CHAPTER 2: Bermuda

Two days later...

"Come on, kids! Let's go!" Sander shouted from the bottom of the stairs. "The portkey is set to activate in five minutes!"

"Coming!" Sarah and Annie shouted, rushing out of their rooms, as Harry himself exited the attic. Casey was close behind them. Each girl had three bags – two enormous ones, either in duffels or suitcases, and then a smaller shoulder bag. Harry, himself, had three bags – the duffel, which was full of his "wanted" items, the suitcase, which held his clothes, and his backpack, which carried his smaller items, like his toiletries, and some extra clothes, socks and his tennis-shoes.

He was downed in a pair of white board shorts that had green manly floral on the sides, and a dark green muscle tank, which defined his six-pack and showed of his biceps quite nicely. His hair was styled in its usual sexy unruly way, and a pair of black shades shaded his eyes. On his feet, he was wearing a pair of sandals.

As Harry followed the girls downstairs, Harry couldn't help but check out Casey, who had wearing a pair of very short and tight white bikini shorts, which had pale blue flowers all over. The shorts rose to her very high thighs, not covering much of anything. Underneath them, she was clearly wearing a bikini bottom, which was also pale blue. Her top, which wasn't much of a top, was a white skintight sleeveless shirt, very rib-hugging. Underneath that, she was wearing the pale blue bikini top, which showed through the white shirt. Her hair was up in a high ponytail, with a few very thin stray hairs at the top of her head loose. On her head she had a white sun-visor, and a pair of sunglasses covering her eyes.

The other two teen girls were dressed in similar fashions, except Annie had on a pair of lime green, figure fitting Capri pants, and Sarah had on a yellow terry-cloth skirt. The both were wearing bikinis as well, not to mention tank tops, and flip-flops.

Catching sight of Marni, who was in Sander's arms, was dressed in a cute pink sundress that was easy to remove if she wanted to go swimming. Underneath, she was wearing her pink and white little girl bathing suit, and she had white sandals on her feet.

Gabe was dressed in red shorts and a white sleeveless shirt, and sandals.

Sander was decked out in a pair of light blue and black shorts and a blue tank top.

Lily was dressed in a simple red terry-cloth sundress that covered her bathing suit underneath. Thank god she wasn't wearing a bikini, Harry thought, shuddering at the thought of seeing that much of his mother. Disgusting on so many levels.

Aramis and Addie, the two energetic Dalmatians, were on leashes, held by Casey. Even the dogs were looking excited – and they were just dogs.

"Yay!" Marni clapped excitedly, bouncing in Sander's arms. "We're going to see the mermaids!"

"Mermaids?" Casey chuckled. "She's been watching The Little Mermaid, hasn't she?"

"Oh yes! Excessively, since we announced we were going to the ocean – different from here," Annie muttered, shaking her head. "And she had to do it in my room, of all places."

"Poor big sis," Harry said, throwing an arm around Annie, smirking. "Can't stand The Little Mermaid?"

"You try having to watch it five times in two days, and see how you like it, little brother," Annie said, shoving his arm off of her.

Sander placed Marni down and pulled out a bottle of sun block from one of his bags, which he gathered, and held it out.

"All right, guys, circle around, and gather your bags. Harry, make sure Marni's touching the bottle, will you?" the elder wizard asked.

Harry nodded and took Marni's smaller hand and held it to the bottle of sun block, making sure that they were both touching it. He also made sure that he had all of his bags. The others did the same and took hold of the bottle as well.

"In six…five…four…three…two…" Sander was interrupted by the portkey's activation.

Harry felt the familiar tug at his naval, and everything began to whirl and spin around him. He held on to Marni's hand tightly, as the spinning continued. Finally, after what felt like forever, everything stopped, and Harry felt his feet touch solid ground again.

He staggered slightly, but somehow managed to remain upright, with Marni secure in his arms. He watched as Gabe and Sarah fall on their butts, and Annie stumbled until she fell on her face, and he snickered slightly at the sight, before he caught sight of their surroundings.

The family was standing in the entrance of a very nice house. There wasn't much to see from the entrance hall, but he could tell that it was a very nice home. The walls were white and elegant, exterior of the house, as Harry could see from the small window on the front door.

Harry turned to his parents and said, "I'm going to go look around...and if this place has a room with a balcony, it's mine!" before taking off into the house.

