Aria: Hello hello! First of all...I must sincerely apologize for not posting in over a month first my computer has problems then the internet dies...literally it died for a week...It was definitely one of those moment when you realize how much you use the internet and how much of a problem it is when it doesn't work (seriously not even Google worked).

Anyway, to hopefully make up for the fact that at the moment my internet is unreliable and my updating will be at random...I have made this a long chapter :) Yay!

Also I just wanted to clarify the year levels of the characters in my story so they are listed in bold below.

I had fun writing this chapter and I hope you enjoy it! :)

I don't own HP!

CHAPTER 15 - Christmas Part 2

Victorie, Teddy Lupin – Graduated

Roxanne, Dominique – 7th year

James, Fred, Louis – 6th year

Albus, Rose, Mya, Fie, Scorpius – 5th year

Molly, Locan, Lysander – 4th year

Lily, Hugo – 3rd year

Lucy – 2nd year

- 22nd December -

Rose's POV:

After our argument this morning, Scorpius and I have been glaring at each other ever since. Dom, Victorie and Louis had shown up two days ago but I had been too wrapped up in my arguments with Scorpius to notice much – I did say hello though. I did notice the occasional yelling coming from Dom scolding James for setting up pranks like mines on a mine field – if you got close to one something big was guaranteed to happen.

Anyway, this morning I was sitting in the Living room with Lil and Victorie, who were endlessly chatting about all the gossip they had found out about since they last met. Such as how Victorie was now dating Teddy – who will also be staying over – and Lil just started dating Lysander. To be honest, I mostly found gossip to be boring. It was always about how some guy or girl cheated or how some couple who had been together for years suddenly broke up or the general mess relationships are.

For hours I been thinking very careful about where I am in the house compared to Scorpius. For two reasons: firstly to make sure we can glare at each other and secondly, so that we don't start arguing.

It suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't stopped thinking about since he got here. Can't my brain go for 5 seconds without thinking about him? I cleared my head and started to think about a topic at random.

Bells. Yes, bells make beautiful sounds. Scorpius is good at dancing….Wow, wow back it up and try again.

Pink. Like strawberry ice-ream and the cupcake Scorpius once fed me…Hold on, how the hell did I suddenly remember that? Ok, try again Rose.

Winter. I love it when it snows and the lakes droplets on trees turn to icicles. Scorpius is good at ice skating….Ugh, why can't I get him out of my head? No matter what I think about I can always relate it back to Scorpius is someway.

I let out a sigh and gave up. Meanwhile I noticed that people had started to move to the door.

"Rose, are you ok? You've been in deep thought for a while now and have been spaced out before that," Victorie asked with a concerned look on her face.

"Yes, I'm fine thanks, just thinking that's all," I replied with a reassuring smile.

"Ok then, let's go a greet Molly and Lucy, they just arrived," Victorie suggested.

"Sure," I answered while getting off the couch.

After greeting Mol, Lucy and Uncle Percy – his wife, Audrey, couldn't come because of work apparently. However, soon after arriving Uncle Percy had to leave to go back to work and promised Nana Molly that he would come back on Christmas day and then left.

I started a mental count down, So far here we have: me, Hugo, James, Al, Scorpius, Lily, Dom, Victorie, Louis, Mol, Lucy. We are waiting for: Fred, Roxy, Teddy, Mya and Fie. Then Christmas can really start.

My eyes were wondering and ended up staring straight into those silver pools. I didn't glare this time which caused Scorpius to make a face that mashed confusion, concern and arrogance into one expression. Only Scorpius could pull off a face that that and look hot at the same time. I smirked trying really hard to bite back laughter – what would my family think if I had a sudden outburst of laughter? They'd probably ask if I was alright in the head, which I am.

Fred and Roxy showed up not too long after Mol and Lucy. By this time the Burrow was very lively with most of the Weasley-Potter clan there.

"So who are the ones yet to show up? They sure do like holding up the party," Al asked everyone in general.

"Well, Teddy will be here really soon," Victorie answered excitedly.

"And Mya and Fie will be here tomorrow. After that I think that's everyone," I added. Al nodded.

