"I'm telling you he's still alive I've watched videos on it!"
"Please don't say that I'll have nightmares!"
They were in McDonalds which admittedly was not their usual choice of weekend activity, but Peter had just gotten a job there and they were waiting for him to finish his shift. Meanwhile Sirius had decided to use this time to tell both James and Remus about Michael Jacksons apparent return from the grave.
"You really need to get over this fear Prongs, it's getting concerning." Sirius continued taking a sip of his milkshake.
"I can't help it! There's just something about him." James replied looking thoroughly distressed.
"I mean I kind of get it," Remus started, "his voice was strangely high which I suppose is a bit unnerving."
"Thank you Moony!"
Remus just shook his head fondly while Sirius mouthed 'traitor' good naturedly at him from across the table.
The two of them hadn't been alone together since that time on the bench a few days ago, which Remus was both sad about and grateful for, as Remus needed at least 10 to 12 working days to recover before he could trust himself not to confess his undying love as soon as Sirius as much as smiled at him.
They finished their food just in time for Peter to walk out the back room.
"How was work Pete?" James asked throwing an arm around Peter as they made their way out the restaurant.
"Fine but I'm absolutely knackered, a 9 to 5 at maccies is no joke."
The other three boys stopped very abruptly.
"Peter," James started very seriously, "did you just call McDonald's..." he stopped preparing himself to say the next word, "maccies?"
"Yes." Peter responded solemnly seemingly disappointed in himself.
"Don't do it again."
"Okay."
Thankfully for Peter, he was saved by all their phones going off.
[psychology innit]
5:12 pm
lily evans: Hey everyone! I was wondering if we all wanted to meet up at my house after school tomorrow to put together all our research? That way we'll have longer to work on practising our presentation ☺️
mary macdonald: sounds good lils
marlene mckinnon: 👍
remus lupin: sure good idea
"Moony!"
Remus looked up from his phone to see the other three staring at him incredulously.
"What?" he asked completely baffled.
"Why would you say yes??" James whined, "now we're all gonna have to say yes!"
"okay..." Remus responded still not understanding the situation, "and what's the issue with that?"
"What's the issue?" James mocked, "obviously we haven't done the research!" he finished throwing his hands in the air.
"Speak for yourselves." Remus laughed out. He was finding the others panicked expressions rather enjoyable.
"You mean you've actually done it?" Peter asked wistfully.
"Of course he has he's Remus." Sirius responded shaking his head and smiling fondly.
"Yeah I've done it, it's not like we all went to Prongs' house a few weeks ago to work on it or anything."
"Yeah but we didn't actually do any work! We were watching Mamma Mia," James said matter of factly, "wait is that why you were writing in your notebook? You were doing the research?"
"Obviously!", Remus responded between laughs, "What did you think I was doing?"
"I don't know writing fucking poetry! You're a weird bloke!"
[psychology innit]
5:15 pm
lily evans: James? Sirius? Peter? Is that okay with you?
"Shit." James breathed out getting progressively more distressed
[psychology innit]
5:16 pm
lily evans: I can see that you've read the message
lily evans: you have done it right?
"Shit on it! She's gonna hate me even more now!" James continued dramatically and Remus gave up all pretences of this not being hilarious and continued to laugh.
"It's fine Prongs we'll just say yes and get it done tonight," Sirius said in an attempt to comfort James but judging by his face was trying hard not to laugh too, "Moony will help us!"
"I will?"
"Yes, you will." Sirius replied, flashing Remus a smile that should be illegal.
"Fine," Remus sighed resignedly, "I guess I will." After all, how was he supposed to say no when Sirius was grinning at him like that.
[psychology innit]
5:18 pm
sirius black: we'll be there 😌
***
The four boys arrived at Lily's a little after 4. Obviously, Remus had been here multiple times before ever since his and Lily's friendship had blossomed in Year 9. James on the other hand had not. Remus had spent the past half an hour trying to convince James not to bring flowers, chocolates and a card that says 'Thank you for your hospitality' while Peter and Sirius had sat there very unhelpfully suggesting more things for James to bring. Thankfully, as they were stood outside Lily's front door, James only had flowers in his hand. Remus took that as a win.
Lily opened the door with a bright smile although that was soon blocked by James shoving the bunch of flowers in her face.
Jesus Christ there was no hope for this man.
"I got these for you!" James all but squeaked out, and at Lily's questioning eyebrow raise he continued, "They're a thank you for letting us reside in your residence."
Wow. He has just done that. Remus must've missed the part where they were in fucking Downton Abbey.
"Um thank you? I think." Lily said hesitantly taking the flowers from a manic looking James. "Come on in." She said gesturing with her hand.
