A/N: Aiyhaaaaaaaaaaa~~~! I am terribly sorry for the lateness TT_TT Just got an interview from my first choice =w= ! Wish me luck ;D
A/N2: I am really sorry if there is any grammartical error or a bad use of English. A very big thank you to imSiriuslyLupin4you for proof reading it :D

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.

What, what, what, what?

Sirius tried to avoid Remus as much as possible and didn't dare meet the boy's amber eyes. Luckily, Remus kept to himself in his room or in the library, and only came down when it was mealtime. During those times, Remus kept his eyes to himself and excused himself from the table as soon as he finished his meal.

Romulus became the savior of the day. Everyday the boy was oblivious to all the awkward feelings, and continued being as chatty as always.

Rosaline, on the other hand, noticed that both her brother and her Uncle were behaving very strangely. Remus might have been shy but he had never acted like this before. Sirius always asked Remus a lot of questions and looked at him strangely, even when Remus turned his attention back to his food, the grey eyes still looked at him for another minute or two before turning his eyes back to his own plate.

The girl observed the way that Sirius looked at her brother. It was different when he looked at her and Romulus. It was a look of longing. There was always an expression of concern in his eyes when Sirius was asking Remus a question. Yet, Rosaline decided to keep it all to herself. She would not pry into other people business unless they come to her for help.

There was a knock on the door and Sirius answered it immediately. He was surprised to see Rosaline walk into the room with an expression of embarrassment on her face, as though she was unwilling to step foot in his office.

"Hey Old Man, I need your help with my math." She paused then stared at him in dubious "You do know math right?"

Sirius scowled at her accusation, sometimes Rosaline's contemptuous manner was just too much. But then without that annoying behaviour, the girl would not be Rosaline Alixa Black.

"In case you forget, I studied Economics in university, meaning that I studied math as well." Sirius replied calmly. He had learned from Remus that the only way to deal with this girl was to be calm and patient.

Rosaline smirked, "In case you forget, Old Man, my brain blocks out all the information about you, meaning that I did not know that you had a degree in economics."

Sirius sighed in defeat… it was pointless to try and hold a conversation with Rosaline, since she was going to try to annoy him at every opportunity given.

"Why don't you ask your brother, not that I don't want to help you but you always ask him every time you have a question." Sirius stopped talking when he saw the girl's eyes widen.

Rosaline looked startled for a moment. 'This stupid old man doesn't notice her brother's absent?'

"He's gone." Sirius felt his heart stop. There was a sharp pang of pain in his chest. The knowledge of Remus' heartbreak was almost heartbreaking. He quickly regained his composure when he noticed an irritated expression on the girl's face. If Remus was actually gone, he would have known because Romulus would have come crying and Rosaline would have gone mad with anguish.

"What did you mean, he's gone?"

"He's gone back to his school! For goodness's sake Old Man! Pay attention to the others sometimes!" Rosaline snapped in frustration. Sirius winced at how loud her voice was.

"I don't know what's going on between you and my brother, but you should at least have said goodbye to him when he left!"

Sirius regretted avoiding the boy for the past few days, he didn't even know that Remus left, not to mention the fact that he left without saying goodbye.

He really was a terrible Uncle...

Sirius wanted to say something, some apology that could make everyone feel better, but he just didn't know how.

Rosaline cut his thoughts off with an exasperation sigh. "You can always phone him you know? For your information, we are living in the age of technology where people are communicating with telephones."

Sirius can't help but smile at Rosaline. The girl rolled her eyes and glared at him in annoyance.

There are two ways that people always looked at Sirius, with admiration like Romulus, or with fear like Remus. But Rosaline fitted into neither of those categories… she looked at him like he was some sort of irritating bug.

"So, will you help me?" Without waiting for the Sirius' answer, Rosaline sat on the chair in front of her and tossed her math book onto the desk.

Sirius smiled again, Rosaline began to regret being so cold towards him, which was against her character. She had always been portrayed as a friendly girl, Remus described her as a girl with a sunshiny personality. Because the sun symbolized something refreshing and made people smile.

"Sure thing, show me the question you're stuck on."

Remus was rather surprised to saw his cell phone ringing on the bed after he came back from supper. Rosaline hardly phoned him, she only phoned him when she feel depressed and wanted someone to talk to and Remus only phoned her to tell her when he's coming back. Romulus…the boy probably don't even know what a cell phone is anyway.

Luckily an A level students like him has a privilege of having their own dorm so the noise that his phone was making did not disturb anybody.

Remus took a close look at his cell phone screen; it was an unknown number. The boy reluctantly answered the phone "H-Hello?"

