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Sirius just sat there amazed. Finally he said, "I can't believe that happened to you. That must have been hard." Sirius figured that she hadn't told everything, but decided that he would find that rest out later. He looked up and saw that she was reading again. He didn't want to disturb her so he laid down on the couch to read, but he fell asleep.

The next morning Sirius was awoken with a splash of cold water and a thunderous sound. He just smiled. "James you are going to have to do better than that to make me mad." Then Sirius stopped, he didn't remember walking up the stairs last night.

Remus was standing next to him. "Did you help me up here last night?" It was so quite that Sirius almost didn't hear it.

"No, I was going to ask you the same thing. We need to talk to Jen then." Sirius then turned to walk into the bathroom.

James came over to Remus. "You look pale. Do you feel alright? We could take you to the hospital wing before we go to breakfast."

"No James, it is ok. I am just a little tired; I was up until late … finishing my homework." James didn't look convinced but he walked away anyways. Remus started to get nervous. What if they knew about him?

On the way down to breakfast James asked Sirius, "Have you noticed that Remus has been really pale lately?"

"Yeah but if he doesn't want to tell us what is wrong then we can't do anything to help him. Look just in time for the mail." The four of them walked in and sat down. Jen started to walk by but Sirius called out, "Jen sit with us. There is no reason for you to sit by yourself."

James look was priceless. He was amazed that Sirius had changed his attitude so quickly. Jen sat down right next to Peter, while James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter started putting food in their plates. James was the first to realize that Jen wasn't eating. "Jen why aren't you getting any food, if you don't get it now there will be none left."

"I am not hungry," Jen replied quietly, "I think I will have only water for now."

"You weren't hungry yesterday and now you aren't hungry. Are you sick? We could take both you and Remus to the hospital wing."

"NO," Remus and Jen said in unison. "Don't worry I am fine. I just never eat breakfast," Jen continued. "I don't even normally come down to breakfast but Peter asked me to this morning." Peter blushed at this comment.

"Jen, why are you sitting with these losers? You would be welcome with open arms at the Slytherin table." Malfoy had walked over sometime during their conversation.

"Thanks Lucius, but I will have to make some friends in my own house and if you look at the rest of the people these are the best, with some wizarding background." Jen look at Sirius hoping that he wasn't mad at the comment, but she realized the Sirius was looked at Malfoy and not her.

"Well you are right about that, out of all the people in your house these are the best. When you need real friends you know where to find them," he said as he walked away.

"Well thanks but I happen to be sitting with them now," Jen said under breath, but all four of the guys heard that and they started laughing.

"Jen, why did you lie to Malfoy?" James asked with his eyes sparkling.

"What do you mean? I didn't lie, he just inferred that everyone had wizarding background, and I wasn't about to tell him differently," Jen said with eyes sparkling.

James looked over to Peter and said, "You should be glad Malfoy inferred what he did with Jen's comment because now people won't think you are muggleborn. It will help in the long run. Sirius you haven't said anything in a while, what are you thinking about?"

Sirius turned to Jen. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer right? Well I am glad that it is you and not me. I don't think I would have enough patients to deal with pretending to be Malfoy's friend." That made Jen smile, but Sirius realized it was not the smile he has seen so many times before, but it was a real smile. That is when Sirius understood that Jen was different then everyone else. He also thought about the smile that has seen before. It looked so real when he first saw it but now that he has seen this smile he couldn't believe that had thought the other was a smile at all. Her true smile made her look at least twice as beautiful then she had looked before. Sirius was taken out of his thought by something hitting the back of his head.

Sirius looked around and realized that everyone was standing up and getting ready for their classes. Sirius quickly got up and came up to walk by James.

"Hey James, thanks for the hit I need that. What did I miss while I was off?" James was trying to hide his laughter but was doing a miserable job.

"Well we first explained to Peter why it is 'bad' to be muggleborn and then we realized that you were off by yourself, we talked about you."

"Oh that is great," Sirius said but he seemed to be a little distracted again.

"Sirius, hello, what are you thinking about that has you so distracted that you aren't even being conceited? Did you hear me when I said we were talking about you?"

