The next day during breakfast, I received a package from my dad. Sirius was
sitting next to me and I felt like I was practically on his lap. As I was
trying to open my package he kept peeking over my shoulder and then he
would squeeze my knee, which would make me laugh because it tickled.
"What's that? What did you get?" He asked me still peeking over my shoulder. I looked at him with an expression that told him to back off a little. He grinned and went back to his bacon and eggs. I tore off the brown paper and string to discover a cardboard box and a letter written on the box that said, 'Don't open, don't tell and don't peek. I love you, Dad.' I had a very skeptical look on my face as I stared at it. I put the small box back into my robes.
"What was it?" Sirius asked me. I gave him a kiss on the cheek and left the table.
"I'll meet you in class. I have something to do." I said. I went straight to my dorm room and grabbed my books. Class was going to start in fifteen minutes. My curiosity was edging at me to open the box but I knew better than to try. My dad had always experimented with things and some were pretty deadly and this just might be something deadly. I took out of my robes and placed a security spell on so only I could touch it. I opened my trunk and placed it under all my things at the very bottom. I put everything back into the trunk and grabbed my potions book.
"Ash, come on lets go." Gabrielle said coming out of the bathroom. I turned around real quick and stared at her.
"Uh, Gabrielle hi." I said.
"Hi, are you ok?" She asked. I nodded and linked my arm in hers.
"Definitely ok. Lets go to Potions class." I said. We arrived in the dungeon with a few minutes to spare. The Professor was standing with his back to us. Then he turned, tapped his wand on the chalkboard and the ingredients to a Draft of Peace spell appeared.
"Class, I want you to start on this potion. This is a review of last year. You can work with one partner. You maybe begin." He said. I smiled at Sirius and he came over.
"Oh, damn was kind of hoping one of you would be my partner. I don't know many people..." Gabrielle said. I felt sorry for her immediately.
"Of course. You guys be partners, I'll go work with Remus." I said gathering my stuff and going toward Remus.
"But A..." He couldn't finish because Gabrielle had pulled him over by her and started to set up her ingredients. I walked to Remus and set my things down.
"Mr. Lupin, I believe you need a partner." I said giving him a small hug. We worked on our potion and passed with flying colors. The Professor must have been feeling a little ill or something because he let us leave as soon as our potion was done. Remus and I had finished second. Of course, Snape and Malfoy finished first. I walked past Sirius and gave him a sympathetic look.
"Meet me in the Required Room after your done here." I whispered to him before leaving the class. I followed Remus out of the dungeon and we went to the Common Room. I changed into something cuter, like my light pink shirt and my low rider jeans. I slipped on my robes to cover up the outfit in case I bumped into a teacher. I followed the usual path to the Room of Requirement to get there without bumping into anyone. When I got there no one was there. But behind the door I needed a comfortable place to be with Sirius. And it revealed a bed, basically an American bedroom. I pulled off my robes and lay on the bed waiting for him to come in. Sirius opened the door and when he saw me sitting there, he grinned and pulled off his robes to reveal a tight black shirt and some jeans. Then he jumped on the bed and lay next to me. It felt like our bodies had connected. As if it we were part of a puzzle and fitted perfectly together.
"So when you invited me to this room I had some expectations." He said in his smooth voice. I laughed in his face.
"Well, when I invited you up here, I think I expected something." I said back. His grin disappeared and he looked surprised. Then he looked away and then back at me with a questioning look. I giggled at his expression.
"Are you trying to say that... that maybe you... do you think maybe..." He laughed and kissed me.
"Wow, slow down there, cowboy. We have no place to do it in." I said. He let go of me and sat up in the bed. He looked like he was deep in thought.
"What if we did it here?" He asked. I shook my head.
"Why not?" He asked.
"Because Dumbledore has constant security and reign over this castle. He knows when EVERYTHING is going down." I said. He nodded. Then he started to think again.
