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𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓕𝓸𝓻𝓽𝔂 𝓢𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷

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❝ explain yourself, pettigrew ❞
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𝓔𝓿𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮'𝓼 𝓟𝓞𝓥
MONDAY, JANUARY 23rd 1978

"How're you feeling, gorgeous?" Evan asks me, plopping down next to me as I sit in the library with a pile of books to study.

"Like Lily Evans in her first few years of school" I answer in an exhausted tone "Only difference is that the boy pestering me isn't an arrogant toerag and I love him back already"

"Sounds rough" Evan frowns.

"Yup" I chirp unenthusiastically.

"I don't know what I'd do if Mallory kept throwing herself at me when we both knew we couldn't be together" He says sympathetically.

"There's nothing I can do" I shrug, closing the book in front of me "I just have to hope that he'll stop before-"

"Before he starts something like that?" Evan questions, pointing behind me.

My head whips around so fast that my neck hurts but I ignore the pain, my eyes zeroing in on Remus Lupin who is very clearly bickering with an angry Barty Crouch.

"For Merlin's sake" I groan.

"You should probably go and talk him down before he gets himself hexed" Evan tells me.

"Yeah, I should" I nod, still staying in my seat as Remus gets in Barty's face.

"Well, go then!" Evan huffs out.

"Or maybe I should just let him deal with that himself" I suggest hesitantly.

"Will you just get your arse up and take him away?" Evan retorts "Preferably before Barty curses him and they both get expelled"

I let out a frustrated groan and pull myself to my feet, quickly making my way over to the two boys.

"You think I'm not just as unhappy about the situation, Lupin?" Barty spits "I don't want them together either!"

"Well, you don't seem to be doing anything about it!" Remus counters.

"There's nothing he can do" I declare, causing them to both look at me.

"Evangeline" Remus breathes out, looking at me in surprise.

"I'm sorry that Regulus and I's arrangement has caused you both such a huge inconvenience, and that you're so fucking unhappy with the situation" I announce in anger "Because it's not as if we are both just as unhappy as you two, huh? It's not like Regulus and I are stuck in a bloody marriage knowing that we both are in love with other people, right?"

The boys both look at me through guilty expressions but I don't feel bad, glaring at them in anger as it bubbles over the surface after building up for so long inside of me.

"If you two would like to pull your heads out of your own arses for just a second, you'd maybe realise that complaining and causing arguments isn't going to solve our problem. You are only making it worse for Reg and I" I explain to them.