1962. June.
The sound of a car drawing close to the house was heard by the two year old, Ashley, the small baby which was Amber, cried out at the sudden noise, when the car came to a stop outside the houses drive, a young woman stepped out with a small three year old toddler in tow, the toddlers eyes were red with tears and the dark emerald iris's glittered with un-shed tears, her long auburn hair was tied prettily in two plaits that fell down either side of her face. The two year old Ashley, waddled to the door, her mother Jessica took hold of her daughter, and pulled her into her arms, Ashley's dark chestnut brown hair was loose and flew down her back in dark waves, her dark maroon eyes shone. She walked outside of the house to greet the woman. "My name is Verity Lock, I would not come here if it were not an emergency" the strange woman said. A couple walked from the house, holding the small baby in their arms. "Hello Verity" Victoria greeted her friend with a smile, but her friend simply shook her head a pained expression on her face.
Victoria looked alarmed. "What is it, Ver?" she questioned, then saw the little girl behind Verity, "Oh No!" she exclaimed suddenly realizing why her friend had come to her, "I am afraid my sister is dead, as is her husband and the two older siblings, but Cassandra lived. I need a home for her, I can not care for another soul, I can barely care for myself as it is" the woman intoned her voice filled with a pain that could only be caused by guilt. Victoria looked to her husband and her little baby Amber, baby Amber's soft downy black hair "We will take her in. We shall raise her as if she were our own, its the best thing we can do" Victoria said solemnly, she was happy to have gained another daughter for after the birth of Amber, there had been complications and Victoria would never be able to carry another child. But she was saddened by the loss of a friend. Jessica looked at the child and then to her sister in law, "Are you sure you can cope?" she asked, knowing that her husbands sister had been thrown from the family in disgrace for she had married a half-blood instead of a pureblood like the family had wanted. Jessica was of course a pureblood herself.
"Don't worry Jess, I can cope" she said with a smile and comforting hand on her sister in law's shoulder. The pureblood lady took a step back and allowed her husbands sister to walk towards the toddler, "Hello dear, what's your name?" she asked softly, her eyes never leaving the fragile looking toddler.
"Cassandra, miss" Cassy answered solemnly, she looked up at Victoria, "Are you going to look after me now?" she asked formally her voice breaking slightly when she talked, her high pitched voice cracking in grief. Victoria was almost reduced to tears at the girls pain, "Yes sweetie, is Cassandra your only given name?" she asked, wondering if the girl had a middle name. In recent years, Victoria had not had much contact with Verity and her family. She regretted that now. Cassandra nodded. "Okay then Cassandra, would you like a middle name?" she asked and smiled at the girls smile, it seemed when the girl smiled she seemed to light up. Cassy nodded. She would love a middle name. Victoria knelt for a moment, and thought. "How does Irene sound?" she asked, thinking it over. At Cassandra's small smile, she realized that Cassy like the name. Cassandra Irene Lee. It sounded nice. It was in that moment, that Amber decided to wake up and cry, Victoria gave a startled laugh. "Welcome to the family, Cassandra Irene Lee" she smiled and walked them all inside. Verity stayed outside, and watched the girl join her new family.
1976. September.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
Cassandra woke with a start, and rubbed at her eyes, she was still dreadfully tired. "Wake up sis" called Amber, whom was excited to start her 3rd year at Hogwarts. Cassandra pulled herself from her warm bed, her flannel pajama bottoms almost covered her feet as she walked and the old tank top she wore seemed not nearly enough to keep her warm. "Do you always have to be so chipper at this time in the morning?" she groaned, rubbing at her eyes, trying to wake herself fully. Amber just laughed. "Not my fault you never get enough sleep" she chided. Cassandra walked down the stairs to grab her breakfast,to see her adopted cousin slumped very tiredly over the kitchen table a cup of coffee in her hands. Cassandra wanted to laugh, but she couldn't force her body to laugh. "Late night?" she asked her cousin, whom simply rolled her eyes at the question. Cassandra sat down opposite her cousin, and thanked her adopted mother as a plate of breakfast was laid in front of her, she picked at the food, and then walked upstairs to change. Walking back downstairs changed into a pair of skinny jeans and a black vest top with a blue plaid shirt over the top, she smiled at the sight of her sister and cousin arguing over the 'blood' debate. Amber and Ashley regularly debated whether pure-bloods where naturally better at magic then half bloods or muggleborns. Cassandra rolled her eyes and sat down at the table once again, picking up a slice of toast she had left. It was still warm, so she started to eat it.
