AN: I started writing my own story. That's why I have been so slow to update. And the fact that I only got one review last chapter.
Anyone seen the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Movie? I'm dying to see it! My mom won't let me see it until my sister finishes the book, though…
ThatWeasley: Thanks! You made my day :)
Meghen, Lily and Bridget awoke the next morning at the same time. After they all had rubbed sleep from their eyes, the events from the previous night flooded back on Meghen and she mentally tried to come up with a word for I in the abc's of love…
"Meghen," Lily began quietly, breaking Meghen out of her contemplations.
"Do you want to tell us what happened?" Bridget continued.
"Remus broke up with me," Meghen whispered.
Bridget and Lily shared a glance. "Well he must have been a total asshole to not see how great you really are," Lily said comfortingly.
"How did it happen?" Bridget asked. Meghen had broken up with quite a few guys in the past—but she usually didn't even care that much. What made Remus any different?
"Well, we were dancing. He said he had something to tell me and he looked really grim. It always happens like that," Meghen said dourly.
"You know, maybe he was about to say something else, like tell you something he did that was against school rules or tell you a secret he trusted you with," Lily suggested.
Meghen stopped crying. "You think?"
"Definitely," Bridget confirmed.
"Okay, I'll talk to him in a little bit. Thanks gals. You'll understand when you fall for James and Sirius." Meghen laughed at the expression on their faces.
"I guess I'll never understand, then," Lily growled. "We're just friends!"
"Lils, if you really believed that, then you wouldn't get all defensive over the subject," Bridget pointed out, smirking.
"And you've already fallen for Sirius, or else you would deny it," Lily shot back.
"I'm off to the Great Hall. See you when you get some common sense," Bridget laughed as she left the dormitory.
As she came down the stairs and crossed to the back of the portrait of the fat lady, she began to wonder what would happen now that Lily and James were friends. They would obviously get together eventually and that would force her to be around Sirius more often.
She wandered aimlessly around the halls. A few months ago, she would have hated to be within ten feet of Sirius, but now…
If Lily had found that James wasn't as bad as he seemed, couldn't Sirius be the same way? There was a small nagging in the back of Bridget's mind that she didn't want to fall. What if Sirius really was only a player, and she was just his pawn in his game of showing he could get whatever he wanted?
Bridget turned the corner and sat there on the floor, leaning against the wall. She needed time to think, and her friends couldn't help her with this. It was something she had to discover on her own.
She heard two voices coming from farther down the hallway. A high voice giggled and Bridget heard a rough voice say that a broom closet would be around the next corner.
Not wanting to stay and witness something that would cause Bridget to lose her appetite for breakfast, she headed in the voices direction to make her presence known.
And there was Sirius with a ditzy blonde, Gasmel, on his arm, walking towards her. He looked up as he heard Bridget approaching and time seemed to stop for both Bridget and Sirius.
It was at that moment that Sirius realized that he would never be able to get over Bridget and anything that he did would be useless. He would spend his whole life trying to get her and when he got close, everything would slip away because he would mess up.
Bridget glared at Sirius and pushed past him and ran down the hall. He didn't see the tears well up in her eyes as he called, "Angel! Wait—I need to tell you…"
Bridget wasn't listening. She shouldn't care—Sirius could have Gasmel. She wasn't even his friend, let alone girlfriend. But why did she care so much, then?
She darted inside the first broom closet she saw, but when she imagined Sirius doing who knows what with Gasmel, she left heading towards a secluded area in the castle where no one could find her—the room of requirement.
It had been a coincidence when she stumbled upon it in third year after being chased by Henry Alamare. It was quite scary what thirteen-year-old male hormones could do. He had been asking her out for a month before, but Bridget saw him only as a boring Quidditch obsessed pervert—not a good combination.
She had been hoping to find somewhere no one else could find and the door had appeared magically. Bridget was only slightly surprised, for these things happened every day at Hogwarts. Since then she had visited it often in secret.
Now the room would help her hide from everyone at the school. She wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone—even Lily or Meghen. She needed to think out the situation alone.
Why couldn't she think straight? 'All I want to do is slap Sirius for stealing my heart away and then breaking it,' Bridget thought angrily. 'Wait…I don't even like Sirius! I don't…'
"Oh my god," Bridget cried out. "I do!"
"Where's Bee?" Meghen asked Lily at breakfast in the Great Hall.
Lily could only shrug her shoulders helplessly.
At that moment Sirius entered the Great Hall and took a seat next to Remus, a few places over from Lily and Meghen. Lily couldn't help but notice that he looked more gloomy and depressed than she had ever seen him.
"Well, Megs, you promised that you would go and talk to Remus," Lily said, pushing her plate away from her and giving Meghen an encouraging smile.
"You gals love to torture me," Meghen groaned as she slid out of her seat and slowly approached Remus.
"Hey, um, Remus? You want to talk?" Meghen managed feebily.
Remus looked hopeful as he replied, "Love to." The two weaved through the throngs of students and disappeared out the doors.
Lily, left alone, decided to go sit with James and Sirius and see what happened with Sirius. She took Remus's empty seat and casually said, "Hey James."
"Hullo, Lily," James grinned. "You going to the Quidditch match next weekend?"
"Of course! Where else would I be?" Lily smiled. She glanced over at Sirius and asked, "What have you been up to, Sirius?"
"She hates me," Sirius muttered, half to himself and half to Lily and James. "She'll never look at me again."
Lily and James both knew without a doubt that 'she' was Bridget. Sirius didn't care about any of the other girls and if they hated him.
"I'll go talk some sense into her," Lily offered. "Where is she?"
"She ran off before I could explain anything. I have no idea." Sirius turned to James. "It was such a dumb idea to make her jealous, Prongs."
"It wasn't all my fault!" James exclaimed. "That's what you usually do to get girls to go out with you! How was I supposed to know Bridget would be different?"
"Maybe the fact that she actually has a personality!" Sirius sighed. "Yeah, you're right, it's my problem for going through with it." He ran a hand through his hair. "If she listens to you at all, Lily, tell her that I want to talk to her to explain the whole thing."
"Will do," Lily promised before she left the Great Hall.
"Meghen, have you ever wondered where I really go every month?" Remus asked, knowing he was treading in deep waters.
"I guess I knew that you didn't always leave the school every month to tend to your sick grandmother," Meghen admitted. "In all honesty, I assumed you had a good reason not to tell me and I trusted you."
Remus took a deep breath. At least they had found somewhere private, where no one could eavesdrop on their conversation. "Meghen, I'm a werewolf."
Meghen studied him for a minute. "How do you cope? Where do you go?"
"The Whomping Willow," Remus said.
"But you're so…normal. Don't take that as an insult—it just seems weird that the school has a werewolf among them and no one has guessed. Who else knows?"
"James, Sirius, Peter, the staff, Lily, Snape, and now you. I'm telling you because I completely understand if you want to break up. I would never want to hurt you," Remus said sincerely.
"Oh, Remus. You'd be hurting me more if I didn't get to be with you. I'd hardly care if you were a death eater at this point. I'll keep your secret."
Their lips met and Meghen whispered against them, "I don't know about you, but I'm in too deep to get out."