I solemnly swear that I am up to no good | Professor Remus Lupin

Chapter 29 | Halloween

Grace and I met up with the twins and gave them the paint. We went to the spot where the pumpkins for the dinner were kept while everyone was eating. Unnoticed we filled the pumpkins with the spider s and the paint, I had used a spell on the spiders that they would defrost when the pumpkins would explode. For that Fred and George had put potions, they had created into the pumpkins. The potions were able to explode at the same time with a certain spell, the twins would say when the time had come.

After we prepared everything for the prank we only had one hour left before dinner was about to start. Grace and I went back into our room, she begged me to let her do my makeup and I let her. I wasn't particularly bad at it, but she had much more skill than I did. The most time she spend on my eyes, she gave me a dark blue Smokey eye and topped it off with a nude lipstick. Her own makeup was pretty similar but she used some gold shades too. I needed to admit we both looked really good.

We walked down into the great hall, the pumpkins were floating in the air and before we sat down on our own house table, we walked towards the twins so that we discussed about a warming before they would let the pumpkins explode, so we walked towards their table.

"Wow, Maeve...you look really good" George said as he saw me.

"Thank you, but have you seen her?" I answered and took a step away to reveal Grace, who walked behind me. I saw his eyes lighten up and smiled to myself. I noticed that she blushed and smiled.

"Wow" the twins breathed out in unison at the sight of her. It was hard for them to take their eyes away from us.

"So guys...I hate to interrupt this romantic moment, but let's get down to business-" I said and brought the twins back to reality.

"Yes.."
"Yes!"
"Romantic?"
"Speaking of which..."
"Where is your Professor lover boy?" The twins asked and looked towards the teacher table. He wasn't on his seat, like usual. Then I remembered what night it was, I sighed. I was worried about him and sad that I wasn't able to help him. I was just hoping that he wouldn't get injured over the night again. But I just shrugged as answer.

"So what is the signal?" I asked them.

"We will walk away and go to the "toilet" " Fred answered.

"When we come back we will do it" George said dramatically and winked towards Grace. This caused her too blush and we noticed that the students were taking their seats and dinner was about to start. So Grace and I walked back to our own house and listened to Dumbledore's speech.

I noticed that Harry was waving towards me to get my attention, so I turned towards him. He pointed towards the teacher table and mouthed "lupin" with a questioning expression. I just shrugged, I obviously couldn't tell him. And especially when I wasn't a hundred percent sure yet.

The prank worked exactly like we had planned it and McGonagall was after the twins and I, but Dumbledore stopped her and she gladly didn't caught us. So we could start the party in the Gryffindor common room without any complications. Mainly students of our year were at the party and another few Gryffindor students, like Ron, Harry and Hermione.

"Try this" Fred told me and George handed me a glass with a red liquid in it, while I was dancing.

"What's that?" I asked him, I was already a little tipsy and had loosened my tie and unbuttoned the top buttons of my shirt.

"You will like it..." he said and winked, which I thought was weird, but my actions were faster than my brain, so I drank the whole content of the glass.

"No-" I heard someone scream, but it was too late. I turned around to see who it was. Hermione was running toward me. "Fred! Is this.." she asked him in shock and received a proud nod. "You are unbelievable..." she stated in disappointment.

Ron and Harry walked up behind her. "What happened?" Ron asked.

"Just watch..." George answered after he came up besides me, he took me by my shoulders and turned me around to face him.

"Did you swallow it?" George slowly asked me and looked at me questioningly.

"Yes daddy" I said, but I didn't wanted to say those words. It felt like I lost control over what i was saying...what did they gave me?

Everyone bursted out in laughter, besides Hermione and Grace, who had walked to us now.

George just smirked and turned around to his brother. "It works" he stated proudly. Fred walked up to me. "Did you ever had a crush on one of the Weasleys?" He asked me.

"Yes" I answered truthfully against my will again.

"Who?" Ron asked me now.

"Bill"

Ron sighed in disappointment and the twins laughed. "How did you get her to call you daddy?" Grace asked after a while. "Is this a love potion or veritaserum?"

"Both" the twins said in unison with a smirk and wrapped their arms around me.

"How did you-"

"We didn't, she did. She failed her serum and it had a love potion side effect, which caused the drinker to talk like this, but not really feel like she is in love. This makes her basically talk like she would talk with her crush..." the twins explained to Grace.

"Well this is interesting..." Harry stated and smiled knowingly.

"Indeed"
"Because this means, that our little Maevy-baby"
"Got daddy issues" the twins answered and everyone started laughing. Even Hermione mad Grace.

"Who is her...?" Hermione questioned.

"Remus" I answered unwillingly. Her and Ron's eyes widened in shock. They turned towards Harry, since he wasn't surprised. "You can't tell anyone, you understand..." he told them and they nodded. Hermione signaled Harry to go with Ron and she walked up to me and the twins.

"How long does this potion last?" She asked the twins.

"We think around an hour..." Fred stated.

"Alright, I will take care of her" she told them and grabbed me by my arm and dragged me to the fireplace and we sat down.

"Look, I don't judge you for having a crush on a teacher. Sometimes we just can't control who we fall for..." she started.

"Like you with Ron..." I said.

She first started to defense herself, but then sighed. "I guess so..."

"It's just...the feelings I have when he is around or I think about him, I have never felt them before. I kind of wanna know if I just have a crush that I could get over...and in a way i hope it is. It all seems so hopeless. But on the other hand sometimes...it feels like...like he likes me too. I really wanna know if I love him, like really love him. It feels like it..." I told her. These were my true emotions and I didn't plan on saying them, but it felt good to talk to someone in all honesty.

"I have an idea" she stated after a while of silence. "We should brew amorentia to test it"

"The potion that smells like what you are attracted to...and if you love someone it should smell like them..." I said and looked at her. She nodded and smiled at me.

"Let's do this tomorrow after breakfast in The Moaning Myrtles Bathroom?" Hermione asked me and I nodded and smiled at her. "Let's get back to the party" she said and stood up. She reached out her hand for me and I gently took it. The rest of the night we spend dancing and gladly the effect of the potion, the twins had given me weakened after half an hour. Grace and I had successfully stumbled back to our own room when the party had ended. The sun had already started to rise and when I laid down in my bed I had the weird feeling that I had forgotten something...