I know I can!

Summary: Sirius has a girlfriend, Isabella, and she's a muggle. And her dad wants to meet him. For the summer. Her muggle dad, who's in the royal army. Eep.

Chapter One:

"Prongsiiiiieeee!" shouted Sirius as he headed out the backyard. "Prongsiiieee!"

James emerged from one of the bushes, carrying what looked to Sirius as a potato, but he knew better. James was de-gnoming the garden. Sirius shook his head, looking disbelieving at him while the gnome was wriggling to be free. "I don't get it Prongsie," he said, "You have a house elf, why can't you just get him to do it for you?"

James looked at him, smiled and flung the gnome 40 feet towards the small pond out in the end of his property. "Because, unlike you, my dear Padfoot," he said slowly, "I have been told to work for what I've got and not reap in the benefits of a big house and a large amount of savings."

"That hurt Prongsie," said Sirius playfully. Actually, it did hurt a little. He had just ran away from home, and the Potters have welcomed them with open arms. This encouraged him a little. At least there was someone who actually cared about him enough to let him stay with them after he's been officially dubbed homeless.

The last straw came when his mother, a haughty pure blood witch, began to criticize the kind of girlfriend Sirius was having.

"I knew you were a mudblood lover the moment I laid eyes on you," she snapped at him as soon as he came back. "Once again, you have managed to put the family name into shame. I wonder why I actually let you lived!"

Sirius hadn't managed to see his house at all that summer. The confrontation happened as he was being picked up in the station and the comment just made him run away as far as possible from his mother and father. For all he knows it had burned down already and he still wouldn't have a care in the world. All he would wish was that his so-called family would burn down with it.

"Padfoot?" asked James loudly, shaking him a little. "I was only joking, mate. I didn't mean it."

Sirius grinned. "I know Prongsie," he said. "Don't worry about it."

James grabbed another gnome threw it in Sirius' direction. "Prongs, Padfoot, Prongs."

Sirius grinned even wider as he threw the gnome back at him. "Whatever you say, Prongsie."

They spent the rest of the morning degnoming the garden. Sirius was amazed. The Potter garden looked incredibly neat, with a few spots here and there that was left full of weeds and bushes because Mrs. Potter thought it made the garden looked interesting. This was where the gnomes were hiding, and there were a lot of them. By the end of it, Sirius and James were covered in mud and grass stains, but looking extremely satisfied with themselves.

They were rewarded for their efforts with a big hearty lunch. Sirius have always admired how good Mrs. Potter cooks that there wasn't a meal that he wouldn't have seconds of. He and James were silent for the entire lunch being so hungry and everything was peaceful until a gentle whoosh came and landed on their table.

It was a pure white owl that was looking - no, glaring at Sirius. Sirius knew this owl well. This was Snowy, Isabella's one and only - therefore favorite - owl.

Isabella is Sirius' girlfriend. They have been together for six months now, and was constantly screaming and then making up in the course of one day. On the rare occasion that they do get along for more than twenty four hours, he or she will cause a scene that will cause them to bicker once again. James was very incredulous of this arrangement.

"It's the way we show our love for each other Prongsie," Sirius said fondly one day, "You just wouldn't understand."

James smiled and shook his head. "That's right Padfoot, I really don't understand."

So it was no surprise when Sirius grinned widely at the owl and took the letter it was haughtingly showing him. It came to no surprise to Sirius that Snowy didn't like it that Isabella now had a boyfriend, though Sirius constantly reminded the owl that no matter what, he, Snowy, would still be her favorite. Still Sirius hasn't managed to bond with Snowy the way Isabella did. Sirius thought that this was because of the fact that every time Snowy lands at the Gryffindor table for a letter for Isabella, they were both shouting at each other and always at the point of throwing all the food that they could lay their hands on. Once, Sirius even managed to grab Snowy to throw at her, only to have Isabella grabbed it away from his grasps and shot him an extremely hurt look. Only when Snowy flew off did they manage to make up and forget the fight ('fight? what fight?' said Isabella) they were having.

