"Why did you not want to come home?" Mother asked at the dinner table. Her fork making a deathly sound across the plate.
"Enjoying extra studying, mother." Sirius said. Mother sensed that he was lying.
"Regina?" She asked.
"She met some new friends, they were staying so she wanted to too." Sirius said, in my defence. He could tell my face was heating up from fear.
"Who are your new friends, Regina? Are they the Malfoy's like Sirius?" She asked.
Sirius was never friends with the Malfoy's. He just told that to mother because he was so afraid to say he was best friends with a Potter. My family despised the Potters.
"Yeah, and a Lestrange." I said, putting a potato into my mouth.
Which was true. Pandora was a Lestrange. She just never mentions it. She's ashamed of being in a long line of murderers. And to be honest, so was I.
