It had been a day since Drew left for a week with Emma's family. I was already going out of my mind. I had nothing to do or no one to see. I finally got out of the house after pouting over having to stay here. I walked around the neighborhood and I saw a few houses that I recognized as wizard houses immediately. They had gnome holes in the front yard or they would have something totally non-muggle like in the front yard. Other houses were trying too hard to be muggle like. I finally reached the end of the street and I recognized the lady that had called Sirius that day at the Kings Cross. Did Sirius live in this neighborhood? I could hang out with him. I walked up to the front door and I knocked with the iron doorknocker in the shape of a snake. After a minute it opened to reveal his mom standing there looking at me expectantly.
"Um… hi… is Sirius here?" I asked feeling very small when she looked at me.
"Who wants to know?" She asked me angrily.
"Mom, I got it!" I heard Sirius say behind her. His eyes lit up when he saw me but he wiped that look out of his eyes when he saw his mother's angry look.
"Who is this?" She demanded to know.
"A girl from school, she a pureblood mum." He said rolling his eyes. Her anger was wiped away when the words pureblood came out of his mouth.
"Oh, well come in. Welcome to the house of Black." She said proudly. She was probably happy that her son was associating with purebloods. Sirius grabbed my hand and pulled me in.
"We're going to go up to my room mum!" He shouted running up the stairs with me right behind him. He quickly closed his door behind us.
"Sorry, I had to save you from her… what are you doing here? Are you stalking me?" He said smiling at me. I realized that I was wearing short shorts and a tank top. It was hot and I didn't expect to see anyone I knew. I looked around his room, he had clothes all over the place and his bed wasn't made. I looked at his walls and he had tons and tons of posters on his walls of Qudditch teams or players. And I saw the poster that my brother had loved so much, his autographed Eric Devlin poster.
"I actually live down the street in the Haven Manor… Hey where did you get that Devlin poster?" I said. He looked at me with interest.
"I guess we don't have to write now huh? I got the poster from your brother…speaking of which where's Drew?" He asked.
"Off in France with Emma and her family." I said bitterly.
"Someone's jealous." Sirius sang.
"I'm not jealous, I'm just mad that I have to stay home with a horror of an aunt and a huge house, board out of my mind." I said.
"Aunt? I thought you lived with your Grandfather." Sirius said confused.
"I did, he had to 'take care of some business,'" I said mocking her. God, how I hated her and she still hasn't even gotten my name right.
"Well, maybe we should run away together." He said smiling.
"Get real Black." I said laughing at him.
"I'm serious. I hate this place so much. I can't wait until I can leave." He said in a serious tone. I stopped laughing at him and I nodded knowingly. I wanted my own place too; I hated living in that huge house.
"Lets get out of here. Isn't there something around here that would be fun?" I asked him.
"A bunch of muggle things." He said sourly. I laughed at his face.
"Some things are fun, lets go and explore what's out there!" I said pulling him off his bed.
"I'm not really dressed to go out in public." He said I rolled my eyes and went to his crazy closet. Inside he had a pair of jean shorts and I t-shirt. I threw the two things at him. He grinned as he slid his pants off. I quickly turned my back so I wouldn't see anything. Why did I turn immediately and why didn't he warn me? I thought cursing myself for my mistake and his.
"Ok, ready." He said. I turned around slowly and he had the shirt around his waist covering his boxers and his pant on his head.
"Oh my god. Sirius I know you know how to get dressed. I know you probably failed muggle studies but come on!" I said rolling my eyes at him and shaking my head. He laughed and motioned for me to turn around. I few minutes later his clothes were on correctly. We carefully went down the stairs. He was ahead of me looking out for his mom. I felt something grab my butt. I shrieked and I turned to see a younger, not as attractive looking Sirius smirking at me.
"What the… Regulus, go away! I mean it. And get your filthy hands off her before I pound your head into the wall." Sirius said through gritted teeth. He made his way in front of me to protect myself.
"Watch Sirius, you don't want me to tell mommy and daddy that you are trying to hurt me. Or you'll get grounded and you wont be able to see that slut of a girlfriend of yours." Regulus said looking my way. Slut of a girlfriend? I wasn't a slut and I wasn't even his girlfriend. I lunged for him so I could pound his head into the wall but Sirius held me back.
"Ooh, feisty, feisty. You got yourself an active one. I wonder how she is in bed." He said licking his lips. I hit Sirius in the gut with my elbow and I lunged for his grabbing him by the neck. I started to hit him and then I moved my hand a little to forcefully and he went flying up the stairs. Luckily Sirius was doubled over in pain and I felt bad doing that to him. He pulled me back and held onto me regardless of his pain in the stomach. Regulus came back down the stairs looking stark raving mad. But I didn't care.
"I'll tell." He said getting ready to yell.
"Ah, ah ah…. Don't want to tell mommy and daddy that you were beat up by a girl. Now do you? Dad would love to hear that. Wah wah, some girl beat little 'ol me up." Sirius said making fun of Regulus. He narrowed his eyes at him and then to me.
"I'll get you. One way or another." He said limping back up the stairs.
"What on earth is going on here?" Mrs. Black asked coming out of the kitchen. Sirius quickly let me go.
"Sorry mum, we were just leaving." Sirius said trying to rush past her.
"Where?" She asked.
"Uh, we don't know. We were just going to explore." He said.
"I don't know if that's such a good idea…" She started but I interrupted her.
"Actually, we were going to go and make fun of the muggles in the nearest town. And then head back to my place to play some exploding snap." I said smiling. She looked at me and then she nodded.
