can a gay and a lesbian fall for each other?
“Lupin I need your fucking help.” Tonks said as she banged the door open, making Remus spill coffee on the counter.
Tonks and Remus started working together at the small music store the year prior, immediately bonding over their shared love for underground rock music. After a few months, they were joined at the hip. They made jokes about clients and their boss, went on concerts, talked about anything and everything. They knew so much about each other that they created a game where Remus would try to guess which clients Tonks found attractive and vice versa.
So Tonks’ following request was definitely unsettling.
“I need you to be my boyfriend.” she asked, straight faced.
“Tonks, what the fuck?” Remus exclaimed as he tried to clean up the mess, “Do I need to remind you that I’m gay and you’re a lesbian? and that you have a girlfriend?”
“That’s exactly why I’m asking you!” she slammed her hands on the counter.
“I’m definitely not following.” He turned to look at her, utterly confused. She took a deep breath.
“My mom won’t stop asking who I’m texting every day and I’m not ready to tell her I like girls.”
“okay…?”
“so I lied and said I was texting you” she explained, “so she assumed I’m dating you and now she’s insisting that I take you on our family trip next week.”
Remus sighed, “and now you need me to go with you and pretend I’m not a ranging homosexual?”
“exactly!” she grinned at him.
“that’s definitely not working” he deadpanned, moving to unbox some things.
“Remus, please!” she whined, “I’m your best friend!”
“You are, and I love you, but I’m not wasting my vacation privileges trying to convince your mother that your obsession with Reneé Rapp is completely heterosexual.”
“I’ll let you choose what we get for lunch everyday for a week” Tonks bribed. Remus raised an eyebrow, she sighed, “and I’ll pay.” He grinned at her.
“Now I’m starting to consider your offer”
“It will be fun! Some of my cousins will be there, they’re our age! and we can go to the beach and the little market and-“
“alright, alright” he laughed, “is Fleur okay with it though?” he asked. Fleur and Tonks started dating 2 months ago and Remus was their official third wheel. They made him feel extremely single and lonely with their clinginess, but he loved seeing Tonks happy.
“She cackled when I told her my plan.”
He sighed, “how long’s the trip?”
“2 weeks” she smiled.
“2 weeks!? we’ll be fucking fired!” he exclaimed.
“I’ll pay Cindy and Lorelei to cover for us!”
he rolled his eyes, “oh yeah, I forgot you’re rich and only took this job to flirt with guitarist woman.”
“hey! I’m a taken woman right now!”
“oh, so you’ll quit? thank god I won’t have to deal with you every day anymore” he mocked her. She stuck her tongue out, flipping him her middle finger, then turned to help him with unboxing.
“Next monday, 7AM I’ll be knocking on your door and you better be ready to pretend you’re not the biggest homo on this whole city” she pointed out. Remus rolled his eyes and got back to his job.
That will be an interesting family trip.