A/N: I just want to thank everyone who reviewed my story. Spread the word about my story, ok? Thanx! Also, if you see a typo or something wrong with a phrase or sentence, please tell me. I want to make my story as good and mistake-free as possible.

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When Miranda opened the door to her dormitory, she found that Lily had been waiting for her to come up ever since she had ran upstairs to hide from James.

"What the heck took you so long?!?" Lily asked anxiously.

"Sorry! In case you don't know, I just saved your arse from a date with Jame-Potter." Miranda answered, quickly catching her slip-up with James' name.

"Oh. Sorry. My bad." Lily apologized meekly.

After a brief silence as Lily changed into her pajamas and fixed up her bed, she jolted up and asked suspiciously, "Did you just call him what I think you called him?"

Miranda looked up and said quickly, "Called who what?"

"Did you just call Potter by his given name?" Lily interrogated.

"No…" Miranda said lying through her teeth.

"Yes. Yes! Yes you did! Oh, my, gosh! You called him James! Lily cried. The world is going insane! My life is going straight down the bloody tubes!!!"

"Shhh…Shush! Calm yourself." whispered Miranda, although it wouldn't have made a difference considering Lily was already having such a bad day.

"You're the second person to 'shush' me today, and the other one was Potter himself!" Lily yelled, her temper rising like a thermometer on a hot, summer day. Suddenly, her eyes widened as she stared at her friend straight in the eye.

"You don't actually like him, do you?!?" Lily asked in a dangerous, quiet, deathly tone.

Suddenly, they flinched at the sound of the portrait hole opening. They also realized that there was a chance of the person coming in to be Regina. Both Lily and Miranda ran down the stairs, jostling each other as they stumbled down the narrow staircase.

When they reached the common room, they found Regina sitting on the sofa she plopped onto with her head down, hands covering her face. Lily and Regina walked to her, tapped her lightly on the shoulder, which she responded to with a sharp jolt and sudden intake of breath.

"Oh, thank god it's you two." Regina said as she slowly let out her breath.

"Well duh, it's us. Who else would it be?" Miranda said laughing but stopped when Lily nudged her quite hard in the ribs.

"Is everything ok?" Lily asked quietly.

Regina looked at Lily for a while, not sure whether to tell Lily what Remus had told her.

"Yeah," She answered finally. "Everything's fine."

Lily slowly breathed in, held it for a second before letting it out. "Ok. But if there's anything you need to talk about, I'm the girl to look for." She assured Regina.

Regina smiled a small smile and said, "Don't worry. Everything's perfect." And she went up to her room to finally get some sleep after her encounter with her boyfriend.

When she reached her dormitory, she closed the door so no one can hear her and said to herself sadly, "Just perfect."

Back at the common room, Lily and Miranda had an awkward, silent moment, neither wanting to admit defeat and apologize first.

Finally, it was Lily who took a deep breath and said, "Look, can we just forget about this? Pretend it never happened? Friends?"

Miranda smiled, happy about the fact that Lily hadn't continued with her questions and replied, "Definitely." And together, they walked up the stairs, laughing and joking like they always had before. But behind the laughter, Lily knew something was wrong with Regina, and that Remus Lupin had something to do with it.

A/N: I almost forgot. I based Regina on my friend Regina who helped me with my first chapter. Also, she was the one who encouraged me to write this story. Just so she knows I didn't forget about her, I wanted to publicize my 'thank you'.

T H A N X, R E G I N A !

By the way, Regina's (my friend's) pen name is GiNaReZh but you can just type ginarezh.