Alas, the weekend. Ron hadn't talked to Silver at all that week and it pained her. Even Draco tried to talk to Ron. Boy, that didn't go the way he had planned. Also it was the weekend that Zende was to meet Taylor at Hogsmeade. It was also one of the rainest days. As usual Ron wasn't anywhere to be seen in the common room. Only Harry and Fred were there to keep Silver occupied. George was off with Alisha.
Silver was curled up on one side of the couch messin' around in her notebook, with Fred asleep at her feet and Harry sat beside her, "Still no luck, eh?"
She sighed not looking up from her notebook, "Nope, not at all. I'm going to try again soon. Even though I just want to bum around the common room, since it's a rainy day, rather than chase after Ron all over the castle."
"Yeah I know what you mean," Harry got up and paced around the common room. He had been doing that every so often, wondering what was taking Zende so long.
Finally, after a while Sil decided to get up and look for Ron. Even if she wasn't looking her best. All she was wearing was an old t-shirt, sweat pants and a hoodie, with her hair thrown in a messy bun, "I'm going to go look for stubborn butt. This is the last time I'm going to try and talk to him." Harry nodded as Silver got up careful trying not to kick Fred in the head and headed out of the portrait hole. She walked around a while before actually coming upon Ron. He was just moping around the halls all over the place. She took a deep breath before saying anything, "Ron," she called out. He stopped in his path and just stood there. Silver walked over to him, "Will you please listen to me now? After a whole entire week of not talking to any one or listening to what anyone had to say?"
Ron sighed and just nodded. He looked around, grabbed her hand and took her to an empty classroom and sat down, "Talk," was all he said.
Silver just gave him a look, "Not unless you be nicer to me, I won't."
"Fine..sorry," he said a bit nicer.
She pulled a chair up to him and sat down, "Ron, listen to me...maybe..just maybe something could have happened between us if you were a bit sooner in telling me how you felt..I mean..I've liked Draco since I met him.." Ron looked as though he was ready to kill, "Don't give me that look, Ronald..just listen to me.." he stopped giving the look and listened, "Yeah, I guess you had a right to be mad, but don't be mad at me. I know it was wrong not to tell you about Draco, but I knew you'd freak. I mean, Harry and Zen found out the exact same way as you did..but only, Harry punched the crap out of Draco when they did find out. You didn't..and I appriciate the fact that you didn't do anything to him..I was pretty well mad at Harry for that because he had no right. At least you were man enough not to get violent..but even the words you said..you didn't have to say...I think those pretty much made Draco feel like an ass.."
"Good!" Ron huffed.
Silver gave him a look, "What did I tell you?"
"Sorry," he grumbled.
"Anyways..if you love me as much as you say you do..then all you'd want is for me to be happy.." Sil said looking at him, sincerely.
"You're right...you're absolutely right.." he sighed, "All I want for you is to be happy. If you're happy then I'm happy."
"Thank you, Ron, for understanding. All I want is for us to go back to how we used to be. And you may never know..there could be something for us in the future. So what do you say? Friend's again?" Silver asked, sticking out her hand to him.
Ron took it, "Friend's again," he smiled. It was the first smile he had smiled the whole past week.
"Good," she smiled, "want to go back to the common room and just hang out? It's a pretty icky out and all I really want to do is bum around the common room. So, want to do that with me?" she asked.
"Yeah, that'd be great," he grinned. "Oh, and by the way, has anyone ever told you how great you look today?"
Silver just kind of looked like him like he was nuts, "I'm just in sweats and old clothes and my hair's a mess. Yeah, I look real great."
Ron put an arm around her, and smiled, "I think that's when you like your best."
She just blushed a bit as they walked out of the room and back to the Tower, "You need your eyes examined there, bud." Ron just laughed a bit. They got back to the common room, and slung down on a couch and sat together.
"So..made up finally?" Harry asked as he saw the two sit next to each other.
"Sure did," Ron said. "Look, mate, I'm sorry at how I was acting. I was pretty sore. Forgive me?"
"Of course," Harry said with a smile and sat in a chair after pacing the whole time waiting for Zende to return.
The rest of the day Sil and Ron sat there and talked with each other just enjoying the company of each other again.
"Just great!" Zende groaned to herself, while she looked out the rainy window at The Three Broomsticks while waiting for Taylor. It was the first time she was not looking forward to time in Hogsmead. She sipped her 2nd butterbeer and doodled, while waiting for a very late Taylor to show up.
