Best Friend's Brother

"I love you, too."

"Marry me," Sirius declares.

Don't talk to me, Evans. HOMEWRECKER, Sirius sends back, and Lily sends another laughing emoji.

Damn you, Lily Evans. Damn you straight to Hell, where you will burn in agony for your many crimes. This is the LAST time you best me in relation to James Potter. I am his other half, I am the very heart in his chest, I am VITAL to him in every way, so you will lay down your weapons and vacate the battlefield, waving a white flag of surrender as you scamper on your way, or I will destroy you. And YOU, James. I trusted you. I never took you for a traitor, but this is a betrayal of the highest degree. LILY met him first? You LET Lily meet him first? I take this personally. This is a slight against me that can only be rectified if you allow no one else to meet him before me, or else I can never forgive you for the distance you are putting between us. Do we no longer breathe in perfect unison? Do you no longer ache when I ache? What has become of us? I can't believe you've done this.

I have insider information. I met the mean barista, Lily informs them.

Sirius is instantly betrayed. YOU MET HIM BEFORE I DID?

I just asked him if I made his inner child feel safe and he said his inner child is dead???

but then Mary messages with: I read somewhere that your inner child feels safe when you fall asleep on someone like that. You make his inner child feel safe

Moony fell asleep on me, so I can never move again, say your goodbyes now

He genuinely thinks he could stay right here, just like this, existing with Remus forever

I wouldn't dare share how lovely you are. That's all for me."

Sirius doesn't want to be a cliche, but he falls even more in love with Remus in that moment when he didn't think it was possible to do so. Every time he gets in deeper, falls even harder, he always thinks he can't love Remus more than he already does, only to be proven wrong time and time again.