"Yeah I heard that part James. I noticed Jen's smile during breakfast today which was what I was thinking about before, but now I have noticed no one sees her. She can go almost anywhere with out being seen." Sirius's eyes sparkled dangerously. "She could help us with setting up pranks, and if Remus was telling the truth about the train trip she could help us think of ideas."

James didn't have a chance to respond because they has just walked into the classroom and sat down when the bell rang.

Professor Flitwick stood up in the middle of the class though most people in the back couldn't see him. He was so short he couldn't even see over his own desk. "Today I will introduce you to charms and you will hopefully learn your first charm, levitation. "They took notes the first half of the lesson and then got out the wands to practice the spell, Wingardium Leviosa. Lily was the first person to get the feather to float for a few seconds. She slowly put it down. Professor Flitwick was so please he had her do it for the whole class.

Sirius watched as Jen just sat there until the bell rang. He noticed she didn't even try the spell once. As they were walking out Sirius looked over at Jen. "Why didn't you even try the spell at all? You just sat there."

"I can already do that spell, but Lily was happy about being the first and only one to get it. I couldn't ruin her fun. Wingardium Leviosa." The books that Peter had been carrying were now floating in front of the group.

"Very good, whoever did that. The heavier the object the harder it is, but whoever did that seems to be able to do the spell just fine." The five turned around to see Professor Flitwick standing behind them. "Now hurry up, lunch is about to start.

"Wow I don't think I could do a feather, let alone a few books." Peter's face fell just thinking about how he couldn't do anything the other first years could do.

"Peter, it just takes practice. Magic is hard to control, but once you have it everything gets easier." Jen always found a way to cheer Peter up.

They all sat down to lunch. Jen grabbed a fourth of a sandwich and put it on her plate. Everyone just turned to stare at her.

"Why are you only putting a fourth of a sandwich on your plate?" James finally said because it didn't seem that anyone else was going to say something.

"I am not very hungry, but I know that if I don't eat anything then I would get yelled at." Jen looked around and met every one's eyes. Every one of the guys quickly put their head down except Remus.

"No it isn't just today, you never eat breakfast. You only eat a fourth a sandwich for lunch and a half for dinner." Remus seemed to be afraid of what Jen would say to him, though he had never heard her get mad before.

Jen just smiled. "Wow, Remus, I give you props. I knew you could see me when no one else cared too, but I never thought you would pay that much attention." Remus looked relieved; she wasn't going to get mad at him. "Lets just say that before I came here I wasn't even given the luxury of being able to eat a whole lot of food and my body is used to it, so if I were to eat much more I would probably be sick."

"I am sorry I didn't know that your 'aunt and uncle' were poor. I shouldn't have said anything at all. It is none of my business any ways." Remus seemed to be surprised that Jen had even told them that.

"No my family wasn't poor it was just that…no, please don't ask. I do alright at home. I don't want you guys to worry about me."

"Sometime you will have to tell us," James said somberly, "We only want to help you and we can't if you don't explain what happened before Hogwarts."

"Tonight, I will tell you tonight if you really want to know, just not now. Also if I tell you, you have to promise that you will listen to the whole story and not tell anyone else. You also have to promise not to do anything stupid after I tell you."

"We promise. We also want to know how no one seems to be able to see you, but we can use it to our advantage. We would like you to help us do some pranks and since we already know about the train ride, we also know that you know more spells that we do. Would you be willing to help us?"

"Yeah, I would love to help. We can brainstorm ideas tonight because then I can just get a book and learn spells specifically for the idea."

Everyone was reluctant to leave lunch. It wasn't until Remus got up that everyone else decided it was time to get to class. "Defense Against the Dart Arts is next." Sirius looked like he couldn't wait for the lesson to begin.

A crash rang through the room. Everyone turned around quickly just in time to see a huge animal charge at them. It looked like a bear with huge fangs and a tail that looked like could have been dangerous then it's fang.

This animal was charging straight at Lily. Jen looked around; the teacher wasn't there so she said a quick couple of words and the animal stopped immediately. Jen quickly walked over to it and put a hand on its head.

At that all the girls screamed. The animal didn't even move. Jen took her hand off the animal and walked over to the table where she had placed her books. The animal followed her and laid down at her feet.

Peter leaned over. "What kind of animal is that?"

