Chapter 7: Christmas
A/N: Italics are flashbacks to the Christmas of 1995. I decided to attempt a nice flashback chapter, even though the girls would read the same thing in the diary, just know that they know all of what happened in the flashbacks. I also know that this chapter isn't that great, but there is some Harry/Tonks fluff at the end, kind of. Harry and Tonks will most likely get together in the next few chapters, so stay tuned! Also, next chapter is the Department of Mysteries.
Snow wrapped around the castle as most of the students within prepared to go home for Christmas, packing their trunks, sending off last minute owls to far away relatives, and doing last minute present swapping with their friends.
Harry put the last few things in his trunk then closed it with a satisfying click. He was excited. He was going home, to Sirius, Remus and Tonks. They were like his family, his godfather, his 'Uncle Moony' and, Tonks. He wasn't quite sure how he felt about Tonks. Hermione would just say it was a crush. Harry would have told her to stop being so infantile.
Tonks was sitting on the couch in the Drawing Room of Grimmauld Place. Sirius had been getting the decorations ready for the four occupants of the old house to put up the following day. Tonks could tell that Sirius was really looking forward to Harry coming home and that Remus was reasonably happier than usual. Tonks smiled, she had to admit that she felt like she had been walking on air for the last few days, anticipating Harry's arrival.
Maddison was looking forward to introducing her family to Lucas. She had read Cassandra and Alexia's letter and was hoping to see the Potter Castle that had been mentioned. Lots of her wealthier classmates lived in their families ancestral castles. She thought of what it would look like. She knew that the Potter's were loaded as, so she could imagine a magnificent castle with a load of rooms, all lusciously accessorised with expensive furniture, as well as house-elves to do each and everyone's every command.
Nariska, on the other hand, only hoped that the Castle had a decent library, to help with her holiday homework. She would have normally tried to complete it before she went home for the holidays, but the workload of third year was getting to her just a little bit, especially with the diary sessions. Her friends had chastised her for not doing her homework straight away, and if she wasn't so interested in hearing the story of her parents, then she probably would skip the 'family bonding' sessions.
Shinae was excited, more excited than what she had been about arriving at Hogwarts. She missed her mum, her younger sisters, and especially her dad. She was looking forward to giving her family her presents, and seeing Potter Castle. Shinae would miss her friends, who were more like family to her than her sisters sometimes, but she wouldn't miss going home for the holiday for anything.
Harry pulled his trunk after him as he got off the scarlet engine packed with homebound students. Tonks wrapped him in a tight hug as soon as she saw him, eagerly bounding over to him.
"Hey Dora" he whispered, hugging her back. Tonks felt a great rush of affection for the boy.
"Hi Harry!" she exclaimed, performing a feather-light charm on his trunk before taking his hand and guiding it to a firm grip on her upper arm.
"Hold tight" she winked at him, and spun on the spot, the darkness engulfed them, and two seconds later they reappeared on the grassy square outside number 12.
"Harry?"
"Yeah?"
"Um. I hate to tell you this, but your hand moved during the trip." Tonks grinned. His hand had strayed from her arm and was instead loosely cupped against her chest.
"Oh! Sorry!" he blushed, and moved his hand quickly.
"Don't worry about it, how did you know I didn't enjoy it?" She laughed and walked up to the house, which appeared between houses 11 and 13. Harry watched her for a few seconds, before following quickly.
"Harry's home!" Tonks hollered into the Order Headquarters as she closed the door behind Harry. Remus and Sirius stepped out of the kitchen as Mrs. Black started screaming. Remus smiled, but his face was more lined and his hair more grey than it had been during the summer. Sirius was beaming, looking younger than he had since he went to Azkaban.
"Harry!" cried Sirius, hugging Harry.
"You go down stairs into the kitchen with Tonks, and Remus and I will make your Trunk normal and take it upstairs." Sirius said, taking out his wand. Harry and Tonks exchanged a look and Tonks winked, doing a Sensory charm on the trunk before locking it, all non-verbally so Remus and Sirius didn't notice. As they disappeared, Harry offered his arm to the woman next to him
"May I accompany you to the kitchen milady?" he asked, grinning.
"Of course kind sir" She took his arm and they walked down to the kitchen. "Though I would prefer if you called me Dora" she said, grinning at him. His emerald eyes lit up as he smiled back.
