Switching Sides

Switching Sides

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Make-Up Mishaps

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The sixth years had a cheerful evening. Everyone shot questions at Remia, who was sitting rather comfortably in Sirius's lap. She wasn't any smaller than she had been as a male, but somehow she looked to fit on his boyfriend's legs better than before.

"So the empty bed in our dorm is for you," realized Sarah Grayson, one of Lily's dormmates - and, seemingly, Remia's, too. "We've been wondering who it is for. Lily here seemed to know something, but of course she wouldn't tell us anything." She gave her friend an accusing glance. "You could have at least warned us beforehand!"

"But what fun would that be?" asked Lily slyly, making everyone laugh aloud.

"Merlin help us," groaned Mickey White, covering his eyes with his hand. "Evans, you've spent too much time with Black, Potter, Lupin, and Pettigrew. A bit more, and you'll be as bad as they are!"

"Well, at least in Lupin's case, she'll only spend more time with them," giggled Chloe Santorini, another one of Lily's dormmates. The last one, Juliet Gardner, simply smiled.

"Hey, I know!" exclaimed Sarah suddenly. No matter how much like the Marauders Lily was, Sarah was the one of the girls with most new ideas. "What about helping her get known to her dorm immediately?"

"Don't take her away from me!" exclaimed Sirius in protest, trying to cling on his newly turned girlfriend. The others watched in amusement as a groaning Sirius pulled one of her hands and giggling Sarah, Lily, and Juliet the other. Chloe decided to just stand back and watch the "contest," and Remia simply laughed and struggled against it at the same time.

At last, however, the combined power of the girl group won even the Black Beater, and Remia was halfly dragged towards her new dorm. She was at first suspicious about the staircase - the results of some boys trying to walk up them were still well in memory - but at last, she decided to try. To her great surprise, there were no nasty traps. Seemingly, she was already a girl enough to go to their dorms.

Once up to their dorm, Remia glanced around her. "Definitely lighter and more comfortable than the boys' dormitories," she muttered to herself.

"Isn't it?" grinned Lily, leaning back on her bed. It was weird, in a way, to think about Remia the girl and not Remus the boy. Of course she knew that his or her character would be just the same, as well as his interests and other things, but Remia was still somehow different from Remus. Even during the short time she'd known the new girl, she'd already managed to figure out that much.

"What the heck I'm supposed to do with these?" an angry voice shook her out of her thoughts.

"With what?" Juliet asked. They all turned their heads towards Remia, who was the one who had spoken.

"With these," she answered and lifted up a small bag. "My big sister sent me makeup!"

They all laughed. Then Lily noticed Remia's hurt expression and stopped giggling. "Okay, sorry," she said. "I think you're supposed to use them. You can try, if you want - we can help you."

The newest girl looked thoughtful for a while. Then she shrugged. "Okay," she said, and grinned. "If I have a girl's body, I might as well live like one." Then she crumbled her eyebrows. "So, pray tell me... How do you use this stuff?"

After a whole hour of trying, testing, advising and giggling they had managed to make Remia up properly to their mind. Then Sarah noticed a pile of other stuff on Remia's bed.

"What are those?" she asked curiously.

"What?" the small brunette turned around to see what she was pointing at. She blushed slightly. "Oh," she said. "My mom sent me some girls' clothes - skirts and blouses and the like."

Juliet, who never was one to hesitate much, ran to the clothes. "Oh, look at these!" she exclaimed. "If my mom sent me stuff like this, I'd faint for happiness!" She lifted up some skirt that especially caught her eye.

"Woah," Chloe breathed. "Hey, I know! If we've made you up, we could as well dress you!"

Now Remia tried to refuse, but they chose to ignore her, starting to glance through her new clothes. After a while they had chosen a dark blue skirt and a bit lighter blue sweater with glitter threads knit into it. After they had managed to make her really wear them, Juliet decided to braid her hair. The other girls watched with great amusement as poor Remia had to sit perfectly still while her hair was braided on a long, tight braid.

When they then had her dressed, her hair done, and with makeup, even Lily had to admit that she was impressed by the change in her old friend. Remia looked cautiously at her reflection in the big mirror. "Well, I suppose that's... okay," she said carefully.

"Okay?" Chloe echoed. "That's perfect! Let's go and show you to Black!"

"Hey, I don't think -" Remia started, but they ignored her protests completely. They practically dragged her out of the dorm and to the Common Room, where all the other sixth years still were sitting. There were also students from other years, watching them curiously, but they chose to ignore them.

"Hey, Sirius!" Lily shouted. "Look at your girlfriend now!"

Now everyone in the room was surely staring at them, but they still didn't care. They merely shoved Remia towards the sixth-years' corner. At last she ended up in front of Sirius, switching her weight carefully from one foot to another.

"Woah," Sirius breathed, staring at her. "Moony, you look - you look perfect!"

'You see?' Chloe mouthed to Remia, but she was too nervous at the moment to even notice her new dormmate's words.

At last, Sirius noticed that the silence was becoming more and more awkward. Therefore, he decided to put his cheek into the game again. "Can you still come and hug me?" he asked teasingly. "Or would that ruin your perfect makeup?"

"Shut up, you prick," smirked Remia, immediately shaking off her fear. She went right to Sirius and sat back to his lap, hugging him tightly. In no time at all, they were both hugging each other warmly, Remia's face pressed against the crook of Sirius's neck.

"And nothing more than that, please," said James's cheerful voice then. "That much I can bear, but if you two started snogging here, I don't think I could bear that."

Sirius smirked and loosened his embrace, while Remia actually blushed slightly. This, of course, caused quite a lot of giggling and whispering among the others - no matter how effeminate and sensitive Remus may have seemed sometimes, he'd never blushed. Never, until now.

Well, like one could say, it was about the time.

Seemingly Remia thought that way, too, at least after Sirius said that she was cute when she blushed and kissed her cheek, thus making her blush even more.