A/N: Heh, would you look at that, four months without an update. -Nervous smile- Well I’m sorry my lovely readers but these past few months I was busy discovering the love of my life. But alas, all good things must come to an end, so now that the swim season is over and I actually have time to write again (instead of swimming in chlorine infested water for 3 hours a day, 6 days a week) I bring you chapter 12!

Enjoy this wonderfully unedited chapter. Feel free to point out all of the typos and grammatical errors I know are in there.

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Well after our little make out session in my bedroom, we both decided that Remus should be getting home. So we dressed quickly and I walked Remus home, like any decent boyfriend would. At the door of his aunt’s house he shuffled his feet and mumbled a ‘thank you’, which I found absolutely adorable. To prove my point, I kissed my little ‘girlfriend’ (that will never get old) on the lips just as his aunt opened the front door.

With a yelp he pulled away, blushing from head to toe, whispered a goodbye and ran into the house. But his aunt stayed where she was, staring at me unblinking. She looked rather young actually; late twenties perhaps, nothing like I’d imagined her. She had shoulder length ringlets of dirty blond hair, bright green eyes, small freckles on her nose and cheeks, purple reading glasses in one hand and a thick paper back novel in the other. Her attire consisted of, torn up hip huggers and a red tank top, no shoes and no socks.

She smiled knowingly at me and leaned on the door frame. “Nice to finally meet you Sirius.” She said doing the exact same hair flip thing Remus does with his bangs. I also realized that she too had an accent, but it wasn’t French, not by a long shot. It was more southern, kind of a country accent, but I couldn’t quite place it. “I’m Tessa, incase you don’t already know.” She paused and shifted from one foot to the other. “And I really hope you took care of my baby.” Tessa looked me square in the eye. I felt all color slowly drain from my face, I had a feeling she knew something went down last night, but I wasn’t about to say anything.

I cough nervously, stumbling as I start to walk backwards. “Yeah…nice to meet you too Tessa.” She smirked at me, her gaze never leaving me. “Well, I better go.” I stumble some more as I nearly fall. See I’d forgotten there are couple of stairs leading up to the porch of the house and being the nervous wreck I was, I just about fell flat on my attractive ass. Tessa laughed at the idiotic face I must have made.

“You take care now.” She told me, her voice full of mirth as she stepped back in to house. I give her another nervous smile and walk away just as she closed the front door.

That went rather… smoothly.

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Monday finally came and I couldn’t wait to see Remus again. I felt my heart give a pleasant jolt as I saw Remus chatting with Andy near the basketball courts. I walked up to them and slipped my arm around Remus’ shoulders.

“Hey, what’s up?” Remus tenses as Andy looks between us. After a couple of seconds he seems satisfied and gives a triumphant smirk. Questioning his sanity not for the first time I turn to look at Remus, he’s seems really jumpy and on the edge.

“Can we talk?” I wasn’t expecting the question, but follow after him none the less. He stopped a couple feet away near some classrooms and turned to me biting his lip.

“So what’s the matter?” I ask putting my hands in my pockets, which is quite the task let me tell you, these skinny jeans don’t have all that much pocket space…actually they don’t have much space for anything.

“I was hoping we could keep it a secret…low profile you know…” Remus whispered at the floor, kicking small rocks between words.

“What, you mean our relationship?” I asked digging through my pockets nervously. I did not just spend the last couple of weeks trying to get Remus just to keep it quiet!

“Yeah, I was thinking that it would be for the best,” Remus looked up and sniffled. “Seeing as how neither of us is out…it would just be too much. Do you understand?” I looked at the smaller boy in front of me curiously. He had a point, honestly I agreed with him but it just irked me to watch girls droll over him all the damn time! He’s mine now, and I want everyone and I mean everyone to know that.

But with a lengthy sigh I caved into my Remmy’s wishes. “You’re right…” He brightened up immediately after I spoke. “But we will eventually have to tell them.” And I sure know how to wipe a smile off my Rem’s sweet face.

“Why?” Gah…he’s upset.

“Well, because we can’t just live a lie forever! Besides I was planning on telling James about me being…you know, this week. So it’s only a matter of time before we slip or they figure it out, so we might as well just tell them.” I tried my best to phrase everything just right so as not to upset Remus any further.

“I know…but can it wait? Just a bit longer,” He looked at me pleadingly. “Please.”

“Until when?” I was growing uneasy with every second that passed. I didn’t want to hide what we had and what I was forever.

“A few more weeks.” I thought it over in my head, and I figured that a few more weeks wouldn’t hurt anyone…well that is if my friends don’t catch us…then it could get ugly.

“Alright.” And the beautiful smile is back! I get a warm (albeit quick) hug from Remus for ‘being so understanding’.

So, I guess this means no hugging, touching, kissing, cuddling, licking, biting, holding hands, love notes, pet names and any other obnoxious coupley things during school. Sigh. You win some you lose some.

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I watch as a big jock nearly knocks Remus over when walking by. Remus, fully caught off guard, drops his folder and a couple of papers fall out. Sirius, infuriated by this, instinctively starts to walk after the jock, most likely to punch the idiot in the face or start a fight. But to my utter shock Remus grabs his arm stopping him and –gasp- Sirius obeys. Now this is something new. I watch Remus tell Sirius something, not catching but a few words over the other mass of voices around me. Instead of going after the jock, like I thought he would once Remus let go of him, Sirius bent down and picked up Remus’ things, handing them back to him with a smile. Remus blushes, I’m not entirely sure why, and thanks him. To say I am completely and utterly baffled right now would be an understatement.

“Cute isn’t it?” I hear someone ask next to me. Startled I jump and turn to see Andy with a look of pure bliss on his face. He sighs and continues to stare at our friends.

“Cute…?” My head is seriously hurting right now. Andy nods but then as if he realized something he jumps up from his seat and covers his mouth with his hand.

“Opps! I have said too much!” He scurries away towards a group of bubbly girls across our table as Remus and Sirius approach.

“James are you feeling alright?” I look up at my best friend as he asks his question, Remus taking a seat next to me.

“Yeah…why wouldn’t I be?”

“It looks like you’re in pain…”

“Well, my head hurts a little.” I mumbled grimly. I sat in silence as my friends continue to talk without me and several other people join us. But I wasn’t paying attention, I was trying to make sense of things. And then it dawned on me, there’s something going on between Remus and Sirius, and Andy is in on it. I look up at Sirius and for the first time I notice the side ways glances, the tiny smiles, the ‘accidental’ touches that happen way too often to be accidents, the way they sit too close to each other, even the manner in which they talk to each other.

But it doesn’t make sense! Sirius would have said something, I’m his best friend. I refuse to…

“I’m going to the bathroom!” I announce as I suddenly stand from the table. Everyone turns, startled by my outburst. I walk quickly, not turning back even after I heard someone call after me.

No, this isn’t happening. Sirius wouldn’t keep something like that hidden from me…he wouldn’t.

I hear my name being cried out several times before the footsteps become faster and Sirius appears at my side. “James, hold up.” He tries to halt my walking by placing a hand on my shoulder but I just jerk away, too upset to control my actions. “What’s wrong?” He tries again, but I’m long gone by now.

I stopped abruptly and turned around nearly causing Sirius to run into me. I could feel my rage bubbling within me. My jaw was clenched as I spit out the next statement with as much venom as I could. “So, when were you planning on telling me you where a faggot?!”

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A/N: Uhh, ok don’t get angry! James is a good boy, we all love James…he’s just , you know what would be cool? If you reviewed -Grin-