Disclaimer : Okay. So, everyone but Larkime Cantrell belongs to Joanne Kathleene Rowling. Der.
Chapter One : Marauders.
Remus Lupin was a Marauder…but wasn't the typical mold for one. James Potter and Sirius Black were into rule-breaking, girls, Quidditch, and girls, and themselves. Peter Pettigrew was just kind-of there, in James' and Sirius' shadow. Remus, however, was different. He was quiet, morose, and very smart, but also quite good-looking. Though, he was like the other Marauders in one way. He was hopelessly striving for the attention of one girl, and one girl only.
Larkime (pronounced Lark (like the bird)-ah-me) Cantrell was a dark girl all around. She had intelligent, calculating amber eyes and shoulder length dark brown hair, that no matter how hard she tried, always seemed to fall into her eyes.. She always wore black make up and had a dark personality, though most boys seemed to find her deep, mysterious, and very interesting. She was a short fifth-year and was best friends with Lily Evans, a girl with wavy red hair and hazel eyes who was very pretty, and who James Potter happened to be very, very obsessed with. Lily always put up every sign of hating him, but Lark knew better. Lark was also smitten with Remus Lupin, though she'd never, ever admit it to him.
It was breakfast in the Great Hall, and Lark and Lily moved down the table, having just come from upstairs. They spotted the Marauders and Lark automatically sought out Remus. There he was, in conversation with Sirius. Sirius glanced up and winked at Lark. Unlike the vast majority of girls at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Lark found Sirius sickening and hated the way girls flocked to him like he was some brilliant display at a museum. No, Sirius Black was not Lark's type at all. Remus glanced up too, to see what Sirius was looking at, and his brilliant blue eyes met Lark's brown ones. Suddenly, Lark had an insane desire to run over to Remus and hug him, and to tell him that she really, really, REALLY liked him, but she fought down the urge and merely flicked her eyes to the empty space her and Lily were heading towards.
"Are you EVER going to tell him, Lark?" Lily asked in-between bites of eggs. Lark shook her dark head, glaring moodily at her sausages. She hated hiding things from people. It seemed so juvenile, but she couldn't just tell Remus that she had been in love with him since she had even understood love. The way he laughed so quietly, and his brilliant blue eyes and his quiet, intelligent, musical voice…and his hair and the way it frosted his eyes so perfectly and the way he could have such a spirited conversation on just about any subject for hours, and how he could draw you into him with only a few words…make you feel what he was saying and make you want to sit there for hours and look into the icy blue swirls of his soul…and the way that he made any subject interesting…no, she most certainly could not tell him that.
"Lark?" Lily's voice brought her back to Earth with a jarring crash.
"What?" She asked, startled.
"Are you ever going to tell Remus?" Lily asked, a slightly amused smirk playing about her lips.
Lark rolled her eyes.
"No. I just can't. It'd be to weird." Lark said quietly. She could just see Remus from here. He was eating his eyes occasionally sweeping the Great Hall, but mostly they were just focused on the Transfiguration book in front of him.
Remus Lupin watched Larkime Cantrell walk by him and his fellow Marauders at the Gryffindor table. He was talking to Sirius about her when Sirius looked up and winked at someone. Remus followed his gaze and his eyes met the dark pools that belonged to his only love.
"Moony, tell her, mate." Sirius said, watching Remus stare after her. Remus shook his head vaguely. He was still staring at Lark. She was so incredibly beautiful. He loved the way her dark eyes were always peeking out behind her hair, and the way she talked so fluently her voice sounded like a river…how she was so polite and nice to people, especially younger students. He loved how her laugh sound like distant bells, and how she was so intelligent and you could always find her reading up on some fascinating subject. He loved how when a teacher asked a question she put her hand up uncertainly but always gave the precise answer. He loved how, in the Gryffindor common room, she was always saying something that had the people around her laughing. He loved how she loved to make people smile, but had such a hard time doing it herself…but when she did, it was like a glorious sunset to Remus. He would never forget the time that she had been sitting with a group of her friends, and they had her laughing so hard she had slipped right out of her chair and lay on the floor, laughing her head off. Remus had been sorely tempted to go over and laugh with her, to hold her in his arms and watch her smile.
"Moony, mate?" James said, leaning around Sirius.
"What?" Remus asked, tearing his eyes away from the vision of perfection he'd been staring at and looking at James.
"Staring at Lark again?" James asked sympathetically. Remus nodded slightly, returning to his Transfiguration book.
"Moony, why are you reading that on a Saturday?" Peter asked. Remus shrugged, not even really seeing the book at all, and sneaking glances over at Lark. She and Lily got up and began to make their way out of the Great Hall, and James looked at Lily.
"HEY EVANS!" He yelled, causing half the students to look at him. Lily rolled her eyes and muttered something to Lark, who smiled faintly. They approached and Remus found himself almost breathless when Lark sat next to him, preparing to watch the show between Lily and James.
"Hello Remus." She said quietly, smiling at him. He didn't know it, but her heart was racing just as much as his was.
"Potter." Lily said calmly. James looked at her carefully.
"So, you know, there's a Hogsmeade visit next weekend and…" James' voice trailed off, and he looked only slightly hopefully at Lily.
"You were wondering if I'd go with you?" Lily finished for him. Lark always thought Lily was a bit cruel to James, but she knew that Lily was only covering up her own feelings for him.
"Yes." James said. He and Lily were standing about a foot apart.
"Y…NO!" Lily shouted, laughing along with the rest of the Gryffindor table.
"Try to not be so arrogant and fatheaded and maybe I'll reconsider!" Lily added nastily. Lark felt a pang of pity for James as he sat down, looking very much like Lily had slapped him across the face.
"Come on Lark." Lily said. Lark got reluctantly up from the table, but stopped half-way through.
"No, Lily, you go on ahead, I have to talk to Remus about some Charms homework." Remus looked up at Lark as Lily walked away, hardly daring to believe that the girl of his dreams had just passed up being with her best friend to be with him.
Okay, I'm getting tired of writing. More to come so read, reveiw, and look out! Hearts :)
