Fifi ran through the halls determined on making it back to the Gryffindor tower and her room before she ran into Sirius again.
"I can't believe it," she muttered over and over again. She couldn't believe that Gabi and Remus were IN LOVE with each other. "It does make since, they are so similar," she considered about it all. She gave the fat lady the password, and ran past all of her friends besides Sirius (although she wondered if he could even be considered a friend), up the girls' stairs, into her room and flopped on her bed. Overcome by emotions she began to cry and cry into her pillow.
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Sirius came into the common room just in time to see Fifi flying up the stairs looking upset.
"Shit," he muttered hoping that wasn't his fault. He had just wanted some answers and had hoped to tell her how he felt. Well, another time – although it had been a very long time, it was almost the middle of November. He then turned his head to see all of his friends looking confused. He walked over acting like her had no idea, and sat down. He couldn't keep his eyes of Remus and Gabi – he just couldn't believe it. LOVE? Them, it just seemed so strange.
"What was all that about?" Lily asked them. Everyone just nodded their heads and looked at each other confused, "awesome. So no one knows anything?" she checked once more.
"Nope," James responded. Lily's heart fluttered as she looked at his beautiful messy hair, and amazing eyes. Not even to mention his smile.
"I guess I'll go work with her," she responded, knowing she could work it out. They had grown closer and closer since they admitted their inner secrets.
"No, I will," Gabi, replied with a smile "I want to." And with that she headed up the stairs.
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Gabi headed up the stairs taking deep breathes. She knew she would need some serious mental stability if this was about Sirius. She made it up to the sixth year girls' dormitories and knocked on the door.
"Who is it," replied a clearly sobbing Fifi.
"Me," Gabi replied opening the door. Fifi knew that voice. How could she not? But she turned to face her just to make sure she was hearing through her tears correctly. Gabi flinched back when she received a look from Fifi that said, "what the hell is wrong with you?"
"HOW COULD YOU NOT HAVE TOLD ME?" Fifi yelled at the top of her lungs. Down in the common room her friends flinched and felt very bad for Gabi (Lily even told them "I knew I should have gone" to which she received another knee weakening smile and look from James.
"I don't know what you are talking about," Gabi replied calmly.
"You and Remus," Fifi informed her with a tone that suggested she was speaking to a younger child who knew nothing.
Gabi's face went from surprise to horror to being upset to being scared in such a short time period that you would not have thought it humanly possible "how to do you know?" she managed to stutter.
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe because I was in the CLASSROOM that you made out with him in JUST A MINITUE AGO," she half spoke and half yelled. Gabi's face palled to such a white that she could have blended into a wedding dress.
"You where?" she questioned with a scared expression,
"Yeah. I was," Fifi muttered turning around. She began crying again not knowing if it was for Gabi or Sirius. Gabi thought it was all her fault and her heart almost broke.
"We thought it would be better, incase we broke up. I am so sorry. I wanted to tell you Fifi, I did. I really did, but then …" Gabi trailed off and began crying herself for allowing her feelings for Remus keep her from telling her best friends.
"You really LOVE him," Fifi questioned Gabi.
"Yes," Gabi looked up at Fifi. The girls although still crying smiled at each other and hugged each other before walked out of the room arms hooked down the stairs to their other friends.
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The friends looked around uncomfortably as they saw Fifi and Gabi come downstairs arms hooked, tears still coming down their faces and rather outrageously large smiles.
"So, we heard some yelling," Margo mentioned with a laugh.
"WHAT DID YOU HEAR?" Gabi and Fifi blurted out with panic stricken faces.
"Relax ladies, nothing important," Peter told them with a smirk. Before James attacked.
"We only heard … hmm. Oh yeah. 'How could you not have told me.' And uhh," he trailed off trying to remember.
" And 'classroom' and 'just a minute ago'," Peter replied.
" And 'love'," Sirius replied with quietly with a gulp. Gabi and Fifi looked at each other and decided that in no way could they have figured out what really happened.
"Anyways, lets go eat!" Fifi replied trying to get everyone's mind on something else.
"Okay, you PI-" James began but when seeing Lily's worried and upset look his heart melted and he changed it to "PRINCESS." The smile and thankful look from Lily that James received where enough to make him feel like her would rather see that look everyday then to ever play quidditch again. Which is saying a lot considering – it was James and QUIDDITCH.
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Late that night in the boys' dorms after James and Peter had fallen asleep Remus lay on his bed. Reading. Sirius walked out of the shower, changed into his boxers and walked over to Remus. The silence was eerie.
"I know," he whispered to him. Remus jumped off his bed and looked a mix of confused and scared.
"Know what?" he asked him.
"About you and Gabi," he replied simply as if it was just an everyday fact. James went utterly white – similar to Gabi's reaction earlier.
"You do? How?" he asked still not believing it.
"I saw you too. In the empty classroom earlier today," Sirius replied matter of fact-ley.
Remus turned as red as a granny apple, "you did?"
"Yeah. Interesting I didn't already know, huh. You know since we are best friends and everything," Sirius said. Remus could feel the sarcasm dripping of that sentence and onto his face. But before he could answer he saw Sirius get on his own bed, get under the covers, and pull the curtain shut. "Goodnight," he told Moony with an obviously hurt voice.
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"REMUS," Gabi shrieked coming down the stairs with the other girls and seeing the boys "I need to talk to you about …." Not knowing what to say because she couldn't be honest in front of everyone who didn't know the truth.
"Prefect duties, yeah me to," he replied. He of course had already come up with an excuse to tell her Sirius knew so he would just do it now.
"You guys go ahead," she told her friends "I have to … this could take a while." They watched as the friends left and then turned to each other.
"Fifi knows!" she blurted out and the exact same time as Remus blurted "Si knows!"
"WHAT?" they said again at the same time. They really were getting too similar it scared them sometimes.
"Okay, so they both know. What the hell are we supposed to do," she questioned his with a saddened expression begging for help.
"I don't know. I mean," it broke his heart when he couldn't help her " I guess we will have to tell all of them."
"I was afraid you would say that. Margo and Lily are going to beat me with a stick."
"So will James and Peter," he told her.
"I'll leave them to you," she said with a sweet smile and began to walk to breakfast pulling him with her. But before they left he kissed her sweetly on the cheek.
"Let the fun begin," he said. No need to tell you or Gabi, but sarcasm was all over that comment.
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