The Almost Perfect Day
She had had a perfect day. It was the perfect weather out, she had here favorite type of food, her outfit was just great, she was with a gorgeous guy that wanted to be with her...and yet inside her, she knew that something was missing. Well, she knew what was missing, and was still having problems letting it go, but she was determined to enjoy the day with Amos. He was being so nice to her, asking questions about school, discussing quidditch, teasing her, and flirting with her. She felt desired by this man, and knew if she tried hard enough, she would desire him too. They finally got to the gazebo where they were supposed to meet everyone and Amos said, "So looks like we are the first one's here." He said looking at her with a smile.
"Yeah, looks so." She replied. Looking around for her friends. Then they fell into an uncomfortable silence. "Amos, I had a really great time today with you. And I hope that..." he suddenly cut her off with a kiss.
"Cassie, I've liked you for a really long time." He said looking deep into her eyes that at the moment were filled with shock from that kiss. "But you have always been dating someone." He brought her hands to his lips and kissed them. "I would like to get to know you more, please give us a shot." He asked with a slight smile and hope gleaming in his eye. But she didn't think her heart would let her do it. Sirius. Yes dammit! Sirius. It always came back to him. And here she was, with a great guy asking her to be with him...and all she could think about was Sirius Black. The boy that had been her everything. The one that she had had her first kiss with, her first touch, he was the one that taught her how to skip class and to savor the moment. But he wasn't that anymore to her...so why was she about to deny this boy that wanted to create new memories with her? "Amos, you're a great guy but..." all of a sudden she saw four people walking up to them...and each one was paired with another....and one of the pairs was Sirius and Bella. What was going on? She let go of Amos hands and focused all her attention on the two 'couples' walking towards them.
"Hey Cass!" Lily said and ran up to her and gave her a huge hug. She then whispered into her ear, "I don't know what is going on. Just smile and we will figure it out." Then she stepped back a little and said for everyone one to hear with a big smile. "SO! How was your day?" James grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her back to him. "Cass. Amos. What's up? Looks like we are just missing two now." James said trying to keep everything from becoming tense. All Cassie could do was stare at Sirius. Both he and Bella though wouldn't look her in the eye. She could feel her heart break in two...again by this same guy. But was determined to try and not let anyone know it. "So how has your guys' day been?" she directed her question towards Bell and Sirius. But before they could answer Rachael and Remus walked up. "Hey guys sorry we are late" Remus said not realizing the situation yet, he said the rest with a cocky grin, "We got a little caught up." And was about to give Rachael another kiss until he met Bella's eyes. And noticed she was holding Sirius hand. "What are you guys doing?" he asked with dead seriousness in his voice to Sirius.
"Oh Remus." Cassie said coming to stand right next to him as they approached their ex-'s, "Haven't you met the new couple at Hogwarts." Lily tried to intervene between the four but James just held her back, "No." he whispered in her ear, "They have to do this on their own." She then nodded her head and grabbed hold of his hand and just stood and listened. "No. I'm afraid this is the first time I have heard of it." Remus said looking directly into Bella's eyes. What was she doing he thought. Just a few nights ago she declared love to him...now she was... Bella took a deep breath and prepared herself for the on coming fight, "Well it happened very suddenly." She said with a slight laugh. And she moved closer to Sirius. She then looked at him in the eyes asking for his support. He answered buy putting both arms around her and holding her and giving her a kiss on the forehead, "you see we have been hanging out a lot recently...and well things just happened so fast." Bella looked at him with adoring eyes. "Sirius is such a great guy and well..." Cassie then just brushed past them and walked away. Amos tried to go after her but Lily stopped him. "No. Wait. Amos just give her some space right now. I'll go after her." He nodded his head with reluctant agreement. He then went right up to Sirius and said in a deadly low voice, "If you come any where near her Black, I will personally destroy you." He then walked away from the group. Rachael now worried about Remus' reaction to the one he once loved stepped up next to him and held his hand. "Well. I'm glad that you guys found each other." She then yanked on Remus' arm trying to get his attention. He looked at her and she smiled sweetly up at him and said, "Let's go get something to eat like we planned."