"Remus?" The said boy's breath hitched, it was Sirius. Sirius Orion Black, his millionaire adopter has phoned him. "Remus? Are you there?" The blonde boy was taken by surprise when he heard a caring tone in Sirius's voice, but before he could reply his sister's voice at the background cut him off.

"Oi! Old man! It's fine if you want to talk to Remus, but not in front of Rom! Arghhhhhh- Fuck you, Old Man! You made him cry now!"

Remus could tell by Rosaline's voice that she was completely pissed off, by Sirius's appearance with a mobile phone in front of Romulus.

Back when they were at the orphanage Romulus would always cry every time Remus went back to the school, it took him a few days to get over it. So when Rosaline was talking to him on the phone, she had to do it secretly or else the boy would be in tears again.

"What a chaos." Remus' mind snapped back to reality again when he heard Sirius speaking, "Mini-Black seems to be very fond of you."

"He is quite fond of you as well, Sir." Remus heard Sirius's soft chuckle, and couldn't helped but smile a bit.

When Sirius didn't speak, Remus found himself shifting in his seat awkwardly, even when he only hear his voice but the man has so much influence on him that the silence between the two made him even more nervous than seeing the real Sirius.

"Why didn't you tell me that you went back to school?" Remus thought he heard a caring tone in Sirius's voice, but he was probably tired and misheard it.

"Y-you were working in your office so I didn't want to disturb you, sir. Sorry if I worried you." He heard Sirius sighed and began to panic, did he say something wrong?

But all his worries were gone like a wind when Sirius spoke in a soft voice, "Next time tell me before you leave…I'll drive you to school."

"You don't have to-"

"I want to do it." After Sirius cut the boy off, another awkward silence followed. Remus, once again, remained silent in his seat. Although he wanted to ask why, he didn't want to seem too nosy, even if the topic concerned him.

"When are you coming back?"

"I…I'm not sure yet, but I'll tell you right away."

"Good, cause I'll be coming and pick you up." Amber eyes widened, did he heard Sirius say that he's going to come and pick him up?

Remus didn't dare tell him not to come, he already knew it was Sirius's will and if he was to go against such will…he would probably end up upsetting Sirius.

"I-If that is what you want…ummm...then I'm okay with it." He stuttered, not quite sure if it because he was dreading the day when Sirius will come to his school or the caring tone he heard that made the inside of him melting like an ice in a hot sunny day.

"Remus…"

Sirius couldn't help but smile at the thought of driving his favourite car to pick Remus up at his school. He was too happy that he didn't even hear himself saying his secret thought.

"I miss you."

Remus felt his soul leave his body, and his brain jam. It seemed that as soon as Sirius spoken those words, everything in his mind has gone blank.

"I miss you."

Remus never knew that the three simple words could have such an effect on him; he wondered why his reaction was so different. Every time Rosaline or Romulus said those words he felt a warm sensation of family… But why did he feel different when Sirius said he missed him? Sirius was his adopter; he was a part of the family too. Of course Remus missed him as well… but he didn't miss the man like when he missed his parents or his siblings.

It was different…

But Remus couldn't find a reason why.

Sirius immediately hung up when he realized what he had said. He looked at his mobile phone lying on his palm, unconvinced that he just said those words.

"Oh yes, you did said 'I miss you' to my dear brother." Sirius winced at a sudden voice; he could literally felt his heart stopped beating a moment when he heard the other person speaking.

He turned around and saw Rosaline leaning against the door with her arm crossing over her chest. She smirked knowingly at him.

"Don't look so surprised, I've heard all of it." Sometimes Sirius really hated it when Rosaline used that 'I-fucking-know-everything' grin, it annoyed him to no end. Before Sirius could open his mouth to speak, Rosaline waved her hands as a gesture of telling him to shut up and continue speaking, irritation evident in her tone.

"Tomorrow you have to drive me to school, I'm sick of going by tube in such a rush… I'm always late because of it. Then I have to explain the reason for being late to the teacher and they just don't believe me, especially that wanker, Powder."

It was an order. There was no pleading tone in her voice, not even the word 'please'. Sirius sometimes wondered who the boss in the house is; Romulus was the youngest of the three so he had to do what his siblings told him to, Remus' instinct was a shy and polite boy so he was always submissive. But Rosaline was different, she always different from her brothers. She was impolite, impatient, had a hot temper… Sirius could write a book all about her personality. He had lost count of how many times she snapped at him with exasperation or taken by surprise by her attitude. Cussing seemed to be the girl's nature, there would be a swear word crop up in almost of her sentences even if she was talking to Sirius, who was respected by all the servants and her brothers, as well as other people.

