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12. Going home and getting surprised.

It's true that time passes quickly when you're happy. You try to enjoy every bit of it as much as you can and wish that it never ends, but everything ends at some point, and Christmas holydays arrived much earlier than I was expecting. My relationship with Derek was better every day, we kissed, we laughed, my friends liked him and he liked my friends. Classes were going great, same with Quiddicth; we'd lost just once, against Ravenclaw. Albus and Jenny were finally a decent couple, the only thing less happy was the fact that coward Zabini hadn't made a move on Ali, who sometimes sadly stared at the window for almost hours. Scorpius and I were in balance again, I thought about revenge for Derek but then I would have spent all this time fighting him so I decided to enjoy and leave it, I think he always thought something was coming though, because every time I passed by him he would eye me suspiciously.

I finished packing my trunk and sat in my bed, I had been the last one packing, which was a new, I was normally the one who started; I guess I was afraid that going for the holydays would somehow ruin the lucky streak that seemed to be happening in my life.

"Lily? Are you ready? We have to get going." Jenny walked in the dorm.

"Yeah…I'm ready."

Jenny sat next to me. "What's wrong? You love going home for Christmas holydays."

I shrugged. "I know, it's just…everything was going so good you know?"

She nodded. "And what? You're afraid that it will end?"

"Yes."

"I understand what you mean, but it's just two weeks, what could possibly happen in such short period of time?" She said.

"I guess you're right."

I grabbed my trunk, which was the only one still there and followed Jenny off the dorm, not knowing yet that a lot could indeed happen in only two weeks…

"Sweetie pie!" My dad screamed as I stepped out of the train.

I rolled my eyes at the nickname I'd been hearing since I was born. I couldn't hide my enthusiasm and ran in my parents direction. My dad grabbed me in a bear hug and lifted me up as I laughed. My dad always made me feel like a kid again.

"Come on Harry; let me hug my daughter too!" My mom demanded with a smile.

"Well I guess nobody is happy to see me." Albus said behind me.

My dad let me go and turned to my brother.

"Oh come here." My dad hugged him.

"Ok, never mind that, ignore me, ignore me!" Albus muffled voice said.

"Oh I missed you!" My mom kissed me in the cheek.

My dad finally let go off my brother.

"Hey Mary, how was school darling?" He also hugged her.

"It was fine Uncle Harry." She smiled.

I spent the next 30 minutes saying goodbye to my friends and Derek. I introduced him to my parents, which went good, even though I saw right through my father's fake smile, a smile he always made when he meet my boyfriends.

There were so many things to be said that we could have stayed in the train station for hours, but my dad finally said we should get going, he had to resolve some issue he didn't really said what it was.

I walked in my house and I only realize then how much I had missed it. The photos of my smiling family in the walls of the hallway, the big living room, the amazing kitchen and my favorite part, my bedroom. Its walls were painted in red and gold, Gryffindor style; I had posters of my favorite muggle bands in it, more photos, of me and my friends and me and my family, a Gryffindor scarf above my bed. My four poster bed was in the middle of the room, my red quilt wasso well stretched that I felt a bit guilty when I jumped into my bed, smelling the familiar scent of my mother's fabric softener.

Scorpius POV:

I didn't want to go home for Christmas; it was going to be the same thing as always, me, my father, my mother and my grandparents. My grandfather and my father would probably trash talk some other family while the rest of us ate in silence. Every year the same and every year I hated it.

As I got out of the train I saw the Potters. Like a perfect family, they were hugging their children. I couldn't say I didn't envied Lily and Albus for that, because I did. The way Harry Potter lifted his younger daughter and hugged her, the way he ruffled Albus hair in a fatherly way, made me cringe with jealousy, why couldn't my father be like that?

I looked away and saw only my mother waiting for me, a delicate smile in her face. She hugged me when I arrived at her side; I could sincerely say that my mother and my grandmother were the only family members I truly loved, not that I had a lot of family members…

I was puzzled by the fact my dad hadn't come, he always came, not that he seemed to care that I came back home…

"Where's father?" I asked.

"Oh, darling, something happened." My mom said with a sad face.

"What?"

"First of all you can't go home."

I can't say I was very sad when she said that, but now I couldn't go back to Hogwarts, so where was I supposed to stay?

"Then where…?"

"Wait. I'm not finish." She interrupted.

