Disclaimer: I don't own anything, nothing, I swear.
And I'm pretty sure the timing's off with Ron's kids, Rose and Hugo, to be the same age as Erika and Jonah, but just bear with me here.
14 Years Later
"…And then he said, 'I'll see you later,' and I said, 'Sure!' and then he left," gushed Rose, who was propped up on her friend's bed.
"Really?" Erika whined. "I can't even get Demetrius to talk to me during Charms. He sits a few desks in front of me."
"Well, that's probably why," Rose said. "He's not even near you. If he was, I bet you guys wouldn't be able to stop talking."
"I guess so," Erika sighed, looking down. The two were having girl-talk in the attic, where Erika's room was. It was the only place to get away from their cousins and brothers. Erika and Rose, her cousin, had been best friends since as long as they could remember, so naturally, Jonah and Hugo were too. They were downstairs, along with Erika's "cousins" Breana (who everyone called Bre), Leo, and little Robbie Jordan. Erika had gotten used to her beloved "cousins" (her mom's best friends' kids) but Rose was still working on it.
So Erika had brought her to the attic where 9-year-old Bre, who was very cute but still wanted to play with the big kids, couldn't find them. Meanwhile, Erika guessed 7-year-old Leo was trying to hang out with Jonah and Hugo, the elder of whom was twice his age. And 3-year-old Robbie—he was Erika's favorite, but Erika was sure the grown-ups were watching him while catching up. The grown-ups, of course, were Erika's mom, Katie, Lee, George, Alicia (who had brought their 5-year-old Jennah), Ron, and Hermione. A collection of aunts and uncles who Erika considered cool for the most part, but when their kids were here, Erika'd rather be with them. Proof of how cool they were: They understood that.
Erika whipped around at the sound of snickering and a muffled footfall. "Jonah," she muttered, and hissed, "Hold on," to Rose before quietly approaching the stairs. "Jonah!" she screamed loudly down the stairwell. "Go do something else besides spy on us!"
"Actually, we were about to scare you!" retorted her brother. "As if we'd spy on you!"
"Get out, you jackass!" she threw a pillow down the stairs, which he dodged effortlessly.
"Shh!" Rose warned, half-laughing from the bed. "Here comes your mom…" And sure enough, Erika could hear footsteps from way below.
"Crap," Erika said, and hid inside her closet. Rose, still in hysterics, sat back on the bed like nothing had happened, not wishing to rat her friend out.
Within two seconds Angelina was up in her daughter's room. Without a moment's hesitation, she opened the closet door, and found her daughter in the perfect "deer-in-the-headlights" position.
"Hey Mom," Erika drawled. "What's up? You need me for something?"
"Don't you dare play that game with me, Erika Weasley! You know you're not allowed to scream curses down the stairs at the top of your lungs!"
"But Jonah—"
"I don't care what Jonah did! I could hear you from the living room."
"Wow. I have a loud voice…"
"Yes you do, and in this case, it's nothing to be proud of." She lowered her voice as if Rose hearing was the most dangerous thing in the world. "You understand I let you curse around me and your brother, but if you do it in public that loudly, or around people who have a problem—"
"Uncle Ron doesn't have a problem."
"Erika!"
"Sorry."
"If you do it front of people, then I won't let you curse at all. You understand, right?"
"Yeah, Mom." Erika couldn't stand people being mad at her.
"Okay, baby." Angelina ruffled her curls and went downstairs, calling up as she went, "'Bye, Rose."
"Bye, Auntie Ang!" But as Erika came out of the proverbial closet, Rose cracked up. "She was so pissed!"
"You know what?" her friend replied. "I think I should hit you with a pillow too!" And in a second a pillow fight had ensued.
"PILLOW FIGHT!" yelled little Leo, running in, followed closely by Hugo and Jonah.
"Ugh, back to school," sighed Jonah, and the two girls couldn't help but laugh. Jonah hated school like most people had hated Professor Snape, back in Jonah's dad's generation. Put it this way: You didn't want to get Jonah started on a rant about school, because you were never sure when it would end.
"What're you talking about? It'll be fun," Erika said.
"You only say that because of Demetrius," Hugo mocked.
"Speak of the Devil," said Jonah coolly, for Demetrius McCain was indeed approaching their compartment, flanked with Sammy Livingston and… "Sergio," he sighed. "Great." But then the door opened, and Jonah had to stop his complaints. "Sammy! Pop a squat," he pointed to the seat next to him. "'Metrius," he pointed to the seat between Hugo and Erika (much to her delight). Everyone was very aware now that he had not offered Sergio a seat.
"Good Christmas?" Erika asked Demetrius shyly.
"Yeah, brilliant. You?"
"Alright, I hung out with this lot," Erika said. Great. Now there's nothing else to say. You? she thought of saying.
