Amour

27

"JAMES POTTER!" Lily shouted from outside the boys dormitorys.

"JAMES IS SLEEPING!" Sirius shouted back.

"I DON'T CARE!" She pounded on the door, "Is anyone being explicit in there?"

"Wh- No! This isn't a whore house Lily!" James called out.

"It is if you're in it!" She burst through the door, beelining straight for the bespectacled boy.

"Did you just call me a who-"

"GIVE ME MY BOOK BACK, RIGHT. NOW."

"Caaaaaalm down," He held his hands up, "I just wanted to read it a bit."

"Yeah, and I'm a piece of Rigatoni pasta" Peter rolled his eyes.

"Be quiet!" Sirius shushed him, watching the exchange with an interested expression.

"YOU TWAT!" She hit him on the chest with the book. He'd handed it back to her with a....a......a broken spine.

"I'M SORRY!" He held up various cushions in poor defence.

"What's going on..." Remus said from the doorway, having heard a lot of shouting from the common room. Who wouldn't investigate?

"Gah!" Sirius shushed him, pulling him over to where Peter was sat. "Red angry with Prongs."

"Prongs? What the fuck is a Prongs?" Peter looked up.

"His hair, it be standing like Prongs on poster." He pointed to the image on Peter's bed ceiling of a perfectly symmetrical man, smiling with his perfectly symmetrical teeth over a barbeque. They didn't want to ask when he put it up.

"Fair enough- Lily don't pin him down, he'd like that!" Remus said, shouting occasionally over the the fight happening beside them. Barbeque man had entranced them long enough for a fierce chase to begin.

"Do you want me to iron it or something!?"

"No! You must PERISH." 

"Wait-" Remus started, disrupting them both, "What did he do, Lils?" 

"He broke the spine of The Exorcist!" She cried. Lily, as sweet as she may seem, was positively obsessed with Horror novels.        

"Not sure why you read this stuff, love." He grabbed the book in her hands, holding it high in the air, "I think I shat myself four times." 

"You're repulsive." She scoffed, jabbing him in the stomach so he doubled over and she collected the novel scratch free. 

"You- love it." He grinned through the pain. 

She righted his glasses, "Watch your back, darling." 

And then she left. 

James had fainted again. 

"He's going to get a brain injury, third time this week." Peter jumped off his chair, nudging James' foot with his socked foot, "Out cold." 

Remus and Sirius weren't paying attention anymore. Sirius had gotten bored and wandered over to Remus' bursting bookshelf, picking a copy of A Wind In The Door up and thrusting it at Remus expectantly. 

"What?" 

"Read it to me." 

"No." 

"Pleaaaase." Sirius frowned, doing that thing with his eyes that made it impossible to refuse anything. In truth, Sirius only wanted an excuse to listen to the others voice undisturbed for a while.