"Are you all packed dears?" came the voice of Victoria. Cassandra shouted back "Yea mum", Victoria had been her mother ever since she was 3 years old. Cassy had never really thought of Kibum as a father, a father like figure yes, but father no. She and Kibum never saw eye to eye. It could have been that she was very much a wild spirit and he did not approve of most of her behavior. Especially when it came to men. Cassandra was what is usually known as a flirt. Which Kibum, did not approve of at all. Luckily Amber was a very naive and closed off girl, so he didn't have to worry about that with her. Cassandra sighed and looked to her cousin, "Ash-leyyy" she called her tone wavering in a mischievous way. "Are you packed?" she asked, knowing that her cousin usually packed weeks in advance. But unknown to her cousin she had switched her wand for a fake replica she had commissioned, from a few good friends of hers. Ashley frowned. Of course she was packed, it was an outrage to her for anyone to think other wise, "What about your wand?" Cassandra asked her tone turning as innocent as it could get.
"You know that isn't packed" Ash frowned again. What had Cassandra done know. Cassandra was definitely known for her love of pranks. Which made her a hit with a certain group. She sighed and pulled it out, "Accio Cassandra's wand" she cried, but of course the spell did not work, Ash looked at her wand in surprised then it clicked to what Cassandra had done. "Cassandra!" she exclaimed, loudly shocking poor Amber, whom had been trying to get some quiet revision in before going back to school. "What have you done with my wand?" she screeched chucking the fake away, Cassandra backed up and laughed. "Now dear cousin, don't over react, I know it must be a shock finding out you became a squib over night, don't blame it on me or the wand" she carried on her prank even though Ashley was approaching her with an angry look in her eyes. When Ashley was 2 feet away from Cassandra, Cassy finally reacted "Oh Sugar" she muttered and ran, she chucked her cousins wand at her and ran behind Samuel, whom had just entered the room. "Sir, your daughter is a manic" she muttered, still hiding. Samuel was not sure what to make of this, so just walked off.
A few moments later, the rather dysfunctional family was off to Kings Cross. When they arrived, Cassy, Amber and Ashley went to find a carriage so that they wouldn't have to rush when the train left. Sitting in the carriage, Cassandra sat by the window on her own and Ashley and Amber sat opposite her. "Excited for this year?" a velvet like voice intoned, Cassandra looked around sharply and a grin appeared on her face, standing there was one of her gryffindor friends, Sirius Black, behind him was James, Remus and Peter. Cassy didn't really like Peter, but Remus and James where alright. Ashley frowned and pushed her way from the compartment, annoyed at the amount of Gryffindors. Cassandra rolled her eyes then answered her friends question "Of course, it's going to be one of the best yet" she said with a small smirk. Sirius walked in confidently and sat next to her. Like right next to her, so that his side was against her.
"Now Sirius what is it?" she asked, trying to ignore the fact that her very handsome friend was sitting against her, she could feel the heat of his skin through her shirt. "I missed you over the holidays, you didn't come visit enough" he said putting on a mock pout, Cassandra's breath caught in her throat, and she quickly corrected herself, by laughing at him. "Aww did you miss me, I generally have that effect on people" she covered again, mentally smacking herself, for allowing someone to gain such a reaction from her. Cassandra had been friends with the marauders since her third year, and had had a rather bad crush on the said Sirius Black, since her first year. She continually acted strangely around him and kept having to make up lies and such to get out of the embarrassing alternative. Amber obviously knew about her adopted sisters crush, she thought it was hilarious, that one Sirius Black could effect her sister in such a way that she hadn't seen with anyone else. Amber looked up from her book and sniggered quietly, before scooting closer to the window so that the other 3 boys could sit down, James sat next to Sirius, and smacked him on the arm in the process, while Remus and Peter sat by Amber. Amber looked at the people in the compartment, then at her book "I'm going to find some Rebecca" she said and swiftly left. Leaving Cassandra alone with 4 boys. Great. Alone with 3 guys plus the guy she really liked. Who was at that moment sitting right beside her. When a hand fell on her knee, she jumped out of her skin. "What the" she exclaimed, and was relieved to find it was only Remus who looked rather concerned at her sudden worried look. "Whats got you worried, Andy?" he asked, Cassandra sighed, they loved to call her Andy, well except from Sirius, whom only called her that if he wanted to annoy her. They figured it settled better with them all being boys, and Andy was generally a boy's nickname. She saw from the corner of her eye Sirius glaring, for some reason at Remus, whom still had his hand resting gently on her knee. Remus had no romantic feelings towards Cassandra, she was simply a really good friend. Cassandra brushed Remus's hand off her knee, but was comforted by it at the same time as being annoyed. She laughed again rather nervously "Nothing's wrong. Nothing at all" she said then at all the boy's looked at her with a totally disbelieving look. Cassandra stuttered for a moment then, quickly lied, she was not about to say she was worried about Sirius finding out she had a crush on her. "Its Kibum. He's been really strict with me lately" she said lamely, but they seemed to believe her, all except for Sirius, whom still looked at her with disbelief. She leant her head on the window and listened to James talk animatedly about his summer.