"My school starts at half past eight so I want to arrive at the school around quarter past. I've already calculated how long it'll take from the house to the school, it'll be about twenty minutes. Which means we have to get in the car by five till." Rosaline didn't wait for Sirius to reply, she never did. The girl went on and gave him a full schedule of the timing of his new duty before opened the door when she finished.

"Don't look so down old man, you offered Remus a drive to his school, so I think I should have one as well, it's only fair." So she definitely had been eavesdropping the conversation all the time.

But what she said was right, he was her adopter as well as Remus'. Sirius smiled helplessly at his thought before answered the girl, whom Sirius thought was the only person in his life who dared to order him around. It was Rosaline after all.

"Yes, boss."

Sirius just realized how much of a bad workaholic he was. Rosaline's school had started two days ago and he didn't even know about it. Not to mention that he didn't noticed Remus' absence, damn, Sirius still regretted it.

"Guess I have to work less and spend more time with them now." He muttered to himself, forgetting another person sitting beside him in the car.

"Please don't talk to yourself out loud, I don't want people to think that my adopter is an insane person."

"Says the least sane person in our house." Having been living with this girl for a month, Sirius was now confident enough to retort back in a less polite manner.

"I never said that I was sane." Rosaline stated proudly, she liked it when her adopter spoke back at her; it made it easier for her to approach him when they were speaking like this. It felt like they were friends, rather than father and daughter.

"Are you implying that you, my dear Ro, are insane?"

The girl rolled her eyes and shrugged, "May the world think of me as a maniac, sanity is not much of a fun."

Sirius grinned at her but still had his eyes on the road he was driving on. At first it felt really awkward having another person sitting beside him, especially when that person was Rosaline, the most dreadful young Black. But Rosaline had proven to be a good company despite her disrespectful manner.

They arrived at the front of the girl's school two minute later, it was a small school but it was well known and in a very high league table. According to his research, this school was in top twenty best schools in the country, and so was Remus' school. Sirius couldn't help but feel proud and impressed with the two Black's intelligence. Regulus probably felt the same as him, to have such a genius family.

Rosaline's school, unlike Remus', was a day school. Her answer for not choosing a boarding school was that so she could look after Romulus while Remus was away. If she chose to study in a boarding school, then Romulus would be left alone.

"You only drop me at school, don't worry about picking me up. I'll use the tube or the bus instead, but I'll call you if I change my mind. So be ready, okay?" Sirius gave her a nod instead of speaking; the girl seemed pleased with his answer and got out of the car.

Sirius watched Rosaline disappear into a crowd of students, although he was unable to see her but he still heard her voice greeting her friends loudly. He revised what the girl just said earlier before rolled his eyes when he realized something.

"Am I her personal driver?" He muttered a curse under his breath, damn evil girl, dictating him around as though he is her slave. Sirius preferred the quiet ones like Remus, so polite, so shy, so quiet and so obedient.

Sirius missed having Remus around the house. Although the boy did not talk but his presence always made him felt calm… in some way it even made Sirius felt happy just seeing him there, looking nervously across the room. Sirius's train of thought was stopped by a sudden vibrate of his mobile phone. Quickly, he reached out his phone answered it without looking at the mobile's scene.

"Hello?"

"S-Sirius?" His breathe hitched... it was Remus.

"Remus… I haven't talk to you for quite a long time, how are you doing?" Somewhere in-between his sentence, Sirius swore he heard Remus gasp softly.

"S-Sir," the boy stammered, "it's only been three days since you phoned me."

"Oh." Was the only word Sirius managed to get out. Was it only three days? Damn, it sure felt like ages since his previous phone call.

"Y-yes, I just wanted to tell you that I'll be coming home this weekend." Sirius mentally noted that to himself before memorizing today's date, so today was Thursday…

"I'll pick you up." Remus knew that was an order and he could not escape it. To be honest, he dreaded hearing it even if he knew his adopter would be saying it sooner or later.

Being as obedient as he was, the boy couldn't help but as if he was forced to agree. "T-thank you very much, sir. I'll see you soon then."

Then Remus quickly hung up his phone, ending the conversation that Sirius wished was longer. Sirius tossed his mobile phone onto the empty seat next to him and continued driving, yet his mind was off to somewhere else not on the road.

Damn, but how he wished that it was Friday already.

"Welcome back, Uncle Siwius!"

Sirius let out a yelp of surprise when Romulus, who appeared out of nowhere, rushed to him and hugged his uncle tightly at his waist. Sirius looked down and ruffled the little boy's hair. "Hey there Mini-Black, how are you?"