"So you don't mind me calling you Dora?" Harry asked as they sat down at the table with butterbeers.
"Course not. Only you get away with calling me any version of my horrid first name, except for my mother, who insists on calling me by my full name" Tonks said, and then she blushed.
"So what makes me so special?" he asked, noticing that she was getting uncomfortable.
"Shush, I think Sirius and Remus are coming" she replied, and he raised his eyebrow at him. They came down more than a minute later, in which silence had stretched through the kitchen.
"Couldn't get to your presents could you?" Harry asked, grinning at his godfather and 'uncle'
"You can't be serious! We had no intention of looking for our presents!" Sirius exclaimed, sitting down with a mock-hurt look on his face.
"Of course not, you're Sirius!" Harry joked, and Remus groaned.
"Sirius has constantly made those jokes for as long as I've known him." Remus grinned, and Tonks giggled.
"Who's cooking?" she asked, hoping that it wasn't her turn.
"Uh Oh, Better have the poison department from St. Mungos on call, it's my darling cousins turn" Sirius said, as Tonks sent him a mock-glare.
"I'll do it! I like cooking, I just never got to do it when I actually wanted to, or for anyone I wanted!" Harry jumped up and began to rifle around in the cupboards, looking for ingredients to make a decent meal.
"You can cook?" asked Remus, dumbfounded.
"The Dursley's made me start cooking when I was five; I learnt pretty quickly, the punishment was a week in my cupboard with no food if mucked something up." Harry said, killing the light mood of the kitchen.
"The Dursley's would shut you in your cupboard for a week without food?" Sirius asked angrily.
"When I set a Boa Constrictor on my cousin it was three weeks. I got used to it" Harry said carelessly.
"You set a Boa Constrictor on your cousin?" Tonks asked, suppressing giggles. He quickly retold the story and the light mood was restored in the kitchen.
Maddison stood with her sisters, waiting to get off the train. As the train slowed to a stop they easily picked out their mother, father, and youngest sisters black hair and their other younger sisters favourite hair coloured in her favourite colour of the moment, lime green, amongst a sea of red hair, Ron, Hermione and their younger children were standing next to their parents, but they weren't talking. Shinae ran into the arms of her father, and her two older sisters abandoned their trunks too, and walked to their family.
"Mum!" Maddison exclaimed, as she threw her arms around her mother, whom she loved more than anyone else in the world, save Lucas.
A crowd of people, each adult with at least one child and trunk in tow, momentarily separating the large family, and Harry quickly noticed who was missing.
"Dora! Maddison!" He exclaimed loudly, panicking slightly as he couldn't see his beloved and oldest daughter.
"Harry?" Tonks said quietly as she rejoined her husband.
"I just thought- Don't worry" he said quietly, blushing slightly.
"It's okay" Tonks took his hand softly and he smiled down at her. Maddison had been watching the exchange quietly and quickly filled her sisters in on what had happened when they were collecting their trunks.
They flooed from the Platform to their large house in Brighton and before their trunks even got through the lounge towards the stairs; their father had called the five of them into the dining room.
"We are going to have a family meeting soon, but first dad's going to make us something to eat." Tonks told her five daughters, smiling cheerily. Harry walked in two seconds later with floating pizza on a plate, and he set it on the table.
"Okay. Since your father quit work, and we really do need a bigger space to finish raising you girls, we've decided to make the move to Potter Castle, the Potter ancestral castle, just south of the welsh border." Tonks smiled at her daughters, who began chattering as soon as she'd stopped talking.
"Why didn't we always live there? It's not like Dad would have to travel far to work, he could Apparate." Maddison looked at her mother.
"It's a huge castle and we could've lost any of you when you were babies. We didn't want to put you in danger. The house-elves might not have found you in time." Tonks looked sadly at her kids, who were exchanging excited looks.
"We have house-elves!" Cassandra exclaimed excitedly.
"Do they get paid? Do they get to wear clothes? Sick leave?" Shinae asked urgently.
"Yes honey. Their ancestors have been employed by the Potters for generations." Harry said to his middle daughter, who smiled up at him.
"You've had a nice discussion with Hermione haven't you?" Maddison asked Shinae, and Tonks laughed, Shinae glared, but then nodded, a slight blush on her cheeks.
"So when are we moving?" Nariska asked.