The living room, which was the first room you came too and was very spacey, was completely and comfortably furnished, with beige velvet furniture – a couch that was circular, and shaped like a U, with a glass coffee table in the center, all right in front of a large flat screen television. On either side of the couch were matching Laz-E Boy armchairs with footrests. There was plenty of seating. To the side of the living room, was a sliding door to the porch, where you had a perfect view of the beach, which was just 100 ft. away.

Off to the other side of the living room, was the kitchen, which was a very nice size, and enough room for even a professional chef. The kitchen then led to the dinning room, which was also considered the sunroom. There was another sliding door in that room, with large picture windows, looking out to the back yard, that had more than enough room for Aramis and Addie to run around, as it was large and safely fenced in.

He passed the laundry room and the bathroom, uninterested.

Climbing the stairs to the second floor of the house, he saw that there were three bedrooms on this level, and a bathroom. Looking through the three, he was impressed. Each was fully furnished, of course, with lots of space for clothes. He did notice that there were too beds in each room. Obviously, they were to share a room.

He then climbed the last set of stairs to the third level. This level had two rooms. The first room, had one king-sized bed and a bathroom of its own, and was nearly twice the size as the other rooms, which made it the master bedroom. The other bedroom, though, was the best bedroom by far. There were two full beds, and lots of closet space, just like the ones down stairs, but this one had the balcony, right underneath the living room, overlooking the beach. There was no bathroom on that floor, except for the master suite's bathroom, but that was fine with Harry. He didn't have any trouble going downstairs to use the loo. It was worth it.

"Awesome," he said, already marking this his room. Too bad that the room was by the rents' room, though, he thought, as he returned to the family down stairs.

"I get the bedroom on the third floor!" he announced, gathering his bags from the entrance hall, where he had left them to go explore.

"Hold on," Lily said, gathering everyone into the living room. "We have to set up roomies. This house has five rooms, but we'll only be using four, so that it is fair, and doesn't cause any fights. Obviously, as the only two boys in the family, Harry and Gabe will bunk up. Your father and I have decided that we'll have Sarah and Marni in one room, and Annie and Casey in the other. Go ahead and pick your bedrooms – and try not to fight over which one you get. Each room has two beds. Go one."

"Once we all get settled, we'll go out onto the beach," Sander said, encouraging them all to hurry.

"Come on, Gabe," Harry said, guiding his kid brother up to their room. "What do you think? Obviously the best room in the house – minus the master – don't you think?"

"Wicked!" Gabe gasped, gaping around the room. He placed his bags to check out the balcony.

Harry spent the next half hour unpacking his clothes and other things and setting them out around his side of the room. When he was finished, he hurried back down.

Passing into living room, he spotted Marni trying to unlock the sliding door, and stopped her by scooping up the small girl.

"Oh no, Marni. We've go to wait for the rest of the family," he said, tickling her and swinging her around in a circle.

Marni shrieked and giggled madly. The one thing she loved doing above everything else, was playing with her big brother. The two had a bond, a very special bond that would always be there. Harry will always have his Sunshine, and Marni had her Shadow.

As the family headed out to the beach, carrying lawn chairs and towels, sun block and tanning lotion, Harry let the sun wash over his body.

"Come play with me, Shadow!" Marni begged, as she dragged him toward the water.

"Wait a minute, Marni," Lily said, walking over to her youngest daughter and removed the sundress from the little one. "There you go, now you can go into the water."

Harry quickly removed his shoes, before Marni proceeded to drag him over. Sarah and Gabe right behind them.

The warm water felt nice, and the four siblings enjoyed it. They splashed and dunked each other. Harry sat in the ankle depth water, as he watched Marni, making sure she didn't go out any further than she was supposed to, as well as keeping an eye on the other two.

The rents had gone for a walk, leaving the eldest teens – Annie, Casey and Harry – in charge. They would be back in a couple of hours, wanting to enjoy as much of the island as they could that afternoon, even though they had two weeks to explore.

Annie and Casey were sitting under one of the palm trees, in their lawn chairs, in only bikinis, sun bathing and chatting like girl friends. Harry wondered just what they discussed, and yet, he never wanted to know. If he didn't fear the thought of Marni or even Gabe of downing, he'd have kept his eyes on Casey alone. She looked so damn sexy in that pale blue bikini, soaking up the warm tropical sun. Yummy. It was a very mouthwatering sight. As it was, however, he did have to keep watch of the kids. Bummer.