"I'm fine!" The boy squeaked and held his hands up gesturing Sirius to hold him up, "I'm soooo wonewy without you!"

Of course the boy would have been lonely, Sirius thought to himself, Remus wasn't here temporarily and Rosaline was at school.

"It's okay, I'm here now am I?" That was all Sirius could think of, he remembered his parents saying that to him when Sirius welcomed them home from their work. He still remembered it clearly what his father and mother said after wards.

'Be a good boy and go do your homework.'

Or something along that line, never they invited him to do something with them. Those happy family moments he had seen on the television when he watched it without his parents knowing it (they only had a television for the news and weather forecast only) or had heard it from his friends.

Sirius thought he had a happy family as well, a family where work was the first priority for the parents and distanced themselves with the children. He thought that was the meaning of a happy family, his happy family.

But Regulus did not think so. He wanted a family where children came before work. Sirius could see his brother's ideal of that so called happy family reflecting in his children, the way they talked about Regulus made Sirius jealous. He never talked about his father eagerly, nor did he think of him in almost every thing he did.

When Sirius compared his family to Regulus' or the others, he felt lonely…he wondered why he never noticed how lonely he was before. Probably because Sirius had been treated like that since he was born and he accepted the treatment without questioning it so that loneliness from a lack of parental love became his best friend since childhood.

For the first time in his life, Sirius felt like he wanted one… That happy family that he never had, he had been treating the children, especially Romulus in a wrong way. He just wanted them to fill a big hole in his heart with warmth, chase away the loneliness that has been with him for a long time.

It seemed, Sirius concluded, that Regulus had succeeded in building his happy family

"What do you want to do now Mini-Black? Do you want… er… to watch the telly in the sitting room?" Sirius knelt down so that he was at the same height as the petite boy, Romulus nodded enthusiastically.

"Will you watch it with me?"

At first, Sirius was about to say no and excuse himself to work, but then he stopped. That would meant he's leaving Romulus all by himself, which was not going to happen.

"Sure, but just let me go and grab my work okay?" Sirius decided that the solution would come best if things meet between halfway, watching whatever was on the television with Romulus while working on his paper. At least Romulus would have company and he could get some work done.

Once the boy nodded, Sirius literally sprinted back to his office, grabbed a pile of paper work and ran back. When they reached the sitting room, Sirius turned the television on and gave a remote control to the younger Black.

"Ohh! It's Pokémon!" Sirius had absolutely no idea what the boy was talking about, what he saw on the television screen was an Asian boy surrounded by weird looking creatures. Then the yellow rabbit like one gave out a huge thunder to the other people, who probably the baddies of the story.

Romulus, no longer cared about Sirius's company, focused on one of his favourite television shows. The boy seemed enjoy watching that Pokey thing, and Sirius couldn't help but enjoy it too.

It wasn't because Sirius liked watching Pokémon, but he just felt happy when he saw Romulus enjoying himself. However, when the boy turned and ask him to comment on each scene, Sirius found himself stared in confusion as though the boy just spoken was a foreign language that he never heard of before.

Sirius felt guilt building in his chest, and his heart sank a little. Damn, next time he would have to done a research on children programs before watching them with Romulus.

This was not the first time Sirius felt guilty on this topic, he used to feel bad everyday at kindergarten and primary school when all of his friends were talking about what was on the telly last night. Sirius would be the only one that was left out of the conversation, not that he was a loner or anti-social, but he never watched those programs before. That feeling of loneliness, Sirius remembered it perfectly. Having been all by himself whenever his friends talk about those programs. It was bad being unable to join the conversation despite how much you wanted to.

He did not want Romulus to be the same as him.

Romulus winced a little when he felt a big hand on his hair. The boy looked up and saw his beloved uncle looking down at him, there was a sad smile on his handsome face. Romulus don't know what the smile implying, but all he knew was that it made him felt bad and wanted to cry. He don't like it when people are feeling sad, especially those he love.

"You will be different." The petite boy blinked in confusion, not understanding what it meant. What was uncle Sirius talking about anyway? Of course he was different from his shy brother and wild sister, everybody could see that, but why was his adopter told him to be different?

Romulus remained silently confused when Sirius carefully lifted him up so that the boy was sitting on his lap.

"I'm not going to make the same mistake my parents made on me, not again."

Oh, how Sirius wondered how he survived through that loneliness childhood.

A/N: Hope you like it ;) R&R is truly, absolutely, completely, utterly, totally and very appreciate -3-
A/N2: It's soooooo freezing here TT_TT! I wonder how I managed to survive in this place for four years -_-; Hmmm...