(A/N): Hey Guys! Um, so I know it's been a really long time since I last updated, but because of that, you get an extra long chapter! ...yay?

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Shari, Nicholai, Mia and Brooke.

Leo

It had been a month and a half since summer holidays had started, and today was the day I had been dreading since the last time it had come around.

My birthday.

"Rise and shine, Judy!" Shari screeched in my ear, as if I hadn't already been awake for hours, contemplating which doom they had planned for me on the day of my birth plus thirteen years.

"Happy birthday son!" My father bellowed, scooping me off the bed in a swift movement and dumping me on the floor.

"Eugh!" I yelped as I hit the ground, groaning loudly as I rested my forehead to the hard wood floor, the normally slight pain impacted me harder than expected due to my exhaustion.

"Get up lazy bones, it's your birthday!" Shari exclaimed, pulling me off the ground by securing a hand around my forearm. "We know how much you love those." She said, raising an eyebrow so that even an idiot could tell she was torturing me.

"Come on Leo, we're going shopping!" My father announced, starting to drag me out of the room before I managed to escape his grasp.

"Dad! At least let me get dressed first!" I objected, and he took in my lack of proper clothing before nodding and dragging Shari from the room.

"And don't try climbing out the window, we'll hear you!" Shari yelled as I rolled my eyes and shut the door behind them, pulling off my sleep shirt and starting to rummage through my wardrobe for clothes to wear.

After much delay, I emerged from my bedroom, dressed in my favourite pale green t-shirt and a pair of faded blue jeans. I slipped on some old shoes as I did so, dragging a hand through my hair to at least attempt to style it, before Shari and my father grabbed me by the arms, dragging me out of the house before they apparated.

Great.

After I had been squeezed through what felt like an insanely small tube of some kind, I opened my unconsciously closed eyes only to find myself on a busy corner, across the street, a sign caught my attention, something muggles couldn't see, obviously.

The Leaky Cauldron.

"So, you weren't kidding when you said we were going shopping?" I whined, and my father grinned.

"Of course not!" I should have known. My father never jokes about shopping. I crossed my arms over my chest, groaning quietly, and he gave me a disapproving look before dragging me across the road and into the Leaky Cauldron.

Everyone gave him dark looks, but spared Shari and me. Me, because I was a half-vampire, and didn't have the pallor to be a vampire, and Shari because people generally didn't expect vampires to have anything other than the palest of pale skin.

I moved closer to his side now, speeding my feet so he was no longer dragging me out of habit. People may give them looks, but no one was stupid enough to take on a vampire, even if they were drunk.

Shari tapped the bricks to enter Diagon Alley, while my father and I stood back, and I held my breath in anticipation of seeing the welcoming, winding row of shops that were soon revealed to me.

"Even after so many years, it still takes my breath away too." My father told me quietly, having heard my quick inhale of breath as we surveyed the bustling cobblestone majesty that stretched out in front of us.

We moved from store to store, Shari and my father buying a few things in each, and a few hours later, we reached the last store.

My feet ached, but I wasn't going to complain. I had been through worse, after all.

"Alright, we-" My father cut himself off as he noticed that, while his and Shari's arms were laden with products, mine were empty. "Leo." My father said quietly, and I shrugged.

"What?" I whined. Whined. Shopping just wasn't my thing.

"You didn't get anything." I rolled my eyes lightly, a small smile on my lips.

"That's because I didn't want anything." Shari stared at me for a few seconds before shaking her head.

"Whatever, Leo. Nicholai, let's just get him home." As she turned away from me, I saw a glint of...something in her eyes, and mine widened.

"You're planning a surprise, aren't you?" They both froze, and I knew I was right. "Oh come on, you know how much I hate surprises!" It was true, I hated being caught unawares. I hated it even more when they were planned.

"Leo..." Shari muttered, shaking her head again. "How do you always manage to find out?" I cracked a smile, one of the first ones today, and winked at her.

"I guess I'm just too smart for you." She scoffed, and they started walking, faster than usual, back to the entrance to Diagon Alley.

"Hey!" I cried, struggling to catch up. Why were they doing this?

They kept up the pace until after we reached the other side of the road, opposite the Leaky Cauldron, where they both grabbed one of my arms.

"Oh yay, app-" I was cut off as they apparated, and after that, I focused on not throwing up.

I collapsed on my knees as we arrived back at the house, trying to clear away the nausea by taking deep breaths. Of course, when I took deep breaths, I realised exactly what the surprise was.

