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My eyes slowly opened, the first I took in was the smell of candles burning, then as I looked up from where I was laying in my bed I saw mum, dad, Alva with my mother holding a platter with a strawberry cake which had, without counting I knew it; 17 candles.

They had started to sing Happy Birthday, not a note in its right place as usual but I wouldn't have it any other way.

'Sis, soon we can be out clubbing together' Alva said excitedly as the rest shot her disapproving looks, not that I had any thing against that; clubbing was hardly my thing, especially not with Alva.

Like magic, her British accent was back, it wouldn't surprise me if she had used the French accent mainly to flirt with guys.

'Anyway, blow out the candles and starts wrapping up those gifts' my mother said and place the platter in front of me. After three attempts, all the candles were finally blacked out and the presents were left pilled up.

I started with a present that was from Lily, which was a necklace with a sign with a circle with a straight line in the middle with two other lines a bit that was placed on each side and connected together in the middle on it, which she wrote she had gotten in a muggle store.

From my parents I got a brand new silver watch and Anna and Alexander got me a brown bag, after all these years of my grandmother's pink frilly dresses she had finally come to her senses and gave me money instead. Alva had come with a rectangular package that contained a pair of brand new high heels.

The only present left was a small white package; I looked at the card;

Happy Birthday Becky

Love,

Remus

I tore the paper apart, and opened the box that now was in my hands. It was flower pendant to put on the charm bracelet that he had gotten me for Christmas.

'Now let's have some of that delicious cake' My father said and I threw the cover away and got my feet of the floor as we all walked to the kitchen and sat around the table as we ate the cake, that was quickly only crumbs left of it

During the day relatives had come to congratulate me, and by seven'o'clock I was tired of each time answering the question "So how does it feel to be seventeen?" Actually it felt just like being sixteen, that was the thing with birthdays – even though, on paper you are a year older it certainly doesn't feel that way.

Everyone had left except from Alva's muggle boyfriend, whose name was Nick. To my surprise, he didn't have the look a la model which all of Alva's boyfriend usually have, I took this as a good sign. He had curly black hair, blue eyes and wore rimmed glasses, my dad was sitting and interrogated him while Alva, tried to make him stop.

'What do you want to work with?' My dad asked him, and Nick was starting to sweat.

'I'm studying to become a doctor sir'
'A doctor, ey? Is that the work where you drug everyone and kill people?' My dad said and my sister hit him hard in the ribs.

'Dad, doctors save life, they have high reputation and they earn a lot not to mention that they study their asses off' She said and my dad blinked.

'Of course…I knew that' He said and Alva gave him a hard stare as she grabbed his arm. 'We will be back in a jiff' She said and dragged my father out from the living room the entrance.

It was only Nick and me left sitting in the room and I couldn't help to feel a bit awkward.

'My dad isn't usually like this' I said quietly.

'Really?' Nick asked hopefully.

'Embarrassing, childish and overprotective; yes but mean, no. He'll grow tired of it eventually and accept you' I said, and he smiled and said 'Thank you' as Alva came in with determined steps as she sat down and my dad to.

'Becky?' It was my mother's voice coming from the kitchen. 'Yes' I replied. 'One of your friends is here' She said and I twitched my eyebrows in surprised. Who was it? I got up from the chair I sat in and walked out of the living room to the entrance where I walked up the hall to the kitchen. My mother was standing doing the dishes by hand, since Nick was here we had to pretend that we were muggles, which I don't think he believed all of the time.

My eyes went to the small kitchen table and there I saw Lily's dark red hair as her face lit up in a smile and she walked up and hugged me. 'Happy Birthday' she said and I got out a 'Thank' in my shock.

'I thought that Alice, Dorcas, Mary, you and I would go out tonight celebrating. I asked your mother and she said yes, so what do you say?' Lily said, almost jumping of enthusiasm as I shot a mean look at my mother.

'I'm sorry…I don't have anything to wear' I said looking down at the floor, I was honest I had nothing to wear. 'I thought you say that that's why I brought this' Lily said and pointed at a bag with clothes. I tried desperate to come up with another excuse.

'Please, if not for you then do it for Mary she needs to have a bit of fun considering what has happened' She said and with those almond shaped green eyes looked straight into mine. I realized she was right, 'fine' I muttered and she shrieked of joy. 'Yes! Now let's get ready, where's your room?'

After 1 hour we were finally ready to go. At first I had wanted to wear a white simple blouse and black pants but Lily had shock her had and took out white sleeveless tunic that sat tight around the bodice but then flared out together with a red frilly skirt paired up with the silver high heels that Alva had given me.

'Let's go and get the others' Lily said when we were finished, she had on a lime green double breasted tie waist dress that stopped over her knees and she had on black pumps.

