Chapter Four; Brothers and Sisters

"Hey Evangeline, going to try out for Qudditch this afternoon?" Alyssa wondered as she walked up to the Gryffindor table and sneered at the other girl.

"Alyssa no offense or anything, but I really don't have time to talk to you at the moment. I still have to finish my essay about mandrakes for Professor Sprout, and help Tobey with his essay about thestrals." Eve told her as she made a disgusted face at her.

"Oh. Well how can he write when he can't even see what he's doing?" she wondered as Eve quickly set her quill down and leapt to her feet.

"That's it!" she cried before she turned to face her and withdrew her wand. "If you don't shut up right now I'll perform the silencing spell on you and make you myself!" she snapped but the other girl just simply scoffed at her.

"Don't be ridiculous, we don't learn about that spell until our fifth year." She told her.

"It doesn't matter, I still know how to do it because I watched my brother do it once." Eve said instantly wiping the grin off of the other girl's face but that's when suddenly Tobey got to his feet.

"Eve don't, I don't want you to get into trouble." He began. "Besides, Alyssa asked a very legitimate question and I want to have the chance to answer it for her. I'm able to write through a special braille typewriter." He said.

"A typewriter? Are you serious? Are you from like the stone ages or something?" she asked him.

"So? The rest of us write with quills." Eve began. "If you look at it that way, Tobey's actually more advanced than us."

She told her for once making her become completely speechless she just uttered a simple "hmph!" and then quickly spun around on her heel and stormed away.

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"Where are we?" Heather asked as Harry pulled into Aaron's driveway and parked the car.

"This is Aaron Parker's house isn't it?" Teddy questioned him as Harry just simply grinned.

"Yep." He replied while turning off the engine and throwing off his seatbelt.

"What are we doing here?" Teddy wondered.

"Oh, you'll see." Harry told him before both twins removed their seatbelts as well and climbed out of the car. A black and white dog that Harry had known to be Brittany's Pitbull Oreo ran to the window and started barking out of it as the car doors slammed shut and they walked to the doorstep.

"That's a big doggie." Heather said nervously while she pointed at him.

"Yes that's true, but he isn't any bigger than Angel is." Harry told her before he rang the doorbell and a few seconds later Aaron answered it. He grinned at Harry while pulling back on Oreo's collar.

"Oreo no, sit boy." He told him as the dog began to whimper still struggling to get outside. "Hullo Harry, what's up?" he asked him.

"Teddy has a problem and I thought that it would be great for him if he came and talked to you about it." Harry explained.

"Alright sure come on in. Oreo's not going to hurt you, his bark is worse than his bite. By the way, it looks like I'm not the only one who's going to be a father. Oreo's about to have pups with the dog down the street." Aaron told him while stepping aside and continuing to pull Oreo back so that they could come in.

"You really should have him fixed." Heather said as Harry quickly shut the door behind them and Aaron chuckled.

"Heather,.." Harry warned.

"But it's true!" she exclaimed.

"It's alright, she's right. I believe in the spaying and neutering program myself, unfortunately he's not my dog so it's not up to me to get him fixed." He explained before he quickly let go of the dog's collar and he sprinted away wagging his long whip like tail. "So, Teddy, what's up?" he asked him as Teddy glanced down at the carpet.

"I can't tell you." He mumbled.

"Why not? We're friends aren't we?" Aaron questioned him as the little boy quickly nodded. "Then what's wrong, why can't you tell me?" he asked him as the little boy gestured his head over towards his twin.

"It has to do with her." He said quietly.

"What!? What did I do!?" she cried indignantly while placing her hand on her chest.

"Ah I see, well then I think you should definitely speak up because clearly she doesn't even know what she did wrong." Aaron told him as Teddy quickly glanced over at her.

"Ever since you became the popular girl at school you don't talk to me anymore." He began. "I mean don't get me wrong, I'm glad that you've made friends but I feel like you've left me out in the cold." He explained.

"Now I understand why Harry brought you guys here." Aaron realized with a slight nod. "Come here, I want to show you guys something." He said as both of the twins followed him into the hallway. "Do you see this?" he asked them pointing at a picture of a young brunette blue eyed girl whizzing by on her broomstick and waving at them while wearing a Gryffindor Qudditch uniform.

"She looks just like you," Heather began. "except she has longer hair." She finished.

"She has a Firebolt just like Harry does." Teddy realized as Aaron grinned at him and nodded again.

"Yes, I know. That's because she was a seeker just like he was." He told him before he glanced up at him.

"Well who is she?" he wondered.

"She's my little sister Maria." Aaron told him.

"Really, I didn't know you had a sister." Heather said.

"That's because she's in Heaven now. She died when she was a few years older than your brother Tobey. She was killed by a drunk driver. Anyway, shortly before she died my friends and I decided to start a wizarding band which you know as The Dragons. I loved my sister with all my heart, but ever since I started my music career I didn't have much time for her anymore. I kept meaning for us to spend some time together just the two of us, but before I knew it it was too late." He explained.

"Oh I get it." Heather began before she turned to look at her brother. "Teddy, I'm sorry that I've been ignoring you." She apologized.

"That's alright." He told her.

"No it isn't, you're my twin brother and we've been together since we were babies. It's wrong for me to take you for granted. Can you ever forgive me?" she asked him as he smiled at her.

"Of course I forgive you Heather, you're my sister." He told her as Harry and Aaron both smiled down at them as they wrapped their arms around each other and embraced each other tightly.