Allies to Friends

James's Birthday Party

sirius

"Hey.. sirius?"

"Yeah?" i looked up at remus

"I got you something."

'It's not my birthday."

"I know but I know you'd like it."

"Okay."

Remus opened his hand to reveal a little bottle of black ink. "Here."

"Ink?"

"It's paint for your nails."

"Ooh!" I took it and looked at it closely.

"See, i told you'd like it."

"Aw, moony, you know me so well."

"Moony.."

"Yeah, is that okay?"

"Yeah.."

"Can I paint your nails?"

"Sure."

James wanted his nails painted too and Peter, a little reluctantly, let us paint his.

***

TW: homophobia, gross blood purity

"Does he want to be a girl or something?"

"He's such queer boy."

"He- or should i say she- made his friends pretend to be girls too!"

"It's because he's hanging with that weird little half blood. The dirty mud blood is messing with them."

I grit my teeth and my nails made little crescents from my hands gripping too hard. How did Sirius constantly ignore these comments?

"Hey, ignore them." sirius' voice was soft, something it was rarely.

"How? When they say these things about you?"

"I only care about what my friends think of me. I- wouldn't be able to survive otherwise."

"Oh."

"I'm going to be myself no matter what, and I'm safer here than anywhere else. If they are bothering you, though, i could.. talk to them?"

"It's okay, thank you."

He nodded and went back to talking to james. I listened to them talk and was very glad to have such amazing friends. Maybe they didn't know of the calls of mudblood and other terrible blood purity bullshirt, but they would stand up for me if they did and they also accepted me as a werewolf.

***

"If you are so good at bets, bet me something random right now and win." James said, wanting to get in on the bets Sirius and Remus had been making.

Remus looked up from his work. "Okay, fine. I'm going to give lily a note without her noticing, okay? 2 gallons."

"Sure! Ill take that bet."

"Okay, wait here."

Remus went over to lily and talked to her for a few minutes and the n re us walked back.

"You have to give her a note."

"Just wait."

A minute later lily found the note, read it then walked over to the two.

"See? She knew it was-"

"James fleamont potter!"

Remus winked and walked away