A/N: Alrighty here it is! So I don't really know about this chapter just because I don't know if it is too soon to be making them have their first date? Idk I'm not good at slow burn stuff so whatever…

Disclaimer: I know, shocker I still don't own it…

"My head is killing me" James said from the couch of the Common Room. I sighed as I sat on the other end of the green boy.

"Well maybe you shouldn't have had so much fire whiskey" I said like the goody-two-shoes I was. James looked at me for a moment before laying his head back down in defeat, if he had been in a better position I am sure that I would have paid for that comment.

"How come you're totally fine?" Peter said from the floor, I rolled my eyes. Peter really wasn't one of the brightest boys of the group.

"Maybe because I didn't drink as much as a grown giant last night" I said pushing the pillow that Peter was laying on from under his head. He shot daggers at me but didn't say anything.

"Y'know I believe our little Theo is a prude" Sirius said coming down from the boy's dormitory. I gawked at him, I wasn't a prude. I was just good, you didn't have to party to not be a prude, didn't you?

"I am not!" I yelled to which Peter and James groaned in pain, Sirius didn't seem to be in such of a predicament as his friends though, I had assumed though that Remus had a hangover since I hadn't seen him all morning.

"I don't know about that" Sirius continued, pushing James off of the couch with one sweep and sitting down next to me.

"Maybe you only think that I am because you only hang around floozies Sirius" I said grumpily, it was true though. Sirius was notorious for only hanging around girls who were easy. Sirius had the decency to look slightly offended before shrugging in a conformation that this could indeed be the reason.

"Yah maybe… but it doesn't change the fact that you, are perfectly alright the morning after a party" he said pointing at me like I had just committed murder.

"You are perfectly fine too" I said slightly offended, he seemed to think about what I said for a moment before shrugging off my words with a wave of the hand.

"Yah but I hydrate" he said it like he knew the secret to all the world's problems, to which maybe he thought he did.

"Don't listen to him, it's better not to drink" Remus's voice came from the stairs. Remus, always the voice of reason, I swear he was sixteen going on forty. I looked over my shoulder at him, he looked alright but his eyes were a little bloodshot and his skin was paler than usual.

"You feel alright Remus?" I asked ignoring the look that Sirius was sending my way. It seemed that everyone thought that I had a huge crush on Remus, which I totally didn't….

"I will be alright, I am just glad that it isn't Monday… I think that classes would be pretty difficult with the hangover that I have" he said smiling warmly at me, to which I had the stupidity of blushing at. I couldn't help it, his smile was so warm and it just made you feel like he only had the smile for you.

"Oh my! Prongs I do believe that our little friend Theo here has a crush on Moony" he yelled this across the Common Room and James shot up from his position on the floor. I didn't chance a look at Remus and immediately shot up from where I had been previously sitting.

"Um… I have to go… anywhere but here" I practically yelled and rushed out of the Common Room leaving two laughing boys.

I couldn't believe I did that… Now Remus probably thought I had a crush on him, but isn't that the reason I ran out of the Common Room? Because I had a crush on him? Ugh being a teenager was very hard when the opposite sex was involved. I mean how can you make yourself not like someone? Because I would like to know how, I couldn't like him. That would totally be against the friend code wouldn't it? Or would it just even everything out? I mean Lily wanted Remus and I together… and Sev had all those nasty Slytherin friends. So why couldn't I have a boyfriend. Wait what? It's not like it would amount to that, or would it? What happened when you had a boyfriend? Was it like the Muggle movies, where you held hands and kissed and it was all cute? Or was it like my mother and father where my father basically controlled everything my mother did?

"Hey Theo" Oh no! I knew that voice. I turned slowly to see Remus coming towards me from the castle. I had been pacing back and forth across the Black Lake for what seemed like hours.

"Hey" I said weakly, I really didn't know how to act around someone when I just had the epiphany that I actually liked them.

"You missed lunch" he said casually once he came upon me. We stood awkwardly for a moment, I didn't know what to do. Did I tell him that I liked him, or did I just act naturally?

"Yah, I wasn't hungry" I lied, actually as I said it my stomach grumbled. I looked awkwardly around the Black Lake in hopes that he didn't hear it.

"Alright… Are you ok? I mean after what Sirius said you kind of bolted" he said as he placed his hand over the back of his head in an uncomfortable gesture. I bet Lily made him come out here to find me. I sighed, I was stupid to think that he even considered me like that. It was alright really, I didn't need to be in a relationship, I needed to focus on becoming an Auror. I sat down on the ground and waited to hear the retreating of Remus Lupin. He didn't though, he sat down next to me.

"Why are you here?" I asked looking across the lake, it was beautiful in the afternoons. The sun shone on the lake very much like a picture.

"I wanted to make sure you were alright" was his simple response. I looked over to him, how could someone be so perfect. To be nice, and smart? He made the rest of us look bad, and it made him so much more desirable.

"Well you shouldn't have… I mean we aren't friends, you bully Sev all the time" I said reminding myself of why I 'didn't' want this to happen. Too bad those words stung coming out, I didn't understand what was with these boys that they just dropped into your life and made you like them all.

"I know… I am sorry" he said about to get up and leave, ugh why did he have to be so frustrating.

"I know and that's why I can't stay mad… but you and the rest of your gang still did it, and Sev isn't a bad guy really! I just wish you lot hadn't pushed him so far, then maybe… well then maybe I wouldn't be so mad about liking you guys" I said a determined look set on my face. I really was mad at myself. If I had been there or if I had been in a different house, or even if I had been a better person then Lily and Sev would still be friends and Sev wouldn't be where he was now. It wasn't all the Marauders fault, it was my fault. I wasn't there and that was something I would have to live with for a very long time.

"It isn't your fault you know… Snape just isn't like the rest of us… he isn't strong enough" was his heartfelt reply, I wish that I could just take his opinion and agree but… how could you believe that your friend was some weak little thing? Wasn't that like betrayal or something?

"I like you" I said finally thinking back to the years before when I had first met Sev and Lily. I had been the one to say that we would be friends, I couldn't just become this meek little thing, and I needed to stay optimistic and brave. Telling your crush that you liked them, seemed pretty brave to me. Remus stayed quiet for a while, and I didn't dare look at him. Sure I was trying to be brave but that was too much bravery for me.

"I… I like you too" he said and when I looked at him he was looking out over the lake. I smiled, but I also didn't know where this left us. What happened after two people told each other they like the other?

"What happens now?" I asked hopefully, he finally looked at me. His smile was so bright that I swear it could have lite up the whole world.

"What do you want to happen?" he asked simply, I thought for a moment before pulling his hand into mine. I held it firmly and looked at our intertwined fingers.

"Let's go on a date?" I asked hopefully, to which he nodded slowly to. I just hoped I didn't mess this whole date thing up.