TW AND CW: VERY heavy cursing

"Shit," muttered Ana.

"There are first-years around," sang Ivy quietly.

Ana scoffed. "Like they don't know these words. I heard a first-year calling Professor Elliot a motherfuc-"

Sage cleared her throat, brushing her curly brown hair out of her freckled face. "I believe we were studying?"

"Well, I was, until that owl started pecking at the couches," grumbled Ana.

They were sitting in the Hufflepuff common room, making a last-minute review of their textbooks before the O.W.L.s.

"Isn't that Lupin's owl?" asked Ivy curiously, glancing at the puffy-haired barn owl.

"Holy shit, it is!" Ana ran towards the owl and stroked its feathers gently, extending her palm for the scroll it carried.

"Once again, Ana," said Sage, gritting her teeth. "Please refrain from using that wor-"

"Shush, Sage," said Ivy. "Ana needs to look at her many love letters from Lupin."

"They're not love letters!" retorted Ana, turning red. Then she groaned. "Those idiots. I'll be right back."

Ivy and Sage said nothing, seeing as they were dying of laughter on the rug in front of the fire.

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When Ana finally reached the hospital wing, she saw Remus standing at the entrance. "Rem! Is he alright?"

"Mostly, he's fine," said Remus soothingly. "But he looks like some red hand slapped him in the face."

"He seriously blew up the plumbing system?" said Ana, running a hand through her wavy brown hair. "I actually thought James had some common sense."

"He was trying to surprise Lily," sighed Remus. "It did not work."

"What was he trying to do?"

"Spray water in her face so that she would be surprised, and through the water, James would arise and give her flowers," said Remus blandly. "He told us the plan a billion times, while not actually knowing how to make the faucet leak. He ended up not only making the faucet leak- he also made the whole school leak. And the water sprayed in his face so hard he got smacked by the water. And it was not cold water. James' face is still red."

"The term 'blinded by love' is apparently taking its effect on James," sighed Ana. "What happened to Lily?"

"She was annoyed a bit at first when we told her what had happened- James also made a mistake of that, she was in her dorm, not in the bathroom- but now she's inside, freaking out because she thinks hee'd going to die."

Ana's jaw dropped. "But Lily hates him!"

"Not so much, apparently," chuckled Remus, sticking his hands in his robe pockets. "Like the saying goes- opposites attract."

"Except Sirius and Marlene," noted Ana. "They were made for each other."

"Yeah," Remus laughed, then he gazed down to look straight at Ana. "Yeah..."

Ana swore she saw his eyes flicker down to her lips for less than a second, but she tried to wave it off. But she found herself unable to make words. 

"Yeah," Remus said again, a little breathily. But as if jumping to his senses, he blinked quickly a couple of times and said, "Right. Should we go see him?"

"Yup," said Ana simply, a little confused but oddly elated with what had just happened.

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After talking with a terrified Lily Potter- ahem- Evans, and chatting with James a little, Ana and Remus left the hospital wing.

"You wanna go to the library to brush up on our Charms a little?" said Remus, trying to sound casual.

"Yeah, sure," agreed Ana, also trying her best to act casual. "Let's go."

They strode in silence to the library, both silently and secretly, and somehow probably telepathically, decided to never talk about the weird incident again.

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As Ana and Remus were reviewing basic Charms in the library on their regular beanbags, Avery stood in front of them, casting a looming shadow over them.

Ana looked up. "What do you want?" she snarled.

"No need to be harsh," said Avery with a grin. "Just here to see your pretty little face when you hear the news."

"What news?" growled Remus, fed up with his crap. "Seriously, just leave us alone, or I will not be afraid to smack your arse out of Hogwarts."

"The nerd spoke!" gasped Mulciber from behind Avery mockingly. "I didn't think such a thing was possibl-"

"Shut your mouth," hissed Ana angrily. "You don't say a word against him, bitch."

"You're the bitch," snapped back Rosier, who had been hiding among his cronies the whole time.

"Sorry, I prefer cats," said Ana in a mock sweet tone. "And so far, you've provided no reasons as to why your arses are stinking up our space."

"Oh, haven't found out the news yet?" chuckled Mulciber darkly. "Lupin, take a picture of her face when she finds out!"

"Found what out?" snapped Remus. "How much I wanna kick your arse? I'm sorry, but that picture would only be filled with Ana dying of laughter."

The three Slytherin boys exchanged cruel looks and stalked away, eithout another word, but not before Ana whipped out her wand and flicked Rosier in the back of the head with a charm.

"What did he mean by the news?" asked Remus, turning to Ana. 

Ana shrugged. "I have no idea."

This thought kept itself in the back of Ana's mind for the whole day until the next morning, when the owl arrived.

The owl did not bear good news.

*mentally preps self for writing next chapter*

the next one's gonna be sad i'm so sorry 😭😭😭

*more sobbing*

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