After Remus' return, the boys all turned in. They knew that, although they were not far from the train station, they needed to get there somewhat early, so that they could get their annual compartment on the train.

The next morning came quickly, it seemed. The boys gathered their trunks and items together and loaded them into the back of Cheyenne's car to be off. Arriving at around 9:10AM, the boys came upon a very unexpected surprise.

"Adara?" Sirius asked.

Adara, along with Andrea and Darren, were standing near the 9 ¾ entrance, looking at their ticket questionably. Hearing the familiar voice, they turned to see Remus, Sirius, James, and Cheyenne. Shocked and worried, she answered. "Guys? What are you doing here?"

"Guess we should ask the same question. You look confused. Need help?" James replied, smiling.

Thinking it was just a coincidence that they happened upon them at that area, the Foley's did not know what to say.

"Uh… Kind of… We are just misplaced, is all. We will figure it out. You probably should go, though. Doesn't your train leave soon?" Andrea looked at the boys, unsure and not wanting to let it be known that they were of magical descent.

"No, no! Uh… We… Our train doesn't leave for almost an hour and a half or so, so it's fine. We will stay with you and help you out, we don't mind." Remus replied, not wanting to walk through the entrance right in front of them.

Cheyenne began walking towards them to look at the ticket. As she approached, Andrea said quickly, "We got this ticket from a guy that was not at a booth! Uh… We figured it would be cheaper, but it's obviously bogus, of course." She did not want Cheyenne to get any ideas or to question people about it.

Upon seeing the ticket, Cheyenne gave a sigh of relief and smiled. "You guys aren't muggles then, I am assuming?"

At this, they all let out sighs of relief. "Thank Merlin! I was terrified that Adara was going to miss the train! We have no idea what 9 ¾ is supposed to mean or where it's at."

Remus and the guys looked at Adara and laughed. "You are a witch?! I can't believe it!"

Adara grinned happily. "I can't believe it either! I make 3 new friends over the summer and they just happen to be wizards AND go to Hogwarts! I swear, with the luck I am having so far, I could put some money on anything, I'd bet, and win!" She ran over to the boys and hugged them.

They showed the Foley's how to enter through 9 ¾ and stopped to admire the shiny red train. Everyone hugged and kissed and said goodbye before the teens boarded the train with their trunks.

Adara followed the three Marauders to "their" compartment, all the while grinning with delight.

After putting their trunks up and sitting down, they began talking.

Sirius started. "Merlin, I really wanted to play some Quidditch while we were at Moony's this week too! Had we known before, we could have played two on two!"

They laughed. "I am not too big on flying, really. I will do it, but it is definitely not something that I love," answered Adara.

"Why is that?" James asked the girl sitting across from him. Adara and Sirius sat on one side, while James and Remus sat on the other with Remus closest to the window, as always.

"Well, I don't enjoy the feeling that I am falling. A broom is not as solid as the ground, so I don't trust it completely."

"I understand completely. I feel very similar when it comes to flying. The only difference is that I just don't fly at all." Remus laughed as he saw James and Sirius shake their heads, as if to say "You don't know what you're missing!"

The three laughed and joked, before Peter found them. As he walked in, noticing Adara, he shyly waved before sitting down next to James.

The guys rolled their eyes. "Since Pete won't do it himself… Adara, this is our mate Peter. Wormtail, Adara." James introduced them.

She smiled a kind smile to obviously shy and pudgy boy. He was not nearly as attractive as the rest of them were, she noticed, but she knew that even with his obvious differences from them, he had to be a nice and funny guy too, to be able to fit with these guys.

She extended her hand to him to shake, which he did. "I am Remus' new friend and neighbor. I met the guys this summer. I met these two through Remus, of course."

He smiled in understanding and chuckled upon his thoughts before voicing them. "How many times has Sirius hit on you so far?"

The group laughed, with the exception of Sirius who pretended to be shocked and hurt. "Wormy! I would never hit on someone I didn't know without knowing them!" That just made them laugh harder, even Adara knowing full well that that was definitely not the case.

The group continued to talk and laugh, and enjoyed sweets from the trolly as it made its rounds. Their current conversation was cut short by a beautiful red headed excitedly rushing into the compartment. Almost instantly and undoubtedly unconsciously, the unruly haired teen ran his hand through his hair and began speaking to her.

"Lily! How was your summer? Wanna go-" He was cut off, somewhat intentionally by the red-head who questioned Remus instantly.

"Okay, Remus. Spill it. Who is this girl? What is she like? I want details!" She had noticed Adara in the compartment, but seeing as she was seated next to Sirius, she automatically assumed that she was the current fling of Sirius'.

At her words, Remus' eyes grew wide and he blushed. He coughed before speaking. "Lily, let me introduce you to Adara, my friend and neighbor." He gave her a look before she turned to Adara.

Understanding instantly, Lily blushed. She did not intend on trying to embarrass her friend. She just wanted to get the scoop as soon as she could. She knew about Remus' condition and was very interested in the idea of Remus dating, although he had not showed any signs of even remote interest until this girl. She smiled a genuinely sweet smile at the new girl as she introduced herself.

