I'm in exams period, as everybody must have seen in my posts or at least guessed by my disappearance, so here's a little filler and fluffy chapter for you all to enjoy until I'm back. It's not very long nor very good, but it's something at least. I'll be back soon, don't worry.

Remus Lupin couldn't understand completely why his sister's trunk was so much heavier than his own. It was cumbersome and completely senseless, in his opinion – they had almost the same classes and he was taking more books than her, and yet her bag was so much heavier that he had to carry it for her, because she couldn't lift it off the ground without help.

Hope kissing Luna's face several times, holding her in place while she giggled and tried to escape made the weight of it worth it. His sisters genuinely happy smile was beyond comforting when she looked so young. Still, it was in moments like these that he remembered that smug look in Walburga's face that time she had visited their home, asking if he was certain that Hope loved Luna – yes, Remus was certain of it, and he knew Hope never stopped loving Luna, even during their worst fights. The fact that Luna had thought otherwise for a single moment, however, made Remus' heart ache.

"My baby," cooed Hope loud enough for Remus and some of the other people around Kings' Cross station. A woman even smiled fondly at the scene. "My sweet baby girl, so grown up."

"Mum!" Luna said, still laughing and smiling. "You're squeezing me!"

"I am! I need one last good squeeze," Hope said, tightening her hold.

Luna giggled, holding her back in response.

Remus smiled to himself, already having received some squeezes from his mother and with his ribs aching.

"Make good decisions, keep your grades up and be careful," Hope said to her daughter, glancing up at Remus as if to make her words heard by him as well. He nodded to appease her. "I love you."

"I love you, too, Mum," she whispered back, hiding her face in her mother's neck.

Remus chuckled.

"Alright, alright. We all love each other, but we need to go, Luna," Remus said.

Luna squirmed in her mother's arms, trying to get out of the situation, but her mother squeezed her again before letting go at once. Hope sighed, blowing her away from her face and nodding in determination, promising herself to be alright without her children there to keep her in line.

Before they could walk away, Hope cleared her throat.

"I put... condoms in your trunks, both of you," Hope said, shifting her weight from one leg to the other.

Remus' face burned before he could even imagine any other reaction to those words.

"Mum!" he said, almost in a scolding tone.

Hope shrugged, pretending not to care for her son's exasperated and embarrassed reaction.

"What? Can't I say that I want you two to be careful?" Hope asked, exasperated in response. "This is ridiculous. Be mature about this, Remus. Look, your sister is being quite mature about it."

Luna turned to her brother and raised her eyebrows.

"Yes, Remus. Look at me. See how mature I'm being about my mother putting condoms in my school trunk," Luna said.

Remus turned to glare at her. "Oh, God, you'll be sneaking around with your little boyfriend like rabbits," he grumbled to himself.

Luna slapped his arm, ignoring how her mother clicked her tongue in disapproval and made a movement as a threat to separate them from one another. Remus pushed her slightly and it made Luna giggle to herself, pulling away from him and rolling her eyes.

"Alright, you two. Off you go," Hope said, pointing towards the station. "You'll be late, dears, go on."

Luna glanced at her bag, knowing far too well that Remus would take care of it, so she just kissed her mother's face and walked away, feeling Remus following her from not too far away. They crossed the barrier with Remus just behind Luna, nearly stumbling against her when they were on the other side because she had stopped, staring at something across the station.

"Luna, careful!" he scolded. "What is it?"

He followed her eyes and raised his eyebrows at the scene.

Pandora Lovegood was standing on the other side of the station wearing muggle jeans and a loose yellow shirt that moved with the wind, and her hair had been cut just a finger under her chin. She smiled widely, hanging off her husband's arm as if she had never been away from him before.

"She cut her hair," Luna said, horrified. "She cut her hair and she didn't tell me!"

Remus raised his eyebrows.

"She doesn't need to ask permission to cut her hair, Luna," he said, confused by her reaction.

"She tells me everything!" Luna said, turning to her brother as if that would make him understand her point. "I'll probably hear details of her wedding night that I don't want to hear. That's how much I know about her life, and she didn't tell me she was chopping her hair off!"

Remus grimaced, refusing to look at her again after knowing that.

"She'll tell you of her wedding night?" he repeated, aghast.

Luna rolled her eyes. "Oh, please, as if you don't share details with your friends," she said. "Everybody shares details."

Remus frowned, turning to her again.

"No, we don't," he said. "We share names, and – clearly – not even that, sometimes."

Luna looked away from her brother.

