INVISIBLE STRING

4.THE TALKS

"I'm telling you. They are allowed to have secrets. I mean we act weird all the- if you won't sit down right now I swear to bloody god, padfoot, I'll burn all of your records."

This made Sirius stop in his tracks instantly. He looked at his roommate with this puppy dog eyes, but as he was just faced with a serious and stern gaze from Remus, he sat down on the foot of Remus's bed.

"Geez okay"

Remus sighed, rubbing his eyes exhausted.

"I'm sorry pads, it's just that I'm two days away from transforming into a literal beast and all I want to do is cuddle and eat chocolate and you two dickheads can't give the girls the privacy they deserve."

This seemed to put his friend in their places as they now looked down sheepishly.

"I'm sorry, Mooney", James said and it seemed like he really meant it. He was scratching the back of his neck anxiously and did what nervous James Potter did best.

"Gummy worms?", he said. And it was not the offer itself, but something about the way he said it, eyebrows raised, eyes blown wide and voice about two pitches higher than usual, that just made Remus chuckle lowly.

"No thank you, I'll stick to my chocolate. But thank you for that offer", Remus nodded to James and somehow they silently seemed to talk with their eyes. Remus and Sirius might be a couple, but it was Remus and James that had been friend from the beginning.

Although Sirius might have understood James instantly, both of them functioning the same way and the two of them immediately hitting it off; the bond between James Potter and Remus Lupin was one of pure platonic friendship so true and deep it was a competition to anyone else.

"I'm sorry too, Mooney", Sirius said too, his voice barely above a whisper.

Remus knew just how he was beating himself up inside for not realizing the full moon was so close. Sirius just was like this and Remus knew the internal conflict that was going on behind this perfect skin and those soft curls of his.

"Don't worry about it", Remus was already pulling Sirius closer again, none of them being able to be seperated for so long.

"I'd just rather have you cuddled up in my arms than making me crazy and dizzy with your pacing", he muttered into the crook of Sirius' neck.

James watched the two of them with a smile on his face.

Someday, he thought, someday.

James Potter had been a hopeless romantic ever since he first laid eyes on that beautiful redhead girl in first year.

Lily Evans had him enchanted the moment they met, but it wasn't just her amazing looks that made James fall for her instantly.

It was the way she knew everything in the book, despite being muggleborn and not having been introduced to magic until a few weeks prior.

It was the way she immediately stood up for a boy she didn't even know when he was bullied by a bigger and taller boy that could have probably squashed her with one of his fingers.

It was the way her eyes began to shine at the enchanted ceiling in the great hall and how she continued to be amazed at every sign of magic throughout the years. 

It was the way she was such a good friend.

While he wantched Remus and Sirius being so incredibly happy with each other, he wished for nothing more than that with Lily.

Lily was the greatest person he ever met and although James admitted he had been kind of annoying at first, ever since they became friends that year, she had become even greater.