You give your hand to me
Then you say hello
I can hardly speak
My heart is beating so
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well
But you don't know me

No, you don't know the one
Who dreams of you at night
And longs to kiss your lips
And longs to hold you tight
Oh I'm just a friend
That's all I've ever been
'Cause you don't know me

- Michael Buble "You Don't Know Me"

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Where You Belong

Chapter 15

Andrea made her way through the many hallways and stairs to get to the gargoyle that served as the entrance to Headmaster Dumbledore's office. It had been a couple of days since she had been ambushed by her five housemates but this was the first chance she had to discuss her new plans with the headmaster. Andrea hoped that the headmaster would not be too upset with her for changing her mind after she had asked him to do so much for her.

As Andrea stood before the gargoyle waiting for Dumbledore to take her up her thoughts drifted to the past few days. Ever since the six of them had sat down to talk there had been decidedly less tension among the group. Andrea, Sirius and James were by no means best friends but they were learning to get along better. Remus was ecstatic that his friends were all getting along better and Lily was much happier and warmer towards James since the talk.

Andrea was pulled from her musings as Dumbledore arrived next to her.

"Well Ms. Taylor are you ready to go up?"

"Yes sir," Andrea answered as she followed Dumbledore up the stairs after saying the password, 'blood pops', causing the gargoyle to move.

"Alright Ms. Taylor what brings you up to my office on such a pleasant day such as this?"

Andrea took a quick glance at the window seeing a grey and cold day beyond before looking at Dumbledore like he was crazy.

"Well sir I was wondering if you had, had a chance to…" Andrea was cut off by a wave of Dumbledore's hand.

"No I'm sorry my dear I'm afraid that I have not yet had the time to inquire about your transfer. I was hoping that if I gave you some more time you would change your mind. I find that my wish was only that of an old mans. I will contact the other schools as soon as I can."

"Um…headmaster?"

"Yes Ms. Taylor?"

"Well actually I've changed my mind," Andrea muttered finding sudden interest in the elaborate carpet below her.

"May I inquire as to your sudden change of heart?"

"My friends cornered me and we had a long talk and they talked me into staying."

"But I thought you told me that anything your friends said would not be enough to make you stay, due to other circumstances. What changed?" Dumbledore asked with the twinkle becoming more evident in his crystal blue eyes.

"Well I had more then just my friends corner me. Those who had once caused me to want to leave were forced to talk to me and we figured out why we could not get along. We may not be best friends but we've worked out some of our differences and have agreed to continue to work them out."

"Yes well sometimes our friends are not enough to convince us of what is right. I'm glad that you have decided to stay here at Hogwarts. I will be sure to inform Professor McGonagall that she will not be losing one of her best students," Dumbledore stated with the very evident twinkle in his eyes.

"Thank you Professor and I'm sorry for wasting your time."

"Not at all Ms. Taylor. Not at all."

Andrea recognized the dismissal and quietly left the headmaster's office. Dumbledore watched the unique girl leave his office and smiled a sad smile. He was glad the girl had changed her mind about transferring; he was not too keen to let this poor lost girl out of his sight.

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"Hey Ang don't you think you're being a little to enthusiastic about getting your work done early?" Remus asked as he approached their study table in the library eying Andrea's pile of finished essays, some that weren't even due for another week.

"No. Professor Caldwell was so impressed with Davies improvement in potions after Christmas that she insisted I keep tutoring him, so unfortunately I won't be able to join you guys on our normal study routine," Andrea answered as she started to gather up her work.

"Oh."

"But don't worry if you need me too look over you potions work I'll do it in the common room later, ok?"

"Oh…sure."

"Oh and Rem could you do me a really big favor, and explain to Lily why I won't be here?"

"Sure."

Remus wanted to say more but he wasn't sure what to say or how to say it so he stayed silent and watched Andrea walk over to an empty table by the Potions section. Remus probably would have stood there staring after her if Lily hadn't shown up and diverted his attention.

"Where's Andrea?"

"Over there," Remus replied motioning vaguely to the Potions section.

"What's she doing over there?"

"Tutoring Davies."

"But I thought she was only doing that over Christmas break?"

