Another Boy

Another Boy: The Start

Arabella found herself staring at the ceiling, her eyes trailing over the cracks in the ceiling of her small room. Each crack seemed to tell a story of her childhood, from the time she had the incident on her toy broom when had turned eight, to slamming of doors in arguments with her brother and even the time Arabella had first shown signs of her magical abilities. Arabella had never really stopped to think about everything that had happened in her room, she had always been busy doing something.

"Ara, you okay there honey? You look a little spaced out" Her mother, Hope asked from the doorway, words clearly laced in a tone of concern. Arabella taken by surprise at the quiet arrival of her mother sat up quickly, regretting the action as her vision was filled with black dots.

"What? Oh yeah, I'm fine just thinking about the school year. Hoping it is going to be better than last" Ara jokes with a smile hoping to comfort her somewhat worried mother. Getting up Ara gently lifted up her owl's cage, her trunk in the other. Scanning the room for anything she may have forgotten, satisfied she moved toward the door.

"Let me take Kyra before you drop her again, the poor owl has probably already suffered from enough trauma" Hope sighed plucking the cage with ease from the girl's hands. Ara shot her mother a thankful smile before heading to the stairs with the heavy trunk.

Halfway down the stairs, Remus made his way up them.

"Give me the case Bella, before you cause any more damage to the walls" Remus sighed gently pushing in to take the case out of his sister's hands, forcing her to wait at the bottom.

"Last time I checked Remus, I'm the stronger of us two" Ara declared narrowing her eyes at the boy.

"And somehow I am the more coordinated "he reminded her with a casual smile causing her to roll her eyes at him.

The two siblings stood side by side, as their mother fussed over them, flattening a stray hair and smoothing out collars.

"Now you two better not forget to write to me, I want to hear from you both individually so that doesn't mean relying on Remus to write for you Bella" Hope told her children rather seriously.

"I'll write just like last year, a letter every two weeks mom, you don't need to stress so much" Remus smiled giving his mother a kiss on the cheek before taking the cases out to the car.

"I promise I'll try to remember to write mom" Ara smiles weakly at her mother, there was a sad look in Hope's eyes as she stared at her daughter.

"Look after your brother and yourself Arabella, dear. I love you" Hope sighed before kissing her daughters forehead.

"I love you too Mom, I'll be back come December" Ara smile returning a kiss on the cheek before picking Kyra's cage off the table and heading out to the car.

Carefully sliding into the back passenger seats with Kyra's cage on her lap Arabella glanced back at her mother in the doorway giving a small wave as the car started.

Arabella Hope Lupin.

Daughter of one Lyall Lupin and Hope Lupin.

Twin sibling of Remus Lupin.

The twins were currently in attendance of their Fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The twins were aged 15, turning 16 by March 10th the following year.

The two twins had found themselves in Gryffindor together after having the hat placed on their heads four years ago, yet it seemed like a lifetime ago that they had their first year at the school.