Amour

twenty eight

"Okay so- no it's this part over- yeah there you go." 

Remus and Alexei were in the library working on omniscope skills. Which, admittedly, Alexei was rather shocking at. Sirius on the other hand, was looking through the window trying to balance on his broom while James chased after a snitch screaming. 

"James why is Remus liking Alexei?" Sirius pouted, flying away from the window. 

"AAAAAAA- i'm not sure really," He swung his own broom around, "I don't have a fondness for the bloke, his eyebrows scare me." 

"Well I am not liking him at all, he is bad person I know it." 

"You sound like he's escaped Azkaban, nobody's that nuts Sirius." 

"No I mean-" 

An explosion. No calm down, it was mainly a glitter explosion, but whoever put all the sparkles on James' beloved Quidditch pitch was not going to live through the night. 

"YES! OH MY GOD, OF COURSE I WILL!" Alice Fortescue said as she jumped into the arms of Frank Longbottom. There were words in the sky spelling her name with a swirly 'Ball?' below it. Despite her blue hair getting tangled in his glasses, Frank had the biggest smile on his face. Sirius thought he looked like Mrs Norris. 

"Ugh, lucky wanker." James sighed, "I've asked Lily a total of five times and she still says no." 

"Ask someone else?" 

James looked as if Sirius had punched him in the face, "Why don't you go ask Moony then? Huh?" 

"Wh- what are you talking to? I don't having a crush on Remus-" 

"Oh puh-lease Sirius." James rolled his eyes, "Even Peter knows it and he didn't notice I shaved off his eyebrows in second year." 

"Tu as encore mangé la nourriture des Weasley." You've been eating Weasley foods again. 

"Exactly!" James nodded. 

"Er-"

"Anyways-" James sped down to the ground "-FRANK LONGBOTTOM-" 

Sirius went back to looking through the window, pouting.

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"Maybe we should all just go as bachelors!" James suggested that evening in the dorm, fiddling with his thumbs, bored. 

"No can do." Peter smirked from his bed. 

"You sneaky bastard! Who is she!?" James sat up. 

"Effie Jones, in Ravenclaw." 

"Good on you Pete." Remus smiled, hands tying the front of his hair into a short unicorn horn. 

"And I-" Remus started, Sirius momentarily stopped breathing, "-was going to suggest that anyway."  

Thank merlin. 

  "Who is wanting to play fireball?" 

"ME!" James sprinted out into the common room. 

"Rey? Peter?" 

"I'm gonna sleep, you go ahead Remus." 

"Alright, but I refuse to throw any paper." 

"I will do it for you, little prefect." 

"I'm like..point six foot taller than you?" Remus grumbled, sitting on the sofa, eyes already drooping.

"Eyes being open merci!" Sirius brushed his thumb briefly under Remus' eye, something his mother used to do to Regulus when he got tired. Remus' eyes did in fact open, and stared at the back of Sirius' head as he turned to help James ball up some paper.