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CHAPTER 58

Platform 9 ¾ was packed, as always. I wasn't sure who I was looking for. When I was a little girl, I would always look for my grandfather at the train station at the end of the school year. But after that Christmas, everything had changed…my father had come to the station last year, only out of necessity. After all, my mother could not be seen in public, especially now.

As I looked around the station that day, I couldn't find my father… A fresh wave of panic came over me. What if something had happened?

"Looking for someone?" said a silky voice from behind her. Audrey knew that voice well.

"CHANTAL!" Audrey squealed, turning around and hugging her friend tightly. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, I just got in from Beauxbatons last night, and Teagan and I thought we'd surprise you." She grinned, her platinum blonde hair gleaming in the sunlight.

"Wait, Teagan's here? Where?" Audrey looked around.

"She's not green." Chantal whispered. "I had to put some make up on her…you know why."

A bleach white girl with long, long, black hair came skipping over to them.

"Teagan?"

"No, my name is Terra." The girl with Teagan's voice replied. Audrey laughed.

"I cannot believe this." She said, taking Teagan's arm and having her spin around so Audrey could get a better look.

Teagan reminded me of a geisha, the make up that she wore was incredibly convincing.

Sirius and James sauntered over to where Audrey stood.

"Is that Frenchie?" James cooed, Chantal turned and laughed, hugging James.

After greetings were exchanged, Sirius grabbed Audrey's hand and led her to a corner of the station, out of earshot from their friends. He hugged her tightly to his chest.

"What's wrong?" Audrey murmured, stroking his arm.
"I'm not going to see you for a while." He pouted.

Audrey looked up at him. "It'll be just over a week!"

"That's a long time." Sirius whined.

"You're such a wimp, Sirius Black." Audrey snorted.

"And you won't miss me?" Sirius said, raising a skeptical eyebrow.

"I will." Audrey said, kissing him on the cheek. "But I'll miss you more if I don't see you after James'."

"Why did you bring that up?" Sirius whined, fake fainting. Audrey laughed.

"The week will go by before you know it, and we'll both be at James'." Audrey poked his nose. Sirius grabbed her head, kissed her forehead, her nose, and then her lips.

I always went into a bit of a daze when I kissed him…

Crunch. Crunch.

James had taken the Daily Prophet from Remus and was throwing pieces of paper

Sirius broke away from Audrey, a look of mock anger on his face. "OI! TRYING TO HAVE SOME PRIVATE TIME HERE."

"SAVE IT FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS FROM NOW." James shouted back, grinning.

"Fine." Sirius grumbled at his best friend, planting a final peck on Audrey's lips before Teagan and Chantal linked arms with her and they walked off the platform.

"Relax, mate. You'll get her all to yourself when she comes over." James said, as they searched the Platform for Henry Potter.

"Oooh, does that mean what I think it means?" Sirius' head jerked up, looking at his friend with a wolfish grin.

"Yes…seeing as the parents won't be around…" James began.

"THANK YOU!" Sirius said, shaking his friend.

"But." James said shortly, giving his friend a look.
"Ugh, there's a downside…" Sirius groaned, knowing that look well.

"Only if Audrey consents to it, if not, she's getting her own room" James said sternly.

Oh, Prongs was such a dad sometimes.

"Does he not realize that the three of us can hear everything they're saying?" Teagan asked, looking over her shoulder. They were still in the station and James and Sirius were nowhere in sight but they could all hear them.

"Humans." Chantal whispered, snorting. The other two laughed.

Of course, nothing had changed since September. My father had been a little happier to see me when I came through the door of our familiar cottage. I'm not saying that he wasn't previously, but after the incident in Russia, he had never been the same. None of us were the same.

My father still had a lot of work that summer, he was still occupying himself, trying to forget. My mother went on as. she always did, teaching in different colonies over the summer.

I spent the next week and a half in the dance studio with Chantal and Teagan, around our home with my mother, or going out to some odd jobs with my father. Though he was very selective about where I could be seen. It was only when he did work for vampires, werewolves, and other prominent yet hidden creatures that I was allowed to come and help.

The time flew, and before I knew it, I was packing for James' house.

Clang.

Audrey froze, listening down stairs; she heard a hiss escape from her mother.