Victoire POV

"Victoire Weasley! Get your vittle legs in ze garden now and do vat I asked you to do!"

Ugh. I can never get a break. My mother lately has been making me do chores nonstop I can't stand it but I oblige because my mother is a force to be reckoned with she can be absolutely retched if you don't do as she asks or break the rules. Although I don't have to worry as much because I know better it's my little brother who I worry about. He's as mischievous as they come probably next to Uncle George he would tell us stories how him and our late Uncle Fred would get into all sorts of trouble at Hogwarts. Mother, I feel is at wits end with Nicholas. Next year would be his first year at Hogwarts and my 6th year.

I got up and walked to the garden to go get rid of all the gnomes mother told me to get rid of hours ago. I took my time going there too. I absolutely hated the gnomes they always ran away and tried to bite me. My father was busy in his office working on whatever it is he does at Gringotts. Looks like Dad can't help me get out of it, he usually helps me by having us switch chores he'll get the gnomes if I tend to the rest of the garden.

When I got outside mother was nowhere in sight I think she said earlier today how she was visiting my grandmother, my father's mother, Molly to arrange plans for my brother's birthday. He was turning eleven next week. I started to try and catch a gnome, once I finally got it I just got the right swing and was about to hurl way into the ocean, I hear a pop I get startled and let go in a hurry it hit's the cottage and comes running back to bite me.

"OUCH! Bloody gnome!" I curse under my breath and try and relieve the finger the thing bit. Behind me I hear a low chuckle and I twirl around my wand ready to jinx whoever it was.

"Whoa Vic no need for that do you want to get expelled for using magic outside of school?"

"Teddy! You surprised me when you popped in, I should jinx you! The gnome bit me."

He starts to walk towards me still trying not to laugh. "I'm sorry Victoire, here let me see it, can't be that bad."

He holds out his hand waiting for me to let him see mine. I cautiously place my hand in his he twists and turns it and shrugs as he says "Eh, you'll survive"

"Alright fine, why don't you do it then, I'm no good at it, anyways what brings you here?"

"What I can't come to see one of my best friends when she only has two weeks before she starts school? Jeez, I come for a leisurely visit and I get to do your chores thanks, Vic your such a good friend" he teases.

I look at him quizzically. "Yea right, you popped all the way over here just to see me?" I knew it was possible but lately he's been so busy with his new job training he barely has anytime let alone to have 'leisurely visits'. He just got out of Hogwarts last year and was now working for the Ministry in the Department of Mysteries, I don't exactly know what he does but then again I don't think I'm supposed to.

"Yea is that so hard to believe that I would want to come see you?" He asks in a joking tone but the look on his face is slightly offended. I sighed.

"Ted, I'm sorry, I just haven't seen you in so long I thought…never mind" I shrugged uncomfortably, I hated feeling this way being in a vulnerable state like this and oh God! I was not going to start crying right now! I quickly wiped away the tear streaming down my cheek before he could see. Although he caught the tone in my voice and noticed the hurt, no matter how hard I try to mask my feelings Teddy always knows it. He suddenly stops what he's doing. It's as if he can read my mind.

"Vic…you don't think that I would ever forget about you, do you?"

I looked around uneasily, really anywhere but at him, "Of course not." I was a bad liar. I could feel his eyes burn right though me for what felt like eons. He finally started to walk towards me not exactly knowing how to approach me, it seemed.

Teddy's POV

I didn't exactly know what to say to assure Victoire that I would never ever forget her. I sighed not exactly knowing what to do, I just reassuringly gripped her shoulder and said, "You know I would never forget about you no matter what was going on in my life, making time for you is always one of my top priorities." This whole time I was explaining this to Vic I decided to keep eye-contact to let her know of my genuine care for her. I also knew that Victoire was, although she doesn't seem it, very self-conscious at times and vulnerable and I absolutely hated to see her like that.

"Teddy, I'm sorry…I shouldn't have said that, I-I just don't know what got into me. I've just been so stressed lately."

"Vic, I always want you to tell me what your thoughts and feelings are, don't be sorry. How about we get rid of some of that stress, huh? We're too young to feel stressed out." I quickly changed the subject because I just don't think I'm ready to tell her exactly how I feel about her, not yet anyhow, and that's exactly where that conversation was going.

"And what are your ideas?" Vic asked teasingly.

"How about we just disappear for a day?" I looked at her to see her reaction.

"What? Your crazy Ted, my parents would kill me!"

"Come on Vic! Don't worry about that now, I mean when was the last time just you and me did something together?"

Victoire, I could tell was having an inner conflict with herself on whether or not to come with me. Then finally when what seemed like an eternity she looked me in the eyes,

"Where do you want to go?"

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