Summery: Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban when Harry was five years old. They lived hidden from the wizarding world. Now Harry is fifteen.

On the Run

Chapter Five

New Life

They had finally arrived at their new home a month ago. There new home was a two bed apartment, again. This time, though they were in Texas. Near the beach. There was a small local school nearby that Harry had been enrolled in. He enjoyed the school. He had refrained from getting close to any of the other kids yet. Sirius had been told, by teachers, of a few student's who had been trying to befriend Harry. Sirius hoped he did make friends soon.

Harry spent a lot of time at the beach. The beach was in walking distance of their home. A pecking sound caught his attention and he put his coffee cup down. He'd gotten addicted to coffee over the years. Opening the window, an owl flew in. The owl landed on the counter top and held its leg out for the parcel to be untied. Sirius did so and paid the owl. The owl was from the American Magical newspaper. Sirius always got the paper delivered so that he could keep updated on the events in the Wizarding world.

Opening the paper he noticed there wasn't much news. A woman had been arrested the previous day for trying to kill the British Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge. Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans Gets a New Flavor: Sea Water.

Obviously not much was going on in the Wizarding world.

"Hey. Is that the paper?" Harry asked noticing what Sirius was looking at.

"Yes." Sirius said handing it to Harry. "Someone tried to kill Fudge."

Harry was aware of many of the happenings in the Wizarding world because Sirius told him a lot of it. He kept most of the things about Death Eater's and Lord Voldemort away from Harry, though. He preferred his godson not to worry about any of that.

"Yikes!" Harry exclaimed looking at the paper. "Honestly, the way he run's things, though."

Sirius nodded. "True. It's surprising no one's killed him yet for what he's done."

"Eww." Harry said suddenly.

"What?" Sirius asked wondering what Harry was seeing in the paper.

"Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans now has Sea Water as a flavor." Harry said pulling a disgusted face.

"Doesn't sound too appealing, does it?"

Harry shook his head. "No."

"How was school today?" Sirius asked changing topics.

"It was okay." Harry said sighing, putting the paper down. "I hate the way the classes are, though. We have four classes a day. Each is almost two hours long!"

Harry had been at a few schools. He preferred the seven classes a day, over the four.

"How much homework do you have?" Sirius asked eyeing his godson's book bag.

"Not much." I finished most of it already.

"Where?" Sirius asked stunned. "You only just got back from school!"

"In class." Harry said shrugging. "Seems the teachers are also bored with the classes."

Sirius smiled.

"Can I finish my homework and go down to the beach?" Harry asked suddenly.

"Sure."

Sirius watched as Harry left the room.

End of Chapter Five

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter. I wanted to show how things are coming along in their lives. Please read and review! Thank you for reading!