Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ The Case of The Lost Sanity ( Chapter 5 )
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Breathless
Chapter V – The Case of the Lost Sanity
They did it! They finally did it! All morning with that tension every time they touched or looked at each other was now released! Now, on lunch break, we find James and Lily making... (A baby? -Asks the audience-)...Out! They’re making out! Gee, don’t be perverts! (XD) ...ejem....well, yeah, they’re skipping lunch; a snogging session is more important than lunch, so Sirius was worried while Remus and Peter smiled. They were so happy for Prongs, after all this time he finally got the girl...now Sirius was another story, he sure was happy for his mate, but she was keeping James away from him...and he was sad...HE MISSED HIM! Dear Merlin how he missed Prongsie...sob, sob...
Weeks later, in April, when James & Lily didn’t look like they were joined by their mouths, the guys took the chance to talk to him; James had a glint in his eyes that Sirius didn’t like. So then they were by the lake after school, playing with a snitch, reading a book, passing the time or almost peeing themselves each time James or Sirius catched the little golden winged-ball.
“Relax Peter…” murmured Remus not leaving his book.
“So Prongs, how have you been? We had time without seeing you”
“Oh…excellent, living this beautiful life, walking on clouds…” he said catching the snitch. Peter clapped and Remus laughed.
“Yeah that’s good, mate, but have you thought of any prank recently? It’s getting somewhat boring without Snivellius being pranked by the two of us and I’m tired of doing it alone” he almost sobbed.
“Oh…that…well, you see Padfoot, Lily doesn’t like me to prank…anybody, and recently he hasn’t done anything worth pranking” Sirius looked at him in disbelief.
“He lives! That’s worth a prank!” Sirius felt insulted, Remus rolled his eyes.
“He does, he does!” said the filthy rat.
“Relax Pete, you’re going to wet yourself” said James sounding a little disgusted “Well, I’ll see what can I do, okay Paddie?”
“Jamesie…” Sirius whispered feeling tears forming on his eyes…fake tears.
“You don’t like your teeth, do you?” said the hazel-eyed man, with a threatening look on his face.
“Jamesie!”
“Yes my pumpkin pie?” his expression became the one of a pure in love idiot. He stood up to talk to Lily.
“You see that?! She’s taking him away from me!” Sirius said receiving a weird look from Remus.
“I’m worried about you…” he said putting his book down, marking it with his finger “You need a date…a girlfriend…or at least get laid…”
“…You mean it? You want to…with me…? Oh Remus, I’ll be glad to…but we can’t tell James…” said Sirius, faking a blush.
“All right, we won’t tell, but you have to promise you’ll be gentle…” said Remus making Sirius widen his eyes and blush…this time for real. Remus laughed out loud “You really making me worry, Padfoot!”
“You should’ve seen your face, Sirius!!” said Peter laughing too. Sirius gave him a nasty look.
It was full moon that night, James kissed Lily good-night and up to his dorm he went to pick up the invisibility cloak, thrown it over Sirius, Peter as a rat on Sirius hand, and himself. They climbed out of the portrait hole, making various pairs of eyes look at the portrait open and then close. Using their brains and instinct, the map had been confiscated in sixth year, the marauders made their way out of the castle and to the Womping Willow. Peter jumped out of Sirius’ hand a touched the knot on the tree making it stand still. The three of them entered and Sirius and James transformed on the hallway that lead to the Shrieking Shack. Some hours later, four animals walked around the forbidden forest, sometimes smelling the surroundings, sometimes playing with each other or just running around.
The next morning, at breakfast, three students were falling asleep on their plates while the fourth one was contently sleeping on the hospital wing, he was less patched up as some other times, and for that he, and Madam Pomfrey, was really happy! Remus made it to lunch, they talked, fooled around, Lily’s friends were starting to hang out with them; the day went smoothly, after classes we found him on the library, writing an essay. When he finished, Remus made his way back to Gryffindor Tower and up the boy’s dormitories, there he found Peter looking dumbfounded and Sirius looking everywhere for something, while James just smiled.
“Where?! Where is it?!” said Sirius looking under his bed.
“Wha…” he looked at James, but the messy-haired boy didn’t say a word “Padfoot? What are you looking for?” he looked how Sirius turned things over, opened trunks, unmade the beds, even lifted Peter from his spot on the floor.
“His sanity! He has lost it!!” Sirius said pointing at James.
“What did you do now?” Remus was really curious as to why Sirius and Peter acted that way.
