Chapter 2. Walking, talking and tears of joy
Returning to Hogwarts was easier than usual this year she thought, because when you're with your friends you forget bad things. But somethings is easier to say than do, it didn't went one single day without that she thought of them, especially when she had potions with professor Snape. This day were a Saturday, with no homeworks to do, thank Merlin for that. But there were almost nothing to do, it rained outside and all of her mates were still asleep, the clock were 14 for Merlins sake how could they still sleep. She decided to take a walk around the castle and clean out her thoughts.
She came down to the door that led into the great hall and saw that the sky had turned blue in the time she had walked. "Why not go outside?" She asked herself. When she walked by the green houses a voice asked her from behind. "Miss Tonks, is something bothering you?" She turned around and looked at professor Sprout. "Eeh.. Yes, but it's nothing important." She answered or lied if you want to say so. "Don't lie to me miss Tonks, talk with your friends about it and they will help you." Professor Sprout told her before she began to take care of her plants again. She started to walk towards the lake asking herself questions again and again. She couldn't tell her friends that her big cousin were in Azkaban and that he had killed his best friends. Neither could she tell them that she missed a man that were 13 years older than her. She missed him so much, his scent of parchment and chocolate and his sandy brown hair. "Just stop thinking of him before you start crying for Merlins sake." A voice inside her haid told her. She took her eyes from her feet and looked out over the lake, it was a beautiful view. She continued to walk until a red orange color catched her eye, it were only one thing she knew that were in that color. "Charlie!" She screamed out and ran over to the boy. "Hi Tonks!" He smiled at her as he gave her a big hug, but she didn't hug him back. When he noted it he took his arms back and looked at her. "What is it Tonks?" He asked while he studied her. "Why do you think it is something?" She asked him. "Your hair's in a green color." He answered her and pointed at her hair. A little pink color came onto her cheeks for a short while, but it vanished as fast as it came. "What do you do when you're sad Charlie?" She asked him. He looked up at her and answered. "I sit down somewere where I know I'll be alone and then I think." She thought for herself for a short moment. "Thanks Charlie." She said to him quickly and ran up to the school again. When she came up to her dormitory she noticed the clock and just a few seconds later a voice downstairs yelled. "Dinner time!" She grabbed her robe and her scarf before she ran down to the great hall so that she wouldn't be late.
When she had eaten up all of her food, even if it weren't much, she went out from the hall and walked out into the cold air. She knew a place were she could be alone, because no one else knew how to come in there, no one but she, Lily and the Marauders. She took a long stick and pushed it against a spot on the whipping willow tree and it froze just a second later. She walked forward and fell in a hole. She keept walking forward in the tunel until she came to the end of it, then she walked up on a ladder. When she looked around herself she knew she were inside the shreiking shack, there couldn't be any other place in the world. She walked up to the second floor and when she looked inside the room she froze. Someone were there, but how? She decided to look into the room ones again and when she did the person inside turned around and looked at her. He recognized her face and her multicolored hair. She recognized him at his scarred face and his sandy brown hair, she just couldn't belive he were here, neither could he. "Nymphadora? What are you doing here?" He asked her quietly. "Shouldn't you be in the castle?" He continued, but he were interrupted of a girl that almost strangled him. "Remus!" She screamed just like when she was a little girl. "I've missed you so." She finished before tears started to flow down her face. When he noticed that she were crying he stoped huging her and instead he looked at her. He dried one of her tears before he huged her again, pulling her even closer. "I've missed you too." He mumbled into her ear while a tear fell down on his cheek. There were a long moment of silence and tears before she started to talk again. "How could he? Why did he?" The words just came out from her mouth with a hoarse voice. She looked up at him with her dark brown eyes. "I don't know Nymphadora." He looked at her while he answered. "I miss him so much." She said and her tears started to flow again. "Me too." He dried her tears before he huged her again.
She opened her eyes and looked around her. Why were she in the shrieking shrack shack? She asked herself. Then she rememberd the night and layed down on Remus's chest again. She practically inhaled his scent of parchment and chocolate before she fell asleep against his wet robe ones again, just like when she had been a little girl, just like always.