"It is called a calamadre. It is found most often in a forest or wooded area. It will be very dangerous…"

"Unless you know the spell to calm them down and then it will follow you around like a puppy. Every good…" "Jen Stone" "Well very good Miss Stone, you are very informed about the calamadre and even more to my surprise is that you know the spell to calm them down. That is at least a third year level, but most third years would be too scared of the thing to say the spell right. I give 10 points to Gryffindor," said Professor Harken.

Professor Harken walked down to the front of the room. "Why don't we start the class now?"

"Wait Professor what about the calamadre? You aren't going to just leave it out are you? It could attack someone," one of the girls cried.

"The calamadre will not hurt anyone now. I wouldn't even be able to put it back in the cage; it will stay with Miss Stone, at least for a little while. Now enough on the subject, it is a little too advanced for you guys. Now we will begin class with an introduction…"

The rest of the class was just taking notes, but Professor Harken said that they would do something fun for the next class. Everyone walked out except Jen. She walked up to his desk. "I can't just bring the calamadre with me to my classes; it will scare everyone."

"Yea, I know but there isn't anything I can do about it. Well right now it looks like a dog so you don't have to worry too much. I will talk to Dumbledore about it at dinner. Will you need a note to your next class?"

"No, I have a free period. Well if you are going to be following me around for awhile I think you should have a name, how about Cammy?" Jen turned to look at the calamadre for impute which made Professor Harken laugh.

"Well Cammy why don't we go and try to find our other friends." Jen walked out and shut the door behind her.

Professor Harken didn't tell Jen that few people actually have the power to get the spell to work. He was a little nervous that a first year would have enough without even thinking about it when he had to use all his might just to get the thing to back off. He didn't even have enough power to get the calamadre to follow him around.

Jen found James and Sirius playing chess in the common room. "Where's Remus…and what is that, I have never seen anything like that before?"

"Remus is in the library doing homework. How do you not know wizards chess? Oh wait never mind I forgot that even if you are a pureblood you weren't raise as one. It is the same as muggle chess other than the pieces talk and move by themselves, and when you move to take a piece your piece breaks your opponent's piece."

"I see that you still have the calamadre with you," said Peter. He couldn't quite keep the quiver out of his voice.

"Yeah, I can't really do anything about it so I named it Cammy. I thought since he was going to be with me for awhile then he deserved to have a name. Professor Harken said that he couldn't do anything about it."

After watching Sirius beat James about twenty times, Jen decided that she wanted to try. First she went against James. It took her a few minutes to get the hang of it but as soon as she got it she had won against James. Next she played Sirius. That game took quite a bit longer. It looked as if Jen was going to lose; she didn't have nearly as many pieces as Sirius did.

I was Jen's turn; she seemed to be thinking of a good move. Jen glanced at the clock and said, "Dinner is about to start. Why don't we just say you won, Sirius?" Sirius's smug look told Jen his answer right away.

The great hall was where the five of them meet up. Professor McGonagall walked up to them near the end of dinner. "The head master would like to see you, Remus, Jen, and Cammy right after dinner." With the word 'Cammy' she looked down at the calamadre, lying on the floor.

"Well I am done are you, Remus?"

"You can't possible be done you only ate half of a sandwich. Oh now I remember that conversation this morning." Peter seemed to be a little slow but at least he got to the checkpoints sometime, Jen decided.

"Yeah, why don't we go now and when we get back to the common room you can tell us everything." They both got up and left the table; Cammy following close behind.

Dumbledore met them right outside the doors and walked them to his office. The office was what both Remus and Jen expected, lots of books and neat little gadgets.

"Well Jen I hope you know why you are here. Cammy, come here." With that Cammy started to growl. Jen put her hand on Cammy's head and he became instantly quite. "Well I guess I can't do anything to help with Cammy, but I would like to talk to you about how much you know about Defense against the Dark Arts. Can I see your book bag?

Jen handed it over. Professor Dumbledore took everything out until he got to the advanced counter course book. He raised it up and gave a look over to Jen, with his eyes sparkling. "Well I saw it in the book store in Diagon Alley and I couldn't pass it up so I bought it."

"Can you actually understand this book?" Jen shook her head yes. "Well then that's all I need to know. I am going to try to change your schedule so you can have Defense Against the Dark Arts with the third years. That would mean you would have Potions with the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs."

