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Lyra explained everything (except for the whole Adam situation and the kiss shared between her and James) after they all bombarded her with questions as to why she hugged the Prewett twins, and to say that they were surprised was an understatement.
"So you two are..." Marlene trailed off, pointing between Sirius and Lyra.
"Siblings, yes," Sirius confirmed.
"And you're cousins are the Prewett twins?" Lily questioned wide-eyed.
"I think we've established that." Lyra chuckled. "But yes, my mum and their dad are siblings."
"But all Prewetts are ginger." Peter pointed out. "I just saw your mum hugging you and she's blonde."
"That's your main concern, Wormtail?" Remus asked furrowing his eyebrows and making Peter shrug as he took another bite of his chocolate frog.
"We all questioned that actually, well Gideon did. Apparently our grandmother was blonde." She explained.
"And how are you taking all of this?" Lily questioned concerningly.
"Well," Lyra sighed. "I was hurt at first, and mad. But my mum's trying her best to change, and she really has. And the Prewetts were all so nice to me. As for the whole Orion thing, I can't really do anything about that can I...?"
"It's not like you missed out on the world's greatest dad or anything." Sirius jeered. "Not to make it into a competition, but he's way worse than yours."
Lyra nodded in agreement as Remus wrapped his arm around Sirius in a loving way.
"So, what about you guys? How were you're Christmas?" Lyra questioned, wanting to change the subject as she looked over at James who had yet to say anything.
Their eyes quickly met but James broke eye contact, turning to look at Marlene who was explaining something about her staying off at her dad's.
Hurt by this, Lyra turned her attention over to the blonde, not noticing the look Lily and James gave each other, and proceed to spend the rest of the trip silently listening to everyone as she stared out the window.
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It was day two of being back at Hogwarts and James had still not uttered a word to Lyra, and she was starting to get sick of it.
It also didn't help that he had been spending quite a lot of time with Lily, sparking pure and utter jealousy inside of her.
After what had happened with Narcissa, Lyra assumed the worst and figured that Lily was starting to like James, which made no sense what so ever because weeks ago she was complaining about the boy and trying to get him to like Lyra.
But maybe she was a backstabbing bitch like Narcissa, and was trying to steal him away from her.
Lyra sighed, no, she couldn't think that of Lily, not after how good of a friend she had been. Maybe, hopefully, Lyra was just overreacting and Lily was simply starting to become friends with the boy.
Nonetheless, Lyra decided to interrogate Sirius about this, wanting to know what was up.
"What's going on between Lily and James?"
Sirius was startled, not expecting Lyra to appear in the Gryffindor common room out of the blue.
"How on earth did you get in here?" Remus questioned surprised.
Lyra didn't know if Remus knew about the whole James situation, but at that moment she didn't care if he found out as she said: "Peter told me the password yesterday. Anyway, James and Lily, what's up?"
Sirius sat up properly as he had been resting his head on Remus' lap, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion. "Have you lost your mind? Why on earth would Lily and James have anything going on?"
She sighed, sitting next to him, a desperate look on her face. "They've just been spending a lot of time together, and James hasn't spoken to me since we kissed and-"
"YOU AND JAMES KISSED?!" Sirius screeched, making both Lyra and Remus wince.
Lyra quickly shushed the boy as she widened her eyes. "No one needs to know, Jesus!"
"Sorry." And even though Sirius spoke in a lowered voice, the look of shock did not leave his face. "I'm just - you and James-"
"-I-I thought he told you."
Sirius shook his head. "No, he didn't. I mean, I helped him prepare the roof that night, and I assumed you'd kiss, he never mentioned anything though, right babe?" He turned to Remus who also shook his head.
"No, sorry Ly." Remus pursed his lips.
Lyra sighed, pouting. "He's probably embarrassed and regrets it. He's realised he loves Lily and-"
"-Hey, don't say that! You don't know if he regrets anything." Remus said.
"Yeah," Sirius agreed. "He never mentioned anything, but he did have a stupid grin on his face the next morning and even after you left. That has to mean something."
Lyra bit her bottom lip, picking at its skin nervously. "Why isn't he talking to me then? Why's he spending so much time with Lils?"
Sirius sighed. "I don't know, Ly. He hasn't really been talking to us since we've arrived. He's been..."
"Distant." Remus finished.
Lyra then got up, a look of determination on her face. "Well, we have to find out, don't we?"
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a/n: short chapter but hey, it's got wolfstar in it and what's better than that, am I right?;)
