Set in the summer before Carina and Justin's fourth year. Enjoy :)

JPOV

"So, why did your Dark Arts teacher get fired this time?" My mother asked, as me, Sean and Lydia walked into our home.

"She was just a crap teacher. We didn't learn much this year," Sean shrugged, dropping his trunk by the door and briefly hugging her. My mother was thirty-five but because she was a vampire, she still looked eighteen. It was weird, knowing that, physically, I was four years younger than her.

"I heard that she was a spy for you-know-" My dad started.

"Tom! Don't call him anything but Tom Riddle, Levi. We won't be scared of him or his name. He's my cousin for crying out loud!" She hardly ever admitted that she was related to him out loud. She must of been annoyed. Why do you drop yourself in it dad? I thought as he rolled his eyes. I heard Lydia hiss. She didn't like people speaking ill of "The Dark Lord".

"Lydia!" Sean warned her. She knew better than to hiss at a vampire, especially her mother. If you hissed at a vampire their instincts would normally take over and they'd attack you. A hiss was an invitation to fight.

"Don't be disrepectful, Lydia." My father told her, sternly. My dad wasn't one to get angry over anything, but he had a line and me and my siblings knew better than to cross it.

Lydia picked her trunk back up and sped to her room, her blonde hair flying after her. I wouldn't of called it running away, since running was just a quicker way of getting somewhere. It normally took about ten seconds for me to run around every single room in the house. I think that she just "walked" away from a situation before it got out of hand...or before mom kicked her ass. Sean turned to go after her, but my mom put a hand on his shoulder.

"Leave her to cool off, Sean." He sighed and nodded.

"You got any blood." Sean asked, keen to drink something that wasn't pumkin juice.

"Already? You just got home," my mom laughed.

"Yeah." He sniffed, searching for blood. "There's none in the house. Can I go and find some outside?" He looked out of the window and smiled. I followed his gaze.

Walking down the street was a beautiful young girl about a year older than me and Sean.

"No!" My mother said, sternly. "I'll go and get some from the bloodbank tonight."

Sean huffed. "Fine." My dad raised his eyebrow.

"Tell me again why I decided to marry a vampire..." He said, an amused look on his face as he watched Sean walk to the kitchen.

"Because you love me," my mother stated, jumping on his back.

"Oh, yeah." My dad replied, distracted as my mom rested her head next to his.

"You're just as bad as him, anyway." My mom stuck her tongue out and then kissed my dads cheek.

Ugh! There was no way I was going to watch my parents get all... lovey-dovey.

"Right, I'll just...uh...leave then." My parents laughed as I picked up my things and sped off to my room.

My room wasn't much. It was quite plain really. But that was how I liked it. Sean had Slytherin posters and pictures of exotic snakes covering his walls. Lydia had pretty much the same but she had a load of newspaper pages on her wall to. All the newspaper clips were about Voldemort and Death Eaters, obviously.

I had white walls, white bed sheets and above my bed, a pin board covered in pictures of my family, my friends and of course, Carina. I looked at a picture of Carina, she was sitting in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express on the way home last year. She was smiling and waving at me. I breifly smiled back before throwing my things onto my bed. I opened up my trunk and unpacked.

When I'd emptied the clothes out of my trunk I was left with my school books and some photos. I picked up the photos, there were some of me and Carina, some of me and Leon and some of just Carina.

I picked out all of the photos that had Carina in and put them on top of a chest of drawers. Then I stood on my bed and took down the pin board, placed it on my bed and sat next to it. I removed all of the photos of Carina and put them with the others, on the dresser. I didn't know how this would help me get over her, but I thought that it would be easier if she wasn't there, above my bed, looking down at me with her beautiful eyes and her blinding smile.

I then pinned all of the remaining photos from my trunk onto the board, put it back on my wall and walked over to the dresser. I didn't want to throw them away, I'd never do that, I just wanted them to be out of sight. I needed a box.

"Mom?" I said as I walked out of my room, you didn't have to shout when you were talking to a vampire.

"Yes Justin?" My mom had appeared at the top of the stairs and there was a strangely suspicious smile on her face. Why was she... Her and dad weren't just... Ugh... Clear mind of all thoughts consisting of my parents and sex.

"Justin? What's the matter." I realised that I hadn't spoken a word.