"Yeah. We can make it a triple date once Lily gets back." Bella said with a smile "It will be so much fun wont it baby." She asked Sirius with a laugh and smiled. He just leaned down and gave her a kiss. He couldn't forget the way Cassie had looked at him, like he was the lowest thing on earth. He couldn't stand that he hurt her like that. But maybe now she would come around and want to be with him.
"I don't think Lily is going to be coming back anytime soon..." said James with a glare at Sirius. He then walked right up to him and stood in his face and said, "I hope you know what your doing?" Sirius just looked at him blankly. James then looked at Remus and said, "I'm going to go find Lily and Cassie. You guys go on with out us." He then walked away from them and followed the direction that both Lily and Cassie had gone in.
"Well, should we get going then?" Bella said in a sickly romantic smile at Sirius.
"No." Remus said and grabbed her arm from Sirius. Bella looked at him in shock. "You and I need to talk." She tried to protest but decided against it because of the look in his eye. Remus then looked at Sirius and Rachael, "You guys go find a place for us to eat." He then looked at Bella, "We'll catch up."
"But Remus..."Rachael started to say with a pout.
"Bella and I have something very important to talk about. We will meet up with you later." He then dragged her off with him.
They walked for awhile and in silence. But Bella just wanted to get the screaming match over. So she said, "Sirius is such a great guy." Remus just chuckled at her. She just glared at him. "Well he is." She said again staring to become angry, "He appreciates me and wants to be with me." Remus' lip then set in to a stony line. They kept on walking for a little bit longer and then stopped at the creek right out of the town. He then turned around to face her and just looked at her. Bella feeling uneasy now asked, "What are you looking at?" and she brushed by him.
"I'm trying to look into your mind. Because you are not the kind of girl that would go and date her best friend's ex-boyfriend..." he said spinning her around to face him. He then said looking her straight in the eye with a quieter voice, "Or the girl that would declare her love for someone one minute and kiss there best friend the next." Bella knew that this would happen and had prepared herself not to cry when she said nonchalantly, "Yeah but remember I don't mean that stuff. Right Remus? I just want what I can't have." She then laughed. "Come on Remus. Who are you to care who I date?"
"I do care. Because as we found out in the library we are friends. Bella I hope you know what you're doing." He looked at her with dead seriousness. That wasn't what he was suppose to say and she wasn't prepared to hear that he really didn't care who she dated and could start to feel the tears coming.
"Well. Sirius is a very nice guy and I..." she started to say but he interrupted her.
"You what? Love him? No you don't." He said to her.
"Yes, but I might fall in love with him." She said not looking at him.
What was she thinking? She would never fall in love with him because she LOVED him. Wait what now was HE thinking. Bella Monroe doesn't know how to fall in love. He looked at her directly in the eyes...or did she?
Bella didn't know what happened next, but the next thing she knew was that Remus was kissing her. And it felt so good. She kissed him back with everything she had. She needed him to admit that he loved her too. But all of a sudden he withdrew quickly.
"No. No. I'm sorry." He said quickly and turned away from her. She did still love him. He knew it. You don't kiss someone like that and not mean that you love them. But he was seeing someone else, and she was now...kind of seeing his best friend? He didn't know what to think about that. But he would figure it out. But until then. In order not to get hurt again by her, he would stay with Rachael. At least she was safe. After figuring this all out in his head he turned back to face her, "I'm sorry Bella. It won't happen again. You're with Sirius now and I won't get in your way." He looked for her reaction but didn't see anything.
But inside her was breaking. What was going on? She thought this isn't supposed to turn out like this. But she put on a smile and said, "Yeah me too. And thank you. I really like Sirius." She said without looking him straight in the eye, "Now shouldn't we get back to them." She asked.
He noticed that she didn't look at him when she said that she liked Sirius. He decided to play on this. "Yeah but hold on really quick you have something...right here." He said pointing to his right cheek. She tried brushing it off....but the object was imaginary. "No. Hold on." He caressed her cheek and then cupped it and raised her lips up to his. "Got it." He said in a whisper against her lips and kissed her. After awhile he released her and said with a grin, "Yep got it." He then walked past her. "Best to catch up with the group." He looked back to see if she was following, "Coming Monroe." She just stood there in a daze and then started to walk after him. He turned around and said to himself. "Yep definitely loves me. Now to get her to admit it."