Between Coffee And Cigarettes

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Giggles and laughter filled the whole manor. Lenny was on James's back, when he ran out to the garden to find a sleeping Sirius.

"Wake up you little shit", Lenny exclaimed with a big smile on her face. James let her down and she started to walk up to her twin to wake him up. But as soon as she reached him, he grab her wrist and threw her playfully on the ground. It caught her by surprise so she just laid there for a second until both of them broke out in a huge laugh. James eventually joined in before all three of them heard Euphemia calling for dinner.

It was the summer before their seventh year and the three of them couldn't be happier. The night Lenny and Sirius came there, beaten and bruised, the Potter's welcomed them with open arms and offered them a new home. Ever since then they were a family. Unlike Sirius, Lenny never had that much to do with his friends, but after that night, James grew on her like a brother.

They made their way to the dining room to find a table filled with food. There was never any lack of food in the house Potter's, but this was just a huge amount. Euphemia and Fleamont looked at them with such wide smiles on their faces, that Lenny began to worry that they get a cramp in their cheeks. The three looked confused at each other. James was the first one who pulled himself together and asked: "What's that all about? Did we do something? I mean... I'm sorry... wait...Are you pulling a prank on us?!"

Both of the Potter's broke out in laughter. "No, Jamie", Euphemia spoke, wiping a tear from her eye, "Your father and I are just really proud of you all."

"Yeah, I mean this is your last year at Hogwarts and you all grow so much and even became a bit mature", added Fleamont, even though he said the last part with a small frown on his face. "You know... Your mother and I only made one of you, but in the end we were gifted three wonderful, chaotic and beautiful little pranksters. We wanted you to know that we love you all very much and you two", he continued, now directed more towards Sirius and Lenny, "You will always have a place in this house, just as much as James does. Do you understand?"

Both of them nodded in unison and fell their parents around the neck. They loved them just as much as they loved them. Even though they weren't their real parents, obviously, they referred to them as Mum and Dad, because of the way the Potter's treated them. Like their own children.

After the huge dinner James, Sirius and Lenny went up to their room to pack for tomorrow. It would be the last time they all got on the train after a summer break. It would be the last time they started a new school year full of hope and excitement. And it would be the last time that another year would went by so quickly that they wouldn't even realize it.

The next morning, Lenny woke up and went for a quick shower. She stood in front of the mirror and looked, maybe even admired herself. She now had blue-silver hair, which she owed to Lily. Her friend had gifted her this hair color and the bleaching that she got out of a muggle store. Lenny loved this present because it was something she thought really suited her and she was right. Even though she looked even less like her twin, the hair color really complimented her warm, dark-brown eyes.

Her hair went straight down to her shoulders and it always looked like she got right out of bed. But she loved that look. She embraced it even more by ruffling through her hair from time to time. Her grown out bangs, which she cut in sixth year because of a bet, now framed her face like curtains.

She wasn't exactly tall but she wasn't short either. She stood 5'7 and was rather slim. Her curves were not nonexistent, but they just weren't that big. A B-cup fitted her just perfectly and her nipples were pierced. It was at the beginning of sixth year, where she went with Marlene to a muggle town and got her nipples pierced illegally. Marlene only got her nose and ear done, because she had seen the pain in Lenny's face, which made her question her decision real quick.

Lenny let out a small chuckle at the memories, but then continued to get ready. She put black eyeshadow around her eye, just because she loved the mysteriousness it gave her appearance. All it took was a quick brightening charm to conceal her dark circles under her eyes and the small blemishes she had and then she was good to go.

As soon as she went out of the bathroom, James shouted from below that they would go in five minutes. Lenny gathered all her things quickly and got her sphynx-cat Shiva. She bought the pet in her fourth year and even though everybody thought it was strange of her to choose this hairless cat, she loved her very much. The cat was special and unique and Lenny saw her as her litte guardian because of the comfort the cat gave her regularly.

The pack of cigarettes that laid in her drawer was the last thing she took. She was secretly a smoker. Nobody had notice yet that she went multiple times a day down to the little river to light one or two. Sometimes she would also sit at her window at night, look up to the sky and inhale the smoke of the little thing that brought her so much peace; even though she knew it would kill her even quicker.

Lenny quickly ran down the stairs and then the whole family made their way to Kings Cross.