I could tell Al was excited about seeing Mya in person again. He would be alert any time her name was mentioned and got disappointed when she hadn't shown up.

I chuckled under my breath at his antics. I felt a pair of eyes watching me so I looked around. Turns out Scorpius had been staring at me but looked away when I looked his way.

This really seemed to confuse me for some reason. I spent the rest of the day puzzled by this. Right up until I when to sleep even.

- A few hours later -

I woke up with a gasp. I took deep breathes to calm myself down. My heart was beating so fast and my body had tensed with the pumping adrenaline. With the deep breathing I slowly relaxed. It was dark in the room which could only mean that is was the middle of the night. Great, I had to wake up now. I then began to think about the dream I just had. I remember something about The Toad (Selene) and Scorpius, and the three of us in a corridor at Hogwarts which then morphed into somewhere else – I don't quite remember where. Then I remember feeling betrayed and shock and then. I had to force myself to stop thinking about it before I started crying over stuff I couldn't understand.

I hopped out of bed and rummaged around – in the dark – and found my pink cardigan. It matched my pajamas's which were long pants – with a pink and white spiral pattern on them – and a long sleeve top which was light pink. I then headed out and down to the kitchen because I knew that I would be able to sleep for at least a little while. Not that having a midnight snack will do much to help, but at least it will keep my mind busy. It suddenly occurred to me as I was approaching the kitchen: Scorpius was in my dream. Not Al. Not Mya. Why did I have a dream involving him?

Before I could answer my question, I noticed that the kitchen light was on. Distracted by a movement out of the corner of my eye, my brain clicked into immediate alertness as my body was tensing ready to run or fight. I quickly turned to see that Scorpius was filling up a glass of water. I relaxed for a second but then froze.

I suddenly started having an internal debate: should I state my presence? Or should I hide? Why would I hide? It would be silly to hide. Would I give him a fright if I suddenly came out of nowhere? Maybe, but I can't just stand he in the dark.

Just I had come to the conclusion to say something, Scorpius looked over to the dark patch where I stood and jumped a little from shock – which lead to him spilling a little water on the floor and bench.

I quickly realised I should say something and whispered – to not wake anyone else – "Wow, sorry, It's just me, Rose."

I took a step into the light and I saw him visibly relax.

"Merlin Rose, do you make a habit of lurking around corners in the dark or are you a sleep walker?" Scorpius asked trying to find something to soak up the spilt water.

I grabbed some paper towel and helped clean up the water.

"No, obviously not, but if you must know I only came down because I had trouble sleeping," Rose stated.

"Me too," Scorpius whispered to himself – I'm assuming – but I still heard him, mainly because we only stood about two feet apart in the kitchen.

We stood in silence for a few seconds – This is the first conversation we've had that wasn't an argument and he hadn't even spoken to each other since this morning. I was going to stay silent, before I remembered the feeling I felt in my dream.

Without thinking about what I was saying I blurted out, "Sorry, I didn't greet you properly when you got here and we've been fighting ever since…" I paused because I honestly didn't know what to say next.

Scorpius just stood there with a stunned look on his face. He then gave a genuine smile and chuckled.

Confused, I asked, "What's so funny?"

"Oh, nothing, anyway it's fine and we have had fights worse than this, besides it would be boring without the occasional exchange of insults," Scorpius replied.

It was my turn to be stunned. It would seem that one or two sentences from Scorpius and all of my bottled up worry – that I didn't know I had – melted away. I laughed and he joined in.

Once I stopped laughing, I recalled what time it was and said, "We should probably both head of to bed now."

"Yeah, 'night Rose," Scorpius said as he stated to leave but then as an afterthought said, "See you tomorrow."

"Yep, 'night Scorpius," I replied even though I knew he had already left.

Now, it's my turn to go back to sleep, before Mya and Fie arrive. I headed back to my – My dad's old – room and fell asleep as soon as my head it the pillow.

- 23rd December -

Mya and Fie were both running slightly late. Mya had owled me to tell me that she was going to go to Fie's house so that they could both floo directly here. But they were running late as I slowly paced in the space in front of the fire place. Just when I was about to go pace somewhere else – I was getting dizzy pacing up and down in the one spot – someone came stumbling out of the fire place. Mya laughed as she dusted herself off.

