Remus lay in bed looking at the ceiling. "Mates, I felt like a fool. I bet you she thought I am some pervert or something."

Sirius looked up at him from the floor. "Why do you think that, Mate?" He asked before looking down at the chess game he was playing with James.

Remus rolled over and looked down at the game. "I couldn't stop staring at her and I kept smiling. She most likely thinks I'm a goof and a nerd. I kept talking." He watched Peter open a chocolate frog with disinterest. Peter sat cross-legged on the floor watching the chess game and eating his frog. Remus sighed and rolled back onto his back.

"See, Remus, I told you, you had a love life. I told you, you were in love, but did you listen? Nooooooo." Sirius said glancing up at him.

"Checkmate." James said grinning. He turned to Remus. "You should talk to her again. Ask her to sit with us at breakfast or during class." He said as Sirius stared at the game in disbelieve.

"How on earth did you beat me, you cheat?"

"Hey, I didn't cheat!"

The next day, Verna found herself eating lunch alone, once again. She glanced at Shiva Hanson, a girl from her dorm room. She had invited two of her friends, one from Hufflepuff and the other from Gryffindor, to sit with her and they were making to much noise with their gossip.

"…Black did it with her. She talks about it every time someone mentions Sirius Black. Neither of them is a virgin that's for sure, even if she lied. If he didn't do it with her then he did it with Lisa Barite." Hanson was saying.

Verna looked down at her food and rolled her eyes. Yes, Sirius Black was handsome, but he was nothing compared to Remus Lupin.

Suddenly someone sat down next to her. Startled, Verna looked up. Her heart seemed to have gotten caught in her throat when she saw who was sitting next to her. Remus Lupin with one leg on one side of the bench and the other on the other side. He faced her with a bright smile that brightened her day.

"R—Remus." She blushed, but smiled at him. She cursed herself for blushing.

"Hey, Verna." He said.

'Oh my, he remembers my name.' She thinks to herself and tries to stop blushing.

"I saw you sitting here by yourself and I was wondering if you mind joining me and my friends at the Gryffindor table." He offered nodding in the direction of his house table.

She was completely shocked by his offer. Verna glanced at his friends. Sirius Black and James Potter were talking to each other in low tones. Their heads were bent towards each other to keep the conversation away from prying ears. Peter Pettigrew sat next to Potter, stuffing his face with food.

Verna looked back at him, eyes shining at his offer. "Do you really mean it? You want me to come with you?"

Remus chuckled and nodded. "Yeah, I asked, didn't I?" Verna blushed and looked down at the table, feeling embarrassed. "So, you wanna come sit with us?" He asked again.

Verna looked at his table again. James Potter was now trying to talk to Lily Evans and Sirius Black was laughing at him. Peter Pettigrew was still stuffing his face. "What about your friends?" She asked looking back at him.

He shrugged his shoulders. "They'll welcome you. James wants to talk to a girl anyways. Someone who can help him with Lily since Sirius does such a bad job on giving womanly advices and I, according to him, talk to much and wouldn't know the first thing about the opposite sex."

Verna giggled and was about to agree to go with him, but was interrupted by Lily.

"I WILL NOT GO OUT WITH YOU. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOUR DICK AND I MOST CERTAINTY DON'T WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU!"

"I DID NOT SAY THAT!" James shouted to everyone once Lily had stormed out of the Great Hall. "THAT WAS ALL SIRIUS BLACK!"

Sirius stopped laughing and glared at him. "WAS NOT! IT WAS PETER!" Peter squeaked when the attention went to him. "I—I didn't say it. It was—it was Remus." But the seat where Remus normally sat was empty.

"Where'd he go? He was right here a moment ago." Sirius said realizing his friend was not there anymore.

Remus slid out of his seat and knelt down behind Verna, hiding from the student body. She looked back at him, confused.

"I don't want them to blame me for whatever their blaming me for." He answered. "Pretend I'm not here."

Verna nodded and turned back in her seat. She tried to ignore the feeling of having Remus Lupin's body heat on her back, but it was hard. Her heart was pounding in her chest with excitement.

McGonagall was towering over James. "Potter, follow me."

James put on his puppy face. "But Professor I didn't say it. I told you, Sirius said it."

"I didn't say it. It was Peter."

"It was Remus."