The way she was rubbing her hands, I could see she was nervous, but I was never going to guess the next words.

"Your father has been arrested."

Lily POV:

"Lily wake up."

I slowly opened my eyes to see Mary sitting in my bed.

"What…?"

"You feel asleep." She clarified.

"Oh, strange, I wasn't even sleepy."

I started getting up, passing a hand through my hair and feeling it all tangled.

"Good bed-head." Mary mocked.

"Shut up, like yours doesn't do the same." I accused.

She laughed and got up. "Anyway, dinner is ready, that's why I came calling you."

"Okay, I'll be there in 10 minutes, or the time it takes to fix this." I pointed to my hair.

Mary nodded, still smiling, and left.

I yawned and stretched as I went to my closet to look at the full body mirror. My closet was the thing I loved the most in my bedroom, because it was connected to Mary's closet, so we could go into each other's room through it. My dad thought it was easier for Mary to adjust when she moved in if she felt I was always close to her, even though her bedroom was next to mine.

My house had three floors. The first one included, the kitchen, the living room, the huge dining room, where we ate when my parents invited the whole family, which were a lot of people; my dad's office and a bathroom. The second floor were mostly the bedrooms; my bedroom, my parents's bedroom, that had its own bathroom, Mary's, Albus's, James's which was currently uninhabited, even though it might become habited again in this time of year, and Teddy's bedroom, which was also uninhabited and served most times as a guest room (seeing he lived with Victoire) and then we had another bathroom. The third floor was the attic, which my mother made it in her own studio; she's an auror by day and a painter by night, as we say.

As I went downstairs I heard a familiar voice.

"James!" I exclaimed when I entered the kitchen.

"Hey Lils, missed your cool older brother?" He smirked.

What was with guys and smirking? I hugged James nevertheless.

"Yeah, how did I survive all this time without your coolness?"

He chuckled.

"How's college?" I asked.

"Great, your brother is a winner after all."

James had gotten in college with a Quiddicth scholarship, his dream was to go pro in the major leagues.

"How's Hogwarts? You living up to the legacy?"

"Obviously!"

"So m'I" Albus answered, his mouth full of spaghetti.

"Albus Severus, I told to wait for your sister!" My mother scolded.

"Wat? She'ere!"

My mother shook her head while my father chuckled slightly.

James and I sat down at the same time the doorbell ringed.

I shared a look with Mary and turned to my parents. "Are you expecting someone else?"

"No, it's probably nothing, a salesman or something." Dad said.

Even though what he said made some sense I saw him take his wand with him. Growing up in Voldemort's time, made him more careful, I saw my mother had a suspicious look in her face too. I heard the door open and then some voices but I couldn't make the words.

"Ginny? Can you come here please?" My dad called out.

My mother got up, took out her own wand but acted as normal as she could.

"Eat before it gets cold, well be right back." She ordered.

The four of us stayed in silence, trying to understand the words but whoever it was, talked in a very low tone of voice.

"What the hell is going on?" James whispered. "I should have brought my wand from my room."

My thoughts exactly.

"Do you think its work related?" Mary asked.

"I don't know, maybe." I said. "Maybe they just need them to sign some papers."

"I doubt that, if it was that they could have used the Flow network." James said.

I finally got up and leaned on the wall, so I could hear better.

"Lily!" James reprehended.

But I saw him get up too and stand next to me, Albus and Mary quickly followed.

"I can't hear any…"

"Shh!" James and I told Albus.

"Thank you so much, thank you for understanding. I know that our families aren't the greatest friends, but I didn't have anyone else to resort." It was a women's voice that I didn't recognized.

"It's okay. We're obviously well aware of your situation." My dad said.

There were some sounds, like moving and dragging things, some whispers and then. "Please take care of him." The female voice said.

"We will, don't worry." I distinctly heard my dad saying.

We heard the door closing, and footsteps. We ran to our seats and started making noise with the silverware; I started chewing a mouthful of spaghetti.

My mother was the first one to come back; she had a weird look on her face.

"So, we're going to have a guest for the next couple of days." She informed.

"Who?" Albus beat me to asking.

And where was dad?

Both questions were answered when my dad came into the kitchen carrying a suit case. I could see someone was coming behind him, but only when my dad stepped to the side was the identity of the guest reveled.

"Hello."

I choked with the spaghetti as I watched Scorpius Malfoy standing in my kitchen.

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