Authors Note: OMG I AM SO SRY!!!!!!! Plz forgive me you guys, I was so busy last week and I had major trouble writing this chapter I wasn't sure exactly how I wanted something ( I won't tell you what cause it would ruin the chapter) to happen. But it was only a week, even though I sure it felt like much longer. So I won't keep you guys. Hope you like this chapter and plz r&r.
Disclaimer: I still haven't found that pencil, so I still OWN NOTHING!!!!!!!!
Chapter Eight (While they were Gone)
"Moony are you coming?"
"Yeah you coming?"
"Yeah I've just got to......do something...yeah that's all I'll meet you guys in the common room later." Remus called over his shoulder turning back to the great hall, 'come on you can do this Moony' Remus thought to himself ' just one step at a time you can do it, what's the worst that could happen?'
"Umm let's see she could say no, she could laugh in my face or she could run away screaming.....
'Okay besides that?'
"She could tell the whole school then they would all laugh about it and I'd never be able to show my face again?"
"Well that's a possibility when you ask out any girl, besides you have everything planned already."
"Okay fine whatever but if she say's no I'm blaming you!"
"Okay Moony, I am you! You git I'm your concience!"
"Oh right,"
"Well there she is just do it, you'll never know unless you ask her, now deep breaths"
"Umm Jenny, could I er- could I talk to you for a second?" said Remus determinedly looking anywhere but at her,
"Umm sure, I'll catch up with you guys in a minute, okay" said Jenny turning to her friends and shooing them off, her cheeks bushing wildly.
"Ok, ok I get the point," said Nikki bitterly rubbing her shin from where Lily had kicked her.
"We'll meet you up in the common room, common Nikki," said Lily practically dragging her thick friend out of the entrance hall.
"So what is it you want to talk to me about Remus?" asked Jenny her mind racing through all of the things that Remus could possibly want to talk to her about.
"Umm...right" said Remus nervously, seriously considering the possibility of running out of the entrance hall and back to the Gryffindor common room, "do-do you wanna go outside into the grounds and uh...uh take a walk?" he asked cursing his nervousness.
"Umm.... well..." started Jenny
"Oh if you don't want to we don't have to" started Remus mortified
"No I want to Remus," said Jenny blushing crimson, "It's just how're we going to get past Filch to the grounds?"
"Oh don't worry about that" said Remus glad that she had agreed to take a walk with him smirking he took James's invisibility cloak out of his pocket and beckoned for Jenny to come over to him and the draped it over Jenny and himself.
"Oh my god where did you get this from?" asked Jenny admiring the cloak around her shoulders.
"Oh it's um...uh j-just a friends" Remus answered as they left the entrance hall and slowly rounded the corner to great oak doors. The cloak only being made for one person didn't leave a lot of room and was tricky to walk in when you had two people in it. Just as they reached the oak doors Jenny tripped over something big and furry that let out a howling meowwwwwwwwww in the silence of the great hall.
Who's there?" came Filch's voice as he came around the corner and made his way to the oak doors his every step making a deadly echo, as he came steadily closer to where Remus and Jenny were standing.
Jenny huddled closer to Remus her breath against his neck making him all the more aware of her, "do something!" she pleaded into his ear panic raising in her voice.
Remus was racking his brain for some spell that would get Filch as far away from them as possible. 'Oh god this can not go anymore farther from what I wanted this moment to be' he thought to himself, going through every possible spell he knew but everything he thought of was either too complicated or illegal!
"Wikimens" whispered Jenny suddenly from beside him and a vase some distance off smashed to the ground shattering and sending pieces flying in every which direction,
"Wow" murmured Remus a look of astonishment crossing his face "how could I not think of that?!"
"I don't know, let's just go before he comes back!" Jenny whispered.
"Yeah.....Yeah sure let's go" said Remus being careful when opening the great oak doors and ushering Jenny out being careful that she stayed underneath the cloak.
They walked around the lake in silence, each lost in their own thoughts. Neither trusting their voice to speak.
Remus slid off the invisibility cloak, trusting that the darkness would cover them. A particularly large gust of wind blew through the trees of the forbidden forest, causing Jenny to shiver involuntarily.