"Well, girls do," she said, defensively. Remus seemed not only surprised but horrified of the discovery. "At least between best friends, we do. She knew of my first kiss and I knew of hers, she knew every detail of every person I have ever been with, and I'll know her today. That's what best friends do."

"Well, mine don't," Remus said, shaking his head. "Most of the time we just know the person has been with someone, and we know their name. In Sirius' case there were so many that we sort of just stopped asking last year."

It was Luna's turn to grimace, but she brushed it off quickly because Pandora looked at her. She raised her arm above her head, waving excitedly. She turned to her brother and made her best eyes at him.

"Please, put it on the overhead compartment for me?" she said, whining a bit.

Remus sighed as if it was a great effort for him and rolled his eyes but nodded at her regardless. She made a little squeal before running off to go to her friend, who seemed ever so changed from her very strict pureblood family now that she had been married off and was ready to be whoever she wanted to be. Even he, who held no interest in women at all was quite honest with himself when he thought that Pandora looked a lot more attractive when she looked as confident as that. He even gave a little smile at the girl before climbing on the train, and she smiled back an odd, frozen smile that disappeared quickly.

Remus smiled to himself at the girl's social graces as he walked further into the train, going to the Gryffindor compartments and crossing the corridor. He knew exactly what compartment his friends would wait for him in – and he was sure he was the last to arrive, as always.

The compartment door was wide open and he could hear James Potter's laughter from far away, which made his grin grow as he put his head it.

"Hello, old boys," he greeted.

"Remus!" Peter greeted, excited.

"Moony!" Sirius said, grinning back and turning his whole body to the door, putting his knees on the train's seat. "You're here!"

James smiled and waved at him, stopping whatever it was that he had been telling the boys to make them laugh. He turned to watch Remus walking in and putting his and his sister's bags on the compartment overhead of them, waiting for him to get situated before keep telling his story of exchanging letters with Lily Evans about what was expected of them as Head Girl and Boy and what they needed to do as Prefects – a reminder to Remus that, whether he liked it or not, James was (in one way or another) his boss while in meetings.

It was quite rare for the person already chosen as prefects in fifth year to not be the chosen Head Boy or Girl. Of course. The one exception in over a decade would be James bloody Potter; Remus wasn't upset, he was rather relinquished over it, even accepting of the situation. Had he known beforehand that it was a possibility at all, he would've been expecting it at some point as well. Sometimes, he thought that Dumbledore gave him the position as prefect because he felt like Remus could do well in a position of power to control his friends, or at least to heal some self-deprecating part of him; if so, both failed, therefore it was no surprise that James Potter had gotten the next bigger role.

"And you, why did you take so long to get in?" Peter asked once James was done telling them of the last few days of summer that they had been apart.

"Luna and her friend as gossiping outside," Remus said. "And Mum didn't let us go until just now."

Sirius snorted. "Can't relate," he joked.

Peter snorted as well but tried his best to hide it. James slapped his back lightly in a silent warning.

The train whistled loudly. Not a minute later, it started moving, making Peter make a little squeaky noise in excitement for their last year.

"Luna told me something... odd," Remus admitted once the laughing stopped. The boys turned to pay more attention to him. "She mentioned girls actually tell details of encounters with men to one another."

"That's true," Sirius said with a firm nod.

Remus turned to him.

"How do you know that?" Remus asked.

"How do you think I got a reputation with the birds before I actually had much to tell? Blokes are just more... timid, I suppose," Sirius said, crossing his arms while leaning against the window's wall. "Some girls not only tell one another, but they show it – like, they act it out... or at least Marlene does, it's hilarious."

Peter laughed loudly at that, clapping once at the mental image of it. He leaned his head back, still lost in his laughter.

James shook his head, looking as taken aback by the information as Remus was at first. He didn't like the idea of his (hypothetical) intimacy being shared.

"That's horrible," James complained.

"You don't need to worry, you're a virgin," Peter said, rolling his eyes.

Sirius laughed at that.

"So are you!" James said, turning to Peter.

Peter's grin grew.

"Not anymore," he announced.

Sirius made a loud noise, leaning forward in surprise and interest. Remus grumbled under his breath, because, of course, Peter would share the information with such casual tone in the middle of a conversation just because it became relevant instead of just trying to talk to his friends about his personal life.

"Who?!" James asked.

Peter smirked.

"See, that's how girls start talking as well. You're not much better than them, Prongs," Sirius warned James after his judgmental comment before.

James glared at him, but otherwise ignored his words completely, turning to Peter again while waiting for a satisfactory answer.

"A girl from Slytherin," Peter said.

"Dorcas?!" James gasped.