"Well, lets go to your house. Your dad is out of town..." He said. I laughed again. No way was I going to have sex in my house.
"Then I'll get a hotel." He said. I giggled at his insistence.
"Lets wait and see what opportunities arise." I said. He nodded reluctantly. Then we made out until my watch started going off. It was time for our next class and I didn't want to be late. I was going to the library with my class and Professor Donahughe and we were going to study in there considering his classroom was still under construction since the Anderson twins had jinx it with such a spell that the Professor couldn't figure it out and he wouldn't except any help from anyone in figuring it out. I met Lily just outside the Library with Gabrielle. We walked in and took a seat near the back. We wanted to talk and the whole library wasn't just for us so there was some noise.
"Ash?" Lily whispered while the Professor was speaking.
"Yeah?" I asked taking some notes.
"About the prank.... Exactly how are we supposed to turn them green?" Lily asked. I shook my head no to stop the talk because the Professor was coming our way. He pointed to Gabrielle and asked her to come to the front of the library for his demonstration. I scooted over to Lily and gave her a look. This professor always picked on the new girl.
"I think maybe we should put it in their food and no on the green. Its their house color, they could just say they were showing school spirit. And I want to humiliate them more than that." I said. Lily nodded. I kept thinking. I wanted them to be totally humiliated in front of EVERYONE. I wanted all people to laugh at them.
"Maybe we need to consult the Marauders." Lily said. I shook my head. I refused to ask for help.
"Lets make their jewels shrink, or better yet turn them into women." I said. Lily's face lit up and she nodded vigorously. We laughed but stopped immediately when the Professor looked our way.
It was a few days before Halloween and I still couldn't figure out a way to turn them into girls without them knowing that we were behind it. Lily thought of a charm but we would have to be in their view.
"Are you willing to risk it?" Lily asked me. I leaned against Sirius.
"Well, maybe if we can get something on them... like something that they don't want anyone to know. Then we can use that as leverage. They wont tell on us then." I said in deep thought. But what could we use against them?
"Well, we could spy on them." James said his eyes lighting up. We laughed because we knew it was impossible.
"Don't be silly, no way can we get into the Slytherin dorms." I said. James glanced at Sirius and Sirius glanced at James.
"WE know a way." James and Sirius said at the same time.
"You know a way? How?" I asked them. James and Sirius pulled us into a tight circle and pulled out a piece of parchment from Sirius' robes. James tapped the parchment with his wand.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." All of a sudden a bunch of lines started to spread out all over the page and it revealed a map of the school. I looked at them with astonishment.
"Who would have thought that you guys would have invented something like this." I said. Sirius signaled that I was in big trouble and started to tickle me.
"Stop! Sirius! I mean it stop!" I was squealing, he kept tickling me and then he kissed my neck and started to nibble on my ear, which made me giggle.
"You should stop, or she might pee her pants." I heard a very familiar voice behind me and I jumped off of Sirius' lap and gave Izzy a hug.
"Oh my god. What are you doing here?" I asked her. She smiled and twirled.
"I decided to become a Brit... besides, your sorry ass got me in trouble." She said. I was confused how could I do something to her from across the world.
"What are you talking about? Lets go for a walk." I asked her. We walked out of the common room and along the halls near the Gryffindor entrance. She looked down to the floor for a while and then back at me and I saw tears in her eyes.
"Izzy what happened?" I asked her.
"My parents. They had an accident in their lab and they aren't themselves and I'm underage... your dad is my guardian and he couldn't guard me while he was all the way across the world. Everyone agreed that being sent here was a perfect solution... Micah is also here... She more bummed than I was because her whole life was back at school. I thought maybe we could support her together. We were lucky to get the same house as you." She said. Most of the things she said didn't make sense and they seemed scrambled.
"Wow, wow, wait, what happened to your parents? What do you mean they aren't themselves?" I asked her.
