Never Ending Surprises (Marauders era love story)

Tryouts

~Sirius~

I woke up to Prongs shaking me violently. There were shouts surrounding me sounding vaguely like "tryouts today, tryouts today!". I groaned and tried to roll over, but he had predicted that and Seri was waiting on the other side and pushed me back. 

"Get up, sleepyhead," she said and went into the bathroom to get changed. When I had finished changing, Seri had already snuck out with Prongs, Moony and Wormtail. I trudged down to breakfast, to see no Seri. 

"Where's Seri?" I asked groggily, grabbing a piece of toast and bacon.

"Uh... she'll be back soon," said Moony, smirking slightly.

"Ok," I said, too tired to really care what it meant. I only got to my third piece of toast when Prongs started dragging me off to the Quidditch pitch. I went in the opposite direction to him and followed Moony and Wormtail. Seri was still nowhere to be seen.

"How come Seri isn't watching the tryouts?" I asked, now slightly suspicious. I scanned the area for her but I couldn't see much through the hundreds of heads bobbing around in front of us. 

"She is" Moony replied cryptically, eyes on the pitch, "she should be coming right about...now" I turned to where he was looking out on the field. All of the people trying out were trooping out onto the field.

I squinted.

No way. No absolute way.

But sure enough, there was Seri, walking beside Prongs, carrying one of the school brooms and waving frantically at us.

I waved back, grinning and leaned over to Moony.

"That must have been what she was doing with Prongs," I said, comprehension dawning on my face

"Yep," Remus said nonchalantly, waving back at Seri who looked a little green.

"You already knew?" I said, slightly annoyed that they hadn't told me and Seri hadn't either, "why didn't you say anything?"

"She didn't want people to know, make her more nervous. If it makes you feel better Peter didn't know either" he replied, not even glancing towards me. Instead, he began to cheer as Prongs went up with the rest of the seekers, who really had no chance. I felt the slight annoyance creep into my chest but pushed it back in, cheering along with everyone, and standing up with Moony and Wormtail when Seri went out to fly.

She gave us a nervous smile before pushing her feet off the ground and gliding over to where the quaffle had just been thrown. She had a slight disadvantage as she was on a school broom, but she flew extremely well, scoring 5/6 goals, and only just missing the last one from the new goalkeeper of the team.

"She's a bit odd that one" He murmured to me, shaking his head as Seri grinned madly in their direction.

"There's no doubting that."

They all had a quick talk with the captain, before leaving the pitch to the change rooms. Moony, Wormtail and I went down to greet them and see how they went. James came out pretty quickly, as he left earlier so the wait was mainly for Seri's benefit. 

She finally came out with a small smile on her face.

"So..." James said, she looked at him with mock confusion and he grinned,

"How'd you go?"

"Well" she started, and her face broke out into a huge grin, "I got in!" she shouted and brought us all into an awkwardly sized group hug.

~Seri~

The next few months passed quickly, and I learnt a few homework tactics from James to keep on top of my ever-growing pile of homework. I was getting much better in Quidditch practice, and finally got myself a new broom from Dumbledore, to whom I promised to pay back, even under his continuous pleas that it was a welcome to real-life gift. Nice and cryptic.

OWLs were also becoming a scary reality, and I was once again piled under with homework, what with the Quidditch final coming up as well. And McGonagall had decided that not being apart of the wizarding world for 5 years was no excuse for not figuring out what I wanted to be after Hogwarts. Not to mention decide if I was secretly in a coma imagining everything. 

The night before the final Quidditch game I couldn't work or study. Instead, I found myself staring into the fire, feeling increasingly nervous.

The rest of the team were dealing in slightly more productive ways. James was goading Lily into talking to her as she attempted to ignore him, Nigel and Lucy- our beaters and team captain (Lucy) were playing wizards chess, Henry, a chaser, was silently reading in the corner, and Emma, the other chaser, was making out with Sirius on the couch. I smirked, suddenly reminded of Ron and lavender kissing in the exact same spot, looking as equally entangled as Sirius and Emma.

James came over to me and put his arm around my shoulders. I gave him a small smile before relaxing into his arm, suddenly realising how tired I was.

"Hey," he said quietly, smiling, "maybe you should head off to bed." 

I nodded gratefully, and slipped out from under his arm and up the boys' staircase (I had refused blatantly when Dumbledore asked if I wanted to be moved somewhere else. In hindsight the decision came at the cost of changing space and other women to talk to).

I slept badly, dreaming about waking back up in my old house, and woke up at 5.30, not being able to get back to sleep. I got up groggily and made my way over to the windowsill to get some water. I looked out over the moon and I sipped some water.

The moon was three-quarter way full, which meant Remus would have to go to the shrieking shack soon. The two times he had, I was alone in my room, except for when James or Sirius occasionally stayed back. However, I recently told them they didn't have to. I could tell they really wanted to be down with him, understandably. 

I hated hearing the howls from the shrieking shack, and hardly got any sleep on those nights, praying the Rem didn't get too hurt. On the last full moon, I decided that the only way I would be any help was to try and learn how to transform, so I could be with Rem during the transformations.

I hadn't told anyone, in case I wasn't able to do it, but I had borrowed heaps of books from the library on it and had been attempting to studying up on it in my occasional spare time. I had had no success so far, but it was early stages, it took the rest of them a while, though it was unspecified in the books. Unfortunately. 

One day I would be able to be down there with Rem, trying to make those nights less painful. I couldn't bear being stuck in this room any longer. 

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