Hello again people! I'm so pumped with all the story alerts and faves for the first chapter! Here's chapter two for your viewing pleasure. edit: This and ch 1 (and probably all chapters after this) were beta..ed.. by the awesome .SCRUMPTIOUS
DISCLAIMER! I own about as much of this story as Argus loves children.

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Sirius sat up in bed. He brushed his messy hair off his face and stared lazily across the room. The sunlight making it through the closed lace curtains indicated that it was probably around noon.

"Might as well get up..."

It had been a week since he and Lily had arrived at the Evans' house in Spinners End. Sirius was staying in Lily's old room which was not only the smallest in the house, but also the messiest. The green and red walls were covered in pictures and the floor was littered with books and letters, giving off an effect that reminded him of his own room at home.

"Sirius! You up yet?" Lily Evans's voice came from just outside the door. "I'm going downtown if you want to come."

Sirius jumped out of bed and went to his nearly empty suitcase, picked out a random shirt and put it on. The pants he was wearing were clean enough, he thought.

"I'm coming!"

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"Of course we're going to stop at a bookstore," Sirius grumbled. "Why don't you just kill me now?"

"Oh, come off it. I'm just looking for some light reading," the red haired teen said.

She abandoned the tall, young man at the front of the shop, forcing him to fend for himself against the daunting shelves of books. Sirius wandered around. As he read the section titles, he had to admit that muggles seemed to enjoy classifying things. Books were categorized by fiction, non-fiction, business, cooking, history, and almost every other word available. He soon found himself browsing through shelves of what muggles called 'fantasy,' and what he called 'A Day in the Life' and found some most curious novels about the lives of witches and wizards. He picked up A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin and flipped through it.

"In the childrens section. You're naiveté never ceases to amaze me, Black."

Sirius spun around to see the sullen and ever pale Snape glowering at him from the end of the row.

"What are you doing here?"

"It's a public bookstore," Snape stated, shifting the pile of books in his arms.

Sirius perked up. "Hey, what are you getting, Snivellus?"

He rushed at the young man and grabbed a book off the top of the pile. A thick book with a rabbit on the cover.

"Watership Down? What's that?"

Before the pale teen could so much as sneer at Sirius, the book disappeared from the grasp of Black and into that of Lily who had, seemingly, come out of nowhere. She handing the hardcover book back to its original owner, speaking harshly. "Here, Snape."

Severus took the pile stiffly and turned to the counter. "Keep a better eye on your dog, Evans," he muttered just loud enough for the two to hear.

"Dog?" Sirius asked himself aloud. The greasy git didn't know about his being an animagus, right?

"Don't let him get to you, Siri, he's just a bitter bastard." Lily shook her red head in an almost disappointed manor. "So, what'd you pick out?"

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Well, that was a bit shorter than the last chapter, I think. Hope you liked it!