"Are you cold?" Remus asked
'What a stupid question Moony of course she's cold'
"Just a little bit" she answered "but I'm fine," she said with a smile in Remus' direction.
"Here" said Remus taking off his cloak and draping it over Jenny's shoulders as they sat down underneath a particularly large tree, hoping to be sheltered from some of the wind. The cloak being too long for her trailed behind on the frost bitten grass.
"Thanks" Jenny said smiling up at Remus, her frost bitten cheeks tinged with red making her appear even more innocent and beautiful then Remus could have imagined.
"No problem" he managed in a hushed voice, trying desperately to find some way of voicing what he wanted to say.
'Well you've gotta say something Moony!' he chided himself.
"Remus?" asked Jenny with one eyebrow raised questioningly.
"Hmm?"
'Oh great Remus now you she's going to think you can't even talk properly!'
"Is something wrong? Cause you look like you're really having trouble with something" inquired Jenny. For Remus' face was creased with concentration.
"Have you ever felt like you wanted to tell somebody something so bad but you were afraid of what would happen if you told them?" Remus asked keeping his eyes focused on his shoes.
'Yeah sure" replied Jenny "tons of times! Like last week, I wanted to tell Nikki that her star chart for astronomy was wrong, even though she had been working on it the entire night. But it was two in the morning and I was afraid that if I told her that she would go totally ape on me." Jenny finished with a shy smile playing across her face.
Remus stifled a laugh.
"I mean, what if it was something really important and you knew that you had to tell them, but if you did they may never feel the same about.... about you." Remus finished not taking his glance off his shoes.
"Well, no not...not exactly, but I think that if it's that important to you, you should tell that person" started Jenny. "Because if-if you don't it's not really fair to you then is it?" she asked looking up at him and searching his eyes for what he was trying to say.
"You're right" he whispered more to himself then to Jenny.
A silence filled the air and it became apparent to Jenny that, that was all he was going to say.
"Of course I am" Jenny replied standing up. "We...we should probably get back inside, the others are probably getting worried" she said with a small smile.
"Yeah we should said Remus picking himself up.
Jenny started walking, not quite sure what she had been expecting when she had come outside with Remus, but for some reason she felt upset. She trudged faster through the grounds, tears threatening to spill out of her eyes.
"No wait" Jenny heard Remus say to himself.
"Jenny!" he called
"What?" she said a little a little too loud for the silence of the grounds, an unknown feeling settling in her stomach. She still couldn't understand what she was feeling, but didn't have time to think about it, as Remus caught up to her and brushed a strand of loose hair behind her ear and looking into her eyes.
"What's wrong?" he asked concern written in his face not understanding why she looked so sad.
Jenny tried desperately to hold back her tears.
"I- I thought that you- you" Jenny choked back sobs now understanding what she had been expecting when she came outside with Remus. "I thought you...you wanted to talk to me because....because you fancied me. But I-I guess you don't, so that's.... that's...........I'm just gonna go" Jenny finished forcing a smile and turning, trying to leave, not wanting Remus to see her cry.
"Jenny" Remus started
"No, really Remus it's okay I-I'm just gonna go and........"
But Jenny never really got to finish what she was going to say for Remus had closed the gap between them with one stride and brushed his lips against hers shyly. Then, seeing that she had not pulled back he put his arms around her waist pulling her closer and deepening the kiss. His tongue gently teased her jaw line, asking for entrance and she opened herself to him smiling into the kiss as her hands ran through his sandy blonde hair pulling him closer. Everything felt so right, so good she'd wanted this for so long and it was finally happening. Remus put every bit of his emotion into the kiss never wanting it to end, but pulling away for need of air and looking deep into her ocean blue eyes.
"I love you Jenny Thompson" he whispered as his hands played with a strand of her golden blonde hair.
The word caught Jenny off guard, but she already knew that she felt the same way, she had since the first day they met.
"I love you too Remus Lupin" she whispered before he engulfed her in another kiss.
Authors Note: Okay so here's the deal, if I get a review (even if it's a bad one ) from everybody who read this chapter I'll update tomorrow. PLZ GUYS I really want to know how I was at the whole LLLUUUVVVV thing, did you guys believe it? r&r n tell me!!!!!!!!
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