DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter, but I can make it my own, right? Fine…. I guess I can't! The lyrics are by Lady Antebellum and the song is Need You Now

I promise the next chapter will be extra long! I have ideas for it already and everything! Just hold on a little bit longer!

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I woke up from a nap underneath the large tree on the grounds feeling groggy and blinking rapidly. Tristan had his arms wrapped around me and his warm voice was wrapping me with lyrics that scared me. "Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor. Reachin' for the phone 'cause I can't fight it anymore. And I wonder if I ever crossed your mind, for me it happens all the time." I looked up at him and he was stroking my hair lovingly, obviously thinking about something that was beyond him. I cleared my throat and sat up, hoping that this would break him out of his thought.

"You're up," he smiled, the far away look still in his eyes. "You were out for a little while." I looked up at the sky and saw that it was sunset.

"Oh, my God! What time is it?" I asked, excitement hiking up my voice. I jumped up and tried to go inside, but Tristan gripped my wrist. "What?!" I spat, turning around to him.

"Nothing, you don't have to worry about the time, we've got enough," he laughed, sobering up when he realized what he had just said. I was still confused, why was he acting so odd around me now? "Do you want to go back into the castle? It's getting cooler out here."

"Um, sure. I should probably find James, Fred and Aspen," I agreed, looking around the dark grounds. I was getting really worried now. Were they worried about me?! How long had I been out?

"Yeah. Acacia, can I tell you something?" Tristan asked in all seriousness, snapping me out of my search for my friends. I nodded and looked into his green eyes. "Recently, due to some research, I have found that you and I are related." I felt my eyes pop out of my head and almost sank to my knees.

"How are we related?" I asked shakily, gripping onto the tree that I had fallen asleep under.

"Why don't we walk inside?" Tristan asked, beginning to walk. I nodded, not having any other choice. "So, our mother and father had two children. The records of it are highly evident. The second child was you, the first child was me." I felt my knees shake with the weight of this realization. My brother was Tristan; Tristan had sung a song about me earlier. Well, at least I thought it was about me. Apparently he could read minds also, because he laughed at what I had thought. "And no, that song I was singing was not about you. It was just something I heard earlier this week. I had it in my head."

I was just silent, not talking, not moving, and not doing anything. I couldn't do anything! Tristan had just sprung the most surprising thing upon me and he expected that I would just carry on normally?! I finally turned away from him and sprinted back to the Common Room.

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It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now

I pushed into the common room and saw my friends sitting down on the couches in front of the fire. Aspen looked up at me and smiled, Fred and James just continued to chatter animatedly. I went over to Aspen and took my seat, crossing my arms over my chest in frustration. I glared at the fire and pursed my lips, not meeting any of their eyes. "So, how was your day?" she asked, a stupid smile playing on her lips.

"Wonderful!" I sulked, tapping my feet on the ground in frustration. "So, I have surprising news for all of you!"

"Which would be…?" James asked, leaning forward, eager for a little shred of gossip. I turned to Aspen, who tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, trying to act nonchalant when really she was trying to listen harder. I rolled my eyes and leaned forward, acting as though I was telling a ghost story.

"Tristan Riddle, I know that James knows who he is, is my brother!" I said, aghast that I had even been able to say it. I mean, how hard is it to realize that the boy that James hated me to be with, was my brother! Tristan was my brother! That kind of explains why he was so protective of me? No, protective isn't the right word. I don't know what word would describe it, but it kind of explains it.

"Tristan Riddle is your brother?" James asked, almost as surprised as I was.

"Yes!" I nodded, narrowing my eyes at him. "And who was it that told me about two weeks ago that he wasn't my brother?!"

"Well, sorry about that. At least you'll be with all family this Christmas and summer holiday!" he smiled, trying to make me cheer up. I stood up, rolling my eyes and started to pace. He had just reminded me of the horrible sick feeling that had settled when I first found out about having to live with the Malfoys. The sick, disgusting, pure-blood obsessed family of mine.

"Thanks for reminding me, James that made my life a whole lot easier!" I complained, tears forming in my eyes. I blinked hard, trying to stem them and it sort of worked. At least one tear leaked out of my eyelids. My cheeks were flushed with heat and I could hardly keep myself from screaming at the sky. Everything that I had learned and started to love all came crashing down on my head. I had sort of started to have a crush on Tristan, that was gone now because of his being related to me. I had started to forget having to go to the Malfoys over holidays and such like that, but that had come back to me all because of James! If there was one thing I wanted away from, it was this place and everything that it held for me!

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Another shot of whiskey can't stop looking at the door
Wishing you'd come sweeping in the way you did before
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

I was sitting down for dinner at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall moodily stabbing random pieces of food. It seemed like this happened a lot, me moodily sitting down and not eating while everyone else was sitting down and laughing and eating. Except this time it was different. Tristan had found it helpful, somewhere in his barking brain, that he should come over and suddenly act like my big brother. So, he sat down next to me and smiled, though I didn't smile back, I shot him a death glare instead. But did he get the hint? No, he went right on grinning like an idiot. God, I hate my family!

"So," he said awkwardly, trying to get a conversation started. "Having fun over here with your friends?" I scoffed and got up, moving down to a lower spot on the table. With my luck, which I have none, he got up and followed me. "Are you gonna ignore me now?"

"What do you want me to do?!" I spat, slamming my food down and glaring at him. "You spring the wonderful news that you're my brother on me and you expect things to go back to how they were?! What kind of a person are you?!"

"Look," he said quietly, leading me away from the tables. I glared up at him with my arms crossed and tears pooling into my eyes. "I just thought that it would be best." I scoffed at this and glared at the wall behind him. "You have to understand where I'm coming from."

"Where you're coming from?!" I screamed, anger searing through my veins and my hand clenching in and out of a fist. "I have lived my entire life believing that I have no family and all of a sudden I come here and everything changes! I have an aunt that decides that she's going to adopt me and I have to go live with her! I have a brother that decides to spring it upon me not an hour ago that he's my brother! What's going to happen next? I find out my mother isn't dead and that she just didn't want another kid?!"

"No. Our mother is definitely dead. She died a while ago," Tristan explained pain evident in his eyes. "Now, if you're done yelling, you can go back to your table." I turned away from him and felt his hard hand grip my arm.

"Let go of me!" I yelled at him, ripping my arm away. "Don't you dare talk to me like you have jurisdiction over me! Where were you twelve years ago?! You were nowhere! You left me to rot in that godforsaken orphanage! So don't you dare pretend like you can control me!"

I stalked away from him and sat down at the table, tears making their way down my cheeks. I couldn't stand my stupid brother, he couldn't make me do anything and I was intending to make his life a living hell. Just so that maybe he could understand what I had been through for the past twelve years!

It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now

Guess I'd rather hurt than feel nothin at all

It's a quarter after one I'm all alone and I need you now

And I said I wouldn't call but I'm a little drunk and I need you now

And I don't know how I can do without

I just need you now

I just need you now

Ooo, baby, I need you now