I walked out of Potions laughing and talking with Calia and Ashley when I realized I left my Potions book in the classroom

I walked out of Potions a couple of days later, laughing and talking with Calia and Ashley when I realized I left my Potions book in the classroom. "Hey, uh, you guys head up I forgot my textbook in the dungeons I have to run back and get it."

"We'll come with you."

"No Ashley, I'm fine just keep going, I'll catch up with you."

"If your sure, meet us out by our tree." They kept walking while I turned and walked back down to the dungeons. I got my book and was heading back upstairs when someone grabbed me and put their hand over my mouth. I was about to fight back until I turned and saw who it was.

"Jesus Reg! You scared me half to death! Never sneak up on me, you know that!" he just smiled.

"But my way is funner." I playfully punched him.

"Regulus Black! I for one am appalled that you would frighten an innocent girl half to death just for pleasure!" I mock scolded him, trying to sound like our mother "Well, is there a reason why you decided to abduct me in the middle of a corridor?"

"Yeah, actually there is. I wanted to ask if you were all right." I was surprised by his question.

"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?"

"Well, our dearest older brother has a black eye, and the rumor is that you gave it to him because he beat up Aaron Samuels after finding you snogging him." Snogging!! There was no snogging! I'll have to tell him, great, now he'll be biting my head off about Aaron too.

"Well, you know what they say about rumors." I decided to try and play it off like I didn't punch Sirius.

"That they always start with a little bit of truth." He wasn't fooled.

"Fine, but before you blow up, no, I wasn't snogging Aaron, we were simply talking in the library. We both had a lot of work so we skipped Lunch. We were just talking, I swear!" he nodded, and seemed less angry, that's why I sometimes liked him better than Sirius, when I told him something he would believe me. "Well Sirius shows up, drags me out shouting about how I was sitting with Aaron alone and being his normal git self, well the Librarian wasn't happy about all the noise and banned us from the library for three weeks, when we got to our common room we were yelling at each other. Well, he was saying some BS about how I was 'sneaking' around with Aaron, and he didn't believe me when I told him nothing happened, all these Griffindors came and and I asked him a simple question 'Don't you trust me?' wanna know his answer? 'No' so I just punched him and ran." I looked up to see his face, to my surprise he was smiling. "What?" I asked, a mile now playing at my face too.

"Nothing, I'm just so proud, finally someone has deflated the head of 'His Highness.' You should start doing that more often." He was so weird, but I loved him so much.

"Let's go, people will begin to think Slughorn has abducted us." We started down the hall back up to sunlight and warmth. "How can you stand the cold down here?" he laughed.

"It goes with my heart. No just kidding, I guess we just get used to it. I've been living in it for a little over three years now so yeah." We walked in silence until we reached the Great Hall, I asked him where he was headed he said lake, so we both went outside. "Bye Reg, I'm headed over to 'our' tree." He laughed, I hugged him and walked away. As he walked towards his friends he called to me

"Bye Cassi." When I reached my friends Cali threw herself at me.

"Oh, Cassi! We thought you were dead! I was about to send out a search party before Sluggy could cut you up and brew you into a potion" I burst out laughing, and tried to contain myself enough to speak.

"Sorry, I met Reg and we were talking for a while."

"Oh, good so no homicidal Potions Master?" she asked trying to suppress her laughter.

"Well, I never said that he just hasn't killed me." After a slight pause I decided to add "yet." We were all laughing but I was able to become slightly serious to continue talking. "But, guys you know what I really think?" there were 'what's' and a 'huh?' from our other roommate that had clearly not been paying attention. "Maybe Slughorn was made fun of a lot because of his weight, and I mean I don't take Divination but I had this dream- well, it was actually a nightmare, you see he became sick of it so he started killing everyone, and I walked in on him eating Ashley. Maybe I was having a premonition." I was only able a straight face for a few seconds before we all burst out laughing, we fell on the ground and were rolling around when I heard a voice that made me sober up immediately and put a scowl on my face. "What do you want Sirius?"

"Well I was just wondering what was so funny I could result in all of you on the ground rolling around."

"Nothing." I answered quickly, but of course Ashley would tell him.

"Cassi had a dream Slughorn was eating me." She gasped out before continuing to laugh hysterically.

"Do I want to know." James and Remus had just walked up.

"No Remus, you probably don't." He just shrugged his shoulders. Sirius interrupted again.

"I couldn't help but notice, even though I was quite far off, that you exited the castle long after the period ended with a boy, you hugged him and walked away, care to enlighten me on who it was, and why you were so late getting out here?" Really? He was so stupid sometimes, but you know what? Why not have some fun? With one look at my eyes Cassi knew what I was about to do and whispered something to Ashley who smiled. I think Remus knew to cause he just shook his head.

