A/N: Here's a new chapter. Hope you'll like it. Enjoy :))

Chapter 25: Summer part one

With the twins gone, the castle felt so empty, but this year was worse than before because Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco were gone as well. I felt completely alone without my friends my brother and my...umm...soulmate. Peeves made sure I wasn't bored though, occasionally dropped vases on the newly cleaned floors or cabinets from 10 meters high, making noise and angering Filch. He even closed Mrs Norris in a hidden place behind a statue one day. The caretaker searched for his cat two full hours before the portraits guided him. I was raiding the Forest with Hagrid, feeding the Thestrals and occasionally reading the stars with some centaurs. Dumbledore went with me to Godric's Hollow to the graves of mum and dad and Minnie started teaching me how to become an animagus.

But even though I had all this distractions, I still felt a growing black hole in my stomach from not having the people who grew closer and closer to me during the year with me. When July approached, the last week before it felt like a century. I dreaded the feeling that I was so close to seeing my friends, I could basically see that day, but it still felt so far away.

Finally, the awaited day came, July 15, and I was eager to leave the castle, to be surrounded by the Weasleys and maybe Harry, who knows, to see Mrs Weasley and Ginny, she was about to start her first year at Hogwarts and I was going to help her even before she set foot on the school grounds. As I would have the twins, and I wasn't going to be anywhere near Hogwarts, I could freely fly on a broom, maybe play some Quidditch, feel the air running through my hair, brushing against my skin, a cool sensation that I missed. If someone was to see my broom, they most probably wouldn't even know what it is. It wasn't purchased. It was carefully carved by Madame Hooch, Hagrid chose the wood, and Flitwick, Minnie and Dumbledore enchanted it, and Sev finnished it with a bit of protection potions for curses and nature. But it was special, for me, and in my opinion the best. I put it in my trunk,(magically enlarged with a non detectable charm) along with my clothes, books and other things. I was going to stay there for the rest of the summer and that's why I took my trunk with me.

The last thing I was sad about was that no matter what, I still wasn't going to see Draco over the summer. Hopefully though, after Voldemort is truly defeated and dead, we'll be able to stay together with no one judging. But because of him, and the twins, I was dreading the day when my birthday will be. They said they had something special in mind to give me, and they smirks didn't help me being calm at that. Also, maybe some people will get suspicious that mine and Harry's birthday is on the same day. Never mind, I brushed that idea off and looked at the fireplace in front of me. Fred and George were coming through Floo to get my trunk and I would go after them. The flames suddenly went green, and two identical boys, with identical grins plastered on their faces stepped out.

"My lady, what a..."

"...pleasure it is to see your..."

"...royal face on this beautiful..."

"...day. May we take..."

"...your trunk please?"

I looked at them, one eyebrow raised with an expression saying 'Really now? Are you serious?'

"Yes you absolute dumbasses, you may" I said, a smirk sliding on my face.

The next moment, letting the taunting and sarcasm aside, I jumped into their arms, hugging them tightly, as they caught me into a bone crushing hug.

"I missed you two boys..."

"We missed you..."

"...too, Sallie-Allie"

"Now let's go before mum..."

"...decides we've been gone for..."

"...too long and comes after us."

I turned to face Minnie and Sev. Minnie was looking at the boys with a softer look than normally. Sev, on the other side, looked at them like he wanted to bury them alive, as he said, in a harsh tone:

"You two better take care of her. She's on your watch now."

"Yes sir." they chorused, and I could feel fear slipping in their voices.

We told our goodbyes and left to the Burrow. Ron was apparently training at Quidditch, Ginny throwing balls at him. Mrs Weasley was waiting just beside the fireplace.

"I was just about to come after you. Why did it take so much?" she questioned the boys, then turned to me, her face softening

"Selene, dear, you're so skinny, aren't you eating enough? You should take care of your health. How was your holiday till now?"

"Boring. I missed my friends and...the...the other two"

"Well, from now on, you'll be surrounded by them. Harry is coming in about a week, so we'll celebrate your birthday."

"Actually, Mrs Weasley, I was wondering, can't we celebrate just Harry's? For the others it might be a little suspicious. I mean, I know it's just Ron and Percy left, but Ron will tell Hermione and she's very bright."

"Selene dear, it's okay, no one will find out. I'm sure of that. Now, boys, help her get her trunk upstairs and settle in. Then we'll have lunch."

"Ok mum."

"Oh, and George dear, you have some ash on your face" she said and cleaned him.

"I'm Fred, he's George!"

"Honestly woman, you call yourself our mother?"

"I'm sorry, Fred dear"

"Joking, I'm George" He said and ran away laughing, before his mother could hit him round his head.

"Those boys..." she shook her head and went to make lunch.

The boys helped me unpack and we ran off to the field to play Quidditch with Ron. He was amazed by my broom, saying he never saw something like that and asked me about the model. I said I didn't know it, that it was a Christmas gift but it didn't appear to have a sender.

"If Hermione heard you..." he said, chuckling.

And so the days went on, me being finally carefree, and happy like a child should be.

There were just two days before Harry came and I just started one of my hardest projects: Trying to convince Mrs Weasley that there was something wrong about Gilderoy Lockhart. I hit a wall of stubbornness like I've never seen before.

A/N: Hey guys, not a cliffhanger, just a bit of a funny ending for this chapter. Thanks for the support and for reading this story. You're the best and inspire me to continue writing. If you have any questions, or things to say, leave it in the comments and I'll answer in author's note in the next chapter after the comment was posted. See you in five days with another part of the summer(maybe all of it :)))

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