Chapter 2
"Harry?" Harry looked up at Remus Lupin, who looked healthier than he'd ever seen him. "Remus.. What are you doing here?"
Remus gave him a short smile,"Well Harry.. We've heard things.." Harry noticed Tonks at the door behind Remus, his eyes narrowed,"What kind of things?" "Like you coming into school in the middle of a huge storm, carrying a crying girl. And you won't tell anyone what happened to her." Harry looked at Remus,"It's not my story to tell, she'll tell if she wants them to know." Harry looked at the girl, who had entered a self-induced coma. Madam Pomfrey said she just didn't want to wake up, and her body was complying. Harry had come to see her at least once a day when he could. He kept willing those silvery eyes to open."Some say, you had something to do with her crying Harry." Remus said softly, worried. Harry looked at him, then at Luna,"She.. She was going into the water." It had been Tonks who asked what he meant. "She'd been going into the water, in the middle of a storm... hoping she drowned I guess.." They could only stare, but Remus looked at the girl laying in the bed, he turned pale,"My god... Nicole.." Harry and Tonks stared at him,"Nicole?" "Sirius will have to.." Remus lowered his eyes,"Sorry, I'm.. not quite used to the fact that he's dead. Even if it's been 2 years."
"What does Sirius have to do with Luna?" Harry spoke after a long silence. Remus looked at Harry, thier eyes meeting, Remus nodded,"Luna, has nothing to do with it, she just looks so much like someone I used to know." "Who?" Remus smiled,"Sirius was quite a heart throb at school. Every girl, well almost every girl wanted him. Our love lives were legends. James loving Lily, Lily hating James. It was well known. Except not many remember, Sirius wanted a girl who wouldn't have him. Nicole Hart didn't hate Sirius, But she didn't like him either. She lived in the same neighborhood as Sirius, and they were childhood friends... until they went to school.. I remember exactly what happened. It had been after classes, school had just begun that week, we'd all been sitting at a table, just the three of us, Peter had been in tutoring trying to pass Potions. It was in the middle of a joke that she'd came to the table..."
"Hello Sirius!", a voice kind yet cheerful. They'd all looked at her, she wasn't wearing her glasses, so her strange dark violet eyes seemed to bore into all of them. Her hair just the color to barely be dirty blonde, it was wavy to. By her uniform, Remus knew she was Ravenclaw. He'd noticed taht girls seemed to flock to Sirius like flies, so at first he thought nothing of her. But her smile wasn't flirty, and the look in her eyes was friendly and cheerful not sultry. Sirius looked at he girl, but before he had time to respond, her smile changed to teasing,"So Sirius, How's Kreacher been lately?" Remus noticed Sirius cringe, when he was younger he hadn't noticed a change in Sirius, but examing his behavior when he was older, he saw it, Sirius didn't put on his arrigant attitude,"Aw, Come on, Kreacher's fine, it's me you should be worried about, Nicole." "Is that so? It didn't seem that way last I checked." It seemed to be an old joke between the two, he could feel the ease between the two, an ease that comes from knowing someone your whole life. It had been James, who'd killed it. "Hold up, Hold up, Who are you?" Nicole just looked at him, smiling,"Oh you must be Sirius's friend, I'm Nicole Hart, pleased to met you." "Of course you are darling, and I am sitting at the same table as him, I do sit in every class with him, what was your first hint I was his friend."
Nicole blinked as if trying to understand, why he was being so cruel to her,"I.. I was just making an observation. People sit together all the time, It doesn't mean they're friends, they're just the people the hang around with." James didn't like being any where close to being told off, which was what she'd unintentionally done,"I don't see you having any.. Friends that is." Remus noticed Sirius looked like he wanted to bite James' head off. Nicole flinched, James had stuck a nerve, but she straightened up,"I...Have Sirius.." Nicole said no longer looking at James but at Sirius. "Maybe you just think that, isn't that right, Sirius?" Sirius looked at James then at Nicole. Remus could see he was torn."Sirius!" James egged on. Sirius bite his lip then he changed into the Sirius Remus knew around girls, the arragant grin,"Sure, maybe you just think it,darling. Now can we move along now." Sirius said examining his nails as if this were an everyday occurance. At that moment, you would think Remus was the only one to see something crack in Nicole's composure. Her friendly cheerfulness was ended by the shattering astonishment in her eyes, as well as the searing pain. "Oh.. M-Maybe I was mistaken, but I guess sharing everything, and helping each other, gives one the wrong impression." Nicole turned around walking out in a slow hollow manner, Remus had a strong suspicion she was holding back tears. Remus looked at Srius who James was giving a high five, he seemed to be the only one who notice that when Sirius propped his feet on the table, he glanced in Nicole's direction, and in his eyes was unmistakable regret.
