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27: Remus Lupin - Cake

House: Hufflepuff

Requested by: rubythethirdd

 "I still have no idea what to do," I admitted to my three best friends, James and Sirius playing a heated game of exploding snap whilst Peter watched.

"Still? AH!" James cried as the stack of cards exploded in his face.

"Moony it's in two days," Sirius enforced, standing up and pulling off the Gryffindor tie he was using as a bandana to hold his long hair back.

"Yeah thanks for that," I said sarcastically, slamming my book shut as I couldn't concentrate on reading it. My girlfriends birthday was only two days away and I had not come up with a single thing to do for her, not that I hadn't tried. I had spent days brainstorming ideas then when I finally gave up and ask her, she simply said 'surprise me'. 'Useful,' I remember scoffing internally at the time.

"You have no ideas?" Peter asked and I shook my head.

"None," I said for clarification.

"Well there's a trip to Hogsmeade tomorrow so we might be able to find some inspiration there," James pointed out and I sighed.

"Moony you're always so prepared, how did you let this slip by? She's your girlfriend!" Sirius said and I scoffed.

"I've been trying to think of things, I've just not been successful. She's not been very useful either, just saying things like 'I don't mind' or 'surprise me'."

"Ugh, I hate it when girls do that," Sirius said and I nodded in agreement.

"I think it's meant to be a test," James shrugged, catching my attention. "She's testing to see what you surprise her with, whether you'll go to the immense effort of doing something big for her, or whether you'll just get her a boring box of sweets."

"The king of romance, James Potter everyone," Sirius mocked, clapping. "You thinking of the things you could buy Evans?"

"Yes actually, when she finally agrees to let me take her on a date I'm gonna spoil her rotten. She deserves it after all," James started smiling to himself until Sirius pushed him onto his bed playfully, James retaliating by hitting Sirius with a pillow.

"Merlin this could be tougher than I thought," I growled, covering my eyes with my forearm.

"That's why you've got us, we'll be there to help you out," Sirius said happily, then whacking James with a pillow.

"Why don't you take her to Madame Puddifoots? Don't a lot of girls like going there for dates?" Peter asked and I rolled my eyes.

"That's not really (y/n)'s scene, nor mine if I'm perfectly honest. Plus it's something a lot of guys do because it's the 'easy option'. Prongs is right, I really need to do something for her, put the effort in," I said.

"So what then?" Peter asked and I let out a huff.

"I don't know," I admitted. "I'm going to bed. Can you guys put a pause on the pillow fight until morning?" I scowled at James and Sirius who had managed to get feathers everywhere.

"Sure thing Moony!" James jumped off of Sirius, mumbling 'reparo' at the pillows before settling down in their respective beds. "Night guys."

I however remained up for most of the evening, worrying about what to get my girlfriend. I knew she wouldn't want anything stereotypical, and James pointing out that her saying 'I don't mind' was probably a test got me worried. What if I couldn't pull off some big romantic gesture, what if I didn't satisfy her on her birthday?