Chapter 11

Mr. Harddare was instructed to find Mea, but when he finally found her, he felt something he was not supposed to know about was going on. She was sitting on a bench, the farthest one from the house and closest to the outlying woods. She was crying into her hands when he came close she looked up at him with the most hurt eyes. Her normally pretty blue eyes looked cold, almost dead. "Mea? Mea, what happened?" He regretted the words. Part of him didn't want to know, she reminded him so much of his own daughter who had died, and he didn't need to share anyone else's pain.

"My parents... they... they are... they just can't be..." Mea trailed off as she buried her face into his shoulder. She slowly explained what happened, how betrayed she felt. "How could I have never noticed? Was I that trusting of them?" Nevertheless, she was. She had believed everything they said, because they were the only ones who had ever shown her love. She wished she could apologize for it all, she yelling Sirius and running away, for believing them, for everything.

"Do you know where he is?" Mr. Harddare asked. Mea nodded. "Then tell him yourself you're sorry. It won't help telling me." He tried to smile. He was lucky, he had an excuse for not knowing, he had just begun to work there. However, she had not known for all her life, and she had told him everything. When she began to go to school, the girls that tricked her, Aaron, Sirius, her parents, everything he now knew. She had been through enough, she need to be happy. Mea got up, and started walked with a blank dead look on her face. When she was not smiling she seemed in a daze, dead and everything about her seemed wrong. Like a wilted flower.

Mr. Harddare looked out the window as the rain started to pour, "I hope you find what you're looking for." He said shutting the window.

Rain streaked the window as James stood looking out. He turned around to the rather angry looking Sirius, "Her family too? Wow, you never know these days." He said shaking his head as Sirius sat saying nothing. He had shown up at James door about two hours ago looking even angrier than he was now. He had told James what had happened after a while. James walked into his kitchen, and just then the door bell rang. James looked at Sirius sitting at the table thinking. He shrugged and went down to answer the door.

A rain soaked Mea stood outside his door. She looked lost, and almost dead. He couldn't tell if she had been crying, or if it was just the rain. "Did you walk here?" He whispered quickly. She nodded looking still in a daze. "Come in quickly, but stay right there. He's really mad." She just walked in out of the rain and stood there.

Just then Sirius came over to see who it was, when he saw Mea he just stared at her and her at him. James looked back between the two and walked past Sirius, leaving them there. All of sudden Mea started crying. Sirius wanted to help her, comfort her, but he was still mad. His body wouldn't let him. She just stood there crying until finally she murmured, "You were right... right about everything... I didn't know... I couldn't know..." She started crying harder. He finally went down to her, pulling her towards him.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but you needed to know."

She nodded, "I know." She closed her eyes as he wrapped his arms around her as she still cried.

James showed up from behind a corner as Sirius kissed her, trying to make her feel better. "You are both lucky my parents are gone this time." He smiled, "You're both welcome to stay here for the rest of the holidays if you need." Mea smiled as Sirius said thanks.

"Where are your parents?" Mea asked as they sat together later that night.

"Taking care of my grandmother. She needs help moving. Gone for the holidays, they left yesterday." James said happily, "So... talked to Lily lately?"

"Whoa, now your back to calling her Lily?" Mea laughed. "Not since we left."

"Oh." James said a little disappointed.

Mea looked out the window of the room, the rain had stopped, but it was now dark out. James and Sirius were outside of the room talking. Mea just sat on the bed and looked out the window. Mea laid down, staring up at the ceiling. She was still so shocked about her parents, but she was so much happier now.

The door opened and light poured in. Mea didn't look to see who it was, she just kept staring at the ceiling. A person laid down next to Mea. She turned and looked at Sirius who was staring at her. She blinked and looked away. "Whats wrong?" He said quietly.

"I just... I can't handle this." Mea said sitting up rubbing her forehead.

"You mean your parents?" He said sitting next to her.

"No." She turned around and lifted her face to meet his. She could see perfectly, even thought it was now dark in the room. "I love you, and I just need you to know that." She said.

He smiled, "I love you too." He kissed her, running his fingers through her hair. She smiled, giving into him.

Mea came back to her house late the night before they went back to Hogwarts. She was wearing her clothes from the day she left, but they seemed to have been washed. Mr. Harddare found her in the room grabbing all of her things she would need for Hogwarts. "Your parents miss you." He said quietly.

She looked up, "Well they can miss me all the way till summer." She said flatly and gave him a hug. "Thanks." She smiled as Sirius quietly came in. They grabbed her things and left.

When Mea got back to Hogwarts she didn't tell Lily what her parents did to make her so mad, or why Sirius left in the first place. The only people who knew were James, Sirius, and herself. And both of them promised not to tell, they understood what it would be like for her. But of course Mea told Lily, Stephanie, and Sandra everything else. And, as always, they told her all about their holidays.

Mea felt relief being back at Hogwarts, she didn't have to worry about her parents, or anything. Of course there were still classes, but Mea found herself getting better at all her classes. And things between her and Sirius were great.

One day Lily and Mea were walking through the halls as James walked past looking at his map. "Hey." Mea and Lily said. "What are you looking at?" Lily said.

"Oh this? Map of the school." James said taking this time to show off.

"Oh wow. This is really neat." Lily said as her and Mea started looking at it.

"Yeah, I made it." He added. Mea laughed, but Lily looked impressed. The three of them walked outside as a big black dog bounded up to them.

"Oh look! Lily that's the dog that was at my house!" Mea said shocked. "What's it doing here?"

"Weird. Even weirder is that map says it's..." James looked alarmed but he couldn't stop Lily in time. "Sirius." Mea thought about that for a minute, the map shows where everyone was, and it said that this was Sirius. A big black dog.

"That's odd. James I think your map is... oh my god." Mea said scared. "It is you! It has to be, how I told it about my problems, how it was at my house standing outside my... oh my god Sirius!" She shrieked as James pulled Lily and her away from everyone. Sirius changed from a dog and looked embarrassed.

"It's not a big deal." He started to act as if it was nothing.

"Not a big deal? You were standing outside my shower!" Mea said as Lily laughed loudly. James looked at Sirius impressed. And to Sirius's surprise Mea started laughing. Mea kissed him as her and Lily walked away still laughing.

"Nice job." James said laughing as well. "You think Lily would notice?" He said joking.

"Yeah." Sirius said laughing.