Lily came crushing through my flat door excitedly. "Rose!" She yelled my name because she didn't see me sitting at my counter with a cup of tea.
"You might want to close the door." I said, putting my bookmark in my book. I knew I wasn't going to get any reading done when Lily was here. Lily closed the door and saw me looking at her. She smiled at like she had some big news for me. She came over and hugged me before she made herself a cup of tea. She sat down next to me on the stool. "Is there a reason you are at my house on a Thursday?" I asked her. Lily rolled her eyes. I knew I shouldn't have asked that question because Lily would show up at my door on random days.
"I have news for you and I want you to be the first to know." Lily took a sit of her tea. "You know how to make the best tea in England." Lily sat there enjoying her tea.
"Do you want to tell me what your news is?" If I didn't ask Lily would be here all night.
"Jeremy proposed to me last night," Lily said. I saw the biggest smile on her face. Jeremy Wood was her boyfriend for the last two years. I reached across and hugged her.
"That is great Lily," I broke the hug. "Do your parents know?" I asked. I thought she would tell her parents first. Lily rolled her eyes.
"Yes, I told them last night. I wanted to tell you next because I want you to be my maid of honor." I choked on my tea. I recover by coughing and Lily hitting me on the back.
"You want me to be your maid of honor," Lily nodded.
"Who else would I ask?" I nodded.
"I would be honored." I felt tears coming to my eyes. "Have you picked a day?"
Lily shook her head and laughed. "No but you can help." I laughed. We discussed what she wanted for the wedding. "I have to pee," Lily got up and went to my bathroom.
While Lily was in the bathroom it made me think of our other cousins. Most of them of them were married or engaged. Lily was one of the last to get engaged. I knew my brother was going to ask his girlfriend soon. He told our parents and me the last time we had dinner just the four of us. Everyone who was married was having children even my prankster cousins. They were all about to become dads. And the thing was that I didn't even have a boyfriend and I have never had sex in my twenty-five years. The girls would get together and talk about what they did with their husbands and boyfriends and I never told a story. My cousins all thought that I like to keep my sex private which is true because I don't have one.
"Rose, are you okay?" Lily spoke very softly. I nodded. "Are you sure?" Lily took a seat on the stool. I looked over to Lily to see worry on her face. Something in me told me to tell her what is on my mind.
"Lily if I tell you something you have to promise not to tell anyone?" I asked her.
"Yeah, you can tell me anything." Lily said.
I took a breath. "I'm still a virgin." I looked away because I didn't want to see the look on her face. When she didn't say anything to me I took a look at her face. All I saw was surprise on her face.
"What about Ben or Greg?" Lily was talking about my two boyfriends that I had in my life. It's not that I'm not beautiful with my red curly hair and golden brown eyes but I didn't fall for guys that easily.
"They only lasted two months before I broke it off with them. They wanted something I wasn't ready to do and they didn't want to wait so I broke up with them." I explained to her. Lily reached over and hugged me.
"We'll find someone who will wait until the end of time for you," Lily said. "Wow," Lily still couldn't believe it. Lily wanted to say more but didn't know what to say. "I got to go but I'll see you at the Burrow on Sunday." I nodded.
"I'll be the only single one there." Lily hugged me one more time before leaving.
On Friday Hugo told us that Anna had said yes. I was happy for my brother. Anna was good for him. I knew Lily and Hugo were going to tell the rest of the family today. I was happy for both of them. I was happy for them but I wanted it to happen to me. I was jealous of my cousin and brother I admitted to myself last night. I won't tell them because this is their time. I guess I'll just be the spinster aunt to their kids. I'll spoil them with gifts that their parents wouldn't get for them.
When I got to the Burrow I ran into Teddy's and Vic's oldest at seven. His hair was changing and that only happen when he was in trouble. I grabbed him before he could take off. I saw Vic come in. She grabbed her child.
"Thank you, Rose." She gave me a one arm hug. She patted her stomach. "It's hard to keep up with this one when you're seven months pregnant." Vic was on her fourth child. "We hope this one is a girl." Teddy and Vic had three sons and they were hoping for a girl.
I gave her a smile. "I'm sure it will be." I let her go to deal with her son. I made my way outside where everyone was. It looked like everyone was here.
Roxanne was talking to anyone who would listen about her wedding that was happening in four months. You couldn't tell but she was pregnant with her first child. She was the first to see me. "Rose, remember we have a fitting in a week," I nodded. I was one of the bridesmaids. She was about to go into something when my mum rescue me.
I thanked her before I left her. I knew she would ask when I would bring a nice guy home. I made it to the table without anyone stopping me. Everyone was talking to each other. Everyone looked very happy with their lives. I grabbed a butterbeer from the table that held the drinks. I made my way around to everyone to see how their lives were going.
"Lunch," Grandmum called out. Everyone took a seat at the table that was placed outside. I sat on the end next to Lily. Dom was sitting across from me telling about what her newborn daughter was doing.
"Page did the cutest thing yesterday," Dom told us about what her daughter did. I was glad for her. Dom had two daughters Pier and Page with her husband, Zach. She was about to say something when Hugo stood up.
"Anna and I would like to tell you that we are getting married." Everyone erupted in cheers. Grandmum was crying.
