Wolfstar || Everything but straight

CHAPTER •°• twelve

   OVER A WEEK has passed since Remus saw Sirius with Maggie in the bathroom and Lupin did his best not to think about it. Or about Sirius.

It was hard at first but after a few days he got good at it. Unless he saw Sirius - which was admittedly quite often - he managed to focus on other things. It was mostly either connected with school or with Lily or with Lily and James. Sometimes also Dylan and his problems with teachers.

Anyway, it went smoother and smoother as time passed by and finally, at the end of the week, Remus could proudly state that he was talking with Dylan, in Gryffindor's common room, about things completely not connected to Sirius. And he didn't even think about Sirius.

Nope. Not at all. Sirius could as well not exist for him, that's how good he got in not thinking about Sirius.

"...so I was talking to him and he was like 'oh, but Mr Lewis your marks are so low' and I was like 'yeah well, this school is low' and he was like 'Mr Lewis, detention' and I was like 'whatever'." Dylan finally finished his story about how Flitwick got mad at him last week. "So yeah. Now I'm busy every evening through the next two weeks." He sighed.

Remus frowned at him, not really believing that it was all the Ravenclaw got the detention for. After all Flitwick wasn't a person who threw a detention in your face for nothing, not like McGonagall.

Lupin wanted even to ask if that was all that was to it, but then he resigned. He knew that if Dylan didn't want to talk about something, he just wouldn't. So the Gryffindor nodded his head and stated instead.

"You don't look too bothered by this." He decided and Dylan shrugged, trying to suppress a smirk. 

"At least I'll have a good excuse as to why I don't want to meet with people." He decided and Remus snorted loudly, rolling his eyes.

"As if people wanted to meet with you." He mocked him and Dylan threw a dissatisfied look at him. 

"You'd be surprised." He said, shrugging simply, as if what Remus said didn't bother him. But Remus knew that it did. "Lately Maggie seemed to be staring at me a lot." He said and Remus barely managed to stop himself from gasping.

Could it be that Maggie was cheating on Sirius after all? Or was trying to cheat on Sirius? Oh, that was an evil wish, but Remus wanted it to come true so bad.

Maybe then Sirius would break up with her and like him and maybe Remus would gather the courage to ask him out and maybe it all would sort itself out.

Except that Sirius was almost certainly straight and also, even if he wasn't, he lately looked like he was trying to avoid Remus.

Not that Moony wasn't trying to avoid him, but still...

Lupin shook his head. Ugh, he did that again. He was supposed to stop thinking about Sirius. Stop thinking about Sirius. Just stop.

"Oh?" Remus answered finally and Dylan raised his eyebrows at him in a mocking way. Lupin tried to ignore it, but he just kept imagining what Lewis had to think and it made it really hard.

"Yeah. I thought she was going to ask me out, but then Black showed up and started to get to her." He shrugged, seemingly indifferent, but Remus could see this shine of satisfaction in his gaze. He really didn't like Dylan sometimes.

"Oh." Repeated himself Remus, trying to focus on not thinking about Black. He swallowed. He needed to change the subject. Now. "That's bad." He admitted and almost, almost snapped when he noticed Dylan's suggestive smirk. "Anyway, uhm, what Flitwick told you to do on those detentions?" He asked, that topic being the only thing that came to his mind.