"Well… I was so late out here because we were occupied in a broom cupboard on the second floor, sorry that I hugged him, you know, he kinda deserved that hug." I had to try so hard not to laugh at the look on Sirius' face.

"Was that Aaron Samuels?" he was so mad. I should stop soon, but it's way too good, maybe just a little more.

"Oh God no Sirius, he's so two guys ago, you of anyone should know not to keep someone around after the first shag." He and James looked so angry I thought they were about to kill someone, it was too hilarious just to look at their faces, I couldn't hold back my laughter any longer. It came out and I needed the support of Remus to stay standing. In between laughs I was able to gasp out, "Oh- hahaha- your faces- hahaha- you- hahaha- you thought I was serious- hahaha- calm down guys it was just- hahaha- it was just Reg- hahaha you losers- hahaha- Sirius I can't believe you couldn't even recognize your own brother- hahaha." Sirius calmed down for a second but then got mad at me for being so evil.

"How could you?" Saying he was pissed would be an understatement he was livid.

"You deserved it for being such a prat, I mean I hug oneperson, and you go all super protective over me it really get annoying!" I was dead, I knew it as soon as I looked up at his face, I stopped laughing and ran. I was fast but not fast enough. I knew he would wait five seconds before giving chase, one... two... three... four... five. Here he comes. He caught me a little way away from the lake. He grabbed ma and threw me into the lake. The water wasn't too cold, but it was still cold enough to get me angry. Looking up through the water I could see James and Sirius laughing their heads off. I swam to the top and splashed them with the water. I hope it gets into their eyes. Then I pulled Sirius in. When he surfaced he splashed me and I stomped out of the lake. I ignored James' helping hand instead I just pushed past him with a scowl on my face. He stopped laughing.

"Cassi wait!" James tuned to go after her.

"Just leave me alone James."

"Come on Cassi, he was just joking, you cant blame him, think about what you just told us, we thought you were turning into Sirius," he tried adding a little humor but it did nothing. "Cassi," he said in and almost pleading voice. "You're our little baby sister, we couldn't let that happen." He was still following me, and he had said the wrong thing. I rounded on him.

"Baby? James, I'm not that little anymore, I'm only younger than you guys by a year, one year James, I'm allowed to date, I can do anything I want, Sirius isn't my father, and in case you haven't noticed my parents don't care if I date or whatever. They don't care what I do with guys." I could have sworn he muttered something along the lines of 'They don't care about anything you do as long as you join the Deatheaters.' under his breath but I just went on. "Anyways you both deserved it, you're always way too protective and it drives me crazy. There is one thing I'll tell you: I will do whatever I want, whenever I want to. If I have to do it in secret, so be it, I will, and you cant stop me. Neither can Sirius or Reg. Now leave me alone." I knew he would keep following me, so I just ducked into a girl's bathroom. I sank down to the ground, my knees pulled up against my chest. I must not cry, I must not cry, I must not cry. It'll ruin my makeup" I tried to give myself one reason not to cry, but as I reached up to push a stray piece of hair out of my face and behind my ear I realized I was already soaking, and felt my reasons not to cry gone. So I just lay my head on my knees and cried.

Just how long I stayed there I don't know, but no one came in, to which I was grateful for they would have tried to comfort me when all I need was to be alone. Finally I stood up and walked over to the sinks. I looked a mess, my hair went all over the place, my eyes were red and puffy and my makeup was running down my cheeks.

I bent down and splashed water over my face, making sure to get off all of the black that had recently decorated my cheeks. Then I dried it using one of the towels off to the side. I let my raven black hair out of my ponytail. Unlike my older brother's, when brushed it laid in a straight sheet across my back, or up in a pony tail sometime to get it out of my face. However, when I took care of it my hair was never as out of place as his. I combed it through with my fingers and put it back into a ponytail. I re-applied my makeup, and looked at myself. I looked much better, and with a final glance at the mirror I walked out.

It was dark and I knew I had to be careful not to run into any teachers. I took all the secret passages I knew, which, I thought grudgingly, I only knew because of the Marauders. When I finally arrived at the Fat Lady she was asleep. Wow, I must have been in there a while. I woke her up and went in after ignoring her questions on where I had been. At first glance the common room was empty, but when I looked closer I could see Sirius slumped in a chair by the fire, asleep. I felt my hear pull, but no. He was the jerk, he dumped me in the lake he deserves to sleep in an uncomfortable chair all night.

I continued up the stairs to my dorm, and even though I was in still damp clothes I collapsed on my bed and was instantly asleep. I woke up again and it was 5:45am, I turned over and tried to get back to sleep, I had been having a great dream about my date with Aaron tomorrow. Sleep continued to evade me so I got up and changed into fresh robes. I looked at the clock again it was 6:03am. Breakfast wouldn't start for about another half hour, so I decided to go to the kitchen to get something to eat.

