Who We Were, and Who We Will Be

He closes his eyes and tries to replay the years. He wants to smell the stale sunscreen, hear the echoes of race you there’s and irrational do a flip’s, feel the grass grow and get stomped under feet around him, taste the change in the air. He wants to see if he can find the exact moment they stopped being boys and started being young men. The moment James’s shoulders broadened, and he started thinking, being rational, responsible. The exact second Sirius suddenly had a defined face and recognized his mistakes, and apologized for them. Even, even the day Peter lost the glint in his eyes that only came from being a kid who didn’t know that the world was sharp and out for blood. The moment they could no longer pretend they hadn’t grown up a long time ago.