“Lily and I are going to get married” said James and Remus mouth hung open, while his eyes almost fell out of their sockets “That is if she says yes” James laughed nervously.
“What? You proposed to her?” Remus asked dumbstruck.
“Well...not yet” James answered scratching the back of his head.
“You Idiot!” Sirius hit him “You scared the hell out of me!”
After that the marauders spent a long night speaking of Lily, and Sirius found himself listening to James…he sounded so happy, like when he spoke about Quidditch in first year. Was then that Sirius realized his mate was deeply in love, and felt really happy for him; really…she wasn’t that bad after all. Giving it really deep thought, Lily and company weren’t bad at all....well except that Slytherin-Girlfriend and that despicable Hannah. Sweet Merlin how she irritated him with that cocky attitude of hers. In the end Sirius didn’t listen too much of the conversation, all he did all night was think about how evil the girl was and thought of ways to prank her.
The day passed without so much excitement, but there was amusement...Sirius forgot about Snape and concentrated his pranking mind on one Hannah Owens. In one day he changed her skin and hair colour, made her grow fangs, one pair extra of legs and arms, and made her potion to blow, yes a pretty much boring day indeed. And because of that he now was in detention, cleaning the toilets of the boy’s bathrooms.
That night, while Sirius fulfilled his detention, Hannah went to sleep early and the other two marauders waited for their friends; James and Lily…well just Lily…worked on the report of the meeting with the prefects, James was looking at her with dreamy eyes picturing her on their wedding day, waking up beside him, having their child…and he spoke without thinking.
“Lily…”
“Hm?” she murmured too absorbed on her report to listen correctly.
“Marry me”
“Of course, Jame-WHAT?!” she looked at him with her wide emerald eyes.
“Will you?” he said sounding eager.
“What? No! James, we can’t!”
“Why? We love each other, that’s all we need” he reasoned taking her hands on his.
“But…we’re too young!”
“Oh come on, Lily, that has nothing to do with it…in the past people got married at young age”
“Yes, that was THEN! Now people don’t do that!” she yelled standing up from her chair and pacing back and forth, he looked at her “You’re insane…”
“I’m insane because I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you?” he didn’t believe what she was saying “Do you really love me, Lily?”
“How can you ask that?! Of course I do!!”
“Then why don’t you say yes?” he stood up and walked to her until they were inches apart.
“Because it’s too soon and we’re too young, we’ve only been dating for two months, James, there’s a lot of thing we need to know about each other before we can take that step” she said with a dead serious expression. He looked at her in the eyes, she was hiding nothing.
“If I made you say yes to me before, I’m going to make you say yes now” he whispered into her ear…and by saying that he dug his own grave.
“Why you...stupid git!” she yelled and started to walk away. He was expecting this kind of reaction, so he wasn’t surprised when she walked out of the portrait hole of the Head’s lounge.
“Lily! Wait!” he took the report from the table “We have to bring this to Dumbledore!” this made her turn
“Oh I thought his highness, James Potter, could give it to the Headmaster himself…or is it too much for his greatness to deal with lower beings like us?” and with that she walked away leaving a dumbfounded James.
She walked back to the common room, where Remus, Peter and Sirius, whom just got there from detention, were playing magic chess. Lily, literally, stormed inside muttering things a lady should never say, this left Sirius feeling proud and scared, for when he was going to talk to her she gave him a drop-dead stare, all he could say was “Ok…I’ll shut up now, don’t kill me” and she went up the girls staircase to throw herself onto her bed and yell at her pillow.
Half an hour later James came in sulking, his mates just looked at him, and he dropped himself on one couch near the fire, his gaze lost on it. Remus and Sirius finished their game some minutes later, giving James time and space to dwell on his thoughts and talk if he wanted to, another half an hour later Remus couldn’t take it any longer and blurted out one simple question.
“What did you do now to Lily?”
“Why is it always me?” asked James feeling a little offended.
“Who else could have been?” said Sirius starting another game, this time with Peter.
“Shut up Padfoot” said James making a face at his friend which resulted in Sirius tucking out his tongue in a very mature fashion.
“Calm down…now explain” said Remus sitting comfortably on his chair, and James told them what happened, at this… “Could you be more idiot? What were you thinking when you said that?”
“In...nothing...?” said Stupid Potter scratching the back of his head.
“No wonder she came in like she did. I tell you, I’m really proud of her, she said things I never heard before!”
