Roses in the Moonlight

Chapter 4

Remus POV

Once I returned to the dining hall, I realized that chaos had ensued. There were pumpkin guts covering every inch of the dining hall. I ran to the Gryffendor table in search of Padfoot and Prongs, but was unsuccessful. I looked up to the teachers table to see Dumbledore pulling orange blobs of goo out of his long white beard. Dumbledore saw that I was looking for him and he nodded toward the exit of the Great Hall that led to the courtyard and smiled. He's pointing to Sirius and James. I smiled back then turned and ran to confront the boys, knowing that they were behind this disaster.

I ran as fast as I could through the huge ornate wood doors that led to the courtyard. A soon as I stepped onto the cobblestone paths that led to the fountain in the center of the courtyard, I saw the culprits. James, Sirius, and Peter were laughing their asses off in the far corner of the courtyard, all covered in the pumpkin guts that their prank had left scattered across the entire Great Hall. I walked right up to Sirius and started yelling.

"WHY WOULD YOU GUYS THINK IT IS OK TO DO THIS TODAY! JAMES, YOU'RE HEAD BOY. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A ROLE MODEL. AND SIRIUS! I THOUGHT THAT YOU WOULD GROW OUT OF THIS SHIT. THE CONSTANT NEED FOR ATTENTION AND EXTERNAL VALIDATION IS GOING TO GET YOU KILLED!" I yelled loud enough that I'm sure Dumbledore heard me all the way in the great hall. After I finished my outburst, I did not give the pair of delinquents a chance to explain themselves and walked off to the common room and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

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Sirius POV

We spent the night cleaning up the pumpkin mush, making sure every inch of the hall was spotless. By the time we had finished, it was practically morning. We started our journey back to our dorm, dying to get to our beds and immediately passed out once we made it. When morning had arrived, we were all famished and yearning for the delicious breakfast we knew would be awaiting us.

I had noticed that Remus's bed was empty and already made, so I figured he had gone down to eat breakfast early. I do hope he has calmed down a bit from our last little quarrel. It would make it easier for an apology to happen.

As the three of us walked into the Great Hall, we found Remus sitting all by his poor lonesome self and decided to make our way over to him. Right when we sat down, he started to speak but I knew that he gets easily angered when it's close to a full moon so I cut him off.

"Look-" He began but I stopped him from continuing.

"Don't worry about it, Moony. We know we messed up and we can't imagine the stress you're feeling as a prefect and all," I quickly spurted out.

We finished up our breakfast and began our way to our first class, Potions with Slughorn. Unfortunately we have it with the Slytheirins so I can already feel it's going to be a long ass period. Lets just hope no one gets hexed, jinxed, or dies.

After walking through endless amounts of dark hallways and passages, we finally reached the dungeons and walked into Slughorn's classroom. One thing I hate about potions is the fact that we can't choose who our partners are. I always end up being assigned with a stupid Slytherin. Like last year I had to sit next to Snivellus for a couple months and I swear he would get his hair grease on my shirt everyday. I'm hoping Slughorn gives me someone better this year or I will not survive this class.

Slughorn began class with his dreadful back to school speech and then moved into the partner pairings.

"Peter and Bella, Lucius and Alice, Clemensia and Thomas, James and Olivia, Sirius and Mary, "Severus and Lily" –NO WAY. Snape and Lily are insane. I just know I'm gonna get a full rant from Prongs later complaining about it. I'm just glad my partner ended up being another Gryffindor and one of our friends. I was blessed. –"Remus and Tobias." You've got to be fucking kidding me. There is no way Moony just got paired up with Rosier.