A/N Hello everyone! I wanted to update both of my stories today because I am busy tomorrow and Friday, most likely Thursday also. So an update is here. Thank you to everyone who read and reviewed, favorited and alerted my story, it is appreciated. Enjoy this chapter!
Megan :)
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RPOV
"Rose, wake up sweetie," my mum shook me awake at seven thirty.
"Yeah, yeah," I groaned, pulling myself out of my bed walking into the bathroom to shower and get ready for our first day of second year. I sighed as I thought about seeing my friends again, we had hung out this summer, but not as much as we had agreed on to begin with. We were all so busy, Liz went to America to visit her aunt over there who works at the wizardry school there, Charlie had gone on vacation with her family for a little over a month to Greece and Italy, and then Scorpius had sat home all summer bored out of his mind. Al, James and I were at our family's vacation home a huge isolated house for all of the Weasley/Potter families, now and to come in the future.
I stepped out of the shower and dried my hair best as possible, and then walked back into my bedroom to get changed so we could get to the train station before the train left. I threw on a pair of jeans and a shirt running back into the bathroom to try and fix my hair a little bit. I quickly straightened it and ran down the stairs where both my family and my trunk were waiting for me. I looked at the clock on the wall eight fifty, that was a close one. My mum and I stepped into the fireplace and I almost forgot my trunk but I grabbed it just in time.
"King's Cross Station, Platform 9 ¾!" she yelled. We walked out of the fireplaces at the station and she quickly ushered me toward the large group red-heads gathered in the center of the platform. My dad and brother walked up behind us as we reached our family who were just putting their children on the train.
"Cutting it close there Ron!" Uncle Harry laughed.
"Yeah, yeah," he muttered.
"Be good Rosie! Be sure to write us," dad smiled kissing my forehead and hugging me.
"I love you!" mum smiled hugging me.
"Love you too," I replied walking up the stairs on to the train.
I thought for a second trying to figure out where we would be sitting, when I realized that they were probably in the same compartment as every time we went to school last year. I turned around and began walking in the opposite direction, and I saw them all sitting in the compartment, just as the train whistled and began to move forward. I slid open the door and walked into the compartment, but before I had a chance to shut it I was crushed in hugs from my two best girl friends.
"Hello to you two too," I smiled shutting the door and sitting down between the two of them.
"How you been Rose?" Al asked.
"Same old, same old," I smiled leaning my head back into the seat.
"You have a good summer?" that smooth, gorgeous voice asked me, his voice was a little deeper than last year which I found oddly funny.
"Yeah. I wish we had all hung out more," I sighed looking at them all.
"Us too," they all replied.
"We did hang out more than my brothers and their friends," Liz laughed.
"True," I laughed, "Hey Al, James, how are Teddy and Vic?"
"In love and snogging all the time," James sighed exasperated.
"Is that a bad thing?" Charlie asked.
"Well… umm…" he stuttered staring at her.
"Well…umm… what?" she rolled her eyes turning to stare out the window. It's good to know that some things never change.
"They are still together, if that's what you were wondering," Al laughed at James who was staring, angrily out the window, muttering under his breath.
"Want to make a bet?" I asked them.
"Of course." everyone agreed.
"Let's make a bet, and join all the Weasley/Potter family in guessing when Teddy and Vic are going to get married."
"Okay," they all agreed. "I think they will get engaged next school year," Al said smiling proudly.
"Me too," Liz answered her head snapping up from the magazine she was staring intently at.
"Okay," I chuckled, writing their guesses down on a piece of spare parchment.
"I think Christmas," James answered smiling, "I'm going to beat you all."
"I agree with James," Charlie said not turning away from the window.
"That soon?" I asked, scribbling the down below Al and Liz's.
"Well, I think they will get engaged this coming summer," I answered, writing down my name.
"Me too," Scorpius smiled.
"Okay, I think we got everything settled," I mumbled, my face a bright red. Liz looked up from her magazine and smirked at me, leaning forward to tap Charlie on the leg. What were they up to?
