The next two weeks were amazing! Remmy finally gave us up to Sirius when he had his house cleaned. I realized that Sirius's house was really nice when it was clean, he even had a rec room. I'd play him in pool every night and every night, I'd loose. Lane and Liam were thoroughly enjoying themselves. Each morning we would drop them off at James and Lily's house where they would play with Harry until they dropped on the floor exhausted. Sometimes I would stay with them and explore the woods, but always in shouting range of course, or Sirius would take me sightseeing in London.
As July 29 grew closer everybody started to ask me what I like or what I always wanted. I tried to answer them as well as I could, they have done so much for my family I really didn't want to take advantage of them.
"Wake up, love," Sirius shook me gently. I rubbed the gunk out of my eyes and sat up in the king sized bed.
"Hm?" I yawned.
"Happy birthday, Leigh."
"Hawppy birfday!" Liam and Lane jumped out of Sirius's arms onto my chest. I grinned and hugged them. Sirius bent down and kissed me on the forehead and then fell on my shins.
"That hurt?" he grinned at me.
"Just a little," I made a face.
"We got a present, Leigh!" Lane announced and gave me a sloppy kiss.
"Yeah! Pwesent, Leigh!" Liam repeated. I gave Sirius a surprised look and he nodded.
"One from me and one from the twins," he sat up.
"Oh, you didn't--" I started to object.
"Yes, we did." Sirius said defiantly but then softened his look, "You wanna see 'em now?"
"No--yeah sure!" My curiosity got the better of me again. Sirius smiled widely and then he pulled out two badly wrapped presents from a pocket in his jacket. I shifted my hands and opened the first one.
It was a homemade birthday card made by my brothers on the front it read, 'Happy Birthday Leigh' in sloppy letters that I guessed where Sirius's handwriting. Glitter was sprinkled all over the small piece of paper and a load of confetti fell out when I opened it. Inside there was a picture of what I thought was Lane, Liam, and I. My eyes started to water as I looked at the card and I gave my brothers a huge hug and kiss.
"Okay! Now mine!" Sirius said eagerly. I smiled at him and ripped the paper off.
"A box, I've always wanted a box," I joked as a tiny red velvet colored box was reveled.
"Open it!"
I smiled and carefully opened the little box and let out a soft gasp. Inside there was a beautiful ruby necklace on a thin, golden chain. "Sirius its…its beautiful! Thank you so much!" I leaned over and gave him a hug.
"Here let me put it on," Sirius took the necklace and I turned around and lifted my hair. I fingered the necklace, admiring how the stone caught the light.
"That's pretty!" Lane commented and reached for it.
"No, Lane!" Liam scolded and pulled his arm away from my neck.
"So? What does the birthday girl want for breakfast?" Sirius stood up and clapped his hands.
"What's to eat?" I asked, we had been eating take out for the past week.
Sirius's face fell slightly and then marched into the kitchen. "Well, um, how about we go over to Jamsie's house?" he said to us. Lane and Liam shouted excitedly and then Sirius whisked us off to James and Lily's home.
My birthday was basically the best day of my life, next to when my brothers were born. Remus came over and we all celebrated but saved most of the excitement-like cake and other presents-for the 31st.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Leigh and Harry! Happy birthday to yooooooooouuuuuu!" The red-haired, freckled chorus sang to Harry and I as we sat happily in front of a huge cake shaped like a snitch, which I found to be part of the most exciting game I've ever played. I let Harry blow out a few candles and then I finished out the rest and everybody clapped and cheered.
Lane and Liam were being held by Remmy who stood behind us, the Weasly boys were on the right and Charlie was trying to start a wrestling match with me. Sirius also stood behind me next to Remmy and James and Lily were holding Harry over the cake.
"Charlie!" I finally got frustrated and jumped up from the chair.
"Aha! Come get me!" he blew a raspberry at me, which made me want to throw him to the ground even more. (I need to control my anger, I know…blah, blah, blah…)
"You coward!" I yelled, hoping to provoke him.
"What!" he stopped and turned around, I had succeeded.
"You heard me!" I smirked. Everyone behind me started to laugh at Charlie expression. He raced towards me and I braced myself.
Whoosh! Charlie's impact knocked us both down. Charlie was trying to pin me down while calling for his 5-man cavalry to help him, which I thought was extremely unfair.
