Deep scars : young Remus lupin

Okay take a deep breath

Clara POV
24th December

"Okay I was thinking if we curled your hair half up half down with darker nude make up and these black high heels to go with your dress." Marlene explained while we were all leaning on her bed together.

"There maybe one problem with that, I can't walk in high heels like at all, I was just thinking I go in some boots." I corrected her while they all sighed around me.

"You want to go to the yule ball in COMBAT BOOTS!" Marlene looked at me like I was dum.

"Yeah they're comfortable and easy to walk in." I explained to the girls "anyway why are you giving me all this attention don't you have dates to get ready for, too."

"Yes we do but ours don't really matter, unlike you who are going out with someone you really like." Dorcas patted me on the back.

"W-What do you mean I don't know what you guys are going on about." I stuttered looking at the four girls around me.

"Oh come on Clara we see the way you look at him." Alice sighed as I stared her down to see if she was telling the truth "and lily told us!" She blabbed while pointing to lily.

"Alice." Lily whined "you said you would keep it a secret."

"I'm sorry but she can be really intimidating sometimes."

"Lily we talked about this I told you not to tell anyone." I Shouted at her.

"Well since you said yes to him it's kinda obvious you like him." She retaliated.

"Yea, and you said yes to Amos doesn't mean you like him!"

"Well maybe I do." She slumped down on her chair.

"Oh lily i see how you look at James." I sighed.

"I definitely do not like him."

"Lils, no offence but it's more obvious than Clara liking Remus." Marlene interrupted.

"Yeah it is."

"Really is." The others agreed with her.

"Any way," lily started to direct the conversation in a different direction. "Can we please start getting ready we only have two hours."
Only two hours? How long do they take to get changed?

Remus POV

I glimpsed at my watch for the third time this minute and the answer was still the same 5:56pm.

"Chill Moony she'll be here you're early anyway so I don't know why you're worrying." James patted me on the back.

"I came down here early in case she came down early."

"Oh Remus, Remus, Remus." Sirius tutted at me "Do you know nothing about girls, a girl is hardly ever early."

"Yeah they are mostly late." James continues.

"Why is that?" I question them.

"Because they take so long to get ready, they'll start two hours before and still will be half an hour to an hour late." Sirius explained.

"Yeah they have a whole list of stuff to do." James started "like makeup, hair, dress, shoes all that stuff."

Clara POV

"Can you please hurry up Remus Is waiting for me downstairs and I don't want to be late." I shout at lily who is putting her like third layer of makeup on.
"Okay that's it I give up I'm going down without you."

"No no no please wait just give me a second I won't take that long I've just got to finish this part." She grabs a whole different kit out of her never ending makeup bag.

"Why do we have to go down together anyway it's not like we're sharing a date."

"We have to go down together because then we show a united front like girl power."

"Or do you mean we have to go downstairs because it's a definite that another black haired, specky boy will be waiting in the common room with him."
I say as a spare school shoe comes flying my way and I duck under it just in time.

"No it is not, he's going out with a 6th year Ravenclaw anyway so," she looks down in her lap and sighs.

"Wait who?"

"Aurora Audra."

"Wait as in the Aurora Audra who
A) is you arch nemesis in potions class and B) has a massive crush on James and wants you dead?"

"Yep that one" lily rolls her eyes at the name.

"So he's trying to make you jealous by going out with your Psycho nemesis that has tried more than once to kill you this year." I ramble without thinking.

"What do you mean tried more than once to kill me?" She looks at me terribly  confused, shit I didn't want to tell her this but I guess I would have done whether she found out or not.

"You know two days ago when I took a sip of your pumpkin juice and then had to run to the bathroom?"

"Don't tell me this is going where I think this is going."

"Well because of my keen wolf animagus senses I could smell poison in your drink so I stole it and decked it." And I swear Remus smelt it too because he's been acting a bit weird ever since the incident.

"Why?" She spoke in a whisper tears threatening to come out of her eyes.

"Because of my powers my body can survive being poisoned and yours can't all it did was regurgitate it (puked it up) but with you, it would have killed you."

"But why didn't you tell me?"

"Because if I had told you, people would have stared to wonder how I would know, especially the boys."

"So what was the other times I nearly got killed?"

"Can we talk about this later? The love of my life is waiting for me downstairs and I'm already ten minutes late." I pleaded with lily.

"Okay but you have to tell me later okay?"

"Okay I will but don't freak out."

"I won't make any promises."

Remus POV

She still isn't here and it's ten past six, I know girls take along time but what if she doesn't come at all? What if she regrets saying yes to me and doesn't like me that way? I pace up and down the common room trying to calm down before I hear two pairs of high heeled footsteps coming down from the girls dorms.
Okay take a deep breath.