When I tickled the pear and opened the door little heads bobbed towards me. I heard an elf ask. 'What would Missus like to eat this morning?' Another squeak, very proudly I might add. 'I see Missus likes to rise early, we are willing to serve at any time of the day or night.' I chuckled slightly; these small little creatures were always so polite. I was ushered over to a small table and a tray of food soon came towards me. I picked quietly at my oatmeal and remembered the first time I had visited the kitchen. I was in first year and had forgotten about a Transfiguration essay. I skipped Lunch and Dinner and was really late finishing it. Sirius, James and Remus had come down to see me.

A small girl with raven black hair that fell just past her shoulders sat at a table in a room of red and gold, she was scribbling feverishly, every once and a while glancing up at the textbook that lay in front of her piece of parchment. Three boys came down a staircase behind her. Two of them had black hair, while the last had sandy colored hair. The one with gray eyes started to move towards the girl and the other two followed. Just as they were approaching she laid down her quill, picked up the parchment and snapped the book shut. She let out a relived sigh as she put the essay, quill and ink bottle at her feet. She turned around to come face to face with the boy with grey eyes. "You know Cassi, you haven't eaten since breakfast, and I'm willing to bet that you're pretty hungry."

"I am Sirius but, like you said I missed Dinner and it's long over so I guess I'll just have to wait until breakfast tomorrow." She looked forlorn, but brightened suddenly. "But it's ok, 'cause I finally got that essay done, and from now on I'm never going to forget about an assignment again." The boys laughed at how naïve she was, but overlooked it.

"Run up and put you bag in you dorm, then come down here." She nodded and ran off to a staircase a little ways away from the one the boys had come down. When she got back they ushered her out the door and along corridors until they finally came to a picture of some fruit in a bowl. "James if you'll do the honors." Sirius said, and the other boy with black hair reached out and tickled the pair, it squirmed, and then turned into a handle that the boy named James reached out and turned. The door opened to reveal… the girl started to lean forward to see what was inside but she was met with blackness. Sirius had laid his hands over his sister's eyes. "Until we're inside completely." And he picked her up by her hands while James got her feet and they carried her inside while the other boy closed the door, and she was extremely glad she had changed our of her Hogwarts skirt.

When her eyes were finally uncovered she looked around to see an enormous, high-ceilinged room with mounds of glittering brass pots and pans heaped around the stone walls, and a great brick fire-place at the other end. They went to sit at the same table where she was sitting now, and Sirius and James ordered tons of sweets from the house-elves, who brought them with great smiles upon their faces. Cassi just looked around in wonder, while absentmindedly eating whatever she ended up picking up. "It's great isn't it?" The boy with the sandy colored hair asked. For the first time since her eyes had been uncovered Cassi took her attention off the room.

"Yeah, Sirius told me your name but I can't seem to remember it now." He chuckled slightly but answered her all the same.

"It's Remus, Remus Lupin." She thanked him and went back to staring around the kitchen and the others talked about something that she hadn't paid attention to until Remus suggested they head back to the common room. She lay in her bed that night loving everything about Hogwarts.

My memories of my first years of Hogwarts were interrupted as the door opened and someone walked in. "Oh, sorry." I turned around to see someone who I had only seen from a distance, although I did know he was in Slytherin, so I slid a hand onto my wand and held onto it. He went to leave, but I felt that it would be wrong for him to have to go.

"No, don't go, it's fine, I was just leaving anyways." He looked taken aback at my offer and frowned slightly.

"What? No comments about my hair, or any 'Snivilus' jokes?" I was surprised by this.

"Why would I do that? All I know about you is that you are in Slytherin… and, by the looks of it you're in fifth year?"

"Yeah, both of those are right, but I thought as Black's little sister you would be full of hate for Slytherins, especially me." I did not ask him how he knew who I was, a lot of people knew me- or at least they knew me as Sirius' sister. But I did wonder about why I would hate him.

"Well, since you seem to know so much about me you should also know that my twin is Regulus, and that he is a Slytherin fourth year, so that's why I don't hate Slytherins, even though Sirius does, and well… now that I think about it I have heard him and James talking about pranking a 'Snivilus' but honestly I don't know you, and I wont judge someone before I get to know them personally, and you seem like a pretty decent guy to me." He was surprised by my answer, and how I didn't hate him. But what he asked next threw me off guard.

"You wanna… go for a walk?" I quickly ran through the possibilities in my head. He could want to take me somewhere then hex me to hold over Sirius' head, or, he could just want to walk to get to know me better. So I agreed.

"Sure, where to?" When he just shrugged his shoulders I decided to suggest a few places. "We could walk around the halls, or we could go outside to the lake, I know I relaxing spot about half way around we could go to talk." He agreed and we started walking out to the grounds. I felt oddly relaxed around him and I liked the way it felt.

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A/N: The description of the kitchens can be found in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on page 377