-1"Excuse me, Audrey? Audrey?" Audrey snapped out of a sleepy daze to find that Remus' hand was on her shoulder.

"Yeah, sorry Remus, what is it?"

"Could you pass the kedgeree? It's on your other side."

"Sure," she said, reaching over for the silver platter.

Audrey hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, because she was grading essays. The one that had kept her up was Hermione Granger's, which was over a foot longer than what she had originally assigned to the class.

Stifling a yawn, Audrey began to pick apart her muesli with her fork. From the corner of her eye, she thought she saw someone looking at her from the other side of the table, but ignored it because she thought it was a result of her morning fatigue.

It was the first of November. Outside, a cold sleet had been falling for two days now, while the inside of the castle was being warmed by every fireplace that could be found. Audrey took a sip from her goblet-full of hot coffee.

Looking over at the other side of the table, Audrey's eyes suddenly met with Severus'. He wouldn't look away and neither did Audrey. He had a rather familiar look in his eyes. She had definitely seen it before.

For almost a full minute, they just stared at each other. When he finally looked away, she still looked at him from where she was sitting.

Why was he looking at me? Is there something wrong with my face?

"Erm, Remus, is there something on my face?"

"No, there isn't. Why?"

"Oh…pure curiosity."

Well, then why was he staring at me?

Audrey sighed and began to rub her temples. She had a very bad headache starting to form. Audrey leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes.

Fifteen year old Audrey yawned. She had spent the entire night working on her properties of moonstones essay for her fourth year Potions class that day. It was breakfast time, and she was now looking over her Arithmacy notes for the test that was in half an hour.

"Hey Audrey," her best friend Alexis greeted her.

Audrey looked up from her notes to see Alexis sitting down beside her, shuffling an apple between her hands. "Not worried about that Arithmacy thing, are you?"

"Easy for you to say, Alexis, you don't even take that class," she mumbled, looking back down at her notes.

"So did you finish that essay for Potions?" Alexis asked, taking a small bite out of the apple.

Audrey's yawn had answered the question.

"Thought so. Oh look, here comes that friend of yours…what's his name again?"

Audrey looked up again and saw that seventeen year old Severus Snape was walking toward where they were sitting. She felt her cheeks turn slightly red.

Severus took a seat across from Alexis and Audrey. "Good morning, Severus," Audrey greeted him with a small smile.

"Uh, hi Audrey. Congratulations on winning that Gobstones game the other day. You were brill--"

But he was interrupted by something behind Audrey. She looked behind and saw that Lily Evans had walked into the Great Hall. She had a big smile on her face and her hair looked redder than usual.

The way he looked at her…Audrey would never in her life forget it.

Lily started to walk towards them, but was stopped by James Potter, her new boyfriend. They were both Head Boy and Girl. Audrey tried to steal back Severus' attention, but he couldn't stop looking at her.

Looking down back at her notes, she sighed.

That was the day that Audrey finally realized that she would always be second best to Lily Potter.

"Audrey, the bell just rang," Remus said, tapping her arm.

"Oh…okay…" she got up and started to walk to the Arithmacy classroom. Suddenly, she stopped. She just realized that she was walking to Arithmacy, not her classroom.

"Rather strange mood I'm in today," she muttered to herself as she turned around and went the correct way to her classroom.

Then, she stopped again. She had just realized something.

The way that Severus had looked at her at breakfast that morning...it had almost looked as if he was looking at her the way he looked at Lily Evans all of those years ago.

"Don't be silly," she mumbled, shaking her head.

Sighing, she knew this was going to be a long day.

A/N - Yes, this was a very short chapter. It was more of a flashback thing, I guess. I wanted there to be a bit of clarity between them, you know? Anyways, what did you think about the flashback? I wrote it on partial experience let's just say, I wanted to know if I did an okay job. Constructive critisism is welcome! Also, I am not on a hiatus anymore for this story! Yay.