"Again?" I whispered, quiet enough so that the people in the next room wouldn't hear, even though they had already heard the sound of us apparating back in.

"Leo!" Lily's voice. She launched herself at me, and I didn't even flinch. I was used to it by now anyway. Over her shoulder, I saw the others. Elaine, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter.

James was eyeing Shari and my father warily, and my smile widened. He was being more careful round them now that he knew what they were, but Elaine and Remus seemed not to have the same thoughts.

They glanced at each other before grinning, and launching themselves at me as well.

Lily squeaked as she was suddenly sandwiched between my chest and theirs, and I felt their arms go around me. I wasn't breathing, and I think Elaine could tell, because she release us pretty quickly.

"Okay guys, get off him before he suffocates." To the casual observer, it might seem that she meant from the force of people hugging me, but five or so people in the room knew she meant something entirely different.

Remus and Lily relinquished their grip on me, only to be replaced by Sirius.

"Aw, sparky, I missed you!" I grinned, shaking my head as I awkwardly patted Sirius on the back, my arms pinned to my side by his.

James, however, went for a more subtle hello, seeing as Sirius refused to let go, and simply ruffled my hair. Peter waved from across the room, and I waved back with the hand that wasn't currently trying to pry Sirius off me without using vampire strength.

"Sirius, you're choking me." I tried, but he simply gripped tighter. It wasn't doing me any damage, but I could barely move.

"Don't care." The others grinned and rolled their eyes, all of them teaming up to pull him off me.

"Ugh, what do you weigh?!" Lily grunted, having grabbed one of Sirius's arms, dragging him along the floor.

"It's impolite to ask how much a girl weighs Lily." Elaine joked, and Lily smiled at her, and so did Sirius, before he realised exactly what she had said.

"Hey! I am very, very manly!" He exclaimed, and I heard Shari scoff.

"Yeah, you're a very manly thirteen-year-old." She muttered under her breath and I laughed, causing the others to look at me.

"Just something Shari said." They moved their eyes away from me slowly, as if not quite believing what is aid was true. "So, since I had no prior knowledge of this at all, how long are you staying?" Elaine's eyes widened and she smacked me on the arm.

"You knew? Did they tell you?" She demanded, obviously referring to Shari and my father, who shook their heads.

"No, he figured it out." Shari said, half-glaring at me, and I simply smiled at her innocently until she gave up on trying to make me feel bad.

Lily made a 'tsk tsk' sound, and shook her head as if it was unbelievable that I would do such a horrible thing as find out their plans for a surprise.

"So? How long are you staying?" Remus shrugged lightly, smiling at me.

"We're staying overnight, since we felt bad for missing your birthday last year." Lily's eyes widened, and she smacked herself on the forehead.

"Dammit! I knew I forgot something." We stared at her in disbelief, and I actually chuckled.

"Lils, you know how much I hate my birthday. In fact, I'm kind of glad you forgot." The others seemed a little shocked by this, other than Lily.

After all, she had heard my rants on how much I hated birthdays.

"Why?" Peter asked, and we turned to look at him. "Why do you hate your birthday?" I shrugged, searching for the answer.

"I hate all that attention. People say they'll do anything you want to do, and then drag you shopping," I raised an eyebrow at my father, who grinned sheepishly. "Or make you get up at the crack of dawn to do so." I narrowed my eyes at Shari now, who didn't even feel guilty enough to act sheepish. "In short, birthdays suck."

The others shared a look with each other before nodding, and the boys grabbed my arms quickly and dragged me up the stairs and into my room.

"What are you doing?!" I exclaimed, trying to wriggle free, knowing that if the Marauders were involved, it probably wouldn't be good. Or safe. Or hygienic, for that matter.

"Rescuing you from a horrible birthday." Elaine stated, and cries of protest came from the floor below.

"Hey! It's not even that bad Judy!" Shari yelled up the stairs, and the others raised an eyebrow at me.

"It's a nickname from my middle name." They nodded, seeming appeased, and threw me onto the bed.

"Ow." I groaned as I bounced on the bed, and they rolled their eyes at me.

"Get over it princess." Sirius muttered, and Lily glared at him.

"Hey-!" And that's when she realised he was talking to me, not her.

"Ha, so you do like the nickname!" She crossed her arms over her chest, grumbling at my 'false' accusation.

"It's still better than Damsel."

(A/N): So, what did you think?

So, Shari and Nicholai planned the whole 'shopping day' to get Leo out of the house while the others snuck in. They planned it because they had seen how much Leo had enjoyed it when they were there for Christmas, so they did it again for his birthday.