Forever Yours

Questions

"I slept during the day! I never do that!" you ranted to Lanette the following weekend.

She smiled serenely. "He does seem to be having an effect on you. You might be sleeping more, but you're a lot happier too. When are you seeing him again besides every day at school?"

"Tomorrow he and his mates are having me and Gabby over their place for dinner."

"Where are they living while they're here?"

"It's odd, but they are staying in a cottage by the forest at the edge of town."

"They're staying there alone?"

"Yeah."

"How can that be? I thought they were seventeen like us."

"Me too, which is why I asked Remus about it. He told me they were all of age. When I let him know that I was confused since I knew that at least Remus is only seventeen and nobody is of age until eighteen he said, 'That's true; my mistake. We do have an adult there. Sirius is eighteen.' I wonder how he could've forgotten the age when a person is considered legal..."

Lanette stated, "If Sirius is the adult I'm scared."

You laughed. "Sirius is reckless and has too many hormones, but he's a good friend and I feel comfortable around him."

"Don't you feel comfortable around Remus?"

"I feel a whole bunch of other emotions around Remus." You blushed.

It was Lanette's turn to laugh. "Well, we should get some rest." She spread her sleeping bag out on the floor. That night she was sleeping at your flat.

"You can, but I wanna get some reading done." You retrieved your fantasy book off of your bedside table about vampires that wielded sorcery and opened it to the book marked page.

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After your mother brought your cousin home the following evening she drove you and Gabby to the Marauders' residence.

"What time should I pick you girls up?"

Gabby supplied, "They'll drive us back."

"All right," answered your mother before reminding you, "Be home by curfew."

"I will. I promise." You intended to keep your vow.

As she drove off you noted, "We're fifteen minutes early. Will they mind?"

"Course not."

Both of you gaited towards the door and heard voices float out of an open window on the side of the cottage.

"Padfoot, you can't do it anymore. You know it's illegal to that in front of Muggles," James reprimanded; it sounded as if he felt awkward admonishing his friend.

Sirius protested, "No harm was done. She didn't know what I was doing."

"I'm tempted to use it too. Fantasy obviously loves stories with mythical things, so she'd adore it, but Prongs is right; it's against the law," Remus forlornly concurred.

"We never worried about the law before. Why start now?" queried Sirius, amused.

A foot stomped impatiently and Lily declared as calmly as she could, "Start now because if one of you does anything to expose himself we're all going to be sent back to Hogwarts."

What was Hogwarts? What was the mysterious 'it' that couldn't be done in front of anyone? Why were you and Gabrielle being referred to as Muggles? Something bizarre was going on.