Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter in anyway, even though I wish I did. But I do own the original character, Maru. So...yeah.

Reaka: I've got other projects to do, but yet I decide to start another story! What the hell is wrong with me? I really don't know. I'd been thinking about doing this one for a while, and now I've finally gotten around to it! Be proud of me! Be very very proud of me!

Prologue

"Hey Maru!" a little girl called from downstairs. "What are you doing up there? My mom asked if you could watch me for a while. She still doesn't trust me home alone! Even though I'm sixteen and very capable of taking care of myself! How stupid is that?!"

"It sounds very stupid if you ask me," Maru answered her as she came down the stairs.

"Is your mom afraid of a big party or something?"

"Probably," the girl answered. "She seems to think I'll be the carbon copy of my brother, only the female version."

Maru laughed and set the big, leather book she was carrying on her coffee table. The girl, who's name was Rose, stared at it with curiosity.

"What's this?" Rose asked.

"That's a book from the school I went to," Maru said. "I made this little scrapbook when I went there. It was all really new and exciting to me because I was a Muggle-born."

"Oh," Rose said. " The whole Hogwarts thing and all."

Rose was a Muggle, but she was sworn to secrecy. Maru liked to tell her of her adventures while she was there. Rose found it all amazing and told Maru many times that she wished she was a witch. The rule was: What happens at Maru's house, stays at Maru's house. Rose was very loyal to the rule.

Being curious, Rose opened the book and stopped at the middle of it. On the page was a boy with sandy hair and calm eyes.

"Who's this?" Rose asked Maru. "I've never seen him before! He's cute!"

"That is Remus Lupin," Maru answered.

"I've never heard you mention him before," Rose asked. "Why is that?"

Maru went silent for a while and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she spoke.

"Because for me," she explained "that adventure hasn't ended yet."

"You had a crush on him didn't you?" Rose asked.

"More than that. I was, and I still am, in love with him. I'm still wishing that one day, he'll just come to my door and take me away so we can be together."

"Wow. That's a lot to wish for."

"It sure is. You'd think I'd get over him though. I mean, I'm 30, I've been divorced, and I haven't set foot in Hogwarts since I graduated from it! I haven't even been in the wizarding world since! But yet again, Remus still hasn't left me."

"Want to tell me about it? I'd love to hear this story."

Maru smiled at Rose's enthusiasm. Rose was a sucker for a good love story, and Maru silently wished that her own would satisfy the girl's desire to hear one.

"It just seems so interesting that you guys never hooked up or anything," Rose continued. "You're really pretty, and I'd be surprised if he didn't notice you!"

Maru looked at the girl curiously. Rose had a point. She was a looker at 30. Men seemed to like her waist-length hair and steel gray eyes. She still had the slim figure she had in her teenage years. Women her age envied Maru very much. But they didn't know that it was a charm Maru had used on herself to make sure she stayed that way.

"You're not that bad looking yourself, Rose," she replied.

Rose blushed.

"So you're going to tell me that story, Maru?"

"Do you really want to hear it?"

"Yes! It sounds really interseing."

"Good. It goes like this..."

Reaka: There you go! Here's the first chapter. I'm sorry it's a little short, but I couldn't think of anything else to do to the prologue. So here it is. I hope you review please! Thank you!