Chapter 5

Disclaimer: I don't own anything canon, this universe or the characters. I only own Jessamine and the plot of this story

Note: It seems I'm abruptly changing the POV on you but I hope you don't mind, it just feels weird writing this story in that POV

"Come on Tuney!" Petunia Evans sighed at the sound of the voice. She turned to the group she'd been talking to and said goodbye. A small body skidded to halt, too late it seemed as she stumbled into Petunia roughly.

Around them they heard the group laugh as the small girl shook her head, only making a bigger mess of her already unruly hair. Her blue eyes shone with excitement as she looked up at her sister and she grinned. Petunia gave the short girl an exasperated smile as she ran her own fingers through Jessamine's short locks.

" Jessamine," She said, a hint of fondness easily heard in her voice contained in same exasperation upon her face.

"What's so important you couldn't walk, as a normal person would."

At her older sisters words Jessamine scoffed. As if she had really expected her of all people to try to be normal.

"But Tuney!" And her eyes twinkled as she talked, exited.

"If we don't go now we'll be late! We have to gooo!"

And Petunia was a rather proud sister when it came to matters such as these, so she continued her goodbyes to the groups before turning and following Jessamine to the car waiting by the curb.

Inside the car Jessamine practically buzzed in excitement as the family rode on. She sat in between her two sisters, and was ignoring the still silence between the two as she chattered away. Instead she talked to their parents and hummed to the songs on the radio.

Finally they arrived and nobody could stop the smiles worming themselves on their faces.

Once inside the building the family stayed in the entrance hall for a few minuets. They chatted with others, individually and as a group as they wandered the foyer.

Jessamine stood silently beside her parents as they talked with another couple but her eyes roamed the foyer in wonder. It was as her eyes wandered that they met the curious brown eyes in front of her.

And she knows that she's going to make a great friend in them.

Later they are watching the show in the theatre, and afterwards Jessamine can say with the utmost certainty that it only strengthens her resolve on playing the violin. During the show however she finds herself softly whispering with the boy with brown eyes from earlier and finds herself growing attached. His name, she learned, was Ren, and as they spoke she felt a smile creeping up her face. They were both pleasantly surprised not to long later when they learned that they didn't live to far off. But that was later, after the show had ended and the two families had decided to start making their way home.

The late august fell down on the family as they excited the car, and immediately Lily was calling out goodbyes behind her as she left to the park to meet with Severus. Jessamine however simply passed and entered the house behind her mother.

She found Petunia going over one of her school books, a glass of water beside her on the table she sat at. Jessamine smiled at the sight from where she'd paused under the arch of the door. It wasn't uncommon to find any of the girls pouring over their school books at any point of time in the house. While Lily had been accepted into Hogwarts, and Jessamine had been accepted for the year following, Petunia had been accepted into a prestigious boarding school about an hours ride away on train, and while Jessamine could not remember it's name she knew that the older girl had worked hard for the chance. They'd had a celebration when she got her acceptance letter and they'd all been terribly proud of Petunia. So Petunia was determined now to do even better now that she'd been accepted into the school, determined to achieve among the highest marks. This led to the girl taking as many chances as she could to study her school books and read them over.

So focused on her book Petunia hadn't noticed when Jessamine sat down, and continued on oblivious until Jessamine cleared her throat and she jumped. And though Petunia glares at her, however lightheartedly, Jessamine cannot stop the smile that curves itself on her lips.

But there was a question in here eyes that Jessamine answers with a bright smile without prodding.

"I was wondering if you could listen to me play." She says and ignores the sudden flush of pink staining her cheeks as her older sister looks at her with the same clear blue eyes she herself shares.

But then Tuney smiles and Jessamine is left smiling wider than she had before as she happily leads her older sister to the case holding her violin, but the stain of pink does not leave her cheeks.

She takes a deep breath as she raises the instrument, rolling her shoulders. The violin was something that she'd only started recently. It had been something she'd wished to do in her previous life, before she'd died, but had not. She'd only taken it up very recently but already the feel of the violin and the movements of her fingers as she released each individual note to release the music was becoming natural. Then she releases her breath as the instrument comes to land at her shoulder and she raises the bow in her other hand to the strings. She thinks of this different family, because it's been ten years she can hardly call them new, she's come to love and all she can think of before the first note strikes is the want, the need to keep them safe. To protect them. And she shut her eyes as she begins to play. She's come to love these people, they are her family and she can barely remember anything about her previous family but this time she is determined to keep her family alive.

Jessamine opens her eyes but her cheeks are flushed and she can feel the nerves spreading through her body but she looks at her sister, who's smiling so brightly that she can't help but smile back.

And later when she's rushing to the park to play with Sev and Lily the smile is still plastered to her face.

Authour's note: Okay and that's the next chapter! At this point I've started to plan out the book in general with a few interchangeable things here and there. Like who Jessa will meet first. I've decided I wanted some opinions so would you prefer her to meet Sirius, Remus or Regulus first? On a different note I've made a tumblr at millardbnullings for updates for fanfiction such as this one if you ever want to go talk to me there instead.

Feel free to ask questions guys!