"Okay, so we'll stop real quickly at the inn, and then head straight to where she's staying!" I said, pulling my purse strap over my head.
"And do you actually know where that is?"
"Duh, she gave me the address before she left!" I gave Sirius a pointed look. "So, what's your plan for sneaking the dog in this time?" He smiled wide.
"Ooh ooh! We should pretend that I'm blind again! There's no way that won't work again." Lily and I shared a look.
"I guess we'll be sneaking in the back again." I nodded.
"Yup."
"Oh c'mon!"
"No." He pouted and I shook my head at him.
"That doesn't work on me, Black, but nice try." I rolled my eyes. "You know, you act more like a dog then the dog does." The four boys started laughing and I stared at them with a confused look before turning back to Lily. She shrugged.
"Don't ask me." I sighed.
"Whatever, let's just get my friends, so we can leave again.
"And where are we going after this?" I got out the map.
"Well, I'm thinking we can stay a couple of days here, and then we can take a train down to Chur in Switzerland, after that we'll go over to Tux in Austria, then down to Trento, Italy. I actually wouldn't mind spending some time visiting other places in Italy as well." They nodded.
"Good plan Miss Map, but is there any way we can get some rest before picking up your strays?" I rolled my eyes.
"Like you're one to talk about picking up strays Sirius, and is sleep all you ever think about?"
"Of course not! I think about food plenty!"
After getting settled in, eating and resting, I looked at the address Talia had given me. "What are you doing?" I jumped up and spun around, Remus was standing there looking at me.
"Oh um, just trying to figure out where the house might be." He nodded, not taking his eyes off me, I narrowed mine at him.
"Do you have a problem with me?" He looked surprised.
"What?"
"Ever since this whole trip has started it's like you've been walking on eggshells around me, like you don't trust me, why?" He stiffened a little.
"Well, you've given no reason for me to trust you." I scoffed.
"Sorry for that, I guess I'll just go find a bus to almost run you over with and jump in front of you to save you." I sighed. "I just don't know what you want from me, what has you so spooked?"
"I can tell when people are lying to me, I can tell when you're lying to me, and you've been lying an awful lot this trip."
"So sue me! I have secrets! Oh no!" I glared at him. "It's not like I don't know you have secrets, Mr. Wolf." His eyes narrowed.
"How do you know that?" I smirked and crossed my arms.
"Please, the states have Werewolves too, you know, I happen to know a few, well enough to know one when I see one." He ran a nervous hand through his hair.
"Are you going to report me?" I rolled my eyes.
"No, you don't actually scream 'threatening,' now do ya?" I shook my head. "It's your own business, business I've tried until now to stay out of, I would appreciate it if you at least tried to do the same for me. Yes, I have been keeping things from you, but they happen to be things that don't concern you. Let me deal with my own problems and I'll let you deal with yours, got it?" He studied me for a moment before nodding once.
"The others are ready to go, just to tell you."
"All right then, let's get a move on."
"Also, Sirius wants to bring Isobel." I groaned.
"Sirius!"
It took a while to find the house, but once we did, I didn't hesitate to completely pound on the door. "Calm the fuck down already! I'm coming!" I smirked as she opened the door, she had a sucker in her mouth and she looked at me, unfazed.
"Hey, Talicat, can we come in." She took the sucker out with a 'pop' and continued to stare at me.
"Well shit, I honestly didn't think you would follow through." I laughed as she let us in. I looked around.
"Pretty nice place, how've you been?" She shrugged and flopped down onto the couch.
"Bored out of my mind, my mom seems to think that we don't spend enough time together," she rolled her eyes, "She almost didn't let me bring Chris."
"Oh the horror!" I sad, sarcastically, she laughed.
"You try gong a whole summer without sex and then we'll see how bright and happy you are when school start again." I laughed and sat down next to her.
"You're right, that would be horrible." She nodded.
"Damn right, anyway, who're the newbies?" I straightened up.
"Oh, right! Tal, these are Lily, Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter." They all nodded and Talia saluted them. "They're British."
"Oh, that explains it." They all looked at her weirdly but she ignored them and turned her focus back to me. "Speaking of sex, have you heard from Dom?" I grimaced and sat back.
"No, why, is he still pissed at me?"
"Kind of, he's still upset but he's denying it, honestly I think you hurt his male pride the most." I snorted.
"Men." The boys looked offended but Lily laughed.
"Who's Dom?" Talia laughed.
"Oh, no one, just a guy that Sadie ripped the heart out of and tore into a million little pieces." I glared at her.
"Thanks for that." She shrugged.
"Hey, I'm not going to pretend that you weren't a heartless bitch in doing so." I sighed.
"I know. Anyway, changing the subject now, where's everyone else?"
"The rest of the family are out having some boring family time, and Chris is taking forever in the shower!" She shouted the last for words and we heard a noise from another room.
"Shut up, Woman! I'll be out when I want to, dammit!" She rolled her eyes.
"And he wonders why my parents don't like him." I laughed.
"Oh come on, Chrissy! I know you've missed me!" Just a moment later he walked into the room, towel drying his black hair.
"Why the fuck did you let her in, Tal?"
"Shut up, don't pretend like you don't love me."
"I don't."
"Will you two ever stop?" Talia asked, exasperated.
"No." We said together. She rolled her eyes but smiled as he kissed her.
"Oh, look! Sadie brought up Brits!" He rose an eyebrow at them. The five of them were between all three of us with amused expressions.
"This is going to be a lot more interesting than I thought." Sirius said.