The Holidays
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Rose woke up to the sound of her cousin Roxanne screaming at, she presumed, her cousins James and Fred, the two seemed to have taken it upon themselves to become the new Fred and George, or the new Marauders with their friends Frank Longbottom and Andy Boot. Rose sighed, wondering what they had done now, and dragged herself downstairs for breakfast. Al and Scorp were already eating so she pulled up a chair next to them.
"What have they done now?" she asked tiredly.
"You'll know" Replied Scorpius, looking extremely amused.
"Just wait until you see Roxie, we're lucky she's a Gryffindor, green is not her colour" Al told her. Before she had time to ask Al anything else, she cousin stomped into the room; at once she knew what her cousin and friend had meant, Roxie's usually dark red hair was now a bright green with pink streaks. Rose couldn't stop herself from snickering, earning her a glare from her now very colourful cousin.
All her cousins (except for Victoire, Dominique and Louis who were with family in France) were at their grandparents house, The Burrow, for two weeks over Summer break, they had each been able to bring a friend, Al asked Scorp and Rose had asked her best friend Sarah Corner…
"Hey! Where's Sarah?" Al asked, "I thought she always woke up before you."
"Yeah she does, I assumed that she'd be down here. Haven't you seen her?" Just at that moment Sarah entered the room, carrying two handfuls of letters.
"Lazy bird couldn't be bothered taking them to the house" she explained laying them down on the table. They were letters from Hogwarts, Rose jumped up grabbed hers before anyone else had time to react, after tearing it open she was excitedly scanning the new book list when she heard a squeal of delight. Roxanne, who up until now had been picking at her food, still furious with her brother and cousin, was jumping around the room with a letter in one hand and something small and shiny in the other.
"I'm Head Girl!" She squealed, her anger completely disappearing.
"Huh, is Woxie the Head Girl now?" asked Fred in a mock baby voice.
"Oh I'm so pwoud of our wittle Woxie," continued James in the same voice.
"My baby sister's all gwown up" finished Fred, wiping a fake tear from his eye.
"OK, first, we're twins Fred. I'm not your 'baby sister' if I was born a few minutes before you, and second, being your sister, I do know all your tricks so I'd be expecting quite a few detentions this year, aye Fweddie?" Roxie smirked as Fred and James scowled at her.
"Wow Roxanne, well done" congratulated Scorpius. Rose rolled her eyes, Scorp was always doing that, even though he'd known them for years he still sucked up to her family, probably to make up for the fact that he was a Malfoy. Even though Scorpius' father had changed since the war, the wizarding world, Rose's family especially, were still wary of Draco and his family.
Scorp noticed Rose rolling her eyes and stuck his tongue out at her good-naturedly; she returned the favor as her youngest cousin, Lucy skipped into the room with her best friend Maia Longbottom. Maia was their Uncle Neville's youngest child and a Hufflepuff, she was very shy and had a huge crush on Fred, blushing whenever he spoke to her, hardly being able to say anything back. Fred, of course, loved this and spent a lot of the time she was around him winking at waving at her, making her giggle and turn so red she would put a Weasley to shame.
They spent the rest of the holidays playing Quidditch and goofing around. On the 31st of July there was a huge party held at Potter Manor for Harry's birthday. Every Weasley/Potter were there with a few friends each, as well as the Longbottoms: Neville, Hannah, Alice, Frank and Maia, the Scamanders: Luna, Rolf, Lorcan and Lysander, the Thomas': Dean and Daniel (unfortunately Mrs. Thomas was in Australia and unable to attend), the Finnigans: Seamus, Sinead and Aidan and many of Harry's other Hogwarts friends.
Rose had invited four of her friends: Sarah, Lizzie Clare, Hayley Tomlinson and Heather Styles and Al had invited three: Scorpius, Tori Zabini and Noah Nott. Fred and James had only invited one friend between them: Andy Boot, because Frank was invited with the rest of his family. They spent the whole party playing pranks on their families and friends, reminding everyone why they had earned themselves the name 'The New Marauders'.
Towards the end of the night Al asked Lizzie to dance and Fred asked Sarah. Rose, Heather and Hayley were sitting near the dance floor talking when Rose felt a tap on her shoulder.
"D'you want to dance with me?" Scorpius asked.
"No, but I suppose I'll have to, to be polite" she replied smiling, Scorp grinned at her and took her hand. She hadn't noticed what he was wearing before, but as he pulled her though the crowd she could easily see how well his suit looked on him; it fit him perfectly and Rose could just make out the muscles on his Quidditch toned body…
'What are you doing Rose! Checking out one of your best friends, I must be really tired' she thought to her self, shaking the weird thoughts out of her head but when he turned to face her she noticed how brilliant his eyes looked. They were grey, but a sort of bluey-grey and he had lashes most girls would kill for. 'It's like he's looking right into my soul…' This time Rose actually shook her head, attempting to clear her mind, earning her a look from her friend.
"Usually you move your feet, in time with the music" he told her teasingly and she just rolled her eyes. They danced and talked about anything they could think of, they just felt so comfortable with each other after all these years so it felt much too soon when Mr. Malfoy apparated in to take Scorpius home.
Sarah and Lizzie were staying the night at the Granger/Weasleys so they stayed up until the early hours of the morning, talking and laughing but all the time Rose couldn't get the sound of his laugh out of her head, confusing her greatly.
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