Ruby Red Tears

Chapter 7, Fire whisky

July 1968

"I can't Lily, those are disgusting" I laughed "How are Bertie Bott's Beans your favourite sweets, how Lily how, this one literally tasted like vomit." Lily smirked "I told you, you shouldn't have picked the yellow one." I just shook my head "but it matched so well with the lion on my sweater", we both rolled over the common room floor and couldn't stop laughing. "Hello Lady's did you drink some fire whisky?", Potter and his cohort walked towards us, but for once I couldn't answer because on one hand I still laughed and on the other I could still taste something vomit like between my front teeth, so I just ignored them. "Not yet Potter, not yet „Lily replied and tried to lift herself up but failing because of laughter so the two of us just lied on the floor not being able to stand up. "Well luckily, we're able to change that" Sirius said with a weird smile on his face and pulled out a bottle of fire whiskey out of his robe. I almost denied but then I saw that weird dreamy look on my best friends face looking at James Potter. A look that wasn't just a onetime thing because over the past weeks she looked at him like that several times, since she had a huge fight with her secret Slytherin friend Snape. So I just nodded still laughing, stood up, stuck my hand out and lifted a from laughter blushing Lily up.

About an hour later we sat around the fire with a group of seven. Lily, Potter, Sirius, Remus, Peter Pettigrew, Dorcas Meadows, who just joined us, and I myself. I stared into the fire and listened to the blurring laughter of my mates. As I looked up because the loudest laughter faded away I saw Remus and Sirius making out on the couch as if no one were there - which wasn't that wrong there was nobody besides our little group. "Knew it!" I shouted and instantly put my hand over my mouth, I just couldn't different. "Knew what?" James turned his head away from Lily. "That there was something going on between your two best friends." the two didn't seem to recognize us talking about them, they were too busy falling of the sofa, laughing and continuing to make out. Peter fell asleep on the floor behind the sofa and Lily played with a string of her while she observed James talking to me. "That wasn't a secret Ffur" James laughed. "But they're two boys!" I said, "So? "He answered and I didn't reply. I stared back into the flames which danced with each other in front of my eyes. Everyone seemed to love another, kissing, dancing, weird staring - all around me. And then there was me staring into the flames, completely speechless of the fact that Remus and Sirius were a gay couple and accepted. I always thought everyone else would dislike people like them and people like me. There seemed to be a face in the flames for a moment, the face of Bella but as I looked closer it was already gone. Probably the alcohol and my thoughts made me imagining something. "Lily? " I asked- fully aware of the fact that James and Dorcas where listening too. "Yes?" she asked me back still seeming dreamy, I sampled all my bravery, a thing every Gryffindor must do once in their life, (a thing I had to do several times in my life but didn't know yet), "what if..." I began. "What if what Ffur", "Just forget about it". "Ok" Lily replied a winked at me, I winked back and we both ended up laughing. I can't remember at what time exactly but about 4am I fell asleep not without having looked into the flames again.