Meanwhile, Jonah, Hugo, and Sammy were discussing Christmas presents they had gotten heatedly. Erika rolled her eyes.
"Sometimes I swear he's five years old," she sighed.
"I know," Demetrius laughed.
Sergio seemed to be waiting for the invitation to sit down, but he wasn't sure if he wanted it. He had friends, an enemy, and three people he didn't know in here. He finally decided to sit down uninvited next to Rose, who had gone back to talking to Erika. Before Jonah had noticed, though, he was distracted by something—or someone—at the door. A dark brown head with a huge grin on her face, looking right at him had just brightened his day. "Gia!" Jonah yelped, and opened the door for her.
"Jonah," she embraced him, and everyone else felt the need to pointedly look away. Demetrius had shifted over and joined the discussion of presents, for which Erika had laughed at him teasingly. "I missed you so much."
"I missed you too." They started kissing, and through the compartment window, Gia got a few jealous looks, which she of course missed completely. Jonah was a little preoccupying.
"Excuse me!" Erika lifted her head from the conversation. "Go do something pornographic somewhere else. No offense, Gia, it's just my brother—"
"I get it," Gia said kindly, at the same time Jonah said "Nothing pornographic." Erika rolled her eyes.
"Okay. Bye."
"Bye," Jonah made a face at her as they left, and Sergio seemed very relieved.
The next time that group were together again in the year was when Victoire, a cousin of theirs (they had a lot), organized a secret party in the Room of Requirement. She invited a bunch of her cousins, and they had brought their friends. Jonah and Erika had come separately, Jonah with Sammy, Demetrius and (to his chagrin) Sergio. Sammy, Jonah's best friend, had insisted Sergio come, and Jonah had relented. Erika came with Gia and Rose, and the twins were doing their best to pretend they didn't know each other.
Victoire had only invited fourth and fifth years, and Erika had a suspicion this was only because her boyfriend, Teddy Lupin, was a fifth year. "Where's Ryan and them?" Sammy asked, looking around desperately.
"You mean Ryan and Jen?" Jonah asked knowingly. "I dunno, let's ask—"
"Looking for me?" crooned a voice. Victoire may only have been 1/8 Veela, but she was nearly as stunning as her mother. Sammy couldn't help but goggle, though he had seen her hundreds of times before.
"Yes, we were," said Jonah. "Where are Ryan and Jen and those people? Sammy here wanted to kn—"
"Wanted to know because it would mean I could talk to you," Sammy grinned.
"I'm with Teddy," Victoire retorted. "And you know that, Livingston." He nodded ashamedly. "You were saying?" she directed to Jonah.
Jonah mentally rolled his eyes. She could be so stuck up. "Where are they?"
"Oh, I didn't invite any Slytherins." Slytherins came out like some people would talk about dead vermin.
"No Jen?"
"No, Sammy." He retreated back to Demetrius, and Jonah continued to talk to his cousin.
"Victoire, d'you have to?"
"Do I have to? Some people are just too horny."
"Victoire!"
"Sorry. Jonah, I'd love to talk, but I've gotta go mingle."
"Sure," Jonah sighed.
"No Slytherins?" Sammy was saying to Sergio. "I knew I never liked her."
"Shh, man! It's her party," Demetrius shook his head.
"Got a crush?" Jonah made a kissy face.
"Everyone has a crush on her, she's hot," Sergio said.
"Dude, shut up about my cousin!"
"What, they can talk about her? Sammy hit on her!"
"He's my friend, he's allowed to be dumb!" Jonah looked at him. "Besides, you know perfectly well I hate you!"
"Guys, guys," Sammy stuck out his arms in between them. "Must we fight already?" Demetrius smacked him upside the head lightly, at which Sammy laughed.
"Sam, I think you're already drunk," laughed Demetrius. They all snickered as they walked to where the main party was.
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"Suggest it," she whispered. "Go! Go!" Erika pushed her friend up to Victoire.
"Hey Victoire," Gia said abruptly. "What kind of party games are you gonna play?"
"Uhh, I was thinking along the lines of Spin the Wand," Victoire said quietly.
"Oh, perfect!" Gia said a little too excitedly.
"But what're you worried about? You're happily in like," Victoire said astutely. "You don't need a dumb party game to help you out."
"Neither do you," replied Gia, and walked away with as much class as she could. "I did it!" she told Erika and Rose.
"You did? Oh, great!" Rose squealed.
"Well, she kind of did it for me," Gia admitted. "But it's done. We're playing it later—"
"We're playing Spin It!"
"Or now," Gia corrected herself. Most of the kids were already in a circle, and Teddy was in the middle, wand in hand. About half the people had a mug in their hand, and Erika had a definite feeling it wasn't Butterbeer.
"Who wants to go first?" Teddy asked, once he settled himself back in the circle.
