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Chapter 3

Unfortunately, this was not the case. Anya was just as angry as they expected her to be and more.

"What the hell is wrong with you two?!" her long black hair whipping around her face as she made violent hand gestures "I leave you alone for two hours and you bust in the television set! You're sixteen years old, I shouldn't have to baby-sit the two of you!"

Talking over her, Roman placated "Ya-Ya, I know that you're angry, but we got something for you to show you how sorry we are and to make you feel better."

Here he nodded at Alexei who produced from behind his back a gigantic hot fudge sundae they had picked up on the way home just in case she reacted like this. He held it under her nose while the two boys grinned goofily at her, hoping that this would work. It didn't.

Her normally pretty face contorted violently and the boys braced themselves for the oncoming explosion.

"GET THAT BLOODY THING OUT OF MY FACE AND DON'T CALL ME YA-YA!" screaming at each of them in turn. "YOU SEE! THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE CAN'T LIVE TOGETHER! YOU NEVER WOULD HAVE BEHAVED LIKE THIS WITH MUM AND DAD! THANK GOD YOU'RE LEAVING, BECAUSE I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE OF THIS CRAP!" having finished her tirade she turned on her heel and stormed off to her bedroom slamming the door behind her.

The quiet that followed was startling after the screeching of Anya.

Recovering his wits, Alexei had just realized what his sister had screamed at them. "Wait a minute- did she say leaving?!" Alexei exclaimed to his silent brother.

"That's what I heard." Roman said looking shocked.

The boys stared dumbfounded at each other before running to her door and pounding on it furiously.

Anya yanked the door back so quickly that they nearly punched her in the face, so intent were they on their knocking.

"What could you possibly want?!" she seethed looking terrifying with her kind hazel eyes narrowed to slits.

Bravely, Alexei stepped forward with his question, quietly asking "What did you mean leaving?"

"What?" she snapped.

"You said that you were glad we were leaving."

Anya's harsh face softened as she gazed upon her little brothers' serious faces. "Oh… I…I said that?"

The boys only nodded.

"Come on, I'll explain in the kitchen." She said softly, leading them out of the cramped hallway.

When they got there, she took the ice-cream sundae that Alexei was still holding in his left hand and placed it on their tiny breakfast table, summoning three spoons wandlessly as they all sat down.

Sitting there under the harsh glare of the hanging overhead light in their hard wooden chairs made her wish she had chosen to meet in the soft dark living room instead. She just felt too exposed in this setting. It was like she was in the interrogation room about to play a rousing game of good cop bad cop.

Especially when they stared at her like they were doing right now.

Still, she knew it would be ridiculous to change venues at this point.

No, they were going to talk about this right here, right now, no matter how upset they got or how uncomfortable she felt.

Yes, that is what she would do.

She really needed to stop stalling.

She took a bite of the ice-cream, motioning for them to eat as well. Once they were occupied with the ice-cream she said "That really wasn't the way I wanted to tell you."

Dark brown and bright green eyes snapped up to her hazel as she continued, "These past few weeks I've been thinking that, well, that things here haven't been going so well. I honestly don't think you guys are getting what you need or deserve here. You need discipline and a good teacher so you two can continue your training, neither of which are being provided here. I thought that I could handle the responsiblity but I've realized now that my version of home-schooling just isn't cutting it. So lately I've been trying to think of someway that I could fix that. In the end, the only reasonable solution that I could see was," she paused, preparing herself for their reactions, "sending you to Hogwarts."

"What?!" both boys cried in unison.

"How could you do that and not even tell us?!" Roman demanded throwing down his spoon and crossing his arms.

"First I wanted to make sure that Professor Dumbledore would even consider taking transfers, especially you two. There was no point in telling you about it if you weren't even eligible to attend."

"That doesn't matter! This is our lives you're messing with and you didn't even tell us about it! And you know how much we hate Hogwarts." Roman spat back.

"Yeah, whenever we face off against those bloody Hogwarts students at the dueling tournaments they're always some snobby little rich kid that can't duel to save his life!" burst out Alexei. "They're always relying on their daddy's to pay their way to the title." he sneered.

"I know Lex, but think about it, that's only a very small percentage of the students there. You can't judge them all by just the two or three you met at a dueling tournament. Besides, you know those things are practically a breeding ground for whiny pureblood brats with rich traditionalist fathers." Anya said patiently. "I don't think it's going to be as bad as you think it will."

"Easy for you to say, you're not being sent off to live there." muttered Roman.

"Please, just give it a chance. It's a well-known and respected school, that many wizards in this country look back on with a great deal of fondness and there has to be a good reason for that." she said hopefully.

The twins frowned.

"Fine, if you still don't like it by Christmas, I won't make you go back." she said exasperated.

"How about at the end of the first week?" bartered Alexei.

"Christmas." Anya countered firmly.

"First day of fall?" inquired Roman.

"How about Easter?" she replied feeling quite irritated by the turn the conversation had taken.

"Christmas is good!" they shouted in unison.

"Quite a fine holiday-" said Alexei

"-excellent for making big decisions." finished Roman

"Good." she said pleasantly. "Well I'm glad that we've worked everything out. Seeing as tomorrow is Saturday we should probably take advantage and get your new school supplies. It will probably take all day so we'll need to get up earlier than usual to get it all done. Good night."

She gave each of them a hug as she left the kitchen and padded quietly to her room.

"I can't believe she talked us into going to Hogwarts." Alexei muttered running a hand through his out of control hair.

"Yeah, I know. We just agreed to attend a stuffy old boarding school just for a promise that we'd only have to stay four months at the most. What kind of deal is that?" grumbled Roman face in hand and stirring the remains of the ice-cream sundae with his spoon.

"A real sucky one from my point of view."

"Well on the brightside, now we can get back at all those little gits that cheated in the dueling tournaments."

"Why of course, the pompous little brats won't know what's hit them." said Alexei grinning like a cheshire cat.