"Um... Do you have a box?"

She looked confused. "A box? A box for what?"

"Uh... some photos that I want to put under my bed."

"Why don't you just pin them-"

"I don't want to pin them up but I don't want to throw them away either, so... I'm sort of stuck with my box idea." She chuckled lightly.

"Okay honey, I'll find you a box." I smiled at her as she walked down the stairs.

"What do you need a box for?" Sean's voice, behind me, made me jump a little. Hold on... Sean's room was between me and the staircase, in front of me, not behind. I turned around, quickly.

"Get out of my room, Sean!" He was going to see the photos and I knew that he'd have some stupid remark for me. I walked through the door to my room and sure enough, Sean was looking at the photos of Carina.

"Why've you taken them down?" There was no humor in his voice, just confusion. I decided to just be straight with him.

"I didn't want to have to look at her every day...in those photos...it would be harder to get over her."

"Get over her? ...What? ...But you love her..." Thank you Captain Obvious, I thought, rolling my eyes. "Why would you want to get over her." I was suprised to find concern in his voice.

"Well... because...beacause I'm a monster, Sean. She deserves better... she deserves a happy life... I won't ruin that because of my selfishness."

Sean shocked me by punching me, breaking my nose.

"What the fuck Sean?"

"Language!" I heard my mother scorn from downstairs. I wasn't paying attention, I was too busy fixing my nose.

"Man, you seriously gotta get a grip!" Sean was rubbing his knuckles. I was full on glaring at him by this point.

"I've got to get a grip? You're the one going around punching people! Why did you do that?"

"Because you're being stupid! You and Carina are perfect for each other and... look I'm starting to sound really freaking corny now, so just... think about what you're doing, will you?" He put the photos down and sped out. My eyebrows furrowed.

What the hell was that?

CPOV

We were two weeks into the summer break and I was already bored out of my mind. Nothing anything had happened, really. Narcissa had been here announcing that she was engaged to be married to Lucius Malfoy. Of all the people in the world, Cissy had to marry him. They joined us for dinner one night and Cygnus was all but bouncing out of his seat. He thought that having Lucius around would be a good thing, probably because him and Lucius were both Death Eater wannabes and he'd be able to learn a few things.

Sirius locked himself in his room, per usual. He was always in there. He only came out if he needed food or the bathroom. He did it the previous year aswell, it was rather annoying talking to him through a door all of the time.

I spent most of my time outside, in our garden. At the back of our house there was a reasonable sized garden. It wasn't filled with much, just un-cut grass and a big, old Oak tree. There was one branch that was particularly strong. I normally practised balancing on it when there was nothing else to do. I'd see how many times I could walk to the end of the branch and back before falling off. It wasn't far off of the ground, just a couple of feet, but the ground was hard, so I was normally left bruised at the end of the day.

"Carina?" I was sitting on our moth-eaten couch, reading and my mother walked into the room. She sounded... not angry, but heading in that general direction.

"Yes mother?" I asked, never raising my eyes.

"Will you go and tell Sirius that if he doesn't get out of that room of his this minute then I'll be removing the door... permenantly!" She twirled her wand in her hand to show she meant business. I mentally rolled my eyes and had an urge to shout back:

"WHY DON'T YOU DO IT YOURSELF?!"

But instead I just sighed, put down my book and silently walked up the stairs.

Kreacher was at the top, glaring at me as I walked past him.

"Kreacher," I greeted him, nodding in his direction.

"Miss Black," he replied, sourly.

Why do I even try to be civilised towards him? I thought as I walked the last few steps down the coridoor, towards Sirius' bedroom.

"Sirius!" I hammered on the door, shouting. "Mother says that if you don't get out of that room right now then she will remove this door!"

"So?" He asked, not sounding too bothered about the fact that he wouldn't ever have privacy again.

"For one, you'll never have privacy again. What, you think that she's bluffing?" I asked as I heard him snort. "Well I can assure you that if she doesn't remove your door, father will." I walked off, not bothering to try and help him any more. If he wants a doorless bedroom then let him have a doorless bedroom.

"I tried." I told my parents, shrugging as I walked back into the room.My mother stood up and took out her wand.

"That's it!"

I panicked, not wanting to have to walk past Sirius' doorless bedroom while he was changing.

"Mother...look...just..uh..give me a minute with him... okay?"

