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Chapter 4

"Argh! I just don't get it!" Remus burst out, tugging at his hair!

"Remus, you look very tired you should be resting!" Lily said concerned.

"No, I feel fine, and I don't have time to rest I need to get up to date in Arithmancy, I didn't understand anything this week." He said irritably.

Lily eyed him suspiciously, he claimed to leave school to see his sick mother every now and then, but he always seemed so distant when he said it and always came back extremely tired and weary looking.

"Well, I'll help you with it tomorrow I promise, but you can't concentrate like this! Let's turn to transfiguration it isn't as attention craving... do you know what I'm doing wrong? I can't seem to conjure anything alive out of nowhere."

"Yeah, I had some problems with it myself until I came across this book in here in the Library the other day, I'm still reading it but you can read chapter six now if you want." He said and handed her a big leather book called Magical mysteries, tips and tricks. She took it smiling and began to read chapter six as Remus started conjuring a variety of rodents into a cardboard box he had with him.

"I'm going to go meet James and wish him luck for the Quidditch match, it starts in an hour." Remus said standing up. "You can return the book later."

When Lily had finished reading the sixth chapter (and seventh and eighth because it was so interesting) she stood up and decided to drop her stuff off in her dormitory before she went to the match. Most of the school was making their way down to the Quidditch pitch by now and on her way to the Gryffindor tower she saw Remus; she walked towards him.

"Evans, come to wish me luck?" Lily hadn't noticed Potter, but there he was smiling. She cast him an irritated look and turned to Remus.

"Remus, I've got your book I'm going to drop my bag off in the Gryffindor tower before I go down to the match, do you want me to return your book later or do you want it now?"

"No problem Lily, I can take it up to my dormitory now, if you don't mind James, good luck." And Lily and Remus walked in the same direction Remus just came from. Before they were out of earshot however Lily over heard James saying "Lily? Since when have they been on first name terms?" flabbergasted.

Remus sighed.

"What's wrong?" Lily asked.

"You heard James's tone, I hopes he doesn't take our friendship to badly."

"But why would he..."

"Lily, the guy's head over heals for you, haven't you noticed?"

"No he's just messing around, like he does with everything! He can't take anything seriously! I don't understand how you can be friends with him, or Black for that matter." She said firing up.

"They are better men than you give them credit for," Remus said calmly.

"No I can't see that, they go around hexing everyone they can, just because they can!"

"Have they been this year?" Remus asked calmly. Lily started thinking back to the beginning of the year, and was surprised to realise that Potter and Black hadn't attacked as much as the previous years.

"They're still jerks!" she said at last. They continued their talk about Potter and Black all the way down to the Quidditch pitch.

"Why are you so defensive Lily? What makes you so sure he's so bad?" Remus asked a bit exasperated but apparently amused.

"He just is! And it annoys me how stuck up he always is, and can't take a hint!"

"What do you mean by take a hint?"

"You saw him earlier how he had to act like I would be coming to wish him luck! And having to ask me to go out with him again and again! It just makes me sick how he always thinks he owns a place just because he's there!"

Remus couldn't say anything to this and didn't answer, they were already finding seats by now and Remus indicated two empty seats in which they sat in.

"So are you and that Lupin boy going out now?" Alice and Lily where sitting in a corner of the common room, everyone was in there now celebrating the spectacular win of the first Quidditch match of the season.

"We aren't going out, we're just friends. We've been in Arithmancy together and we study together in the Library."

"Do you like him?" Alice said smiling.

"Yes, but not that way... at least I don't think so... maybe." She said, she had never thought of Remus that way, she really liked his company and they had a lot in common. "How did you know you liked Frank?"

"Well I don't know, first I always thought, you know, he was out of my league, prefect, and a year older than I."

"Yeah..."

"But he apparently noticed me at one of Slughorn's parties in our 4th year. And he'd been working up the courage to ask me out for a whole year before he finally did. Maybe Lupin's just working up the courage to ask you."

"Why would Frank be afraid to ask anyone out? He's good looking and very good at everything! He was a prefect and head boy now!"

"Well every time he talked to me I always assumed he was making fun of me or something. So I kind of dodged him." Alice replied blushing.

"That doesn't sound like Frank."

"No, but I liked him, and assumed he was too good to be true. I don't know."

Lily looked across the common room trying to find Remus, and finally she spotted him. He was apparently having a rather heated discussion with Potter. Lily's heart sank; she didn't want to cause Remus any trouble.