“And quite a stare! She almost killed Sirius with it!” said Peter watching as his King was being seduced by Sirius’ Queen.
“She did?” James has that stupid smile on his face...again.
“You really want to marry that woman? She’s like a Peruvian Vipertooth!” said Sirius starting yet another game against Peter, he likes to win.
“Or a Hebridean Black, I know a certain deer she would like to eat right now” said Remus.
“Oh shut-up the both of you, I’m going to sleep!” said the defenceless deer, stomping up the staircase.
The next morning came with a fuming Lily and a sulking James, after so long of waiting for her to like him; he just threw everything away because of his ego, just great! He stole glances at her, but only received ‘The Stare of Doom’, as Sirius liked to call it, and she did look like a Hebridean Black ready to eat him. Life wasn’t fair, why did God had to make him so smart in school and good-looking but when it came to Lily he was a stupid git? What had he done wrong to receive such punishment?! He almost broke down crying in front of the whole school but Hannah saved his reputation when she came in yelling bloody murder to one Sirius Black.
“How could you?!”
“Why I don’t see anything wrong, it suits you well” said Sirius slyly eating his breakfast as if nothing happened while the students erupted into a fit of laughter.
“Mister Black, was this your doing?” said MacGonagall standing up. She glared at Sirius, who was grinning; and Dumbledore, who was chuckling lightly.
“Yes Professor it was me! And I’m very proud of it!” he said laughing now.
“Why you little....I’m going to kill you!” said Hannah launching herself forward but she tripped on her shoes and she fell face first on the floor.
“Help her! Come with me Mr. Black, and bring Miss Owens!” said the Deputy Headmistress walking through the hall leaving a group of teenagers laughing loudly.
After that Sirius went to class, having detention until the end of time-uhhh...until the end of the year, some people glared at him and others congratulated him but Hannah was nowhere to be seen, not even Lily knew her whereabouts, and every time she looked at the marauder she gave him the look, she wasn’t even looking at James now, for when he tried to approach to her and give her an apology, he came up saying some stupid thing.
When the last class ended Lily went in search of her friend while the marauders went to the great hall to have supper, they talked about everything, like they never did for some time; Sirius felt glad that Lily and James were having a fight, but deep down he felt bad for his friend because, although he tried to hide it, James looked really bad with all the situation, his eyes weren’t twinkling like they always did.
Right now they were planning the ‘end of term prank’ but then the realization hit them hard...this was their last prank, in a couple of months they would graduate and there would be no more marauding through the halls, no more escapades to Hogsmeade, no more pranks...no more safety. They felt depressed suddenly, so they almost finished their supper and went to Gryffindor Tower to sit by the fire on the common room. Hours passed and Remus were reading some book, Sirius and James played exploding snap and Peter fell asleep on his couch, all the other students were upstairs already, it was pretty late. Lily came in with Hannah, she had her eyes and nose red and puffy from crying so much...at this Sirius felt terrible, but he didn’t show it of course.
“Man, I worked so hard with that charm and here come dear Minerva and takes out all the fun...” said Sirius looking mockingly at Hannah, she just gave the most evil glare she could muster, but it came out as a hurt look, thing that made Sirius shut up and left him felling like a...Slytherin.
“Why did you do that?” said Remus after the girls left.
“Did what?” Remus gave him a look
“You know Moony, this case seems to be the very popular ‘the kid who teases the girl he likes’” said James scratching his chin thoughtfully.
“What? No! Of course not! I don’t like her!!” Sirius stood up making all the cards to fall to the floor and they exploded making a terrible noise. There were yells from the dormitories.
“You’re denying it too vehemently; if you really don’t like her you could have done it normally, with a laugh like you always do” said Remus eyeing his friend.
“Wha-you’re nuts! I’m leaving!”
“Did you see that?! I never thought I would live to the day when I could see Monsieur Padfoot blushing!”
“Unbelievable”
Up in the dorms, a very flustered Sirius was looking out the window, his hair ruffled and his hands on his pockets, thinking...Dear Merlin, Remus was right, he’d denied it a little too fast and without thinking...he was becoming like James with Lily, he was loosing his sanity! Not that he really was very sane, but still! And come to think of it, he hasn’t had a date recently...she even was making him lose his cool! Dear God, why?! Why he had to like that crazed woman!...Down stairs a frustrated yell of “Oh bugger me! I do like her!” was heard and then a fit of quiet laughter was made by the two marauders.
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A/N: This is the last chapter; the next would be the Epilogue, and the song will finally be there! My God! What a song so difficult to place!
