AN: Sniff, it's the end, but I am already half-way through planning the sequel. I have another story to complete first. Thanks to everybody that reviewed, and I hope you enjoy this ending.
Chapter 18 – End of a Year, End of a Story….. For now
Summer term passed quickly for Paisley. All sorts of things had been planned for the summer. She would be going on holiday with her parents for a week, then they'd be getting married in the third week, a honeymoon-period would be during their trip to the States for Virginia's big fashion show for a week or so, then Paisley's friends would be coming round for a sleep over (the girls anyways), there would be a huge family party at their house sometime in the last two weeks and lots of people had been invited to that, even Paisley's God-Mother Elsa, who was a squib, a person born into a magical family with little or no magic.
End of term exams had been hard on them all, especially potions, but now they were lounging around outside by the lake under a huge willow. They didn't know why, but it felt as if the belonged under that willow, something made it feel right.
Anyway, back to the present, they were lounging around under it, just talking and playing about. Kaci was reading her new book which Hermione had sent the girl for her birthday; 'Hogwarts: A History – Edition 2' which Hermione had written herself a little while ago, Shira was plaiting her long, black hair absentmindedly, Chenyce was writing, Jared was drawing in his huge sketch book, Joss had a book open in front of him and was testing second year transfiguration out, Drew was starting his summer homework, Doyle was jotting down some ideas of pranks they could do the next year and Paisley, well Paisley was thinking about her first year in Hogwarts and how quickly it had passed.
"I can't wait until next year." Paisley said aloud, attracting the others attention.
"Why? So we can come back and be tortured by Snape even more?" Doyle asked with bitterness, Snape was extremely jealous of Doyle's father.
"No, because this year just went so quickly." Paisley replied. "And you think you got it bad Doyle? Think of how badly he's going to torture me next year when my second name becomes Potter."
"Ah." Doyle muttered.
"Feel sorry for ya." Joss added, Paisley rolled her eyes.
"I can get through his lessons." She stated.
"We better head back in, the Leaving Feast will be soon." Shira stated, they nodded and all headed back inside.
They sat down at their usual seats and ten minutes later, the Hall was full and McGonnagal stood from her seat.
"Another year is gone!" She said, "I hope that this year all summer work can be done before the last day, but that hope is short of impossible." Some of the students laughed at this.
"Now, the House Cup is in need of being rewarded. So in fourth place, Hufflepuff, with three hundred and eighty points; in third, Ravenclaw, with four hundred and three points; in second is Slytherin with four hundred and thirty four and in first place is Gryffindor with four hundred and fifty six." The Gryffindor table went up in massive cheers and the eight first years screamed with happiness. "Congratulations Gryffindor." McGonnagal said with a smile before sitting down.
The Gryffindors had to have been the noisiest that night.
The following day, their test results came in and the group had done surprisingly well, Lory and Mazie were dreading their OWL's results, but were just chilling out with everybody else for the last few days.
In their carriage on the train, the eight first years were talking and playing games of exploding snap.
"I can't wait to learn more next year." Kaci stated.
"It'll be great to see what other things we have the chance to learn." Drew commented in agreement.
"Oh no, you two should get a room before this conversation reaches more educational heights." Jared said.
"Oh shut it you Clabbert." Kaci retorted.
"Best retort you got Crup?" Jared sneered, Kaci pretended to gasp.
"Oh no, so insulting." She said sarcastically.
"Don't bloody argue again." Joss said to the pair, Kaci crossed her arms and went back to her book whilst Jared went back to his game of building a card tower from exploding snap cards.
"So who's doing what this summer?" Doyle asked.
"I'm just staying at home mainly." Shira told them.
"I'm going to Japan." Chenyce stated happily. "I can't wait to go back there."
"Have you been there before then?" Drew asked, Chenyce nodded.
"Lived there for a while." She replied.
"Do you know Japanese?" Doyle asked.
"Sukoshi." (A little) Chenyce replied.