"No! Dorcas has been in an on-off situationship with Marlene since last year," Remus said, shaking his head.

Sirius opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it again, silently thanking his mind for being faster than his mouth this time around. Sharing Marlene's confession of snogging Luna when not even Luna remembered it would've been a very cruel thing to do, especially because he wasn't sure Luna was out to her family.

"No, it wasn't Dorcas," Peter admitted, shaking his head. "She told me to not to tell anybody, but it was Margaret O'Connell."

"O'Connell?" Sirius asked, raising his eyebrows. "Yeah, I get it, Pete. Her parents are Catholic Irish. Secretiveness with sleeping around is warranted in her part."

Peter nodded, agreeing with his friend.

James sighed, miserable.

"Am I the only virgin?" he asked.

"Yes," all the boys said at once.

James crossed his arms and pouted until the time for the prefect meeting with Remus and Lily, his newest friend.

Luna's mouth was slightly ajar as she stared at Pandora's moving lips and glimmering blue eyes that did not blink as she told her the filthiest things that Xenophilius had taught her in the tiniest details. Though she had done the same before, she had never thought that Pandora would be so careful with remembering details or so shameless to tell her without hesitation, for she had always been the shy one between them. And now it was "because this position" and "that position" every time she opened her mouth.

"Merlin's beard," Luna whispered to herself as Pandora took a break to eat.

"It was exhausting!" Pandora said.

"I wasn't expecting half as much stamina as what you just described, Panda, so I understand that it was tiring," Luna giggled. Pandora smiled at her. "In general, I suppose you liked it, then? You were scared you weren't going to like it."

"As you said, Xen would never make me do something I didn't want to," Pandora said with a nod. "Oh! And then we tried this thing – which, by the way, you'll never believe – and I almost fainted. You must try it!"

Speechless, Luna blinked. Her cheeks were coloured pink as she tried her best not to laugh, eyes wide in shock as Pandora went on about the encounter that she had with her husband a few hours before they caught the very train they were on.

"Pandora!" she gasped. "Wow!" she covered her mouth with her hand and tried not to laugh.

"You asked for details," Pandora said, shrugging with a grin.

She was unapologetic with her excitement, which Luna couldn't blame her for after so much good sex. Pandora leaned back with her grin stuck on her lips, looking thrilled with her recent experiences.

"Well, there were certainly a lot of details there –" Luna started.

The compartment door slid open, and in walked Evan, Barty and Regulus, interrupting their conversation.

"Hello!" Barty said, jumping over Pandora's legs.

"Hey," Regulus said, voice lower.

"You're saved, Luna!" Evan said, smirking. "No more post-honeymoon madness talk, please, Panda."

Evan threw himself onto the seat next to his sister, grinning in happiness for her presence and satisfied with his position.

Barty gave a little polite smile before sitting on the other side of Pandora, smiling a bit more at Evan as he shoved his long legs on the seat next to Luna. Regulus sat on the other side of Luna, immediately throwing an arm around her shoulders and pulling her flush against his side.

Luna felt the warmth of his body next to hers and looked up at his face, surprised by his sudden closeness when he usually stuck to handholding in front of other people. Regulus was reserved in his love life, and he had never been much for public affection in any way, so his actions seemed different – he was more open, more affectionate.

His hands rubbed her arm gently as he leaned in, kissing her lips softly and quickly pulling back.

"I missed you," he murmured, voice quiet and intimate, meant for her ears only.

It hadn't been that long since they had last seen each other at the Potter Soirée, so his reactions were certainly amusing. Still, Luna smiled softly and allowed her heart to flutter at his words regardless of the time they had been apart.

"I missed you, too," she whispered back.

She leaned in, putting her head on his shoulder.

Pandora giggled, raising her eyebrows.

"Well, well, well! Look at that. Regulus Black, master of self-control and self-preservation, being all lovey-dovey," she teased the couple, winking at Luna.

Luna rolled her eyes, but Regulus face flushed slightly but didn't move away. In fact, he tightened his grip on her, as if fearing someone would separate them.

"What can I say, my girlfriend is amazing and I had a long holiday," he answered, almost embarrassed by his own reaction.

Evan couldn't let the moment pass.

"Long holiday? Merlin, Regulus, you were separated for days, not years," his friend said.

"Shut it," Regulus barked at Evan, shooting him a withering look.

Evan leaned back, laughing.

"You did say that you spent most of the summer pining over Luna, not even getting a moment to breathe, so I can't blame you much," Evan teased a bit more.

Barty leaned over Pandora, slapping Evan lightly and making Pandora laugh as well as Barty rolled his eye fondly at Evan's jokes.

