Remus felt absolutely terrible as he went up to bed that night. Never in his life had he ever felt this bad. He couldn't believe what he had just done. He had meant to talk to Adriana, not kiss her. And what felt even worse was that he had done something so mean to Kira. He wasn't supposed to be the one who got caught up in messes like this. That was for guys like Sirius ...

He breathed a deep sigh as he sat down on his bed. His stomach growled; he had avoided dinner so that he wouldn't have to face either girl. Left alone with his thoughts he tried to think of what he could do to fix things with both girls. After all, just because he didn't want to date Kira, didn't mean that he didn't value her friendship. But it was doubtful that she would speak to him for a while after that.

Christ! He thought angrily. Why did girls have to be so bloody difficult? If only Adriana had realized that she liked him before he had found somebody. But she had been too keen on James to even think about him as anything more than a friend.

The door to the dormitory opened and James and Sirius waltzed in, James laughing at something Sirius had said. They didn't say anything to him until they had made themselves comfortable, and then they turned on him like the Spanish inquisition.

"Why weren't you at dinner?" James asked seriously, placing his elbows on his knees and resting his chin on his hands.

Remus shrugged, debating how much he wanted to tell his best friends.

"Yeah, Finn was asking about you." Sirius added.

"Right," said Remus, curious now as to what she had wanted to say to him. "Well-"

"It's about her isn't it?" James asked.

"That's why you're locked up here alone in your room." Sirius, who had been pacing by the window, stopped and looked at Remus, curiosity etched into his face.

"This is certainly looking interesting, isn't it Padfoot." James looked at Sirius with a smirk as he spoke.

"Yes, yes it is Prongs. Looks like our friend Moony here is having some girl troubles" Sirius took a seat next to James and they both eyed Remus with a mischievous expression.

They waited for Remus to say something, but he took to long in choosing his words. "Well ... is it about Finn?" Sirius asked.

"Or Kira?" James piped in.

"Or Finn and Kira?" Sirius said, while raising his eyebrows.

Remus ran a hand through his hair, "All bets on the last one."

"Ooh ... now this is going to be interesting." James smirked.

"What happened?" Sirius asked, at least having the courtesy to try and hide his smirk.

"Well ... Adriana has been ignoring me lately so I figured it was about time the two of us talked," they nodded in agreement "and one thing sort of led to another- "

"Moony, you dog you," James mocked.

"- and Kira caught the two of us kissing and slapped me." Remus finished, without missing a beat.

"Ouch." Sirius said sympathetically. "What are you gonna do?"

Remus shrugged helplessly. "I have no idea. It goes without saying that Kira is furious with me, and I have no idea what's going on with Adriana. Or even if anything is going on with her."

"Take it from me Moony. Finn's been going crazy for you ever since we got back here. Now, I only know a bit of what happened last year-" Remus opened his mouth to explain but Sirius held up his hand and kept talking, "but whatever it was it sure had an effect on her. She wants you bad."

"And you better take advantage of this, my friend. Cause if you don't you're gonna end up kicking yourself. After all, we all know how much you've liked her over the years." James said wisely.

"We wish you luck." Sirius finished.

Remus went to bed after their talk, still unsure of what he was going to do the next day, but knowing he had to do something.

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The next morning, when he woke up, the first thing that he noticed was that Sirius was in an extremely bad mood. James was sitting on his bed, laughing hysterically at Sirius who was shooting him scathing looks. Peter still lay asleep.

"Morning," Remus said as he got up and tried to smooth his hair down.

"Morning Moony," James said, still laughing.

"What's so funny?" Remus asked, looking from James to Sirius.

Sirius scowled and said "Nothing." At the exact same time James spoke, "Padfoot's just discovered that he isn't God's gift to women."

Remus chuckled to himself as Sirius threw a pillow that hit James in the face. "Bout time you realized that mate." Remus said good- naturedly as he started searching his stuff for clothes.

Sirius scoffed "Bloody hell."

"So, what really happened?" Remus asked, happy that he now had a chance to think about something other than what he was going to do about Adriana.

"Bloom." Said James, causing another pillow to be thrown at his head, this one he managed to duck. Remus laughed out loud, so Sirius was upset about Circe.

