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The rest of the day was incredibly boring. They took notes in the rest of their classes, and it was mostly reviewing what they had done the year before. As they walked out of History of Magic, the last class of the day, Peter accidentally ran into Kevin from behind, nearly tripping him. "Sorry, Remus," Peter said, then looked up to see Kevin raising an eyebrow. "Oh – uh – Kevin, sorry." Peter's face turned red.

"It's okay, no worries," Kevin said, noting Peter's embarrassed expression.

"Come on, Peter, it's not like he's a Slytherin or something," Sirius remarked, shaking his head.

"You know, you two really do look alike from behind." James was standing behind them with his head slightly tilted. Remus and Kevin glanced at each other. For the first time, Remus realized that Kevin's hair was the same cut and almost the same color, and they were about the same height.

"You almost look related," Sirius added, scrutinizing them. Kevin grinned.

"You're my long-lost brother," he joked.

"I got kidnapped when I was two and never saw you again," Remus responded lightly, smiling. Something in Kevin's face changed, but only slightly. After a split second, Remus decided it was his imagination, but he didn't keep going on the joke.

"I say we go to the lake," James suggested as they walked down the corridor. "We have barely any homework, and it won't stay sunny for long here."

"You're getting better with your excuses," Sirius laughed, "but we all know why you really want to go down there."

"I don't have any idea what you're talking about, Black," James replied airily, walking ahead of them. The rest of them stopped walking almost all at the same time, except Peter, who kept walking for a few seconds before he realized they had stopped. The other three were stifling laughter until James turned around, nearly halfway down the corridor.

"Alright, I guess I'll just have to tell Jessie where you're waiting for her, Remus," James called back as he began to walk away. Before he had completely turned back around, he ran into none other that Lily Evans. Remus looked around quickly to make sure Jessie wasn't around to hear what James had said.

"My apologies, miss." James backed away from Lily just enough that he could look directly at her. "I was a bit distracted."

"I could hear that," Lily answered coolly, walking past James, past Peter, past Kevin, Sirius and Remus. Sirius waited until she was around the corner to say anything.

"You, my friend, have just been blown off by gale-force winds," he said, slapping James on the back.

"Just wait," James relied confidently. "I'll get her eventually."

"Yeah, when you're sixty," Sirius retorted. They continued walking, until they saw Jessica coming out of a classroom. Remus looked at his friends, almost ready to plead for help. James winked.

"We'll be at the lake," he told Remus, and the group kept walking, leaving Remus to talk to Jessie alone.

"Hi," Remus said, falling into step beside her. She looked up in surprise.

"Remus! I didn't even hear you!" she exclaimed.

"How was your first day back?" he asked, and she grimaced.

"I got caught passing notes and had to stay after class for the first lecture of the year," she sighed. "Professor McGonagall can carry on a one-sided conversation for the longest time. She spent the whole class time talking, then took fifteen more minutes telling me off. I mean, I can talk forever, but at least I let other people say something in between-" She stopped as she realized the contradiction she had just made between her words and her actions and laughed. "Well, I let people talk if they try hard enough."

Remus knew he should say something, but he didn't know what to say. Fortunately, Jessie started talking again almost immediately. "Oh, I'm sorry, Remus, but I have to go meet Lily at Gryffindor. It was nice to see you again! Next time I might even let you get a word in edgewise!" With a smile, she was gone, and Remus was left walking alone. He laughed softly to himself. Even though he would never say it aloud, Remus had to admit to himself that he was interested in the girl.

"Sir!"

Someone half-whispered to him from the stairway he had just passed. Raising an eyebrow, Remus turned around, confused. A Hufflepuff first-year was walking towards him, and the younger boy held out a piece of parchment. "This came for you," the Hufflepuff explained as Remus took it. Thoroughly confused, Remus looked at the unfamiliar writing on the front that addressed the letter to Kevin. Just as he noticed that, the first-year gasped. "I'm s-s-sorry, I m-mistook you for-"

"It's all right, Kevin's a friend of mine," Remus grinned. So they really did look alike. "I'm going to meet him right now. I'll give it to him."

Nodding, the first-year boy turned and walked away quickly. Remus walked in the opposite direction, wondering what the Hufflepuff boy had to do with Kevin. And why did he say sir? Remus thought. It was an odd encounter.

By the time he got to the lake, his thoughts were back on Jessie and he had almost forgotten about the letter. "Well?" Sirius called expectantly when Remus was within earshot.

"Well what?" Remus asked innocently, and Sirius rolled his eyes.

"What happened?" James prodded.

"We talked," Remus shrugged. "Well, at least, she talked. What else did you want to happen? Oh, by the way, some Hufflepuff kid thought I was you and handed me this." He pulled out the parchment and held it out for Kevin.

"When you were with Jessie?" Kevin asked quickly. His face was paler, and he suddenly seemed nervous. As he reached out for the paper, Remus noticed that his hand shook slightly.

"No, he waited until I was alone," Remus replied, looking at Kevin questioningly. The boy forced a small smile.

"The Hufflepuff is a friend of mine," Kevin explained. "Sometimes my family's owl will deliver to him instead of me. I've tried to convince them to get a new one."

"Are you expecting bad news?" James asked after watching Kevin's reaction.

"Sort of," Kevin answered, pocketing the letter. "I just – didn't expect anything. I don't usually get letters unless something big happens."

"Oh." James didn't look completely convinced, but Kevin didn't dwell on the subject – not directly, at least. For the first time, he said something about where he had come from.

"We used to play Muggle sports in my town," he said as he stared out at the lake. "Tennis, football, basketball, we played whatever we could learn about. I stayed out of the house as much as I could. I always felt like I was a reminder to my parents, so I tried to keep out of their way as much as possible."

"A reminder of what?" Sirius asked. He and the other three boys were surprised at the sudden flow of words from Kevin. At Sirius' question, however, Kevin shook his head.

"Nothing."

For the rest of the day, Kevin refused to say anything more about where he had come from.

A/N Ok well I guess I'll be putting up both this chapter and last chapter at the same time, so . . . review!