Wristbands | Sirius Black [1]

Chapter Sixty-Eight

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[Wristbands: Chapter Sixty-Eight]

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           In less than two months Aspen lost two of her close friends. One in which was killed by another friend, and another who was massacred alongside her own family. She couldn't feel anything, she couldn't believe it. She couldn't even go to the funeral of her best friend Marlene McKinnon. No one in Marlene's family were alive to plan it other than Marlene's aunt who lived on a whole other continent. The muggle woman planned all of their funerals out from where she lived.

       Due to the funerals being so far, none of the teenagers would be able to make it besides Lily who was being flown in by Marlene's aunt herself a few days later. Lily was the most devastated out of them all, Marlene McKinnon was her first Hogwarts friend and now she was dead. When the Aurors came hoping to search Marlene's bedroom for evidence indicating foul-play, Lily nearly killed them in devastation.

     Peter hadn't come home yet, he probably didn't even know what happened. Than again, he most likely had access to the Daily Prophet or even some type of muggle newspaper wherever he was at seeing as the muggles found out about the murders first. Dumbledore called for a meeting that night to discuss what had happen, to announce that a member has fallen. None of them went as they stayed home to grieve. Aspen held her baby in her arms sadly as she caressed the sleeping girls cheek.

       It was around eight o'clock at night. According to the Aurors, that was the time Marlene's heart most likely stopped beating the night before. She sat on her bed, leaning against the wood at the end as she stared down in silence. Beside her Sirius slept, as he had been sleeping already for the past few hours. Aspen had her head leaning towards the wall, through it she could hear the sniffles of Wendy and the voice of Remus attempting to soothe her fellow Gryffindor.

       "You don't understand what's going on right now, little one," Aspen whispered in a raspy voice to her daughter, "but someone very important to us lost their life yesterday. She was mummy and daddies best friend a-and your Auntie Marls. She would've loved to be here, but it seems Merlin didn't want it that way. She loved you very much and I'm going to remind you of that everyday of your life."

        "Marls would be laughing at how sappy you're being," said the raspy voice of Sirius, who's eyes were now open. He was laying on his stomach, his arms under his chin as he looked up at her and Cassie. "she'd either be amused of you speaking so nicely about her? or embarrassed because you're exposing all of her sentimental secrets."

       "That's oddly accurate," Aspen giggled, a small smile growing on her lips. It quickly diminished when she then asked, "did I wake you? I'm so—"

       "No, you didn't wake me, I've been awake for a half an hour already." Sirius confessed, sitting up beside her. "I've just been faking cause I didn't want to bother you."