Shackled Romance-Chp20

Star looked around. "WOW! This place is big. I think the orpahange could fit in her ten times over."

"Your exaturating. It is a bit bigger than the orphange, but not that much."

Sirius: *chuckles* Well, ur both right n wrong. It's more like 5 times ovr. Come, I'll take u upstairs where u can choose ur own room. Then I'll take u a tour ard the house

"Our own room? We don't have to share?" Star asked.

Sirius: *shrugs* Tht's if u want to. Its ur choice. U dont hv to share if u dont want to

"Can we?" They both asked at that time.

Sirius: Sure, go ahead. Pick which evr room u girls like *smiled n patted their heads*

They both grined and went running to claim rooms that where twice the size of the room they shared. The rooms were side by side.

"Wow, Char, this room as two windows and a seat under it."

"Same here!"

Sirius: *chuckles* Its almost all tht way in evry room. Well? How do u like it?

"It is awesome." Star smiled. "I love it. Thank you, Mr. Black." She said, coming ant hugging him.

Sirius: *chuckles* Well, I'm officially adopting u now, so I wont be adverse to u calling me ur father. Aftr all, I am currently dating ur mother

"Can I call you Daddy?" She asked.

"I think I will wait on that, Black." Char said.

Sirius: Sure u can, Star, n sure, Cassi, anytime ur ready. Oh sorry, should I call u by ur real name or ur given name?

"Charlotte. Until I meet my mother. Then I will deside."

Sirius: Alright. U must be hungry. Shall I prepare dinner?

Star nodded. "I am hungry."

Sirius: Alright. I'll ask the servants to get food ready. In the meantime, want a tour ard the house?

Both girl nodded.

*Sirius went to tell the servants to hv dinner ready, then spent the hour taking the girls ard the house, showing them the rooms, the bkyard, the gardens n the like, n then showed them the family tree of the Ancient House of Black*

Sirius: As u can see here, this is our long-standing life-size family tree. Its magically-induced to detect any new descendants to the family line, so wen a new member is added to the family, it will automatically "grow" a new branch. See? *points at the 2 new branches under his name* Tht's u girls

"But we are just adopted. We are not really your blood." Char said.

Sirius: It does tht, regardless by blood or otherwise. Tht's why *pointed at the branch* This branch looks slightly yellow, showing tht ur not reli related to me, bt still considered the Black family

"Ah I see." Char nodded.

"Cool, we have a Daddy and a Mom." Star smiled, hugging him again.

Sirius: *chuckles* Yes u do *hugged her bk, then patted Charlotte's head* Come on, I smell dinner

The girl followed him to the dinning room with a large table, able to five atleast twenty people.

Sirius: Go ahead, hv a seat, n hv watevr u like *sat at the head of the table n tucked in*

Char put a little of everything on her plate to see if she liked them, then Star tucked into the food like she hadn't had any in days.

Sirius: Slow dwn there, Star. U'll choke if ur not careful *sipped his drink*

"She always stuffs her face. And takes big bites. She has never had good table manners." Star glared at her with her full mout and chewed and swoallowd.

Sirius: Well, it shows tht she has a healthy appetite. Careful, drink some water to wash it dwn, Star. U dont seem to eat much there, Charlotte

Star drank her water. "She doesn't. She has a small appitite. Two mother bites and she will be full."

"At least I don't eat liek a pig."

Sirius: Now, now, u girls hv ur own preferences, so dont judge, alright? So u two been living in tht orphanage all ur life? Who gave u ur namesake?

"I think the lady that took us to orphange. They gave us the last name of Smith. I guess it is very common last name."

Sirius: Smith. Yes, it is pretty common, especially among the Muggles. Ur caretaker seem rather adverse to u wanting to study. Why is tht?

"As she saw it. I knew too much, and parents don't want to adopt know-it-alls. I was smarter than most the children there. She just wanted me to be dosile and do what I was told. That is not me." Char said.

Sirius: Well, sometimes being urself is good, bt sometimes being docile is necessary bcoz one day it might save ur life. Bt I suppose ur little knw-it-all attitude is a blessing in disguise; u wouldnt hv met me if u were doing as u were told. *chuckles* U reli remind me a lot of ur mother *stroke her hair*

"What is our mother like?" She asked, then Star seconded that.

Sirius: Well, he has ur hair n ur nose, Charlotte. N I see u both inherited his eyes, tho I think there is a hint of ur biological father's colour in them, bt no matter. N u definitely hv ur mother's intelligence n snarky remarks, Charlotte, n u hv ur mother's smile, Star. He's all tht n more. He is the most charming man I've evr met, n I intend to marry ur mother

"Really?" Star asked, "But how? I thought he was in a brothel."

Sirius: Tht will be the tricky part. I will hv to bring dwn tht brothel in order to free ur mother, bt it will take delicate planning

"So how long will It take?" She asked.

Sirius: It depends. I cannot say definitely how long, bt the sooner the better. The boss of tht brothel is no other than the notorious underground wizard mafia king pin Tom Marvolo Riddle aka Voldemort. So u see where we're getting at

"Ah." Star nodded, but didn't get it.

"How can you do it? If he is that big your can't bring him down on your own." Char pointed out.

Sirius: With a lot of elbow grease, some manpower frm the Ministry n a whole lot of confidence, n with a dash of miracles. Dont worry. One thing we Blacks take pride of is resilience. We're like cockroaches. Takes more than one way to snuff us out *laughs*

"Do you know who our reall father was?" Star asked.

Sirius: *shook his head* Unfortunately no. Bt I can do a lineage potion if u like

"Only if Mother says so." Char said.

"don't you want to know, Char?" Star asked.

"Yes, but only with Mother's permistion." Char knew that their mother might know but at the same time if he didn't she didn't want to bring up bad memories and it would give their reall father a chance to find them.

Sirius: Alright, we'll consult ur mother first. U all had ur fill? Well, u may be excused. Do watevr u like. The house is urs, bt turn in early so we can go visit ur mother tomorrow

"Ok." Star said, getting up, Char did too and they turned to go out of the dinner room.