I took her hand as we appareated, it was the common unpleasant feeling and I felt like I wanted to puke as the environment changed quickly. With a boom! I hit the cold pavement in a dark alley. I got up and cleaned up the dirt on my clothes, as did Lily.

'Come! They are waiting outside the club' Lily said and started to walk up the alley, and I tried walk in her speed, which was very hard since she was speed walking. We got out of the alley to Covent Garden I could read by the signs, which as this time of the day was packed with people, many of them already under the influence of alcohol.

I followed Lily past the crowd until we arrived at a club, with the letters 'The Caribbean' shined in purple. In the line to the club I could se Alice, Dorcas and Mary standing waving towards us from where they stood and we walked towards them. a

Alice was wearing a sleeveless top with fringes with blue jeans and high heels, Dorcas wore a checked skirt with a black shirt and Mary wore a flowery bandeau dress.

Lily and I got behind them in the cue. 'Do you really think we are going to get in?' Dorcas asked and Lily nodded confidently as we got closer to the door.

I was terrified of going inside that small building which would contain loud music, smoke, sweat and probably, drugs everything I hated but I also thought that Mary should have some fun.

We all gathered into a group as we were next in line to the door, as the guard let two people in and now looked at us.

'Identification please' He said in a crossed voice. Lily took a couple steps in front of us. 'You know we don't need ID. We are all over eighteen' Lily lied, but he shook his head. 'No identification, no entry' He said and started to interrogate the people behind us. 'Fine' muttered Alice as we got off the line to the street and watched the black taxi's on the street drive by.

'What should we do?' Mary asked as we stood there. 'Actually, my place isn't so far away' Dorcas said and I thought that idea sounded a lot better than going to clubs. Everyone else seemed to realize that there was no idea to try to get into more clubs.

After a short walk on the streets of city London we got to an large brick apartment building where Dorcas pressed in the code '9263' and the doors opened as we walked into a hallway of doors on the side as far as the eyes could see, it had been done by magic so of what I could make out it was only wizards and witches living in the apartment.

Dorcas led us up the corridor until we came to number 56 where she took a grip on the door and opened the door slowly. The entrence was airy with a white floor carpet and a chandelir. It was an odd silence hanging in the room as I did as the others and took off the coat I was wearing and hanged it on a hanger.

Dorcas started to walk to a big door that she opened to reveal a big room.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" I jumped of surprise as Sirius, James and Frank appeared out from the room, James with a carrot cake with, seventeen Iand gave out a high pitched scream that made them laugh. James put the carrot cake out with his hands for me to blow them out, which I did after four tries.

I looked back at Lily. 'So this was the plan the whole time?' I asked and she nodded with a big smile on her face.

'Did you really think I would let you spend your birthday being miserable in a club that you hate? I knew you prefer something more like calm' she answered and I couldn't say how thankful I was that the plan had never been to go to the club. 'Thank you' I murmured as I looked around the room, that's when I realized that Remus wasn't there.

'Where is Remus?' I asked, surprised that I hadn't noticed his absence earlier. 'He's in Spain with his family' James said and I nodded.

'Now, let's eat'

The rest of the night was spent with playing games and I really appreciated that they had thought of me and hadn't thrown a wild party.

*

It was the hottest day of the summer, the gray shorts and white linen top was sticking to the body like glue, luckily as it was later on the day the heat had turned into something more like a tropical climate. I was sitting on the porch reading, my parents had been invited to a dinner and Alva was meeting her boyfriend; resulting in me having the big house for myself in all my boredom.

I sighed as I turned another page in the worn out book, I tried to read the words that was written but I couldn't concentrate and it just looked like a jungle of words. Deciding I should do something else I closed the book and stood up, the gray shorts this is when I suddenly heard a 'crack' sound behind me and I turned around.

To my surprise it wasn't Alva, neither was it my parents but it was Sirius, his clothes was rugged and he looked frustrated and relieved.

'I've moved out my parents' house' He said and there was certainly something bittersweet in his voice. 'That's great' I started but then I realized the problem with this 'where are you going to live?' I asked, 'The Potter's, I was wondering if you could help me pack' He asked, immediately I started to think about Regulus. 'Nobody is home' Sirius said quickly and I nodded my head.

'Sure, I can help' I said, in a way I was kind of relieved I wouldn't be spending the evening doing nothing. 'Thank you Becks' Sirius said and put my feet in the black sandals that had lied next to me. 'Have you done something with your hair?' He asked as I was putting them on.

'No' I answered confused and my finger wrapped around a straw of the long wavy brown. 'Really? You look different' He said and I twitched my shoulders.

'Ready?' He asked and I nodded as he grabbed my hand and this time I was more used to appareated so it didn't feel as uncomfortable until I landed on the hard wooden floor in the Black's house.

'Every time' I muttered as I got up next to Sirius.

'Welcome to the noble house of Black' He said with a disgust in his voice. I looked around, the first thing that hit me was the cold and creepy feeling that entrance gave, and I had a feeling every room would be like this.