"Leave them alone, Evan. Not everybody wants to hear commentaries on their love life," Barty said.

Evan raised his hands in surrender and did his best to feign innocence.

"What? I'm saying it's sweet. Look at them, Barty, all cuddled up like a proper couple of lovebirds," Evan said.

"Yes, stop, Evan!" Regulus said, agreeing with his friend.

Evan sighed.

"I'm not trying to give you a complex, Reg, just trying to keep this travel proper," Evan said. "We already have Pandora here being the improper one."

"Improper?!" Pandora repeated, turning to her brother. "I'm not improper. I'm married."

"I know, I was there!" Evan said, rolling his eyes.

Luna turned to Regulus again, smiling fondly at the siblings bickering and Barty trying to appease the situation. Regulus ignored all the noise and leaned down, capturing her lips with his once more, grateful to have her so near without having to sneak away to kiss her and without having to worry about being seen.

Luna had not slept well at all. Either because she had to hold back all desire and longing for Regulus back due to their company in the train compartment and they were quickly pulled apart as soon as they got to Hogwarts, each going to their own table – and all the girls in Ravenclaw's table were leaning in towards Luna, having heard of all the parties she had been allowed to attend and asking questions about ballgown, titled posh people talk and how much like a romance book her summer had been – or because she had a pounding headache by the time she got to the dormitories and she tossed and turned in bed a lot of the night before finally falling asleep.

Still, she forced a kind smile at Professor Flitwick when he offered her timetables.

"Thank you, Professor," she said.

Flitwick gave a smile.

"I think it'll be to your taste, Miss Lupin," he said. He leaned in towards her as if to tell her a secret. "You have good classes with Slytherin."

Taken aback by his eagerness to tell her such information all she could do as continue her frozen smile and nod, thanking him once more under her breath before opening her timetables to take a look at it.

"Yes," she mumbled to herself.

Professor Flitwick had not been completely wrong in his grinning face when he gave her classes times, because she indeed had a lot of classes with Slytherin – one more than the year before.

Monday started with Charms with Hufflepuffs with a double class, then one of Ancient Runes and then one of Transfiguration with Slytherin. Finally, they would have a break for lunch, followed by double Potions also with Slytherin, ending the day with double History with Gryffindor. Monday alone gave her three classes with Regulus. And so did Tuesday, starting with double Transfiguration with Slytherin, then one of Advanced Arithmancy (also with Slytherin), then Alchemy, which she would take with some choice students, then lunch, double Herbology with Hufflepuff, one Astronomy lesson with Gryffindor and Charms with Hufflepuff again. Wednesday gave her two classes – starting the day with double History with Gryffindor as torture, but following it up with double D.A.D.A with Slytherin was heaven before lunch, then double Ancient Runes and two free periods. On Thursday she had the two first classes of Alchemy, and two classes of Advanced Arithmancy with Slytherin, then lunch followed by two empty periods (wonderful time for naps, she thought), and ending with two Astronomy lessons with Gryffindors. Friday started wonderful, with D.A.D.A and Transfiguration as the first two classes, then two free periods before lunch, followed by Herbology, History and Potions (the last with Slytherin), one free period and one midnight class in Astronomy.

Luna only looked away from the paper in hands when a hand on her shoulder felt warm even through her clothes and she found Regulus smiling at her and showing her his own timetable, almost as if he had not imagined she would be searching for classes with him as well.

"We'll have a wonderful year," Barty said from behind Regulus, approaching equally as excited. "We'll have so many classes together!"

"A pity we have different electives," Pandora said, looking at Luna.

Luna smiled at her.

"We'll see each other enough every night and in every other non-elective class, Panda," she said, gently.

Pandora nodded, looking down at her paper and frowning as she made calculations of the easiest and quickest way of travelling through her classes without having to follow the mass of late students in the corridors.

"We'll have some free periods at the same time," Regulus mentioned, pointing at her parchment.

Luna nodded.

"You know what that means!" Luna said.

Evan sighed, sitting on the Ravenclaw table beside Luna with a sigh. He ignored the way Rosalie looked at him through the corner of her eye.

"Snogging," Evan accused.

"Studying in the library, away from the sun," Barty guessed.

Pandora chuckled.

"No. Of course, she's talking about snogging in the library, away from the sun," Pandora said, correcting both.

Luna smiled, knowing that Pandora was right, especially because Regulus glared at Evan for using the word 'snogging' in public, but the high of his cheeks flushed at Pandora's guess at their activities.

I hope you all liked it. I'll be back soon.

Meanwhile, enjoy the alterations I made in the Pinterest board:

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