"Yea well Caldwell wants her to continue since she did such a good job," Remus muttered in response while pulling out his Transfiguration essay.

"Is it such a good idea for her to be left alone with him especially since you two 'broke up' only a week and a half ago?" Lily questioned carefully watching Remus as he answered.

"She can handle him. Besides it's only been a week and a half and she already rejected him once, he won't go after her again."

"I don't know I've heard that Davies can get quite stubborn and persistent."

"Well like I said she can handle him."

Lily watched Remus carefully as he went about working on his Transfiguration essay. After they had convinced Andrea to stay at Hogwarts her and Remus decided to drop the charade of them dating and told everyone that they were better off being just friends. Although more then half the school doubted that they were a couple in the first place seeing as they never really acted like a couple. It had been a week and a half since they 'broke up' but they were both acting weirdly around each other. Andrea had stopped being so affectionate towards Remus, no longer would she give him a hug on whim or rest her head on his shoulder in fact she avoided physical contact with him as much as possible. Remus seemed less willing to talk to her about everything anymore which resulted in them rarely talking about anything except homework.

Lily thought she knew why her friends were acting so strange lately but that didn't mean that she liked their new attitudes. She was determined to do everything possible to change the awkwardness between the two.

--

Andrea was torn out of her musings by a sudden squeal near her right ear. She was sitting between Lily and one of her other roommates, Sandra. Upon hearing the squeal both Lily and Andrea looked to Sandra to see what she was squealing about.

"What in the hell was all that noise over?" Andrea inquired.

"We're having a girl's night tonight in our dorm. Isn't that fantastic! Late night snacks, gossip and truth or dare till we drop!" Sandra exclaimed.

"This is going to be such fun!" Lily added excitedly. "Aren't you excited Ang?"

"Sure it sounds like it'll be a lot of fun."

"Hey can we join in on the fun of truth or dare?" Sirius asked

"Not unless you've inexplicitly changed genders and didn't tell anyone Black," Megan, another of Lily and Andrea's roommates, answered.

"Oh you girls are no fun!" James exclaimed. "What's a game of truth or dare without the guys."

"A normal game without the threat of secrets being leaked," Andrea retorted. "You know I'm liking this idea more and more girls. Let's go get this party started."

With that the girls all got up at once and left the hall.

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"Ok so Andrea spill what's going on between you and Lupin?" Sandra asked trying to disguise the giggles she was holing in.

"Nothing's going on between us. I mean we tried a relationship and that didn't work out so we decided that we're better off as friends."

"Yea but you guys didn't make a great effort at being a couple really," Megan added.

"Besides I've seen you look at each other with longing eyes," Sandra pointed out looking straight at Andrea's slightly blushing cheeks. Andrea gave Lily a pleading look to help her but Lily just smiled an unusually evil smile.

"I have to agree with them Ang…"

"Oh no, not you too Lils!" Andrea exclaimed outraged.

"Sorry but you and Remus make such a great couple that I think you two should try it again but this time I think you should really try at it not just holding hands but really be a couple."

Andrea looked around the room at the three conspiring faces and realized that she really had no say in what was going on. The others wanted her and Remus to really go out and they were determined to get their wish. Surprisingly Andrea wasn't completely against the idea. She missed the closeness her and Remus used to have before they 'broke up' and she really wanted that back.

Even though Andrea was sort of in favor of this obvious set up that was going to happen between her and Remus didn't mean she could go along with it easily. The other three grew slightly worried at the truly evil smirk that crossed Andrea's face.

"Well Lils since were talking about great couples that need to give a real relationship a chance why don't we talk about you and James?"

"Me and…Potter?"

"Yeah you know you two have been spending more time together and you're yelling at him for less then half that time," Megan elaborated once again regaining her smirk.

"Yeah well I've decided it's useless to continually yell at him he never listens to me and besides it's damaging to my vocal chords," Lily defended.

"No Lily ever since we all had that talk you've been civil towards James."

"And the last time he asked you out it looked like it was quite hard for you to refuse him. If I didn't know any better I'd say our Lily has a crush on Mr. Potter," Sandra said.

"Oh goodie two couples to play matchmaker with!" Megan practically squealed.