"As soon as we're all packed, and no using magic, don't worry, we've already started your rooms, and we've mostly finished all the other rooms." Harry said, sitting up. "If we're lucky, we might be done by tonight" The girls all jumped up and raced to their rooms.
Tonks smiled across the room as she watched Harry read a Defence textbook he'd found in the library. He must have felt her stare, because he looked up and met her eyes, grinning.
"So are you going to tell me why I'm the lucky guy who gets to call you something other than Tonks?" he asked slyly.
"I don't know. I just like it when you call me Dora. Your one of the only people who accepts me for me, you don't ask me to change, you can talk freely and honestly with me and I am with you. It just feels right." She blushed, and met Harry's eyes to find them twinkling happily, a grin playing at his lips.
"Thanks Dora." He said quietly. "I'm glad you trust me like that" he went back to his book quietly, thinking.
'God, how on earth am I supposed to tell him how I feel when he makes me all fluttery and nervous? He's just too cute!' Tonks slowly twisted her brown hair around her finger, she had changed into her real form as soon as Sirius and Remus had left the room, she knew how much Harry liked to see her like that.
"Wow." This was all that the five girls could say as they stared up at the magnificent castle in front of them. There was a stone wall surrounding it, with a gate in front of them, with massive stone lions sitting on the stone pillars on either side of the gate. As Harry walked up to the gate, he shouted out.
"I am Harry James Potter and I have returned to my home with Nymphadora Cassiopeia Potter, Maddison Minerva Potter, Nariska Lily Potter, Shinae Nymphadora Potter, Cassandra Elizabeth Potter and Alexia Hermione Potter. Open your gates to the newest generation of Potters!" The gates swung open and he turned and looked guiltily at his wife. "Sorry I had to use your full name" She smiled back at him, and the six females followed Harry up the lawn to the main doors. The magnificent oak doors reminded the family of seven of the main doors of Hogwarts. As soon as the doors magically opened as they reached it, and eight over-excited elves flung themselves out at the family.
"Master Harry! Mistress Tonks!" They squealed, wrapping their arms around the knees of Harry and Tonks.
"Hello Dobby, Winky, Poppy, Lily, Sammy, Max, Jolly and Rally. These are our daughters. Maddison, the oldest, is 15. Next is Nariska, who's 13, followed by Shinae, who's 11, then Cassandra who's 9, and finally Alexia who's 7." The elves all bowed to the girls, who smiled back. Each of the girls chose an elf to be their personal elf, and Dobby insisted on being Harry's personal elf, and Max was left to be the cooking elf. All of the elves would do cleaning, but as soon as they were called by their main Master or Mistress, they had to leave it.
"Harry!"
"Dora?" Harry asked groggily, opening his eyes.
"Merry Christmas!" Tonks shouted, hugging Harry tightly.
"Merry Christmas Dora" he whispered in her ear, sending shivers down as her spine as they broke apart.
"Come on!" She exclaimed, grinning excitedly. "Sirius has been up since four. Surely you don't think he can last any longer?"
"Okay, Okay" Harry muttered, but he was smiling. Throwing a plain t-shirt over his heavily scarred chest, he followed the skipping Tonks in front of him to the drawing room.
"Did you take long enough?" Sirius asked sarcastically, sitting next to his pile of presents.
"Aw, poor Padfoot" Tonks mocked, patting Sirius' head.
"Nymphadora…" Sirius growled, and Tonks scowled at him.
They opened their presents. A knitted Black jersey from Mrs Weasley, chocolate frogs from Ginny, A set of great defence books from Remus and Remus, then only Tonks' present was left. Harry gazed over to Tonks, who only had Harry's present left.
"Sirius, let's go make hot chocolate for everyone." Remus stood up from his seat next to his unwrapped presents and Sirius gazed over to see what Harry and Tonks were doing, before nodding and following Remus out of the room. Harry looked to Tonks.
"Unwrap yours first" he said, smiling as she eagerly ripped off the paper, opened the box and took out the emerald pendant.
"It has every single protective charm that the store had cast on it. It'll repel most jinxes, including bone-exploding and heart-stopping." He told her as he closed the clasp the necklace around her neck. She turned and threw her arms around him.
"Thank you Harry!" she kissed his cheek lightly and hugged him again.
"Can I open my present now?" he said as he blushed.
