"Oh! The sun is setting! Do you mind if we sit and watch?"

"Of course not," Remus said, sitting down on the soft grass next to Minette as the sun turned the sky golden-orange, matching the fallen leaves littering the ground around them.

"It's so pretty to watch. I used to watch it all the time with my mother…" Minette's voice trailed off.

"What-what happened to her?" Minette had mentioned her mother only a few times, their first date in Hogsmeade was one of them, and it seemed to be a bit of a painful subject for her.

"Well… did I ever tell you I had a sister? She was five years older than me, and my mother loved us both…" Minette wasn't looking right at Remus, but staring off into the setting sun. "She used to love animals so much! My sister, I mean. She would play with all sorts of animals and try to get me to, too, but I was always too scared…" Minette gave a weak kind of smile, still not looking Remus in the eyes. "Anyway, my mother was fine with my dad being a wizard and all, but she wasn't really happy about it, so he barely ever used magic, especially in front of me and my sister. My mother was always really hoping that neither of us would be magical. My sister wasn't, either, and she was very happy… but then the day I got letters inviting me to school. She was so, so upset. So she left. Just like that. She took my sister, and they both got on a boat to France, where her family lives." Minette turned her head and looked Remus in the eye. Her blue-grey eyes were filled with tears. "And the boat crashed, and I never saw them again."

Remus embraced Minette as she fell on his shoulder, crying. He closed his eyes to the sky, now very bright and turning pink, and comforted Minette until she had fallen asleep on his shoulder.

Remus, with nothing else to think about now, was left with a painful ball of guilt lodged in his stomach. Minette obviously trusted him a great deal, now, and things were becoming more and more serious in their relationship. Yet he still hadn't told her he was a werewolf. Remus never remembered being so happy, but he was also left with this horrible guilt whenever he was left to think. He didn't want to lose this state of such happiness, and he feared Minette's response if he told her. Still, Remus hated keeping something so big from her, and if they got any more serious, he would hurt her far too much. As the sun's last ray of light faded from the horizon, Remus gently picked up Minette and started back to the castle, with the firm thought in his mind that he would tell Minette on their very next date.

"Remus, you look tired!" Sirius pointed out the next morning at breakfast. "You've got to get to bed earlier instead of staying up all night kidnapping girls and doing such indecent things with them…"

"What?" Remus, James, and Peter shouted all together.

"That's right! I saw our very own Moony-yes, OUR MOONY- carrying Minette back into the common room way way WAY after dark! Tell us, what WERE you two doing so late?" Sirius exclaimed melodramatically wiggling his eyebrows far more than was necessary.

"She fell asleep and I carried her back from Hogsmeade," Remus explained, rolling his eyes and grabbing a piece of toast.

"Oh," Sirius said, and for a minute it seemed like he'd lost the battle. But Sirius doesn't give up so easily. "So, what were you doing that made her so tired? It wasn't that late…" At this point Peter cracked up, and James was staring at Remus with an expression of great pride.

"Bugger off," Remus said, spreading strawberry jam on his toast.

"THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE AIR THAT NIGHT! THE STARS WERE BRIGHT!" Sirius started belting at the top of his lungs, "FERNANDOOO-" Sirius was silenced by Remus' toast smacking him in the face. James stared in awe. Peter stopped giggling and did likewise. Remus muttered "idiots" at them, rose from the table, and strode out of the great hall.

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