"Sorry I'm late!" an all too familiar voice said from beside her. She looked over and saw a very drenched Taylor standing there, brushing off some of the water. "The stupid rain," he sighed. Zende smiled and stood up to give him a hug."God I missed you!" he said before flopping down across from her after.
"I missed you too," she smiled. Taylor ordered himself a drink and sat back, looking at Zen. "Did you get here okay?" she asked him.
"Yeah," he smiled "So, how are things?" he asked, after taking his drenched coat off.
"Okay, I guess," she half-smiled.
"You guess?" He pried, putting his chin in his hand. Zende just shrugged, suddenly finding her nearly empty drink entertaining. "Zen, what is it?" Tay asked her.
Zende sighed heavily, dreading this moment right up till now. She leaned back against the back of the booth and looked at him."I... haven't exacly told you...everything.. in the letters.." she started.
"What do you mean?" He asked, paying full attention.
"Firstly.. um... there's more to what I told you about Harry.." she said, looking out the window.
"Oh?"
"We..we've been dating...most of the year, now...at least a bit more then half, I think..." she said, avoiding his reaction.
"You're dating Harry Potter? How did that happen?" he asked, calmly.
"We were all over by the Shreiking Shack, just talking, and Ron kind of... accidentaly blurted out that Harry liked me.." Zende told him. "and well... Harry and I talked about it after... and.. yeah.." He seemed to be taking that part of the news better then she thought.
"I see," he said simply. There was a long pause for a while, while Zen tried to figure out what to say next. "So... are you coming home next month? For Christmas?"
Zende closed her eyes tightly for a minute and then looked out the window. "I don't think I'll be coming home at all."
He nearly let the drink fall out of his hand, "Why?!"
She slowly looked at Taylor. "Mum & dad..." She closed her eyes again for a minute and sighed, looking at him. "Were killed a few weeks ago, on duty.."
He stared at Zende with his jaw through the floor, trying to talk but couldn't, "Uh... w..where are you staying, then..? I mean, you can stay with me.."
She sighed, knowing full well before that Tay would've jumped at the chance, had Harry not beaten him to it. "Well, I... want to finish school at Hogwarts... S...so I'm staying with Silver, her dad... and Harry..."
"Oh..." he said, finding a spot on the table to be interesting.
"I know I should've told you in the letters but I ---" he cut her off.
"Of course you should've told me! Infact, I thought you were telling me everything in those letters!... Apparently not." Taylor huffed. Zende looked at him like he had gone insane."I thought you always told me everything. But no, apparently you have new secret friends, a secret - but famous boyfriend.." he started, until zende kicked him under the table hard, and he jumped, giving her a look.
"First of all, you try dealing with all this, its not easy! It's not something I wanted to tell you in a letter, that's why I asked you to come here this weekend. So we could talk. Secondly, I didn't want to tell you completely about Harry, because of what you went and told me the last week before I came here. If you told me sooner, something would've maybe happened. And, It's not like he chose to be famous, infact, he doesnt even act like it. Would you want people glancing at your forhead everytime, and people always wanting you dead? No I don't think so. And, I think Dumbledore would have perfer'd me to say with family anyway, but I didn't want to move again," she told him.
"Or even come back home.." Taylor grumbled, rubbing his leg where she kicked him.
"Taylor!" she hissed. "It's just to painfull for me right now..."
"Anyways," he said, getting up and slinging his coat back on him. "I'd better get going before the weather really gets bad."
Zen sighed, knowing he was really leaving because he was pissed. "Oh alright, " she checked her watch and didn't realize how long it had been. "I'd better go too."
Taylor left rather quickly, without much of a goodbye, or a usual goodbye hug. Which only confirmed that he was pissed off. Zende got up and walked back to the school, somehow knowing everyone would be in the common room, that's where she went. Plus, she needed to change into something dry and warm. As soon as she got through the portrait hole, she nearly got pounced on by Harry.
Harry was so happy that Zen was back, he asked her how it went and she told him she'll tell him after she went and got changed. When she was finished changing, she came back down and her and Harry went into a corner together to talk. Silver was happy and in her glory that Ron's talking to her again. Ron spotted her notebook she was doodling in earlier, "You know..it drives me crazy not knowing what you do in there," he said picking it up.
