It had been ages since Sirius had last explained his childhood to anyone, even just aspects like the ones that he was currently sharing with Remus. It seemed mundane at best to him yet he also knew that it was pretty out of the norm for most, so it was just a breath of fresh air to have Remus sitting there, interested but seemingly not judging.<br/>“I worked my way up to that one,” he stated with a grin, having spent so much of his childhood and adolescence lying and keeping things secret to his parents that lying about the books he read had been second nature, even back then.<br/>“They both speak French but I got pretty good at keeping things from them very early.”