Chapter 3- The Day After and a Decision
As Sirius began to wake he could feel someone watching him. Maxine lay in the other bed watching him, the sheet around her waist down but didn't cover her feet.
"Good Morning." Sirius tells her.
"Afternoon." She tells him. "You snore."
"Sorry." He tells her, "I didn't wake you up did I?"
Maxine only laughed softly, "No." she answers. "I tend to snore when I'm really tire too." She tells him. "What do you want for breakfast?"
"I don't care." He tells her.
Maxine was looking at a slip from the drawer next to her bed. She the picked up the quill from the stand and began to circle things. The paper then folded itself into an airplane and flew out under the door.
A short while later the food had been brought up by a house elf. Sirius helped her with the second tray that was his. Each plate consisted of two eggs, two toasts, three sausages, and a pancake.
"That was so good." Sirius says after burping.
Maxine softly chuckled at him, "You're welcome as long as you don't say thank you."
"Thanks." Sirius says smiling.
She said as long as you don't say thank you, thanks isn't thank you it's a variant of it.
She squinted her eyes at him and pointed to him like a 'oh you think your so smart.'
After breakfast they changed and packed up to leave. Sirius walked along with her in his dog form out the door and into the street. After getting out of the town into the less crowed area Sisius changed back into his human form.
"Where are you from?" Sirius asks her.
"Germany." She tells him.
"Oh, so what brought you to England?" He asks her.
"I had already gone through Germany's forests." She tells him, "Then it was France, Russia, China, India, or here. I have been to America and Japan already." She tells him.
"Where do you plan on going after England?"
"I don't know. I don't usually think that far ahead." She tells him, "Do you plan of staying with me?"
Sirius looks at her thinking, then answers: "Do you want me to?"
"I wouldn't mind." She tells him.
"Then I'll stay with you." He tells her.
As they walked they talked about their childhood, and he had asked her about Japan and America so she told him about that. Around three they stopped in a clearing to have lunch. Maxine had picked up some things to make sandwiches before they had left.
"How do you get everything in that bag?" Sirius asks her.
"It's a spell my mother taught me. Its equivalent to the space of four of these but weighs the same amount all the time or two pounds." She tells him.
"Nifty." He says immediately mentally smacking himself for sounding like an idiot.
"Nifty? I thought I was the only one that used that word." She says.
Sirius felt a wave of relief flow over him and laughed.
That night they pitched camp near a spring. She did a spell that turned the book bag into another blanket.
Midway through the night they had rolled up under the blankets next to each other.
When they woke in the morning it was the same 'good morning' they had shared back at the inn, only it was actually the morning and not noon. Maxine was the first to get up, she went down the small hill to the spring and washed her face and her arms. Sirius sighed to himself as he shakes the leaves and grass and any bugs from the blankets. Then rolled the wool one up and stuffed it in the bag and did a simple return spell on the other turning it back into the black book bag that held their belongings. After she came up he went down to the spring washed up and changed as she changed at the little camp. As he returned she was putting her other boot on and began to tie it.
He had used her wand to make a fire as she pulled out the remains of their lunch from the previous day. There was still a little over a half loaf, and about six slices of bologna. The food was kept in a tiny cooler along with a canteen that was filled with water.
"I'm gonna go refill this." Maxine tells him, shaking the nearly empty canteen.
"Okay." He tells her letting her know he herd her.
Sirius watched her disappear quickly back down to the spring.