Chapter 2

The Talk, The Boy

"Leeya, next week you will be going to Hogwarts."

"Why?"

"Leeya I haven't finished yet." Sighed my dad looking every inch the 50 years old of a man he was. "You will be going to Hogwarts with Regulus and his brother. You'll be sitting on Hogwarts express. Okay sentence done, now you may speak."

What do you think I am? Some sort of muggle robot?

"I'm not going with Regulus and his brother. Fullstop."I said and got up from the chair.

"You are not leaving are you?" said my father his voice silky and smooth yet dangerous.

I've probably haven't told you about this. I might as well now. Maybe it's a Webb family thing that I've never inherited. But there's something about my father that sort of controls you, makes fear in your heart so much so you rather do whatever he asks you to then to face the consequences.

"Well If you want to leave-" begin my dad.

"I'm not leaving."I said, sitting down again. What could I do?

"Good. Well pack your bags. Tomorrow we're leaving for Hogwarts. You may go now."

Said my dad waving a hand at me. His attention now absorbed by the Daily Prophet.

Upstairs in my room. I was doing anything but packing. I was looking out the window. Reading my books. Thinking was what to put in my letter to my "best friend" .Looking out of the window. Finally resorted to get packing over and done with. Took one last look out of the window. Was going to sigh when-

A black head appeared at the window then a face then before I could say a word or even register the intruder properly he climbed into my room.

"Wh-who are you?"I said finally after staring stupidly at him for a moment.

"Your worst nightmare." He said his black eyes twinkling. " Kidding. I believe you're my new neighbour. Nice to meet you." He said holding out his hand.

I kept my hands to myself. Shake his hand? Yeah right.

"No shaking hands? Fine then." He raised his wand at pointed it straight at me. "Keep quiet and you have no reason to scream." Looking at my surprised face.

"Oh yeah. No reason to scream. I'm unarmed and have a wand pointed at me which could blast my brains off. Oh no. I'm have absolutely no reason to scream." I said dripping with sarcarsm.

"Look I need to hide here for a while okay? My mum's looking for me. Just keep quiet about me and I'll won't blast your brains off." He said while sitting down on my bed.

"Fine." I said and walked to the windows.

"What are you doing?" he said getting up.

"Making sure no one else comes in. Besides it's hot in here I'm switching on the air-con"

I said while closing the windows.

I went on packing.

He looked at her. She had middle-length slightly wavy hair, looked about 15 or 16 but then again she could be 14. There was something about her. Something that he couldn't quite place. Something. Maybe he was imagining it but-

"What are you staring at?" an irritated voice interrupted his thoughts. He snapped out of his thoughts only to see the object of his thoughts glaring at him.

"You have quite a nice room." he replied.

"You mean big. I have a big and boring room." Leeya said looking back at her half packed bag.

" Since I'm going to be in your room for a while. I might as well introduce myself. I'm Sirius-"

"Black." Said Leeya without lifting her eyes from her bag.

"Ah…I'm been mentioned during the nice neighbourly dinner have I?"

Leeya looked up from the bag and gave him a look and said " What do you think?"

" I see. Did she tell you how horrible I was?"

"Nope. Just didn't seem to like you much."

"Expected. Did Regulus go to the dinner? He did didn't he?"

"Yes.

"Did he stare at you? He likes doing that you know? Scares most girls out of their wits."

Leeya poked her head out of the bag yet again.

"Look, what about me asking you a question? When are you going to leave?"

I should have known. I should have just start screaming and say that there was this crazy boy in my room. I should have known that sooner or later we had to talk about something. And guess what we had to talk about?

Look, listen I don't know how it happened okay? Maybe he looked like the type of person who really, really cares. Or maybe it was because it was almost midnight and my brain wasn't working properly. Okay. I'll stop blabbing and go straight to the point. It's simple really. We ended up talking about me.

So, what's so wrong with that? You might ask. Well if spilling your innermost feelings on the world and life in general to some stranger whom you barely know and might just pop downstairs and tell your dad that you called him an annoying bat is normal. Then maybe there's nothing wrong.

Of course, I didn't mean to make the whole conversation about me. I'm not that self-centered or anything. It was just that everytime I tried to ask about him and his life. He'll just clam up and glare at me. Besides, it was probably one of the rare times anyone bothered to listen to me ramble away. It was probably past three o' clock in the morning before we finally stopped. By that time I was yawning my head off while Sirius disappeared out of my window. Actually that's what I think he did, since I was already asleep before we said goodbye. That is, If we did said goodbye……

I felt something shake me lightly and the first thing I saw was Winnie leaning so close to me.

"Winnie! Get off me."

"Sorry Miss. I was only trying to wake you up."

"What time is it Winnie?"

"Half past seven, miss." Said Winnie rushing to make my bed as soon as I got off it to go and brush my teeth.

For some reason I was in a good mood. I kept humming to myself and almost started to sing if Winnie wasn't in the room. I was brushing my hair. Thinking that for once it looked great. After washing up, I saw that Winnie had gone downstairs, I grabbed a muggle comic and started reading away. I wasn't hungry yet. So why go down and eat breakfast? Especially when the great annoying bat, might be downstairs eating his breakfast. Nope. I'm not hungry yet.

So there I was enjoying my morning rereading the comic. Then I got up to change. Mind you, I was still humming around. Don't know why I was in such a good mood. I was getting hungry and I could smell the pancakes from up here. Alright I'll go down. I thought. He's probably gone to work already. I thought. No one's going to disturb me getting my breakfast excluding the house elves that is. I thought. Well I thought wrong. I half-thought wrong. Or whatever. Because as soon as I opened the door, I saw this stupid grinning face and everything good about my day flew out of my window on a firebolt. It was him again.

Sirius Black.