SPOV
Liz and Charlie were smirking wickedly at me. What were they doing? I smiled back at them hoping that, that would satisfy whatever thought they had. I looked at Rose remembering how sad and scared she had looked at the end of school at the Leaving Ceremony. I hadn't ever really found out why she was so sad that she had to run out of the room, she claimed that it was due to the stress of not knowing where she wanted to be in six year, but I knew her better than that. Something else was bothering her, and whatever it was, it was still bothering her now. Her eyes didn't sparkle like they used to when she smiled, they looked dead and empty. I wanted to be the one to make her happy, but I knew that she didn't want me that way. We were great friends, best friends, and if I said what I really wanted to I knew it would ruin out friendship.
I was completely in love with my best friends, I fancied her, I didn't think of anything but her, every dream I have is about our future together that will never happen. I've thought numerous times about telling her how I feel but we are only second years, we are too young to pursue a relationship that would probably not ever last. I shook my head, in habit, clearing my head trying not to think about my best friend in that way. But she was beautiful, not in the superficial, I'm only concerned about my looks way, but she was truly beautiful, and she didn't even know. She had told me last year many times that she thoughts that she looked oddly plain and that no boys would ever fancy her. If only she knew that at least one boy did fancy her, me, maybe she would feel better about herself. I had heard many boys call her pretty or cute in passing but that was an understatement.
I had only admitted to myself that I fancied my best friend at the Leaving Ceremony, one of the main reasons why my hands were shaking so badly.
"Scorp!" Al shouted shaking my shoulder.
"Yeah," I turned to him.
"We are at the school," he rolled his eyes standing up and walking out into the aisle way to get off the train. Thank Merlin I had just dressed in my robes this morning rather than muggle clothes like normally. I followed Al and James off the train still in a daze of thoughts about Rose.
"Come on lover boy," Al laughed pushing me toward the carriages that were leaving the station to bring second through seventh years to Hogwarts.
"Lover boy?" I asked confused, how did he know?
"Yeah. You were thinking about a girl, were you not?" he laughed.
"Oh, of course I was," I laughed, trying to play it off.
"You're acting really weird Scorp," Al laughed running to catch up with James who was almost to the carriages. I decided to catch up with them, rather than be left behind with the girls.
"Wait for me!" I yelled to them, running after Al.
"Yeah, yeah," James muttered jumping into the carriage, just as I reached it.
"Are we waiting for the girls," I panted, jumping into the carriage, but just as I spoke the carriage began to drive away. I looked over my shoulder, to Rose, Liz and Charlie, and I caught Rose's eye for the briefest second, but just those few seconds I saw her beautiful eyes, her beautiful, deep blue eyes.
"What is up with you today mate?" James asked looking at me confused.
"I have no idea, I just don't know what I'm thinking at all," I groaned flinging my head to hit the back of the carriage.
"Mate, pal, dude, you need to get yourself some sleep. When was the last time you actually slept through the night?" Al asked laughing on my behalf.
"Umm… a full nights sleep?" I mused to myself, "The last day before we left Hogwarts."
"Seriously mate! What have you been doing all summer?" James exclaimed.
"Hanging out in my room, hanging out with my family, walking around London, hanging with friends, and watching TV sometimes or reading." I answered leaving out the part about musical instrument playing, I didn't want them thinking I was some kind of loner or something.
"Really? How did you not find time to sleep?" Al asked.
"I don't know, too much on my mind," I answered.
"Girl drama," they both nodded at each other.
"So who is the lovely damsel in distress?" James asked.
"I can't divulge that information," I answered turning away from them.
"Yes you can," Al urged me, "Tell us."
"I don't think I can," I groaned, "I don't know how?"
"Umm… just tell us," James laughed.
"Her name is… Natalie," I answered thinking back to the girl I had fancied last year.
"Ahh…Natalie," Al and James winked at me.
"Nice," James commented on my girl choice.
"Thanks," I rolled my eyes turning to see if the girls were behind us. How could I not tell them that I was fancied their cousin? Merlin I was a coward!
We finally pulled up to the school after the most awkward ride ever, and I jumped out of the carriage as fast as possible and began to walk down the long halls to the great hall. I sighed, exasperated, when I realized that I would have to spend the next long hours in the same room as Al and James who I had told I fancied Natalie, Rose who I actually fancied and Charlie and Liz who were completely oblivious to all of my fancying. I wonder if anyone would notice if I just skipped the Sorting Ceremony, and just walked in under an invisibility cloak, too bad I lost the one I use to have.
