Chapter Fourteen

The Abyss

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Bria sat at the edge of the lake thinking about how grateful she was the Sirius had been spying on her. If he hadn't fainted, I might have actually kissed Snape. That would have been incredibly disgusting…I don't even know why I do these things. I don't actually want to kiss Snivellus. I do kind of want to…kiss Siri. When did this happen?

"Oh, my God."

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Lily was walking down the hallway when she felt something hit her hard from behind.

"Brie? Why did you just attack me from behind?"

"Lily, I have just come to a shocking revelation." Bria said, straightening herself back up after attacking Lily from behind.

"Revelation a word Remus taught you?"

"Yes. Anyway, my revelation!"

"Right! What was your revelation?"

"I think I like Sirius. As more than just a friend."

"Well, yes. But I could have told you that." Lily said, almost laughing at her friend's revelation.

"Why didn't you then? Why didn't anyone tell me that I am partially in love with my best friend?"

"Well, that is not something you would have believed, Brie. You needed to realize it yourself." Lily said, shaking her head slightly at her so-called intelligent friend's stupidity where Sirius was concerned. "What are you going to do about Sirius? Are you going to tell him how you feel?"

Bria laughed. "Are you kidding me? He must hate me by now. I am following through and going out with Snivellus. That will teach him."

"It is strangely reassuring to hear you call Snape Snivellus again. It was eerie hearing you call him by his first name all the time. But I don't think Sirius hates you. I really don't think he hates you at all. In fact, I think quite the opposite."

"I, what?" Bria looked at her friend incredulously. "What do you mean 'I think quite the opposite'?"

"I mean, I think that Sirius does not hate you."

"Oh. Is that all then?" Bria asked disappointedly.

"Well, I don't know. You should ask him how he feels about you, not me. How am I to know?"

"Well, I don't know. You were just acting as though you might know something more than I do."

Lily shifted awkwardly and switched her book bag to her other shoulder.

Bria's eyes narrowed. "You know something, don't you? And you're not telling me. What is it, Lily? Out with it."

Affronted, Lily shook her hair out of her face in a manner that all but proved to Bria that she was, in fact, hiding something. "Well, no. Of course I don't. I would tell you if I did. I don't have any sort of connection to Sirius, how would I know something?"

Before Bria could respond, Emma walked into the corridor, and froze upon seeing the scene unfolding between her two friends. Emma glanced at Lily, who glanced back at Emma. Bria caught this glance, and glanced back and forth between the two.

"Emma knows something, too! This is a conspiracy! Quickly, one of you! Out with it!"

Emma stood there agape for a moment.

"What did I do? I just walked in!" She finally managed. "I don't know anything! What were you two even arguing about?"

Bria opened her mouth to explain but Lily got there first. "Bria thinks we know something about how Sirius feels about her. Tell her, Emma; tell her she's being paranoid."

"Um, yes. You are being utterly paranoid, Bria. We know nothing."

"Emma, you know that you're a crass liar. Now, be honest." Bria said, crossing her arms over her chest.

Lily quickly spoke up, before Emma could say anything. "No, really, Bria. We know nothing. Last we heard, you hated Sirius, because you think he slept with Rose. Which is unforgivable. Now, if you'll excuse us, we must go to…uh…pee."

And with that the two girls rushed off, before Bria could get any information out of them.

Bria stood there, just looking after them for several minutes. "And they truly expect me to believe that they know nothing?"

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James was wandering the corridors, trying to think of brilliant ideas that would wow Lily for the carnival, when out of a random abyss came Remus.

"Hello, James. Top of the morning to you."

"Um Remus. What is the abyss you magically appeared from?"

Remus looked at him a bit strangely. "I thought that you came out of the abyss. I certainly didn't"

"All right. Now you're just trying to confuse me. I was just walking along, trying to think of new ways to impress Lily, when suddenly, there you were."

"Well, I was just wandering to the kitchens, when there you were. And as we are right outside the kitchens, I think you were the one to randomly appear."

"All right. Fair enough." James said. "But were you thinking of anything specifically that might have caused you to walk into an abyss?"

Remus blushed. "Um, er, no…Of course not… What would I have been thinking of?"

"I don't know. A girl, perhaps?"

"Would you believe me if I said I was thinking about a book?"

"No, Remus. I would not."

"Well, I didn't walk into an abyss, I thought we'd already established this." Remus said, trying in vain to distract James long enough to change the subject.

"Remus, you are evading the question. What, or perhaps I should say who, were you thinking of?"

"Um, I was just thinking of… Sirius's dilemma. Yes, that's it! I was thinking of Bria as my girl. As she is driving Sirius mad. In more than one way…"

"Um, we really don't need to talk about what Bria is doing to Sirius's lower half. We are supposed to be talking about you."

"Why, James, stop being such a prude. It's all biological, after all. PERFECTLY NATURAL."

"Yes, but it also happens to be PERFECTLY SIRIUS! And stop trying to draw the conversation away from you."

"I will not, as this conversation all started because of the abyss. Where did that abyss go?"

"Come off it Remus. Not even all the well placed books can disguise what Emma does to you."

"I thought we weren't talking about the lower halves of bodies, James. Stop being a hypocrite."

"I'm not. I had no wish to talk about Sirius's lower body. But I will do anything to make you admit your feelings for Emma."

"You're perverse."

"This may be so, but it does not change the fact that you have yet to admit that you want Emma just as I want Lily, and Sirius wants Bria, and I am not letting you end this conversation until you do."

"Fine! Perhaps I do like Emma, but it is none of your business either way."

The two boys stood there for a while, awkwardly shifting from foot to foot, until finally, Remus broke the silence.

"James."

"Yes?"

"You realize that your head duties started five minutes ago?"

James glanced at his watch. "SHIT!"

James quickly dashed off, down the corridors, praying that Lily wouldn't be mad at him for the rest of the night.

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