Chapter One: ALONE
She was sitting in the Gryffindor common room by the warm fireplace pretending to read a book for her N.E.W.T.s. Not that she needed to, she was well prepared. There we other students around talking about various things such as the last game of Quidditch or the hard tests a professor gave them, but none seemed to give her a second glance. It was her 7th year at Hogwarts, her last year, but to her, it was most lonely. As her school years passed in Hogwarts she realized little by little she didn't really have any friends of her own. Sure she had all her cousins, but now most of them have graduated and gone. There was her cousin Albus, but he was too busy with Quidditch and his girlfriend Alice Longbottom. Although he never shut her out she never wanted to be the third wheel with the two of them. Alice was a sweet girl, but they never had anything relatable to talk about, and she always found it strange that Albus was dating one of the teacher's daughters. She also had her younger brother Hugo and cousin Lily, but they were in the 5th year and had O. to study for, and they were on the Quidditch team. They each had parties and friend from the team to spend time with, and she never seemed to like Quidditch too much.
She wondered why she hadn't made friends after seven years at Hogwarts. Was it because she always spent that time with her elder cousins while they were there? Yet, Albus, Lily, and Hugo never seemed to have problems with that. Was she just so concerned with school that she gave up a social life to have them? So there she was, Rose Weasley, sitting in the common room, the smart "know-it-all," alone.
Rose decided that she needed to get out and get some fresh air. She wanted to get away from all the other students laughing and having fun with their own friendships. Nobody seemed to become aware that she got up to leave and as she went thought the portrait of the fat lady tears were streaming down her face.