Tosh wrote to her friends over summer vacation so often she had to give her poor owl a rest. "Sorry, I've been making you work rather hard haven't I, Yoki?" She smiled as she petted her owl's head and put her back in her cage. Tosh blew out her candles and rested her head on her pillow. She'd enchanted her ceiling to project the night sky as she slept. Subconsciously her mind went back to Mary. She'd only met her that one time on Valentine's Day but she'd found a spot to nest in the back of Toshiko's mind. Tosh hoped maybe next year she could see her again. But her hopes were dashed when she found out her parents were moving the family back to Japan the next morning.

"Mum, please!" Toshiko was nearly in tears. "I have friends at school!"

"You'll make plenty of friends at Mahoutokoro" Her mother tried to persuade her. "And with sure an excellent cherry wood wand you're bound to find loads of admirers."

"I don't want admirers! I want friends!" Toshiko ran back up to her room in tears. She looked at her dark cherry red wand and remembered what her mother had said when she first acquired it at Ollivander's. She'd told her it was one of the highest honours in Japanese wizardry to be entrusted with a cherry wood wand. And dragon heartstring core, no less. It had petals carved at the handle reminiscent of the cherry blossoms from which it came. It really was something to be proud of and after the initial shock had subsided Tosh decided perhaps it wasn't the worst thing ever to move back to Japan. She could still talk to her Hogwarts friends through correspondence by owl. That is if Yoki wasn't too worn out already from flying all summer.

Amy was having a rather boring summer and spent her days reading, drawing doodles in her notebooks and practicing spells. Even though she was told to never use her magic outside of school. It was all rather harmless stuff except for the time she attempted the Ventus Jinx and knocked over some of Aunt Sharon's more valuable vases and nick nacks. Amy's parents were very proud of their daughters abilities but Sharon did not share their enthusiasm. In fact, she thought Amelia's powers were freakish and unnatural. Amy hated getting stuck with Aunt Sharon when her parents had to travel for business. She wished they weren't always so busy.

It was the second week of June and summer break had barely started but the monotony in the Pond household was pure agony for Amy until a familiar pygmy falcon came to visit with a letter addressed to her. In Rory's hand writing it read; "Dear Amy, It's my birthday coming up and my family would love it if you could join us. That is if you're not too busy and if your parents say yes. -Rory. P.S. Love You."

Her mom and dad had so many questions for Amy when she showed them the letter.

-"So the bird gave you the letter?"

-"Yes, mum."

-"Do cats deliver witch's mail or just birds?"

-"No, Dad. Just birds, usually"

-"How do you think they celebrate birthdays?"

-"I figure with cake... just like everybody else"

They were so enthralled with questions about the magical world that the 'P.S. Love You' part thankfully went over their heads. The last thing Amy wanted was to get stuck having some terrifyingly embarrassing version of THE talk with her parents.

Amy flew off on her broom to Rory's house for his birthday with Clover showing her the way. She reached a sweet cottage with a lovely garden full of different magical plants she hadn't seen in herbology yet. Rory waved to her from the front door and she came in to find Craig, Sophie and Mickey already there eating and laughing and dancing to the radio.

"I didn't think wizards used electricity." Amy noticed the old 1940's style radio in the living room.

"Ele..wha? Oh, you mean the radio!" Rory remembered some things he'd learned in Muggle Studies. "Yeah, it's just enchanted to broadcast whatever wizard stations are on the air right now. But as far as I'm concerned, I find the concept of electric wires connecting the whole world together far more interesting than magic." Rory's fascination for muggle technology was interrupted by Rory's father.

"So this is the famous Amelia Pond!" He started excitedly. "Rory's been talking about you non-stop. I've heard so much about you." Brian Williams made his son blush.

"What have you heard? All bad I hope" Amy smiled.

Brian laughed. "No, no. He says you're the best quidditch player on the Gyrffindor team and you're excellent at charms." Brian leans in to whisper to his son. "You didn't tell me she was so cute"

"Dad, she can still hear you" Rory was red with embarrassment.

"You didn't say I was cute!?" Amy gasped in a sarcastically playful tone.

Brian laughed again. "I like her. I don't know what he said to make you his girlfriend but he's a lucky boy. Oh, looks like someone's at the door" Brian left them alone as he went to see who'd knocked.

"Well, that wasn't completely terrifying." Rory rolled his eyes as Amy laughed at his obvious embarrassment.

"Amy! Rory!" Matt came up behind them and hugged them both tight in a big group hug. "I just love you guys" He ruffled their hair as he walked into the living room with them.

"Hey, Mickey. where's Rose?" Amy asked wondering if her roommate would be joining the party.

"Why don't you ask him?" Mickey turned up his nose at Matthew.

"I haven't seen her since school ended." Matt shrugged.

"Well, she broke up with me and it's because of you." Mickey was about to pick a fight before Amy cut in.

"Ok, I'm sorry, Mickey. She just wasn't interested in you anymore and she felt like she was obligated to say something instead of stringing you along. And it has nothing to do with her liking Matt. So can we not ruin Rory's birthday with some stupid fight over a girl, please?"

The two boys huffed and let the drama go for the sake of their friends. "Thanks for that, Amy" Rory was glad she'd broken up what could have been a terrible argument. "There might finally be hope for us come second year"