Dude, can you swim?
The next morning, I woke up from the sound of something slamming into my terrace.
"SORRY VERA, CAN YOU THROW THAT BACK?" I stumble over to see what the cause of the noise was and it was just James' bludger that fell onto my terrace.
"Yea sure." I add quietly picking up the ball and throwing down on the ground, shit was heavy.
"THANK YOU, ALSO, GOOD MORNING!" He says with a smile.
"Yep, morning." I say before turning around and closing my terrace door. That's a fun way to wake up.
I stumble back to my bed and flop down on it with a groan. It was too early for this.
My door opens to find Euphemia slowly opening it.
"Hi darling, I'm going to go meet up with some of my girlfriends but Sono can make you whatever you like. Have a good one." Sono was the Potter families house-elf. He was a little cold and distant towards me.
"Ok, thank you." I say before she shuts the door and I go back to where I was. There was nothing for me to do all day. I didn't want to leave because, where would I go? And James was probably going to be playing Quidditch almost all day, so it was me, myself and I.
I decided to stay in my room for now and just quietly sit in my bed. I grab ahold of the headphones Sirius had gifted me and sit there staring at the blank wall in front of me.
I hoped James might invite Remus to come visit so maybe I won't be totally bored.
I hear a loud scream come from down stairs and in a moment of braveness, I leapt of my bed and down the stairs.
"WORMY! THE COOKIES!" Wormy? Who the hell is Wormy? I peer around the corner to find Peter and James holding a broken jar.
"Is everything ok?" I ask them making my presences known. Peter's head whips around to look at me.
"Oh hey Vera! Fancy seeing you here." He says trying to pick up the discarded cookies on the floor.
"Hey Petey, when did you get here?" I ask sitting myself down at the table.
"Few minutes ago or so, fancied myself one of Sono's cookies. Delicious." He says grabbing one that didn't already fall on the floor.
"Yea, that was until I popped out from the corner and scared him so he dropped the jar." James said as I chuckled at Peters guilty expression.
"I can see that. Have fun, don't drop anymore jars." I warn them.
"WAIT!" James yells running towards me. I stop myself and turn back to him, "we should all hangout." He suggests. I didn't really know Peter that well to be honest, I just liked his energy.
"Oh um, I don't really want to play Quidditch right now."
"We don't have too. There's a lake in the middle of the forest, well, it's more of a pond. We can go swimming it maybe fun." He suggests. Since Peter was going to be there, it didn't seem like a totally bad idea. What else did I have to do today anyways?
"Oh um, sure. Let me just eat and get changed." I add. James lets out an excited squeal.
"YAY! I'm so excited. Ok, I promise it will be fun." He assured me before he pulls Peter up the stairs presumably into his room.
I sit myself down at the table and eat some of the toast Sono had made as he continues to clean up the mess Peter had made.
I make my way up to my room to rummage through my trunk to find my swimsuit. I never went swimming at school, but I had one just in case. You never know.
I start to change out of my pajamas and into the suit. It was all black two piece with high-waisted bottoms and a thick strapless top. I liked the feeling of being hands-free and not worrying about straps.
I throw on some kind of cover on me and hustle down the stairs to find a shirtless Remus standing awkwardly.
"Rem? What are you doing here?" He turns to look at me with a smile.
"Hey V, long time no see." He says walking over to me and giving me a hug. His skin was covered in fresh cuts.
"What happened here?" I asked him pointing at the scars and new wounds.
"Oh um, feel while shirtless on concrete and scratched myself." He says nervously scratching his arm. I didn't believe him for one second, but I'll figure out eventually.
"Stop scratching it then, you'll open up the wounds. Here." I say walking over to a cabinet to and pulling out a small round container.
"What is that?" Remus asks as I approach him.
"It's this muggle thing just come here." I say pulling him into a nearby chair. "I'm gonna put this on the cuts ok?" I ask as a sorta of warning. He nods his head yes as I start to slowly apply the think cream all over his skin.
"How'd you know how to do that?" He asks me.
"Foster used to fall a lot." I add. Foster was clumsy.
"I'll ask you next time I'm dying and bleeding out then." He adds jokingly.
"Yea, no promises I'll save you though." I add with a wink as Peter and James head down.
"What's going on here?"
