You threw open the front door, heading straight for your old bedroom, ignoring the questioning looks of your parents. Opening and slamming the door, you laid on your bed and glared angrily at the walls, hoping your mother wouldn't come in.

But she did, no more than a few seconds after you thought that, just as you knew she would.

"Dora, are you alright? You seem upset, what's wrong?" she asked, taking a seat next to you on your bed and placing a gentle hand on your shoulder.

"He left. He was right next to me last night, and I wake up with him nowhere to be found…" you trailed off, looking up into your mother's eyes. "Maybe—maybe we rushed this. It's just…he's changed so much, so quickly. I can't help thinking that it's all my fault…"

Andromeda sighed, taking your hands in hers. "Love is strange, people are strange. It seems that if two people are in a relationship that effects them in any way—good or bad, and I've seen the smiles Remus gives you, so I'm fairly certain it's good in this case—they change. Whether that change be good or bad at first, it always gets better, I promise." She smiled a bit, seeing you lighten up ever so slightly, before kissing you on the forehead just as she'd always done when you were a child, and left the room. You hoped she was right.

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For the I Dare You Challenge, using Tonks and "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." ―C.G. Jung