Chapter 10: Music and True Feelings
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Lucy's POV
"I don't know it's kind of weird don't you think?", I say, "that our parents are just a few years older than us, I mean Uncle Harry is Dom's age!"
"It is pretty weird", He responds.
"How are your parents?", I ask him.
"Eh, they're ok, I guess, I mean dad is still too shy to talk to mum a lot but you know, yours?", he responds.
I shrug.
"Well they didn't even know esachother so…", he assures and I laugh.
"Yeah"
"I don't know I kind of wish our er, older, parents were here, that would be fun", I say and he nods raising an eyebrow in the way that made me like him even more. I am currently talking to Frank Longbottom, son of the guy who beheaded Voldemort's snake and the landlady of the Leakey, also the grandson of two widely known aurors, a guy who has girls falling for him, and of course my best friend. Sounds okay that I like him, no? Well it's not, why?
Number one, he likes my cousin, Lily, and I know this because he told me, but then again, maybe it's just puppy love or maybe my crush on him is just puppy love, we are only eleven.
Anyway number two is that he is, like I said, my best friend, practically since we were babies, but that wouldn't matter would it? I mean Scorpius and Rose are best friends and there is obviously something going on there, and James and Alice, they are best friends and everyone knows they like eachother, they are just stubborn to admit it. So there is nothing wrong with me having a…
"Er, Luz?", he asks, waving one hand in front of my face and snapping me out of my thoughts. "Yeah sorry , what were you saying?", I ask sheepishly.
"It's alright, I was just saying that yesterday while we were in our beds, James told us that he overheard his dad on the phone saying that they are probably going to come", he tells me.
"Really?", I ask, getting excited.
"Would I lie to you Lucy Goosie?", he asks smirking.
I roll my eyes. "No Frankiesville", I respond and he raises an eyebrow.
"Don't use that stupid nickname", he tells me.
"Then don't use mine", I say smirking.
"Ooh you're good", he teases. I laugh and wiggle my eyebrows.
"Anyway but when do you think they'll come?", I ask him and he shrugs.
"I don't know, when they figure out how to get here I guess", he tells me and I nod.
People start filling in to the great hall, where we have been sitting and then the Hufflepuffs start plopping down on the table. Aunt Hannah sees us and makes her way over, two boys and a girl behind her.
"Hello", she says when she gets to where we are.
We smile. "Hey", we say in unison.
"My friends er, wanted to meet you guys", she says and we look behind her.
A boy with blonde hair is staring at us, his mouth half open, probably not believing this yet, then a brunette guy is flashing a smile at us and waving and a girl with red hair looking shy but smiling.
"Oh, er hi then", I say.
"Er, Ernie, Susan, Justin, this is Frankie and this is Lucy", she says to them.
Now I recognize them, they would go a lot to Alice, Frankie, and Nick's birthday parties and all that, even if we were not related by blood we were really close with the Longbottoms, we were like their dad's part of the family and the people standing there were like their mum's. They sit down I front of us, not taking their eyes off us.
"Nice to meet you, I have some questions I would like to ask if you are in the mood for them", says Justin, shaking our hands excitedly.
"Go ahead Uncle Justin", Frankie says and the boys eyes go wide.
"He called me uncle!, wait why'd you call me uncle?", he asks, excited at first and then suspicious.
"Oh, well all of you are like my uncles and aunts, since you guys are so close to mum, it's like you're siblings I guess", he responds and they nod, smiling.
"Anyway", says Justin, "Do I have any children?", he asks.
"All of you have children, you have one girl, her name is Kacey", Frankie responds.
"Wait who do I marry?", he asks.
"Leanne", I respond.
He nods approvingly.
"How 'bout me?", Ernie asks.
"You have two kids, Bella and Lucas, Lucas is Nick's best friend", Frankie says.
"And me?", Susan ask. Frankie smirks.
"You have two kids also", he says.
"What are their names?", she asks again. I try to hold my laughter.
"Bella and Lucas", Frankie says with a grin.
Susan's mouth drops and she looks at Ernie.
"Oh boy", Ernie says and we laugh.
Fred's POV
Alice, James and I are sitting next to the Great Lake, Alice is playing something on a keyboard she carries around. She enchanted it so that it shrinks to fit in her pocket and enlarge it back to its original size when she feels like playing it. James is checking out some prank products he had brought with him in his pocket. As for me I am trying to get a rhythm I heard right by drumming two branches against a book.
Suddenly I hear Alice start playing a muggle song called Viva La Vida by Coldplay and I wait until the drums come in, then I start tapping, making them turn to look at me and smile, as Alice continues to play.
