Perfection

It's quite obvious when someone is cheating on you. Unfortunately for me, I didn't realize it until too late.

Lily and I had been dating for almost two months, and I had hoped that it would be longer before she began to notice James. It was always subtle, but when I finally realized it, it seemed that all the looks and brushing of the hands was so obvious.

At breakfast, she would ask James for the jam… and in that moment there would be a look between them (not loathsome as it used to be) and a brush of hands. What made everything worse was that they shared the Heads' common room.

I didn't want to believe it when I looked at the map… watching it for hours as Lily's dot got closer and closer to James', moving to where James' bedroom would be. What made me feel even sicker a few moments later was when their dots were so close together that they merged into one. I threw the map across the room, not wanting to imagine what they were doing at that moment.

When morning comes, I enter the Great Hall with Sirius and notice that neither James nor Lily is there yet. There are only two minutes until breakfast ends… and Lily is never late. My stomach is churning… where are they?

Just then the doors open and in comes James and Lily. Everything looks as it usually does… except for the twinkle in James' eye which hasn't been there since Lily and I have been dating, and as he sits across from me and says "Good morning", there is a sadness there as well-not for him- for me.

"Remus?"

"Yeah, Lils?" I ask as I turn to her. And that is when I notice that her lips are swollen with kisses that didn't come from me, and her eyes are dark with desire and sadness.

"I think we need to talk."

Twenty years later, I look at Harry and see proof that they were perfection and surprisingly, I never was really angry at James for loving Lily… because now I have found my perfect match in Tonks.

A/N: First off, a huge thanks to luvnmarauders for beta-ing this story for me as well as the story Potions. She came up with the title so thanks also for that! :)

-tasha27.