Part 4

Chapter 13

Shopping

Sirius never did get around to cleaning out one of the extra bedrooms. Rachel just shared a room with Sirius, and they were both okay about that.

With having both Rachel and Sirius in the house, Harry felt as if he had a real family. The only thing that was missing was a brother or a sister.

Harry had been asking for many months for a little brother or sister, but Sirius had told him 'no'. Harry had thought that Sirius had told him no because they didn't want to buy one at the time. Every time they went to the store, Harry would say, 'Don't forget to get a baby.'

Harry stopped asking when Sirius threatened that he would stay with the neighbors every time they went shopping. Harry never asked again.

It was Sunday, October first, and five year old Harry Potter was sitting on the back porch, drawing a picture of the sunset. Sirius had went to cash a paycheck, and Rachel was inside doing the dinner dishes. She had left the back door open, so she could keep an eye on Harry.

The autumn wind blew, and Harry shivered and pulled his sweater closer to him.

"Are you cold?" Rachel asked, when she noticed Harry shiver. "Do you want to come inside?"

"No." Harry answered, as he went back to coloring.

Harry heard a car pull up beneath him, in the parking space. Harry looked over the railing, and saw Sirius getting out of his car.

"Yay." Harry said happily. "Sirius is back."

"Okay." answered Rachel. "I'm all done with the dishes. I'll just go get my jacket."

"I'll do it." Harry said, as he ran pass her.

Sirius came into the back door and kissed Rachel on the cheek.

"The line at the bank was so long." he said, sitting down at the kitchen table. "I had to sit down on the floor while I waited for my turn."

"Well, today is the first." said Rachel. "A lot of people get checks on the first."

Harry came back into the kitchen with a black leather jacket on his head, the end of the coat trailing behind him.

"Thank you, Harry." said Rachel, taking the coat off the boy's head and putting it on.

"Hello, Sirius." Harry said, giving his godfather a hug.

"Hi, Har."

"Okay." said Rachel. "Why don't you go put Harry in the car while I lock up and set the alarm."

Ever since Harry was in close proximity to a werewolf, Sirius bought an alarm that would detect anyone who was breaking into the house. In the morning, when everyone was home, he would leave the doors unlocked. At night, he would set the alarm. It would sound if someone was breaking in, or if someone was getting out. The only people who knew the code was Sirius and Rachel. Not even the Dark Lord, himself, could get in.

"Alright." answered Sirius. "Ready to go shopping, Har.?"

"Yes."

Sirius and Harry went down to the car and only had to wait three minutes for Rachel to get in the car.

It was only a ten minute drive. Actually, a five minute drive. I took five minutes to find a parking space.

The store they had went to had cheap food. A great place to save money. The food might have been cheap, but you needed to pay for shopping carts and bags. The large store was full of customers, security guards, clerks, and customers children.

Sirius led the way to the entrance to the store, where only a few shopping carts remained. Sirius gave Harry some money so that he could get a shopping cart. With Sirius's help, he pushed it into the store.

The first thing that stopped at was the chips, where they had a variety of chips to choose from. Chips went well with sandwiches, or could be used as a snack. Sirius would choose a bag of Barbecue Potato Chips. Rachel would choose a bag of Plain Potato Chips. Harry would choose a bag of Cheese Puffs.

Next they would stop by the sugar and flour. Sirius would get three bags of flour and three bags of sugar.

Then came the cereal. Since Sirius and Rachel wasn't too big on cereal, Harry could choose any three boxes. Harry would choose a box of cereal that had a lot of color, a prize inside, or a picture of a cartoon. He would buy, Captain Crunch, Frosted Flakes, or Cookie Crisp.

Sirius would also buy a gallon of milk, three cartons of eggs, three loaves of bread (two wheat and one white.), three quarts of orange juice, pancake mix, syrup, pop, cookies, fruit (apples, oranges, and grapes.), popcorn, vegetables, lunch meat (salami, ham, bologna.), cheese, and can goods.

Then he would by the frozen foods; chicken, turkey, bacon, sausage, pizza, french fries, pork chops, steak, ground beef, fish, and a roast.

Then they would have to wait in a long check out line. When it was their turn, Harry would watched the clerk ring up the food. He loved the sound the machine made as the food went across the scanner.

After the groceries are paid for, they go over to a long table to bag them up. After all groceries are bagged, they go to the car and places them in the trunk.

They finished loading up the trunk, Rachel would start up the car while Sirius and Harry take the cart back, and get their money back. They were about to recieve there money, when there was a huge explosion and people began to scream.

"What the--" but before he could finish his sentence, Harry fell to the ground, clutching his forehead, screaming out in pain.

Sirius stooped to Harry's level and put his hand on the boy's shoulder, trying to calm him.

Rachel came towards Sirius with a worried expression on her face.

"What was that--" he didn't need to ask the question, because he saw the answer reflecting in her eyes.

Sirius looked behind him and saw a great blaze of fire.

I didn't know how people in England shop, so I just wrote about how people shopped around where I lived. About what the explsion was just put Harry and fire together. You'll know who caused the explosion. Til next time.