OKay, hi guys. Reposting Young Love as this. Extra detail and its longer now too.
Quick information
Alicia is in her seventh year with Angelina, Wood, The Weasley Twins etc
Katie is in her sixth year
The trio is fifth year so everyone else is where they should be from there eg Ginny is in fourth year, Draco in fifth etc etc
Follows the storyline of Order Of The Phoenix with appearances from Umbridge, Death Eaters and dun-dun-duhhhh Voldemort
Original characters - Leo, Cara, Beth, Drew, Katie's parents and the baby/babies are mine.
Harry Potter characters are owned by JK Rowling etc etc
School holidays were always fun. Hanging out with friends, no teachers to tell you off or give you detention, just the increasing heat and your friends, except when it came time for homework. Alicia Spinnett, blonde haired and brown eyed, was about to start her seventh and final year at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry, returning in two and a half weeks. Her education was not the only thing she was returning to though. Friends, some she considered family, Quidditch and her teammates, even classes, meals in the great hall and their curfew.
She was finishing a potions essay for Professor Snape when a tapping came from her balcony window. A small tawny owl was sitting neatly on the window sill, a parchment letter tied to its leg. Alicia opened her window and took the letter from the owl, just before it fluttered into her room to rest on her tallest bookshelf. It was a letter from her best friend Katie Bell. A friend who she hadn't talked to since Fred and George Weasley opened their joke shop a month before. By just opening the window a fraction, the horrendous heat was already stifling to Alicia.
Opening her bedroom room, she yelled down the stairs of her home. "MUM! CAN KATIE STAY FOR THE REST OF THE HOLIDAYS?"
Her house would be what was considered larger than most, with 6 bedrooms, 4 of which had been taken by family members, ensuites and walk in wardrobes. A study slash library was slowly piling into Alicia's room, a large kitchen and dining area with enormous wooden beams and pillars exposed gave the sad reminder of missing Hogwarts. The lounge was large enough to fit a TV and 3 couches, coffee table and various ornaments around a fire place. The house was situated on a nicely sized property with privacy for Quidditch practice but roomy enough for kids to play in at birthday parties and play dates.
"HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE LEFT?" Her mother Beth yelled back. She was obviously in the kitchen. Down the stairs, to the left and straight ahead.
"TWO WEEKS!" answered Alicia
At the end of the hall, a small stampede could be heard coming up the stairs. Alicia's younger brother and sister were pretending to play Quidditch on their mothers domestic brooms. Seven years old twins were a handful, according to Alicia's muggle-born mother. Beth came up behind the twins, yelling at them as they knocked plants and tables, photos nearly falling from the walls.
"Sure, she can stay sweetie. Write her back and help me get these two downstairs for dinner."
Quickly, Alicia walked into her room and replied in thick emerald ink on a new piece of parchment, 'Yes, you can stay. Come over tomorrow around lunch time. =)'
Attaching the her reply to the owls leg, she was nearly forced to push the owl out of the window to get it going. She watched it fly away until she couldn't see it in the distance. A loud crash in the hallway and the sound of children running away, got her attention. She turned into the hallway and found two brooms and a broken pot plant.
"The next twenty-four hours are going to go soooo slow,' she thought to herself as she went down to dinner.
At midday the next day, Alicia was sitting in her room reading the latest novel in a series when she looked at her alarm clock and saw that it was nearly time for Katie to arrive. Finishing the page and chucking her bookmark in loosely, she hopped off of her bed to walk downstairs and plonk herself in front of the fireplace. Her mother had gone out to get the twins some clothes and toys and her father was at work.
The fireplace began to spit out green flames less than fifteen minutes later, alerting Alicia to her friend's arrival. Turning on the couch, she stretched out, yawned and waited for the ashes to clear. Standing there slightly dirty, an owl cage in one hand and a trunk handle in the other, Katie Bell had a lopsided grin on her face.
"I knew it. You are just as lazy at home as you are at school!" she exclaimed, brushing herself off and stepped out of the fireplace. "What? No hug?"
"Are you serious? You're filthy," answered the seventh year in a fake cruel snicker, a perfect imitation of a Slytherin.
"Gee thanks."
Giggling at their bickering, Alicia pushed herself off the couch and Katie dropped her things, scaring the owl she had in the cage. They both launched themselves at each other and clung as tightly as imaginable. It was if they hadn't seen each other in twenty years.
"Are you okay? You seem a little...tense," asked Alicia has she pulled back to inspect her friend.
A flash of fear crossed Katie's face as she forced a smile to reassure the older girl. "Yeah. I'm okay. Just got a lot on my mind, is all."
Together, they picked up Katie's trunk, lugging it up the stairs to the guest roomright next to Alicia's before throwing themselves onto the bed next to each other
"So what's going on? You've been very quiet. And that's NOT normal." Alicia had a stern look on her face that basically said "Don't you dare lie to me.'
Talk about bad timing. Downstairs, just as Katie was warming up to Alicia about her current problem, the front door slammed and little fairy elephants could be heard running amuck on the wooden floorboards.
"I guess we should let mum know you're here."
Alicia got up to walk out of the room, stopping only when a hand on her wrist pulled her back. It was now or never and if she didn't tell her best friend immediately, Katie would chicken out and probably end up blurting it out while having a breakdown at school.
Gathering up all the courage she could muster, Katie spilled her secret in two words. "I'm pregnant."