The Collision Theory | Remus Lupin

13. Audrey, Wolves and Chocolate

"You what?!" Lily gapes at me.

"Yeah," I face-plant into the mass of pills on my bed. I have like five pillows, it's an addiction.

"They saw you? Y'know?"

"No!" I shout into my pillow, "There were bubbles everywhere!"

"But you saw them?"

"Lily!" I sit up, "No! Geez they had shorts!"

"Okay okay!" She laughs.

My turn to embarrass her, "Evans, you were about to ask me if James had abs weren't you?"

"No!" She gasps, her cheeks starting to turn red.

"You were."

"Weren't."

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrre." I sing.

She rolls her eyes, "I'm hungry. Let's go."

I jump off of my bed as she skips out, "Don't deny true love Evans!"

*

I'm sure I'm pink all of dinner.
No scrap that, I'll be blushing my entire life.
The boys aren't at dinner thank God, but it feels like they'll burst in and announce my whereabouts with the entire school any second. I've never eaten so quickly in my life, and leg it to bed , not bothering to check the common room for if the boys are there. Sleep isn't really looking realistic for me, so I pick up Lord of The Rings, and lose myself in Middle Earth.

"Psst!" Someone whispers. I put the book down, but I'm alone in the room.

I grab my wand, "Who's there?"

"The mirror you idiot!"I look to see Miriam's green eyes staring back at me from the two-way mirror mum and dad had given us.

"Oh hi!" I grin, feeling like an idiot for not realising, "How're things going down there?"

"Pretty cool," she shrugs as if it were nothing, "the older pupils are teaching us sign language so we can talk to the mermaids through the glass."

"What?"

"You can see the lake from the common room and the surface of it from the dorms."

"That is pretty cool." I nod, "Enjoying classes? I feel like I haven't seen you in ages."

"Good good," she says, but then looks as though she's just remembered something huge, "You didn't tell me there was a ghost professor!"

"Oh Binns," I wave my hand dismissively, "he's boring."

"I heard your class had some trouble in Defence Against the Dark Arts."

Huh, so that's why she's using the mirror, "Yeah, boggarts. Black and Lupin's boggarts were kinda messed up."

"I heard about that. They wouldn't stop pestering Regulus about it." She looks over her shoulder, almost as if expecting someone to walk in.

"Who?"

"Regulus. Sirius' brother." She positions the mirror so she's lying on her bed facing me, leaning into the palms of her hands, "But I just wanted to ask if you were okay."

I adopt the same position, "Bit tired but I didn't have a problem with the boggart. How's the owl?"

She gets up off of the bed, and I'm left for a few moments, listening to Miriam fumbling with a cage just outside of my shot of the dorm. Mim comes back with a ball of fluff and feathers in her hand, "She's gotten so big! I sneak Audrey toast and stuff everyday!"