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summer 1973,
i won for a change
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"Aimee, can you come downstairs a moment?"

She groaned rolling out of bed, she wore shorts with a long shirt that covered her shorts. She ruffled her hair, running her fingers through her tangled hair, trying to loosen her curls. 'What could my mother possible want this morning?'

"Yes, mother- Merlin's beard!" she exclaimed as Evan and his father stood in the archway at the bottom of the stairs.

"Aimee," her mother said "that's no way to greet our guest,"

"Sorry, I had no idea you were coming?" she said, trying to flatten her hair down a little, Evan looked surprised like she should have known he was coming. 'Why didn't her mother tell her?'

"Where are your-

"Upstairs!" she said loudly to prevent him from saying anything "I'll show you my room, we can play wizard chess,"

She grabbed Evans hand hurrying him up to her room, once she was inside, she held her finger up to her lips to keep him quiet. He cocked his brows at her confusing behaviour 'why was she acting so strange?' Aimee listened for her mother and his father, once she was certain they weren't listening she spoke.

"Sorry about that, I didn't want you to mention my brother's in front of my mother,"

"It's alright, but if you don't mind me asking why?" she pressed her lips together not fully knowing if she could trust Evan with this knowledge especially when Sirius and Regulus didn't know why her brothers didn't live with her.

"I can't tell, not here anyway,"

"Alright, I saw a park across the street we could go there if you'd like," he said "get away from our parents?" she nodded smiling lightly.

"Yeah, I just need to get changed?"

"Alright, I'll wait downstairs,"

Evan left her to change out of her pyjamas, she dressed appropriately she wore shorts with a tank top, she wore a thin cardigan to cover her shoulders. When she came downstairs, Evan thought a different person had come downstairs, her hair wasn't as big.

The big secret to her taming her hair, is Fleamont Potter's sleakeazy hair potion, though she would never tell James Potter about that. He wouldn't let her live it down. 

"Mother, are Evan and I alright to go to the park?" she asked, her mother nodded

"Yes, of course, you two go have fun," she answered, she found the friendly tone of her mother's voice haunting.

They left her home, walking a little further down the street to the park nearby. She had never been to the park before, they tried to blend in with muggles would be a little awkward as not many of them knew a lot about muggles. She knew small things but not a lot.

Things she did know she had learned from Lily and Mary who were both from muggle families. Sirius had listened to some of his favourite artists with her few names, like Stevie Wonder and Elvis Presley, though Aimee enjoyed listening to The Temptations, he thought they were alright, not his favourite but still good.

"Race you to the swings!" she shoved Evan to get a head start. She bolted towards the swing set in the park, he ran closely behind her, he passed her reaching the swing before she did. He held his hands up in victory.

"Looks I won for a change, Burke,"

"Yeah, yeah," she said, nudging his shoulder "you still can't beat me at wizard chess,"

"One day I will, I'm sure of it," he said, sitting down on one of the swings, she sat on the one next to him,

"So why didn't you want me to mention you brothers in front of your mother?" he asked, hoping she would tell him now that they weren't in her home anymore.

"It's a long story,"

"I've got time," he said, she smiled at him,

"Can I trust you? My mother would be furious if people knew,"

"Yes, you can tell me anything,"

"Alright, when I was younger, my brother's did live with me," she began, thinking of the best way to explain, "but my mother is a very controlling person, and when some doesn't fit her standards she'd rather not acknowledge them,"

"Why don't your brothers fit her standards?"

"The oldest, Charlie, my mother had arranged a meeting between him and Bellatrix, Regulus' cousin, but he found her to be so erratic that he completely disobeyed my mother," Aimee explained, only remembering what Jacob told her of Charlie.

"What about the twins?" he asked

"Theo and Jake, they use to sneak out they'd go and hang out with some of the muggle children their age, mother greatly disapproved, Danny, always had an influence on me and in my mother's eyes I still have a chance,"

"A chance at what?"

"To marry into a wealthy pureblood family, not that I even want that,"

"That doesn't explain why they don't live with you?" Evan questioned

"My father is a very kind and open person, he wants us to be happy, he would prefer if we married purebloods, but if we were happy with someone who wasn't, he'd still be happy for us," she smiled, she could always count on her father to have her back and support her decision.

"He seems like a nice person, whenever I saw him on the platform,"

"He does everything he can to protect us, I have an uncle that lives in New York, he offered to take care of my brothers they went to Ilvermorny before they came to Hogwarts, Charlie has his own place now, and they live with him,"

"I didn't realise your mother was that bad," 

"Yeah, she actually forbids mine and Sirius' friendship, she fine with Reg though," Aimee told him,

Evan thought about her life at home and understood why she was opposed to their friendship. Though he was grateful that she gave their friendship a chance. He had come to like her very much, enjoying her company more than Severus and Regulus.

"Do you want to go a see Reg, he only lives down the road,"

He agreed to go with Aimee to Grimmauld Place to see Regulus, though she wasn't entirely sure how Sirius would react, she had told him that she and Evan were only friends and hoped he would understand, it was her mother who had invited Evan to her house.

Sirius laid on his bed, flipping through his Quidditch magazine he was hoping to get a new broom for when he went back to Hogwarts. He heard Kreacher go to answer the door, he looked out of the window, seeing Aimee and Evan waiting for the door to be answered.

"What was she doing here with Rosier?"

Sirius heard them greet his mother, of course, she would approve of having a Rosier in her home. Regulus left his bedroom to go and see them, he trusted her and believed that she wasn't interested in Rosier.

They sat with Regulus downstairs in the sitting room, they were laughing and discussing what they wanted to do when they went back to Hogwarts. Regulus had told Aimee of his plans to join the Slytherin Quidditch team, she was also going to try out for the team. When she left to go to the bathroom, Evan saw this as an opportunity to tell Regulus how he felt.

"Hey, you know Aimee pretty well right?" he began

"Yeah, I guess,"

"Does she ever talk about me?"

"Not really, why?" he questioned why Evan was asking questions about her. Sirius had left his bedroom to go and get a drink from downstairs,

"It's just, I really like her," Evan admitted

"You like Aimee!" Regulus said

Louder than he should have, Evan shushed him fearing that she might have heard, but Sirius had heard him instead. A gut-wrenching feel of betrayal flooded his mind. 'Aimee lied to me, she said there was nothing going on between them,' he thought to himself. He hurried upstairs, slamming his door shut.

"What was that?" she asked walking back into the room

"Sirius, he's probably pissed off at Mother for something again," Regulus said, he winked at Evan, to show he wasn't going to say anything to her.