Amour

Chapter 2:

The violet with red aura that belonged to Lily comforted me, I loved her. I really shouldn't because she will grow old and die while I will go on unchanged forever. I closed my eyes and stopped using my Sight, it made my eyes glow a very vibrant electric blue and I don't want to stand out in any way.

I walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Lily.

"Hello, Kieran," she greeted me.

"Hello, Lily Evans," I returned her salutation, "how were your classes this morning?"

"Ok, the normal, you know," she said around a sigh.

"Oh yes, I know," I laughed. I felt the presence of James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter approaching behind me as Lily saw them over my shoulder. "Hello, gents."

"I have no idea how you always know we're coming! You must have a sixth sense," James declared.

I laughed, "No, you just walk insanely loudly, in a huge clump, and everyone looks at you and Sirius," I lied jokingly, lying came so easily.

"That is so very true," Sirius said, looking at some girls that giggled insanely when he turned his gaze on them. I struggled to refrain from reading his mind; it's too easy to get into deep trouble that way.

They sat down next to us and began to eat. James tried to surreptitiously impress Lilly which failed miserably and resulted in her leaving with a huff. "You know, James, if you left her alone for say a year perhaps she would hate you less," I said, but James was too busy moping about Lily leaving to hear me.

After lunch we went outside, as we had a free period. We wandered out to sit under a broadleaf tree, I looked up at the sky damn today would have been a good day to fly.

"It's a nice day," I commented, trying to start a conversation- which failed. When all they did was nod in agreement, lost in their own thoughts. I could hardly resist from reading their thoughts. I had a strong feeling they were thinking about Remus and the history of magic essay.

"I could help you with your essays, you know, or I could just do them for you," I told them, not thinking entirely about what I was saying or where I was looking as my gaze fell onto Remus.

"Ok, how'd you know that was on our minds?" Sirius asked with a hint of a defensive tone.

"Normally when people try to talk, if you're not preoccupied, you reply," I laughed, "So I assumed it was the essay, not like you have anything else to do," I pulled my gaze off of Remus, I need to think about what I say and do.

They all stared at me; this is a hard situation to get out of. I sighed, maybe I could trust them. Remus obviously had, and no one else knew about him; perhaps I could trust them. But then again Remus would die with them; they would all die around the same time. Not James Death whispered in my mind, I shoved it off…

"Do- do you know?" Remus asked warily.

I nodded, I'm going to have to come clean and tell them everything. I'm in deep already being as I made friends with them and they are not the type of people to allow someone to disappear from their lives.

"How?!" James demanded.

"Because I was never in History of Magic. I ace that class because I was there for most if not all of those things. Because I am nearly six hundred years old, I cannot die, I can read minds, see auras, animate and speak to the dead, I don't need a wand being that I create magic and can do countless other things that you couldn't even dream about with it," I said, I could trust them. Maybe not Peter, I have a bad feeling about him, " And I can shape shift into a dragon."

They all stared I knew they didn't know what to think. "You're joking…" James seemed dazed.

"Nope, here," I pulled out my wand, "made it myself, pretty good isn't it?"

"There isn't a core?" Peter asked, I snapped the wood in two, revealing the absence of core, and put it back together.

"That is so… cool! Why didn't you tell us this before?!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Because that would make our friendship stronger and therefore harder for me to have to disappear from your lives," I said with a frown.

"Wanna come with us then, tonight? Well, I mean if it's ok…" Peter half mumbled. Remus, James, and Sirius nodded and I shrugged.

"No, that's a Marauder thing, perhaps this weekend we'll find a nice patch of forest?"

They agreed and I was looking forward to stretching my wings for the first time since the start of the year.