Cheshire (Young!Remus x reader)

Cheshire~Part 2

At the station, James, Sirius and Peter raced ahead and took all the seats on one side of the compartment so that Remus and I had to sit next to each other. As we sat down, I glared at them. Remus handed me some chocolate and I ate in silence while the boys talked, afraid that if I said anything, the three on the other side of the compartment would use it as a way to embarrass me. Luckily for me, Remus left about 10 minutes into the train ride to go fulfill his prefect duties.

The second the door closed, I stared at the three smug boys sitting in front of me.

"Okay, am I gonna have to threaten all of you?" I asked. Instead of an answer, Sirius started to talk.

"Chesh, we know how this is all gonna go down if it were up to you-" "It is up to me." "-you fall in love with dear Moony and refuse to do anything about it, no matter how much we beg you to do something because we'll be sick of hearing about how dreamy his eyes are or fluffy his hair is-" "I won't do that!" "-or how he will never love you the same way you love him-" "Well he won't." "-which is not true because we all know that he has been in love with you since second year-" "Yeah, right." "-and he won't do anything about it either. Eventually one of you'll start going out with other people to try and get your mind off of your not-so-secret love. Maybe you'll even find someone you could love just as much, but you will then go your whole life wondering if Moony could have been the greatest thing to happen to you since you met us. Now us being the amazing friends we are, want you two to be happy, so we are interfering."

"No, you are not!"

"Oh yes we are."

"No, you're fucking not!"

"You're so stubborn!"

"Would you just shut up already, I can figure this out for myself!"

"Clearly you can't or you would be with him by now!"

"I don't need you to try and set me up! Maybe I don't want to be set up! I don't need your fucking help! I'm not some lost little girl that doesn't know what the hell she's doing! You don't even know how I feel! Maybe I don't love him! Maybe this is just a crush and it's gonna go away!" By now, I wasn't yelling at Sirius, I was yelling at myself. Small tears started to gather in my eyes from frustration. They weren't big enough to fall but, they made me even more angry at myself for being weak.

Sirius and the other two boys just looked at me. I looked at the floor. James opened up his arms. He knew what it was like to be helplessly in love. "Cheshire come here." he said, gesturing to his lap. I just kept looking at the floor still trying desperately not to show how weak I was. James tried again though, "Chesh, come on. Seriously, stop being so stubborn. You're upset, just come over here."

I gave in and stood up to go sit on James' lap. I put my head on his shoulder. Sirius leaned and whispered "Sorry" while kissing my forehead.

"S'okay Pads. S'not your fault." I whispered back. I decided to try something. I shifted into a cat and curled up on James' lap. For some reason, being an animal and not a human was calming me down a bit so I just layed there flicking my tail, telling myself that this might be a bad start to the year but promising that it would get a hell of a lot better.