July 2nd, Tuesday

Minutes spent worrying about Remus: 0 (ladies and gentlemen, I think we're heading towards a new trend…), persons of the order I tried to avoid because they saw my very embarrassing display of childish affection for Remus: 7; times I knocked something over because I ran into Snape and he smirked at me knowingly: 4; times I embarrassed myself in general: countless.

Right in the middle of hiding under my covers in shame, I fell asleep. Slept straight through until very early this morning. First thing on my mind this morning was: He's back! Practically jumped out of bed and ran over to his room. Of course he was still sleeping, which was a good thing. My concern for his health was so big that I actually managed to back out of his room after a while without knocking anything over and waking him up. Went back to bed for a little while. Had to make a little detour to get back to my room because Snape just came up the stairs and I absolutely couldn't bring myself to face him. I should, though. I mean, I'm 26, it's not like I have to explain myself to him. I've let that git mock me for long enough, I think it's time to show him the strong, independent, devil-may-care side of me.

Panicked at the sight of the sneer on his face and ran up the stairs to hide in the attic with buckbeak. Well, I've wanted to visit him for a while now.

Later

The best thing has happened: Remus has to stay here and recover for at least a week. One whole week where I won't be the only sick, bored outcast, yay! One week I get to spend in Remus' company and get to know him better. Oh, this is going to be so great! I'm not at all sorry for him. Serves him right for not telling me anything. But, yay, one whole week with Remus.

Now that I know he'll be here all week, I don't know what to do. Should I go to his room and suggest we play little thinking games? Or tell each other stories from our childhood? I just don't know where to begin with the "getting to know Remus"–plan.

Well, comes time, comes wisdom.

A/N: I know, this is short again, but I decided that there should only be one entry for each update, so one chapter is one day in Tonks' life. Sorry, but I just think it makes sense this way. Still, thank you all for sticking with me and Tonks.

As I expected, the age discussion finally came up. Well, I think James and Lily married some time after graduation and got Harry at about 20 or 21, so that makes Remus 36 or 37 now. But for those of you who think Remus is about 50 – how do you get that age? I mean, he's the same age as Harry's parents, and I think they can't be older than maximum 25, because in canon we learn that Harry has got pictures of his parents showing a young couple with a baby, so they had them when they were still pretty young. I made Tonks a little bit older: She's described as "some years" older than Harry – I made that ten, so Tonks is 26 and therefore the age difference between her and Remus is 10 years, maybe 11. When Tonks says "he's ten years older than me", she didn't count the months, it's just a rough statement. I think in canon it would be slightly more, like 13 or 14 years, but it works better for my fic.

I think the age difference between Sirius and Andromeda was rather large. It could've been about 15 years.

And thanks again to all of you who sent reviews – thank you! You are great!