"What are these?" asked Mrs. Weasley when she opened the door after the meeting was over.
Rose looked around to see what she was talking about. There was a giant ear sitting near the door that had a thin string attached to it, which was coming from upstairs. Rose knew what it was; George and Fred showed it to her earlier and told her they listened to the meeting with them. She just hoped that they didn't hear the part about who her father is. Mrs. Weasley followed the string up the stairs with her eyes and found George, Fred, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny looking at her with terror.
"WHAT DID I TELL YOU? THESE MEETINGS ARE NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" yelled Mrs. Weasley. Rose immediately understood why her children feared her. She was very frightening.
Mrs. Weasley grabbed the extendable ears and stomped off. Rose looked up at everyone else with a face of pity. George gave her 'I told you so' look. He had told her earlier how scary his mother could get, but she did not believe such a sweet woman could be scary.
Rose made her way up to her room to freshen up until she went to George and Fred's room. The house was incredibly dirty and creepy. There were shrunken house elf heads, dust everywhere and everything was dark colors. When Rose got to her room and opened the door, she heard a dog bark.
"Venus! You're here!" Rose said as she ran to grab her yorkie. Venus was her magical familiar and she got her before her first year. There was a letter attached to her collar.
Rose,
Here is Venus. Dumbledore must have forgotten her when he sent your stuff over. She would not stop barking as soon as she found out you left. Hope you like it there.
Love,
Mom
P.S. Good luck!
Rose put down the letter and grabbed Venus. She left her room and started walking towards the twins' room.
She knocked on the door.
"Hey, Rose, Com…what is that?" Fred pointed at Venus.
"She's a dog."
"I know that. Where did it come from?"
"She...," Rose stressed that Venus was a girl. "…is my magical familiar."
"You have a dog as a familiar?"
"Yeah. It is the most popular familiar in America. However, it is just small dogs. I mean it is not exactly practical to carry around a 70 pound dog."
"Of course not. Anyways, what happened at the meeting? We didn't get to hear much."
Oh, thank Merlin, thought Rose. She wasn't ready to tell them yet. She just met them a few days ago and she wanted them to like her. Rose knew that the knowledge of who her father was would not go over very well.
"I can't tell you that. It is classified," said Rose.
"Oh, come on we won't tell." George had finally entered the conversation for the first time.
"I'm sorry. I just can't."
"It doesn't matter anyways. Mum caught us and now we are going to have to hide all of our extendable ears. She will probably put an Imperturbable charm over the meetings now too."
2 Weeks Later
Rose was having a blast with the twins. She and George seemed to get closer every day. They talked about George's brother, Percy and how angry George was at him for disowning the family. They also talked about Rose's family and how the Giordanos are an old, wealthy, Italian, pure-blood family in America. Rose assured George that her family didn't believe in pure-blood supremacy and how most wizards in America didn't.
However, their time together was about to be cut short. Harry had been attacked by dementors, even though the Order had so much protection over him. Dumbledore was furious; Rose had never seen someone get that angry before. Dumbledore had insisted that Harry be brought in the next day by the Order.
Rose had grown close to a few Order members, George's old brother, Bill, Tonks, Lupin, and even the man who tried to invade Rose's mind that she later learned was Severus Snape.
Tonight like every night, Rose was going to the twins' room to hang out. They had gotten so close that Mrs. Weasley joked that she had triplets instead.
When Rose got to the twin's room, she was surprised to see that only George was there.
"Hey, Rose," said George.
"Hey, where is Fred?" asked Rose.
"He had to talk to Ginny about something."
"Oh, okay." Rose had a feeling that was not the real reason why Fred was not there.
"Yeah, plus it is nice. We can talk without Fred." George laid down on his bed. "Come, lay with me."
Rose started to get butterflies in her stomach as she walked over to the bed and laid down next to George.
"I'm so glad that Dumbledore brought you here. It has been great with you the past couple of weeks," said George.
"Yeah, same here," said Rose. She actually really was glad that Dumbledore brought her here. She got to met George, but at the same time Rose was nervous for what was to lay ahead for her has she followed Dumbledore's orders. It wasn't the danger she was worried about, because like Dumbledore she was perfectly confident in her abilities. What scared her most was coming face to face with her father.
George turned over to his side, so he was facing Rose. This made Rose a hundred times more nervous than she already was. In the past few weeks, she had developed a crush on George. However, she would never act on it. She always had trouble expressing her feelings.
"I have been meaning to do this for awhile," said George as he leaned over and was so close to her that she could feel his breath.
