'You have to be kidding me.' James said sipping his cup of coffee.

The daily prophet lay open in front of him.

The headlines said the lie of the century showing how much corrupt the ministry was getting.

'Dragon Pox? They say he died from dragon pox?' James hissed, tearing the paper and spitting on it.

'Let it go.' Said Remus.

'Woah. What's with the black eye?' Peter asked.

'What the hell is going on between you and Dorcas?' James asked.

'Uhm it's not important.'

'Are you shy?' Asked Peter.

'No.'

'Then tell how you screwed up this time?'

'He cheated on her with her best friend for fun' Sirius said sipping a glass of white wine.

'Totally did not. I slept with someone and Dorcas is mad at me.'

'Tell me you did not sleep with lily.' James said.

'I did not sleep with lily.'

'Mary?'
Remus shrugged.

'Dude.'
'Well, when I first confessed I kind of dropped the truth on her face so she didn't react. Then today I went to make sure that she hated me.'

'What happened?'
'She said she didn't care about me enough to hate me.'

'That's cold. But how did you get the black eye?'

'She knocked me out by saying as I quote 'that was for burning the relationship between me and my best friend' '

'Wow. Pretty harsh considering she was sleeping with Richard after you two shared a romantic moment.'

'Yeah but Richard was just some jerk. Mary was her best friend.'

'Is her best friend. Did she punch you?' Mary asked.

'Hi Mary.' said Remus.

'We have got a huge problem, Remus. What do we do?'

'There is no we. I have got a huge problem. And so do you. But we have our individual problems which just happen to be the same.'

'You said we have our individual problems. I can totally spot a we in there.'
***
'This is really odd. Why are you not blaming me for this?'

'Listen, I hate your family. But you are nothing like them. You can't let your father control who you are. You can't let him manipulate your mind in the twisted ways that he uses.'

Sirius nodded his eyes teary.
'I am really sorry about your father.'

'Me too.'
***
'Divination sucks.' Sirius concluded.

James nodded in agreement.
Peter was too distracted to take part in the conversation.

'Mr Black, could you repeat what I said in the last five minutes. Anything of it.'

'You look pretty today.' Sirius smirked which was greeted with snickers from James.

'Could you atleast tell the class what are we learning about?'

'Divination.'

More snickers, this time from some Ravenclaws as well.

'What exactly in divination?'

'Sticks.' Sirius said looking at her holding a box of sticks.

She shook her head in irritation.

'Mr Taylor, would you like to explain to this stupid boy what are we learning about.'

'Some crap which nobody really cares a damn about?' James whispered.

Sirius controlled a smile.

A scrawny ravenclaw boy stood up and sneered at Sirius for a second and then went on rambling about some dumb stuff.

Apparently they were Chinese fortune sticks and they were the oldest known method of fortune telling.

'Now that's how you give an answer. Ten points to ravenclaw.'

The boy smirked.

'Now, Mr black could you repeat what your classmate just said.'

'Yes.'

'I am waiting.'

'Me too.' Sirius smirked.

'Five points from Gryffindor for attitude. Now class you all will be handed a stick. You have to open to page 86 and read the instructions carefully.'

'This sucks' said Sirius sitting down.

Sirius's eyes moved to Marlene who was sitting right on the other corner of the room with Dorcas and Lily.

'Wait, wouldn't that mean that Remus and Mary are in arirhmancy together?' Sirius muttered.

'Oh god.' James said.
***
The arithmancy group was a small one.
With seven Ravenclaws and two Gryffindors.

And due to the lack of seats, when Remus reached he found out that all of them were filled except for two both being ridiculously close to Mary.

'Of course.' sighed Remus.

He sat on a seat where Mary was to his right diagonal.

'I am sorry for being irresponsible.'

'Hey, it's my fault. I was the one that asked you to drink. I am a prefect. I shouldn't be doing all this.'

'She likes you, Remus. Don't give up yet.'

'She likes me? She said she doesn't care enough to hate me.'

'Thats better. She hasn't talked to me since.'

'I am sorry. Listen, I am not important here. But you two have been friends for a long time, and that is something worth preserving. So put the whole blame on me.'

'No. I couldn't do that. To either of you.'
***
'Dorcas, wait. Why are you doing this? You weren't even dating him.'

'It's not about dating. You knew that I liked him.'

'Yeah, but you slept with Richard anyways.'

'You are a backstabbing bitch. You were supposed to be my best friend.'

'I am.'

'No. You were.'

'The night he found out about you kissing him while dating Richard - before leaving, he told me something.'

'What? That he loves you?' Dorcas shouted.

'No. He said he loves you.'

'Wow, and then he goes and sleeps with my ex best friend. That was a classy move.'

'There was this dark phase at the end of fifth year when you two had broken up and his mom died. I am the only one who knows about this and probably shouldn't be telling you this but—'

'He slept with you?' Dorcas snorted.

'He attempted suicide.'