"Thank you." Remus said on a sigh of relief grabbing James by the shoulders and guiding him into the house before he offered to mow her lawn or some shit.
The four of them followed Lily up to her room where Mary and Marlene already were, however as soon as they walked into the room, they all turned at the sound of Sirius gasping loudly. When Remus looked in the direction Sirius was staring, he quickly realised what the fuss was about and tried and failed at keeping a fond smile from appearing on his face.
"You like Taylor Swift?!" Sirius gasped out pointing at Lily after just seeing her rather impression shelf dedicated to the singer covered in posters, CD's and vinyl's.
"Yes." Lily replied rather defiantly apparently not knowing whether Sirius' reaction was positive or not.
"Lily Evans," Sirius started very sincerely, "you might just be my new best friend."
Both Peter and James let out an outraged 'hey' but Remus just smiled and nudged James whispering "bet you wish you'd actually listened to everything Sirius has said about Taylor Swift now huh."
***
Once Sirius and Lily had finished discussing their thoughts on what appeared to be Taylor's entire discography, they eventually started to work on their group project, which, didn't take too long in the end as Lily had already done most of the work for them which the others certainly weren't going to complain about.
Peter and Remus were currently dividing up who would say what during their presentation and Remus was planning on giving himself the smallest part possible. He's never been very good at speaking in front of people, even its just his class. Lily and Marlene however, were currently in the middle of telling James they would not be adding a dance routine to the presentation no matter how many times he said it would help reflect the emotions of the theorists, while Mary and Sirius seemed to be having a very hushed conversation on the other of the room.
Remus had tried to not look too annoyed when Sirius had gone to sit next to Mary instead of him. After all he had no right to be upset, Mary was the one who had actually dated Sirius no matter how on and off it had been which was much more than Remus could say for himself.
"That's a nice top Remus."
Remus looked up from his cue cards at the sound of Mary's voice from across the room. He glanced down at his shirt, it was literally just a plain dark blue top, nothing special, it even had a small stain on it from his cup of tea earlier.
"Uh thanks?" Remus responded confused; he went to look back at his cards, but Mary continued.
"Yeah, it's a really nice colour, brings out your eyes, don't you think Sirius?" Mary purred out and when Remus flicked his eyes over to Sirius, he was staring daggers at the side of Mary's head.
"uh yeah." Was Sirius muffled reply before him and Mary went back to their conversation which appeared slightly more heated than before.
And what the fuck was that about? Was Mary flirting with Remus? That made no sense. Mary and Remus were friends and sure she was very pretty but Remus had never once thought of her in that way before, and he assumed neither had she.
Remus continued to stew over that very short interaction for the rest of the night, so much so that when the four of them were walking home James asked him what was wrong.
"Nothing nothing it's just I think Mary might have flirted with me today?" Remus said still not believing his own words.
"What?" James laughed out incredulously, "Pads did you hear what Moony just said?"
"Yeah." Sirius said laughing nervously.
"She was probably just messing about with you," James said patting Remus on the back, "no offence mate but I don't think you're exactly her type."
"Yeah." Remus agreed. "You're probably right." He finished still very confused about the situation but decided to just forget about it and they continued their way home.
***
[Austin and Ally]
11:32 pm
siriusisally: well
siriusisally: plan b was a fail
siriusisally: he thinks YOU were flirting with HIM
siriusisally: and tbh
siriusisally: THAT IS KIND OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE
maryisaustin: and whose fault is that
siriusisally: YOURS
maryisaustin: ABSOLUTELY NOT BITCH
maryisaustin: if u had actually taken the very easy road i created for u
maryisaustin: and complimented him PROPERLY
maryisaustin: then it might've worked
maryisaustin: but no
maryisaustin: instead you just went
maryisaustin: ✨uH yEah✨
maryisaustin: absolute trainwreck u are
siriusisally: U DIDN'T GIVE ME TIME TO PREPARE 😭 😭 😭
maryisaustin: WE LITERALLY HAD AN ENTIRE CONVERSATION ABOUT IT BEFORE HAND U ABSOLUTE MELT
siriusisally: i needed more
maryisaustin: that much is clear
siriusisally: maybe I should just give up
siriusisally: he's never going to like me like that anyway
maryisaustin: first of all
maryisaustin: the amount of pick me energy u just radiated is disgusting
maryisaustin: second of all
maryisaustin: I have dedicated way too much time and resources into make this ship sail
maryisaustin: i refuse to let u give up
maryisaustin: mainly because i would have to deal with ur pining for the rest of time
maryisaustin: and I don't think even I could survive that kind of torture
siriusisally: rude
maryisaustin: not rude
maryisaustin: realistic
maryisaustin: its time for plan c
siriusisally: kill me now
