Chapter Twenty-One

The next day, Lily and Emily went to breakfast. James and Sirius joined them soon after.

"Where's Remus?" Emily asked, looking around.

"He's stil in bed," Sirius said, "he was acting weird last night."

"I'll go check on him," Emily said, leaving the Great Hall.

She walked into the common room and up the stairs. She stopped outside the door. She put her ear on the door and could hear Remus talking.

"I can't do this," Remus muttered, "I can't do this."

Emily than heard someone elses voice. She didn't know who is was, but it was a girl.

"She won't find out," the girl whispered, "I told you the other day how much you mean to me and I could tell her what you did last weekend."

"That was a mistake," Remus said.

Emily didn't hear anything else, but the door did open. She took a few steps back and she looked at the girl. She had short blonde hair and was as tall as Emily with grey eyes. Emily recgonized her from DADA. He name was Magen. They stared at each other for awhile before Emily turned around and went downstairs. Remus came down the stairs but didn't stop Emily from leaving the common room. She headed back to the Great Hall and sat down by Sirius.

"How was he?" James asked.

"I don't know," Emily said, than turned to Sirius, "you want to go out sometime?"

Sirius looked at her for awhile, than at James, who looked shocked.

"Like to get drinks or something?" Sirius asked.

"Sure," Emily said, "I need someone to talk to."

"Okay," Sirius said, looking a bit confused.

Emily than left the Great Hall. Sirius looked at James, who shook his head.

"What the heck did you do?" James asked, folding his arms.

"I did nothing," Sirius said, "maybe something happened when she went to see Remus."

Just than Remus sat down by James. He looked down at the table.

"Did you break up?" Lily asked, looking at Remus.

"I think so," Remus muttered.

"What happened?" Sirius asked, looking shocked.

"I did something foolish last weekend," Remus said, "I went and saw another girl. She said she needed help with some work and I told her I could help. I guess it got out of hand and she started flirting and kissing my neck."

"So you cheated," James said, "how could you?"

"I don't know why," Remus said, "but it just sort of happened. I told her it was a mistake, but she came up to the dorm room today and I told her again and Emily was outside the door when she walked out of the room."

Sirius got up and left the Great Hall. Remus watched him leave and turned to James.

"Do you think she'll forgive me?" Remus asked.

"I honestly don't know," James said.

Remus slowly ate breakfast. James and Lily had finished already and had left. When he finished he headed outside. He was shocked to see that Emily, Lily, James, and Sirius were having a snow ball fight. Sirius and Emily had made a small fort as did James and Lily. Lily threw a snow ball to see it didn't even come close to hitting anyone. Sirius threw one and hit James in the leg. Remus sat down on a bench and just watched. James threw one and it hit Sirius arm. The snow ball fight went on for about two hours. It ended with a snow ball hitting Lily in the face and her getting mad and using magic to throw snow balls wildly at everyone.

"That was great," James said, wiping the snow off his coat.

"Ya," Lily said.

They went inside. Remus followed after them. They all were in the common room by the fire. Remus sat down by them. He looked over at Emily, who was shivering. He wanted to go wrapped his arms around her but he didn't.

"We should go change," Lily said, "before we freeze."

Emily and Lily got up and went to their dorm room.

"I don't think she is going to forgive me," Remus said when she was out of site.

"Ya," Sirius said, "I don't either."

"Jeez, thanks for the support Padfoot," Remus said with a sigh.

Emily changed her clothes. She took off her necklase and bracelet and put them in her trunk. Lily walked over to her with a sigh.

"I'm sorry he did that," Lily said, "I'm sure he didn't mean to."

"It stil don't change the fact that he did it," Emily said, "I just don't know right now."

"You can't get mad cause he did that," Lily said, "he really does love you and I'm sure he is very sorry."

"Lily," Emily said, turning to Lily, "I don't care that he did. I have done it too."

"What?" Lily asked, looking shocked, "with who?"

"With Sirius," Emily said, looking at the ground, "it's just, it's obviously not a good relationship if we both do it."

Lily didn't say anything else. They headed back down the the common room and sat back down. Lily cuddled up next to James. Emily looked at them with a smile. Remus was staring at Emily, who just stared at the fire. 'I'm going to work it out,' Remus thought, 'I need to try.'