"Nihongo wa watashi ni muzukashii-desu." (Japanese is difficult for me.) Paisley said.
"Ii-desu." (Ok) Chenyce replied.
"What?" Joss asked incredualously.
"Oh, nothing." Paisley told him with a small smile.
"How do you know Japanese P?" Kaci asked, Paisley shrugged.
"Mum had business over there and my God-Mother taught me a few things." The other red-head replied.
"Oh." Kaci muttered. "So what else are people doing? Because I'm going on holiday to France, but I have o go to work with my Mum for a few weeks because Dad's working too and the muggle childminder won't let me stay with her after I blew up her telly last time."
"I'm going on a muggle camp for a few weeks." Jared told them.
"I'm gonna be stuck on the set of my parents new movie." Drew said with a sigh.
"That must be cool, I mean, you get to meet famous people." Joss said.
"Yeah, but so do half of us." Kaci retorted.
"Not half of us." Jared said in thought.
"Paisley's parents are famous, my parents are famous, Chenyce's Mum is a famous writer in both worlds, Drew's parents are both famous in the muggle world and Doyle's Dad is a famous Potions master." Kaci stated, "Now, there's eight of us and, one, two, three, four, five of us meet famous people. And half of eight is less than five so I am right."
"Whatever." Jared muttered, Kaci smirked in her achievement.
They sat playing more games, talking, arguing in Jared's and Kaci's cases, and just using the time to practice magic before school officially ended.
They soon approached the train station and they bundled off last, waiting for everything to die down.
They stood on the platform after getting off and looked around, not many families were let now. A few groups approached them, Shira looked nervous, last time, the fact was she hadn't known her friends parents were all famous, especially Drew's parents, the famous Kate and Marvin Wilkinson, Actress and Director. At Christmas, Drew's 'Nanny' had picked him up, as he had told them all.
Shira looked ready to pass out as she spotted the Wilkinson's, Drew rolled his eyes as Paisley's parents, Kaci's parents and Chenyce's Mum and brother came over first and together.
"Hey kids." Harry greeted happily, Paisley ran forward and hugged her parents.
"Is your dress ready yet Mum?" Paisley asked eagerly, Virginia laughed and shook her head.
"Nearly." She told her daughter, who let go and stepped back to stand with her friends. Shira's parents were slightly in awe of the Wilkinson's already.
"Hi Mum, Dad." Drew said to his parents with a smile.
"So I don't see my son since Christmas and I don't get a hug?" Kate Wilkinson asked, then hugged him.
"Mum…" Drew whined, "My friends are here." The adults laughed and so did the teens.
"Kate, it's very good to see you again." Virginia said politely to Kate, hugging her in a friendly fashion.
"Yes Virginia, good to see you too." Kate replied with a smile.
"I didn't know your son went to Hogwarts." Virginia stated.
"I didn't know your daughter went either." Kate said, "What a small world this is."
"Hey look, there's Malfoy." Mazie whispered to Jesse and Lory.
"What did you do to her?" Kaci asked suspiciously.
"Oh, nothing much." Mazie said with a manic grin.
"Just had to loosen the pole that was stuck too far up her-"
"Jesse!" Hermione and Michelle shouted, Jesse grinned sheepishly and the kids laughed.
"C'mon, dish the dirt, what did you do?" Chenyce asked.
"Just watch." Lory said. Meiyan Malfoy looked around the station after speaking frantically with her brother, Draco, and his wife, Blaise, she noticed the large group and stormed over, she pointed her wand at the three elder teens.
"You… What did you do to me?" The girl spat out.
"Why Meiyan, we are offended." Jesse said in mock hurt.
"Don't you dare speak my name Weasley." Meiyan Malfoy sneered.
"Meiyan, put your damn wand down." Draco Malfoy commanded, stepping up behind them. "Potter, Weasley, Granger." He said somewhat politely.
"I'm Weasley now Malfoy, get that into your thick head." Hermione said with a smirk, Draco shrugged.
