Disclaimer: Ahhhhhh! Wow! Chapter 11! I can't believe that I've written so many! Obviously I don't own Harry Potter etc. BUT, I do own the plot and other characters – twisted as they are. I'm not sure if I want to own them…
AN: British /American Dictionary –Snogging – kissing with tongues
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End of Last Chapter:
"I said that you should be prepared for… a surprise tomorrow morning." Laura grinned at me.
"Why do I have a feeling that I'm not going to like this surprise?"
"Oh, I'm sure that you'll like it."
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Unforgettable, In Every Way
WARNING! This new twist was entirely unexpected – and it's a serious TWIST! Please don't kill me if you don't like it! But it was the only way that I could find to… well; you'll just have to read the next few chapters!
Part XI – In Which There is a BIG Surprise
"Sorry I'm late!" I apologised as soon as I get to the bottom of the flight of stairs.
"Gives the love birds more time before we come around and deduct points. Not any skin off my nose." Remus stood up from the armchair and started moving towards the portrait and the exit out of the common room.
During the next two hours, we took 30 points from Slytherin, 15 from Ravenclaw, 20 from Hufflepuff and a grand total of 55 from Gryffindor - "Katriona, I didn't know that you and Sam were going out! And I share the same dorm with you! No one tells me anything!"
"We should really get the 'no relationships' rule abolished." I said to Remus as we got to the top of the Astronomy tower and found three more couples in varying passionate embraces – "Laura, I thought that you were going out with Stewart! Argh! Does no one bother to tell me anything???"
"Gryffindor'll be into negative points by the end of the week if this keeps up." He agreed, his face slightly red from the climb, but still managing to look quite sickly.
We looked in every corner of the tower room, but thankfully there weren't any more 'young lovers'. I paused at the balcony rail, remembering the last time I had been here. It had been my first time since I had never had a boyfriend to take me up here before and I had quit Astronomy long ago.
"Doesn't Hogwarts grounds look beautiful in the moon light?" Remus questioned, coming up behind me.
"It looks beautiful in the daylight too… but, at night it's especially lovely. Oh, the moon was full last night!" I noticed the weaning moon appearing behind a bank of clouds. "Don't you just love to look up at the night sky and see a full…" I trailed off, realizing to whom I was talking to and what my suspicions about what the said person was.
"Um, we should probably get back to terrorizing people, come on." I quickly turned and walked briskly to the steps, Remus following.
"Yes, the full moon is very pretty." Remus continued as if I hadn't done anything unusual. His shoes did not make a sound on the stone steps as he descended behind me.
We continued in silence, but not uncomfortable silence, until we reached the statue of the hump-backed witch. There, in the shadows, I received the biggest surprise of my life.
"Karen?! Carley?!"
They separated immediately at the sound of my outburst. Their hair was mussed, their lips slightly swollen and their robes in disarray. They looked bashfully at me, their hands clasped tightly behind their backs.
I just stood there, my eyes looking like they would pop out of their sockets and my jaw hanging on the floor.
"Why does nobody ever tell me anything?" I said weakly, "I think I need to sit down." I walked over to the wall and slid to the floor.
"Are you ok?" Karen, Carley and Remus asked me, a worried note coming into their voices.
"I think I just aged twenty years."
I sat there, hugging my knees and trying to digest this new piece of information. But instead of my mind screaming:
"Your best friends are lesbians! They were snogging in a corner and you caught them!"
I was thinking of something else. It was completely off the subject, and I surprised even myself.
What are Katriona, Laura and Anya going to do me tomorrow morning? Should I ask if I can sleep in another dorm for the night?
After a long time of quiet, Carley broke the silence, "I think we should probably explain."
"That would be nice."
Another pause.
"Why don't you start, Karen?"
"Em, right. Well, it started in Second Year, we were just fooling around, and –"
"It's ok, I don't need to know all the details, but why didn't you tell me?" I looked up at them from my position on the floor. They looked really tall.
"Em…"
"Remus?" I interrupted them before something even more embarrassing came out, "Would you be good boy and wait around the corner?"
"Oh, he can stay." Carley and Karen both said at the same time.
"Ok…" I turned to Remus who had almost disappeared around the corner, "Remus, you can stay."
"I'm not sure that I want to."
"Remus, get back here!" I ordered, and he surprisingly shuffled back, looking nervously at his watch. Why is he looking at his watch now, of all times?!
"Anyway, why didn't you tell me?"
"Um, we thought that you would freak -" One started.
"- Or have a heart attack. You just -" The other continued.
" – Seemed like one of those naïve people who –"
" – Would think that it was unnatural to like a person –"
" – Of the same sex."
There was a moment of stunned silence, before I came out with: "Did you rehearse that?"
Remus snorted into his hand and at my glare, he turned it into a cough. A good attempt… for all it sounded fake.
