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The next few days, Victoire and I sat around the kitchen, watching Dad make huge efforts to avoid seeing Mum. He turned pink in the face when she just passed by.
Right now, Dad was drinking his coffee, again, while leaning back on his chair precariously. I saw a flash of pink pass by the door. Mum.
Victoire jumped up and ran into the hallway, only to have Mum run through her with her wand at the ready. She pointed it at Dad and walked closer. Dad put his hands up, a mixture of shock and suspicion in his eyes.
"Lupin," Mum said coldly.
"Nymphadora," Dad said, braving a quick sip of coffee.
"Don't call me that!" Mum screeched. Dad actually looked scared of her in that moment.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing, just the small matter that you've been avoiding me!" her voice was getting louder. "Why?"
"No reason, I was just, ah, busy," Dad tried lying. She rolled her eyes and put her wand down, to his relief.
"Look, if it's because Sirius said I fancied you, he was just kidding. You know he would say anything for a laugh," Mum smiled, sitting across from Dad.
"Yes, I suppose so," he said distractedly. "Well, we're okay then, right?"
"Yes, I suppose so," she mocked, smirking. He smiled, took out a book and started reading. Mum ate a slice of bread while watching the Muggle news.
"Well, it looks like they're alright," said Victoire, who plopped down on the window seat next to me.
"It's all good," I said before leaning my head against the window and falling asleep.
"Mrs. Lupin! Mrs. Lupin!" Sirius yelled from the living room. Mum rolled her eyes at Bill and went to find Sirius.
"Whaddaya want?" Mum shouted in his face, grinning.
"Well, Mrs. Lupin," he started, and smirked when she blushed at the name, "I was wondering if you could open this."
He held out to her a juice box. She raised an eyebrow, but opened it anyway. Then Dad came running into the room, looking confused.
"Sirius, what do you want with my mother? She's dead!" he said, breathing heavily.
Sirius grinned back cheekily. "I wasn't referring to your mother, Moony boy, I was referring to your future wife, Tonks, who'll soon be Nymphadora Lupin!"
Dad's eyes widened and he flushed. "Ha ha, very funny Padfoot." With that, he walked upstairs. Mum looked slightly concerned and angry.
"Seriously Sirius?" she said, shaking her head in fake ashamedness. "Nymphadora Lupin? Why do you feel the need to embarrass your best mate or your cousin any further?"
"Cause you and Moony are perfect for embarrassing! And c'mon, you know that in the back of your head, you like the sound of Nymphadora Lupin!" Sirius said, sipping on yet another glass of Firewhiskey.
"Sometimes I wonder if your saying these things because your under the influence of your dear friend Firewhiskey," Mum laughed.
"Nah, don't worry, I'm completely under the limit," he said.
"Yeah, under your limit, not the legal limit," she said, drinking half a glass of Butterbeer.
"Oh, Nymphy, bashing on your dear, dear cousin who spent twelve years unfairly locked up in Azkaban is not very nice of you," he teased.
"I'm so sorry," she said, placing a hand over her heart. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings."
"That's more like it," Sirius said, grinning. "Now, let's get down to business."
"What business?" Mum asked, confused.
"The business of you and Moony, of course," he said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Victoire and I sat on the floor next to Mum.
"There's nothing between Remus and I," Mum said sighing, as if she'd heard this all before. Which she might've, but then again, I could've been asleep, and Victoire isn't a light sleeper either.
"Ah, I beg to differ," he said, sitting back against the plush cushions of the chair. "Whenever you bump into him, walk by him, talk to him, or hell, even hearing his name you start blushing! Now don't tell me that is nothing!"
Mum blushed, and Sirius raised his eyebrow. Then she groaned and buried her face in her hands.
"Alright, alright!" she said in surrender. "I do fancy Remus, but there's no way he likes me that way! I'm clumsy, loud, and what's he? Quiet, sophisticated, smart, he's like the complete opposite of me!" she cried.
I expected Sirius to smirk, but instead he smiled at her. "You know what they say, opposites attract." Then he walked out of the room.
Mum got up and went upstairs too. Victoire fell onto the chair that Mum was sitting on. And I grinned like a fool, because tomorrow was going to be fun. Victoire and I were gonna be Dad's stalkers for the day.
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