It was an old house and gloomy and had high ceilings. The long hallway where I was standing was lit with gas lamps and a large overhead chandelier. The walls had loads of portraits of people, which I presumed was relatives to Sirius or people that his parents aspired to be like.

Sirius started to walk to up the hallway and I followed him, taking in everything around. I couldn't understand how someone could want to live here, it was so dark in here but I couldn't decide if it was because all of the dark objects, walls and floor or because of the feeling that they gave of evil.

We came to the end of the entrance hall where a great staircase was. I was almost afraid to touch the * in case there was some dark magic on it. I let out a low pitched scream as I saw the shrunken heads of house elves mounted on the wall on plaques.

It didn't get better as we continued to walk up the staircase where I saw glims of some of the rooms that were as dark as the entrance hall. We walked up to the topmost landing where there was two doors, one of them had a sign "Do Not Enter Without the Express Permission of Regulus Arcturus Black" it gave me the chills just seeing the name.

Sirius walked to the direction of the other one and opened the door. I walked in and I was in shock of how beautiful the room was with carved wooden headboards on the bed, velvet curtains and the furniture were in the same era.

Gryffindor's red and gold colours lit up the room together with some banners. There were posters of a motorbike and, naked and half naked muggle girls posing in a seductive pose that made me feel uncomfortable and I blushed.

'I'm just going to pack things I need, just sit down on the bed or something' Sirius said as he went to his wardrobe and took out a trunk. 'You need any help?' I asked. 'Could you take the books we will need for next year? The books are on the shelf' Sirius said as he was busy taking things out from his wardrobe.

I walked to the shelves, which was next to the desk and I eyes through the titles of the book. Some where from first year, those I ignored at once since the O.W.L's had been 1-5 year, I guessed that the N.E.W.T.S would be 6-7 based but it was probably good to have some basic knowledge for the exam too.

I carried the books I had picked out to the trunk and put them in there as I sat down on the bed. There was a photo off Sirius from when he was very young, I couldn't help but to smile ate it. He had the biggest smile and his gray eyes glittered as he was waving with his wand making a model airplane spin around in the room.

Sirius sat down next to me, after putting in some more clothes in the trunk. 'I can't believe I'm finally moving out' Sirius said sounding nostalgic. 'Where are you going to stay?' I had suddenly realized that I hadn't asked the most obvious of all questions.

'James' I stared at the door. 'Why now though?' I asked and looked at Sirius. 'I don't know. Just felt like the right thing to do. It was one of those common arguments in this house about me destroying the reputation of our family and I decided I had enough. You know, I would do anything to have parents like yours'

I raised my eyebrow 'You have met my dad? The red jazz shoe, bad dancer and the most embarrassing person to walk on this planet?' Sirius laughed. 'Actually, his jokes are quite funny'

'Have you gathered up with my dad? Or has be bribed you in anyway because that's got to be the only explanation' I asked jokingly. Sirius grinned back 'Maybe' there was a silence and we both stared at each other.

The door opened as my pulse started to beat faster. At first I couldn't see what it was but as I looked down I saw that it was a house elf with big tennisball eyes and worn down clothes.

'What do you want Kreacher?' Sirius spit out and the House elf started to walk closer to the bed. 'Mistress says that Sirius left the house. Kreacher is ordered to throw you out if you came back' Sirius seemed to boil with anger but he calmed down. 'Fine, we will go' He said slowly and got up from the bed, so did I. He walked to the trunk and took it in his hands.

He walked to me with hurried and took my hand. I was confused about everything that was happening as my stomach felt like it had been turned inside and out again as I apparated again without any idea of where I was heading.

As soon as we stopped I recognized the white house that was my families and we stood on the sand road leading up to the house. 'I'm sorry about Kreacher. He isn't very…sane'

'Guess that working for no money can do that' I said and gave a weak smile which Sirius returned 'You are way to kind on him' he said and I shrugged my shoulders.

'Well, I need to go to James but thank you Becky for helping me with everything' He said to my surprise he embraced me. 'N..o..no, problem' I stammered as he appareated away.

This chapter is dedicated to Mike, one of my dad's childhood friends who was two years ago was diagnosed with cancer and he survived the battle. Sadly they just found out last weekened that the cancer is back and he is right now undergoing chemo.

I'm so sorry everyone, I knew I said 2-3 days but I got busy and I started my new school so I have just spent a lot of time adjusting. I'm completley exhausted when I come home at 18;15.

Well, the scene I was telling you about in the last chapter was this one with Becky and Sirius in his house. Kinda of sucks because I had imagined it totally different but eh. Next Chapter will be very important.

Thanks everyoen for reviewing, favoursing, alerting and reading this story; it means a lot.

I thinkkkk next chap will be up next weekened but I'm not 100% sure.