"Just helping Remus out. Ready?" I say before grabbing some muggle sunscreen and rushing out the door.
We walk through the forest and to the small private pond covered by trees. It was honestly so serene looking since it was spelled to be almost like a pool with no algae, creatures or dirty.
I set my towel down and throw my cover off. I hadn't gone swimming in years, so this was going to be fun.
I grabbed the sunscreen bottle and start to apply it all over me. I was pale, there was no doubting it so I was prone to burns. I start to struggle to apply to my back.
"Need some help?" I turn around to see Remus standing behind peering down at me with his sunglasses.
"You have long arms help me." I say passing him the bottle.
"You know, I don't think Micah would like this very much." He says with a laugh. I turn around and hit his chest.
"Don't speak about him around James, he'll murder Micah and be on my ass." I threaten him. He stifles out a hearty laugh.
"I won't, I promise. I got your back always."
"I clean your wounds, you keep my secrets deal?"
"Deal." He says looking at me with a smile. He hands me back the bottle as he looks down at me. Remus was an amazing friend and I knew he would always.
"Let's go swimming loser." I say pushing him down to the ground and leaping into the body of water.
"Wait for me!" I hear Peter yell. He jumps in beside me as I come back up for air.
"You coming?" I turn to Remus as he cannonballs into the pool just barely hitting me.
"You almost killed me you wank!" I shout hitting him. He moves his wet hair back with a laugh. "Don't laugh." I say as I dunk his head under the water quickly.
"You're gonna pay for that." He says as he tries to grab me but not before I quickly swim away and under the water farther and farther down.
"Oi! Let's play marco polo!" I hear a muffle voice yells. I swim back up to see James covering his eyes already. Remus puts his finger to his lips in a shush motion as I nod in understanding.
I quietly swim around as James aimlessly tries his best to find us.
"Marco."
"Polo." Peter stupidly says not realizing James was behind him. James turns his body and chases after Peter as he runs in circle following the natural curve of the pond.
"I'll get you Wormy, just you wait!" James says as Peter dives off away from him.
I look over at Remus who has completely abandoned the water to sit down on a nearby lawn chair.
I creep out of the pond as well and sit myself down next to him stealing the sunglasses off his face.
"Hey!" He shouts. A splash of water comes out of the pool as James whips around to face us with his eyes still shut.
"Did you leave the pond already Moony?" Moony? What the hell kind of nickname is Moony?
"No I didn't James." Remus mutters.
"I can hear you and can tell you're not actually in the pond right?"
"Whatever, sod off." Remus says as James opens his eyes and hops out of the pool.
"I'm hungry, lunch anyone?" James suggests.
"We just got out here, it's nice and warm. I can just ask Sono to bring it out here." I suggest. Everyone nods their heads as inside to find Sono.
I creep around to the kitchen to find him preparing some food.
"Ah, Ms. Reynolds-Potter." He says.
"Hi Sono, can we get our food outside by the pond?" As I ask, the front door swings open to see Euphemia.
"Vera darling! How lovely to see you. Where is everyone? Did the other boys show up?"
"Oh we were just swimming outside. We wanted to take lunch out there as well, is that alright?" I ask cautiously. I always hated going around in other's homes and asking for things, it made me nervous.
"Oh of course my dear! Such a shame Sirius couldn't come. He's such a sweetheart. If only his mother wasn't clinically insane." She adds with a sad sigh.
"Probably from the inbreeding." I add quickly before smacking my mouth shut realizing who I'm in the presences of.
Euphemia stifles out a loud laugh as my worried expression softens to a smile.
"That's a good one dearie. Very funny you are." She says with a smile looking at me. I just awkwardly stand there while we stared at each other.
"Shall I bring lunch outback?" Sono asks, clearly struggling to carry the massive tray of sandwiches. I grab ahold of it from his head and smile at him.
"I got it, thank you Sono." I say with a smile as he starts to walk the other direction. "Well, I'm going to go get these to them." I add looking at Euphemia.
"Alright darling, have fun." She says as I start to walk out, "please remind Peter to wear muggle sunscreen. That poor boy burns terribly." She says worriedly. I chuckle at her as I start up to leave again.
"Will do."
AN// awww mia and vera time (long overdue) lemme just say that vera and fleamonts relationship will not be steady for a while oops... sorry i hoped you liked this one i love y'all- Ren