I Just Went Out For Watermelon (Harry Potter)

Life Plans.

One Week Later...

Remus Lupin was sitting in the stands.

He watched James Potter defend Sirius Black with such fire in his eyes he was quite scary.

There was no way they could throw him in Azkaban with the victim fighting.

Fudge had yelled 'He's using dark magic on his mind!' Various times, though every time people denied it.

"Y-you can't take my best friend from me, he's innocent." James had said, and they closed the case.

Remus carried Harry to their car, an odd device made by muggles.

He placed Harry in and sat in the front seat.

"Hurry up, Prongs!" Sirius yelled from the backseat as James trudged to the car.

"Don't rush me." He spat in reply, and Sirius apologized.

Normally he would've called him out on it, but James was quite depressed.

Remus drove with caution and made it back to James' without killing anyone, thankfully.

He'd never driven a car before, and it was quite hard.

"Padfoot?" He asked, turning to Sirius as they pulled into the driveway.

"Yes?" He responded, opening his door and opening Harry's, grabbing the boy and closing the door.

He poked his head in his own door and looked at Remus again, who let out a sigh.

"What are you going to do, now that you actually have a life still?" Remus asked, climbing out of the car and closing his own door.

James got out and went inside, taking Harry from Sirius and leaving them to talk.

"Or snog." He added as he laughed and walked inside.

"Um. Wow." Sirius said in response. "Well- I'd kind if like a family, Moony."

Remus wasn't expecting that. Sirius never seemed like the type to settle down, but, it's not like Remus knew him that well.

Peter was out of town, apparently.

"Two days!" He promised, a week later he wasn't back. The lying rat... Remus never suspected him.

Remus smiled, though, and looked at Sirius.

"Good luck on that, though, Padfoot. I was thinking of becoming a muggle author." Remus said, before pointing with his thumb to the house.

"What about James?" He asked, turning his head slightly.

"We ought to ask him, Moony." Sirius replied, walking inside.

Remus followed and saw James feeding Harry watermelon.

Every time Harry refused to eat some, James would remind him his mother died so he could have some.

"James?" Sirius asked finally, after a few minutes.

"Yeah?" He replied, sitting on the sofa next to Harry's highchair.

"What are you going to do, now?" He asked.

"Well... I think I'll get a job, at the ministry," James replied, "but I won't remarry or date again..." He added sadly, turning his eyes to the floor at that sentence.

Later that evening,

Remus and Sirius left, to go around Hogsmeade for a bit.

It was October, the first Hogsmeade trip for Hogwarts.

They recalled all of their old moments here gleefully, and later a girl approached Remus.

"Hi." She said smiling, before leaning her head over a bit. "How's your day?" She seemed quite friendly, but she radiated smart.

She looked like she was in her last year, as tall as Peter but with sparkling eyes like Lily's, though blue. She had curly dark brown hair put into a braid, messily coming apart as she walked.

She seemed quite interested in talking to the two, and took every opportunity to talk to them.

"So, then, it attacked me! Right in the middle of the lesson!" She finished, and then her name was called by a blonde girl, waving her over.

She blushed as the girl screamed something Remus couldn't make out, and it put Sirius in stitches laughing.

The girl, whose name was Rhian they found out while talking to her, rushed to her friend and waved to them as she left.

As they were leaving that evening, Sirius finally told him what the girl had said.

"She was teasing her about how she fancies you," he admitted, holding back a laugh. "She's fancied you since she was a first year, Moony. You, my friend, are extremely clueless!" He finished.

•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~Hi guys! Moony here.

Sorry, I'm rubbish at updating.

But it's extra long by my standards, since it's late for me right now!

~ Moony.