"Yeah!" she said, sitting back from him to watch him unwrap his present.
"Wow" he said quietly as he looked at the photo album.
"It's got more picture of your parents, I got them from Sirius, you at school, got them from Ron and mostly Hermione, then there's pictures of me and you." Tonks said as Harry flicked the pages lightly looking at each picture with interest.
"Thanks Dora, I love it" he hugged her tightly and kissed her cheek.
"You're welcome Harry. I knew how much you wish you had photos of your parents." She whispered into his ear, and he grinned.
After the presents had been unwrapped, Shinae and Harry were flying around the Quidditch pitch at the back of Potter Castle with their new brooms, Firebolt 9.0. Maddison was helping her mother with lunch, modelling her new dragon skin mini-skirt and 'Cauldron Crashers' band t-shirt, Nariska was keeping an eye on her youngest sisters and reading her new 'Wand-Wavers #7: The curse of the Dragon's Egg' adventure story-book. Alexia and Cassandra were playing with their Wonder-Witch children's make up sets.
"Mum?" Maddison asked her mother after she finished mixing up a cake batter.
"Yes Darling?" her mother replied, supervising her knife, which was cutting up vegetables by itself.
"Can Nariska, Shinae and I use magic here without getting a warning from the Under-Age Magic office? Lots of people at school who live in ancestral houses have ancient wards that prevent the detection of under-aged magic" Maddison asked.
"I suppose you can, dear, but you'd have to ask your father I'm afraid."
"Okay!" Maddison was enthusiastic; she loved magic and using it as much as she could to make her life easier.
"Mummy?" Alexia was in the doorway, her lips swirled with orange lipstick, her eyes surrounded with yellow eyeliner and black eye shadow, and her cheeks had hot pink blush on them.
"Oh, don't you look beautiful darling!" her mother replied, kissing her forehead.
"I know. Cassandra said I didn't do it properly, but I think I look sexy." Alexia grinned and swayed her hips, imitating her oldest sister.
"A girl your age doesn't need to look sexy dear."
"Okay mummy. Can I get my ears pierced?" she grinned pleadingly at her mother, who looked thoughtful.
"Where on your ear?" he mother replied, kneeling down to her youngest daughter's height.
"Right on the top, like Nariska!" she indicated to the spot at the top of her lobe where Nariska had got her ear done after her first year of Hogwarts.
"I'll talk to daddy about it, okay sweetheart?"
"Thank you mummy!" she grinned, hugged her mother and ran from the room.
"Your father won't let her get that place done until after her first year, she'll just have to put up with just getting it down the bottom like the rest of you girls got when you were seven." Dora turned and smiled at Maddison.
"Talking of ear piercing, can I get my belly button done; Lucas thinks it would look awesome!" Maddison smiled at her mother.
"I don't see no problem with it, but why has Lucas been looking at your stomach anyway, it's not swimming season." Dora turned to look at her oldest daughter.
"Uh. He didn't" She said unconvincingly, fleeing from the room "Got to use the bathroom!" Dora shook her head, she knew she couldn't stop her daughter from growing up, and remembering what she did when she was fifteen, and she grinned.
"What are you smiling at Dora?" Harry stood in the doorway, his shirt off, broomstick over his shoulder.
"Just Maddison, she wants her belly button pierced. She said that Lucas thinks it would look cool, and I caught her in one of those 'I'm doing things I shouldn't ever let my mum know about' corners, and she ran away. Got me thinking about my fifth year at Hogwarts. Alexia wants her ear pierced in the same place as Nariska." She smiled at Harry, who put his arms around her.
"I think you showed me exactly what you got up to" he whispered in her ear, pulling her to his body.
"Gross! You're all sweaty!" She exclaimed, pushing him away. "Shower. Now." She pointed out the door. He grinned, and walked towards the master suite.
Christmas dinner was a pleasant affair. Harry had insisted on cooking, since Sirius and Remus can't cook that well and Tonks was a complete disaster in the kitchen. Tonks popped out and got everything Harry needed to cook up a storm. A large Turkey, Sweet potato, potato, carrot, corn and peas, as well as gravy, ad baking ingredients for a 'secret dessert'. Harry cooked with ease as Remus, Sirius and Tonks all watched him, completely fascinated with the lack of magic. Harry could cook just as well as Molly Weasley, yet she used infinite amounts of magic, while he used none. Serving it up, Harry smiled and watched everybody eat.
