Christmas's Night

Written by Ren

translated by Wan

"Is it full moon yet?" A voice of a young black-hair man, asked for a second time. He got the same answer from his friends, Remus, "I just told you that the cloud is hiding it." Sirius listened and signed. He paced on the old wooden floor that was covered with a thin layer of dust, in the Shrieking Shack. He turned around and watched another man in light-brown-hair, leaning against the wall.
"Did you check the Astronomy's Chart ?"
"No," Lupin answered casually," Why? You want to go back to the ball?
"Well...yeah. To be honest...I'm hungry." Sirius confessed and patted his stomach."I told you to eat something, you were just too busy teasing James and Lily."

The black-hair Sirius didn't argue. He accepted that he was teasing James for asking Lily to be his partner in the Yule Ball for hours. He really didn't have time to eat.

"You were teasing and James was embarassed....Oh boy! Are you sure you guys are in seventh year?" Lupin shook his head in disbelief. Sirius started to say something but stopped when Lupin grabbed an item from his robe...It was a Chocolate Frog! Sirius's eyes shone, if he was in his dog form, he would have wagged his tail ten times per second. However he tried to keep his cool and came forward Lupin and cleared his throat, but...

"Paw, boy!" Faster than the speed of light, Sirius's hand was in Lupin's...
"Bark three times.." Lupin stared at Sirius," Good boy." He pretened to pat his head and unwrapped the treat.
"Here you go!" Lupin passed Sirius a piece of a chocolate frog.

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"What's this? A tadpole? Remus, you don't want your friend to starve to death, do you?" Sirius's eyes caught at the rest of the chocolate. "If you want some more, turn around....I'm kidding, I'm just kidding!" Remus said and handed the rest of the chocolate to Sirius. Sirius grabbed the chocolate and tore the wrapper violently and ate quickly in hunger.
"I hope Peter made it back to the ball." Sirius said between the sound of crunching the chocolate.
"Why not? He just left us here," there was only the sound of Sirius chewing until Lupin said,

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"That I didn't let you stay at the ball." Lupin looked at his toes, didn't dare to look at Sirius in the eys.
Sirius laughed," you think I care about the ball?" Sirius scanned Remus's face. "I prefer to stay with you." He still watched Lupin's face. Lupin broke the silence,"let's see the chart." He said and watched the moon.

"Sirius," Lupin spoke softly,"you're not going to be mad, are you?" Lupin slowly turned his face and looked into the gentle black eyes. "I told you, I like to be with you." He smiled again.
"I.. I was looking at the wrong day." There was a silence moment, before Sirius could said anything Lupin started to run off, however, "So you want to play tag?" Sirius ran to the door and stood in front of it.
"I was going to buy you some more chocolate frogs, dear friend." Lupin gave a half smile, Sirius sighed and looked at him.
"Let's go find some food, I'm starving." Sirius turned the door knob, "I'll pay". He said again as if knew that Lupin hadn't any money with him.

At the Three Broomsticks.

"Oh? You guys cut out agin?" Madame Rosmerta greeted them warmly."Where's James? He hasn't came with you?" Sirius greeted her and ordered their food.

"What's that? Butterbeer you said?"
"No, Madame. Beer." Sirius answered in a clear loud voice. At first Madame Rosmerta didn't approve but she couldn't stood against Sirius pleaded. He got two mugs of beer."You're going to drink that?" Lupin asked." Yep! Here's your." Sirius said and passed him a mug.

"No...I..." Lupin tried to refused.

One hour later at the Shrieking Shack.

"Ha ha ha!" Lupin laughed so loud, Sirius tried his hardest to stop him. "Shuuu, be quiet, Remus." He warned."You're drunk." He thought that if Remus wouldn't stopped laughing the 'Shrieking Shack' would turned into the 'Laughing Shack'. "Let's go." Sirius said and held the young man in brown hair up, but he lost his balance. "Did you just gain weight?" He leaned Lupin against the wall, and sat down at Lupin, who was drunk.
Suddenly Lupin leaned aginst Sirius, he could felt the warmth of Lupin, the heart that was beating so loud and abnormal. It was as if it was asking for something about him. He pulled his face toward Lupin, their lips almost touched, he could felt Lupin hot breath, but....

"Don't..." Lupin said suddenly, Sirius jerked back, surprised.
"I didn't... uh... you were... uh...." He started to make something up.
"Don't leave me alone..."Lupin said, delirious. "Sirius..." Sirius held Lupin close to his chest as a priceless treasure, "I won't let you go...Remus...." He tighten his arms around, "Never.....ever."

Sirius watched Lupin face for a long time, and kissed him softly on the cheek, "That's the punishment," Sirius grinned.

 

~The End~