"Ouch! Ash, stop moving!" Adam said when I climbed into his bed. I used to climb into his bed all the time when we were little kids. But I rarely climbed into his bed anymore until now. There was thunder storm going on outside and I was scared because my dad wasn't home. I always was a Daddy's girl.

"Addy!" I said getting closer to him as a really loud thunder sounded.

"You have got to be kidding me? Ash, we haven't been home for more than a few hours and you are already in my bed…and stop calling me Addy, Ashy!" Adam said.

"I'm only in here because it's scary out there. Why did they make us move into separate rooms anyway? Its scary being without you here." I said turning on the light and sitting up in his bed. He took the cue and sat up too rubbing his sleepy eyes.

"You just have to be brave, you are a Gryffindor after all." He said pushing that into my face. I rolled my eyes and closed them when I heard the thunder again. Adam sighed and put a silencing spell on the room. Why didn't I think of that? That way I wouldn't have been scared.

"Something else is bothering you." Adam said reading my feelings. He was right something else was bothering me. I was mad at myself for saying those words to Sirius.

"Yeah, before we left I accidentally said I love you to Sirius." I admitted. Adam's eyes got big before he tried to stifle a laugh. I swatted his arm to shut him up.

"I can't believe you said that. What did HE say?" Adam asked.

"Nothing, I corrected myself before he could say something." I said telling him what I had said to clear things up between Sirius and I.

"Do you think he bought it?" Adam asked. I shrugged hoping with all my heart that he did buy it. The last thing I needed was him breaking up with me because I frightened him off.

"Don't worry things cant get too bad." Adam said. I rolled my eyes and pulled his covers up to my neck.

"Ash, go to your bed." He whined. I shook my head and I put my back to him. I was glad that his bed was a double. It was big enough for the two of us to sleep in. His room was just like you would expect a young mans room to look like. He had a black cover for his bed and Quidditch posters all over his walls. He had a dresser and a closet full of clothes. School robes, muggle clothes and regular robes. My room was completely different, I didn't have any dark colors in my room. My comforter was white and orange and my walls were covered with a mirage of pictures of my family, my friends and Sirius and I in a couple of the pictures. I had a bunch of clothes all around, my favorites were muggle clothes, especially in the summer because I hated the heavy robes that the witches always wore. I liked the shorts and tank tops and jeans.

"You have your own bed." I heard Adam mutter before I fell to sleep. I started to dream about Sirius and I walking hand in hand along the beach. Adam shifted in the bed and I woke up. The sun was shining and I regretted opening my eyes immediately. I groaned and got up knowing that it would be difficult for me to fall back asleep. I never could fall back asleep once I opened my eyes to the sunshine.

"Good Morning, oh twin of mine!" I said yawning. He grunted and turned his back to me. I got up and went into the kitchen knowing that my mother would be nowhere in sight. I opened the fridge to see if she remembered to actually buy some food for our arrival.

"There won't be anything in there." I heard Adam say. I turned and closed the door and I saw him waving an envelope that had some money sticking out. I sighed, of course because it would be too much hassle to actually go grocery shopping so your kids could eat.

"Oh god, of course. So do you want to go shopping or shall I? How about we do it together?" I said walking out of the kitchen to my room. I didn't really want to go alone. I pulled on a pair of faded jeans and a tank top and pulled my hair up into a ponytail. Adam was already ready waiting for me outside my bathroom. We shared a bathroom that was in between both of our rooms.

"Ready?" He asked and we started to walk to the nearest store. It was sunny out and I could smell the freshly watered grass and I could see kids playing on the streets while their parents were gardening or looking out the kitchen window.

"What do you feel like eating?" I asked him imagining myself eating some eggs and bacon with a side of toast and orange juice.

"Eggs, bacon and toast. I could eat a cow i'm so hungry." Adam said and they entered the store. Immediately I started to throw things into the basket but I didn't notice that Adam was taking things out of the basket.

"You have a huge appetite." Adam said.