"Why aren't you eating with us Harry?" Tonks asked with a smile.
"Sorry, Dursley moment. Usually, when I cook for the Dursley's they don't let me eat with them, I've got to stand and wait for the dishes." Harry said blushing as he sat down and pulled a plate to him.
"That's horrible!" Tonks exclaimed, looking shocked.
"If I ever become a free man, I swear I'll murder those people who call themselves relatives of Lily." Sirius growled angrily. Remus was glaring, attacking the food on his plate with his knife and fork a bit more furiously than he had a second ago.
"It's fine. Really. I've gotten used to it" Harry insisted quietly.
"I'll do the dishes!" Tonks exclaimed enthusiastically, and then she picked up her plate, stood up, and then dropped it.
"Vanish that Dora, then you can help me" Harry said, standing up also and clearing the table.
"Dora?" Sirius teased, only to be silence with a blush from Harry and a glare from Tonks. Sirius and Remus exchanged an amused glance.
"20 Galleons that they'll end up together" Sirius whispered to Remus as the other two did the dishes.
"Aw. But that's too obvious!" Remus whispered back with a mock-upset look
"20 Galleons they start going out when Harry's underage" Sirius replied with a grin.
"Okay. If Harry knows about the law, he'll stop her from doing anything so that she doesn't get in trouble" Remus said with a wolfish grin. The two men shook hands.
"Uh-Oh, What are you two betting on this time?" Tonks said with a mischievous grin.
"Secret!" Remus and Sirius exclaimed, high pitched voices and all. Harry laughed.
Lucas stepped out of the Floo and into Maddison's arm at Potter Manor. He kissed her quickly, ending it before Harry walked in, the wards alerting him to the new arrival.
"Good Afternoon Mr. Potter" Lucas stepped up to his girlfriends famous father, who grinned.
"You too, Lucas" Harry said, shaking the boy's hand.
"How are you?" Lucas said politely as Maddison took his hand in hers.
"Good thanks, you?" Harry replied.
"Very well" Lucas said nervously and Tonks walked in.
"Hello Lucas! I'm Maddi's mum, call me Tonks" She hugged Lucas and smiled.
"I think Maddison's ability to choose nice looking guys is genetic" Harry joked, earning a slap from his wife.
"Come meet the rest of the family dear" Dora said and led Lucas into the family room.
"You know Nariska and Shinae. This is Cassandra, she's nine, and Alexia, she's seven" Maddison introduced her two youngest sisters. Cassandra smiled at Lucas and went back to her book, her hair turning blue with concentration. Alexia didn't even react as she said the dialogue for her dolls.
"Alexia!" Maddison said sternly.
"What?" Alexia looked up mid-conversation.
"Say hi to Lucas!" Maddison exclaimed.
"Hi" she said shortly and returned to her dolls.
Maddison and Lucas sat on the couch, and immediately started a conversation. Harry smiled lightly at Dora and hugged her.
"Don't they look cute?" she whispered.
"Uh, sure?" Harry said uncertainly, and his eyebrow rose.
"Come on you; come help me with dinner before one of the house-elves get to it." She laughed and pulled him out of the room by his hand.
"I am still totally amazed at the fact that you can cook so well now. I remember Christmas of my fifth year, and I had to cook for two fully-grown men and the woman of my dreams. You had no idea how nervous I was, but it was perfect" Harry mused, peeking at the dishes in the oven.
"You still do cook magnificently, but I wanted to do this myself." Dora said with a smile, as Harry put his arms around her.
"And your cooking's not bad either. A lot better than Remus' burnt morsels" Harry laughed and she swatted him.
"Go have the father talk with Lucas like you've been practising. Tell Maddison to come in here for the mummy talk" She laughed and kissed him. "I think I'll be able to look after the food"
"Yes Ma'am" Harry saluted her and ducked out of the room quickly.
"Lucas?"
"Yes?" Lucas looked up nervously from Maddison.
"Could I speak to you in my office for a moment please?" Harry asked, as Maddison glared at him.
"Sure" Lucas stood up after placing a kiss on Maddison's forehead.
"And Maddi, Turn that frown upside-down and go see your mother" Harry laughed when he saw Maddison's uneasy expression and led Lucas down the hallway to his office. Once there, Harry closed the door behind Lucas and told him to have a seat.