"Come on now Prongs. Let's hear what Padfoot here has to say." Remus said, knowing that pretty soon he too was going to get hit with pillows.

"She's a merciless tease." Sirius pouted, sitting onto his bed.

Remus hid a smirk, "Of course she is she's a girl. But I want to hear the part where you realized that you're not God's gift to-" he was cut off by a pillow in the face. James was laughing so hard he looked like he might cry.

"I'm not that bloody arrogant you useless prats!" Sirius was livid

"Course you are." James said, getting up and patting Sirius on the back. "It's part of your charm."

Sirius glared up at James. "Well, you're just as conceited as I am."

"Yup," James agreed.

"You're both pompous gits, but that's why everybody likes you." Remus said earning a slight smile from Sirius. He stood up and walked towards the door, talking to Sirius and James as he left. "Now get ready for school."

After showering and getting dressed, Remus woke up Peter and made his way down to the common room. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Lily, Adriana, and Circe all sitting down on the couch talking. With a deep breath he walked over to them.

As he made his way over he heard snatches of the conversation and realized that this was Circe telling her side of the story about what had happened last night with Sirius. He was curious, but figured it would be rude to eavesdrop. "Morning girls." He said, taking a seat across from them.

He felt slightly odd in doing so, thinking that maybe Adrianna might have wanted him to get lost, but since he was still friends with Lily and Circe it made it alright.

"Hi Remus," Lily said with a smile.

"Lupin," Circe nodded at him, smiling but looking slightly distracted. He noticed that she was looking over his shoulder at the door, for Sirius perhaps.

He turned his attention to Adriana who smiled beautifully at him. "Hey there Lupin."

Remus smiled back at her and their eyes locked. He felt a stupid grin cover his face but he was just too happy to care. She wasn't mad at him anymore.

"So ... what are you three talking about?" Remus questioned the girls.

"Black is an ass." Circe said agitatedly. Remus laughed.

"And bloody arrogant." He said, earning a questioning look from her. She was wondering how much he knew about what had happened last night.

Lily decided to change the subject. "Should we get down to breakfast now?" She half stood. Circe looked once more at the door that lead up to the boys dormitories and then got up off her seat. "Let's go."

Both Adriana and Remus stood up and began to walk out the door with Lily and Remus. Suddenly, right before they left, Adrianna spoke up. "Oh! I forgot my bag, Lupin? Come help me get it?" He nodded, wondering to himself why she didn't just go get it herself and then realized that she wanted to talk. Circe and Lily both snickered and went on. "Catch you later," Lily called over her shoulder.

Adriana and Remus made their way over to the couch and grabbed her bag. Everybody was leaving the common room, on their way down to breakfast and nobody gave any attention to them. "So ..." Adriana began, looking up at him with a shy smile.

"Right ..." Remus spoke, unsure of what to say. His heart began to beat hard against his chest. He didn't really want to talk about what had happened yesterday just yet.

"The Hogsmeade weekend is coming up, isn't it?" She hinted, looking up at him from underneath her lashes coyly.

"This weekend I believe," he said.

"Alright ..." she said looking up at his face expectantly.

He took the hint. "Want to go?"

"Definitely," she said not even waiting until he finished asking her. Her face flushed with embarrassment and he grinned from ear to ear.

"We better get down to breakfast." She said.

"Yeah," Remus and Adriana started walking and with only a moments hesitation he took her hand in his and squeezed it. She smiled up at him and he was so happy he could have crowed.

As they made their way down to the Great Hall they ran into Sirius, James, and Peter who were all running late and running to breakfast. Sirius's hair was still wet and James's shirt was inside out. Peter looked as if he had not even bothered to shower.

"Moony, Finn," Sirius nodded at each as he slowed down and walked with them. His eyes glanced down at their joined hands but he smartly said nothing.

James was mussing up his hair a bit as they entered the Great Hall. He too had seen the joined hands. They all took their seats, and individual conversations began.

Remus was in a great mood for the rest of the day, and the only thing that kept him from jumping up and singing was that he knew he had to go talk to Kira. And that was a conversation he was not looking forward to.