Ashley stalked down the train till she came across Blake, Eli and Xavier, whom were sitting with Regulas Black, brother to the player Sirius Black, whom Ashley did not approve of her adopted cousins crush on the player. She sighed, she generally wanted to tell Regulas about Cassandra's crush on his brother, but her stupid cousin Amber had made her swear not to. Ashely was sure that Regulas would tell Sirius, which only made her want to speak up more. Ash smirked at her friends, they were all boys much like Cassandra's friends were. Ashley twirled her wand lazily in her hand, "What's up, Ash" Blake asked. Blake had dark tanned skin and dark hair with blue eyes, which made him pretty desirable, but thankfully Ash was pretty much impervious to his good looks. "Ahh not much stuck with my silly cousins most the holiday" she said, making out she didn't really like or enjoy spending time with her cousins when she did. Eli looked up and laughed, he was a very typical slytherin he despised Ash's cousins because they were half bloods, not pure bloods. His platinum blond hair shone in the compartment light. His dark green eyes always looked hooded and sly. Ashley smirked at him, around her friends she really did become a smirking drone. Xavier was a rather more willing slytherin whom didn't mind other houses. Ashley turned to X, and started chatting away to him about the summer and the rise of Voldemort and such. Ashley didn't support Voldemort per-say, she just liked to support the winning side and at this time it seemed Voldemort would win. Soon Ash was bored, and pulled out a box of pocky, she chomped her way through the whole box in a matter of minutes. After that Ash felt strangely sleepy, and fell to sleep, in her sleep she managed to maneuver herself next to Regulas and even rested her head on his lap. Regulas, gently ran his hands through her hair. If he was honest with himself he had held a crush on Ashley since he met her, and she always seemed so unattainable. Regulas sighed and carried on running his fingers through her long dark hair, whilst looking out the window, he savored the small touches he was able to get.
Amber finally found her friend, and sat in the compartment with her, "Hey" she greeted her friend, then opened her book again, and started reading. When she was really into her book, a boy opened the door and asked to sit in the compartment. "Hi, my name is Kiseop, mind if I sit?" he asked, in a rather Asian accent which was placed by his facial features, Amber smiled, and nodded. "Sure, I'm Amber Lee" she said with a genuinely kind smile, she wondered if he was new because he didn't look familiar, "Are you new, like a transfer?" she asked confused. Surely if he was a student already she was sure she would have recognized him, because even if he wasn't in the same house as her, she probably would have seen him around. He laughed, "Is it that obvious?" he asked in a joking tone. He was obviously a kind and gentle, person, and easy to talk too. He sat down opposite Amber, he looked at her with a look of interest in his eyes. "Your Asian?" he asked as if he hadn't thought he would meet another person whom had even the slightest Asian bloodline. Amber laughed and copied his line "Is it that obvious?" with a pleasant smile, she then added. "I'm only half Asian, by father is Kibum Lee, and my mother is Victoria Luxsworth" she said, smiling, her mother was from a prominent pureblood line and her father was from an half-blood Asian line. Kiseop smiled and nodded, he was fully Asian and a pureblood. "Kibum Lee?" he asked. "Do you know anyone by the name of Hanuel Ahn?" he asked, Kiseop knew of Kibum Lee, his father was a business partner of his. "I've heard of him, yes" Amber answered, a little confused.
"Hanuel Ahn is my dad" he told her with a small smirk. Amber's mouth formed an 'O' shape, in realization.
1976. September. Hogwarts.
The Hogwarts Express had arrived in the station and the students eagerly rushed from the train to the carriages. While the first years gathered excitedly around the boats. Cassandra remembered her first year, she had been so awed by the castle. On the way to the carriages, Ash, Amber and Cassandra found each other again. "So Cassandra" Ashley spoke in a smooth and dangerous tone. "How was the man-whore, Sirius Black? I hear he had 3 girls in one week" she spoke with an arrogant smirk, and wanted to laugh evilly at her adopted cousins crushed look. She looked so pathetically heartbroken. Which was possibly a bad word to use. "I bet he has genital herpes, from all the sleeping around he does" she carried on, her tone becoming rather evil sounding, she truly enjoyed teasing and annoying the girl who wasn't truly related to her. Amber frowned at her cousin, and was about to speak, but Cassandra beat her too it, by punching the said girl. Hard. On her jaw. Satisfied with Ashley's reaction which was an almost muffled sound of pain. She stormed off, walking into the carriage. Amber followed her shaking her head. She didn't really understand why Ashley and Cassandra didn't really get on very well. They always - always - bickered. Ashley reluctantly followed her cousins, rubbing her jaw. Her adopted cousin did have a good right hook. She had to give her that. Although she was so angry - all she had done was tell the truth. What was so bad about that. The three girls sat in an awkward silence. Family life was definitely never all sunshine and roses.
AN: I know there is probably a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes, please bear-with me.