Éthérée

CHAPTER 10

Christmas Break couldn't have come any faster.
In what seemed like minutes, they were all packed and ready to board the train that took them back to their homes.

"I'm gonna miss you all so much!" Audrey exclaimed as she pulled Marlene, Lily, and Alice into a huge hug at Platform 9 3/4. 

"We'll miss you too babe!" Marlene said smiling. "Visit me?" She asked the group.

"Of course- yeah- definitely," all of the three girls replied simultaneously.

"Let's go Aud, mum and dad are here!" James hollered from the other side of the station. Audrey waved a final goodbye to her friends, and confidently made her way towards James, Sirius and her parents.

"Mum, dad!" She exclaimed, and was immediately pulled into a hug by her parents.

"I exist too you know..." James grumbled, before being pulled into a hug by the couple as well. Audrey too that as an opportunity to say her goodbyes to Remus. He was standing with his grandmother, Charlotte Lupin. She was a plump woman, who seemed ultra- maternal, as she fretted over Remus, straightening his cardigan, and running her hands through his hair, in an attempt to tidy it. Audrey silently laughed at the scene, as Remus went red.

"Hey Remmy," Audrey sweetly said, getting Remus' attention.

"Hey Aud!" He replied. She quickly pulled him into a soft hug, wrapping her arms around his shoulders, and he wrapped his around her waist.

"Promise you'll write?" he said after they broke up.

"Of course. And hey, just, take care of yourself, okay?"

"Okay,"

"Alright, well mum and dad are waiting for me, I better get going,"

"I'll miss you Aud," he said, fondly smiling, looking in her eyes.

"I'll miss you too Remus," she replied back. And then she finally walked off.

The Potters, Audrey, Sirius and James made their way off the platform and towards the exit of the station. They quickly apparated to the Manor and started walking towards the front door.

"So Audrey, who was the boy at the platform?" Mia asked her daughter in the most suggestive tone, wiggling her eyebrows.

"WHAT! NO WHAT! MOMMMMM!!! He is just a friend! Please! And his name is Remus,"

" 'Just a friend', sure," Mia replied in the same suggestive tone. Audrey opened her mouth several times before closing it again, and finally let out an annoyed groan, while James  and Sirius snickered in the background.

"Master and Mistress! Oh, how Winnie has missed her two perfect angels!" Winnie exclaimed as Audrey and James walked into the Manor. Winnie was the ancient house elf, who had been around for ages. She first came into the house when Mia was pregnant with the twins, and had stayed around till now. She was basically a part of the family.

James and Audrey kneeled down and hugged Winnie softly. "We missed you too Winnie," James softly spoke to her.

"Alright kids, the bedrooms are upstairs. Sirius, I hope you don't mind sharing a bedroom with James," Mr. Potter told the children.

"No! Of course not Mr. Potter," Sirius replied, smiling.

"It's Fleamont dear,"

Sirius smiled gratefully towards him. Audrey and James led him to his and James' bedroom. It was decorated with Quidditch posters, and had little figurines of famous Quidditch players lined across a shelf. It had a huge window which looked out onto the huge garden that the Manor housed. Two twin beds stood on the opposite sides of the room, with bedside tables on each side. James threw his bags on the foot of the one opposite to the window, because he knew that Sirius liked to sleep next to the window. Sirius put his bags down as well.

"You know, there is one thing I don't get. How could you two ever be 'perfect little angels'?" He asked with a smirk. James laughed out loud, while Audrey smirked back and shrugged.

"Well, I'll leave you boys to unpacking. See you later,"
And she walked out of the room.

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