Hello! I'm back! After an unforgivable delay! I'm so sorry! But I just had so much going on, I hardly had time to eat! But no matter, I'm back, here with a new chapter that I hope you all will enjoy. We see a bit of a twist so please review!

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Arra woke up to the rays of sunlight beaming through the window onto her face. She yawned loudly and sat up. It had been about two weeks since she had sent her revealing letter to Harry. She clutched her stomach; just thinking about it made her nauseas. The fact that it had been two weeks since she sent it and he hadn't responded yet made her nervous. She was now seriously afraid that Hermione had gotten it all wrong and that Harry didn't like her at all. Therefore, Arra had just ruined her friendship with Harry by sending that letter and now he was afraid to send a reply at all.

She groaned in exasperation as she walked over to the window to look outside. She parted the curtains to see the green trees of Canada meet her. Today was their last day here, which made Arra even more upset, as this had been her favorite place of all. They were set to go to New York that afternoon. While in Canada, Arra made it her mission to meet as many Mounties and moose as possible. Total count: Mounties-12, moose-4. Honestly, she was quite happy with her trip. Her favorite part was when a ramped moose tried to eat Sirius' bacon. Did you know that their bacon here in Canada is actually ham? Weird, huh?

She glanced at the clock. 10:00 am. Check out was at noon, so she decided to begin getting ready. After taking a long shower, she started grabbing her clothing that was strewn about the room and began stuffing it into her suitcase. While picking up a large pile of socks, she suddenly heard a tap at the window. Her head snapped up and stared wide-eyed at a familiar white owl with a letter tied to it's leg.

"Oh shit." Arra breathed as a fresh wave of nausea came rushing back to her. She gulped and shakily stood to walk over to the window. Her trembling fingers unlatched the window and Hedwig jumped into the room, holding out her leg for Arra to take the letter. The girl let out a deep breath and untied it, all the while praying silently that Harry was writing back to tell her that he had never gotten her letter and he was just wondering why she wasn't writing to him anymore.

She shut her eyes tightly as she broke the seal on the envelope and unfolded the letter. Holding it out in front of her, ready to read, she opened her eyes:

Arra,

Thanks for your last letter, I suppose. I'm not really sure how to start this letter because I really wasn't expecting you to write that.

Arra could feel tears starting to well up in the back of her eyes but kept on reading.

But I'm glad you did. Because I like you too.

"YES!!!!" Arra shouted with a huge grin on her face. She was no longer afraid to finish the letter.

I was nervous to tell you because I didn't want to ruin our friendship. I would rather have you as just my best friend than not have you at all. Although I am a little jealous that you had the guts to tell me first. I always thought that guys were supposed to ask the girls out? Oh, that's right; you didn't actually ask me out. You just said that you fancied me. So, I still get to do the guy thing.

Arra, will you be my girlfriend?

Hoping to be your boyfriend,

Harry

Arra read the letter over and over again, not believing what it had said. The entire time the gigantic grin had never left her face. After reading every line thoroughly, and making sure she understood correctly, she started to jump around screaming like a fan girl. She got up on the bed and jumped around singing a new song she had suddenly made up

"Harry's my boyfriend! Harry's my boyfriend! Harry's my boyfriend!"

Yeah, her songwriting skills aren't very good.

"Arra!" Sirius yelled, coming into her room. He looked at her with a confused face, "What are you doing?"

She skipped over to him and thrust the letter in his face. "Read that!"

His eyes scanned the page and soon he grew the same humongous grin that Arra had. "This is great!"

"I know!" She said, taking the letter back. "I need to reply right away."

"Actually, we have to go. Check out is soon."

She glanced at the clock. 11:45. She sighed sadly.

"You can reply as soon as we get to New York." Sirius said, grabbing her bag and walking out the door.

Arra smiled again as she looked at the letter. "Hedwig," she turned to the owl. "You can go ahead and head back to Harry. I'll use one of the Wizard Hotel's owls to send my reply. Hedwig hooted in understanding as she jumped onto Arra's arm.

The ever smiling Arra walked to the window and held out her arm for the owl to take flight. She caught a breath of fresh air as she leaned out the window to enjoy the Canadian scenery. She glanced back at the letter and back to the wilderness. "I knew there was a reason I wanted to come to Canada so bad. I love it here."

***

Arra and Sirius had been using the floo network to get around to all the different countries. Sirius would contact all of their Magical Governments to make the arrangements. Now, here in America, they had come into their System, and were soon sent on their way out of the magical building to their hotel.

