Hello again! Here comes the second chapter, please read and review.

All the characters you might recognize (Lupin, Tonks etc.) are property of J.K.Rowling and not mine. There are also my own characters (Lena Silverspoon, Oliver Prewett) and they naturally belong to me.

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II Lena Selene Silverspoon

"Remus!" Tonks shouted. "Where are you? Are you here? Remus?" Lupin startled and woke up from the armchair in the living room. At the same moment Tonks wandered in the room and smile lit up her face.

"Here you are! I became worried when I saw you hadn't used your bed this night… What were you doing down here anyway?" she added, perplexed. Lupin shook his head and rose up. Every bit of his body was aching because of the odd sleeping position.

"I... I just … well I must've fallen asleep when I was reading", he said.

"I thought the night off duty means a long and good night's sleep in a comfortable bed. Well, that's what it stands for me at least. Besides, you look horrible" Tonks pointed out politely. Lupin walked to the mirror and saw his own reflection. Tonks was completely right about his looks. His greyish hair was messy and somehow dirty, he had dark shadows under his eyes and there was something about the way he was standing that made him look really desperate and confused.

"What were you reading so intensely you forgot to go to sleep?" Tonks asked curiously and headed for the armchair. "Hey, what's that? A letter?" Lupin made a move to stop her and whispered "No!" under his breath but it was too late. Tonks had already picked up the piece of parchment and was reading it her eyebrows raised.

After couple of second she raised her eyes and stared at Lupin, eyes full of questions. "I still haven't forgotten you…? And who's Star? What is this all about?" Lupin sighed and rubbed his eyes.

"Well, I… it's… uhm." He couldn't decide whether to tell Tonks everything or not. Luckily, he didn't have to make the decision – Tonks had already decided she wanted to hear every little detail of this story.

"What we need now, is coffee. You don't look too refreshed and I'm about to fall asleep right now if I can't have some caffeine. And then, I need to hear everything." Suddenly Lupin remembered that Tonks had been up all night and must've been really tired.

"You have been out there all night, you really need some sleep. Just go to bed, we can talk about this later" Lupin said hopefully.

"Nope, I'm fine. Besides, I couldn't sleep if I hadn't heard your story first. I'm kind of a curious person, you know" she added earnestly. They walked quietly to the kitchen and Tonks made some coffee for them. She tried to find some biscuits that weren't mouldy or worm-eaten and finally managed to find a couple of dry chocolate cookies.

"Well." Tonks said when they both had a steaming mug of coffee in front of them. "Who is this lady that apparently made you really upset?"

Lupin took a deep breath and started: "Well, if you really have to know… Her name is Lena. Lena Selene Silverspoon. She was… I knew her from the school. She was the best friend of Lily Potter, or that time Lily Evans." Tonks raised her eyebrows, surprised. "They were very close and you never saw one without another. They were called "The Twins" because they looked very alike; both had red hair and green eyes. Only Lily's hair was darker shade of red when Lena's was flaming and vivid red. They both looked so much like a prototype of witch that it was almost funny – and yet somehow creepy, if you understand what I mean." Tonks nodded slightly, looking fascinated.

"So… Lena was the best student there could be in the subjects she liked – those were Potions, Transfiguration and Herbology. Nothing else interested her. And now that I think of it, she also played Quidditch as a Beater. She was the first girl in the Hogwarts history to be selected to play Beater, you know, that's usually boys' job. But she was actually really good! No one could have believed that because she was such a girl – slender and fragile. But I guess there was some kind of hidden aggression inside her, or something…  Anyway, Quidditch was never a true passion to her." Lupin still remembered the Quidditch games from his school times. He had been jealous to everyone in the Quidditch teams – they looked so good and strong, flying fast and  skilfully… all his friends were there and he only had been left to watch it all with envy and secret admiration. It still made him feel bitter and inadequate even now when he had admitted it to himself – he had never been as good flier as James, for example.

"Krhm" Tonks gave a little cough. Lupin drifted back from his memories and remembered the situation.

"Oh, sorry. Well, what was I saying again… yeah, that's pretty much it, how she was."

Tonks looked disappointed. "And?"

"And what?" Lupin asked, even though he knew what Tonks was waiting.

"Why did she write to you and told that she still hadn't forgotten you? What was it between you two? What happened?"

Lupin stood up. "I think I have told you everything you need to know right now. I have to start working, and you need some sleep." Tonks looked desperate because she had understood that this was the end of the conversation.

"You can't do this to me! You evil man!" Lupin walked out of door. "Remus Lupin, come back! You haven't even told me exactly what she looks like! And why did she sign the letter with name "Star"? What happened to you two? Are you going to answer her letter? Come back, you, you… just come back? Please?"

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The next chapter will be up quite soon.