The next day Jess was on cloud nine, and there was to be no bringing her down.

"Why are you suddenly so happy?" Lily asked.

Jess smiled, "well, if you really want to know," she said unable to keep an enormous grin from her face, "last night Remus and I kissed."

"What?" Lily asked, "that's………….. that's………… not what I expected you to say." Lily was gob smacked, "so does this mean you are going out together?"

"I don't know, we didn't really talk very much last night," Jess said smiling again.

"What's going on in here?" Laura asked as she came in to the room to grab a drink before heading out to her parents house to wish them happy new year.

Lily and Jess looked at each other, they didn't think she'd be too pleased to hear her best friend had gotten off with her ex boyfriend.

"We were just talking about my wedding," Lily said quickly.

"Oh, right, well I'm off to my parents, see you later." Laura said and she left.

"I think maybe we shouldn't tell her just yet," Lily said, "we don't want to up set her or anything."

"I suppose," Jess said, "but I can't help feeling happy, do you know how long I've wished something like that would happen?"

"I'm guessing a long time." Lily said.

"You guessed right," Jess said, "But I'm confused, you never normally kiss on the first date, well I don't normally, and we kissed last night, doesn't that mean that was our first date, or have we already had out first date, or was that just a kiss?"

"I don't know, I think at the moment you should just treat it as a kiss." Lily said, "Don't get your hopes up."

They heard a retching noise coming from the bathroom.

"There goes Emma." Lily said, "will you go and see if she's OK I've got Auror training."

Laura was in her parents house, "So dear," he mother asked, "how your healer course going?"

"It's fine, a little harder then I expected, but fine." Laura said.

"Have you met any nice healers in the hospital?" She asked.

"No mum," Laura said.

"I should hope not, you're not allowed to see anyone until you're thirty." Her dad joked.

"Whatever happened to that Remus you were seeing?" Her mum asked. "He seemed nice, why ever did you break up?"

"Um," Laura thought what to say, she couldn't exactly say because he was a werewolf, "it just didn't work out."

"That's a shame, he was a really nice boy." Her mum said.

Laura nodded, "so how are things going here?"

"Alright I suppose, it just feels a bit like we're rattling around on this house now you've left home, not that you were ever here very much anyway." Her Mum said.

"We were thinking of selling the house," Her Dad said, "make a fresh start somewhere new, but not too far away."

"Sounds like a good idea to me." Laura said.

"I'm glad you approve, we weren't quite sure how you'd feel about us selling the house you grew up in."

"It's not like you'll be throwing away my memories, it's only bricks and mortar." Laura said.

Remus was in his flat, everyone had gone out and he was alone working on a lesson plan for his new tutoring job. It was the perfect job for him, the family who had given it to him were friends of his mothers so knew all about him being a werewolf, and even on a full moon cycle he could still work as he only taught from ten in the morning to one in the afternoon.

He dipped his quill in his ink bottle and began to write the plan on a scroll of parchment. It was harder then he expected, he had to make it interesting, he didn't want to it to be like Binn's classes, but he needed them to learn something.

He scratched his head for a few minuets, it would be easier to teach from experience, he thought, and he hadn't had much of that.

He threw down his quill, it was no use every time an idea came into hi head so did Jess' face and he couldn't concentrate.

He decided to go round to her house, he didn't know what he was going to say, to be honest he had no idea how he felt. He was in limbo over it, he didn't know whether he kissed her on purpose, or they got caught up in the moment or what.

She was a really nice, beautiful girl, but did he feel that way about her, and did she feel that way about him?

Maybe it would be a better idea if he sorted things out in his own head before going to see her, he didn't want to say something he'd regret later.

He went into the living room and sat by the fire with a hot drink, if he did like her, and if he did want to go out with her, would Jess want to go out with her best friends ex. Didn't have girls have some kind of unwritten law against that?

He took a sip of his drink and thought more, he remembered back when he had just broken up with Laura, Jess had been there for him. She had been encouraging him to go out with someone else and get over Laura, she had even said she knew someone else that liked him. Had she been talking about herself, or just making it up to make him feel better. Did she like him or did she see him as a friend?

Remus sighed, trying to work out how a girls' mind works was tough.

There was a knock at the door, probably one of those door to door muggle salesmen, or maybe a weird religious cult trying to get him to join. The other day a weird bald muggle with red eyes and a nose ring was trying to get him to join a strange group called the brotherhood of the dark. Remus had said no and closed the door before the man could say anything else.

He opened the door and braced himself for the weirdo on the other side, but it turned out to be Laura.

"Laura," he said surprised.

"Hello Remus, can I come in?" he asked a little timidly.

"Sure," Remus said stepping aside, "what brings you here?"

"Um, I wanted to talk to you." Laura said.

"I'm all ears, do you want a drink?" Remus asked.

"No I'm fine." Laura said coming into the living room and sitting on the sofa, she began to fidget with her hands nervously.

"So what did you want to talk about?" Remus asked sitting oposite her.

"Us," Laura replied simply.

"There is no us, not anymore."

"I know and that's what I wanted to discuss." Laura said, "now please don't say anything, this is hard enough as it is."

Remus nodded and looked at her, what on earth was this about?

"I realise that we didn't really break up on the best of terms, and now I come to think of it I wonder why we did break up at all?" Laura said, Remus kept quiet, "I gone over it in my head and I realised something, I don't think I ever wanted to break up, it just kind of happened and neither of us did anything to stop it."

Remus listened intently, not making a sound.

"What I'm trying to say is that after we broke up I convinced myself that it was what I wanted, change would be good, that's what I thought. But it turns out I don't want anything to change, even when I went out on a date, I couldn't stop thinking of you. You just kept popping into my head and I felt like I was betraying you." Laura said, "basically what I'm trying to say is I think it's a mistake that we broke up, and I think we should try again."

Remus sat there thinking.

"Please say something." Laura pleaded.

"Um…." Remus said, he didn't know what to say.

Laura got up and went over to where he was sitting, she took his arm and pulled him into a standing position and kissed him on the lips.

Remus stood there shocked, he didn't know whether to return the kiss so he did nothing. It seemed to last a long time and while Laura kissed him he found himself comparing it to the kiss he shared last night with Jess. That had been new and exciting, this was just as he remembered, but kisses from Laura no longer had that spark that they once did.

Remus pulled away, "you know if you had just said that a few months ago I would take you back with out a second thought." he took a few steps away from Laura, "but it seems to me that you only want to get back together because there is nothing better out there, but for me I think there is."

Laura felt tears welling up in her eyes.

"We broke up because of how you felt, if it hadn't happened the it would have happened another time. I'm sorry but I don't think us getting back together is the best idea, it took me such a long time to get over you, ad I don't want history to repeat its self." Remus finished.

Laura just nodded and apparate away, Remus flopped into his chair, he was so confused.

One minute his best friends ex was kissing him then his ex comes round to tell him she wants him back. This doesn't make sense at all.

I think I'll stick to teaching, the world of girls is too hard to understand, he thought.

Right I'm starting to get to the interesting parts of the story now, where things start happening. I really need to add a bit of Lily/James seeing as the whole story is meant o be about them, but I'm getting a little side traced by the whole Jess/Remus/Laura triangle thing. I know you don't want me to be mean to them but I have plans for them and you probably won't like them that much. But I I do my plan that will probably mean doing another story of if they don't die, but I'm not quite sure of that one. Does anyone think one of them would be a good idea?