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Until we meet again

I have never thought I will ever see her again, but fate seems really kind to me this time...

Chapter 8 Memory Refreshed Part 2

"Doggy, sometimes I really doubted if you are a dog."

Sirius turned his head towards her, thought, "There is no way she know he is not a dog." He barked.

"You don't eat dog food, don't chase cats, don't bark much and I feel sometimes you understand people's words." She looked at him, "Whatever. I am really glad that I could keep you, as no one come to claim you after one and a half month, my housemates all agreed to let me keep you as long as you don't make any mess."

"Of course I have no owner, I am a man. If you want to say a owner, you are the first one." He barked at her.

Then, to his surprise, she took off the necklace from her neck and tied it to his neck. "Fayanna said I should get you a dog collar and wrote our address on it in case if you get lose. But I don't like the dog collars, they look so stupid. Instead, I think it would be a better substitute with my necklace because Miranda made it uniquely for the four of us."

"Well, I better go to bed now, it's getting late. Don't want to hear Fayanna scream at me all the way from the house, to make me go to bed." She chuckled. "Good night, Doggy." She went back into the house.

He waited until all the lights in the house were off, and stood up. He transformed back into human form. He thought, "I can possibly leave here in a few days. I have almost recovered." He looked up at Bertha's room. "Sigh, she would be really sad if I left. She would forget about him eventually. Her housemates care for her so much. They would possibly get her a new dog."

Strangely, he was not really happy about her getting a new dog. The thought of her talking, playing and feeding the new dog made him quite jealous. What the hell was wrong with him? He transformed back into dog form and went to sleep.

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Sirius heard a loud 'bang' at the door, and quite a number of rapid footsteps were heard. What was happening? They didn't normally come home so early. He could hear vaguely someone was crying. The whole house was silent afterwards. He didn't saw anyone until late.

Then, near the time of dinner, someone opened the door to the backyard. It was Bertha. She put a bowl in front of him. Surprisingly, it was not Chinese food, it was a bowl of pasta. He looked up at her, and noticed that she had been crying. Her eyes were so red.

He pressed his face onto her hand, in order to gain her attention.

"Doggy, I am sorry. I can't really cook except for pasta and noodles, and Eve is not likely going to cook anymore..." She silenced and started crying.

"What had happened?" he thought. "Was she the one who was crying when they came back?" He wailed at her.

"Sorry... I... can't stop crying... it was all my fault... i..t... turn..ed... out... like that..." she sobbed. "If you really understand my words, I told... you before I don't like Eve's boyfriend, Pablo, and I suspected he was up to something? He sure was, and he succeeded. No one knew he is Eve's cousin's boyfriend, now it was actually a trap to hurt her physically and emotionally... he stole her dessertation, and then insulted her in front of everyone said she was crazy to think he loves her, and she was after her cousin's boyfriend. We all knew Eve's cousin hated her so much that only a few people know they are cousins. How would she know who is her boyfriend? If I tried harder, and let Eve know about what I worried about, that bastard and bitch will have no chance of hurting her like that..." she started crying again.

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It had been weeks since the incident happened, but the atmosphere in the house was as grave as ever. Bertha spent more and more time in the backyard with Sirius. She always cried at him, about Eve being like a robot, didn't talk to any of them about how she was doing, but only stayed in her room, working on another dessertation. She sweared about revenging on Pablo and Jenny, the cousin, that he was really scared if she was really going to do so.

Actually, he should have left and gone back to Hogwarts, but she was in a status like this that he couldn't leave her. He was really afraid she was really going to do something dangerous if he just left like that.

But it seemed it was not really his choice to make...

TBC

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