Another point of view

Chapter 6

"Really?" Sirius sounded surprised and happy, "you don't find this disturbing?"

"No," said James. "I... I feel the same."

"You- you do?"

James nodded.

For a few seconds, no one said a word, and Remus started to worry Sirius might suspect something, but then the silence was broken.

"You have no idea how long I've wanted to hear you say that!"

Remus saw Sirius getting close to his friend, and felt a pang of jealousy in his chest, but the pale boy raised his hand to stop Sirius before he had the time to do what he wanted.

"Not yet," said James in a calm voice. "I'm not ready for it yet."

Sirius pulled away and looked at his friend, "Alright, we'll take it slow." He sounded a bit offended, but he still had a grin on his face. "What do you say about coming to Hogsmeade with me next weekend?"

"Sure," said James, and a huge smile spread on Sirius' lips.

"Great! It will be our first date." He called while getting up, offering his hand to James. They both started to get back towards the castle, and Remus hurried to move out of their way. He went behind them until they got to Gryffindor tower, and then waited for half an hour before he entered the common room.

For the whole weekend, Remus tried to think of a way to return James a favour for what he'd done for him. Until on Sunday, he finally found an idea.

"I'm going to make Lily agree to go out with you." He announced to James while they sat in the common room, catching up on every new thing in the other's life. Peter was sleeping in the dorm, while Sirius was in detention for a comment he said to Snape about how it would be lovely to change Snivellus' hair to spaghetti, doncha think?

James seemed sceptical, "I've tried to convince her to go out with me for four years, what makes you think you'll do any better?"

"Well, first of all, I'm not really you, in case you had forgotten," Remus grinned and ducked to defend himself from the pillow that had been thrown towards him. "Besides, I've been watching you all those years, and I know exactly where you were wrong and why you didn't succeed until now."

"So why didn't you tell me?" asked James angrily.

"You didn't ask," said Remus and ducked again when a second pillow been thrown at him.

"So what are you going to do?"

"Wait and see."

The next day Remus waited quietly for his chance. He knew exactly how to catch Lily's attention, but it wasn't just up to him. During lunch, the opportunity finally arrived.

"Hey, Potter," said a teasing voice behind him.

Remus smiled to himself, he knew who this voice was belonged to. He glanced at the Redhead girl that sat with her friends a few seats from him, then turned around in a calm face.

"Yes, Snape?"

"I heard they were going to kick you out of the Gryffindor Quidditch team," Said the slim teen and smiled his unpleasant smile at Remus, "because of this injury in your leg." Remus had made sure the whole school will know that he stopped his practices because his ankle had been injured. Of course, that was a lie.

He glanced to his right and saw Lily staring at what was happening in examining eyes. Bingo.

"You heard wrong." He said calmly and turned back to his plate. In front of him sat two shocked boys and a third who seemed like he was about to knock his head on the table.