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Breathless
Chapter V – The Case of the Lost Sanity
They did it! They finally did it! All morning with that tension every time they touched or looked at each other was now released! Now, on lunch break, we find James and Lily making... (A baby? -Asks the audience-)...Out! They’re making out! Gee, don’t be perverts! (XD) ...ejem....well, yeah, they’re skipping lunch; a snogging session is more important than lunch, so Sirius was worried while Remus and Peter smiled. They were so happy for Prongs, after all this time he finally got the girl...now Sirius was another story, he sure was happy for his mate, but she was keeping James away from him...and he was sad...HE MISSED HIM! Dear Merlin how he missed Prongsie...sob, sob...
Weeks later, in April, when James & Lily didn’t look like they were joined by their mouths, the guys took the chance to talk to him; James had a glint in his eyes that Sirius didn’t like. So then they were by the lake after school, playing with a snitch, reading a book, passing the time or almost peeing themselves each time James or Sirius catched the little golden winged-ball.
“Relax Peter…” murmured Remus not leaving his book.
“So Prongs, how have you been? We had time without seeing you”
“Oh…excellent, living this beautiful life, walking on clouds…” he said catching the snitch. Peter clapped and Remus laughed.
“Yeah that’s good, mate, but have you thought of any prank recently? It’s getting somewhat boring without Snivellius being pranked by the two of us and I’m tired of doing it alone” he almost sobbed.
“Oh…that…well, you see Padfoot, Lily doesn’t like me to prank…anybody, and recently he hasn’t done anything worth pranking” Sirius looked at him in disbelief.
“He lives! That’s worth a prank!” Sirius felt insulted, Remus rolled his eyes.
“He does, he does!” said the filthy rat.
“Relax Pete, you’re going to wet yourself” said James sounding a little disgusted “Well, I’ll see what can I do, okay Paddie?”
“Jamesie…” Sirius whispered feeling tears forming on his eyes…fake tears.
“You don’t like your teeth, do you?” said the hazel-eyed man, with a threatening look on his face.
“Jamesie!”
“Yes my pumpkin pie?” his expression became the one of a pure in love idiot. He stood up to talk to Lily.
“You see that?! She’s taking him away from me!” Sirius said receiving a weird look from Remus.
“I’m worried about you…” he said putting his book down, marking it with his finger “You need a date…a girlfriend…or at least get laid…”
“…You mean it? You want to…with me…? Oh Remus, I’ll be glad to…but we can’t tell James…” said Sirius, faking a blush.
“All right, we won’t tell, but you have to promise you’ll be gentle…” said Remus making Sirius widen his eyes and blush…this time for real. Remus laughed out loud “You really making me worry, Padfoot!”
“You should’ve seen your face, Sirius!!” said Peter laughing too. Sirius gave him a nasty look.
It was full moon that night, James kissed Lily good-night and up to his dorm he went to pick up the invisibility cloak, thrown it over Sirius, Peter as a rat on Sirius hand, and himself. They climbed out of the portrait hole, making various pairs of eyes look at the portrait open and then close. Using their brains and instinct, the map had been confiscated in sixth year, the marauders made their way out of the castle and to the Womping Willow. Peter jumped out of Sirius’ hand a touched the knot on the tree making it stand still. The three of them entered and Sirius and James transformed on the hallway that lead to the Shrieking Shack. Some hours later, four animals walked around the forbidden forest, sometimes smelling the surroundings, sometimes playing with each other or just running around.
The next morning, at breakfast, three students were falling asleep on their plates while the fourth one was contently sleeping on the hospital wing, he was less patched up as some other times, and for that he, and Madam Pomfrey, was really happy! Remus made it to lunch, they talked, fooled around, Lily’s friends were starting to hang out with them; the day went smoothly, after classes we found him on the library, writing an essay. When he finished, Remus made his way back to Gryffindor Tower and up the boy’s dormitories, there he found Peter looking dumbfounded and Sirius looking everywhere for something, while James just smiled.
“Where?! Where is it?!” said Sirius looking under his bed.
“Wha…” he looked at James, but the messy-haired boy didn’t say a word “Padfoot? What are you looking for?” he looked how Sirius turned things over, opened trunks, unmade the beds, even lifted Peter from his spot on the floor.
“His sanity! He has lost it!!” Sirius said pointing at James.
“What did you do now?” Remus was really curious as to why Sirius and Peter acted that way.
