"Jessica Eumphemia Potter and James Fleamont Potter get downstairs now" My dad called from the living room. I glared at James and he just gave me an amused look. I turned away and went downstairs. James followed close behind I could feel his smug look staring at me as I went up to dad. 

"Yes dad" I asked looking up at him. "You called for us" I was a bit nervous about what was happening. 

"You both got you letters for Hogwarts" He said calmly. I got really excited about the news I was a year younger than James. Ten to be exact. Dad gave a more angered look. I looked down. "Which one of you broke your mom's favorite cup?" We both pointed at each other. 

"Father she did it" James said calmly. I gave him a shocked look. How could he look so calm while lying?

"Dad he's lying. I didn't touch mom's favorite cup and even if I did touch it James is more likely to break something like that" I explain. My dad looked at James. 

"I don't know which one of you did it some... Both of you are grounded to your rooms till super" He said. I looked at James and he gave me a smirk.  I rolled my eyes and glared at him for a moment. "Go to your rooms." I shouldered James out of the way and went to my room. I heard him move to his room.

Both me and James went quiet to listen to our parents downstairs."Fleamont I have my concerns about them being in the same year. There always trying to see who could get who in trouble the most. She doesn't act like a girl. She acts like you" She said. I heard James snicker from his room. 

"There is nothing we can do about that. All we can hope is that there friends keep them out of trouble and she doesn't act like me" He said. "She acts like herself and that isn't a bad thing." I heard mom sigh. 

"I know I'm just worried. She's younger than everyone else" She said. I rolled my eyes. 

"Yeah she has a lot more spunk than most" He said. James started laughing. I punched the wall and I heard him fall over in a fit of laughter.

"Oh Shut up" I yelled to his room. He wheezed trying to stop laughing so he could speak. 

After a few moments he finally said "Dad thinks your spunky." He started laughing again. I sighed he thinks the stupidest things are funny.

"James... Your so stupid. You know that?" I said. He stopped laughing and sighed. 

"Yeah I know.... but I always get you in trouble somehow" He said. I could tell he was smiling by the way he said it. 

"I have got you in trouble a lot too" I said defensively. He calmly sat against the wall. The only thing between the two of them. 

"Yeah I'm glad I got a sister like you" He said. I smiled at this reaction. I leaned my head against the wall. 

"You know we can't leave our rooms now cause of you. If it was something less important we wouldn't be stuck in here" I said. He knocked three times which meant he understood. 

***

After a few hours of being upstairs mom called us down for super. I started heading down before James so I waited at his door and when he opened it I pushed him back in his room. "Jessica" I heard him say. With his tone of voice I decided to run downstairs. He chased me down the stairs. We ran around the table for at least five minutes before dad told us to sit down. 

James looked at me. "I'll get you back for that" He said and continued eating. 

"That was just payback for getting me into trouble" I said back to him. "So you get me back I get you back again. 

"No you got me in trouble" He said trying to make mom and dad believe him. 

"You know desperation is a bad color on you" I said to James. He looked at me with irritation in his eyes.

***

The next day they went to get stuff for school. The whole day James and I were pranking each other. Mom and dad keep trying to stop us and in the end we were sent home with dad and mom ended up getting the stuff we need. 

"You got us sent home James. All cause you can't admit when you are beaten" I said. He glared at me.

"It's not my fault you started a war between the two of us" He said. I rolled my eyes and looked at him. 

"Yeah I hope it ends before Hogwarts" I said. 

"We'll see" He said declaring another war between the two of us. We both laughed a bit thinking about our own victory. "If you loose you have to do what I say for a week."

"If you loose you have to do what I say for a month" I said. 

*** 

At the end of summer before we left for the train station we counted up the points. "I won" James yelled. "Now you have to do whatever I say."

"really" I looked at the points. "God Damn it all" I said. I looked at James "congrats" I looked at him upset that I lost. "Yeah well I'm not reminding you of your victory."