All your fault

Part 2

Not Mary? What did he mean by that? James quickly reached into his pocket and pulled out the Marauders Map, who could Sirius meet up with? Maybe with Dorcas?

"I solemnly swear I'm up to no good," he murmurs, tapping the card with his wand. He unfolds them and searches the library for Sirius, nothing, just Peter sitting alone at a table. Unexpectedly, Peter is in the library but not really interesting. He's Check their room next, but Sirius is not there either. He quickly lays the map on the ground and spreads it out completely, all he has to do is find Sirius. There. In the Prefect's bathroom. And indeed there is another person there. James folds the map, jumps up, and quickly says,

"Mischief managed." Then he runs to his destination: the prefects' bathroom. On the way, he meets Lily and quickly tries to hide behind a curtain, but she sees him anyway. Yes, he had been in love with Lily since her first day at Hogwarts. But since he kissed her a few weeks ago and she tasted like rotten fruit, his love has suddenly evaporated.

Then he suddenly remembered "Hey, Lily. ..", he waves at her slowly.

"What do you want Potter?", she is angry with him, understandable. After the kiss, he turned away and had to suppress a nagging urge, after that he also said straight to her face that he was sick from the kiss and he'd better get a prescription from Madam Pomfrey. He wasn't acting like a gentleman, he knew that and he was sorry too.

"I just wanted to apologize about the kiss thing and I wanted to ask you something" Suddenly her facial expression changes and she starts to beam

"What... What do you want to ask me James?", she starts to play with a strand of her hair. Girls. James rolls his eyes, Lily looks a bit confused afterward.

"What's the password to the prefect bathroom?"

"What?!" she shrieks "You-you...You're such a lying asshole! How dare you get my hopes up and then ask me something like that. You bastard! You disgust me!", she turns, tosses her hair over her shoulder, and struts away. James thinks she must have practiced this thousand of times in front of the mirror, no one could perform a walking away like that on the fly. And today was the second time he was told that he disgusts people around him. Great. But it doesn't matter, he keeps running in the direction of the bathroom. Lily was his only chance for the password, but in an emergency, he would wait until the two came out of the bathroom again, at some point they had to come out again. So James stands right in front of the entrance, no one can get past him without noticing. Then, almost half an hour later, the door opens and Sirius comes out of the bathroom just grinning from ear to ear and looking over his shoulder. He then turns his head and sees James

"What the hell Prongs! What are you doing here?!"

"Oh, I dunno exactly," he pulls out the map and waves it in front of Sirius' face, "I was dragged into a classroom by your lovely brother earlier, he said he needed to talk to you. And finally, he has one of those Made an annotation, something about you, he said you found someone again after you broke up with Mary, and of course, I'm looking at the map to see who your secret lover might be...And you know what I saw ?", his tone is provocative, and that's exactly what he wants. He wants to provoke Sirius Black. He doesn't care who he's dating, it just matters to James that he knows about it. He wants Sirius to know he can be trusted.

"Shit," Sirius murmurs, and he drags James behind him into the prefect bathroom. Remus is drying his hair with a towel, he freezes when he sees James.

"Heya Moony," says James. "I thought you wanted to lie down earlier today?"

"Sirius! I thought we... What is James doing here?!"

"He knows," Sirius says in a dark tone.

"What? Why? Did you...?"

"'The hell no Moony! I didn't say anything! Not a word nothing! But Regulus knows! If Regulus knows, my whole family will soon know! Fucking shit!" he kicks the wall and then flinches.

"Sorry Prongs, we should have told you, it's just..."

"Hey, I'm not mad or anything, well actually I am, but just because you didn't tell me. I just didn't think so... that... that's possible"

"Are you saying that it's impossible that we're together?" Moony sounded upset.

"No, no!"

"Our relationship is something completely normal. Got it?", not even Moony. Why was everything so easy to anger today.

"Of course, it's something completely normal!"

"Why does it sound like you don't mean it?!" Monny yelled out.

"Because I can't imagine it!"

"We are living proof that it works!"

"Yes, of course, but why didn't you tell me about it?! If it's that easy anyway?!", James was angry.

"It's not easy! You can't just go around snogging every boy!" Remus exclaimed angrily "Even you can't do that! Mr. Perfect"

"Is that a bet?"

"Yes! If you really want it that way. Do you have to prove yourself again, do you have to show us that you're better?!"

"Guys..." Sirius tried to interrupt.

"Yes! Maybe it's time to prove it again, little werewolf!"

"You! Fuck you! Ok,... the bet I dare you to snog Regulus Black!"

"I'm in!" James nods and shakes Remus' hand. Once he wins the bet, he won't be grinning anymore.