"And a perfect figure!" I added posing for him in the middle of the isle. He laughed and I threw a box of kid cereal into the basket.

"She shoots! She scores!" I said clapping. Adam laughed at me and turned his back to decide on some bread. I had learned all about muggle sports in both England and America. I had a wonderful Pen pal in America who kept me up with everything over there. I loved my pen pal; we have been exchanging letters for the last six years. His name was Jonathan and he lived in California. He was a wizard and he has always wanted to come England. I told him he was always welcome to stay at my house if he ever came during the summer and he extended the same offer if I was ever near him.

"You talk way too much to that pen pal of yours." Adam said and we turned down a different isle. We finally finished shopping and we realized that we had to carry all this home with us because we didn't have alternate transportation.

"We could apparate." I whispered to him. He shook his head no and I sighed picking up at least 4 bags, each one of them heavy. We started to walk home, it was only three blocks but we had to walk carrying heavy bags nonetheless. Half way home Sirius caught up with us.

"Hey what are you doing here?" I asked him. I was so excited to see him. He was wearing muggle shorts and a t-shirt that made me just want to jump him. He gave me one of his million dollar grins and my heart melted.

"I came to find you. I thought maybe we could hang out. James and his parents live down there and I saw you guys… here let me help you." He said taking all my bags. I smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Its my knight in shining armor." I joked and he laughed. I caught Adam rolling his eyes and I gave him a look to shut him up before he started. I watched him walk along beside me. Adam was on my other side and we didn't say a word. I was trying not to stare at him but I loved the way he looked. How could I be so lucky to be with such an awesome guy like Sirius Black? Sure he was the ladies man in the school and considered the playboy of the school.

"Want to come in?" I asked him once we reached my house. He looked at the groceries and nodded. He was obviously hungry and we had plenty of food to go around. I helped Adam unload the groceries and then Adam started to make some eggs and bacon.

"I'm guessing that you're hungry?" I asked Sirius and he nodded sniffing the air with his nose.

"Don't worry guys, I've got it. I'll call you when it's ready." Adam said and I pulled Sirius toward my bedroom.

"Ooo, the bedroom already huh?" Sirius said in a low sexy voice that made me giggle. I pulled him closer to my bed and we sat down on the messy bed that I had forgotten to make before I left the house.

"Sorry that it's messy." I said trying to get the covers to completely cover the sheets under it.

"No worries. We would end up getting it messy anyway." He said smiling. I laughed at him and got up so he didn't get the wrong idea. I would have loved to do more with him but I was scared to do anything more with him. I didn't want to be one of those girls who did whatever with him and then got dumped in a short while. I wanted to have a long-term relationship with him.

"So you're living at the Potters?" I asked him. He nodded and looked everywhere but in my eyes.

"Yeah I have been living there for the last two summers." He said. I knew that he had hated his family but I didn't think it was so bad that he didn't live with them. I made my heart reach out for him and his broken heart. I bet that this guy had never experienced unconditional love in his life.

"What your family?" I asked knowing that I was treading on soft turf. He didn't answer for a while and I wasn't going to drop it because I wanted to know more about him and his past.

"I, uh… we don't…. we just, we don't get along." He said as if that had cleared up everything. I nodded even though I wanted to know more about him. I was about to ask another question when he pulled me into his arms and started to kiss me lightly on the lips and then he deepened the kiss. I took in his individual smell and at that moment I wanted nothing more than to smell that for the rest of my life. When I thought that I felt sick to my stomach because I was falling long and hard for this guy and I barely knew anything about him. Sure I knew a little but it wasn't enough for me to fall in love with him. Maybe I was just falling into lust. But I knew that it wasn't lust because every time I thought about him I would get a huge smile on my face.

"Come and eat!" Adam called out from the hallway. I pulled away from Sirius and smiled at him.

"Race you." I said and we took off both heading for the kitchen. I was almost the winner until Sirius pulled me back into him and up over his head. He was carrying me to the kitchen.

