The one with the sisters - Year Six [COMPLETED]

Chapter 5 - The one with the revelation

"He cut you out?"

"He did!" Iris yelled angrily. "Said I wasn't good enough! I mean... Come on..."

"Well... He's a git."

"I know!"

Remus chuckled lightly as he watched Iris angrily messing with the loose strands of hair that insisted on falling over her eyes. He stopped looking at the flutes and sat down beside her by the great old piano in Dominic's Maestro Music Shop. Iris suddenly forgot all her anger over not making it into the team – thanks to Marshall's decision that the team is weaker when girls are playing - as soon as she saw Remus' fingers float over the piano's keys, as if they knew what they were doing.

"You play?" She frowned slightly surprised.

"Yeah. My mum knows and since I never left home, she thought me how to play too." He shrugged, his eyes never leaving the keys.

"You never left home?" Iris giggled, thinking he was being over-dramatic. Remus sighed relieved. She didn't have to know it was actually true. "What about school?"

"I was home-schooled."

"Why?"

"Dunno. I guess Hope Lupin thought she was smarter than any other teacher out there."

"I guess she was then..." Iris said and Remus looked up at her. She smiled. "She did a great job educating you, didn't she?"

Remus chuckled and reached over for her hand. He grabbed it and pulled it from its place over her skinny jeans, placing it gently on the keys. He sprawled her fingers and pressed it against the white pieces underneath them, making a beautiful sound to come out of it. She looked up at him and her eyes shined. He shook his head and chuckled once more, before standing up behind her and positioning her other hand by the other side of the piano.

"Here, so... This is quite an easy tune." He whispered as he guided both, his and hers hands over the keys, slowly making a song come out of it.

"I know this tune." Iris frowned, trying to recognize the quite familiar notes.

"Everybody knows this tune." Remus responded, placing Iris' hand back on her lap and playing the song himself in the normal speed. Then it clicked and without even realizing it, she was singing quietly the "It's a small world" song. Remus didn't dare to move, afraid of scaring the girl and causing her to stop singing, so he just kept playing the piano as the girl in between his arms hummed with a very much more melodic voice than he had expected. Once he was done, he sat back down beside Iris. "You're an amazing singer."

"Shut up, Rem." The girl giggled, pushing the boy slightly. "You don't need to be a great singer to sing 'It's a small world' now, do you? I'm terrible."

"Not really." He admitted with a smirk. "Last time I played it, the boys were with me, and let me tell you... They are terrible singers, love."

Iris blushed at the nickname, but if Remus noticed, he decided to ignore it. He closed the case over the keys and got up, extending a hand toward Iris so she would do the same. Hand in hand, they made their way out of the shop and toward the quite chilly autumn afternoon.

Laughing and chatting, they've made their way to The Three Broomsticks. It was almost automatic. They didn't even think about it, they just went. Of course, they've never went together, but over the last three years of Hogsmeade with their friends and always going there to have a Butterbeer, they didn't even realize what they were doing until they were doing it.

"Oh my God!" Lily spat half of her Butterbeer out when she saw the scene in front of her.

"Lily!" Marlene whined, as she looked down at her now dirty clothes. "What the hell?"

"Look!"

She pointed at somewhere across the bar. Mary and Marlene looked over their shoulders and gasped as well. It was easy to see what got Lily so surprised. The flaming red hair that only one person in school beside herself had was hard to miss. And the tall, light brown haired boy was also unmistakable.

"She didn't tell me!" Lily yelled.

"Shh, Lils..." Mary whispered, trying to calm her best friend down. "They've always been close. Maybe it's nothing."

"Well... It doesn't seem like it's nothing." Marlene smirked as she kept watching the two of them interact.

"You're not helping, Mar..." Mary mumbled.

She was trying not to cause a scene. Iris and Lily shared everything. If she didn't tell her something, she must've had a reason. Of course... If she wanted to hide it, she wouldn't have come to The Three Broomsticks. She was so absorbed in her own thought, she missed Lily getting up. But she couldn't miss the scream that made all heads turn to one direction only: the door, where stood a very surprised Dorcas Meadowes and a smirking Camilla Anderson.

"What is going on?" Dorcas asked.

Iris was up in a jump.

"Hum... I well... I mean..."

"So she didn't tell you either?"

"Lily!" Iris turned just in time to see her smirking sister walking toward her. "Oh, dear God..."

"Why didn't you tell us?" Camilla asked, quite amused with the whole situation.

"It just never came up..."

"Never came up?" Dorcas squeaked. "You get yourself a bloody boyfriend and decide not to tell any of us?"

"It's not like that..."

"You still owe me Five Galleons." Camilla nudged her girlfriend, who gave her the tongue, before turning back around to face her best friend.

"Oh, where talking about this, Iris Jade Evans." The brunette crossed her arms over her chest and Iris blushed, sitting back down on her seat beside Remus.

"Alright... I'll meet you up in the Common Room after..."

"No, no. She means right now." Lily said, as she grabbed Iris wrist and pulled her up.

Remus laughed soundly and the girl turned to glare at him as she allowed herself to be pulled away from him by her sister and best friends.

"Yeah, you laugh now, Remus Lupin..." She yelled over her shoulder and he winked at her. "But good luck dealing with the boys."

"They don't know just yet." He yelled back and she laughed.

"Well, now that Marlene knows, it's only a matter of time."

"I have feelings, you know, Iris?" Marlene, a few booths down from her, yelled as Mary laughed.

"Sorry, honey..." Iris winked at her. "But you know is true."