"James, what's wrong? What happened?"
"When I was walking back from McGonagall's office, I heard Malfoy and Snape talking down at the other end of the corridor and I knew I'd never be able to control my temper if I came face to face with them, so I hid from them and waited until they passed. And when they walked by, I think...I think I saw Wormtail was walking with them. And they were talking almost like they were friends."
"Worm-? Oh, Peter! No, it couldn't have been him, he was sleeping in the dorm with us."
"Yeah, I thought so too, but I remember thinking on the way out of the dorm this morning that the lump under those blankets looked a little too small. I think it was just a bunch of pillows."
Lily thought for a moment. She had always thought that Peter was a little odd, and she could never figure out why the Marauders were friends with him. They were all extremely good looking, popular, brilliant, and very powerful wizards, and Peter was none of that. She didn't trust him at all, unlike James, Sirius, Remus, and Rebecca, who she trusted with her life. But still…no Gryffindor in their right mind would ever be caught dead hanging out with Malfoy and Snape…
"Nahh James, your just tired and depressed and I don't know, you probably just imagined it or something."
"Yeah maybe your right, come on let's go back to the common room and wait for everyone to wake up."
Lily bit her lip. She knew it would be a horrible thing to do but she just couldn't stand the pain she felt when she was near Rebecca…
"No, let's stay here." She said taking him by his hand and leading him over to the bed. "They're all probably still sleeping anyway. And besides, when Becca wakes up she's going to want to be alone with Sirius. And I need to do something that will take my mind off all the pain."
James stared at her. "No, that can't be what she means, her best friend's parents just died, she can't be thinking about that," he thought to himself.
Lily pushed James down on the bed and gave him a long, deep kiss. James felt her tongue part his lips and push it's way into his mouth.
"Ok so that was what she meant," he thought to himself happily.
Suddenly, he pushed Lily off of him and sat up.
"I'm sorry Lil, I can't do this. It would be taking advantage of you. You're depressed and desperate to ease the pain, but I know if we just stayed here instead of going back to Becca you'd regret it and hate me for letting you do it. I don't want to do anything to piss you off, because I couldn't handle it if you got mad at me."
"I won't get mad. I just need to forget about everything. I won't regret this, I need to be happy, even if it's only for little while."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive."
James grinned as Lily pulled him on top of her. "Alright then, if that's what you really want…"
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Remus woke up to find an empty dormitory, besides Peter who was completely hidden by his blankets and obviously still sleeping.
"Oh how nice, they've ditched us again." He thought to himself. He looked at the clock next to his bed. The bell signaling lunch break would be ringing in about 25 minutes. He didn't feel like eating or going to class after lunch, and he knew that James, Sirius, or Lily had probably talked to McGonagall about what had happened anyway. He figured he would just go to the library and pick out a book to bring back to the dormitory so he could lie in bed and read all day, because he was too depressed to do anything else. He took a quick shower, brushed his teeth, and got dressed. He then went down into the common room, and waited for the bell to ring.
The common room was completely deserted because everyone was at their classes. He wondered for a moment where Sirius, James, Rebecca, and Lily were, but then he shook his head to stop himself.
"Stop thinking about them, they obviously don't care about you, so you shouldn't care about them."
The bell finally rang, and Remus practically sprinted to the library. He looked through the shelves for something that would interest him, his mind only half concentrating on what he was doing.
"Your not angry at them," he thought to himself, "you're jealous of what they have. You want somebody to love too."
He hated to admit it, but it was true. He needed somebody who he loved and trusted to help him get through all this stuff.
He was so engrossed in his thoughts that on his way back to the common room, he walked straight into a girl halfway through the second floor corridor, knocking all of the books out of her hands.
"Sorry," he mumbled snapping back to reality, and bending down to help her pick up her books, "wasn't watching where I was going."
He stood up and handed the girl her books. As he looked at her, his stomach did a back flip. She was extremely pretty, with sparkling turquoise eyes and strawberry blonde hair.
When he looked at her, she turned bright red. "Oh, that's ok," she said her voice shaking slightly. She seemed very shy.
"I'm Remus by the way, Remus Lupin." He held out his hand and she shook it.
"Oh, I know who you are, everybody does. You're one of the infamous Marauders."
Remus shook his head. "Look whatever you've heard about me probably isn't true. Aside from the pranks and stuff, the Marauder reputation comes mostly from Sirius and James. I'm not like that…you know, being a player and all that stuff," he added sheepishly.
"Oh, believe me I know. I've seen them bring a different girl up to their dorm every night for the past few years. Well not so much recently, I can't believe they've actually settled down with Lily and Rebecca, nobody ever thought that would happen."
Remus laughed, "Tell me about it. Wait, you're in Gryffindor too?" he asked, amazed that he hadn't noticed her before.
"Yeah, I'm a sixth year. My name is Katie by the way, Katie Sibony."
Just then, the bell rang. Katie bit her lip. "Well, I'd better be going, it's been fun chatting with you."
"Can I walk you to your next class?" Remus asked hopefully.
Katie blushed again. "Sure. I'm going to Charms. But won't you be late to your next class?"
"Oh, umm, I'm not going to classes today." He said quietly, as they headed down the corridor towards the Charms classroom. "One of my best friend's parents was killed yesterday, so I'm taking the day off to try and calm down a bit."
Katie gasped. "Oh, I'm so sorry!" she whispered, "If you need anything I'm here for you."
"Thanks."
They walked in silence the rest of the way. When they reached the Charms' classroom, Remus noticed a group of sixth year girls staring openmouthed at them, as if they couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"Well, bye then." Katie said when they stopped in front of the door.
"Er…Katie…" the girls' stares were making him uncomfortable, but he tried his best to ignore them. "This weekend is a Hogsmeade weekend and I was wondering, if you weren't going with anybody else, would you, umm, maybe want to go with me?"
The girls started giggling furiously, and this time Remus could feel himself beginning to blush.
Katie's eyes widened. "I would love to!" she said.
Remus smiled, "Great! Well, I guess I'll see you later tonight in the common room?"
"Sure."
"Alright, bye."
Remus walked to the end of the corridor and turned the corner. Once he was out of sight, he collapsed against the wall.
"Well that wasn't too hard," he thought to himself, grinning.
Just then, he heard all the girls in the group start to squeal and shout questions at Katie. He stayed where he was and listened to what they were saying.
"Oh my god-!"
"Remus Lupin-!"
"How the hell did that happen-?"
"You've liked him for so long-!"
"REMUS LUPIN-!"
"Calm down!" he heard Katie yell over the noise, and then she too began to giggle. "I don't know how it happened. He accidentally bumped into me in the hall and we just sort of started talking."
"Oh, you're so lucky!" one of the girls said enviously.
"Yeah, you are! He's so hot!" another one of the girls said, and they all began to giggle again.
Just then, the bell rang and he heard all the girls hurry inside the classroom.
Remus made his way back to the common room with a huge grin plastered across his face.
"And to think, I was actually JEALOUS of Sirius and James?"
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This chapter was for everybody who asked me to give Remus a good girlfriend. So now they all have somebody, except Peter but he doesn't deserve one. The only thing he deserves is a horrible bloody death lol. Please be nice and review!