"DOG PILE!" Bill screamed and then all the Weasly boys preceded to jump on top of me. I struggled to breath…I was under extreme pressure.
"Leiwgh!" I heard Liam squeal.
"Oh, no," I said as Liam tried to push the boys off.
"Get off my Leigh!" I heard Lane grunt.
"Ow! Leigh! Tell your brother to stop hitting me!" I heard Bill complain. I smirked and egged them on.
Finally, Molly called them off and I took in several gasps of air. "You don't mess with me!" Charlie said cockily.
"It was six to one!" I argued.
"Six to three I believe, Leigh," Bill said like a smart alec.
"Oh, yeah…don't forget me one year old brothers!" I rolled my eyes.
Lily and Molly broke the fight up and bribed us into opening presents. I still gave Charlie and Bill dirty looks whenever I could. James handed me a rectangular box wrapped in shiney paper.
"Isn't that pretty!" Remmy commented. I stood up and pulled out a beautiful white dress, its was a smooth creamy white at the top with no sleeves and then it layered at the bottom, making it very puffy. Lily raised a hand and claimed that she bought it for me, I raced over to her and pulled her in a tight hug.
Sirius then handed Harry a small box that was badly wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper. Harry lifted a small golden snitch from the box, he then popped it in his mouth so Lily had to pat his back several times to get it out. James handed me another rectangular box, except that it was long and skinny. I took the top off and gasped, laying on some brown paper was a brand new Clean Sweep7, the newest and fastest in the market. I looked up with pure joy on my face, "Thanks, Remmy! Thank you so much!" I ran and gave her a hug.
"I wanna try it out, Leigh!" Bill hollered and a shook my head, I was gonna be the first to try out my broom. It was funny to hear me say that, I'm gonna fly a broom! WOOT!
Harry and I both received five presents. I was given, the broom, dress, the necklace Sirius gave me on my real birthday, a book called Hogwarts, A History from Remus along with a box of chocolate (Yum!), and bracelet from the Weasleys. Then we divulged ourselves in Lily's homemade cake.
"It is a divine piece of work, Flames!" Sirius complemented and then stuffed his whole piece in his mouth. Lily gave him a quick smile and Remmy scoffed. Sirius swallowed.
"You are a divine piece of work too, Remmy," Sirius gave me a wink and I smiled. James and Remus snickered and Remmy just leered at him.
"You find that insulting?" Molly laughed.
"No, ma'm I don't," Remmy smiled and continued eating. Sirius looked over at me and gave a thumbs up and I just laughed and shook my head.
The party ended and all the boys gave her and Harry sloppy hugs. Remus had muttered something about 'the time' or something like that, he was very pale and he didn't really talk much.
"NOOOOOO! Leigh! Stay!" Lane cried as we told him it was time to go.
"Lane! Stop!" a placed a finger over his mouth.
"Stay!" Lane crossed his arms and stuck out his bottom lip. I felt a tug at my jeans, Liam was on the floor of the living room playing with Harry.
"Plwease?" they both looked at me with puppy-dog eyes. I looked up at Lily and Sirius. Sirius just shrugged and ruffled Harry's already messy hair.
"I don't mind," Lily said simply, "do you want to stay too?"
"Well," I debated, I loved it at Sirius's house but I really didn't want to leave my brothers.
"Lane and Liam will be just fine," James grinned.
"Yeah, they're proboly safer here than at Sirius's havoc house," Remmy commented. Sirius threw a pillow at her.
"My house is very clean, thank you very much!" he said a little hurt, "Right, Leigh."
I looked between Remmy and Sirius, "Yeah, did it all himself." Sirius gave me an approving smile.
"Riiight," Remmy rolled her eyes and stood up, " I need to get going, Caven's coming over."
"Who's Caven?" Sirius said sharply.
"A guy I met…why?" Remmy said smugly. Sirius just shook his said and also stood.
"Come on, Leigh. I'm tired," and he helped me up.
I gave my brothers many hugs and kisses and left the house with Sirius, as I looked back I saw my brothers playing with Remmy and I felt a sense of foreboding. They'll be fine…they'll be fine…
And there is the next chapter! I hope you enjoyed reading it and please give me your comments or critasisam to make it better!