"Well they were working on some top secret thing and the lab blew up. Some chemicals were mixed together and when they inhaled, they lost their minds. Ashleigh they are mentally incapable of everything. Right now they are in a mental institution back home. It really hit Micah hard... harder than me because she was closer to them than I was." She said. Micah was her younger sister. She's only two years younger than us and she got most of the attention while growing up. Izzy never did know why.
"Ash, when my parents were in the hospital... they got to talking and I found out that... well I found something incredible. My mom told me something about you and me. Something awesome." She said.
"What? We sisters?" I asked her laughing but she wasn't laughing at all.
"We are. Ash, we were conceived in a test tube." She said. I laughed at her. We passed the bathroom for the third time.
"What are you talking about?" I asked her after I noticed that she wasn't laughing or saying she was kidding.
"My mom told me that we were conceived in a test tube... evidently your mom couldn't conceive. They were playing around with genetics at the time and when they heard about your mom and how they were trying to conceive... they kind of.... Well they... they created us out of their sperm and eggs and they altered something things. Ash... look at this, I haven't told anyone about this." She said and we went into the bathroom. She looked around the bathroom for any sign of someone.
"Don't worry no one is here." I said. She nodded and pulled out a pen from her pockets from under her robes. She then dropped it and put up her hands and froze it in mid air. My eyes got huge and she nodded.
"I can do the same thing!" I said. She smiled and started to breathe.
"Wait, can Micah do this too?" I asked her. She shook her head.
"See that's the thing. My parents thought that they were unfertile but they really weren't. Micah is their real daughter. That's why she favored over me because I was just one of their experiments." Izzy said. She was always bitter about that type of thing.
"We weren't experiments... we were just a dream come true. Think about it, our parents couldn't have kids because of... something but we became their kids because they altered their eggs and sperm to make it fertile. We weren't experiments, we WERE a dream come true." I said to her. She smiled at me and we left the bathroom.
"You always did know how to sugar coat things." Izzy said. We were catching up on old things and laughing and joking when we caught Micah in our grasp.
"Hey girl!" I said giving her a hug. She was like my little sister too and I loved her like one.
"What's that? What did you get?" He asked me still peeking over my shoulder. I looked at him with an expression that told him to back off a little. He grinned and went back to his bacon and eggs. I tore off the brown paper and string to discover a cardboard box and a letter written on the box that said, 'Don't open, don't tell and don't peek. I love you, Dad.' I had a very skeptical look on my face as I stared at it. I put the small box back into my robes.
"What was it?" Sirius asked me. I gave him a kiss on the cheek and left the table.
"I'll meet you in class. I have something to do." I said. I went straight to my dorm room and grabbed my books. Class was going to start in fifteen minutes. My curiosity was edging at me to open the box but I knew better than to try. My dad had always experimented with things and some were pretty deadly and this just might be something deadly. I took out of my robes and placed a security spell on so only I could touch it. I opened my trunk and placed it under all my things at the very bottom. I put everything back into the trunk and grabbed my potions book.
"Ash, come on lets go." Gabrielle said coming out of the bathroom. I turned around real quick and stared at her.
"Uh, Gabrielle hi." I said.
"Hi, are you ok?" She asked. I nodded and linked my arm in hers.
"Definitely ok. Lets go to Potions class." I said. We arrived in the dungeon with a few minutes to spare. The Professor was standing with his back to us. Then he turned, tapped his wand on the chalkboard and the ingredients to a Draft of Peace spell appeared.
"Class, I want you to start on this potion. This is a review of last year. You can work with one partner. You maybe begin." He said. I smiled at Sirius and he came over.
"Oh, damn was kind of hoping one of you would be my partner. I don't know many people..." Gabrielle said. I felt sorry for her immediately.
"Of course. You guys be partners, I'll go work with Remus." I said gathering my stuff and going toward Remus.
"But A..." He couldn't finish because Gabrielle had pulled him over by her and started to set up her ingredients. I walked to Remus and set my things down.