"Ahhh! Put me down!" I squealed and when he did he was declared the winner.

"Only because you cheated. You cheater." I said sticking my tongue out at him and taking a bite of the eggs that Adam had made.

"You're just mad you lost." Sirius said with a mouthful of eggs himself.

"No i'm mad because you cheated." I said and that was how breakfast went. Him denying everything and I calling him a cheater. After breakfast Adam agreed to do the dishes while Sirius and I went into my room to hang out and make out. That's what Sirius called it once we got in there. I just playfully swatted him and we wrestled on the ground. I eventually lost and he had me pinned under him. He won a few kisses from me and then Adam said it was time for Sirius to go because our mom might come home and throw a fit. Just as he said that she did walk into the house and saw Sirius leaving.

"Hello." She said looking from Sirius to me.

"Good evening Mrs. Andretta." He said. She smiled and looked at me and then went to her room. She never really talked to Adam and me unless she was yelling at us to do chores and telling us to get out of her face because she couldn't deal with us and work all at once. Most of the time we stayed out of her way and with her work taking her all over England we were grateful that she wasn't around a lot. I said goodnight to Sirius and made him promise to come by tomorrow with James this time and we would all hang out. He kissed me good night and I joined Adam in his room. He had a bag of grapes on his bed and he was reading a book. I jumped on his bed and grabbed a few grapes.

"Catch." I said laughing throwing a grape into his mouth. We used to entertain ourselves like this all the time when we had nothing better to do. He caught it in his mouth and we both sat cross-legged on his bed throwing grapes at each other. We were making a lot of noise laughing at each other and having a good time forgetting that our mom was in the other room and probably fuming about now. The door banged open and she walked in looking furious.

"Would you PLEASE keep it down! I am trying to work on some paper work and I cant concentrate with all this noise. Where is your goddamn father?" She asked finally realizing that he was nowhere in the house.

"He had some work to do with Dumbledore, about next year." I said covering for him because I knew that she would explode if she thought he wasn't doing anything work related. She was one of those insecure women who had to constantly keep track of my dad. She would freak out if she knew that he was going somewhere without us or her and it had nothing to do with work. I always wondered why such an amazing guy like my dad would be with her when she wasn't so amazing. Sure she was ok when we were little but now she was unbearable. I hated being around her and I hated that she knew it.

"Sorry, we wont make any more noise." Adam said looking down at his bed. I suddenly got mad at him for not sticking up to her but that subsided when I realized that I wouldn't confront her either. She slammed the door shut and I closed my eyes trying to think how long it will be until dad came home. He would stick up for us no matter what.

"When did he say he would be home again?" I asked Adam hoping that I had forgotten and he would actually show up tomorrow morning with gifts and promises never to leave us this summer again.

"Sometime next week. Who knows when it will be." Adam said sulking. I threw another grape at him and he caught it. Then we both burst out laughing but then shut up real fast for fear of waking up the monster again.

"That's what she is… a monster." I said after we had stopped holding in our laugh. Adam nodded.

"Was she always like this?" Adam asked and I knew he was trying to find a memory of her without her being so horrible.

"She was probably nice before we were born. I think she just hates us. Do you ever think that maybe dad forced her into having us and then keeping us?" I asked Adam, I had always wondered why she had even had us if she didn't want us because it had always seemed as if she didn't want us.

"Maybe he used his charm to persuade her to keep us but they had us out of love." Adam said.

"Love? Do you really think they love each other? I mean they sleep separately most of the time." I said. Adam nodded sadly and I slipped under the cover of his bed getting ready to sleep before he pushed me to the ground.

"Ouch!" I yelled when I hit the floor.

"Sleep in your own bed." He said taking up the entire bed by stretching his legs and arms. I got up and gave him the evil before leaving his room. My room was much better anyway because on my bed you could still smell Sirius' scent. It was faint but I could still smell it and it lulled me to sleep just thinking about him and his wonderful yet pained eyes.