Hey! I'm sorry I've been MIA for the past... few months? my aol was taken away. I gotta sneak on under other ppls names so i'm going to post a bunch of this right now so u can have something to read luv ya!

When Lily woke up it was barely dawn. The sun was just coming up over the horizon. It was Monday, the first day of classes that Lily would have at Hogwarts. She got up, dressed in her crisp, new robes, and sat down on the windowsill beside her four-poster bed. Looking out the window, Lily saw Hagrid going around the school grounds with his morning duties. She also saw a big black dog following him, and from it's size, Lily guessed the dog was a boarhound.

Lily stopped looking out the window about a half-hour later. She went downstairs and saw someone sitting in a chair looking at the crackling fire. Looking over the back of the chair, Lily saw Remus. He to was in his new robes. "Hi." It was a simple greeting, but Remus started so violently you would have figured someone had yelled in his ear.

"Good gracious, are you trying to scare me to death!" Remus wasn't mad, just upset he had been startled so easily.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I've just been up for half an hour and after staring out a window that long you can lose interest in what you're looking at." She sat down on the floor in front of him and the fire. "Are James and Sirius still asleep?" she asked absently.

"Yea. Sound asleep." Remus snickered. "I woke up in the middle of the night and guess what James said in his sleep?"

"I don't want to guess. You tell me."

"Well," he said still snickering, "he was saying: 'Lily Evans… Marry me.' No joke either. He always has dreams like that and Sirius and I tease him cause that usually means he really likes a girl. I don't think I'll bring it up though. You know, since Sirius likes you as well."

Lily made a fist and hit his leg. "You and Rini are just imagining things," she huffed. "I bet you're lying anyway!"

"First off, owe, and second off, I don't lie. He probably thinks you're a bit cute and all but doesn't realize how much he really likes you. Goodness, even I think you're cute. But let's just leave it at that. I don't want James and Sirius mad at me."

"At least you're brave enough to say it, unlike them. That is, if they even do," Lily said and laid her head on Remus's knee. He became really nervous because no girl had ever treated him the way Lily did before. Rini was just a friend and nothing more. Lily was a friend and a confidant. Cautiously, Remus gently started stroking Lily's curly, ginger-red hair. She didn't complain. He decided to tell her his deepest, darkest secret.

"Lily?"

"Hmm."

"I was wondering if you knew anything about werewolves?"

"A little. Why?"

"What, precisely, do you know about them?"

"Well, they transform only at a full moon. When in their human forms, they're completely harmless. Also, when they're in their wolf forms, they feed on humans. I think that's it. Why Remus?"

"Are you afraid of them? In their human or wolf forms?"

"Well, I guess I'd be afraid of them in their wolf forms, but not their human forms." Lily looked up at Remus. "Remus, why are you asking me these questions?"

"If I tell you something, do you promise to keep it a secret?"

"Remus, of course I can keep a secret. Now will you—"

"Lily I'm a werewolf! There, I said it!" He looked at Lily expecting her to scream and move quickly away from him.

Instead, she took his hand, kissed it, and said softly, "I should have guessed with all those questions. I promise I won't tell anyone Remus. You have my most excellent promise, I won't tell anyone."

Remus looked at her. "You aren't afraid of me?"

"Remus didn't I just say that I'd be afraid of the wolf, not the person. You, Remus, are kind, gentle, and caring. It's the wolf that's mean, vicious, and cruel."

Remus looked into Lily's eyes and knew she would keep her promise. Very suddenly, on impulse, he gathered Lily into a great big hug and kissed her on the cheek. Lily just laughed when he did this.

Remus still had Lily in a bear hug when James and Sirius came down. "What are you two doing down here!" Sirius asked rather loudly. Remus let go of Lily quick as a flash.

"Umm, nothing. Remus here was just over excited with something I said, that's all," Lily said quickly and walked up the stairs to her dorm. She stopped when she was out of sight to listen.

"So? What did she say that made you so overjoyed you just had to hug her?" James asked.

"Sorry boys, I can't say. That is between Lily and me and is going to stay that way." Remus answered.

"Come on Remus! You know how I feel about Lily, and you hugging her does not say very much about our friendship." Sirius said.

"Oh, and I guess how I feel about her makes no difference, right!" James said angrily.

"Oh, come on James! We both know that the only reason that you like her is because I do." Sirius accused.

"Is not!"

"Is to!"

"What did I say to her when I met her? I believe it was 'It is a glorious day when heaven sends one of its angels back to us'. That was just about her looks. Hearing her speak merely affirmed my assumption."

"It was just flattery! You flatter any and every beautiful lady you can."

"That is not true and you know it!"

"Well I don't care what you say. You just go for who ever you think is beautiful."

"Will you two both stop arguing!" Remus demanded. "You're going to wake the whole tower. And besides, she hasn't got a bloomin' clue that either of you like her. She probably thinks you're insane."

Lily tiptoed up the stairs to her dorm. She went in and woke Rini up. "Wha? What is it, Lils?"

"You would not believe the fight James, Sirius, And Remus just had." And she told Rini the whole thing. Except, of course, for the fact that Remus is a werewolf. She promised not to tell and she planned on keeping that promise.

"Why can't you tell me? What did you and Remus talk about that is so secret?" Rini kept asking Lily.

"If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret anymore," she would always reply.

"Well, what are you going to do with James and Sirius?"

"I'm going to be smitten with Remus."

"But won't that make them really mad? With Remus I mean."

"Remus admitted to me what he thought of me. James and Sirius didn't."

"They aren't like that though."

"That's just their loss, now isn't it?" Rini just smiled and shook her head at Lily.

That morning at breakfast, Lily sat beside Rini and in front of Remus, who sat between James and Sirius. Rini, James, and Sirius kept asking what was said between Lily and Remus, but they refused to tell. Lily noticed Remus looked at her a lot more than usual and with a new light in his eyes.

Lily nearly fainted when the mail arrived. Hundreds upon hundreds of owls soared into the Great Hall, all with packages or letters of some sort. Rini received an owl with a letter from her mother asking if she and Lily had arrived at Hogwarts okay and if they were fine. Rini quickly wrote back that they were okay and that everything was fine.

Then they received their schedules. Rini looked at hers. "Oh no!" she cried.

"What? What is it?" the others asked.

"Oh, it's just that we have Potions with Slytherins," she said. "FIRST PERIOD!"

Lily's face went from a happy smile to a look of pure horror. She looked directly at Remus and said, "You'll protect me, won't you?"

"Of course I will, Lily. All three of us, right guys?" Remus was trying hard to keep James and Sirius calm.

James and Sirius were glaring at Remus. Lily saw and managed to suppress a giggle. Though the boys were mad at Remus for somehow 'stealing' Lily's affection, they agreed.