"I will!" called a kid that Erika didn't know. He looked vaguely familiar, maybe Hufflepuff? He seemed a little too desperate in any case. Hey, where's Jonah? she wondered. Come to think of it, Gia was gone too. A little suspicious, she thought.
"Rose, where are my brother and Gia?" she whispered.
"I dunno," Rose said. She seemed distracted though; maybe she thought Desperate-Boy was hot. Erika couldn't help but feel worried, she may have been 10 minutes younger, but she worried about her brother sometimes. What am I doing? We're playing Spin the Bottle and Demetrius is two feet away from me. Focus.
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"Gia. Gia!" Jonah struggled against her. "Gia!" he stopped her. "Gia, you're drunk."
"So?"
"So don't pull me off to make out. Who knows what'll happen?"
"What if I want it to happen?"
"You're drunk, and I'm not. Let's just go back to the group."
"Jonah," she whined.
"I'm not going to take advantage of you," he said quietly. "I'm going back. You can stay here if you like."
"Jonah," she whimpered. He ignored her, and she plopped down on the ground like a six-year-old. She looks rather lonely by herself there, he thought when he turned around.
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"Jonah, where've you been?" asked his sister as he plopped down next to her. "And where's Gia?"
"Tell you later," he muttered. Despite how they acted, Jonah and his twin were actually quite close. "What's been happening?"
"Eh, nothing important yet. Rose almost had a panic attack 'cause she thought she had to kiss Eduardo." Jonah chortled a little too loudly.
"Uh-oh," Erika said softly.
"What?" Jonah whispered back. But before she could answer, he realized what she had been about to say. The wand was pointing directly at him, and Vinyet Jones was staring at him hungrily. "Ah crap," he said under his breath. Jonah Weasley had always been a ladies' man. Not that he was cocky or confident or anything, but he seemed to attract them the way Sergio repelled them. Of course, this made Sergio loathe him even more. He had never liked Vinyet, in fact she always struck him as the cold, poisonous type. She'd tried everything from love potions to random seductions. But he'd always resisted, and the day Jonah asked out Gia, the whole school had heard Vinyet's screeches.
Everyone knew this, so the room was practically shivering with anticipation. Vinyet leaned in slowly, and Jonah glanced around in a do-I-actually-have-to-do-this kind of way. But he leaned in too, and finally their lips met. Anyone could see who was into it and who wasn't. Vinyet was practically pushing Jonah back into his seat. 3, 2, 1, Jonah thought. Then he pulled away, trying to wipe his lips subtly. How wrong is this? He thought. Gia's sitting in the middle of the floor, lonely without me. I left her behind because she wanted to kiss me. He tried to push any thoughts of sex out of his mind. And I just kissed…Vinyet. All of a sudden he leapt to his feet, and his friends called out after him as he bolted over to Gia.
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Meanwhile, Erika was highly anticipating kissing someone, anyone. Well…maybe not Sergio. Sammy was spinning the wand, who could it have landed on? That's right, Erika.
She recoiled. Sammy was pretty cute, but kind of horny, and her brother's best friend. But she leaned in as she was supposed to, and parted her lips. To her surprise, he was a very good kisser. He must've thought so too, because the kiss lasted much longer than Jonah and Vinyet's, and longer than Victoire's with anyone. Secretly, Erika was glad Jonah had missed this. She stole a glance at Demetrius without anyone seeing, and to her surprise and delight, he looked a bit miffed.
At that moment, Jonah and a weary-looking Gia appeared, and he put her on his lap. "Er, you're spinning? Who spinned you?"
"Uhh…"
"Sammy," Sergio said. He seemed to enjoy Jonah's confusion and then anger immensely.
"Yeah," Erika cleared her throat, before spinning. The gods are on my side, she thought, for anyone can guess where the wand was pointing. She could barely hide her grin as she leaned into the circle. Her second kiss in a row, and the second she parted her lips for, was just as nice as the first, though it wasn't as long, what with her brother and friends watching. That had always made Erika uncomfortable. She leaned out politely, and caught his eye briefly before looking down and smiling.
"Gia, where have you been?" Jonah heard a girl next to him whisper.
"Well, Lisa," Gia slurred, and whispered loudly in her ear, "the truth is, I wanted to be with Jonah. But he said no, because he thinks I'm drunk." And then she laughed even louder. "You don't think I'm drunk, do you?" she said.
"Er…"
"Gia, Gia, honey," cooed Jonah. Demetrius had kissed the girl next to Gia and now she was spinning. Everyone hesitated when it landed on Gia herself, and then looked at Victoire, who hadn't anticipated this. She shrugged. So the two went into kiss (Gia was mostly pushed by Jonah).
But before they even touched, Gia bonked the girl in the head and fell out cold.
End.
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