactly about what. You can't pretend it didn't happen."
Remus didn't answer, he kept quiet staring at Sirius.
The latter got up and sat on the other's bed.
"Moony, why are you so worried...?"
"Because I shouldn't have said that. I mean, yeah... but not like that. It was stupid."
"It wasn't stupid! Why do you say that?"
"Because it was impulsive, I wanted to tell you differently. It wasn't perfect... and it had to be. I didn't wanna say it so suddenly."
"Why?" asked Sirius.
"Because... I was afraid you would take it badly. I know how you are with this kind of thing, I thought you would react badly or something."
Sirius took Remus's hand in his and looked him in the eyes. "Moony... I may be a big defensive asshole when it comes to feelings, but it's you we're talking about." he hesitated a bit before adding "of course I love you"
Remus smiled and Sirius noticed that he was trying to hold back the tears.
"Are you crying?" asked Sirius chuckling.
Remus chuckled too: "It's the moon..."
"Yeah, the moon. Sure." Sirius replied. He knew it was just an excuse, but he pretended to believe him and he hugged him tight. "I love you. I love you so so much" he said.
"I love you too. A lot." said Remus, kissing his boyfriend on the cheek.
Sirius heard a noise coming from behind the door and he sighed.
"OKAY, YOU TWO COME OUT!"
The door opened slowly and James and Peter walked in with arms full of food and drinks.
"I swear we only heard the last part." said James.
"Shut up and pass me a butterbeer, you wanker" replied promptly Sirius.
James passed a butterbeer each and he emptied his arms full of food on Remus' bed, and so did Peter.
The Marauders didn't go down to the banquet for dinner, but stayed in their dormitory to party, laugh, and joke. They gorged themselves on food and threw pillows at each other, trying to make as little noise as possible (obviously without success).
That was the best birthday of Remus's life.