"It's always so fun to floo," she stated half-jokingly before she hugged me.

"Glad you think so," I replied sarcastically with a giggle.

Mya was sporting a very bright green coloured jumper – that was covered in sparkling red stars – with denim jeans and a red scarf. Mya is always so cheerful around Christmas time, in fact I didn't think that people could such an extreme state of the happy emotion, but there you have it. Whenever she was in this state you felt like literally anything is possible. I honestly didn't understand how Al could have spent so many Christmases with Mya and not asked her out yet.

Then Fie stepped out of the fire place without a dust spec on her. While wearing a red jumper and jeans with a green ting in them. They made her violet eyes even more vibrant and her long raven hair was out framing her face. I have always thought that Fie was beautiful enough to be a model without having to really try. However, she wasn't really that type of girl really. Sure boys always gawked at her and hung around hoping to catch a date – especially on Valentine's Day – but she seemed to either block out that attention. She's had a crush on Mark for forever but he doesn't seem to feel the same way. Then there's this odd relationship the Fie has with Locan where you honestly don't know whether they were friends or more than friends – yes, they're confusing I will give them that.

"Hey, Rose," Fie greeted with a hug which I returned – obviously, I mean what else am I going to do? smack her away? Definitely not.

"Hey, so shall we go and put you stuff upstairs and say hello to everyone?" I asked.

"Absolutely!" Mya energetically exclaimed in her usually Christmas-happy-go-lucky manner.

Al and Scorpius came in just before we were about to sort out Mya and Fie's bags. As soon as Al saw Mya he was grinning like he was smitten – he was obviously smitten with her. As soon as I saw Scorpius my stomach decided it was an opportune time to start preforming an acrobatic routine in my gut – thanks for that gut, like I really needed to feel nervous sick right at this moment. Why am I suddenly so nervous and self-conscious? It's just Scorpius. I know this feeling of being sick is just my nervousness but how do you even control something like that?

Scorpius caught me starring at him and smile a perfect smile. I was so stunned out of it that I didn't even think to smile back, instead it resulted in me blushing bright red. So I tried looking somewhere else away from s=Scorpius in hopes that none of my family see my blushing.

"Hey stranger?" Al greeted with his usual sarcasm.

"Hey didn't your mother ever teach you the saying 'stranger danger'? I could be dangerous," Mya joked.

"Not dangerous, just a bundle of trouble," Al replied.

"Oh really?" Mya giggled. Al blushed. They're such a cute couple. Pity Al hasn't asked Mya out yet. Maybe some mistletoe is in order. Hehehe.

Teddy, Fred and Roxanne turned up shortly after Mya and Fie. Thus the real fun could start.

- 24th December -

It was finally Christmas Eve and considering the whole family was now gathered, James proposed that we should have one of our classic family Quidditch matches. A few agreed and some moaned and groaned – mainly me – at the idea of going out into the cold winter outside.

"James, I don't fancy being a Popsicle during this festive Christmas season," I stated.

"Rosie did you already forget you play in the cold at Hogwarts?" James asked rhetorically.

"Obviously not, but I played begrudgingly all of those times," I continued.

"So we'll wear coats or sweaters or something," James replied with a carefree attitude about his tone.

After several minutes of this I eventually gave up protesting because He seemed to be able to counter every argument I made. Despite what many thought – including some of our family – James was actually very smart. Yes you may go ahead and laugh but it's true. After all he did have Harry Potter as father and Ginny Weasley as his mother. That fact alone is reason to believe the three siblings are capable of great things. Although the one thing that is often so well hid people don't seem to notice is: James Potter's skill of persuasion. He could convince a cow to jump over a 5 meter fence or convince ducks to walk in circles - both of which he has probably already done.