"Ugh!" I groaned hopping up on to the wall to sit and wait for someone I knew to walk by.
"What's wrong Scorpius?" Rose asked walking in front of me.
"Don't want to sit through sorting," I answered, jumping down off the wall.
"Me neither," she whispered. She pulled out an invisibility cloak from her bag and winked at me, "What to skip?"
"Oh yeah," I answered.
"I already told the girls that I wasn't going to sit through another Sorting Ceremony, my own was bad enough, so when you don't show up they will tell the guys. Where should we go?" she asked.
"Why don't we go for a walk around the grounds?" I suggested.
"Sounds good," she smiled. She took the cloak the rest of the way out of her bag and threw it over the two of us, and then we walked in the opposite way of all of the other students.
Once we had gotten far enough away from the school grounds, she pulled off the cloak and I could finally breath in real air again. I was nervous to be alone with Rose, but I knew that I would be fine, I had survived all last year with her when we were alone.
"What's on your mind, Scorpius?" she asked sitting down, against the tree facing the lake.
I mimicked her actions and groaned as I hit my head against the tree, "I don't know! I just can't believe we are starting second year, that means before we know it we will be going to our own Leaving Ceremony."
"I know what you mean," I sighed, "This morning on the train I realized that it was second year. My parents told me this morning that your years at Hogwarts just get shorter and shorter. But, this morning they told me that they shortest year by far was their second and third years. It's difficult to think that in a few short years we will be done with Hogwarts. "
"Yeah, it's disappointing to think that we are getting closer to being done," I closed my eyes and leaned forward, slamming my head into my hands. Why couldn't I just tell her that I fancied her, why? Merlin, I really should've been in Slytherin.
We sat in silence outside of the school, I was just thinking about her, turning to look at her every so often. Sometimes our eyes would meet, and the blush would form on my cheeks, and I would turn away from her smiling.
"We should probably get back," I said, standing up. I held out my hand to help her up, and she took it without hesitating.
"Good idea," she smiled throwing the cloak over us, she never did let go of my hand.
Charlie'sPOV (Something new?)
Liz and I walked into the Great Hall, having just left Rose outside, because she didn't want to sit through another Sorting Ceremony. The truth was that she didn't want to deal with Scorpius, too bad he didn't want to go to Sorting either and was sitting on the wall waiting for an excuse to leave when we walked by. Too bad Rose.
"Do you think she'll tell him?" Liz asked me, looking around the Great Hall for the Potter brothers.
"No, I know she won't. She is too afraid of him rejecting her to say anything. Maybe the boys got something out of Scorpius," I smiled at her as we found the table they were sitting at.
"Hopefully," she groaned, basically running over to the boys, so she would get to sit across from Al, making me sit across from James, that annoying little git. If only I didn't have to deal with him on a daily basis maybe my life would be easier, but if he wasn't there I would have no one to fancy, like I did him. When I see him my heart skips a beat, but then he says something idiotic of insufferable and then I can't even bare to look at him.
"Hey Charlie," James smiled at me.
"James," I nodded my head slightly, acknowledging his presence.
"So," Liz began, "Did you get anything out of Scorpius?"
"Not exactly when we asked him what girl he fancied he pulled a name out of his arse," Al explained.
"Al," Liz looked at her sternly.
"Sorry, his bum,"
"Thank you," Liz smiled.
I rolled my eyes at the two of them, "Who was it?"
"He said it was Natalie, the second year Ravenclaw he fancied for a week last year." James answered me.
"Oh, I see," I replied and then I smiled brightly because I had a theory, "Okay, so Rose admitted her feeling about Scorpius to us, and Scorpius admitted his 'feelings' to some random girl. What if Scorp does fancy Rose, but he is too worried about telling you two because you are family and too worried about telling us because we will tell Rose?"
"Brilliant!" Al, James and Liz all exclaimed.
"Thanks," I smiled proudly, "I try."
Through the whole Sorting Ceremony we didn't pay attention much, trying to figure out a way to get Scorpius to admit he fancies Rose, without him having to tell a family member. We came up with tons of ideas, but each time we came up with one, we immediately threw it out because it was too far-fetched. We finally gave up after Headmistress McGonagall announced the beginning of term notices, and all of a sudden, Scorpius appeared next to James.