"So, Lucas, What are your intentions with my daughter?" Harry asked as he sat in his leather seat behind the desk.
"With Maddison? I really like her, Mr. Potter. I'll treat her right, I promise." Lucas looked at Harry with determination and Harry was reminded of the talk he had once had with Mr. Tonks on the same subject.
"And if you get bored?" Harry asked, surveying Lucas' face thoroughly.
"I wouldn't sir. But, if the circumstance would arise that I would be daft enough to dump her, I'd always try to remain friends with her." Lucas said and Harry smiled.
"No more Mr. Potter's from you please call me Harry" Lucas smiled and accepted the bottle of butterbeer from Harry.
"Mum?" Maddison said from the doorway as she walked into the spacious kitchen.
"Hello, dear" Dora said as she fiddled with her cooking. Maddison took a seat on the bench and looked at her mother.
"Why on earth is Dad giving Lucas 'The Father Talk'?" Maddison asked her mother.
"Because, darling, that's what fathers do, you should know that."
"And are you going to give me the 'Mummy-daughter Talk'?" Maddison smiled.
"Of course!" Dora turned to her daughter.
"Ok. Yes, he's a fantastic kisser, he treats me right, I really like him, he's one of my best friends, he's extremely romantic, we spend time together every night, and we haven't had sex. Okay? Can I go now?" Maddison reeled off the answers and jumped off the bench.
"How did you know what the questions were?" Dora asked, mystified.
"You're too predictable." Maddison smiled.
"Your father did the same thing once when I met him in Hogsmeade and I had a lot of questions from Remus and Sirius" her mother smiled reminiscently, and turned back to her cooking. "Go save Lucas, he seems like a nice guy, I don't think your dad will grill him too much about you."
"Mum! He wouldn't!" Maddison exclaimed.
"No, they're probably sitting there drinking Firewhisky and Dad's telling Lucas all the embarrassing childhood stories." Dora said with a grin. "Hope he tells Lucas about 'The Potty Monster'"
"Mum! Don't you dare tell him that!" Maddison stomped out of the room and down to the office.
Harry looked around the kitchen. Sirius had got out the firewhisky and insisted that Harry drink some for the Christmas night festivities. A silver Goblet full of the amber liquid sat in front of Harry which he was occasionally sipping. Remus was doing the same, Tonks was on her second goblet, and Sirius was drinking straight from a separate bottle.
"So, Nymmie, Mrs Weasley's been talking 'bowt hows you gots a wee crush on some lucky fellow." Sirius mentioned with a grin and Tonks blushed.
"And how would she know?" She replied defensively.
"She's got six sons and a daughter, she knows you young people like the back of her hand." Remus said with a smile. "You and Ginny are quite similar."
"I admit that I do have my eye on a man" Tonks said mournfully.
"Who?" Sirius and Remus asked expectantly, and Harry looked both eager and crestfallen. 'Man? I'm nothing but a boy, it won't be me' he thought sadly.
"I'm not telling!" she exclaimed, smiling at Harry.
"Hints?" Sirius asked eagerly.
"Okay, there's quite a gap between us, and he's very handsome. He likes me for who I am, unlike every other guy, and" she hiccupped "lots of women idolise him."
"Hmm. Don't make it easy do you?" Remus said, grinning.
"I'm not telling you who it is. Harry, are you going to come upstairs with me, you should get an early night" Tonks said standing up, and the two of them headed out of the kitchen after Tonks drained both of their goblets.
"Sorry you had to see that Harry" she attempted to say, slurring her words slightly.
"It's fine Dora, you're allowed to like anyone you want" Harry replied stiffly.
"I'm sorry Harry" she repeated, putting her arms around his neck as they stood in the hallway next to the door to her room.
"What are you sorry for?" he asked, confused.
"I'm sorry I never told you" she whispered.
"Told me what?" confused, he hugged her to him.
"God, I wish I could still be just as naïve as you" she giggled, and kissed his lips.
"I'm not naïve!" he said, affronted. She kissed him again.
"I wish you could pick up the things everyone else can see" she whispered and kissed his lips once more.
"Dora, stop. Explain what you mean" he instructed.
"One day I'll tell you Harry, when I'm ready. Night." She pecked his cheek and went into her room.
