(A/N): Hey guys! So, here's the next chapter.

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Elaine

"Elaine! Tell us!" Oddly enough, that wasn't Lily, it was Remus.

"It wasn't anything!" I exclaimed exasperatedly. "It was an accident- I fell on him, our lips touched. Nothing major!"

Lily frowned, her forehead wrinkling. "Did you pull away straight after?" She asked, and unfortunately, I had to hesitate.

"No..."

Remus absolutely beamed. "Did Leo?" I shook my head. "See? He likes you!" I scoffed.

"Elaine, Leo may never make the first move. You've said it yourself, he doesn't have any self esteem- But he does like you, he really, really does," Lily said, placing her hand on mine.

"Yeah, he even admitted it."

Lily and I spun to gape at Remus, and Lily smacked him on the arm. "What the hell?! Why didn't you tell us?" Remus winced, shrugging weakly.

"He's my best friend Lily and... Oh my God." His eyes widened. "I just told my best friend's crush that he liked them." Lily and I giggled as he fretted- right up until a chair pulled out at our table, and I looked up to see Leo. "Leo! What- what are you doing back here?" Remus stammered, and Leo stared at him oddly.

"Yeah, shouldn't you be with your girlfriend?" Lily asked, somewhat bitterly, and I sagged slightly at the reminder that Brooke was... well, Brooke. Or at the very least, that Leo seemed to like everything that that entailed.

"She's not my girlfriend."

All three of us raised an eyebrow, no matter how nervous Remus might have been. "Oh?" I asked, trying to seem nonchalant, and he shrugged.

"She's just a girl who's a friend."

Remus rolled his eyes. "A female friend who has openly admitted to thinking you're cute," He pointed out, and Leo's cheeks flushed slightly.

"Yeah, but so has most of the Hogwarts population," Lily piped up, and Leo shot her a dark look.

"Wrongly so. But still, Brooke and I are nothing but friends." He fixed us with a stern look, which was completely ruined as Brooke swooped in and kissed him, right on the mouth. It ached, not only because it was- happening, but also because even without having been able to see it, I knew our kiss hadn't been anywhere near as direct. I gaped, staring at the two for a long, painful second, before pushing my chair back and scrabbling to get away from there as fast as possible.

Remus

Lily and I watched Elaine go, desperately wanting to go after her, before turning around to glare at Brooke and Leo, who were just now parting. "What was that for?" Leo asked breathlessly, sounding well and truly snogged, and Brooke shrugged.

"I like ruining your points." She glanced in the direction Elaine had ran. "Now, are you going to go after her, or not?" Leo shook his head, which only served to earn him a glare- from literally everyone, including Brooke- before she grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him part way out of his chair so their faces were only inches apart. Again. "So help me, Leo, if you don't go after her right now, I will jinx you into next month," She growled in a deathly low voice, and Leo rolled his eyes and stood under his own power- which implied that anything she'd just 'forced' him to do, he'd simply let her.

"Alright, alright. Just don't expect me to come back alive." Leo left at a quick clip, clearly moving in the same direction Elaine had fled, and Brooke slumped into the chair she'd made him vacate.

She shook her head before she sighed heavily, "That boy is so bloody clueless."

(A/N): Also, can I just point out that, if it all goes to plan, Leo's mum is still alive in Harry's generation.

This chapter had had minor edits made to it on 30/12/22 - Changed Brooke saying she would smack Leo into next month to her saying she would jinx him into next month.

This chapter has had edits made to it on 3/3/24 - formatting, and reconfiguring sentences so they make more sense. I also added Elaine thinking that Leo 'seemed to like everything that entailed' when she's reminded about Brooke's... existence? Presence? Presence in Leo's life, basically? Also, Elaine being upset specifically because her and Leo's first kiss wasn't as direct as the one she witnesses between Leo and Brooke. Also, Remus thinking that Leo sounded 'well and truly snogged'. Also, Leo earning a glare from 'literally everyone', instead of just Brooke's glare being mentioned. Also, Remus sort of realizing that any menacing Brooke was doing was only because Leo allowed her to do so- at least as far as he can tell.