A/n: You guys are amazing, and it's thanks to all of your reviews and Story Alert adds filling my E-Mail that I've decided that what I need to get out of my rut is to work on my fanfiction once more.

My life is sort of sucky right now. Boyfriends Sister is a (Very bad word) and evicted us without notice because .. well I'm sure she has "her reasons", be they crazy and Bi-polar induced. Still, they are reasons in her head. So We're sort of.. inflatable-mattress surfing with friends and family, and this will be a great way to take my mind off it.

Albus was stressed. His mind and heart couldn't take much more of all the secrets. His family was hiding something from him.

He'd first noticed that Lily and Hugo were avoiding him and sitting with Scorpious nearly three weeks ago. Around that time he had seen Lily pass a small bag to Hugo under the table, but when he asked she'd just smiled sweetly, told him she loved him, "Ssoooo much!" and ran off to her Dorm, which, thanks to the Magic that is Hogwarts, he couldn't get into without the stairs turning into a slide and depositing him unceremoniously in a heap on the bottom. Something he'd learned chasing after a teasing Rose first year she she'd stolen his candy from home.

Finally after three weeks Hugo had tried to corner his cousin by convincing one of the Ravenclaw perfects to let him into their common room with a vague "Family thing" as his excuse. Only Hugo was apperently absent from the dorm altogether and no one knew where he was. According to the gossip, the whole dorm thought it was off on "another" secret tyst, since he'd been disappearing fairly often those days.

Since he'd ventured off to try and find Hugo before curfew and forgot his Father and Grandfathers Cloak* he needed to sprint back to his dorm. Arriving he had decided to have one of the girls call his sister out, only to find out that Lily had snuck out while he was gone, AND stolen his cloak for good measure, leaving a note claiming she was off to meet her Lover, Jacob Black and to only come after her if he heard howling.

Even annoyed with her, he snorted at the running joke in their family, when Victorie had convinced everyone they needed to read the Muggle Series, Twilight and it had sparked a large (friendly) family fight over Jacob or Edward. Lily even had a "Team Jacob" shirt she sometimes wore. (Where as Rose had chosen "Team Jasper", to spite everyone.)

So, Albus spent the whole night in the Common Room, waiting on Lily to return. He had eventually passed out, uncomfortably in one of the arm chairs near the fire and only awoke when Joey Wood had headed down stairs to go out for a morning fly and been nice enough to wake him up and tell him he should go grab some sleep in his bed for a few hours, offering to make sure he was awake for their first class as well.

"Thanks, mate." The green eye boy had mumbled and stumbled to bed. Hours later, still to tired to function, he'd rushed to class, still tucking in his shirt and straightening his tie while Joey gamely carried his bag for him.

Once they'd settled into their Advanced Health and Wellness Studies class the Brown eyed, Brown haired Gryffindor had finally ventured as to why Albus had been asleep in the common area.

"Oh, I was waiting on Lily, she sto...borrowed something from me and I wanted her to return it..."

Al muttered darkly, glowering around the room, realizing his cousin Hugo wasn't in class.

"Sisters, man. Mine stole my broomstick for a joyride around town and my parents confiscated it! It wasn't even my fault, I had locked it in my trunk and everything." Joey sighed heavily and patted Albus on the shoulder in a consoling fashion. Albus gave a weak smile and started to say something else when their Teacher approached.

"Mister Potter, do you know where Mister Weasley is?"

Despite her sharp nose and scowl, Mrs. Atkinson was actual a kind teacher, often allowing extra time to finish projects, and sending students on "special assignments" outside on especially sunny, or clear snowy days, saying that students sometimes needed to "Expel excess energy" for better mental health.

Which is why Albus' moody reply was a bit of a shock to all around, "There's so many of them, it's hard to keep track."

Seconds after he muttered it he started to color and opened his mouth to apologize, but just then Hugo came barreling into the classroom.