"Very well." She said letting us leave. I suppressed a laugh when Sirius lifted me into the air and left the house with me above his head.
"STOP!" I said finally laughing. He put me down.
"Make fun of muggles huh?" He asked tickling my side.
"It was the only thing I could think of and I didn't want to go home or hang out by myself." I said heading toward the nearest town.
"I don't care as long as i'm out of there." He said. We walked and talked and laughed all the way to the town. They had a summer carnival going on and I bought us some tickets since he didn't even know what muggle money was, let alone have any.
"What's that?" He asked pointing to the Ferris wheel.
"That's the Ferris Wheel. You get in and it takes you all the way up and then you stop, see everything around you and you come back down." I said looking for another ride, I hated heights.
"Lets go on it." He said pulling me toward it.
"No, Sirius, i'm afraid of Heights." I whined.
"You're afraid of heights and you play Quidditch?" He asked me dubiously.
"Yeah, I'm in control of my broom but i'm not in control of that Ferris wheel." I said but he shook his head and pulled me toward it anyway. I gave the man the ticket and we got on it. Slowly we went up and saw the look on Sirius' face. He looked so excited; I couldn't ruin this for him by being sulky and scared. So I perked up and when we reached the top and we stopped we both looked all around us.
"Its beautiful huh?" I said looking in the direction of our houses; I could see both of them.
"Yeah it is." He said moving a little causing the thing to rock. I quickly grabbed a hold of his, very muscular; arm and he smirked at my reaction.
"Stop laughing, it's not funny." I said swatting him. That just made him laugh harder, which caused the thing to rock harder which caused me to dig my nails into him. He stopped laughing and pulled his arm away.
"God, you have a death grip." He said rubbing his arm and scowling.
"Don't rock the thing." I said and we continued to move back down. I was grateful to get off the ride as quick as possible. We walked around some more and I was surprised to see that they were serving corndogs.
"We have to get corndogs." I said running toward the stand.
"Corn dogs? Is that corn shaped like a dog?" He asked. I laughed at him.
"No, its good, trust me." I said buying two. I gave him one and he was about to bite into it but I squirted ketchup onto it.
"Gross, what is that?" He asked.
"Its good, just try it." I said taking a bite of my own corndog. He took a bite and then he smiled. He loved it.
"This is great." He said with his mouth full.
"Eww, close your mouth." I said sitting down to eat mine. We ate and laughed and joked and he ended up getting 4 more corndogs. I didn't mind, I got 2 more myself. After we ate something we went to play some games. Sirius tried a bunch of different games but there was only one that he excelled at. Baseball. He hit the ball with such force that it knocked all the balls down winning a long stuffed snake.
"Hell yeah! I am that good." He said when he had gotten the snake. I was laughing at him.
"Get over yourself." I said rolling my eyes. He put the snake around my shoulders.
"For you." He said. I blushed and looked at the ground. I liked the snake it was huge and it was almost as tall as me. We were having so much fun that I didn't realize that it was 5:45 and I had to be home before six.
"Oh my god! We have to go." I said and I started to run, pulling him behind me.
"Whoa, why? We were having so much fun!" He said chasing after me. We continued to run all the way to my house. When reached my house we fell on the grass, tumbling over each other gasping for air. Then we laughed because we were acting so weird. I looked at my watch, it was 5:59, and I had a minute.
"Thanks for walking…er I mean running me home." I said and we laughed again.
"It was my pleasure." He said bringing me to the front door. Part of the snake was touching the ground and he pulled it up and situated it around my neck.
"Well, we'll hang out tomorrow?" I asked.
"Definitely." He said and then the door swung open. Rose was at the doorstep looking at both of us. She looked furious until she saw that there was a guest.
"Oh, hello." She said to him.
"Um…. Rose… er, I mean Aunt Rose, this is Sirius. He goes to Hogwarts with me." I said and they shook hands.
"Nice to meet you Sirius…." She said waiting for him to say his last name.
"Er… Black." He said. Her face lit up and she ushered us both in. She grabbed my snake and threw it in the living room on the floor. I went in there I picked it up.
"You must stay for dinner." She said to him. She was completely ignoring me now.
"I don't know, I might have to get home… my mom and everything." He said.
"Yeah, he probably has plans with his family." I said trying to save him.
"Oh, but you must. I'll have a nice chat with your mum. Don't worry. Astrid, why don't you go and show him your room while I talk to his mother." She said pushing us toward the stairs. Halfway up the stairs he looks at me and we laugh.
"Astrid? I thought your name was Ashleigh." He said.
"It is. And I kept telling her that but she still calls me Astrid." I said through gritted teeth. We walked into my room and I laid the snake on the bed. He sat on my bed bouncing up and down. I went to my closet and pulled out a shirt that I looked semi fancy, she believed in wearing something presentable for dinner.
"You look perfect. Why change?" He asked me.
"She will have a fit if I wear this to dinner." I said mooning for him to turn around. He did and changed shirts.
"So, you hate this place? I hate my place… lets just run away together." He said when he could turn around again.
"I only hate it cause she is here." I said pulling my hair up into a scrunchy.
"She does seem a little off." Sirius said playing with my make up. He picked up an eyelash curler.
"What's this?" He asked.
"An eyelash curler. Put it down." I said laughing as he was playing with it. I was about to leave the room when he grabbed my arm and twirled me around. We were awfully close and I didn't mind it one bit.
"Go out with me. Be my girlfriend." He said. He didn't ask, he told me.
"Whatever happened to asking a lady?" I asked innocently.
"Will you go out with me? Will you be my girlfriend?" He asked. I giggled and nodded.