"Remus I know," Lily said as she sat down next to her friend, inside the deserted Gryffindor Common room.
The thirteen year old boy looked at her questioningly, "I beg your pardon, what do you know?"
Lily looked around the deserted common room, "Professor Perrywinkle's essay on werewolves. You're a werewolf that is why you are constantly missing every month," Lily whispered.
"Am not!" Remus declared.
Lily frowned, "Yes you are. You are always missing the day before, the day of, and the day after a full moon. You have scars from biting yourself. You have stands of grey hair. You're unaffected by blistering cold weather or stifling heat. You're abnormally hairy for your own good. You lie and say a dog attacked you while you visited your mum before she died and now you just say your dad is ill, who is always conveniently severely ill the week of the full moon. Remus you're a werewolf, it all fits."
"How long have you known?" Remus murmured.
"Since I finished my essay last week," Lily stated sadly.
Remus felt as if the world had ended, someone had figured his condition of having Lycanthropy. No one would be his friend now. Mary the girl he had the deepest crush on would be disgusted with him. No matter how close he had been to James and Sirius they'd shun him for his disease. "Well Lily you really are the brightest witch of your age but don't worry I'll be leaving now. Tell Mary, James, and Sirius I said goodbye," Remus said rising from the couch.
Lily shot up, "No! Stay! I'd never tell anyone. I was trying to tell you that if you ever needed me I'd be here for you," Lily claimed pleadingly.
The little third year boy froze; "Really?" he asked turning to face Lily.
Lily smiled kindly, "Yes really. You are a very dear friend to me."
Remus returned the kind smiled. How could he have been so thick? He had been the only Marauder befriended by Lily Evans. She had cried to him when her grandmother died and he to her when his mother died. She truly was his friend.
"Do James and Sirius know?" the young auburn haired girl asked.
Remus frowned, "No."
"Your secret is safe with me."
Smiling widely, "Thank you. It's nice knowing I have someone to talk to now, another real friend. Next to James and Sirius you're another real friend I'd give my life for," Remus said hugging her tightly.
"C'mon everyone is at dinner, and I know you are hungry Remus. Bottomless pit you are," Lily said blushing as she grasped Remus's hand as she began to lead him through the portrait hole.
Remus smiled, "You're right I am."