I was frightened that she was going to yell at me and tell me to mind my own buisness, but she just put her wand back into the pocket of her apron and sat down, nodding.

Half an hour later, I had finally dragged Sirius out of his room and we were sat at the table eating dinner.

"Well Sirius, I'm glad that you're eating with us tonight...maybe you could make this into a daily rountine." My dad said, taking a sip of his pumkin juice. Sirius just shrugged, not looking up from his plate.

"I wouldn't count on it dad." Cygnus told him throwing Sirius a dirty look. Regulus nodded in agreement and I rolled my eyes.

"Well... let's see shall we?" Father laughed, nudging Sirius slightly.

My dad always hoped that Sirius would eventually "see sense" and start thinking like everyone else in our family. He obviously didn't know Sirius...

JPOV

I had two weeks until I had to go back to Hogwarts and it was the first time that I hadn't been excited to go back. I still hadn't figured out how I would avoid Carina and make her stay away from me. I could make her hate me. I thought, but I don't want her to hate me though.

I was lost. Maybe I could just drop out... no that's plain stupid.

My mom's voice broke my concentration.

"What are you thinking so hard about?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Nothing." I told her. There was no way I could discuss this with my mother.

"Right." She nodded, sarcastically, staring into my eyes pointedly. She wasn't going to drop the subject any time soon. I was good at making things up. Think! I asked the first thing that popped into my head, looking at her young, teenage face. Ah-ha!

"When I'm physically older than you... will I still have to call you "mom"? I mean, imagine it. We're talking in public and I keep calling this teenager my mother when I clearly look older." She laughed for a long time before answering.

"Well... how about when it's just the two of us you call me mom and when we're in public you call me by my name." I chuckled.

"That would take some getting used to... Annie. Hmm." We both smiled at eachother, her unnaturally white teeth showing. "Why don't you have a wizard name... I mean, your name is very... muggle-ish, considering that your father took pride in his Slytherin roots." I'd always been curious. I don't know why I hadn't asked before. Her light blue eyes narrowed in thought as she tied back her long, light blonde, wavy hair.

"I guess my mother just liked that name... it may of not been a common muggle name back then and it's not like she'd talked to any muggles called Annie, or Annabelle... or any muggles at all for that matter. My parents wouldn't of known it was a muggle name, would they?"

"Guess not." I replied, sitting up from my slouched position on our sofa. "Where did Sean go?"

"Huh? Oh, I think he went for a run in the woods... I just hope there aren't any people in there... His control is slipping lately... It's as if he doesn't want to control it." I could see that she was worried about him. We were under surveillance. Even though we were made to kill, the Ministry were strict about it. If we were caught murdering a wizard or muggle, we would be sent straight to Azkaban. All because we were wizards as well as vampires. I don't think Sean understood how serious the situation was. I wasn't too bothered about his actions, it was his life after all.

"Just let him get on with it. If he wants to go to prison, let him."

"Justin, he's my son... I'm responsible for him." Just then Sean walked through the front door. He was talking to someone. Leon had come to see us.

"Look what I found, wandering in the woods." Sean laughed, pushing Leon. Leon pushed Sean back, laughing himself. Then his faced turned serious.

"I'd keep an eye on Sean if I were you Annie." My first thought was a picture of Sean's mouth attatched to the neck of a girl, draining her body of blood. "He's turning into a complete player." I gave a mental sigh of relief. "It was kind of annoying, stopping to talk to-" Leon imitated speech marks with his fingers "-every girl we walked passed." Sean rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, yeah. Shut up!" We all broke into a fit of laughter. It was true though, Sean was destined to be a ladies man.

I'd be suprised if he doesn't loose his virginity this year, I thought, my laughter coming to a stop. He may of been only fourteen but everything about us was mature, our minds, our common sense ...and our hormones. Another reason why I took down those pictures of Carina...

So? Tell me what you thought. I want honest reviews.

I don't think that this chapter was very good but I couldn't start it from the fourth year, if Justin ignores Carina without explaining why.

Notes: Sean is going to start becoming more... evil, in the next chapter. LOL :) Evil Sean will be fun. I think Justin will have a dirtier mind next chapter... like he said... his hormones developed early. *Wiggles Eyebrows*

And if you have any ideas... I'm open to them :)