"I use to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I use to own…", James starts singing, making people stop walking an look at us.
More and more people stand around us as we continue to play or sing.
"For some reason I can't explain
I know St. Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world" I grin and look at the other two, I see Alice giggling and James smiling a he sings.
Once we finish everyone claps and we mock bow even if we are sitting down.
We laugh and people start leaving.
A boy, about 11, come running to us.
"That's a really good song, where can I hear it?", he asks excitedly.
"Yeah it is, it's called Viva la Vida, but it's form the future so you won't be able to listen to it now", James tells him.
"Wicked, I'm going to owl my mum to go to a muggle music shop and look for it!", he exclaims, "what was the name?".
"Viva la Vida, but you can't…", Alice tries to say but he runs off.
"Just leave it, he'll figure it out soon enough", James tells her and we laugh.
"You three are really good", I turn around and see Aunt Ginny smiling, leaning against a tree.
"Thanks", we say.
She walks over and sits down in front of us. "
So, when'd you learn to sing and play like that?", she asks.
"Oh I've been playing the drums since I was little, on some pans", I say.
"And Ally loves all the instruments, she can play many of them and can also sing", James says.
"As for James, we didn't even know he could sing", Ally says, looking at him and he shrugs.
"I sing sometimes", he states and looks down at the grass.
"Well it's not just because you are my future son but you sing really well", Aunt Ginny says and then looks at us, "you two also", she says and we smile.
Ron's POV
I see Hermione sitting on the couch she usually sits on in the common room and bite my lip hesitating to go talk to her. I take a deep breath and force my feet to walk to the couch.
Once I get there I plop down on the couch, Hermione never looking up.
"Hey 'Mione", I say. She looks up from what she was working on and then back down. "Hi Ron", she responds and I let out a sigh of relief, she called me Ron not Ronald, so she wasn't mad at me.
"Look 'Mione, I'm really sorry for what happened the other day", I say.
She looks up at me. "I thought you couldn't remember anything", she says and I nod.
"Er, I didn't, but Harry told me", I respond, scratching the back of my neck.
She nods. "So yeah, I'm really sorry, you know for embarrassing you and er, trying to er, kiss you", I feel the heat rising to my neck and face.
"Look Ronald, it's fine, it embarrassed you too and don't try to deny it, it's fine if you don't fancy me in that way, at least not now", she says, her voice starting out strong and diminishing to a whisper as she went on.
'Oh, bloody hell, I'm just making this worse' I think.
"No, no, 'Mione, it's not that", I say and she looks up at me questionably. "I mean er, I obviously have to don't I, since we, er have Rose and Hugo", I say, and curse myself for letting my voice squeak.
"Honestly Ronald, now you are just doing this because if you don't Rose and Hugo won't be here?!", she asks exasperated and stands up from the couch, making her way to the staircases to the dormitories.
"Merlin! No 'Mione! I didn't mean it like that, you know I'm not good with words!", I say frantically, running to her.
"Then what did you mean?", she asks, her voice small and a tear running down her cheek.
"Oh, I'm a prat, I've made you cry when I really wanted to apologize", I tell her and look down. "Look Hermione, you're beautiful, and smart, and brave, and kind, and oh Merlin! Hermione, I do fancy you, I have fancied you for a long time, since third year, maybe even before that! Ever since you told me I had dirt on my nose, ok well maybe not then, I thought you were a bit bossy, but I still thought you were one of the prettiest girls I had ever seen! And I'm just a great big bloody prat, for thinking that it was not good to have feelings for my best friend, not Harry, I mean you…and I'm sorry for, for, all I have said and for the Yulle Ball and for Lavander, and, and, yeah. The truth 'Mione is that I fancy you, a lot and I'm not just doing this because of Rose and Hugo, I think that's just a bonus, a bonus that Rose look just like you and has your brains, and a bonus that Hugo isn't a bloody jerk like me, a bonus that you are actually there to keep me from raising them all wrong", I let the words spill from my mouth, everything I had been thinking, they all flow out without making a pit stop at my brain to see if they sounded right, I just wanted Hermione to feel better.
"You mean that?", she asks me in a whisper, her eyes still swimming.
"Yeah", I say and then of course my brain switches back to the awkward Ron mode and I blush, feeling everything from my neck and up go red.
She throws her arms around my neck and I am surprised a moment, then I wrap my arms around her middle and hug her tight.
"Thank you Ron", she says.
"It's true", I respond shrugging.
Ok, first of I hope you liked this chapter, it took me a while to think of it.
Second, I have an Instagram account called next_generation_facts, where you can see all the information about the next gen kids and some confessions, it's new so there is not a lot yet, I did it so people an have more insides to the story.
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