I glared at him to show that I hadn't missed it.
"We realise that you won't want to be our friend any more, but –"
"Wow, wow! Wait there! Full stop and reverse!" I interrupted; things were travelling too fast again. "Who said that I don't want to be your friend?"
"Um, no one…"
"Exactly!" I said that like I had just scored a major goal, and satisfied, crossed my arms and looked at them with a smile on my face. They didn't seem able to keep track of my train of thought.
"Em… would you mind repeating that?" Carley asked hesitantly.
"And embellishing it a bit just so that I have a chance of understanding it?" Karen added. She seemed like a different person… uncertain perhaps. This was a drastic change from the person who loved bossing me around and arranging my life without my permission.
Mental Note: talk to her about that!
"You are who you are, I've been friends with you for what, five years now? Why should I stop being friends with you now because you're…" I winced slightly at this, but carried on, perhaps putting it a bit blunter than I would normally, "Shoving your tongues down each others throats." Even Remus winced that that.
"Are you serious?" Carley asked, not believing her ears that I would accept this so calmly.
"No, I'm Lily." I said at the same time as Remus said:
"No, she's Lily." I grinned at Remus, who looked shocked at himself cracking a joke, however overused it was, at a time like this.
"I meant, are you serious? You're just accepting it like, like we get porridge in the morning! You're not in the least disturbed!" That was definitely regular ol' Carley - she thought about her stomach twenty-seven hours a day, eight days a week.
"Well, I admit, I'll be slightly nervous around you for a few days and twitchy… but let it soak in, and I'll be fine. Now run along." I waved with my hand, feeling like Liz Oser and scooting people away.
"Yes Mother." They said at the same time and smiled at each other.
"Wait! Wait! One thing – no, two – no about six… One – I want to talk to you, Karen sometime about Kerr. Two, I want to talk to you, Carley about how you shrunk yourself. Three, I won't be taking points off because it doesn't say anything in the rules about same sex relationships. And finally four - ok, maybe there was only four points – go up to the Astronomy Tower, Remus and I recently cleared it out and no Prefects are due to scout it out for another…" I looked at Remus.
"Two-and-a-bit hours." He supplied after he consulted his watch.
My two best friends stared at me and then grinned and dashed off. Presumably to the Astronomy Tower, but my mind shed off from that unpleasant thought.
"And you had better not tell anyone about this!" I rounded on Remus, glaring at him.
"Of course not. We all have our secrets," He said mysteriously, making me wonder again at whether my guess about his secret was true or not.
"Um, right…" I trailed off, unsure of what to say. And Remus wasn't helping either; he was just standing there not speaking.
"Ouch! You stood on my foot Wormtail!" A voice quite close by yelped.
"Shut up!" another voice hissed.
They were strangely familiar – they were the ones in my dream! But if they were real, does that mean that my dream was –
"Did you just hear –" I started.
"No! Lets just continue on with our patrol." Remus grabbed my arm at the elbow and started dragging me away.
" But I'm sure that I just heard – " I tried to walk back to the statue.
" I'm sure that it was just the wind whistling. There was nothing, I heard nothing. It must have been you imagination." He protested a bit too emphatically.
"I thought that you just said that it was the wind. So what is it? The wind or my imagination?" I looked back as we turned around the corner. Was the hump of the statue moving? It couldn't be…
"Oh, take your pick. It could have been either." Remus kept dragging me along the corridor. Drawing stares from the other pair of Prefects which we passed going in the opposite direction.
"I get the hint!" I finally managed to get my arm out of his grasp. Add another set of interesting bruises to my collection. As I wrestled my robe out of his grip, I went flying as he voluntarily let go.
"Ahhhh!" I crashed into a suit of armour, causing it to fall to the floor in a heap, the helm rolling a few metres down the hall. It came to rest beside another suit of armour that was positioned on a pedestal.
Remus burst out laughing as he offered me a hand up.
"Oh, no! And now we'll have to put this back together!" I lifted up a metal glove and gauntlet that had miraculously stayed together. Suddenly, the glove started moving, looking like it was trying to put its finger around my throat and choke me to death. I quickly threw it as far away as I could, but it used its fingers to pull it along the ground back towards me.
Suddenly, a hard metal hand grasped me around the waist and pulled my to a standing position. I turned around and was face to face with a moving suit of armour. It was empty inside. Again, I let out piercing scream, before another hand covered my mouth. I spun around, fully expecting at have another suit of armour about an inch from my face, but instead I saw –
"Remus!" I was so relieved that it was a living, breathing human instead of a cold, metallic thing that I buried my head in his shoulder. After a few minutes I could feel it shaking with suppressed laughter, and I hazarded a peak. The hall way was empty.
"Huh? What happened? I could have sworn that…" I looked back at Remus and realised that I still held him in a death grip. His face was starting to turn purple. "Um, oops. Sorry."
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