"What happens after my fifth year? I would have already taken my N.E.W.T.S."

"I thought of that too. We would take a private course together. You would learn from me in Defense Against the Dark Arts." Jen didn't seem to want to move classes. "Well we will have you switched next week at the latest. I will give you the other books that you will miss

from the second year." His voice said that the discussion was over. "If you would please go, I need to talk to Remus."

Jen walked out and after about five minutes Remus walked out. They said nothing to each other on the way back to the common room. James, Sirius, and Peter look up and waved them over when they saw them walk through the portrait hole.

"What was that about?" Peter asked. "Well Jen is moving to a new Defense Against the Dark Arts class and I am allowed to visit my mother tomorrow. My dad talked to Dumbledore and I will be going to see my mother once a month," Remus replied before Jen could say anything. "Who is black?" Remus asked gesturing to the chess board, "Because whoever it is, is in the position of checkmate."

Sirius looked stunned. He looked over the Jen who just shrugged her shoulders. "You knew I know you did. Why did you just suggest that we should go to dinner saying that I won when you could have won in that move?"

Jen didn't say anything. James said, "You don't seemed to happy about switching classes."

"Would you like to be moved to the third year class? If you want you can take my place." Jen's voice didn't sound mean but she knew that it was implied. James just looked at her and said, "No thank you. I happen to like the first year level of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

Sirius looked to James. "Well if James is done babbling like an idiot maybe we could hear more about Jen." Everyone seemed to be anxious to hear about Jen's story so everyone quieted down. Jen looked around from her spot of the floor.

"I need to know what you want to know first. There is a lot to tell and I need to know where to start." Everyone knew Jen didn't really want to explain.

"Well start with why you never eat anything and never sleep." Sirius was the first to say something. Everyone seemed to feel a little uncomfortable.

"Ok actually lets start with before Adam was born. When I moved in, my aunt and uncle decided that six years old was old enough to have chores, but really they meant that I was old enough to do all the cleaning. So every morning then and now I make breakfast for my uncle at six o'clock and breakfast for my aunt at seven. They both have to have a hot breakfast so I have to make both separately. Then I clean the kitchen, the floor and everything. Normally then I go outside to weed the garden, or mow the lawn. Well lets just say that I clean every room, everything inside. So I am normally going to bed at about two or three in the morning to get up at five to start all over again."

"Wait you clean everything in every room everyday. How could they be able to tell? You can't possibly tell if it had been clean the day before or two days before." Sirius looked appalled that she had to do all that/

"Well what would I do, I have to make it look as if I am cleaning; they check up on my every so often.

"You said lets start with before Adam was born. What changed when Adam was born," Remus always seemed to remember exactly what Jen said.

"When Adam was born everything got more…complicated. For, I would say a month my aunt and Uncle thought Adam was the cutest thing."

"Are you saying that after a month they dumped Adam on you?" James's look was one of disgust and sympathy.

"Yeah Adam became my responsibility along with my other chores. I forgot to tell you even though I cooked the food I was only allowed one sandwich a day. So while Adam drank from his bottle I got the whole sandwich. As soon as he started eating hard food my sandwich was split between us. He got everything until he was full and I got what was left over, if there was any at all."

"A growing boy eats a lot. Look at Sirius." Sirius hit James in the head for the comment on how much Sirius ate.

"Yeah I know but I only have one sandwich to give him a day. I couldn't give him anymore. I knew that I also needed food so once a week I took a fourth of a sandwich, just enough to keep me alive for the next week, but don't worry too much, I got as much water as I wanted. It was just last year when my aunt decided that we both needed a sandwich a day."

"So let my guess he ate what he wanted from both and you got what was left over. I have a question. Why did you want to live?" Peter had asked the question everyone wanted to know the answer too.

"Yeah but by this time Adam realized what I was doing and didn't eat nearly as much. As to why I wanted to live, Adam had started to look at me as if I was a mother to him. I was the only person who loved him. I couldn't just leave him; I was better then no one."

"What happened when you left this year?"

"Well I would guess they have a full time babysitting. I know that since I left his parents don't want him to like me, but I still write him letters everyday. Even though he is four I have taught him to read and he understands so much he amazes even me. I know that when I do go home that they won't care that I moved out, they will be able to go out more often because they don't have to pay me."

