Dark Beauty /Sirius Black/ [2]

Dark Beauty - 15.

Chapter 15

It was a cold, dark night when Adria finally opened the door to her home, more than thankful that she was finally home for the evening from a much too long, very stressful day from work. She was finally off for the holidays, the last shift she had before Christmas and it was a dreadful one too, a Christmas party had called for cakes and cookies, brownies and tarts. The whole lot, and May, Mildred and Adria all had to help out as best as they could.

The money was amazing, it was the most a customer had ever paid.

It was a rare night of just her, Sirius and Jude and she was more than excited to see her boys, something good from a bad day. Arden wanted to take trip to see her aunt and Benji didn't want her to get the train alone in case she ran into anyone from the wizarding world, he knew he wasn't much help but he would fight for Arden until his death and thought it pointless to stay and worry about her the full time she was gone. They would be back for Christmas, spending it with Adria and Sirius and Jude, but Arden's aunt did a lot for her and Arden never wanted to forget that.

Alina and Lia wished to stay at Alfie's, Adria made a note to call them later seeing as they had yet to retrieve their things from her dad's home and Alfie took them over today, making sure to be with them as they looked through the house and had to take in the familiar scent of Douglas. Alfie promised a sleepover with them when they entered the bakery late in the afternoon for treats for their night.

"Adria?" the girl heard coming from the kitchen and put one of the living room lights on in passing so that the house wasn't engulfed in complete darkness. She was surprised that Jude hadn't greeted her yet, but she didn't let it bother her as she passed into the dining room, her shoulders slumping when she finally leaned against the counter in the kitchen, looking at Sirius at the kitchen table, "oh so you're fine then, huh?"

"Wha- babe, what's wrong?" Adria asked, sitting down her bag on the counter whilst Sirius kept his head in his hand, trying to hydrate himself with a large pint of water to rid the pounding headache he had received from stress and lack of rest.

Adria wasn't the only one who had a stressful day at work, in fact, Sirius was sure it was the worst day he had ever had at the garage he worked at. It was simply terrible, so many customers coming and going in a rush, all irritated and none willing to cooperate. It was simply impossible for all of them to have their cars fixed by Christmas day, but telling them all that was a different story.

No one cared.

He had to work later than he usually did, but he didn't know Adria had to do the same.

"I come home late and where is my family, huh, nowhere to be seen!" Sirius exclaimed, standing from the stool, "no note, no nothing to say where you were, what the hell am I supposed to think, Adria?!"

"Sirius, calm down!" she exclaimed.

"Calm down?!" he shrieked, "do you know how horrible it was for me to go over to Mrs Sullivan's house and ask, oh where is my child that no one picked up from nursery, oops silly us!"

"Sirius-"

"He thought we had forgotten about him, but it's your job on Thursdays to pick him up!" Sirius exclaimed, "if I knew you weren't going to be here then we could've got Alfie, but no you're always so bloody terrified of Alfie getting Jude. Well it's one time, and it's much better than him going to someone's house when we don't know about it!"

"Sirius, please!" Adria shouted, "it was a mistake, okay? I made a mistake, May needed all the help she could get with this big order and I had to stay late, I couldn't just leave. I'm sorry, I should've known better, but I do make mistakes, alright?!"