Chapter Thirteen

"What if Remus wants to have a Grant-like relationship with you?" Billie asked later that night, we were sitting on the couch pretending to do some homework. "What if he doesn't want a real relationship he just wants to shag you without the attachment?"

I chewed on the end of my quill and doodled on my essay, thinking about my answer. "I... donno if I could do that. I mean, it's no problem at all with Grant 'cause he's just a friend y'know. Think it'd be different if I really liked the guy? Remus doesn't seem like that kind of guy anyhow."

Surprisingly, although not at the same time since we'd become quite good friends lately, Iggy was absent from this conversation and instead Lily was our third Stooge. "Well I know Remus pretty well and I can't imagine him saying those things without a good reason," Lily said, "and I can't see him going after someone just for a quick shag either. I'm pretty sure he's still a virgin."

We had informed Lily about our boys back home and although she obviously did not approve she didn't judge either.

"This may sound bad but I would rather him think I just wanted to shag him than have him know that I really liked him when he didn't like me too."

"Yeah," Billie said, "that is pretty bad."

"I-" was cut off by someone entering the room in a loud and obnoxious way. Three someone's actually. Thankful Remus was not one of them. Unthankfully they came right over to us three girls and sat down around us expectantly.

"So."

"So what?" Billie asked.

"Sonnie," James said, turning towards me. "We need to speak with you."

I sighed, "Must you?"

"Yes, this is really important. We need to talk to you before Remus gets a chance too. We-"

"Well then there is no need to talk now," I interrupted, "because I have no immediate plans to talk with him either."

"Just hear us out," Peter said.

I sighed again, in a loud dramatic fashion, "Fine." I crossed my arms angrily to make sure they knew that I was agreeing but was not happy about it.

"Okay. Remus likes you."

I rolled my eyes dramatically.

"No really, he does, we promise! We know that the conversation you heard makes that a little hard to believe but we are telling the truth. They thing is that Remus does not date. At all. Anybody. Ever."

"That's why you heard him saying that it work never ever happen between you two. Not because he doesn't like you it's just that he has a very very strict no dating rule and so he felt bad leading you on because he won't actually date anyone. He does like you, enough that he didn't stop seeing you after he realised that he liked you. If that makes sense."

Us girls looked at each other and non-verbally agreed that it did not in fact, make sense.

"Well explain to us this," Lily asked, "why doesn't Remus date?"

James opened his mouth to answer but nothing came out. He closed it. Then opened it again, "Well... he doesn't like us to tell people this, it's kind of a secret. You have to promise not to say anything to him or anyone else. 'Kay?"

Sirius looked over at him sharply, giving him a look.

"Remus' parents don't have the greatest relationship in fact they have a terrible terrible relationship, and that's all I will say about it. But because of his family he doesn't date. Have you ever seen him with a girl over the seven years we've gone to school?"

"Okay first of all, that's a not a great explanation and it doesn't really explain much at all. But second, no I have never seen him with anyone."

"That's true," Billie said.

"Yeah I've never even heard him talk about anyone he was interested in before," Lily added.

"Exactly," Sirius said, "and we have a plan to change that."

"You Sonnie, need to hook up with Sirius," he nodded his head in a very sombre fashion and I couldn't help but start laughing. And laughing...and laughing.

Until I realised that they were completely serious.

"How does that even make-"

I was cut off by the entrance opening. James waved his arms around quickly and hissed, "We got Iggy to distract Remus, we'll talk later!" And they got up and ran over to a table. A moment later Iggy and Remus came into the room. Remus went over to the other marauders and Ig came over to us.

"So what did I miss?" he asked.

"They didn't tell you?"

"No they just asked me to distract him for a half an hour or so, said it was to benefit your and his relationship and that all would be explained afterwards. It was through notes during class and they didn't want to risk writing it all out."

I quickly went through the conversation and the unbelievable ending. "How could hooking up with Sirius possibly help anything?"

"Well..." Iggy said.

"What? Tell me!"