"So are you saying that you have gotten used to about 2 hours of sleep and only a sandwich, even if it is unhealthy for you? I can't watch you slowly drift to nothing," Remus said sternly. Jen knew that she would have to change something.

"Let's see, what if I slowly start to eat more because as of right now if I eat anymore I will be sick, but before I go back I will have to go back down to almost nothing because I would not last at my aunt's and uncle's house." Jen was trying to reason with Remus. She knew that everyone else would back down to her.

"I guess it is alright if that is the best I am going to get. I don't know how much I will like it when you start to eat nothing again. You aren't going to change your sleeping habits?" Remus wasn't fooled by Jen only stating one change.

"I will not change that because I would not be able to. If you think that I get up to an alarm clock then you are wrong. I have been getting about two hours since I can remember. My brain and body have learned to function on two hours of sleep and since my body wakes me up I can't really sleep any longer.

James and Sirius, if they had been standing up, they would have taken a step back. They realization what was going to happen. Both Remus and Jen would not back down which means butting heads.

"Wait Remus I remember you saying something about Jen being able to lift something that weighs twice as much as her. What is that about?" James seemed to be trying to chance the direction of the conversation.

"Remus is referring to the night Sirius came back late." Sirius look up, he had wanted to know more about what happened that night. "Both fell asleep and ended up in their beds the next morning."

"Yeah but what she is not telling is that she carried us up to bed after we fell asleep in the common room."

"How can you be so sure, Remus." It could have been a spell. She seemed to know a lot." Jen gave Peter a small smile, to show Peter that she appreciated him sticking up for her.

"She did carry us up and she just told us." Remus looked determined.

"Wait, Remus she didn't say anything." Peter didn't quite understand but from the look on James face Jen was sure he understood the logic behind the remark.

"Yeah but by her not saying anything, it means that she carried us up by herself. She just doesn't want the recognition for it."

"Fine, I did carry you guys up. I didn't want you to wake up in the common room. I also didn't want you to wake up floating down the hallway so I opted to carry you. I am sure that Sirius woke up be he just doesn't remember."

Everyone looked at Sirius; he just shook his head. He didn't want to say anything just yet. He had taken in so much he just wanted to think about it all. It was a half an hour before anyone said anything and that was only to say good night.

Finally everyone had left but Sirius. Sirius hadn't really loved since he heard everything that Jen had said. "Sirius, are you alright?" Jen looked concerned.

"Yeah, but that was a lot to take in at once. I understand now why you didn't really want to tell us. I have another question to ask you. Why is it that you always wear jeans and a long sleeve shirt even while you are sleeping? Yes I do know that you sleep in jeans and a long sleeve shirt.

"Well my aunt and uncle only bought me one pair of jeans and one long sleeve shirt a year. Right now I can fit into two pairs of jeans and three of my long sleeve shirts. They had to buy me at least some clothes or I would not be allowed to stay with them."

"You mean to tell me your guardians called buying you a pair of jeans and a long sleeve shirt a year buying you clothes."

"Well the long sleeve shirt 'keeps me warm in the winter' and since I only sleep for two hours why would I need pajamas. I don't get a choice; I gladly take what I am giving."

"I am glad for the parents I have because at least they gave me everything I needed and a lot of what I wanted. They might not love me but at least they didn't treat me like dirt. I am so sorry you have to live with that."

"No I have come to terms with it. No one wants me so I become invisible. Only people that see me, really want to. For awhile Remus was the only person. You should probably go to bed; it is like one o'clock but if you ever want to talk I am here."

Sirius got up and started up the stairs. He turned around and Jen looked up at him. "There is an empty bed in our dormitory if you ever want to sleep in a bed instead of on the couch." With that he left and Jen was left with only her own thoughts.

Jen went up to the boy's dormitory at about two o'clock and curled up on the extra bed. Nothing ever felt so nice. Yeah she had a bed in the girl's dorm but it was nothing like being surrounded by friends or at least Jen hoped they were friends.

As Jen walked in she hadn't realized that Sirius was still awake. After she had fallen asleep he go up and pulled the blankets out from under her and tucked her in. Sirius walked back to his bed and fell into a deep sleep.