Chapter 6: Why?

Rejected, the boys went to their room. It was already afternoon now, and the girls showed no more interest than a day ago.

"Why do we even try?" Remus asked his friends.

"I don't know… There's just something there that I can't just ignore," James replied.

"I'm still trying to figure out how I could have overlooked Kara during first year," Sirius added.

"I never overlooked Amy, that's for sure… You know, I've liked her since we first got here?"

"What?" James and Sirius were both surprised. "Why didn't you ever say anything," James asked.

"Because you would have tried to use one of your plans."

"Good point."

Sirius spoke up again, back into his missing-Kara tone. "Kara told me she used to like me when we first got here. I remember she was a great friend, and then she just drifted away in third year."

"Wasn't that when you started to go out with Erika?" Remus remembered it well, because he almost had gotten the courage to ask out Amy then… almost.

"Erika… oh, yeah! I remember now. That was a long time ago… and we went out, what, two months?"

"It still is your record," James reminded him.

"Yeah. She kept track of that kind of thing. She told me what she hears about me. I'm school-wide known as the fun and fast relationship guy."

"That can't be too bad."

"Except when you find the one you might like to stay with for more than six months."

"More than SIX!" Now it was Remus' and James' turn to be shocked.

"You've never even thought about more than two months," James said in complete shock.

"Your last ten relationships didn't pass a week," Remus said, as shocked as James.

"No wonder she looked as if she was going to slap me when I told her it took me all those girls to find she was the one for me."

"Actually, she probably knows it's the truth. Besides, she's practically the only girl in our year, out of Slytherin, you haven't dated. There may be a few Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw girls somewhere in the school. That's the part she sees it as." Remus always was more sensitive to girls' emotions… except when it came to Amy.

In the girl's dorm, those three in question were talking. "Why us?" Lily asked them.

"I don't know. Sirius told me some lie about having to date all those other girls before realizing I was the one for him. That hurt way too much."

"I had no idea he liked you," Lily said.

"Well, he has been talking to me more than he has since third year… that's when I stopped liking him."

"You used to like him?" Lily was definitely surprised.

"During our first two years. Once I saw him with Erika… I just let go."

Amy, during all this, had remained very quiet, thinking still. Lily had been the second to come upstairs… a few seconds after she stopped yelling at herself. She'd still been crying. "What's wrong, Amy?" Lily had asked her. She had replied, "Remus doesn't like me at all! He said we could just be friends. I only suggested it because he looked uncomfortable, and then…" She'd started crying again. "I saw you two outside… you guys didn't look like friends." "That's what I thought too. When I asked him if he wanted to be more than that, he apologized!" She had broken out into sobs. "Amy," Lily had began, "I don't know what happened, but I can guarantee you he does care… that's why he said sorry. I bet he was afraid he'd made you uncomfortable." She was still crying when Kara walked in, and those two had begun to talk.

She spoke up, finally. "He saw me."

They both turned their heads to her. "What?"

"Remus. He saw me when I was invisible to everyone else. He told me… that he'd seen me since first year."

"That's sweet," Kara said.

Lily's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. "Don't you see, Kara? This is Remus we're talking about. Think about what it could mean. Or, rather, what it does mean, since he said it."

"Well, for one, it means it's the truth, since he hardly ever lies, and never for a girl. Unlike some other boys I know…"

"Kara. Don't you get it?" She then whispered into her friends ear.

"No!" Lily simply looked at her. "Yes?" Now Kara's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open.

"What? What is it?" Amy was confused.

Just as Kara was about to tell her, Lily cupped her hand over her friend's mouth. "I swear you'll figure it out eventually, if I'm right." Just then, Kara pulled her friend's hand down.

"And I'm sure we are."