"Mr. Lupin, I believe you need a partner." I said giving him a small hug. We worked on our potion and passed with flying colors. The Professor must have been feeling a little ill or something because he let us leave as soon as our potion was done. Remus and I had finished second. Of course, Snape and Malfoy finished first. I walked past Sirius and gave him a sympathetic look.
"Meet me in the Required Room after your done here." I whispered to him before leaving the class. I followed Remus out of the dungeon and we went to the Common Room. I changed into something cuter, like my light pink shirt and my low rider jeans. I slipped on my robes to cover up the outfit in case I bumped into a teacher. I followed the usual path to the Room of Requirement to get there without bumping into anyone. When I got there no one was there. But behind the door I needed a comfortable place to be with Sirius. And it revealed a bed, basically an American bedroom. I pulled off my robes and lay on the bed waiting for him to come in. Sirius opened the door and when he saw me sitting there, he grinned and pulled off his robes to reveal a tight black shirt and some jeans. Then he jumped on the bed and lay next to me. It felt like our bodies had connected. As if it we were part of a puzzle and fitted perfectly together.
"So when you invited me to this room I had some expectations." He said in his smooth voice. I laughed in his face.
"Well, when I invited you up here, I think I expected something." I said back. His grin disappeared and he looked surprised. Then he looked away and then back at me with a questioning look. I giggled at his expression.
"Are you trying to say that... that maybe you... do you think maybe..." He laughed and kissed me.
"Wow, slow down there, cowboy. We have no place to do it in." I said. He let go of me and sat up in the bed. He looked like he was deep in thought.
"What if we did it here?" He asked. I shook my head.
"Why not?" He asked.
"Because Dumbledore has constant security and reign over this castle. He knows when EVERYTHING is going down." I said. He nodded. Then he started to think again.
"Well, lets go to your house. Your dad is out of town..." He said. I laughed again. No way was I going to have sex in my house.
"Then I'll get a hotel." He said. I giggled at his insistence.
"Lets wait and see what opportunities arise." I said. He nodded reluctantly. Then we made out until my watch started going off. It was time for our next class and I didn't want to be late. I was going to the library with my class and Professor Donahughe and we were going to study in there considering his classroom was still under construction since the Anderson twins had jinx it with such a spell that the Professor couldn't figure it out and he wouldn't except any help from anyone in figuring it out. I met Lily just outside the Library with Gabrielle. We walked in and took a seat near the back. We wanted to talk and the whole library wasn't just for us so there was some noise.
"Ash?" Lily whispered while the Professor was speaking.
"Yeah?" I asked taking some notes.
"About the prank.... Exactly how are we supposed to turn them green?" Lily asked. I shook my head no to stop the talk because the Professor was coming our way. He pointed to Gabrielle and asked her to come to the front of the library for his demonstration. I scooted over to Lily and gave her a look. This professor always picked on the new girl.
"I think maybe we should put it in their food and no on the green. Its their house color, they could just say they were showing school spirit. And I want to humiliate them more than that." I said. Lily nodded. I kept thinking. I wanted them to be totally humiliated in front of EVERYONE. I wanted all people to laugh at them.
"Maybe we need to consult the Marauders." Lily said. I shook my head. I refused to ask for help.
"Lets make their jewels shrink, or better yet turn them into women." I said. Lily's face lit up and she nodded vigorously. We laughed but stopped immediately when the Professor looked our way.
It was a few days before Halloween and I still couldn't figure out a way to turn them into girls without them knowing that we were behind it. Lily thought of a charm but we would have to be in their view.
"Are you willing to risk it?" Lily asked me. I leaned against Sirius.
"Well, maybe if we can get something on them... like something that they don't want anyone to know. Then we can use that as leverage. They wont tell on us then." I said in deep thought. But what could we use against them?
"Well, we could spy on them." James said his eyes lighting up. We laughed because we knew it was impossible.