"Where is he anyhow?" Remus and Verna could faintly hear Sirius asking. The whole student body was quiet and was watching the Gryffindor table. So, it wasn't hard to hear Sirius silent complaint when he didn't say Remus anywhere.

"Potter!"

James gave a heavy sigh. "Now, Minnie, I know I'm hot and everything, but I'm sorry to say this…I don't want hurt your feelings or anything, but Minnie, your too old for me and I have my sights on some else."

"POTTER!" McGonagall grabbed his ear and pulled him out of this seat.

"OW, OW...okay, okay…you win. I'm coming, I'm coming." James said all the way out of the Great Hall.

As everyone started laughing and talking about what just happened, Remus slid back into his seat next to her. "Sorry about that."

"It's okay. I must say with your friends, school isn't nearly as boring as it could be." She said with a chuckle, getting comfortable in his presence.

Remus laughed and nodded. "The offer still stands. You want to come?" He asked changing the subject.

Verna smiled and looked at her grandpa. He was watching them with a proud smile on his face. He winked at her before turning back to Professor Hawkins. She turned back to Remus and nodded her head. "I would love to." Remus smiled as well, pleased at her decision.

They both stood up. Verna was taken by surprise when Remus took her hand into his and started to lead her towards his house table. Her faced turned a bright red color at all the stares they were getting. Truthfully, she didn't know if it was the stares making her blush or the feel of his hand on hers. Her hand seemed to fit perfectly into his.

Remus sat down across from Peter and Verna sat down across from Sirius.

"There you are Remus! Where were you? You should have seen what happened earlier. James is in soooooo much trouble."

"When isn't he in trouble? What's surprising is you not being in trouble with him. And as a matter of fact I was here and saw the whole thing." Remus said.

Sirius glared at him. "No you weren't. I looked."

"Yes I was. I was over by the Ravenclaw table." Remus answered.

Sirius suddenly turned towards Verna. "Was he over there? Is he telling the truth?"

Surprised, Verna paused before answering. "Well, yeah. He was over there the whole time."

Sirius stare made her uncomfortable. He just stared at her, not moving not blinking just staring. "You're lying." He finally said.

Verna looked offended, but Remus just shook his head. "Sirius, does she look like a person who would lie?"

Sirius took his gaze off of Verna and turned it to Remus. "I didn't think you could lie until second year. You lied four days into first year and every mouth after that for a year and a half."

"Sirius." Remus seemed to growl. "That was different. That is different." He corrected. "And we are not going to talk about that. This is Verna Peck." He introduced, changing the subject quickly. "Verna, as you know already, this is Sirius Black." He said, pointing to the young man sitting across the table.

"Pleasure to meet you, my fair lady." He said dramatically as he held out his hand.

She looked at his hand before taking it hesitantly. "Pleasure to meet you to, sir." She said playing along.

Sirius grinned and shook her hand. He then turned to Remus. "She certainly is a keeper. You better have a tight leash on this lass."

Remus cheeks turned red and he glared at Sirius. Verna's cheeks were bright red and she was looking at the table. Sirius didn't seem to mind 'cause he started laughing.

Suddenly, Verna felt a hand on her shoulders and a voice overhead. "Merlin, Remus! Where have you been? You should have seen what Sirius got me into!" Verna looked up and saw the messy black haired James Potter standing over her looking over at Remus. He took a seat next to Verna, shoving the person that was already sitting there over.

"Hey, Potter!" She heard the Gryffindor say, but he was ignored as Sirius asked, "How many detentions?"

James grinned and said proudly. "A week, that get gets me four detentions ahead of you. Haha beat that!" He challenged.

Sirius playfully glared at him. "Oh, I will. Trust me I will."

Verna looked at Remus alarmed. He just shook his head with a slight cute smile. He leaned towards her until she could feel his breath close to her ear and whispered. "He's going to do something really stupid just to get a few detentions."

Verna turned her head towards him and whispered back, trying to ignore just how close his lips were to hers. "I can get him out of trouble when he gets into trouble."

Remus raised an eyebrow. "Really? And how do you plan on doing that?"

She chuckled. "I can talk to my grandpa, of course."

Confused, Remus leaned back. "Your grandpa?"

"Well, my great grandpa, but I just call him grandpa."

"And who would that be?" He whispered.