"It makes sense... Maybe they want to make him jealous, so that when he sees you with Sirius he'll realise that you should be with him instead. It's like the oldest trick in the book."

"That's probably it," Lily agreed.

"Mhm," Billie too.

"Uh...I, uh, I think that...I could be on board for that plan."

It was Saturday afternoon before I got a chance to talk to James and Sirius again. This time Remus was off with Peter. I had only Iggy with me now.

"We know what your plan is," Iggy stated bluntly. "you want to hook up with Sonnie so that Remus will get all jealous and realise he needs to fall madly in love with her himself."

"Yeah, pretty much," James confirmed.

"I think it's a great plan," Iggy informed us.

I was still a little sceptical. "What if it doesn't work?"

"Well we know that it won't if Remus realises what we are doing. But if he doesn't catch on then it will work. He's had a few crushes in the past but he has always completely ignored them and then just moved on with his life. With you though, he has become attached, he really does like you Sonnie, we promise. And we have a fool proof plan," Sirius said.

"Sirius is not one for relationships, as you may know, he goes more for random hook ups. Remus knows this well and wouldn't buy it if you two suddenly started to claim that you are madly in love. So you are going to use Sirius as your rebound guy. No boyfriend/girlfriend stuff, cause he wouldn't believe that." Now they both seem a little nervous, like I was going to scream at them that it was ridiculous and I was not some whore that would randomly hook up with a guy just to get another one. Little did they know I was a whore that would randomly hook up with guys, this was just what I had been looking for!

"Now you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. Just kissing if you want and then I can just talk as if there is other stuff going on, y'know, behind the scenes," Sirius said hastily, "a few little kisses here and there in front of him would probably do the trick. And seeing as we'll be sleeping in the same room," he winked here, "we can really just let his mind wander from there."

"I think that this is a marvellous plan," I stated, " I'll do whatever, I only draw the line at shagging, I won't shag you, anything else is fair game." They looked flabbergasted.

"That was what you told Grant," Iggy said, giving me a look, "and look what happened there..."

"Okay well Sirius and Grant are not the same person if you hadn't noticed. And those are two very different situations." I noticed the look that passed between Sirius and James.

"O...kay," James said. "This new thing with you and Sirius can't just start right away out of the blue, that would be too obvious-"

"Of course."

"So we figured that we would wait until we have the kids back," Sirius continued, I nodded my head, understanding where he was going with this. "We will bond over our shared parental duties and then the arrangement will happen. It shouldn't take too long for Remus to figure out that he fancies you too much to let you be with me," he laughed.

"There's one more thing," James said, "Sirius has never openly expressed any interest in you-"

"No offense, I've just never really thought about you that way before, you're very nice looking though."

I laughed, "So we figured out a way to get the ball rolling," James continued. "Halloween. You need to get a sexy halloween costume so that Sirius can noticed how nice all your bits are, 'cause they won't be so covered up with your school vest and trousers-"

"Which we don't understand," Sirius interrupted again, "you're one of the only girls that doesn't wear the skirts!"

"I am not a skirt kinda girl. I am a jeans and t-shirt kinda girl. I don't even wear short shorts."

"Well," Sirius grinned, "get ready for a bit of a change. Me and James are taking you shopping for a costume."

"How are you going to manage that?" Iggy asked sceptically. "Halloween is Sunday and we already had our Hogsmead weekend."

They grinned wickedly at each other, "Oh don't you worry about that, leave it to us. Just meet us in in the entrance hall tomorrow right before dinner, alright?"

"Aw man, am I gonna miss dinner?"

"You will be doing something far better then dinner." Finally they got up to leave, but before they did Sirius turned back, "And one more thing. Make sure you stop running away from Remus and just let him let you down easy. It'll make my job alot easier."

I nodded, feeling my cheeks redden a bit. Oh Merlin, I thought, what the hell have I gotten myself into?

A/N – I am so sorry, I don't even know how long it's been now since my last post! I hope not too too long. Anyways, a little twist here for you all, hope you like it or find it interesting. I would love love love to hear what you all think in REVIEWS, even if they're criticism. I welcome all.