His persuasion skills are the reason I ended up outside in the cold with the snow covered landscape playing Keeper for my team: Lily (chaser), Mya (beater), James (seeker), Fred (beater), Louis (chaser) and Teddy (chaser). James was our captain and the captain of the other team was Dom. Her team consisted of herself (beater), Roxanne (chaser), Albus (chaser), Scorpius (seeker), Lucy (keeper), Hugo (beater) and Victorie (chaser). Molly sat out to play referee and Fie flat out refuses to ever get on a broom because of what happened in our first year Flying classes. Let's just say that the enchanted brooms didn't exactly like Fie for some strange reason we have never found out. Obviously we didn't know why they were like that, it's not like we can have a conversation with an enchanted broom and it's quite the one-sided conversation too. As much as I wanted to relax today I could never relax during Quidditch. For as long as I can remember Quidditch has always brought out my extremely competitive side and so I love to end a game of Quidditch knowing I tried my best to help the team win.

- After a long cold Quidditch match that contained lots of yelling and competitive spirit -

"I'm totally exhausted," Lily whined as she started heading towards the house with everyone else. It was late afternoon and the sky's light was rapidly fading hence we had to stop the match. I, however, didn't make any moves to move closer to the house.

"You alright, Rose?" Fie, mutely asked with a look. I replied with a smile and a nod. She then followed everyone inside.

It started snowing a minute or two after everyone had left – just like I could feel it would. I loved it when it snowed. Everything seemed quite tranquil when it snows. I stood there looking up at the sky and the falling snowflakes.

I must have been day dreaming because I got a sudden fright when someone said, "Quite pretty isn't it?"

Scorpius stood beside me and looked down from the sky to me recovering from the fright.

He chuckled and it sent delightful tingles through my nerves. I was blushing no doubt but I wasn't particularly worried – I could blame it on the weather after all.

"Mmm," I agreed to his statement, "I love it when it snows." I couldn't help but smile.

I looked over at Scorpius – who was looking straight at me – and we caught each other's gaze. His expression was hard to read it looked like he was amazed, amused and serious simultaneously – how does he even do that? I may never know.

We stayed just looking at each other for another minute or two.

Scorpius smiled and tapped the tip of my nose with his index finger and said, "Rosie the red nose reindeer."

It took me a second to work out what he was referring to but then I realized my nose was probably red from the cold air nipping at it. My hand went to cover my nose – which was cold – and blushed even more.

Scorpius then started laughing and I eventually joined in too.

"We should probably go inside now, to warm up and stuff, we don't want to catch colds," Scorpius said in a matter-of-factly tone.

"Yeah," I replied slightly disappointed that the moment had to end. I found myself thinking: why did I ever think I hated this boy?

But I had to snap out of my own thoughts as we walked back to the house.

- Later on after dinner, around bedtime -

Mya, Fie and I had changed into our PJ's and were just chatting until someone brought up what had happened earlier that evening.

"Rose, so what took you so long to walk back inside? Malfoy was with you wasn't he? What happened between you two," Mya energetically asked.

"Yeah Rose, what happened," Fie echoed with a knowing smile.

"We just talked then he basically made a joke about how my nose was really red from the cold, nothing much apart from that," I replied smiling at the memory.

"Oh really?" Fie inquired.

"Yep," I replied wondering why she looked like she knew something I didn't.

"Anyway, it's Christmas tomorrow! I am too excited to sleep," Mya stated.

Fie and I both agreed and planned to stay up all night.

We all fell asleep 15 minutes later…

- 25th of December -

I was awoke by having my lovely warm bed covers reefed away from me.

Whoever it is, is about to play with fire and get burned.

I groan and see Mya and Fie excitedly bouncing around all over the place like they were on sugar rushes.

"Come one Rose, it's Christmas! It's here!" Mya exclaimed excitedly.

To be totally fair my logical side doesn't wake up until a little while after I am conscious. So I pretty much walk around like a zombie most mornings. But today reality seemed to come crashing down much faster than usual. That's right, it's Christmas! I quickly sprung out of bed with seemingly all the energy in the world. I bounced excitedly around with everyone else and with this new found energy I followed the two of them down into the living room where the whole family seemed to be congregating.

"Merry Christmas everyone!" James shouted – probably waking up anyone still asleep.

"Happy Christmas, Rose, Fie," Mya said handing us our presents from her.

"Aww thanks Mya," Fie said and gave Mya a hug.

"Thank you Mya," I said also giving her a hug.

