REMUS' POV.
"Sonny Wildwood and Arty? Yeah, I don't think so." James shook his head as he began pulling at his bed sheets and climbing inside.

"Why else would she be wearing his Quidditch Jersey, James?" I snapped, pacing around the room. Feeling far too emotional to even think about sleeping, even after the long boring train journey.

"She did look wet, he could have just given her a change of clothes?" Peter shrugged.

Both James and I snapped our heads towards Sirius who was on the edge of an inappropriate joke.

We could feel him smirking to Peters innocent words.

"Just don't," I rolled my eyes at Sirius and he raised his hands up in defence. Though I could feel James behind my back encouraging the dirty minded boy.

I sat heavily on the end of my bed with a sulk. I should've written that letter I decided against writing.

Maybe if Arty knew I was sorry for my odd behaviour sooner, she might have decided against taking an interest in Sonny...though probably not.

"Did you ever find that green jumper of yours?" James randomly spoke.

I looked at him unamused, his question having no relevance to what I was currently mopping about.

"No James, I've lost it, it's no big deal." I sighed.

All of a sudden James' hand flew out of his bed covers and a small marble escaped out of his grasp and rolled under my bed.

Dramatic and unnecessary. Much like James' overall behaviour if you could generalise it.

"Oh my, I have no idea what came over me!? Remus can you get that for me?" James terribly acted.

I stared deadpan at him.

"Moony pwease, I cant relax without my sleeping marble!" He begged like an annoying little child.

I wasn't in the mood to be messing about with his games. Nonetheless I huffed loudly, followed by a few profanities and lifted myself from my sulking position and dropped to my knees. I slid myself half under my bed to retrieve the lost marble.

"You own a sleeping marble? Are you mentally unstable?" I could hear Peter laugh loudly.

"Stop judging me Wormtail!" I heard James hiss at Peter as he continued to chuckle beside him.

That's when I was hit by a familiar smell that I couldn't quite identify. As I rummaged through the darkness with confusion, I felt soft wool.

I dragged myself out from under my bed to reveal the dark green, with blue thread jumper I had thought to be lost. I furrowed my eyebrows. I smelt the jumper, it didn't smell like me.

A took a deep inhale, the wool holding a lingering scent of a smell I couldn't quite remember but seemed to know well.

"That's weird, did one of you lot put this under my bed?" I asked, holding it slightly in the air.

"No?" Sirius and Peter both replied.

"How bizarre! A jumper with a mind of its own? Night then!" James said with a bounce in his voice as he turned his back to me and made himself more comfortable in his bed. Obviously guilty.

"Don't you need your sleeping marble, mate?" I asked suspiciously.

"Who knew it was possible to mature so quickly? I no longer feel like I have to rely on my marble to fall asleep! It's a miracle!" He mumbled against his sheets.

"Fucking weirdo." Sirius, Peter and I all said simultaneously.

ARTY'S POV.
"So, was I wrong to think there was something brewing between you and Remus?" Lily asked curiously as she kicked off her slippers and started to climb into bed.

"Huh?" I questioned, confused at the random and direct presumption. Equally starting to climb into my bed myself.

"Well..." she nodded towards the Slytherin jersey that was folded on top of my trunk at the end of the bed.

"You're gonna have to give me more than a nod, Lily." I said exasperated. Already feeling that judging feeling I had expressed worry about, to Sonny earlier in the day.

"Sonny's like, decent looking! And you wandered in late with him, wearing his Quidditch top thing." Marlene said with one raised eyebrow.

"I mean, he's interested in me...he said he wants to get to know me as more than a friend." I shrugged playing it off like no big issue, but a ball of disbelief and nervous energy forming at the thought of it.

"And you said?" Alice and Lily said at the same time.

"I said, sure." I bluntly replied, ignoring their wide eyed stares.

Alice let out a little excitable squeal, Marlene lifted an imaginary celebratory glass and Lily turned up her nose unsatisfied.

"Preferred the thought of you and Remus to be honest." She said plainly.

I started fumbling with my fingers, beginning to detest the slight interrogation.

Marlene locked eyes with me, her face saying something big that her mouth couldn't reveal to the rest of the group.

She knew why I had given up on the idea of pursuing Remus. Was that the reason Sirius and her broke up? Had she known how Remus had felt, did Sirius feel it too?

Suddenly she stood up from her seated position on her bed, leaving her brush matted in her blonde curls.

"Oh shit!" She sighed throwing her hands up in the air.

