Sorry, if their ages aren't far enough apart. Remus is around 13 and Nymphadora is 5. It is a alternate universe…so you were warned! AH, yes I am going to mess around with the characters! Deal with it! (Please) As always please review, you are the wind underneath my wings…
Chapter 6 Morning call
Nymphadora woke up early with a feeling she never thought she would have. 'Where's Lupin? I want him to teach me how to read, the difficult words.' Because with every other guardian Nymphadora either pretended to be in bed till noon or hide. As soon as she had changed out of her pajamas, she crept into the hallway, knowing exactly which room was Lupin's. Every tutor before had been in the room two doors down to the right. She stared at the door for a moment before opening it. Maybe if she had been older she would have cared about barging into a boys room but little kids don't think of those things.
Nymphadora's hunch had been correct. A couple of trunks and hand bags littered the room and a sleeping figure was in the bed. Being in a playful mood, Nymphadora decided it would be fun to wake up her new friend. Creeping like a cat, she made her way to the front of the foot bed. She could tell by the snore emitting from the lump that he was fast asleep. Waiting for a moment, Nymphadora climbed onto the bed and stood up and then fell with a giggle, right on top of Lupin. With a groggy yell, Lupin bolted up in bed. Nymphadora threw her arms around his neck as he sat up.
"What the bloody hell!"
Looking down he saw the reason for his disturbance. Lupin just gave her an annoyed smile and asked her what in the world she thought she was going waking him up at the crack of dawn. Giving Lupin a ridicules large smile, Nymphadora explained that she wanted him to start teaching her how to read and that she didn't want to waste one minute. Nymphadora pulled her arms from around his neck and started to pull at his arms to get him out of bed. Seeing that he had no choice but to get out of bed Lupin sighed and started to move his blankets away to get up.
"Wait a minute!"
"What Nymphadora? I'm getting up isn't that what you wanted?" Lupin gave her a look that he hoped wasn't to irritated. Getting a serious and worried look on her face Nymphadora started push him back into bed. Lupin just gave her a 'I'm completely lost look' as she threw the blanket back over him. Giving him a knowing grin Nymphadora jumped off the bed and walked over to the book shelf. She picked up a small novel and walked back over to the bed and crawled under the covers to sit next to Lupin.
"Your right Lupin, it is early. Plus I forgot you just got here. So since I'm the reason your awake I'm going to read you back to sleep, like you did for me last night." Nymphadora finished and opened up the book she had grabbed and began to thumb through the pages.
"But Nymphadora, didn't you say that you want me to teach you how to read? I hate to say it but how do you expect to read to me?" Lupin tried to put it as nicely as he could.
Nymphadora just laughed and patted his arm. "I can read, just not the big words. I mean you can't expect me to not to have learned anything." with that she just rolled her eyes and cleared her throat. Lupin remained silent waiting for her to start. After a few more moments of silence Lupin looked up to see a confused look on Nymphadora's face.
"What's the matter?"
"Umm, What's that word Lupin?" Nymphadora asked with a small blush. Lupin got up and sat next to her. Looking down at the word she was pointing at Lupin read it, with a small groan, he read the word aloud, 'the.'"
Sorry, was all Nymphadora said before she got the same pained expression on her face.
"What is it now, Nymphadora?"
"I kind of don't know the next word either…" Nymphadora's sentence just softly faded away. She looked up and gave him a pleading look. Lupin just looked at the book and asked Nymphadora how many words she could read.
"Well, I know how to read: My name, dog, cat, bird, tree and…some other words. Its a lot more then it sounds! I mean I know the whole alphabet! Listen, A, B, C,…"
"I believe you, Nymphadora." Remus said, in the middle of her reciting the alphabet. "I am very proud that you know so many words. But you are going to need to know a whole lot more before you can read books like this."
"Oh."
"Don't worry, I'll teach you very soon. But for now can we go back to sleep?" Lupin didn't even finish his sentence before he was already laying back down again. Nymphadora didn't move, but she did ask, "Do I have to go back to my room?"
Nymphadora heard Lupin give a yawn and then said no. Putting the book down next to her in bed, she crawled back under the covers like Lupin had done. Lying down, Nymphadora realized how tired she still was and fell asleep only moments after hearing Lupin's soft snoring.
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Umm, kind of weird, but none of my stories are going the way I planned. Maybe my muse is trying to mess with me…REVIEW