"Don't be silly, no way can we get into the Slytherin dorms." I said. James glanced at Sirius and Sirius glanced at James.
"WE know a way." James and Sirius said at the same time.
"You know a way? How?" I asked them. James and Sirius pulled us into a tight circle and pulled out a piece of parchment from Sirius' robes. James tapped the parchment with his wand.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." All of a sudden a bunch of lines started to spread out all over the page and it revealed a map of the school. I looked at them with astonishment.
"Who would have thought that you guys would have invented something like this." I said. Sirius signaled that I was in big trouble and started to tickle me.
"Stop! Sirius! I mean it stop!" I was squealing, he kept tickling me and then he kissed my neck and started to nibble on my ear, which made me giggle.
"You should stop, or she might pee her pants." I heard a very familiar voice behind me and I jumped off of Sirius' lap and gave Izzy a hug.
"Oh my god. What are you doing here?" I asked her. She smiled and twirled.
"I decided to become a Brit... besides, your sorry ass got me in trouble." She said. I was confused how could I do something to her from across the world.
"What are you talking about? Lets go for a walk." I asked her. We walked out of the common room and along the halls near the Gryffindor entrance. She looked down to the floor for a while and then back at me and I saw tears in her eyes.
"Izzy what happened?" I asked her.
"My parents. They had an accident in their lab and they aren't themselves and I'm underage... your dad is my guardian and he couldn't guard me while he was all the way across the world. Everyone agreed that being sent here was a perfect solution... Micah is also here... She more bummed than I was because her whole life was back at school. I thought maybe we could support her together. We were lucky to get the same house as you." She said. Most of the things she said didn't make sense and they seemed scrambled.
"Wow, wow, wait, what happened to your parents? What do you mean they aren't themselves?" I asked her.
"Well they were working on some top secret thing and the lab blew up. Some chemicals were mixed together and when they inhaled, they lost their minds. Ashleigh they are mentally incapable of everything. Right now they are in a mental institution back home. It really hit Micah hard... harder than me because she was closer to them than I was." She said. Micah was her younger sister. She's only two years younger than us and she got most of the attention while growing up. Izzy never did know why.
"Ash, when my parents were in the hospital... they got to talking and I found out that... well I found something incredible. My mom told me something about you and me. Something awesome." She said.
"What? We sisters?" I asked her laughing but she wasn't laughing at all.
"We are. Ash, we were conceived in a test tube." She said. I laughed at her. We passed the bathroom for the third time.
"What are you talking about?" I asked her after I noticed that she wasn't laughing or saying she was kidding.
"My mom told me that we were conceived in a test tube... evidently your mom couldn't conceive. They were playing around with genetics at the time and when they heard about your mom and how they were trying to conceive... they kind of.... Well they... they created us out of their sperm and eggs and they altered something things. Ash... look at this, I haven't told anyone about this." She said and we went into the bathroom. She looked around the bathroom for any sign of someone.
"Don't worry no one is here." I said. She nodded and pulled out a pen from her pockets from under her robes. She then dropped it and put up her hands and froze it in mid air. My eyes got huge and she nodded.
"I can do the same thing!" I said. She smiled and started to breathe.
"Wait, can Micah do this too?" I asked her. She shook her head.
"See that's the thing. My parents thought that they were unfertile but they really weren't. Micah is their real daughter. That's why she favored over me because I was just one of their experiments." Izzy said. She was always bitter about that type of thing.
"We weren't experiments... we were just a dream come true. Think about it, our parents couldn't have kids because of... something but we became their kids because they altered their eggs and sperm to make it fertile. We weren't experiments, we WERE a dream come true." I said to her. She smiled at me and we left the bathroom.
"You always did know how to sugar coat things." Izzy said. We were catching up on old things and laughing and joking when we caught Micah in our grasp.
"Hey girl!" I said giving her a hug. She was like my little sister too and I loved her like one.