"I'm sorry Ma'am! I over slept!" Seeing as Joey had taken Hugos usual seat next to Albus, Hugo hurried across the room to the other open chair and tossed all his belongings down and slid wearily into the seat.

Mrs. Atkinson glanced between the two boys, Albus glaring at Hugo, and Hugo apparently trying his best not to look at his cousin, decided it was possibly a family matter and let it rest for now, and promptly started class.

Joey wisely said no more and took notes diligently. Albus tried to follow suit, but he could stop glancing at Hugo who was steadfastly staring straight ahead and taking notes. By the end of class Al had no idea what the teacher had been talking about and his notes were all random quill marks from tapping and jabbing his quill tip with increasing frustration into his parchment.

By the time he'd gathered up his stuff Hugo was disappearing out the classroom door, and since Hugo had more specialized classes, Al was unlikely to see him again until their last class of the day, Advanced Herbology with Professor Longbottom, (Their honorary Uncle), who had separated them into different groups. Which meant even if he did see him, Hugo would be with the group working in Green House #7, while Al and his group would be in Green House #2.

Albus had also noticed that Scorpious, who had the same class, and was in Hugos group, was now sticking to Hugos side as if -they- were related, or worse.

The jealousy was nearly making him sick. Objectively, Al knew that Hugo was straight, but on a deep fearful level the Gryffindor was scared that Hugo had discovered himself to be of a different sexual persuasion and Al wasn't sure he could hold his smile, or his mind if Scorpious and Hugo had started dating.

By the time the last class of the day had rolled around, Al was so nauseous with frustration that he decided to ditch and ended up hiding out in the room of requirements alone through the class, and well into the evening, even skipping dinner and simply grabbing something from the ever helpful kitchen staff, which in the last decade had expanded to include a assortment of workers besides the hired and paid house elves.

By the time he had ventured back to the Gryffindor Common room, he'd finished all his assignments for the week, started on the theory-crafting for his personal project for Advanced Potions, and convinced himself that he didn't care what was going on at all, and he was just going to ignore his Sister and Cousin for the rest of their lives. (Something he knew wasn't possible, but was going to attempt anyways until they finally broke down and confessed to him all their secrets, or so he told himself).

He was so determined to ignore them, it was a bit of a shock to him when he walked into the common room to find not only Lily there, but Hugo, the Longbottom twins, and Fred all sitting around, apparently having a family get together in Gryffindor.

After a moments hesitation he started to stalk past them only to be way laid by Fred, whom nearly jumped halfway across the room to him, talking excitedly about their potions projects, and since Fred didn't seem to be in on the secret keeping Al stopped and spoke to him. Ly seemed to appear out of nowhere and blew some dust in his face, after a second Albus recognized the pine and pineapple scent of one of WWW's "Pixie Puff Powder" just in time to end up with little balls of multi colored lights start whizzing around his face. He started running out of habit, knowing that if the "Pixies" caught him, he'd be be-spelled to do different silly things, like cluck like a chicken, or ribbit like a frog for a whole minute.

By the time the Pixie puffs faded his whole family was laughing, and soon enough the twins had set more PPPowder on everyone, including each other.

After a good round of laughter when Lily was caught and ended up meowing like a cat, even Al had forgotten to be in a bad mood at them. It wasn't until the end of the night, when Fred "accidentally" pricked his hand with what looked like a sugar quill as they were all getting ready to depart to bed, and quickly stashed it in his pocket and apologized, that Al started to get suspicious again. Even more so when he looked over his shoulder at Lily and caught her flashing Fred a "Thumbs up" sign that he realized Fred was in on the secret, too. But the common room cleared and Lily dashed up to her room before he could corner her.

Despite the good night, Albus ended up going to be in a darker mood then before.

((Please ignore any mis-spellings of common words or such to the cannon words, terms or names, I'm on a new computer and haven't set up my specialized spell correction. I will re-load this chapter corrected later. I just want to put it up for everyone that is following this story in hopes it would one day continue. 3 ))