Rose Weasley collapsed onto the bed as a muggle fan blew cool air on her overheated body. She was spending two weeks with her grandparents from her mother's side of the family. It was the middle of August and Rose longed to be spending these unusually warm days back at her own home where her father had placed a cooling charm on the rooms. It was not that she did not enjoy spending time with her grandparents, but she was extremely bored and hot. The reason she was staying with her muggle grandparents was because her parents had grounded her from all things magic. It was all Scorpius Malfoy's fault anyway. Rose was visiting her cousin Lily at the same time as Scorpius was visiting Albus. Scorpius had already turned seventeen and could do magic outside of school. Rose's birthday was not until the week before school started so she was still under age. Taking advantage of this fact he transfigured the Witch Weekly magazine in her hands into a spider. Rose had inherited her father's fear of spiders and sent a reducto spell at the spider in a panic. Luckily her Uncle Harry was able to pull a couple of strings and she was not in any trouble with the ministry. Her parents were another story. Her mother had decided it would be best if she got away from magic for a little while. And that is how she ended up here.

As Rose sat feeling sorry for herself a knock came on her door. Her grandmother walked in without waiting for an answer.

"It has not been this hot in years" she said eying her granddaughter's sweaty brow.

"yeah" Rose replied not in the mood for conversation.

"Your grandfather has business down near the ocean for the next week."

"oh"

"Well, we decided that a nice sea breeze would do us all some good so we rented a vacation house right on the ocean. How does that sound Rosie?" she asked

Rose sat up and smiled, "that sounds great grandma."

Her grandmother smiled at the change in attitude, "Ok dear. Well we are leaving in the morning so you better get packing."

Rose began gathering her belongings. Maybe this whole punishment thing would not be so bad after all. She loved the beach but her family hardly ever went. As she began folding her clothes she pictured herself lying in the sun until some cute boy would come over and flirt with her. He would then offer to teach her how to surf. The two of them would then head out into the water and fall in love. Rose sighed she knew this would never happen, but there was no harm in dreaming. All of a sudden she realized that there was one problem with going to the beach; she did not have a bathing suit with her. She had net expected to need one considering the fact that her grandparents lived in the middle of the city.

"Grandma!!!" she called out the door.

"What's the matter Rose?" the elderly Granger asked as she once again entered the room.

"I did not bring my bathing suit with me, it's at home"

"Well why don't you use that fire place powder to get it. Your parents know that I am taking you to the beach so they should have no problem with you going home really quick. Take some of those sugar free cookies I have on the counter to give to your brother while you're at it."

"Ok Grandma I'll be back in a little bit."

Rose walked over to the living room and started up the fire place. The Grangers refused to have any magical improvements put on their house, but they did agree to a fire place that would not heat up the house during the summer. This was the only emergency communication line they had to their daughter's family. Rose grabbed a handful of floo powder and made the familiar journey through the green flames. She stepped out of the fire place at her house to see her entire family plus the Potter family starring at her. She had forgotten it was Saturday and the Potter family always came over on Saturday or vice versa.

"Rose what are you doing here? Nothing is wrong is it?" her mother asked in a worried tone.

"Relax mum, everything is fine. Grandma just sent me to get my bathing suit for the beach. Oh and she sent you these cookies Hugo. She tried a new recipe. Now they taste like cinnamon cardboard." Rose replied with a smirk.

Hermione Weasley rolled her eyes at her daughter, "Alright well head on up I just washed a couple of you bathing suits so they should be in the pile of clean clothes on your bed."

"Thanks mum!" she called as she grabbed Lily's hand and dragged her upstairs.

"So how is life as a muggle?" Lily asked as she seated herself on Rose's bed.

"Well it has been boring as hell, but I think that is going to change. I just hope there are lots of boys at the beach."

"You know if you find that there are too many boys for you to handle you can always tell them about you gorgeous cousin Lily"

Rose turned to her cousin with raised eyebrows, "Lily Luna Potter you should not be thinking like that, you are fifteen years old!"

Lily gave her favorite cousin a confused look, "You are only sixteen"

"Well I will be seventeen in two weeks, but that is not the point. When I was your age I knew there was no such thing as too many boys."

The girls collapsed into a fit of giggles. Rose knew her mother was probably waiting impatiently for her to get back to her grandmothers, but she did not care. She missed her cousin. At school they were two years apart so they hung around with different groups of people. During the summer the two girls were inseparable. Well, they were until Scorpius decided to go and get her grounded. The girls stayed in Rose's room gossiping until Hermione called them downstairs. Rose hugged her cousin goodbye before she was pulled into her mother's arms. Just before she left she hugged her father. They had always been really close. She was his little princess, and despite how old she got that would never change.

"Be good baby girl, I'll miss you." He whispered into her ear before adding an afterthought, "and make sure your bathing suits are not too revealing. I don't want all those beach bums staring at my daughter."

She hugged him tighter before saying "Don't worry daddy I can handle myself. Plus I like the attention." She then grabbed a handful of floo powder and set off to her grandparents house. Rose spent the rest of the night getting ready for her week at the beach. She was beginning to believe that this might not be such a bad punishment after all.