"Victoire! Dinner is ready!"

I broke apart from Teddy and gazed into his eyes. Neither of us wanted to go inside because we wanted to be alone. "Don't you wish we could just blow off this whole dinner?"

"Yeah, but your parents would be really mad."

"Sometimes don't you just wish you didn't have to live up to people's expectations?"

"That would be the perfect world, which sadly does not exist, sweetheart." He stood and offered me his hand, which was completely covered in sand.

"My mum is going to be so pissed when we track all this sand in the house," I laughed.

"I've got it covered." He did a spell and all of the sand fell off me and then he did the same for himself.

I ran up the beach to where we left our shoes. I slipped mine on and then ran off with his. He laughed and then chased me up to our front yard. There he finally caught me around the waist. He picked me up bridal style and swung me around. When I was placed back on the ground I gave him a kiss as well as his shoes. Over his shoulder I saw my dad standing on our porch.

"Dinner is getting cold."

"We're coming." I took Teddy's hand and this time I drug him back into the house.

We sat across from each other at the table and occasionally shared glances throughout the meal. Tonight my dad talked. He had a lot to say and he was genuinely nice to Teddy. My mum and I shared a look of surprise when he actually laughed at a joke Teddy made.

After dinner we moved to the den. Teddy and I sat together on the loveseat and my parents and Dom sat on the couch across from us. Louis went upstairs to spend some more quality time with his broom. We made small talk for awhile and then Dom fell asleep on mum's shoulder. Apparently it was finally time for her to crash.

"So Teddy the last I heard you wanted to become a professor," said my dad.

"Yes, I want to teach History of Magic. It's about time Professor Binns gave it a rest, though I do applaud his dedication."

"What sort of training do you need for that? I mean surely you don't just become a teacher over night."

"There is a program through the Ministry that I will take for a year and then I can teach. The first half of the training takes place in Egypt though because the bloke that runs the program just moved there, but the second half I will come back and observe teaching methods at Hogwarts and take a couple classes with the Ministry. It's a really good program."

"And you are going to write me every day you're in Egypt."

"And we'll be back together by Christmas time."

He smiled and feeling comfortable he put his arm around me, the arm his bracelet was on. My dad saw that and got a confused look on his face.

"Why are you wearing that?"

"I duplicated mine and gave it to him. See?" I held out my wrist with the original bracelet still on it to show him that we matched.

"That was sweet of you." He looked as though he was about to cry, but changed the subject, "Any big plans for the two of you for Victoire's birthday next week?"

"Whatever Victoire wants to do is what we'll do. Mrs. Weasley had mentioned a big family dinner for her, but I was thinking we would go out the night before."

"That's very nice of you, Teddy. Our present to her is that she doesn't have curfew that night." Mum winked and then walked into the kitchen with a very sleepy Dom. After awhile they went upstairs. We were left with dad who wasn't too keen on the whole no curfew thing, but didn't complain.

"Well, it's getting late. You two say your goodbyes." He walked out onto the front porch.

"Tonight was actually really good. Your dad didn't even try to kill me."

"I know, I'm so proud of him. So I was thinking about my birthday and how about we go to Diagon Alley and have ice cream at Fortesque's and walk around the shops. Maybe you'll find my present there."

"I offered to take you out anywhere. We could go to a nice fancy restaurant for dinner and you pick ice cream from Fortesque's. I knew there was something I loved about you." He kissed me and then said, "And don't worry, I already have your present picked out."

"Is it something hopelessly romantic?" I teased.

"Oh you know it."

We stood and walked over to the door. I got a good night kiss and hug and then let him out the door. "Bye Teddy."

"Bye Victoire. I'll see you tomorrow at Mrs. Weasley's."

He waved as I shut the door, but I decided to stay there for a minute because my dad was out on the porch. He called Teddy over to him and had him sit down and I thought that was the last I was ever going to hear of my beloved boyfriend.

"Teddy I want to apologize. Victoire seems to really like you and I misjudged your relationship with her. So I'm sorry if I came off a tad bit harsh the other day at mum's. She is my daughter though and I love her very much and so do you. I can tell that you two are very happy together and I'm happy for you guys. Just treat her the same as you have been and never hurt her or else I will kill you."

"Thanks Bill."

"Yeah, well you better get going before mum starts to worry. Night Teddy."

"Good night." From the pop I could tell that he Apparated.

I moved away from the door, but hugged my dad when he came in. "I love you dad."

"I love you too, baby girl." He kissed my head, smiled, and then went upstairs to go to bed.