"I hav…I have never," Rose was beginning to stumble with her words.
"Never what? Kissed anyone?" George asked.
Rose shook her head.
"You got to be kidding me."
Rose started to blush. "No, I guess I was just waiting for someone I really liked."
"Understandable. Do you mind if I kiss you?"
"No." Rose started to tense up and George could tell.
"Just relax and do what feels natural."
George leaned in and looked into Rose's eyes. He smiled and cupped her face with his hands and gently touched his lips to hers. She started to feel like he was pulling away, so she pulled him back. She was no longer nervous. George deepened the kiss now. It was still soft and tender, but there was passion. He broke the kiss, but this time instead of releasing her, he started to leave trails of kisses on her neck. She wrapped one of her hands in his red hair and let out a soft moan. He made his way back to her lips and she felt his tongue brush against hers. Rose was about to do the same with hers before she heard the door open.
"Oh, um, sorry. Mum sent me to tell you two that dinner is ready," said Fred. Rose could tell he was grinning, even though she had her back to him. Rose was a hundred percent positive that the twins had this planned and this was the real reason why Fred was not there.
"Okay, mate. We will be down in a minute," George said.
Fred left them alone again and George asked her how her first kiss was.
"Amazing," said Rose smiling.
George smiled back and they walked hand in hand down to dinner.
Harry was arriving today. Rose was not the least bit nervous; because she knew with her charismatic personality, Harry would like her.
A few of the Order members had already to left to go pick up Harry and there was to be a meeting as soon as they arrived. Everyone else that was in the Order was arriving for the meeting. After a few minutes, Rose heard the door open and could hear Moody and Tonk's voices. She only caught a small glimpse of Harry before Mrs. Weasley ordered him upstairs.
At the meeting, Dumbledore talked about Harry's trial and how the Ministry would do anything to undermine him. Rose was amazed by how stupid the Mister of Magic was. The fact that her father is back is not something that should be dismissed.
Dumbledore also once again addressed the extra protection that he provided to Harry and that there was no reason to doubt his decision. Rose had been trained by her parents at a young age for occlumency, legilimency, wandless magic, non-verbal magic, apparition and countless other things. There was no doubt in her mind that they had done this on Dumbledore's orders.
After the meeting, Rose was in the hallway talking to Snape.
"Giordano don't let anything distract you from protecting Potter," said Snape.
"And what could that be?" Rose was a bit confused.
"I mean the Weasley boy."
"How…."
"How did I know? You let your guard down in there in the meeting and I caught a glimpse of that kiss. Which is another thing, never let your guard down."
"Right." Rose looked up at the staircase and saw Harry and the rest of the kids.
"I'm leaving now," said Snape as he quickly turned around and walked out the door with his black robes flowing behind him. He was quite an odd man, but there was something in him that Rose liked.
"Hello, I am Rosabel Giordano, but you can call be Rose. I'm joining you guys this year at Hogwarts," said Rose as she stuck out her hand for Harry when he entered the hallway.
"Hello, where exactly are you from?" asked Harry.
"America. My parents wanted me to come here this year for school and with them knowing Dumbledore and all he brought me to the Weasleys." She was giving Harry the story that Dumbledore told her to give, at least for now.
"Oh, well, nice to meet you."
"You too," Rose walked toward the twins; enter locking her hand with George's and Fred throwing his arm over her shoulder. It was time for dinner, so they made their way downstairs
When they got there, Bill and Mr. Weasley were looking at some papers and discussing something. However, Rose could not here them and she already had a pretty good idea about what they were talking about.
She and the twins were just sitting down at the table when they heard a loud crash and the horrible screaming that always followed.
After awhile the screaming stopped and everyone came down for dinner. Tonks asked Mrs. Weasley if she could help, but Mrs. Weasley insisted that she didn't. However, she asked Rose and the twins to help her.
"George, how about we just float all this stuff over to the table," said Fred.
"Sounds perfect," responded George with a grin.
"Guys, don't. You know how annoyed your mom has gotten with you two lately," said Rose.
Despite Rose's protest, they did it anyway, almost killing Harry and Sirius in the process and being yelled at by Mrs. Weasley.
A/N: Yey! They kissed! I think my writing is getting better and I have complete plans on where I want to take this story. When I say complete I mean complete, I have what I want to do all the way up to Rose's children. I am trying to develop Rose into the character I want her to be, because so far she is not complete. I can't make any promises on when the next chapter will be up, because I am starting school soon and I am in for one tough year. Please review!
