Four broken boys

Classes

Sirius woke up to find that Remus had already gone down to breakfast. He changed and was about to make sure his hair was tidy, but let a small grin slide into his face when he realised he had no parents around to tell him off for that. Good mood in full swing, he decided to loudly wake up James.

"Hey, James! Get up! Breakfast!"He yelled.

"No mum. Too early! Leave me alone."James mumbled.

"I'm not your mum James, you need to get up or no breakfast."

James stumbled out of bed and got changed.

"How do we get to the Great Hall?"James yawned.

By this time Peter had woken up and was going to follow them down to breakfast.

"Let's just guess our way." Said Sirius.

They went down to the common room and out the portrait hole. Despite the cosy decoration the air was still very cold from a normal Scottish morning. James led the way down a moving staircase, as if he knew where he was going. Sirius followed blindly while Peter trailed behind.

"Errr, let's go right - wait we were just here. Ummm, left?" James questioned himself.

"Are you lost?" Sirius asked, laughing.

"No we're not! I just don't know where we are. We just need to take another left, then a right..." James trailed off, until someone walked up to them.

"Are you first years lost?"Asked a Griffyndor prefect kindly.

"Frank! We were trying to find the Great Hall but Sirius here got us lost." Said James with relief.

"Hey! It wasn't me it was you!" Defended Sirius, but he was smiling.

"Don't worry, I heard James 'directing' you." Said Frank.

"You know each other?" Asked Sirius

"Yeah, we met on the train, Frank helped me with my trunk." Grinned James.

"Come here and I'll show you how to get to the Great Hall." Frank said, gesturing towards the corridor.

They followed him until they came to the Great Hall. James was mentally trying to draw a map out in his mind, but there were too many twists and turns. Frank noticed his struggle and told him not to worry, and that by Christmas he should be able to navigate round the castle. They saw other first years who were also lost, and had not-so-subtly followed them. Upon arrival, they thanked him and, after seeing Remus, sat down with him.

"Did you come down early?"Asked James, while reaching for toast.

Remus nodded.

Sirius saw that Remus was obviously very shy, as he ate his bacon in silence. "I saw that you'd already unpacked Remus, when did you have time to do that?"Asked Sirius.

"Oh, I couldn't get to sleep for a while so..." He replied quietly.

Sirius saw McGonagall walking down the Griffyndor table. "Lupin, could you come with me please." She said to Remus.

Remus left with McGonagall, looking a bit ill.

"I wonder why he has to go?" Asked Sirius. "He can't be in trouble can he?"

"I don't know, but he looked as if he was expecting it." said James.

A little while later, Remus came back. "Remus! What did she want?"Asked Sirius.

"Oh err you know, nothing much."He said quietly.

Sirius decided not to press more on the matter.