Silver's eyes grew to the size of saucers, and grabbed the notebook from him, "Well, it'll only drive you even more crazy," she smiled ha-ha-inly at him, "because you'll never get to see what's in it. It's my private thoughts..my privateness..just me!" She held it to his face and pointed to what was doodled on the front with big letters 'Silver's Privacy..You'll be hexed if you open it! Muwhahaha!' Ron just laughed at it. Silver gave him a serious face, "Want to see if it works?"
His laugh fell to an almost scared face, "Knowing you..no thanks!"
Sil grinned, "That's what I thought." Then she put the book back down.
Ron looked at Silver seriously, "You know..Draco came and tried talked to me the other day.."
"He told me.." she sighed and looked at him.
"I guess I should have listened to him...I mean coming from someone that hates my one best friend, and hates me too, coming to talk talk to me..was kind of unexpected...but yet..he's dating you and I don't think anyone expected that.." he said finding his hands suddenly interesting.
She tried to tease him a little, "So you're calling me ugly? And saying that no one will ever date me?"
His eyes widen and looked at her, shaking his head madly, "No way! I'd never say that! You're the most beautiful thing on the face of the earth," Ron blushed a bit causing Silver to blush wildly. She had to smile, it was so sweet.
She then leaned her head on his shoulder, as he put his arm around her, with a huge grin and they sat like that for a while.
At last, it was the day before Christmas. Harry, Zende, Silver, and the Weasley kid's were spending Christmas at the school. Zende wasn't sure weither to feel excited that it was her first Christmas with them, or upset that it was her first out of many Christmas's away from home, and that she hasn't heard form Taylor since they met in Hogsmeade.
Silver was off spending some time with Draco, since he had to go home for Christmas. Harry and Zen were sitting in the common room, just talking "You alright?" Harry asked her.
Zende sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder, "I guess.."
"You guess?" Harry asked. Zen just shrugged. "'Cause it's your first Christmas from home..?" he guessed. Zen just nodded slightly.
"Yeah, pretty much..." she forced a little smile.
"Well," Harry grinned, pulling her closer. "Don't worry... I'll make sure nothing happens.." Zende just smiled and sat there for a while. They sat there for a while, not really having anything else to talk about, when out of nowhere, Harry jumped up and pulled Zen off the couch. "C'mon!"
"What? Where?" she looked at him like he spoke alien.
"We'll get everyone together n go out in the snow!" he said.
She just looked at him like he was in insane, then laughed. "Ok, ok. you go get everyone, while I get ready."
"Yeah, yeah," he said, and left quickly.
Zende couldn't help but laugh at him on her way up the stairs to get changed. After she got changed, she came back down just when Harry was coming back. "Ready?" he asked.
Zende grinned and did alittle pose. "Yup." She grabbed her coat off the couch while she was being pulled out by him. "Slow down there, speedy!" He just laughed and continued pulling her further and further through the field.
Everyone was pretty much already in the spot they all were going to meet at. Draco had already left earlier that day since the train was leaving. Silver went down to Hogsmeade with him to see him off. Silver, Fred, George and Ron was already there when they saw Harry and Zende bopping down to them. Silver and the guys were engaged in a snowball fight. The twins on one team and Silver and Ron on the other. Once Zen and Harry figured out what was going on they split up and joined teams. Zen went with the twins and Harry went with Ron and Silver, since it made it even with the genders that way. It wasn't really a game. Just snow balls flying through the air trying to hit someone that wasn't on their side.
A little while later everyone got kind of bored and tired and just fell in the snow and laid there. After they rested they started to goof around in the snow. It was getting colder and darker, so they decided to call it quits and head inside to get warmed up and dried off. As they got inside they were tired out from the day and decided to head to bed early.
Finally it was morning. Christmas Day. Silver was exhausted and didn't want to get up right away, since Draco gave her a special book and quill to contact him without it being noticable and stayed up most of the night talking..or rather writing..to him. With only a few hours of sleep, Ron came bopping into the girls' dorm since there wasn't any one there anyways, and pounced on Silver's bed, "Wake up, Silly! It's Christmas!" She groaned and turned over trying to avoid him. Without warning, he grabbed onto her blankets and pulled them off of her.
Sil turned over and glared at him, "I was warm and toasty, and I was sleeping. But you disturbed my peace."