"Thanks, Hugo for ruining my news," Everyone turned their eyes to Lily. They waited for her to say something. "Jeremy asked me to marry him and I said yes." People were going around to Lily and Hugo saying their congratulation to them.
After everyone settled down and were eating and I tried to hide behind Lily because I didn't want Grandmum asking me questions about my love life. I wasn't so lucky. "Rose, when are you going to bring a nice boy home?" Everyone was looking at me. Lily gave me a sorry look.
"When I'm ready Grandmum," I held on to my fork a little too hard.
"I worried about you. It doesn't seem right that all of your cousins are with someone and you haven't brought a guy home once." Grandmum said in a sweet voice.
"Maybe I like to be single and there nothing wrong with that because Uncle Charlie is single." I said. I felt tears pooling in my eyes.
"It doesn't seem right for a girl and even your uncle brought some girls home. I don't want you to be an old maid, dear. You're already twenty-five. You better get on it before all the good ones are taken." Grandmum said like it wasn't meant to hurt me.
The tears were ready to fall. I put my silverware down. "I don't need this." I got up. "I don't need a man to make me happy. Congratulation Lily and Hugo, I'm happy for you. Goodbye." I walked away from the table into the house and through the floo to my flat where I let the tears flow free. I locked my floo so no one would come after me.
After an hour of crying I took a shower, made a pot of tea, and crawl on the couch with a good book and my cat, Queen. I was in the fifth chapter when there was a knock on my door. I set my book down and went to the door. I looked through the peephole to see a man standing there. He didn't look like any of my male family members so I opened the door. He had white blond hair and ocean blue eyes. He was smiling at me and it made me what to smile. I smiled back at him. He was tall and I liked that about him.
"Can I help you with something?" I asked.
"I was wondering if I could borrow some sugar," His accent was a mixture of American and British. I liked it very much.
"Yeah, come in." I moved out of the way to let him in. I went in the kitchen and poured some sugar in a baggie. I brought the baggie to him. "Here you go." He took the baggie and put it in his pocket.
"Thank you," He let himself out. I was going to go get back to my book when there was another knock on my door. I went to open it to find the guy back. "I was thinking I should thank you by buying you tea. Do you know a good tea shop around here?"
"Yes, but I'm not going out with you when I don't know your name." I smiled at the good looking man in front of me.
"Scorpius Malfoy," He put his hand out for me to shake.
I shook it. "Rose Weasley. Let me grab my coat." He nodded and I went to get my coat.
I took him to this little tea shop where he could buy me a cup of tea. We took a seat at one of the tables and a waitress came and took our order. We both order tea. While we were waiting I had to know about the accent.
"First things first, where did you get your accent?" I asked.
Scorpius laughed. "I lived in England until I was twelve until I went to school in America. I went to school there for the next six years. Between breaks here in England and spending most of my time in America I got it." They brought our teas. Scorpius leaned closer. "Can I tell you something?" I nodded. It felt like he was going to tell me secret. "I'm a wizard." I laughed.
"Can I tell you something?" I asked him. I leaned closer to me. "I know, only witches and wizards live in my building." We both started laughing. Why didn't he go to Hogwarts because I would have remembered him? "Why didn't you go to Hogwarts?" I had to know.
He frowned by the light didn't leave his eyes. "I did for one year but after one year I didn't like it and my parents decide to send me to other school."
"What didn't you like about the school?" I asked. I thought it was the best school out there.
"No one wanted to be my friend. My dormmates didn't want to be my friends because my family were cowards in the war and no one wanted a death eater as a friend." I want to reached over and hugged him but because that seem a little to forward.
"Sorry," Scorpius waved it off.
"Don't worry about it. I have plenty of friends now. I was best man at one of their weddings." Scorpius laughed. Then he told a story about his friends. We spent the night trading stories. I found out he was an only child, who his parents were, that he lived in America since his graduation. He just came back to England because his grandfather isn't doing so well and he wanted to be closer to his family. He was a writer but he didn't tell me the name he wrote under. We stayed until they kicked us out. Scorpius walked me to my door. "I had a great time, Rose. How about dinner some time?" He asked.
"That would be great, Scorpius." I smiled at him. "Good night," I leaned up and kissed him on the cheek. He waited until I went in before he left. I was on top of the world that I didn't see Lily sitting on my couch.
"It's about time you came home," I jumped a foot and turned to Lily.
"What are you doing here?" I asked her. I took off my coat.
"I came to make sure you were ok and you weren't here." Lily got up and came over to me. "You had me worried."
"I went out for a cup of tea." Lily didn't believe me.
"You make better tea here." She gave me a look to tell her the truth.
"A guy came over and asked for sugar. I gave him some; he left then came back and asked me for tea." I went to the kitchen. I knew Lily would follow me.
"You went out with a guy you didn't know after what happen at the Burrow." I got out some fruit.
"Yeah, he made me feel beautiful. I really like him and we are going to dinner sometime this week."
"You were feeling vulnerable after what happen today. How do you know he's not a murderer or something?" I was outraged.
"Lily, we spent the whole night talking. You have to trust me on this. It feels right. I'm going to see where this is going. Just be happy for me." Lily nodded.
"Okay, but I'm meeting him before your dinner date." Lily hugged me. "Good night." Lily left. I put the fruit away and went to bed.