“Lily and I are going to get married” said James and Remus mouth hung open, while his eyes almost fell out of their sockets “That is if she says yes” James laughed nervously.
“What? You proposed to her?” Remus asked dumbstruck.
“Well...not yet” James answered scratching the back of his head.
“You Idiot!” Sirius hit him “You scared the hell out of me!”
After that the marauders spent a long night speaking of Lily, and Sirius found himself listening to James…he sounded so happy, like when he spoke about Quidditch in first year. Was then that Sirius realized his mate was deeply in love, and felt really happy for him; really…she wasn’t that bad after all. Giving it really deep thought, Lily and company weren’t bad at all....well except that Slytherin-Girlfriend and that despicable Hannah. Sweet Merlin how she irritated him with that cocky attitude of hers. In the end Sirius didn’t listen too much of the conversation, all he did all night was think about how evil the girl was and thought of ways to prank her.
The day passed without so much excitement, but there was amusement...Sirius forgot about Snape and concentrated his pranking mind on one Hannah Owens. In one day he changed her skin and hair colour, made her grow fangs, one pair extra of legs and arms, and made her potion to blow, yes a pretty much boring day indeed. And because of that he now was in detention, cleaning the toilets of the boy’s bathrooms.
That night, while Sirius fulfilled his detention, Hannah went to sleep early and the other two marauders waited for their friends; James and Lily…well just Lily…worked on the report of the meeting with the prefects, James was looking at her with dreamy eyes picturing her on their wedding day, waking up beside him, having their child…and he spoke without thinking.
“Lily…”
“Hm?” she murmured too absorbed on her report to listen correctly.
“Marry me”
“Of course, Jame-WHAT?!” she looked at him with her wide emerald eyes.
“Will you?” he said sounding eager.
“What? No! James, we can’t!”
“Why? We love each other, that’s all we need” he reasoned taking her hands on his.
“But…we’re too young!”
“Oh come on, Lily, that has nothing to do with it…in the past people got married at young age”
“Yes, that was THEN! Now people don’t do that!” she yelled standing up from her chair and pacing back and forth, he looked at her “You’re insane…”
“I’m insane because I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you?” he didn’t believe what she was saying “Do you really love me, Lily?”
“How can you ask that?! Of course I do!!”
“Then why don’t you say yes?” he stood up and walked to her until they were inches apart.
“Because it’s too soon and we’re too young, we’ve only been dating for two months, James, there’s a lot of thing we need to know about each other before we can take that step” she said with a dead serious expression. He looked at her in the eyes, she was hiding nothing.
“If I made you say yes to me before, I’m going to make you say yes now” he whispered into her ear…and by saying that he dug his own grave.
“Why you...stupid git!” she yelled and started to walk away. He was expecting this kind of reaction, so he wasn’t surprised when she walked out of the portrait hole of the Head’s lounge.
“Lily! Wait!” he took the report from the table “We have to bring this to Dumbledore!” this made her turn
“Oh I thought his highness, James Potter, could give it to the Headmaster himself…or is it too much for his greatness to deal with lower beings like us?” and with that she walked away leaving a dumbfounded James.
She walked back to the common room, where Remus, Peter and Sirius, whom just got there from detention, were playing magic chess. Lily, literally, stormed inside muttering things a lady should never say, this left Sirius feeling proud and scared, for when he was going to talk to her she gave him a drop-dead stare, all he could say was “Ok…I’ll shut up now, don’t kill me” and she went up the girls staircase to throw herself onto her bed and yell at her pillow.
Half an hour later James came in sulking, his mates just looked at him, and he dropped himself on one couch near the fire, his gaze lost on it. Remus and Sirius finished their game some minutes later, giving James time and space to dwell on his thoughts and talk if he wanted to, another half an hour later Remus couldn’t take it any longer and blurted out one simple question.
“What did you do now to Lily?”
“Why is it always me?” asked James feeling a little offended.
“Who else could have been?” said Sirius starting another game, this time with Peter.
“Shut up Padfoot” said James making a face at his friend which resulted in Sirius tucking out his tongue in a very mature fashion.
“Calm down…now explain” said Remus sitting comfortably on his chair, and James told them what happened, at this… “Could you be more idiot? What were you thinking when you said that?”
“In...nothing...?” said Stupid Potter scratching the back of his head.
“No wonder she came in like she did. I tell you, I’m really proud of her, she said things I never heard before!”
“And quite a stare! She almost killed Sirius with it!” said Peter watching as his King was being seduced by Sirius’ Queen.