Harry was in the middle of helping Marni build a sand castle, when he saw a teenage boy, about a year below himself, with beach-blonde hair, tanned skin, wearing a pair of gold-colored shorts and man-made flip-flops, approaching Sarah, who was with Gabe.

Harry instantly went into over protective older brother mode, and his eyes narrowed when he saw the boy's eyes roam over Sarah's bikini-clad body. Harry knew he should have protested harder when he saw that she was in a bikini. Sure, she's been a teenager for two years now, and has begun acting like the prissy little teen that she was – wearing skimpier clothes. He's been protesting for that long – two years – now, about his little sister's clothes. However, the Evans-Latsis family was, face it, overran by females, who dictate and disagree with and against all male things. They win, damn it.

When Harry protested about Sarah's clothes, he was overruled by not only his mother, but also by Sarah, Casey and Annie, who thought Sarah's clothes were very nice and fitting. Oh, they were very fitting; Harry'll give them that. Too fitting, in his opinion. You could call him a hypocrite, as he loved looking at Casey – and any girl for that many – with clothes that showed just a little skin. From experience, being the hormonally ran guy that he was, he knew that men enjoyed looking. So he knew that guys would be looking at Sarah. Wanting to do more than looking. And he hated that they would even dare do that to his kid sister. She was a pretty girl, just like Annie, who had men lined up for blocks to date her. Casey's line was noticeably longer – since he was standing in it, after all.

The boy smiled at Sarah, in what he would call 'charming' and 'flirtatious', and saw Sarah blushing, but enjoying the attention the punk was giving her.

Harry got up and was about to go over to chase the guy away, but Casey came up behind, obviously reading either his mind or his body language, and grasped his arm to keep him from leaving.

"Don't you dare, Harry Potter," she warned lightly, glancing over at Sarah and the strange guy, with a small smile on her face. "This is vacation – don't ruin this for her."

"She doesn't even know him, Case," he hissed, yanking his arm away.

"Which is why you let her get to know him, Harry. We'll only be here two weeks, anyway. Let her have her fun."

Harry scowled at that, but saw no point in arguing. He was going to lose. If he did go over there, Casey would probably tackle him to the ground to get him to stop – not that he wouldn't mind her tackling him, if it weren't under different circumstances.

"Fine, but they don't leave my sight. In fact, they don't leave this beach," he said, putting his foot down. "And if I see any could-be or would-be kissing, I'm going over, and that's that."

Casey, who looked like she was trying really hard to keep off a smile, nodded. "Fine. But so help me, if you do go over there without a liable excuse, you'll wish you hadn't."

"Whatever," he said, sighing. He reached over to his small bag, and pulled out some muggle money and handed it to Casey. "Could you take Marni to get an ice cream, and pick me up a large coke? You can get yourself and Annie something."

"Sure…Marni, you want some ice cream?" Casey asked, grinning at the little girl who was busy making the moat of the castle. All was forgotten at the words ICE. CREAM.

Marni squealed and jumped up. "Yay! Ice cream!" She ran over to Casey and took hold of her hand.

He watched his two favorite girls walk off to the refreshment stand just up the beach, wondering if he would ever get the nerve to tell Casey just how he felt. Sighing, Harry sat down in Casey's unoccupied chair, next to Annie, who was looking like she was asleep. Therefore he jumped when she spoke.

"You know, if anyone were voting for Best Big Brother Award, I'd nominate you, hands down," his sister muttered quietly, a smile playing at her lips.

He looked over at her, to see her staring at him. "Really? Why? Nobody ever listens to me."

"No, but you do try. And the way you are with Marni…I'm afraid how it's going to be when she starts dating in about eleven years."

"My Marni? Date? You wish," growled Harry, his eyes immediately looking for his baby sister, who was still waiting in line with Casey.

"So, how are you liking Bermuda so far?" she asked, changing the subject.

"It's very...relaxing, though no more than Athens was. A beach is a beach, yes? Both waters are warm and blue, and the air is nice. It's all very nice. What about you?"

"I love it. Wonder why Lily and Dad chose now to go on a vacation? It would have been nice to come here as a child. Although, there are some very handsome guys walking about, and it does pay off to be a hot young lady," she said, ever the modest one, as she checked out a tall, muscular, brown-haired guy, who had just walked by, also glancing her way.

Harry rolled his eyes. And he thought men were bad, he thought. "What are you doing, checking out these men, anyway? I thought you were with…Zeke?"

