Chapter 16
"Drowning in the sea of love
Where everyone would like to drown"
Next day Anne and Sirius decided to talk about it with Linda and Remus. Linda answered the door when they arrived.
"Anne, Sirius… n – nice to see you…" said Linda, nervously.
"I think you'd better change your mind about that one, Linda, as you appear to have had a few 'nice' evenings with my husband," snarled Anne at her – once – best friend.
"How do you know about that?" asked Linda.
"Because he told me…" but Sirius cut her off.
"After I found Anne kissing your husband, Linda. Now, please let us in so we can talk about it," said Sirius, while stepping forward. Inside, Remus was sitting on the sofa.
"Sirius, I can explain. It wasn't what it seemed to be…" stuttered Remus.
"That's what they all say, pal," said Sirius sarcastically. They all sat down in the
living room. It was Linda who broke the silence.
"According to my mother, you're only cheating when you sleep with someone else, and neither of us had, do we?"
"No," replied Remus. "And I wasn't planning to do so, too."
"Linda, you don't understand," snapped Anne. "You've been together two nights with Sirius, and God knows what you've done!"
"No, he doesn't," replied Sirius. Anne, Linda and Remus looked at Sirius.
"How is God supposed to know what we're doing down here?" Sirius explained.
"Never mind. No, I haven't slept with Linda. Anne, you know I would never so such a thing."
"I also thought you would never kiss another woman, and I was wrong with that one too," hissed Anne. "And if comes out you slept with Linda, or someone else who wasn't me, we're no longer married!"
"Anne, I haven't… Linda, help me!" pleaded Sirius.
"Anne, Sirius is telling the truth. But who says you haven't been sleeping with Remus?" asked Linda.
"Linda, I haven't been sleeping with her, we just…" began Remus, but Sirius cut him off.
"If I had come home an hour later, you would have. Remus, the way you lay on top of her…"
"I'm sorry Sirius!" yelled Remus. "But I wouldn't dare sleeping with someone else then the woman I love, namely my wife!" Again there was silence, although it wasn't as tense as it was before, nobody looked at each other. Until something happened that nobody expected at that moment.
Linda sat down close to Remus, she laid her hand on his shoulder and whispered in his ear: "I'm so sorry Remus, about what I've done with Sirius, but it meant nothing to me. Can you forgive me?"
Remus looked straight in her eyes, then he smiled faintly. "Only if you forgive me too."
"I think they mean that as an example to us…" said Anne, taking Sirius' hand.
"Yes. But you can forgive me?" asked Sirius.
"Yes, if only you forgive me too."
"I do, love," answered Sirius, and wrapped his arms around his wife. That moment the seven-years-old William came in.
"Good afternoon," the boy said.
"Hello Will, do you want something to drink?" asked Linda.
"Yes please," answered Will. Linda went to the kitchen. Sirius looked at the boy, he knew he was werewolf too, and he looked like Remus but he had the same colour of hair as Anne… Sirius decided to say nothing about it, especially not that afternoon.
After an hour of chatting, Anne and Sirius decided to go home and make it up to each other. Sirius wanted to wait with telling Anne his suspicions about Will being Anne and Remus' son. The boy was born when he was still in Azkaban and before Linda and Remus had ever met…
A/N: well, did you expect they would make it up to each other this quickly? I hope you liked it, it was a bit quick maybe, but I hate talking about the same subject too long. I'm afraid it'll scare my readers… my precious… sorry, seen to much Lord of the Rings!