Remus and Sirius sat together atop the Astronomy Tower. Both were eating cherry and apple lollipops, the muggle ones with chocolate inside, that they stole from one of Peters many care packages.
"Look, there I am. The brightest star in the sky. I am the brightest star in the sky, aren't I?" Sirius said, using his lollipop to point at the star with which he shared a name.
"You sure are." Remus replied sarcastically.
Sirius huffed and licked his lollipop once more.
"What constellation is that?" Remus asked, pointing to a cluster of stars.
"That's Canis Major. It has the Sirius Star in it. If you're this interested in Astronomy, why don't you take the class?" Sirius looked at his companion.
"I guess I like it when you tell me." Remus said, turning slightly pink.
"Oh, well, good. Because I like telling you." Sirius tried to conceal his blush as he rested his head on Remus's shoulder.
"Your sweater is soft." He added.
"Thanks." Remus's legs were jelly.
He didn't really know what he was doing or thinking. Maybe he wasn't thinking at all, it was just his body. But, before he knew it, Sirius was holding Remus's hand.
Sirius traced one of Remus's scars with his thumb. They sat in silence for a while before one finally mustered up the courage to do something.
"Sirius, I have to tell you-" he was cut off by someone else entering the tower.
"Oh thank God you two weren't making out." It was James, who was clearly out of breath.
Sirius and Remus quickly released each other's hands from their own.
"What do you need, James?" Sirius asked, clearly annoyed that he ruined the moment.
"Oh, right. I need to tell you something." He seemed very happy.

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"Oh, hi Frank!" Alice ran into the boy she had a crush on. Literally. She ran into him. Headfirst. Excellent.

Alice and Frank were friends, they always were, especially with their friend groups merging. However, she was a ball of mush around him sometimes, ever since she started seeing him as something other than strictly platonic. Frank wasn't all that much better. He had been head over heels for Alice Fortescue since he was 14. Somehow neither ever realized they were both in love with each other. Oblivious.

"Hi, Alice. How are you?" Frank moved beside her and they walked together, legs moving in sync, fingers dangerously close to one another's.

They kept walking, making small talk and smiling.

Right before they split up, Frank asked Alice a question.

"Hey, would you like to help me set up the pumpkins in the great hall for Halloween?"

"Sure! With who?"

"Oh, it was just going to be the two of us, if that's alright."

"Sounds great!"

The two parted ways, spending the rest of the day wondering if it was a date.

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"Did I ever tell you about Amortentia day?" Dorcas asked.

Marlene and Dorcas were laying in Marlenes bed, cuddled up with one another in pajamas.

"No. What do you mean?" Marlene asked.

"The day we made Anortentia in potions was the day I knew i was in love with you. I mean, you were my sexual awakening and I had a crush, but when I smelled whatever attracted me the most, it was your body wash. The Shea butter one." Dorcas said, making Marlene smile bigger than she ever thought she could.

"That makes me feel way better about literally smelling your peach perfume."

The two snuggled closer.

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"Hi! What can I help set up?" Alice walked into the dining hall, seeing Frank hunched in the corner, alone, surrounded by pumpkins. Some were carved, some were gutted, some hadn't been cut into.

"Oh, Hi Alice. I'm basically just carving pumpkins for the next, like, hour. You can help if you want, or just hang out."

"But, you asked me to help you." Alice said, confused why Frank said to just hang out.

"Yeah, but I wanted company. And someone to play music, my taste sucks." He smiled.

That smile could kill her.

She sat down and laughed.

"Why didn't you invite the boys then? Or everyone?" Alice wanted to be alone with Frank, don't get jet wrong, she just refused to believe that he wanted to be alone with her.

"What if I wanted just your company?" He asked.

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"Are we actually doing this?" Emmeline whispered. She was huddled over in a tunnel. Why, might you ask?

Peter decided to take Emmeline on a date, and attempt to make her a little bit less of a goody two-shoes. There's no better way to do that than sneak her out of school to Hogsmeade from one of the secret tunnels the marauders found.

"Yes, Em. And you're going to like it because you would do anything for those weird peach things." Peter grabbed her hand and pulled her forward.

He was right, of course. Emmeline would kill for sour peach candies from Honeydukes.

"You know me way too well."

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Frank and Alice listened to dodie, Orla Gartland and The Head And The Heart for a couple hours, with a few guilty pleasure Olivia Rodrigo songs.

They went from carving pumpkins and humming to dancing around the great hall, putting things in place as they went.

The two danced all around the great hall, laughing and singing and occasionally setting up decorations. The song changed again, this time unintentionally to Alice's favorite love song. Baby I'm Yours by The Arctic Monkeys.

Frank knew this was her favorite love song, of course he did. He had had a crush on her since 1st year. And for once, he didn't want overthink with her.

So he grabbed her hand and pulled her close to him, until the two were facing each other.

He put his hand on her hip.

She put her hand on his shoulder.

They grabbed hands and began to dance around the room, drunk on the sound of the others laughter.

The song ended sooner than either wanted, and Alice got nervous. She always got nervous about these things. So, she ran out, leaving Frank alone in the dining hall, surrounded by pumpkins and thinking about if he messed everything up.

She was still high on adrenaline and ran into her dormitory, where all of the girls were talking about something seemingly important on Lily's bed.

a/n
hahaha i'm not nice enough to give y'all new jily yet, so in return here's some cute little fluff about the side characters. i love all of these couples so much and i think fralice is so underrated and i will die on that hill. anyway, sorry for the kind of filler chapter. i kinda like it though, it's pretty cute lol. love you guys!
~ brynlee