Chapter 33: Consequences of the Heart.

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"LILY!"

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"LILY!"

"Stop screaming, I'm literally sitting right here." I retorted in an upset tone, which he apparently promptly ignored. He then gritted his teeth and tightly clutched my wrist and sternly dragged me out of the Great Hall through the large, oak doors toward the lawns. I stayed quiet, he earned my silence by revealing what he knew, even though I would have practically found out myself. I made no immediate objections, because in all honesty, I was kind of curious as to what this big news was and why it was so important that he had to drag me out to the grounds. "Okay Lupin, what do you have to tell me." No matter what or how big this revelation was, it WAS NOT worth missing breakfast; I need my bacon!

"Okay, Lily. Listen, remember how I told you I think I had sex with TJ?"

"Sort of hard to forget." I couldn't have possibly forgotten about any of Remus' sexual encounters -especially considering there was only one as of yesterday, only one that he was nervous about least- mostly because I found it far too incredibly amusing. The contrasted attitudes that the rest of the Marauders had and I had were so strikingly different and I found it hilarious that their image of Remus was this perfect, innocent little child who just wanted  to eat chocolate; that's actually quite accurate. But nevermind that, I had far more pressing issues, or rather, I was about to have far more pressing issues. 

"Yes, well anyway. Turns out it wasn't him." It was an unusual thing, but whenever I was confronted with Remus' affairs, I was completely clueless to what was going on, my instincts turned unbelievably numb and my thought process self-destructed and collapsed upon itself. 

"Well, who was it. Wait! WAS IT A DREAM?!" If he had put me through all of this for nothing, I would have been so mad. I had to endure a whole ten minutes of internal suffering on behalf of Remus and it was all for nothing? Unacceptable. 

"No, it w-"

"Severus?" I ignored his statement at the sight of Severus coming down from the castle. But that wasn't exactly what caught my eye. He had two male accompaniments during his descent. The one that led the group was rather good looking. He had that bed-hair look with black, messily tousled locks and his dazzling, brown eyes sparkled with a proud look and the tip of his mouth curled up in a smirk cum sneer as he scanned the space around him. The other boy was rather similar, except he was taller and much more recognizable as one of my well-known foes and I was not about about to start liking him. In fact, I despised the both of them: Bartemius and Lucius. 

And their rhyming names just made it that much easier to structure educational insults toward them.

Returning to the point, no matter how good looking they were -I felt guilty even finding Barty good looking- considering there were pure evil. Rumours have also flown about their allegiance to certain individuals that I would do better avoiding. What was truly appalling however, was that Severus had the audacity to befriend them after I had specifically mentioned time and time again to avoid them. They were a bad influence or in simpler terms, toxic. 

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