"Hi! I'm Lily. I apologize for not introducing myself before. I wasn't trying to be rude." Lily shook Adara's hand, who smiled back. She seemed like a nice enough girl, Adara thought. She hoped that Lily would become her first female friend, as she had not had one before.

"No, it's fine! I understand." She scooted over to make room for her to sit beside her. Sirius and James switched placed, surprisingly with Lily having no problem with this.

Lily sat down and turned to Adara. "So, you are new to Hogwarts? What year are you?"

"Yeah, I've moved around a lot, but now I am here to stay. I am a 4th year, just like the guys. What about you?"

"I am too! I am in Gryffindor with these four. What about you? Have you already been sorted?"

Adara looked confused. "What's Gryffindor? I assume that I haven't been sorted yet; it was not mentioned in my letter. Is that bad? Should I have replied back about it?" She started to worry.

Lily gave her comforting smile. "No, it's fine. You will likely be sorted with the first years then. Don't worry. There are four houses that the sorting hat could sort you into. There is Gryffindor, where we are sorted, then there is Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin."

"Okay, good! I was getting worried for a moment. What does it sort you based off of?"

"Basically, it's based off of your personality. It is kind of like this: the brave go to Gryffindor, the loyal go to Hufflepuff, the studious go to Ravenclaw, and the sly go to Slytherin."

Adara nodded. "So, what exactly does 'sorting' mean? If I got put into another house than you all, will I ever see any of you?" She started to worry again, because she had been to a school before that split everyone up and you were only allowed to be with your own house. She really didn't want to have to be walking around the school alone knowing that her best and only friends are off somewhere else.

"No, no! If we get separated, we will still be around a lot. We do have some classes that are separated by house, but not many. Most of them have a mixture of students. The only thing that is really separated is the place you sleep." Remus answered, joining their conversation.

Lily nodded. "Yeah, and even if we did get separated, you could always sleep over at Gryffindor if you wanted to. Not in the boys dorms, of course, but in the girls dorm or the common room."

Adara looked pleased. "That's awesome! I just don't want to be walking around the school alone, knowing that all the people that I know and are friends with are somewhere else and I can't be around them. I don't know how to make friends as it is!"

Remus scoffed jokingly. "Well, excuse me for thinking that we were friends! I'm sorry to inform you of this, but you have already made 5 friends. And, 3 of them were made before today!"

Adara teased back. "We aren't friends; I just use you for your books!"

Remus clutched his heart. "How hurtful! But, I must admit, I use you for your books too. Pretty good taste, I might add."

Peter and Lily looked at Remus like he had grown another head. This was not the Remus they were used to. Sirius and James found it funny to hear Remus flirting, and even funnier that Remus probably did not even know he was doing it.

Remus and Adara kept talking and teasing back and forth. While this happened, Lily leaned over James, who was not expecting the attention.

"So, I guess he admitted to being attracted to her then?" Lily whispered.

"Nope. He said that you were mistaken and that they have no attraction to each other. He said that they were just friends. We hassled him about it after you replied and he got super defensive and went off on us, so we decided to let it go… for now."

Lily raised her eyebrow at his answer. "Are you kidding? No attraction? Clearly, he is blind."

James chuckled quietly. "He said that if that ever changed, he would let us know. Mate made it very clear that he did not have feelings for her." James smiled. "But, he did want to say his goodbyes to her alone last night. Didn't outright tell us not to go, but you could tell that he just wanted to be alone with her. Got all spiffy too."

Lily smiled at the two who were now discussing a book that they had both enjoyed. "They would make a good couple. But I guess, it won't matter until one of them decides that they actually are attracted to each other and makes a move."

James quietly chuckled again. "Knowing Remus and the way she is, I don't see either of them making any moves."

Lily nodded before checking her watch and standing. "Adara, I am about to change. Would you like to join me? I know they seem charming, but they would still try and catch a peep if possible." Lily smirked before adding, "Even Remus!" She winked at Remus, who turned red at the suggestion.

"I wouldn't do that!" Remus denied with a stained face, making the girls smile and the guys laugh.

Adara gathered her uniform and followed Lily out of the compartment and down the hall to a free compartment. They locked the door and shut the curtains before changing.

Lily began a conversation with Adara as they changed.

"So, how did you and Remus meet?" Lily asked curiously.

Adara smiled, remembering. "Well, my first day in town and the day I found out that I was going to be here permanently, I ended up in a bookstore not far from my house. I saw Remus reading and caught him glancing at me. I knew that I needed to make friends, so I took a chance and approached him. We found out that we were neighbors and I suggested that we swap books and gave him my number. And that's pretty much it!"

Lily smiled at the sight of her smile. Adara's smile was contagious. She looked genuinely happy when she smiled. Lily could tell from just the way she spoke of Remus that he made her happy.