"Oh come on, Snow," said Sirius, "don't look at me like that. Bella still loves you."

James sniggered. Sirius knew that he looked ridiculous, reasoning to an owl that was jealous of him. Snowy didn't fly away though, so Sirius suspected that Bella expected him to write back.

Sirius read the letter out loud.

Sirius,

How are you? I have the sneaking suspicion that you didn't go home at all, and that you're at James' place. I hope that I didn't cause another rift between you and your family, being a muggle and all, but judging by the way that they are, I think I already did.

I'm doing fine here, dad and my brothers are glad to see me back. The thing is, they already know about us, owing to the fact that I told them, or more like my brother forced it out of me by threatening torture and reading my diary out loud to the entire community. Well, they want to see you, meet you and get to know over the summer. Why? Because my dad said so, enough said. Lily is here, James is welcome too. Honestly, I think Lily will be happy to see James over, she misses him, only don't tell her I said that. I already invited Remus and he said that he would only go if you two are going, Peter won't be there though, his overprotective grandmother said no.

Anyway, I hope that you can come. Send Snowy back with an answer and I'll be there tomorrow by Floo Powder if you can come.

Oh, and will you please tell Snowy that no one can replace him and he's the best most beautiful owl in the whole entire world?

James, give Sirius a kiss for me.

Miss you.

Isabella.

Sirius turned to Snowy. "Hear that, Snow?" he said. "She wanted you to know that you're the best most beautiful owl in the world!" he then turned to James. "So what do you think?" he asked nervously.

James grinned. "I say we go for it."

Sirius smirked. "You only want to go because Lily will be there."

James had a watery smile in his face. "I know," he said. "she misses me..."

Sirius laughed, but he felt very nervous. He looked down at the letter again and gulped. Her dad wants to meet her, her dad, who's in the army,an army officer noless,and knows how to use muggle weapons that were called, what again? Rayfels?

"Are you actually scared of meeting Bella's dad, Padfoot?" asked James, fighting an urge to lsaugh. Heobviously noticed the nervous look on his face.

Sirius grinned at him nervously. "A bit," he admitted.

That did it. James rolled on the floor, laughing up a storm. Sirius didn't feel any better about the situation. He had never met the fathers of his previous girlfriends, and the fact that he was meeting the father of the woman he loved the most who turned out to be a member of the Royal Army didn't make the situation any less amusing.

Even Mrs. Potter, who listened in as he read the letter, was smiling wryly at Sirius. "Don't worry dear," she said soothingly, "you can be really charming when you have to be, and most especially when you want to be."

This only caused James to laugh even harder. Finally, after many a few more minutes of laughter, James finally stood, wiped the tears from his eyes and grinned at his mum. "So, mum, can we go there for the summer?" he asked, looking extremely hopeful.

Mrs. Potter smile. "Of course, you can, sweetie," she said.

Sirius grinned at him. "Of course you can, sweetie," he imitated Mrs. Potter's voice. "Oh look, there's somefink on your nose, let me wipe it for you tweetums, it won't hurt darling, just a little pinch sweetheart..."

James scowled at him. Mrs. Potter laughed.

Snowy, growing impatient, shrieked loudly. Mrs. Potter conjured a quill and parchment for him as he wrote his answer back.

Yes, Bella, we'd love to come. We'll be here all day tomorrow. James misses Lily too. I miss you too.

Sirius

He tied the letter to Snowy's leg and it flew out into the skies.

"Padfoot," said James slowly.

"What?" said Sirius, looking out the sky.

"You remember what Bella told me at the end of the letter?"

Sirius read the end of the letter. "James, give Sirius a kiss for me..."

He ran all the way out the garden as James pursued him, his lips pursed ready to kiss him the moment he catches him.