"Always Granger to me." He retorted, Hermione shook her head with a small smile.
"Hermione, I haven't seen you for a while, hows the new job going?" Blaise asked her old friend with a smile.
"It's going great." Hermione replied.
"Blaise, I haven't seen you since before I left." Virginia said happily, Blaise's eyes widened.
"Ginny?" She asked, Virginia nodded and Blaise hugged her. "Wow, your… different. I heard Harry was marrying someone, but I didn't expect it to be you."
"And why not?" Virginia asked in a mock offended tone.
"Oh ha ha." Blaise muttered. "We had better be going. It was good seeing you Virginia, maybe we could meet up in Diagon Alley for some shopping soon?"
"Sure, I'd like that." Virginia replied, "Oh, and meet Paisley, my daughter." She added, Paisley smiled hesitantly at Blaise.
"Bloody hell Weasley, she looks just like-"
"Lily Potter." Blaise cut her husband off, "Just like the photo's." She muttered, studying Paisley, who was a little uncomfortable.
"I see you have children yourself." Virginia said, nodding to the two young children, Blaise and Draco smiled.
"Meet Rhiannon and Erin." Draco introduced. Rhiannon was the elder girl and looked to be about eight whilst Erin looked to be about three. Rhiannon had dark brown hair like Blaise's that was in a strait cut haloing her shoulders with soft silver eyes whilst Erin had platinum blonde hair and sky blue eyes.
Virginia smiled and bent down to the two girls height.
"Hi, I'm Ginny." She said softly.
"I'm Rhiannon." Rhiannon stated proudly, "And she's Erin. But Erin's really shy." As if to prove the point, Erin was hiding behind Draco's leg. Virginia giggled and stood again.
"Come on Shira, we have to go." The woman Paisley guessed was Shira's mother said to the girl, who nodded and turned to her friends.
"I'll see you all soon." She said. Paisley hugged her.
"You better be coming round my house still Shi." She said with a smile, the other girls hugged Shira also.
"And remember to try socialise, just say hi once in a while." Chenyce told Shira, who blushed slightly.
"Oh leave her alone girls, she's got us, we can't be that bad." Kaci stated knowingly, the four boys snorted and the girls glared at them. "And make sure you do your summer homework before it's too late."
"CiLi, you must be crazy, homework? That's staying on my desk until the last week." Chenyce stated.
"Maybe we could all meet up to get next years school stuff?" Joss suggested, stopping the next argument on homework.
"Yeah, I like that idea." Chenyce stated with a grin. "We'll owl you Shi, I'm sure Bob will be up to the challenge."
"Wouldn't a bright blue owl look suspicious in a muggle neighbourhood?" Drew said a bit worriedly.
"He's electric blue not bright." Chenyce corrected, "And I'll borrow Ricky's owl if I have too." Ricky looked a bit surprised at that but didn't say anything.
"I have to go, I'll see you soon." Shira said to them, "Bye."
"Bye Shi." The other's said and the girl left with her parents.
"We had better get going also Drew." Kate said to her son, who sighed.
"See you guys later, I'll owl you." Drew said to them all before leaving with his parents.
"C'mon Joss, we had better get going, our Portkey leaves soon." Joss's mother said, Joss nodded and said goodbye to his friends, leaving also.
The rest all filtered away slowly until only Kaci, Hermione, Ron, Paisley, Heather, Harry and Virginia were left.
"Fancy coming around our house for dinner tomorrow?" Hermione asked them.
"Sure. See you then." Harry replied.
"Bye." They all said before heading their separate ways.
AN: It's finished. Caput, sortir, over, whatever. I'm going to start writing the next story that I feel like writing after my exams, that will be around the middle of June, but I'm writing a few one shots inbetween then, so don't fear! Lol. Thanx for reading my story, Paisley and a Mother's Past, I hope you enjoyed it and the sequel should be a tiny bit longer.
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