Hey, guys. I decided to explain more about the Lupins and their friends. They're so complex it just had to be done. I hope you like their descriptions. Thanks.
Chapter 19: Seven Best Friends
December 19, 2019; Present
The house that Reese, Goldy, Amy, Steve, Danny, Bel and Victoire shared was big, but not huge. It was technically supposed to be two houses but the door that separated the boys' house and girls' house had been knocked down. Teddy used to live there too before he moved out five months ago to live with Rachel. Everyone, including Bel, had their own room as the girls' side was much bigger. Tonks would be staying in Reese's room while Remus got Teddy's old room. Mad-Eye offered to sleep on the couch of the boys' house and Kingsley would take Danny's room. Everyone conveniently forgot to mention where Reese and Danny would sleep. Reese, the serial-dater, briefly considered asking Goldy to watch Bel and meet an old boyfriend at the bar but then decided to stay in. Danny, Goldy's boyfriend, would sleep in her room.
After everyone else had gone to bed, Reese crept into Steve's room and crawled in the bed. To most people, this would be a sign of dating or romance. But to Steve and Reese and everyone who knew them, this was to be expected. Steve, the younger son of the sweetest woman alive Amelia Robertson who is a single mother, and Reese, the oldest child of two war heroes, had been best friends since they were six. They slept in the same bed most of the time, drank from the same cups, ate the same ice cream and cuddled by the fire in the winter. They were best friends.
The only difference was that Steve had known he was in love with her since the very first day of Hogwarts. Since they were eleven. But Reese, Reese has a small idea but doesn't think of it because she's doesn't want that kind of love. Or so she says. Everyone knows they have feelings for each other but it's kind of a nonissue because Reese claims not to feel that way. Most people expected them to get over that by at least the time they were old enough to date, but they hadn't.
Whereas Danny and Goldy were different. Danny was the serial-dater Muggleborn who kissed Goldy under the mistletoe in seventh year. They had been dating ever since. Amy was a year younger than Reese, Teddy, Goldy, Steve and Danny. The five of them were inseparable by second year which was pretty much required as they were the only ones in Gryffindor of their year. Amy was constantly bullied by the other girls in her year for her over the top cheerfulness and smartness. They claimed she was a pretentious girl who belonged in Ravenclaw. One day, when Reese was walking back from Transfiguration class, she saw them teasing her. She with her usual, before she had Bel, bitchiness told the girls where to go and what to do with their wands when they got there.
They had been friends ever since. Amy got special permission to move her things from the first year room to the second year room and when the first Weasley, who had always been closest with Teddy, went to Hogwarts the year after that, she also moved in with them.
Growing up, Teddy and Victoire had almost been as close as Reese and Steve, but lately, when Rachel came into the picture permanently, he had pulled away and they weren't so close. Everyone really hated Rachel. She was ruining part of what the seven best friends had had forever.