"Hagrid!" Natasha pounded on the door with a big fist. "Open up! It's us!" After a few moments she sighed and turned around. "I guess he's not here."
"Oh!" Ron said. "How could we have been so stupid?" Natasha and Rachel looked at Ron with questioning. "He's probably still with the First years, having them all sorted." He continued.
"Ohh Right." Natasha nodded, stepping away from the door. "Wow I can't believe you figured that one out Ron." She laughed and nudged him playfully. Ron just rolled his eyes and laughed back.
"Well what now?" Rachel said biting her lip. She didn't feel like going back to the Slytherin dorm to be all alone and she definitely didn't want to bump go find Harry and Ginny.
"Want to come up to the Gryffindor dorm?" Ron asked. "We can just chill out there and you know, talk. We haven't seen each other all summer guys! We have so much to talk about." He grinned and put his arm around the girls.
"Ron." Rachel sighed. "You sound like a chick, but okay." They started running up the hill back to the castle with laughter.
Once inside the Gryffindor dorm the girls made sure that it was okay with the Prefects that they were in the boy's dorm. After agreement not to do anything stupid the girls crowded around Ron's bed. Rachel sitting at the foot, Natasha on top and Ron sitting at the floor.
"So what did you do this summer?" Ron asked Rachel and Natasha "I bet you guys got up to something interesting, you had a hotel to yourself for two months."
"A month and a half" Natasha corrected him. "But yeah, we ordered tons of room service, stayed up watching movies. It was amazing. We also visited Diagon alley quite a few times to get all our school supplies."
"Natasha's mum bought her a Firebolt!" Rachel blurted out. Ron's mouth gaped open wide in jealousy.
"Seriously!" He said. "What I would do for one of those…" He smiled at Natasha flirtingly. Natasha just blushed in return.
"Well it was my birthday present." She said. "so no big deal!"
"Yes I big deal." Rachel said crossing her arms. "All I got for my birthday was concert tickets to All Time Low." She huffed.
"You guys saw All Time Low this summer!" Ron said. "Wow. All I did was help dad out with Muggle objects and tried to avoid Ginny around the house. You know, I miss her; she used to be such a cool younger sister until she started bringing round boys. Fred and George agree too, we all think we need to have a convention with her and tell her what boys really want from her." He laid back on the floor and sighed.
"The problem is that she's giving them what they want." Natasha growled. "Whatever Ron, it shouldn't be your problem to sort out her issues."
"Yeah Ron." A high pitched voice came from behind.
"Oh God." Ron sat up quickly. Rachel and Natasha turned around to find Ginny and Harry standing in the doorway, Hand-in-Hand. Rachel quickly turned back to face Ron, she didn't want to see.
"Can you like stop talking about my beautiful girl?" Harry growled.
"If you stop lying about her appearance." Natasha said with a devious smile on her face.
"With comebacks like that you should be in Slytherin." Ginny shot back at Natasha. Rachel had enough. She turned around to face Ginny.
"If you want to date our best friend then go ahead." Rachel said. "But if you're going to have him turning against us then you can leave. Harry, you chose, you either turn your back on us or turn your back on her, she might be everything you've ever wanted but she obviously doesn't want you to be friends with us." At this point Rachel was standing and staring them both in the face. "So what's it going to be?"
Natasha quickly stepped in front of Rachel, cutting the tension.
"She doesn't mean that!" She said pushing Rachel back. "But maybe you should leave, just for a while."
Harry had a sour look on his face, like he had been slapped multiple times.
"Fine." He said taking Ginny roughly by the hand. "Let's go babe. I have a song I wrote for you anyways. I want you to hear it."
"Ooh!" Ginny giggled in a fake girly voice. "A song! Have you ever got a song Rachel?" She stung a look in Rachel's direction. Rachel's face was steaming with fury but she didn't answer.
"Bye Natasha, Bye Ron." Harry said, he just shot Rachel a dirty look and they left the dorm.
After a few moments Rachel flopped face first onto Ron's bed and let out a loud groan.
"I know." Ron said sitting beside her. Natasha came and sat down with them. "It's annoying for us too, but we will make it through. No one crosses onto our friendship, especially not her." He said.
"But what am I supposed to do!" Rachel said turning over so that she could talk. "She's just going to want to shove the fact that she's with him in my face every time I come around. She knows how much it hurts me and he… has no idea."
"Go after Draco." Natasha said while twirling her soft brown ringlets with her fingers. "Seriously, Harry isn't worth it if he's going to let Ginny treat us like that. I mean we're his friends and he is destroying our friendship by being with her." Ron just sat beside the girls with a sad, broken look on his face.
"I guess I should talk to him?" He suggested.
"No." Rachel said. "I don't care, if he wants to be with her then let him." She said standing up and walking away. "I need to be alone." And with that, she left the Gryffindor Dorm.