"What's up, Marl?" Lily asked followed by a yawn.

"Arty, you wouldn't mind helping me find my...you just wouldn't mind helping me would you?" She said, struggling to come up with something to lie about.

Alice and Lily seemed too tired to catch on.

I removed the covers from my lap, got up and walked downstairs to the commonroom with Marlene. I looked her up and down suspiciously.

She was searching the common room for any sign of someone lingering. Extremely paranoid as she even started grabbing the air around her as if she was about to catch something.

"Marlene...are you okay?" I hesitated to ask. Finding her erratic behaviour questionable to say the least.

"Look, how are you? Really?" She lowered her voice.

I didn't understand what she was getting at or why she had dragged me down here to ask me such a simple question. Obviously the confusion registered across my face.

"I know about what happened between you and Remus. I'm just checking that you hanging out with Sonny isn't a warning sign of something else, like...being real sad or something?" She asked seriously, though struggling to find the right balance between empathy and trying not to make things a big deal.

I felt thrown back, like I was slapped across the face. Though I felt the paranoia that she knew, I hadn't actually expected her to know. Let alone talk to me about it.

I had hoped the situation would have only been kept between Remus and I...and maybe slightly involving James since he had set the initial situation up.

"What do you think happened?" I asked slowly with curiosity. Internally preying that perhaps she was just presuming something else. She rolled her eyes and sighed not appreciating me trying to doubt her inside knowledge.

"Remus told you he enjoyed kissing Sirius. You didn't want to beg for his attention. He was confused with himself. You couldn't be arsed with the drama. Remus hated himself as per, and you felt, I presume, stupid... so left him." She recited.

I felt massively uncomfortable.

"- was that about it?" She said in a sassy manner.

I nodded extremely embarrassed.

"Yeah, something like that." I agreed almost in a whisper.

"So, I'll ask again. How are you? For real?" She asked. I could tell she was being sincere in her own way.

I felt my walls go down a little, maybe I didn't feel all that ok now that I was genuinely being asked.

I felt fine, but not great. Sonny was an amazing distraction, though without him with me...I could feel my brain starting to over work itself with thoughts that seemed to melt together in a big mess revolving Remus.

"It's been weird seeing him again, if I'm going to be honest. We didn't leave it on a good note and it feels as if we're just pretending nothing has happened...but I feel better than I thought I would." I admitted. She nodded and absorbed the information.

"I'm not the best at giving advice. Some say I'm a bit too brutally honest." She laughed.

"You don't say?" I said sarcastically and laughed too.

"But, it can be difficult to fake a romance with someone. Whether that's because there's just not that vibe there or maybe it's not the right time. Just question if you want to get down and nasty with him and if that idea makes you uncomfortable, well, you know the answer!" She raised her eyebrows and I snorted.

"I'm kidding...kind of, but I mean when I was pretending to be Sirius' girlfriend for example; it was fun at first, though after a while there's only so much kissing you can enjoy with someone you don't actually want to kiss. Especially if they're gay!" She laughed to herself.

My eyes went wide at the information she had just shared.

"You guys were faking?" I said. Though everything started to make sense when it came to me questioning their authenticity. They did have a different feel to Alice and Frank, I wasn't just being stupid.

"I thought Remus would have told you?" She looked regretful over her big mouth and slippery words.

"Wait, Sirius is gay?!" Suddenly a voice said loudly into my ear out of nowhere.

I jumped out of my skin at the sound and ended up tripping over my feet and flipping over the dusty red sofa with fright.

"What the fuck?!" I exclaimed. Feeling disoriented, as I lifted myself from my fallen position. Balancing with both hands on the back of the sofa.

James was suddenly stood there in front of Marlene where I had once stood. Holding a curtain-looking cover in his hands.

"How the fuck did you-?!" I questioned again extremely perplexed by his vanishing and appearing act.

Marlene hit him hard on the arm. Furious instead of frightened like myself.

"Prongs I swear to Merlin, you watched me check if you were listening! Don't you understand the concept of a private-fucking-conversation?" She whisper shouted at him, whacking him with the brush she had ripped out of her matted hair.

James was laughing at her reaction but still seemed to be adjusting to the information he had just listened in on.

I on the other hand still couldn't quite wrap my head around the fact James just appeared from nowhere.

(I can feel this story becoming overwhelmingly long because we're only just beginning to get into things. So what's your thoughts on eventually reaching a part 2 book?)