Ron just gave her a look, "But it's Christmas! Time to open up presents!"
"Ronny...Christmas is all day long..we don't have to open presents right away..I don't have to, atleast," she said with her eyes closed.
He just frowned and made a cute puppy face, "Pwease, Silly? Pwetty pwease?"
She sighed, and opened her eyes, "Fine..but you owe me. I don't know what you owe me..but you just do!" Sil got out of bed and pulled a blanket off of the bed with her and wrapped it around her. She headed down the stairs with Ron's arm around her and lead her to a couch and plopped down beside her.
Ron giggled, "Present time!!" Everyone just laughed. Harry and Zen sat in a seat together, Fred and George was on the floor and Ginny was in a chair. Everyone started to swap around presents. Ron gave Silver a few. He saved the more special one for last and handed it to her.
Silver was smiling with happiness and took it from him and opened it. When she saw what it was, it caused her to stop smiling and look at in awe. Ron looked at her scared, afraid she wouldn't like it. It was a beautiful sterling silver necklace with a shining topaz stone in the middle of the charm. This brought tears to her eyes.
"You don't like, do you?" Ron asked afraid of the answer.
She looked up at him and tried to swallow back tears and shook her head at him, and hugged him tightly, even gave him a kiss which surprised him. "Put it on me?" she asked. He nodded, as she turned around for him to place it apon her neck. As he got it on, she looked down at it and touched it, "It's so beautiful, Ron," she then looked back up at him, "I love it. It's the best present I have ever recieved. Ever," she smiled at him.
Ron couldn't help but beam. Then George spoke up, "Why are you crying, Sil?"
Before she could answer Ron give his brother a look, "If you happen to notice the type of necklace it is..it's sterling silver..the silver for Silver..and the topaz stone..for her mother..whose name was Topaz." Ron gave him a 'duh' look.
Silver couldn't help but get tears in her eyes again and hugged Ron tightly and whispered in his ear, "Thank you so much, I love it."
Silver was curled up on one side of the couch messin' around in her notebook, with Fred asleep at her feet and Harry sat beside her, "Still no luck, eh?"
She sighed not looking up from her notebook, "Nope, not at all. I'm going to try again soon. Even though I just want to bum around the common room, since it's a rainy day, rather than chase after Ron all over the castle."
"Yeah I know what you mean," Harry got up and paced around the common room. He had been doing that every so often, wondering what was taking Zende so long.
Finally, after a while Sil decided to get up and look for Ron. Even if she wasn't looking her best. All she was wearing was an old t-shirt, sweat pants and a hoodie, with her hair thrown in a messy bun, "I'm going to go look for stubborn butt. This is the last time I'm going to try and talk to him." Harry nodded as Silver got up careful trying not to kick Fred in the head and headed out of the portrait hole. She walked around a while before actually coming upon Ron. He was just moping around the halls all over the place. She took a deep breath before saying anything, "Ron," she called out. He stopped in his path and just stood there. Silver walked over to him, "Will you please listen to me now? After a whole entire week of not talking to any one or listening to what anyone had to say?"
Ron sighed and just nodded. He looked around, grabbed her hand and took her to an empty classroom and sat down, "Talk," was all he said.
Silver just gave him a look, "Not unless you be nicer to me, I won't."
"Fine..sorry," he said a bit nicer.
She pulled a chair up to him and sat down, "Ron, listen to me...maybe..just maybe something could have happened between us if you were a bit sooner in telling me how you felt..I mean..I've liked Draco since I met him.." Ron looked as though he was ready to kill, "Don't give me that look, Ronald..just listen to me.." he stopped giving the look and listened, "Yeah, I guess you had a right to be mad, but don't be mad at me. I know it was wrong not to tell you about Draco, but I knew you'd freak. I mean, Harry and Zen found out the exact same way as you did..but only, Harry punched the crap out of Draco when they did find out. You didn't..and I appriciate the fact that you didn't do anything to him..I was pretty well mad at Harry for that because he had no right. At least you were man enough not to get violent..but even the words you said..you didn't have to say...I think those pretty much made Draco feel like an ass.."
"Good!" Ron huffed.
Silver gave him a look, "What did I tell you?"
"Sorry," he grumbled.
"Anyways..if you love me as much as you say you do..then all you'd want is for me to be happy.." Sil said looking at him, sincerely.
