Dark Beauty /Sirius Black/ [2]

Dark Beauty - 2.

Chapter 2

"Did you see Jude?" Adria giggled, letting her legs swing in front of her from her place atop of the kitchen counter, "I had no idea!"

"Wait, you didn't dress him like that?" asked Lily, trying her very best not to keep in her laughter, "seriously?!"

"No, it was all Sirius!" Adria grinned, pulling on her boyfriend's free hand, "please don't drink much, Sirius, I don't want to have to look after two babies."

"Just this one," Sirius nodded, gesturing to the beer gripped in his hand, "suppose beer isn't too bad but fire whiskey will always be the best."

"See you're using your age to your advantage then?" Lily teased, her legs around James and her head resting atop of his from where she sat on the counter, "not even kidding, you could be a muggle."

"Oh, seems like it," Sirius scoffed, "drinking muggle beer, I have a muggle job, my girlfriend is a muggleborn, my basically child is a muggle-"

"Jude isn't your child," James laughed, seeing Sirius raise his eyebrows.

"He may as well be," Sirius pointed out, turning to Adria who nodded her head just after sharing a quick look with Lily.

"Babe can you go check on Jude please?" asked Adria suddenly, jumping down from the counter, "last I saw him he was clinging to Finn's hair so who really knows what he has done with him."

Sirius couldn't help but laugh as he nodded, slipping his arm around Adria's waist to pull her in for a quick kiss, "couldn't resist."

"Shove off," she giggled, pushing him out of the kitchen and soon did James follow behind, muttering something about wanting to see baby wormtail.

"Why haven't you told him?!" Lily gasped, her eyes wide as she rushed forward to Adria, her voice as hushed as can be and her cheeks almost as red as her hair, "merlin, Addy, he should've been the first to kn-"

"I know!" she exclaimed, quickly closing the kitchen door, "you're the only one that knows, Lils, I'm just- we've been through so much with Jude and trying to finally get him, and I don't want him to feel any more pressured, I mean we're only bloody eighteen, this shouldn't have happened!"

"You're getting your life together, Ads," Lily smiled softly, patting her best friend's cheek, "and maybe it'll be hard, bloody hell it probably will be, but Sirius is going to be ecstatic and you can't deny that, merlin, he's going to be thrilled!"

"This isn't what my life was supposed to be like, Lily," Adria frowned, sitting at the island in the middle of the kitchen, "I was supposed to finish school, me and Sirius would be living with mum and dad, Benji would be here, so would Arden, merlin, I'd maybe get a little job but I wouldn't really need it, my life wasn't going to be like this.

I wasn't going to have to try and act responsible because I'm not, I'm just a baby, Lily, I c-can't do this, I just can't. I have a house; do you know what I had to do the other day?! I had to call a bank because there was something wrong with the funding of my account, I had no idea what I was talking about, b-but I didn't have my dad to help me. In a few days, I'll be going for an interview for a job and I don't know what I have to say, or what I need to do. It's a muggle job, what qualifications can I say I have!" she exclaimed, wiping at the tears spilling down her cheeks.

"Oh Addy," Lily sighed softly, sitting beside her best friend, "ignoring what is going on- not telling Sirius won't make it go away, it's going to become a more prominent part of your life, you don't need to be responsible or mature, you just need to cope. You're only eighteen, you have Sirius, you have me, too, and James, Remus, Peter, Blair- everyone, we are not going anywhere, we can help you, you're not doing this alone!"