Second chapter of this story! Yay! I hope you'll like it!
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In the meantime, Lena had found her friend Haley Richmond in the Gryffindor Common Room and taken her with her to their bedroom.
There, she had told Haley what had happened (or almost happened) in the Room of Requirement between her and Sirius, but the girl with the dark-blonde, curly hair did not show the reaction Lena had expected.
She had thought that Haley would say that she was crazy because she didn't like "the gang", as she called the Marauders, and James's girlfriend Lily Evans at all.
Haley had never understood why Lena wanted to be their friend because they all – especially Black and Potter – seemed to be so arrogant and Pettigrew very slow in the uptake.
Lena had taken her to the Room of Requirement once to a meeting of "the gang" and she had hated these people from the beginning.
Haley had promised to never tell anyone about their hideout, but that was her only connection to them.
The only "thing" that had made this meeting more supportable for Haley had been her conversation with Remus Lupin… but that was another story…
But Haley did not talk badly about "the gang" again or about Sirius- no, Lena's story didn't seem to be a surprise at all.
There had always been more between her best friend Lena and that Black and it seemed as if everybody knew that- except Lena and Sirius!
Lena could not bear Haley's silence any longer and so asked, slightly annoyed: "Well? What are you thinking about the whole affair, Hal?"
The other girl first rolled her eyes and then, finally, answered: "What do you want me to think about it? Obviously, there was something between you two!"
She got up from Lena's bed, from where she had been watching her friend walk nervously through the room like a maniac while telling her story.
Haley stopped her friend by laying her hands on Lena's shoulders and looked into her remarkable blue eyes.
"What does your heart say? Do you feel more than friendship for Black?"
Haley didn't want to tell her friend that everybody knew the truth, so she tried the indirect way by simply asking her best friend.
The dark-haired girl stared back into the brown eyes of Haley, thinking hard.
"Well," she finally said "I think – yes- there is more than friendship! Or not? Oh, I have no idea!"
Lena sat down on her bad, burying her face in her hands and murmuring her next words into them: "At least, there was more a few minutes ago, when he looked at me with his beautiful grey eyes, looked directly into my soul…" (Haley rolled her eyes again.)
Her voice became dreamy, but she immediately got up from her bed, whey she realized what she had just said.
"Oh my goodness!" she put her hands in front of her mouth, her eyes widened. "There is really more! Or at least, I feel more for Sirius!"
She sat down again and Haley was next to her, her arm around the miserable girl.
"But what am I supposed to do now? Does he feel the same for me, Hal? He always has dates with his stupid and brainless groupies! So, can he really have only one girlfriend? Me?"
The last word had sounded very hopeful, but a moment later, Lena was desperate again: "And what if our friendship is destroyed by these feelings! Hal, I couldn't bear losing Sirius!"
Then, she was creating air-holes with her gaze, deep in thought.
Haley again didn't answer directly. It was obvious that Sirius felt the same, but on the one hand, Lena should find out herself, and on the other, she would not be sad if the two wouldn't become a couple because she thought that her friend deserved a better guy than that skirt-chaser! And if their friendship broke? Well- she wouldn't mind that either.
So, she just suggested: "Why don't you find out what he feels?"
"And how?" Lena was now looking back into Haley's brown eyes.
An idea had formed in Haley's mind, with which she could either really help her friend or get finally rid of Black.
Of course, she wanted her friend to be happy, but she didn't trust Black one millimetre! He had already broken the hearts of so many girls and Lena should not be among them!
"At first, you should make sure that you two are still friends, which means: talk to Sirius! And I suggest" the blonde girl cheered inside because of her huge cleverness "that you go out with another boy to see Black's reaction to that!"
Her beautiful friend wanted to protest immediately, springing up from her bed again, but Haley did not give her the opportunity of saying one syllable: "Come on, Len! Jealousy can be the best proof of somebody's feelings! As a friend, Sirius won't care about your love life, but if he's also in love with you, he will! Trust me!"
These words seemed to work and Lena nodded slowly.
Then, Haley proposed that her friend should finally go out with the Ravenclaw Marc Hopkins, who regularly asked Lena for a date when they were having breakfast, always receiving a "no".
Lena felt better now. She would find out what Sirius felt for her!
But what made her feel sick was the conversation that she and Sirius would certainly have soon!
At the same time, Sirius Black, the girls' hero of Hogwarts, had also found himself a listener – Remus.
He had silently asked his werewolf-friend if he could have a quick word with him – ALONE – and Remus had agreed, with surprise in his brown eyes. He knew that Sirius only wanted to talk to him about girls (not that something like that would happen very often) – for other topics there was, of course, James!
So, Remus expected that the conversation would be about Lena. It was really a mystery for Remus, why James always wanted to talk to him, too, about love even though he had never really had a relationship because of what he was. Maybe it was his ability to understand the feelings of other people.
The two friends got up and went to the door and also said that they wanted to go to the library.
Peter and James looked at each other, very confused. James shrugged again and just said: "Well, the library seems to be quite a famous place today!"
But Remus and Sirius did not walk to the library, but into the nearest empty classroom they could find.
The black-haired boy did not even wait till Remus had sat down on a chair, but began straightaway: "Moony, I feel more than friendship for Lena! There has just been a strange feeling in my stomach, when you found us, and I think that this feeling had already been there before, but I had not been able to understand it because I have never really been in love with a girl! But you already knew that!"
These words burst out of Sirius in only few seconds.
Remus nodded, but answered nothing. He just observed his friend walk past him every few seconds. He felt that Sirius did not really need somebody to talk to, but just somebody who would listen to him.
Suddenly, while pacing through the room, there was his cheeky smile back on his lips.
"You know that I am a very stubborn person, don't you, Rem?"
The other boy nodded again.
"I want Lena to become my girlfriend and I usually get what I want!"
Oh, that was just too right! Remus had always been somebody who merely listened to tales about the love lives of others, but had none himself because of what he was.
Maybe he should take all his courage and ask Haley Richmond whether she would like to go out with him.
He adored her very much – she was clever, beautiful, shared also many of his interests (like a certain fondness of chocolate) and, what was even more important to him, she didn't avoid him, even though she knew that he transformed to a werewolf once a month! A girl like that was really hard to find.
Sirius looked out of the window now and said nothing.
But when he finally turned around to look at his friend, the "adviser" could see the bright light of a settled plan in Sirius's eyes: "I will talk to her and tell her everything!"
For the first time since they had entered the room, Remus said something: "What if she doesn't feel the same? Have you ever thought about that? Remember that Lena is also our friend!"
But Sirius was known to be very impulsive and dismissed this possibility with a movement of his hand: "Let's talk about these things after Len's and my conversation!"
He moved to the door, obviously very keen to bring his plan to life, the smile of a winner on his face.
"Thanks for your help, Moony!"
And then, he was gone.
Remus shook his head. His friend was really too sure of himself at some times and too thoughtless.
The brown-haired boy with the silver streaks, suspected that Lena must have similar feelings for his friend, but what if they were all wrong?
This whole story could end really badly!
To be continued...