I'm going to be away tomorrow guys, but I promise I will put more up on Sunday! I'm sorry about yesterday's posting being late as well, but I went to visit some friends. Let me know how you think the story is going so far!

Time Running Out

About three weeks later, we still had no clue what to do about this, and Severus and Ed were getting really suspicious of Lily and I. They kept trying to catch me off my guard, but I managed to make them feel really guilty by telling them something about one of Lily's relatives dying. I don't think they believed me after a while, but I managed to keep them from asking anymore by giving them my patented "Sit down and shut up" Glare.

Lily was getting more and more distraught, and just to make things worse, she was starting to show. She was getting changed for bed one night, and I was lying on my bed reading with the curtains pulled, when I heard her start to cry again. I stuck my head through the curtains, and she was lying at the end of her bed sobbing violently. When I asked her what was wrong, she stood up, and looked down at her usually flat stomach. Ok, so her pyjamas were quite tight, but it was easily seen that there was a bump developing.

"Lily, you have to tell someone! You can't just explain it away! Please, its the first day of the Christmas Holidays tomorrow, so there won't be so many people here, and probably no one in the hospital wing. Promise you'll come with me?"

She looked at me, and then slumped back onto her bed.

"Give me a few more days, Ren. I have to think how I'm going to tell them."

"Them?"

"If Madam Pomfrey knows, then I think I at least owe it to Sev to tell him, don't I?"

I had to agree. It was as much his baby as it was hers, and he did have a right to know. She would need time to think how to put it to them both, as it was a very delicate situation.

"Yeah, that sounds sensible. Do you want me to be there when you tell either of them?"

"Of course! Both of them! In a way, I wish I was you now, you've always had a way of explaining things the best way possible."

"That comes from a lifetime of having to break the news to people that I am half vampire, without sending them running away screaming. Do you remember when I told you two?"

She rolled her eyes up into her head, as if she was searching it for the memory. I could remember every detail, and exactly how they had both reacted, but I never had such a great compliment paid to me than Lily's answer.

"Just, but it wasn't important. Well, not to me, anyway."

I knew as soon as she said that that I had a true friend in her. To not care about one of your closest friends being half magical monster that were known to have killed millions because you could trust them takes a lot of courage and a huge lack of prejudice. The lack of prejudice I find very few people have.



"Well, you know if you need some help with how to tell them, then you know I'm always here for you."

She looked up and smiled, and muttered a slightly more cheerful goodnight. I fell back down onto the huge feather pillows and stared at the canopy on top of the four-poster, and I cast my mind back to my own little confession.