muggle studies. → james f. potter ¹

𝟬𝟭𝟯: I'M NOT PICKY - HOT COCOA IS HOT COCOA.

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SERENA WAS WRAPPING PRESENTS QUIETLY IN JAMES' ROOM, LISTENING TO CHRISTMAS TUNES AND HUMMING ALONG. The mall was very fun, actually. The only thing that made it bad was that James was in a mood - no one knew why. Serena and Sirius chose to ignore; they knew James. He wouldn't admit what's bothering him and it would annoy Serena furthur. 

In other news, Serena was excited for Sirius' early present. She invited Remus over for a couple days. He was arriving tomorrow morning and Serena was beyond excited. It was going to be much more eventful with 3/4 of the Marauders here — the only person missing is Peter. 

The door opened, and Serena whipped her heads towards the door. It was James. She smiled, "Hello,"

"Hi, uh." James cleared his throat. "Mother is calling for you, for dinner."

Serena nodded. "Yeah, sure. I'll be right down."

James also nodded, gave her an awkward smile and left the room. He didn't know why all of sudden, he was awkward with Serena. He's always been smooth, with everyone. Why did Serena make him choke up and stutter over his words; it was unlike him. He was James Potter, for Godrick's sake. 

James walked down the stairs, sighing heavily. Sirius looked up from his newspaper, knitting his eyebrows. "James, what's wrong?"

James rolled his eyes. "Nothing, just tired."

"You're not just tired, obviously something is bothering you since the mall - what's wrong?" Sirius frowned at his best friend. 

"Well, I just feel like Serena doesn-" Before he could finish his sentence, someone knocked at the door. Serena quickly ran down the stairs. 

"I got it!" 

James and Sirius made eye contact, confusion plastered on their face. She opened the door, revealing a tired, but very happy Remus. 

"Remus?"

"Moony!" Sirius shouted, running up to the boy and hugging him as hard as he could. Remus chuckled as Serena watched happily. James was happy as well, but did he really have to come right when he was about vent to Sirius?

After they hugged, James and Remus hugged as Sirius faced Serena. "Was this your doing?"

"Yes! Happy Christmas, Siri!" Serena smiled at the boy. "He's a few days early, but that's alright."

James turned to them, "Siri?" He mocked. 

Remus smiled, "looks like these two have gotten very close! I'm glad." 

Sirius and Serena laughed and nodded.

"Yeah, they have." James said, jealousy lacing his voice. He felt bad that he was being an idiotic jealous mess, but he thought that this Christmas break was going to be when he finally got Serena to like him! Sirius was taking Serena all for himself, he felt like she's replacing him. 

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James, Serena, Remus and Sirius sat in the living room. It was around 1 am; they weren't asleep for some reason. They were just talking about nothing in particular, just enjoying each other's company. 

"Yeah, so Marlene is like - deathly allergic to cats. And as you may know, Lily has like five. So while Marlene is at the Evans household, they have to do this spell secretly everyday in the morning so she doesn't like, die." Serena tells in between laughs as Sirius nods. 

"I love cats, I dunno what I would do if I was allergic to 'em." Sirius says as they all nod along. 

"Yeah, I had a cat a couple of years ago but uh, she grew old and um.. passed on,"