“She did?” James has that stupid smile on his face...again.
“You really want to marry that woman? She’s like a Peruvian Vipertooth!” said Sirius starting yet another game against Peter, he likes to win.
“Or a Hebridean Black, I know a certain deer she would like to eat right now” said Remus.
“Oh shut-up the both of you, I’m going to sleep!” said the defenceless deer, stomping up the staircase.
The next morning came with a fuming Lily and a sulking James, after so long of waiting for her to like him; he just threw everything away because of his ego, just great! He stole glances at her, but only received ‘The Stare of Doom’, as Sirius liked to call it, and she did look like a Hebridean Black ready to eat him. Life wasn’t fair, why did God had to make him so smart in school and good-looking but when it came to Lily he was a stupid git? What had he done wrong to receive such punishment?! He almost broke down crying in front of the whole school but Hannah saved his reputation when she came in yelling bloody murder to one Sirius Black.
“How could you?!”
“Why I don’t see anything wrong, it suits you well” said Sirius slyly eating his breakfast as if nothing happened while the students erupted into a fit of laughter.
“Mister Black, was this your doing?” said MacGonagall standing up. She glared at Sirius, who was grinning; and Dumbledore, who was chuckling lightly.
“Yes Professor it was me! And I’m very proud of it!” he said laughing now.
“Why you little....I’m going to kill you!” said Hannah launching herself forward but she tripped on her shoes and she fell face first on the floor.
“Help her! Come with me Mr. Black, and bring Miss Owens!” said the Deputy Headmistress walking through the hall leaving a group of teenagers laughing loudly.
After that Sirius went to class, having detention until the end of time-uhhh...until the end of the year, some people glared at him and others congratulated him but Hannah was nowhere to be seen, not even Lily knew her whereabouts, and every time she looked at the marauder she gave him the look, she wasn’t even looking at James now, for when he tried to approach to her and give her an apology, he came up saying some stupid thing.
When the last class ended Lily went in search of her friend while the marauders went to the great hall to have supper, they talked about everything, like they never did for some time; Sirius felt glad that Lily and James were having a fight, but deep down he felt bad for his friend because, although he tried to hide it, James looked really bad with all the situation, his eyes weren’t twinkling like they always did.
Right now they were planning the ‘end of term prank’ but then the realization hit them hard...this was their last prank, in a couple of months they would graduate and there would be no more marauding through the halls, no more escapades to Hogsmeade, no more pranks...no more safety. They felt depressed suddenly, so they almost finished their supper and went to Gryffindor Tower to sit by the fire on the common room. Hours passed and Remus were reading some book, Sirius and James played exploding snap and Peter fell asleep on his couch, all the other students were upstairs already, it was pretty late. Lily came in with Hannah, she had her eyes and nose red and puffy from crying so much...at this Sirius felt terrible, but he didn’t show it of course.
“Man, I worked so hard with that charm and here come dear Minerva and takes out all the fun...” said Sirius looking mockingly at Hannah, she just gave the most evil glare she could muster, but it came out as a hurt look, thing that made Sirius shut up and left him felling like a...Slytherin.
“Why did you do that?” said Remus after the girls left.
“Did what?” Remus gave him a look
“You know Moony, this case seems to be the very popular ‘the kid who teases the girl he likes’” said James scratching his chin thoughtfully.
“What? No! Of course not! I don’t like her!!” Sirius stood up making all the cards to fall to the floor and they exploded making a terrible noise. There were yells from the dormitories.
“You’re denying it too vehemently; if you really don’t like her you could have done it normally, with a laugh like you always do” said Remus eyeing his friend.
“Wha-you’re nuts! I’m leaving!”
“Did you see that?! I never thought I would live to the day when I could see Monsieur Padfoot blushing!”
“Unbelievable”
Up in the dorms, a very flustered Sirius was looking out the window, his hair ruffled and his hands on his pockets, thinking...Dear Merlin, Remus was right, he’d denied it a little too fast and without thinking...he was becoming like James with Lily, he was loosing his sanity! Not that he really was very sane, but still! And come to think of it, he hasn’t had a date recently...she even was making him lose his cool! Dear God, why?! Why he had to like that crazed woman!...Down stairs a frustrated yell of “Oh bugger me! I do like her!” was heard and then a fit of quiet laughter was made by the two marauders.
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A/N: This is the last chapter; the next would be the Epilogue, and the song will finally be there! My God! What a song so difficult to place!