Basically this started the gift exchange on a large scale with the whole family. Christmas was my favourite season not because we got presents – they were a bonus thought haha – it was the giving atmosphere that this national holiday created. It really brought people together and they spend happy times together laughing and having fun. It truly was a joyous season.

I saw Al shyly give Mya a small green and red box. Mya was awed as she pulled out a beautiful charm bracelet and she got Al to help her put it on her wrist. Mya then gave AL his present which was a Holly Head Harpies poster with a tiny Christmas teddy bear. I grinned at their obvious pining for each other.

I realized that I still had to give Scorpius his present. It was wrapped and green and red Christmas paper and tied with a metallic green ribbon around it. How the heck am I supposed to give it to him. I'm too nervous to do that in front of my family someone might see and get the wrong idea. I mean in the past I have never given a Christmas present to Scorpius. Wow that makes me sound really mean, however, it's not like he gave me one either and I did hate him back then. Wait...did I just admit that I don't hate Scorpius?...when I think about it it's true that I don't hate Scorpius but I don't like him either. He's rude, arrogant, an absolute twit and somehow manages to always aggravate me.

Brain we're getting off topic here.

Right, ok let's just give the present to him in the conveniently empty kitchen. Sounds like a plan.

I looked over and saw Scorpius trying to figure out how the object Uncle George had given him worked. Luckily he was standing really close to the kitchen. I walked towards the kitchen but on the way I tugged the sleeve of his jumper that was closest to me. I didn't stop walking to see if he followed and walked straight into the kitchen. When I looked back he thankfully followed.

I turned to him noticing the nervous knotting in my stomach and said, "Merry Christmas Scorpius."

He grinned and replied, "Thank you."

I then realized he was also holding an unopened present that had an odd shape. Scorpius offered it to me and said, "Merry Christmas Rose."

I stared for a second surprised that he also got me a gift.

"Thank you."

We silently agreed to open the gifts at the same time. We then both tore through the wrapping paper.

I gasped with awe and surprise. It was a snow globe with an frozen pond as the figures magically danced and skated on the ice in the snow.

"It's beautiful Scorpius," I said without thinking.

He smiled and replied, "Glad you like it."

He hadn't had a proper look at the present I gave him yet. He looked down and the look of surprise and excitement crossed his face. I had given him a limited edition of a signed Chudley Canons poster that I acquired from Auntie Ginny. I'm also a Chudley Canons fan so I know that this poster sold out a couple of months ago and because there was a limited number of them it is extremely lucky to own one.

I wore a prideful smirk at my brilliant idea for a gift.

"Thank you, how do you manage to find one?" He asked still surprise.

I mischievously – What? James isn't the only one in the family who likes to be mischievous once in a while – giggled and replied, "I have my sources." a.k.a. Uncle Harry and Auntie Ginny.

He smirked at my comment

- 5 minutes later -

"What is this about James?" Dom asked probably expecting a stupid or crazy answer.

"Well, our parents seem to have gone off somewhere so I would like to play a little game. There is a prize for the winner. Now, to start with, the game is where you all have to search the house to find where I have hidden 10 glitter bombs and they all have a time limit. The person who can find and disarm the most will be the winner. If no one gets them in time they will explode the glitter to cover the house which we will all have to clean up. A definite rule, is that there will be no magic used. How does that sound?" James stated.

It sounded like James was trying to get us to help him find the bombs. Nana Molly or Auntie Ginny have probably threatened to punish him unless he finds and gets rid of them. Hence, making us help him with his mess.

I only had one word to give this situation.

Typical.

Just typical.

I shook my head at it but despite that it really did sound like a fun idea for a game.

Everyone – except Dom – seemed to want to play the game and after some convincing Dom decided to play as well. So there we were the fifteen of us stood ready to race around the house.

"On my mark…..3…2….1…GO!" James said and we were off.

I started in my (dad's old) room and found one under the window and managed to disable it. I checked the bathroom and the attic there were any in either one. I was racing up and down and basically all around – I almost fell over Mol and Lucy who were checking the stairs. I found another one on the top of a book case in Auntie Ginny's old room but my unfortunate just below average height genes prevented me from being able to reach it. Why am I short?

