Chapter Eight
A/N: Thank you for all the review and hope you like the story o far!
Sirius: Just go on with the story, Cj.
Me: Sirius! How'd it go?
Sirius: Tell you later. Now get on with it.
Me: Grumpy...
Like Sirius said, Lily did give them a tour of the mansion. Sirius was pretty worried that Casey will spread that he saw her half-naked, but she kept quiet about it, much to his relief. She was having a laugh a usual, and occasionally shouting at Sirius. Right now she was having a screaming content with Sirius about, unusually, cock fighting.
"It's illegal here in Britain!" Remus was shouting. "And it's animal abuse!"
"I know it's animal abuse, dammit!" Casey was shouting. "All I'm saying is that it's not illegal from where I come from!"
"Allright!" Lily said, breaking the two up. "Stop it. I have no idea how we got to the subject of cock fighting,-and I don't want to know how, Sirius," she added hastily, Sirius opening his mouth to explain.
"But I want to know." James piped in. Lily glared at him. "What?"
Sirius was already starting to explain. "Well, Remus brought this magazine with him about animals and it had an article about animal abuse. It showed an article about cock fighting and Remus was of course, highly against it." Sirius said. "Then, Casey explained the other side, saying that roosters aren't endangered or anything. So they had the screaming contest happened."
"Ooohhhh" James said, nodding his head once.
"That is so not how it happened." Casey exploded. "It never even started about cockfighting. He said something about animals being abused because I accidentally hit Wisdom (her owl) in the head! And I apologised to my owl and to him although I don't know why I should apologise to him!
"You did not apologise to Wisdom!" Remus exploded.
"LIAR!!! I was telling the truth! Get the veritaserum! Sirius! Make the potion!!!!" Casey screamed.
"WILL YOU FREAKS KEEP IT DOWN!!!!!!" Petunia shouted from one of the rooms.
Everyone looked at each other and screamed to her door, "YES, PETUNIA!!!!!!!"
"Ok, where were we?" Lily asked.
"Er-we were going to the second floor." Sirius said quickly, keen on stopping the argument between Remus and Sirius. The fight was no biggie..that always happened, usually when Casey was bored. She'll just start annoying anyone withing the five metre range.
They were climbing the stairs with Lily in the lead, then James, then Remus. They were all talking to each other. Sirius was a bit behind them and Casey was the last of them.
Suddenly she stiffined and froze. Sirius noticed and looked at her worriedly.
"Casey, you ok?" Sirius asked.
Casey managed to relax a bit and gave him a stiff smile, completely obvious to Sirius that it was fake. "Yeah, I'm fine." she said, but her body language gave another story. She was tense, and kept looking behind her and outside a window.
Sirius gave her another worried look and Casey gave him another smile. This time more relaxed. "Sirius, don't worry. I'm perfectly alright." she said sweetly.
Sirius smiled back but something, he didn't know what, told her that Casey and him still had a nasty feeling that something nasty was going to happen soon.
Casey tagged along behind the others, her head bowed low and she was thinking very deeply. Sirius and the others were talking really excitedly now, and they didn't seem to notice that she was behind them, completely silent.
Which is just as well. she thought. It's hard enough that Sirius knows, let alone the others.
Having Sirius know about her sitiuation was really dangerous for him and her. He was already getting worried about her being worried about some attack, but her doesn't really need to be involve in all this. And the latest feeling she had was a very strong one.
"Katrina..." Casey heard her father's voice calling her by the only name he liked to call her, the one he chose. Casey immediately stiffened and stop to hear the voice talk.
"Katrina...come with me....we can rule this together.. That was all she heard, and then it stopped. Her head was screaming, No, no, no! Never! but it didn't seem to hear her. Then he heard Sirius's voice and everything was lost. He really worried about her and Casey, not having the heart to worry him some more, lied and said that everything was allright. But her mind kept telling her to tell someone and for a split second when Sirius asked her, she wanted to tell him everything. To let it all out. But she shook her head and decided to tell someone who'll know how to handle a situation like this. Someone like-
Then the answer hit her. -Dumbledore. The answer was so simple that it surprised her how long it took for her to figure it out. Then and there, she decided to send an owl to him as soon as possible.
"Casey!" Lily was screaming, for thr fifth time.
"HuH? What?" asked Casey, startled.
"Where are you today?" Remus asked indecrously. "You seem to be thinking of something really deeply that you only answered after our fifth call."
Casey just sneered and took a look at all of them. Everyone was looking at her strangely except Sirius. His expresion was worried and concerned. Casey sighed at him and the look in her eyes said, I'll explain everything later.
Sirius seemed to get the message as he gave a small nod. Then he smile at her. "Anyway," he said. "We were planning to go to the movies. The muggle movies. Wanna come?"
Casey stood there, faking shock and disbelief. "Are you telling me that you actually planned to leave me here in this big house? With..gulp..Petunia???!! No way! I'm coming!" Deciding that he'll owl him as soon as she came back from the movies.
Everyone laughed as they headed their way down the stairs, Casey feeling a lot better and Sirius also feeling better for lightening up Casey. Little did they both know that not sending the owl any sooner will change both of their lives...
Me: Well, that's chapter eight. What do you think?
Sirius: It's suppose to be humurous not a mystery or adventure.
Me: I told them that I won't be exactly true to the genre I gave.
Sirius: *screaming* Then what's the whole freaking point of a genre???!!!
Me: Sirius, relax, breathe....breathe....*my turn to shout* Now, listen to me! I am the writer! That means I write the story.
Sirius: *dully* No, duh, Sherlock.
Me: Siri! Please, just let me write my own fic and you can go write yours.
Sirius: Fine!
Me: So how did the trip to Rowling go?
Sirius: I'm gonna be innocent before Harry's sixth or seventh year, I guess.
A/N:I just presumed that, k?
Me: Awwww, poor Siwius. What about Remus?
Sirius: *shrugs* No idea.
Me: Better end the fic.
Sirius: the chapter is finished.
Me: OH, yeah, silly me.
Sirius: *shakes his head* Writers these days...
Me: Wait, there's something missing.
Sirius: Yeah, disclaimer and review note.
Me: Smart alick!
Sirius: I resent that!
Me: Do the honours, then.
Sirius: *clears his throat* The Harry Potter character do not belong to the writer. I don't even belong to myself. Can you believe that? I don't even own myself? How unfair is that?
Me: Sirius...
Sirius: Ok, The Harry Potter characters belong to the great author, JK Rowling whom my author friend here should take advice from. My advice to her? I won't tell, she might just beat me up or make me die in her fics..Anyway, the usual...please review and I'll give you the smile that has knocked out many girls at Hogwarts. Thank you from the both of us!
Me: Thanks, Siri.
Sirius: Your welcome.