"Bloody hell!" James whisper-yelled.
"James," I warned, mimicking Liz earlier.
"Sorry," he hissed, turning to talk to Scorpius. So he wanted to be a prat, well he could, I wasn't going to deal with him any longer.
"Merlin, Rose!" I jumped in my seat seeing that she was sitting beside me.
"Sorry, the only way we could get in here without being seen was using the cloak," she apologized.
"It's okay," I laughed, "How was your skipping?"
"Awkward," she whispered so Scorpius couldn't hear, "I talk to you guys about it later."
"Sounds good," we smiled at McGonagall announced that it was time to eat. The boys were the first to notice this and they all dug into their food, it revolting the way they eat.
Dinner was uneventful, no interesting gossip or break-ups like last year, just a quiet, normal first day back to Hogwarts feast. When the Headmistress dismissed us to our dorms, Liz took Rose and I by the arms, as she often did, and we walked up the stairs back to our dorm room that we had shared last year. We didn't stop in the common room, but we continued all the way up the stairs to our dorms room. The two sisters we were rooming with last year had moved to America with their families and they were now attending the Wizarding school there, which meant that we had no other dorm mates because there wasn't enough first years to have two in our room, but my dad had told us that we would probably be rooming with two or three first years as third years. We agreed willingly, because we would probably end up with a couple of Rose's cousins or something.
"So tell us," Liz encouraged, sitting down on her bed, waiting for what had happened while Rose and Scorp skipped.
"Well we walked over to the lake and sat in front of the tree out there, the one facing the lake," she told us.
"Yeah, yeah we know which tree you are talking about," I encouraged her.
"Then we started talking because he looked conflicted, when I asked him the only thing he told me was that it was because school was going so fast, but I could tell that was it because his eyes weren't sparkling after he told me. Anyway we talked for a few minutes about how fast school was going, we must have sat there for about forty five minutes to an hour, not doing anything, just sitting. Although, every so often when I looked over at him I caught him looking at me, and our eyes would lock. My eyes and his gorgeously beautiful eyes. I sound so cheesy!" she blushed hiding her face in her pillow.
"No you aren't cheesy, at all. You sound like a girl who fancies a boy," I smiled, thinking of James.
"Is that what you do when you think of James, Charlie?" she asked smiling at me.
"Ahem, well, I don't fancy him like that," I cleared my throat.
"Sure you don't," Liz laughed.
"Is that what you do when you think of Al, Liz?" Rose finished asking her question.
"Umm… well, you see…" she sputtered.
"Yeah, yeah, not so cocky are you not!" I smiled throwing a pillow at her.
"Oh, hush up you!" she laughed, throwing the pillow back at me, but I threw one at her at the same time, but I did it without looking and it hit Rose.
"Ladies, ladies," Rose joked, sounding like my mother.
"Oh, be fun Rose!" Liz squealed throwing a pillow at her."I am fun!" she laughed throwing the pillow back at her, then one at me.
"Oh, it's on!" I laughed.
Our pillow fight lasted for about twenty minutes until the three of us held up face white flags to surrender. We then fell on the bed in a fit of laughter, about what we had just done. No one would believe that three twelve year olds, in wizard school, had a manual pillow fight, no one did that anymore apparently, except us. We spent hours just talking about boys and the drama they throw into our lives. Rose also talked more about how beautiful Scorpius's eyes were, which both Liz and I had to admit were gorgeous, a light blue, almost grey color.
The beginning of second year couldn't have been better, except maybe that James would stop being such a prat and realize that I fancy him. But that would never happen, not even in my wildest dreams, oh well, his loss.
The three of us finally said goodnight to each other around three in the morning, when we had to be awake at seven to get ready for class. That could be fun trying to get up first thing in the morning, but it was definitely worth it, we needed girl time.
A/N Hello again! Hope you enjoyed! I will try an update this weekend, but if not then, then definitely by Monday.
I want to know more about my readers, so I am going to be asking a question every time I update my story. Last time I updated the there was only one person who actually answered my question. So this time I will ask the same question and hope that more people answer. So… if you could be any character, dead or alive, male of female, who would you be?
Thanks again for reading! And let me know what you think of Charlie'sPOV!
Megan :)