Walking down the street, Arra was fascinated by all of the strange sights of New York City. It was like Diagon Alley, but a hundred times better! (Shocking, I know.) With all the hustle and bustle, it was hard to tell exactly what was going on. Which is how the next events occurred:

Out of the corner of her eye, Arra spotted a dark alleyway. Inside were two men, speaking in harsh tones. Arra tugged on Sirius' arm and showed him the scene. Suddenly, the two men began to fight quite violently. Arra and Sirius were too shocked to do anything about it until one of the men hit the other with a last punch. The injured man fell to the ground, not moving, and the other ran away.

"Hey!" Sirius yelled. This got some other's peoples attention and they all saw what was happening. A bunch of people came running over to the motionless man and they grabbed nearby payphones to call the police.

"Let's go." Arra muttered, trying to push Sirius to keep moving.

"What?" Sirius asked, disbelieving.

Arra stared at him, "You just got out of prison, a crime scene and publicity in another country is not something you need right now. Under other circumstances, I would stay, but there are plenty of people here to help. So our number one priority is to keep you as far away from any type of law enforcement as possible. Even though you're innocent, it doesn't mean they have to treat you that way."

Sirius considered this for a moment before agreeing and continued walking down the street. Eventually, they reached the their hotel and checked into their rooms.

Arra entered her room, threw her bags onto the bed and sat down to write her response to Harry immediately. She could hardly sit still as she pulled out the letter to read it again once more. She smiled and heaved a big sigh, just like a lovesick puppy would. She set the letter down and grabbed a fresh sheet from her notebook and a pen. She was about to touch the tip to the paper when Sirius crashed through the door.

"Look out your window!" He came running into her room, heading straight for the wall the overlooked the city.

"What are you doing?!" She asked incredulously.

Sirius threw open the curtains, "Come here!" He said impatiently.

Arra reluctantly got up and came to the window. "Whoa." She breathed when she saw the sight below her. "Is that?…"

"Yeah."

It was the alleyway they had passed when coming up to the hotel. It was now taped off with yellow tape and surrounded by about five police cars and a large crowd.

"Oh crap." Sirius muttered.

Arra blinked. "What? Why oh crap? What's wrong?!"

"Well obviously something really bad happened down there! And we just left, Arra! We didn't do anything!" Sirius shouted.

"Well what could we in particular have done?! There were about a hundred other people down there who came rushing over to help! And don't say we could have done magic, because you know we can't do that! Why are you freaking out so much?" Arra yelled back.

Sirius shook his head, "Well don't you feel bad at all?"

"Of course I feel bad! What do you think I am? Heartless?" Arra asked. "But really, I had to take control of the situation because you were over there panicking like a fish out of water. My main priority was to get you out of a crime scene. It is not where you need to be now."

Sirius looked out the window again. "I hope everyone is all right." He muttered.

Suddenly, there was a knock at the hotel door. Arra frowned but went to open the door anyways.

"Can I help you?" She asked the two men as she opened the door. They were quite large and muscular, with strange black uniforms on and badges.

"That's her!" A short little woman squeezed between them shouted as she pointed at Arra.

"Excuse me?" Arra asked incredulously, giving them an evil glare. "What do you want?"

"Ma'am, were you present at the crime scene out in the street just a few minutes ago?" One of the large men asked. Arra could now read his badge clearly. It said the letters NYPD.

"Yes, but I didn't do anything."

"What's going on?" Sirius said, coming up behind Arra.

"Did you see what happened? The attack I mean?" The police officer asked.

"Yes, but again, we didn't do anything."

The officer put his hands up in a surrendering manner. "We're not accusing you of anything. But it seems as if the two of you were the only two who witnessed the attack. You're going to need to come with us."

"What?! No way! Why do you need us? There were plenty of people down there who saw it too! Go get one of them!" Arra yelled.

"They didn't notice what was going on until after the attacker left. This woman," he said, gesturing to the lady between them, "saw the two of you there and thought maybe you saw something."

"Ok, so we'll just tell you what we saw." Sirius said.

"We're going to need to go down to the station to fill out some paperwork. So you'll need to come with us."

Arra sighed. "How long is this going to take?"

The police officers looked at each other, silently communicating their thoughts to one another. Officer 2 looked at Arra, "It depends. We'll go as fast as we can."

Arra looked back at the desk where she had left Harry's letter, waiting for a response. "Fine. But let's hurry."