I weighed up the options of: staying and disarming it before one of my cousins or leaving it to find another one. The latter seemed to be unlikely because there was 10 bombs – camouflaged in Christmas paper and decorations – and thirteen people looking for them. I decided to stay and find a way to reach it. I tried stacking a chair on top of a small table but the table wouldn't have been able to hold my weight. So I tried climbing but the book shelves didn't leave much room to put ones' feet – thus I fell on my backside, which hurt mind you. I thought jumping might work so I jumped up but didn't reach it. I tried again and again; eventually I just resorted to standing on my tip toes and stretch my arm up there hoping to reach it.

Abruptly a felt that there was someone behind me.

"Maybe you should consider buying stilts?" a voice whispered next to my ear. I knew it was Scorpius' voice without even looking.

I was blushing probably as red as a tomato and became all muddled or unable to speak like a normal person.

"Umm….er….ah…wel…a…um, well I can't help it that you're the height of a ladder," I mumbled lowering my arm without turning to looking at him. I didn't want him to see my blushing. Why does he have this effect on me? I got knots in my stomach along with a tingling excitement all over.

Scorpius chuckled and reached up to grab the bomb. I took a deep breath and turned around hoping the blushing was less obvious.

He was smirking as I showed him how to disarm it. Only this one didn't disarm.

I started to panic and asked, "Did you disconnect the one I said?"

"Yes take a look for yourself," Scorpius protested.

"Then why is it still counting down?" Rose rhetorically asked.

"How the hell should I know?" Scorpius countered.

Then….BANG! POP!

It exploded.

Scorpius and I were pretty much painted in glitter and sparkles from head to toe as well as the 1 meter blast radius. The bad thing about glitter bombs is that the glitter takes at least two whole months to get all of it washed off – because it progressively comes of in layers getting less sparkly each time.

And I just got it in my hair.

Great. That's going to take at least three months to wash out of my curly red hair.

I was annoyed at the thought until I saw Scorpius. His usually platinum coloured hair was now covered in rainbow glitter as well as his cloths and arms and face. I laughed so hard I was lying on the floor with cramps in my stomach from laughing so hard.

He blushed to begin with – which I my brain somehow said Cute! And I replied to it Stop that!…Sometimes I question my sanity – but after a bit he also was laughing. Al walked in to see the mess the bomb had created and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Were you two really that eager to be glitterfyed?" Al asked with an amused tone.

"No, it just happened," I protested to the claim.

"Well I came to find you considering all of the bombs have been found and it was Lil who won she found 5," Al stated.

Scorpius and I left the mess to which we would have to clean later and went with Al down stairs.

Everyone had a good laugh when they saw us. The game was definitely fun –even if it involves long lasting glitter. The prize that Lil got was a box of chocolates. The Nana Molly called us all over for a late lunch.

Albus' POV:

After lunch we all did our own little thing until it became late afternoon and people started to leave.

Mum came over to me and Scorpius and said, "We'll be leaving in 25 minutes, ok?"

"Righty-o," I replied.

When she left I looked straight I Scorp and said, "I've decided, I'm going to finally ask her today, right now."

"Great Al, go for it, just remember when we leave, wouldn't want to leave you behind and have all of the Ginny Potter's Homemade Christmas Pudding all to myself," Scorp teased.

"Like hell I'm going to let you," I mostly-serious-half-jokingly replied.

Scorp chuckled as I walk away.

Oh Merlin how do I ask her? But I have wanted to ask for so long… I did my best to ignore my shaking in the pit of my gut.

I walked straight up to where Rose, Fie and Mya were talking about Rose's hair.

"Hey, sorry to interrupt but can I talk to you, Mya, alone?" I asked with a smile.

Mya's caramel coloured eyes light up in curiosity.

"Sure," Mya replied and followed me as I went into the next room.

It's now or never…

"Jemima Felicity Cotton," I said and she looked at me surprised that I used her full name.

"You are an enthusiastic, creative and wild girl who always tries to stay positive and optimistic about problems you face. I have had I a major crush on you since the first time I met you," I said. "Will you be my girlfriend?" I finally said it!

Her face lit up in excitement. She then replied….