"What?" was the first word out of Lily's mouth. Everyone was shocked. The girls surrounded Naomi, asking questions like 'What's he like?' and 'Is he nice!' while the boys passed each other money. I stood on the edge of the madness and thought, my plan from before swirling around in my mind.

"Remus has something to tell us!"

And that was my brilliant plan. I know, I know. Great going Chloe! Just yell out he has something to say. And I'm the future of wizard kind. I'm scared for future children.

Everyone froze mid step. Sirius and James shot me horrified glances and Remus gaped at me. Suddenly, his face, so torn with emotion, cleared abruptly.

"Yes." he said quietly. "I do."

Personally, I was shocked. I had expected him to dodge this until I grew impatient and told them myself. I was going to write a song, but I was too plagued with inspiration for James's song. I felt like we had all been friends forever, and I knew the others felt the same. Sure, it had only been like three weeks, but the girls minus Aura I had know for a long time. Remus I knew well enough to know this was hard for him. I felt kinda bad for forcing it on him, but then again, I didn't. I knew they wouldn't judge him, but I also knew he didn't know that. James and Sirius were simultaneously furious and stunned. I had made them so mad, but Remus had surprised them. But I knew they would get over it. What I was doing, was a good thing. I hoped.

"You guys, might want to sit down." Remus said quietly. The others obeyed, but I remained standing. James collapsed on an armchair, and Lily sat on the floor at his feet. Normally, this would have pleased me, but this was not the time. Remus took a deep breath.

"You all know me right?"

Oh, he was going to give a speech was he? I don't know what I was expecting, that he would just yell it? I was extremely glad I had had the insight to steal my sisters book when I was in her room.

"Well, I have to tell you..." he couldn't say it. I had to help. So I stood on the couch behind him, swallowed, hoped I wasn't making a huge mistake, and held the stolen book over his head.

Silence.

I closed my eyes tight so I didn't have to see the shocked faces, but they snapped open when I heard movement. I looked over to see my sister standing awkwardly at the side of our group.

"Um, Chloe, I need my book back." I numbly handed her her copy of Werewolves: Monsters or Misunderstood Wizards?

"I didn't hear or see anything." Vanessa whispered, before disappearing up the stairs to the girls room. Remus, looking much like a cornered rabbit, fled the room.

"Remus!" I turned to see Nic. She was crying silently, but she did call out to him. But he didn't turn around. This was NOT going according to plan.

"Nice going Chloe!" James growled, the anger I had known was coming boiling over. I hung my head.

"Don't talk to her like that!" Sirius snapped.

"I will if I want to!"

Peter glanced between them, horrified. James stormed off up the boys stairs and Sirius huffed. Peter squeaked in alarm. And in five minutes, I had successfully broken up the Marauders.

By the next day most of our group wasn't talking to each other. There were now sides. The 'Chloe is an evil skank side' and the 'Chloe isn't so bad side.' I wasn't so sure what side I was on, but the others had all picked. James was the head of the 'Chloe is an evil skank side,' or C.E.S. side. He was absolutely furious with me. Nicolette was a mess. Anything would set her off. She wasn't even capable of picking a side. Layla, sweet Layla, hated me for ruining her best friend. She was the firm co. president of C.E.S. Naomi hated Nic's blubbering so avoided Nic and Layla and stayed with C. I. S. B. side. Tess was the leader of that side, with, to my surprise, Sirius as a close second. They were fiercely loyal to me and my cause. Remus was no where to be found but Peter had chosen C. E. S. but wasn't as firm about it as James or Layla. Yeah, I knew I had screwed up but I was deeply offended by Layla's choice of side. Jasmine had been avoiding all of us before this for reasons none of us knew, so she just stopped talking to us all together. Aura was being the secretary for C. I. S. B. and was literally writing down all insults she came up with for C. E. S. Maia had chosen this moment to pretend to be friends with us again and she immediately joined C. E. S. and started hating my guts. Despite Vanessa's assurances it would all blow over soon, I would have gladly been treasurer of C. E. S. but I doubted they would take me. It was probably on Maia's list of rules.

I was feeling pretty suckish by lunch, James's insults fresh from breakfast and Transfiguration earlier that day. Tess and Sirius took their defensive seats on either side of me and Aura sat directly in front of me. Lily surprised me by sitting next to Aura. Lily was the only one who had managed to remain completely neutral. She bounced between us and still managed not to hate me and be horrified by James and Layla's activities. Lily had not sat with us until now, and was therefore surprised when my family came trooping over with their friends to support me by sitting with me and C. I. S. B. Vanessa, Teryn, Alex, Meg, and Cole sat next to Lily and Aura and my little sister Riley pulled her friends over to sit next to Tess. Ry was in 3rd year with her friends Leo, Kiya, and Cora. Kaylani brought over her friend Marlene and they sat in Sirius's right. My defensive shield. James, Layla, and Nic strode in and sat down far away from us. I sighed. I hated this.

"Guys, I'm not hungry, can we talk later?" I asked Tess, Aura, and Sirius, a new plan forming in my mind. Cause that's just what I needed, another plan.

"Sure." Tess answered for all of them.

"Tonight at 11:00 midnight in the Common Room."

"Ok...?" Sirius said slowly. I got up.

"But Chloe!" Aura called.

"What?"

"11:00 isn't midnight."

"I know." I smiled for the first time in days and walked away.

I'm so sorry, my only consolation is that Kiva hasn't updated in two months. (Grr!) I actually have a poll, check it out! It's for my new series of one shots. I also should be posting on my other story's too! Because I haven't done my homework yet so instead I'm just gonna post things. Don't worry about the characters I mentioned, they are not important and are unlikely. Oh, and don't worry about updates, I'm super excited for the next chapter, it really gets the plot going! Now my favorite part...

Reviewer Responses!

Padfootandmoony: No, Em, I have another friend whose mom ran the marathon. Well, we always knew she was strange, although the bus was new... And of course they are, just not anytime soon…

Guest: I never really thought about Naomi/Remus... I think she would just get annoyed with him. They would never work out. Bens much more her speed.

Other Guest: This was actually most important to me. I've now learned I can take criticism. Yay! But seriously if you don't like it just don't read it, I don't care.

Ali: Thank you, I really appreciate your reviews! I will try and update!

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