***

"Oh my God! How long does it take to fill out that damn paperwork!" Arra shouted from the uncomfortable plastic chair she was sitting in. Her and Sirius had gone to the downtown station for questioning, but the officers were taking quite a while. And she was anxious to reply to Harry's letter.

"Arra, be quiet. You yelling is not going to make this go any faster." Sirius said in a serious tone.

"A-hem." A cough nearby caught their attention. It was officer 2, who Arra learned was actually Officer Dancy. "Can the two of you please follow me into the interrogation room please? We've got something we need to discuss.

Arra and Sirius looked at each other, shrugged, and followed him inside the small, dark room with a one way mirror on the far wall. They sat down in the chairs.

"So, can we leave yet?" Arra asked presumptuously. Sirius kicked her under the table.

Officer Dancy coughed, "Um, not yet I'm afraid. It seems that the police have the attacker in custody. They caught him shortly after the two of you were brought in."

"Great! So we can go then, right?" Arra asked, slowly rising out of her chair.

"Please, let me finish." The officer continued. "In order to sentence him and put him in prison, there must be a fair trial. Unfortunately, you are the only two witnesses, so it is mandatory for you to be at the trial."

"Well, when will the trial be?" Sirius asked.

Dancy sighed, "In a murder trial such as this, it could take days, weeks, or even months."

"Murder?" Sirius asked.

"Yes, sadly, the man in the alleyway died from loss of blood."

"Oh my God." Arra said quietly. She now felt horrible for not stopping to help. Even though there was nothing she could have done, she still felt guilty.

"Yes, so as you can see, we definitely want this guy put behind bars."

"Of course. We'll do anything to help." Sirius said. "When will the trial be?"

"It's dated to be about 3 months from now." Dancy said, shuffling through the paperwork. "As we know, you're not really from around here, so we'll be setting you up with some living quarters until the trial. It's policy that you can't really leave the country during this time."

At this, Arra stood up, "What?! You can't just expect us to stay here for 3 months! I'll have school by then! I have a life! I have to write a very important letter!" She rambled on loudly, just shouting out things that came to her head.

Dancy put his hands up, "I know that this is difficult. We will try to go as fast as possible, but you must understand that this is very important."

Sirius, obviously agitated, but staying silent (due to his former run-ins with the law) tugged on Arra's sleeve to make her sit down.

"And about your school, we contacted the British Prime Minister, and I suppose they've sent someone to come see you about it. They said he works here in America." Dancy explained as he stood up and opened the nearby door. He talked to some people standing out there before finally moving aside and letting an elderly, oddly-dressed man enter the room in his place.

"Dumbledore? What are you doing here?" Arra, totally surprised, asked her headmaster as he closed the door behind him.

"Nice to see you too, Arra. How's your summer going?" Dumbledore asked with a smile as he took a seat opposite Sirius and Arra.

"Peachy keen." She said sarcastically. "Please tell me you can do something about this?"

The old man sighed, "I cannot. As soon as England's Prime Minister was notified of the situation, he let me know and I apparated here to sort it out. But, I'm afraid you'll have to stay here until the trial. I know that will probably mean you'll miss some of school, but I will make an exception for you. Besides, I feel you won't miss very much curriculum as there is a special event happening at Hogwarts this year that will most likely have students a bit distracted from their studies."

Arra groaned and slammed her head on the table.

"We can still do magic, right?" Sirius asked a bit worried. Arra knew that Sirius could hardly tie his own shoelaces without the help of a wand.

"Of course. You'll just have to keep it secret."

A thought popped into Arra's head. "What about my friends? Will I be able to write to them and tell them what's going on?" She was suddenly very worried about her response to Harry's letter.

"I and the President of Magic here in America think it would be best if you kept to yourselves for now. I will notify Harry, Ron, and Hermione of the situation."

Arra's stomach dropped. This means she wouldn't be able to write to Harry. She couldn't answer his question. She would be stuck here, in a safe house for three months. She wouldn't go back to school until at least October. She had to testify in a case that didn't even involve her, but was going to change her life. But of course, she wanted to put that murderer behind bars, so she was willing to help. But she didn't think it would be this much trouble.

Later, Arra and Sirius were taken to a large house with a lot of fun things to do. Apparently the government felt pretty bad about their situation and gave them a nice house to live in for compensation. But Arra hardly noticed. She climbed the stairs in silence, walked straight into the first bedroom she saw, plopped down on the bed and cried.

It almost seemed as if she cried endlessly for the next three months.

Sad, I know. But I wasn't going to deprive you all of the drama I know you enjoy! ;) So review! You may have pumpkin pie!