"You two seem to get along very well. I am happy that Remus made friends with you. The other three pester him about talking to girls, well mostly just Potter and Black. Truly, they just want to see him find someone to make him happy. Those two, they are pompous pricks, but they do care a lot for their friends."

Adara assumed where Lily was going to go with that, so she spoke to clear it up. "I hope you don't have the wrong idea about me and Remus, like the guys do. Remus told me last night that they have been teasing him about me, thinking we have some kind of love affair going on or something. To be straight about it, I think Remus is attractive and he has a great personality, but I don't have any kind of romantic feelings towards him and neither does he. He even said so last night. Well, more or less."

Lily nodded. She thought the girl was just in denial, but agreed with her none the less.

"I understand. It's possible for girls and guys to be friends and not have feelings for each other. I have a guy friend and as far as I'm concerned, there are no romantic feelings. We have been best friends since we were 9 years old. He goes to Hogwarts too. He's a Slytherin named Severus."

They continued to talk while they finished dressing. Meanwhile, in the Marauder compartment, Peter was interested in finding out information on Remus' new interest.

"So, you've made some changes since the last time I saw you, Moony." Peter said to set up the conversation.

Remus, still chewing on his chocolate frog, tied his red and gold tie. He looked at Peter questionably before asking what he meant.

Peter, chewing his pastries from the trolly, answered. "Seems like you've gotten more confident. Made new friends. And the most obvious part being you are actually talking to girls about something besides schoolwork."

Remus rolled his eyes at this. "Not you too!" Shaking his head, he knew now that Peter had brought it up, the other two were going to be giving their two cents and most likely begin the teasing again.

Peter looked at the other two Marauders. "What do you guys think?"

They looked between Remus and Peter. "From what he says, there are no feelings between them and that they are only friends…" began James. Remus nodded, opening his mouth to thank him, but was cut off by Sirius.

"…But, from what we witnessed over the last few days, we don't believe that that is very true. We all know Moon over here doesn't do the dating thing. From the way it looked to us, they have non-dates regularly."

Peter looked at him confused before asking what he meant. Sirius started to answer, but was cut off by Remus, who made it obvious that he had had this conversation many different times. Remus let out an exasperated sigh before putting his head in his hands, knowing that he could not stop them from continuing. After a thought, he pulled out a book in an effort to ignore them.

"He is trying to say that when I go over to her house and we sit by the tree to read for a couple of hours, that we are having some type of date. He is just being ridiculous. How many times have you seen me and Lily reading together? Exactly. And we ALL know that Lily and I aren't going on dates." Remus began reading as they continues.

Nodding, Peter looked at Sirius. "So he reads with her? What's the big deal about that?"

Sirius and James looked at each other smiling, before Sirius answered. "He left out that fact of how close they are when they read."

James' smile widened. "Her head apparently ends up on his lap or stomach every time they read together like that. And they do this just about every day."

Peter looked at Remus, who they could see had turned pink. He responded from behind the large book. "They are looking at it all wrong. We sit by the tree and instead of laying her head on roots, she just uses my lap. It doesn't mean anything!"

Sirius laughed at Remus' blush. "Must mean something with that face! But another fact about Remus we all know is that damn near nothing can pull this kid from a book; much less make him lose his place." Peter nodded, as if asking for him to continue.

"Adara herself told us that he regularly loses his place when they read together. We watched them. Whenever her head hits his lap, he barely turns a page. He's too busy stealing glances at the broad!"

Remus looked up, redder. He stammered embarrassedly to deny it, but Lily and Adara walked about the time he started to stammer. The present conversation stopped. Lily and Adara looked at them all questionably before sitting down. Lily would never sit with the Marauders, but she had taken a liking to Adara and wanted to sit with her. Plus, Severus was sitting with his pure-blood sadist Slytherin friends, and she would – well, could – not have a part of that.

Adara looked at Remus' bright colored face, "What's up?"

Remus just shook his head and started reading. Adara raised her eyebrow. She looked at the three who were grinning, picking out Peter to directly talk to. "They have gotten you started on it too, haven't they?"

Peter looked at her, not sure what she meant but was assuming. He just played dumb; he was good at that. "Huh?"

Adara just shook her head before pulling out a book herself. She didn't want to bring it up the weird conversation. She knew that more than likely they had started up again, with the teasing. What bothered her was that they didn't have feelings for each other. They had both made it clear. So, why did they have to keep saying so to everyone.

She and Remus both read until the conductor came over the speakers with the announcement about their periodic arrival. They all gathered up their items. As Adara finished up her gathering, she saw it in the distance. Hogwarts. It was so majestic looking. She had no idea that it looked so beautiful. Much less, she had no idea that she would be living in a castle for the next 4 years!

Looking back over at her new friends, she smiled. She knew that this was the year that everything was going to change, and she liked the sound of that.

Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I am excited to really get the story going! What do you think of the relationship between Remus and Adara? Question for the readers: I have not completely decided which house I should put her in yet. What do you guys think? Let me know! Give me your input!

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