But before Verna can answer, Sirius interrupted them. "And what are you two lovebirds talking about?"

They both turned red. "Nothing of your concern, Sirius, just go and find your desired detention." Remus said, glaring a warning at him.

Sirius smiled. There was a gleam in his eye that made Remus a tad nervous. "Alright, I'll do just that." Suddenly he stood on the table and with a loud voice said, "Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls of all ages, whites and blacks, tall and short, fat and skinny, even the stupid dumb idiot snaky death eaters, I have a big announcement to make…my fellow friend, fellow Marauder, Remus Lupin has finally found his one true lo…"

"SIRIUS ORION BLACK! IF YOU EVER WANT CHILDREN, YOU BETTER STOP RIGHT NOW!" Remus yelled at the same time McGonagall yelled, "MR. BLACK, GET OFF THAT TABLE THIS INSTANT!" The students started to giggle, and James was laughing the loudest.

Sirius smiled. "But Remus, mate, its true…" He turned to McGonagall. "…and…" He smiled charmingly. "…as for you, my dear, dear Minnie, I'll only get off this table if and only if you agree to go out with me." The student body gasped. The only sound was James laughing his poor head off.

"Mr. Black!" McGonagall gasped angrily. "You get off that table right now! Come with me, Black. COME!"

Sirius jumped off the table, still smiling. "Merlin, I'm excited. I'm defiantly going to get more detention then you, now, mate." He whispered to James before following McGonagall out of the Great Hall.

James and Peter were laughing so hard they didn't notice Verna pulling Remus from the table. She started to head to the Head Table, pulling Remus behind her. She had always walked up to the Head Table to talk to her grandpa. Since, she was so invisible to everyone in the school, no one noticed when she did it. But now was different. Now, she wasn't coming from the Ravenclaw table, she was coming from the Gryffindor table and she wasn't by herself this time, she was with Remus Lupin, one of the Marauders. So, for the first time in her Hogwarts years, Verna was being stared at as she walked to the front. She tried her best to ignore the stares when she reached her grandpa. She stood on her tippy toes and leaned across the table to whisper into Professor Dumbledore's ears.

Dumbledore leaned forward in his chair with an amuse smile on his face. "You want me to cancel Mr. Black's detention for his punishment?" Verna nodded happily, knowing her grandpa would do it. As she thought, Dumbledore nodded with a twinkle in his blue eyes and an amused smile. "I guess I can talk to Professor McGonagall." He said. "You best go sit down, Verna, before I get a letter from your mother about you not getting enough to eat." He winked at her.

She smiled and started back to the Gryffindor table, making Remus jog to catch up to her. He leaned towards her ear and whispered, "Albus Dumbledore is your great grandfather?" She nodded her head as she sat back down next to James. Remus sat next to her still grasping the thought. 'Great. Now I can get expelled if I hurt her in anyway.' He thought nervously.

James and Peter gave them weird looks. "What were you doing?" James asked.

Neither one of them had a chance to answer as Sirius came back and sat down across James, smiling wildly. "I have more detentions then you do." He sang.

Remus and Verna shared a secret smile before turning to watch McGonagall take her seat next to Dumbledore. Her grandpa leaned over and whispered into her ear. Remus and Verna watched as they talked before McGonagall sighed and stood up. She didn't seem to like the idea of taking away Sirius' detention. She walked over to where they were sitting and stood right behind Sirius. "Mr. Black."

Sirius turned to her with a smile. "Yes, Minnie."

McGonagall glared at him and fought the urge to give him more detention. "I'm here to inform you that I will have to cancel your detentions. Instead, I am taking 20 points off of Gryffindor." She turned and walked back to the Head Table.

Sirius stared at her, shock as James laughed. Sirius slowly turned to them. "Wha—wha—what just happened?" He asked his eyes wide in shock.

"Merlin, Mate, I think I have more detentions then you still." James said before laughing like crazy.

"Can—can—can she do that? I didn't think she could do that." Sirius said, horrified.

"She is not only the professor who gave you your detentions, but she is our Head of House and the Assistant Headmistress. I think she had it in her authority to take away your detentions." Remus stated smugly.

Sirius glanced at him suspiciously. "I don't know how, but I know you had something to do with this."

Remus just smiled at him, looking a little too innocent.