mandrake leaves (wolfstar)

Chapter 6- Fith year: Don't stop me now

'cause i'm having a good time

yes, i'm having a good time

i don't wanna stop at all

it was the morning of Sirius' birthday and Remus was awoken by being vigorously shaken by James.
"Monny! Moony! get up!" he whispered.

"ugh what do you want?" he groaned pressing his face further into his pillow.

"it's Sirius' birthday!" James said excitedly, even more so than if it were his own birthday, but that was just courageous James Potter for you.

"fine i'm up." Remus sighed sitting up in his bed.  he had decided the night before he would swallow all his bad thoughts for Sirius' birthday and wouldn't avoid him, it was his day.

"Peter is just having a piss, come on we have to give him his special wake up." he grinned and hurried back over to his side of the room.

Remus sighed and followed him, his knees clicking a little as he did.
they had tried to find a charm that would spurt out confetti from their wands, but had only managed pathetic strips of dis-coloured tissue, and settled for some Zonko's party poppers instead.

when Peter was back from the toilet James handed out the mini cannons and they all stood eagerly around Sirius' bed.
of course, Sirius slept beautifully, with his hair sprawled around his head like a halo.

James counted them down.

"three.."

"two.."

"one..!"

they tore the strings off the cannons and glitter and confetti filled the room with a loud bang.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIRIUS!" they sang out simultaneously.

Sirius woke with a start looking a little scared but his face quickly turned to a grin, letting glitter fall into his hair.

"guys!" he laughed.

the three of them piled on top of him, all laughing and squirming around.
"get off you bunch of idiots!" he said with a broad smile, "i'm gunna get a punctured lung."

"presents!" Peter squeaked and rushed over to grab a box from under his bed, wrapped in brown paper and tied with sting.

"awe Wormy, you do flatter me so." Sirius said pulling Peter in and ruffling his hair.

James and Remus also set their gifts on Sirius' bed and he tore into them.
Peter had gotten him a large amount of sweets from Honeydukes and James got him new quidditch gear. he thanked them all before telling them to 'piss off so i can get ready'.

as they entered the great hall Sirius' joy only grew, the Gryffindor banners had been changed to say 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIRIUS!'. the look on his face made the efforts of getting up at 3am worth it for Remus.

the girls were already down at breakfast and all greeted Sirius with 'happy birthdays', Remus noticed that Marlene whispered something cheeky in his ear which made his eyebrows rise so high they almost got lost in his hair.
Remus paid no mind though, he wasn't going to let anything get him down today.

unfortunately it was a friday so they still had to do lessons, but it wasn't too bad since they did practical work in every subject and could still mess around.
Remus was particularly struggling that day, he had slept funny and his back was in agony. he wanted to be good for the party later so decided to see Madame Pomfrey before dinner to get something for the pain.

"try not to have too much sugar with this" she said handing him the potion, "it can have some side effects- not anything drastic, mind. i just wouldn't advise it."