"Meh," she said, shrugging. "We broke up two days ago. He said I wasn't moving fast enough in the relationship then he wanted to go. How lame is that? I mean, we've only been going out nearly six months, and he already wants to sleep with me."

"Ass," Harry mumbled. "I'd never push a girl to have sex."

"Good…So, have you had sex?"

Harry laughed and nodded his head in the affirmative. "I have, several times."

"I knew you weren't a virgin," she chuckled, only slightly surprised. "You have had too many – um, promiscuous, girlfriend, not to be."

Harry looked slightly offended, but knew she was right. All the girls he did date were a bit loose.

"You're still a virgin then?" he asked her, not at all that interested in his sister's sex life, but it was only a fair question.

Annie grinned and gave him a devious grin. "Just because I didn't sleep with Zeke, does not mean I didn't sleep with anyone else. I've had sex twice. My first time was in fourth-year, and the second was last year."

"Really?" he drawled. "That's nice to know."

"Hey, you asked."

"Well, it was a fair question, wasn't it?" he asked, before he noticed Casey and Marni coming toward them. Marni was carrying her strawberry ice cream cone and Casey was carrying his coke, a chocolate ice cream cone for Gabe, and a bag of fire flavored Jolly Ranchers.

"GABE!" Harry called, gesturing toward his brother, who was now taking over Marni's sandcastle.

Gabe hurried over to them, and Casey handed him the ice cream cone. "Thanks!"

Harry sat up on the chair, moving his legs so that Casey could sit down. She handed him his coke, and sat down beside him, opening up the bag of Jolly Ranchers.

"Thanks, Case," he said, causing her to look at him strangely. No wonder, he never said thanks to her. "What? I can say thanks."

"I'm glad you can. I was starting to worry that you had no manners whatsoever," she said teasingly, as she unwrapped one of the hard candies and popped it into her mouth.

Harry reached into the bag and got one for himself, and another for Annie. "Does anyone have a watch?"

Gabe looked at his waterproof wristwatch, "It's nearly 4:00."

"Wonder where your parents are," Casey said, sucking on the candy. "Didn't they say there were only going to gone for the afternoon?"

"Yeah," Annie said, opening her sweet. "They've probably lost track of time."

"Wouldn't be the first time," Gabe grumbled, licking his cone rapidly.

The five of them, which including Casey, sat around for a while, just chatting and keeping an eye on Sarah, who was sitting with the boy on separate towels, side by side, talking flirtatiously.

It was around 5:30 before Lily and Sander returned to the beach, bags full of purchases, grinning and looking like they were having a great time. Lily walked over to them, setting the bags down with their things, looking apologetic.

"We're so sorry for taking so long, kids," she said, taking a seat next to Annie on her chair. She looked at the two teen girls and grinned. "They have some great things in the shops, and I know you'll both just love to look at. We'll go first thing tomorrow. I got a little carried away and lost track of time."

"That sounds great," Casey said eagerly. She, Annie and Sarah were shopping maniacs – always taking time off to go to the malls in Athens together.

"Yeah. Did you see any inexpensive jewelry shops?" Annie asked, very intrigued.

While the girls loved shopping, they like shopping cheaply – well, most of the time anyway – even though their family was filthy rich. However, they did buy very nice clothes, neither too expensive nor too cheap. On occasions, they shopped at the more luxurious stories, but not often.

"Where's Sarah?" Lily asked, realizing that one of her daughters was missing.

"Over there," Casey answered, gesturing toward the fifteen-year-old and the stranger. "They've been talking for close to two and a half hours now."

"Hmm, unfortunately," Harry grumbled unhappily, before helping himself to another Jolly Rancher.

"Oh." Lily looked over at the two lounging teens and smiled. "Well, he's good looking, don't you think?"

"I do," Annie chuckled.

Casey shrugged, not looking that impressed. "He's alright."

Harry scowled at this, but kept silent. "Could someone go and get her? I'm starving."

"Oh, fine," Annie said with sigh, getting up from her chair. She went over to get her sister, who gave her cell phone number to the bloke, and said a quick goodbye, before the family of eight went into their house.

"Your father is going to barbecue out on the porch…Gabe, honey, could you let Aramis and Addie out in the back? They've been in all day," Lily said.

Gabe went to do as he was asked, while Sander set about barbecuing. He barbecued yummy hotdogs, hamburgers and make some shrimp shish kabobs.

After dinner, the family filled into the house, and sat around the living room and watching a couple of movies, before everyone went to sleep, all exhausted from a day of swimming and soaking up the sun.

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