"You're right...you're absolutely right.." he sighed, "All I want for you is to be happy. If you're happy then I'm happy."
"Thank you, Ron, for understanding. All I want is for us to go back to how we used to be. And you may never know..there could be something for us in the future. So what do you say? Friend's again?" Silver asked, sticking out her hand to him.
Ron took it, "Friend's again," he smiled. It was the first smile he had smiled the whole past week.
"Good," she smiled, "want to go back to the common room and just hang out? It's a pretty icky out and all I really want to do is bum around the common room. So, want to do that with me?" she asked.
"Yeah, that'd be great," he grinned. "Oh, and by the way, has anyone ever told you how great you look today?"
Silver just kind of looked like him like he was nuts, "I'm just in sweats and old clothes and my hair's a mess. Yeah, I look real great."
Ron put an arm around her, and smiled, "I think that's when you like your best."
She just blushed a bit as they walked out of the room and back to the Tower, "You need your eyes examined there, bud." Ron just laughed a bit. They got back to the common room, and slung down on a couch and sat together.
"So..made up finally?" Harry asked as he saw the two sit next to each other.
"Sure did," Ron said. "Look, mate, I'm sorry at how I was acting. I was pretty sore. Forgive me?"
"Of course," Harry said with a smile and sat in a chair after pacing the whole time waiting for Zende to return.
The rest of the day Sil and Ron sat there and talked with each other just enjoying the company of each other again.
"Just great!" Zende groaned to herself, while she looked out the rainy window at The Three Broomsticks while waiting for Taylor. It was the first time she was not looking forward to time in Hogsmead. She sipped her 2nd butterbeer and doodled, while waiting for a very late Taylor to show up.
"Sorry I'm late!" an all too familiar voice said from beside her. She looked over and saw a very drenched Taylor standing there, brushing off some of the water. "The stupid rain," he sighed. Zende smiled and stood up to give him a hug."God I missed you!" he said before flopping down across from her after.
"I missed you too," she smiled. Taylor ordered himself a drink and sat back, looking at Zen. "Did you get here okay?" she asked him.
"Yeah," he smiled "So, how are things?" he asked, after taking his drenched coat off.
"Okay, I guess," she half-smiled.
"You guess?" He pried, putting his chin in his hand. Zende just shrugged, suddenly finding her nearly empty drink entertaining. "Zen, what is it?" Tay asked her.
Zende sighed heavily, dreading this moment right up till now. She leaned back against the back of the booth and looked at him."I... haven't exacly told you...everything.. in the letters.." she started.
"What do you mean?" He asked, paying full attention.
"Firstly.. um... there's more to what I told you about Harry.." she said, looking out the window.
"Oh?"
"We..we've been dating...most of the year, now...at least a bit more then half, I think..." she said, avoiding his reaction.
"You're dating Harry Potter? How did that happen?" he asked, calmly.
"We were all over by the Shreiking Shack, just talking, and Ron kind of... accidentaly blurted out that Harry liked me.." Zende told him. "and well... Harry and I talked about it after... and.. yeah.." He seemed to be taking that part of the news better then she thought.
"I see," he said simply. There was a long pause for a while, while Zen tried to figure out what to say next. "So... are you coming home next month? For Christmas?"
Zende closed her eyes tightly for a minute and then looked out the window. "I don't think I'll be coming home at all."
He nearly let the drink fall out of his hand, "Why?!"
She slowly looked at Taylor. "Mum & dad..." She closed her eyes again for a minute and sighed, looking at him. "Were killed a few weeks ago, on duty.."
He stared at Zende with his jaw through the floor, trying to talk but couldn't, "Uh... w..where are you staying, then..? I mean, you can stay with me.."
She sighed, knowing full well before that Tay would've jumped at the chance, had Harry not beaten him to it. "Well, I... want to finish school at Hogwarts... S...so I'm staying with Silver, her dad... and Harry..."
"Oh..." he said, finding a spot on the table to be interesting.
"I know I should've told you in the letters but I ---" he cut her off.
"Of course you should've told me! Infact, I thought you were telling me everything in those letters!... Apparently not." Taylor huffed. Zende looked at him like he had gone insane."I thought you always told me everything. But no, apparently you have new secret friends, a secret - but famous boyfriend.." he started, until zende kicked him under the table hard, and he jumped, giving her a look.
"First of all, you try dealing with all this, its not easy! It's not something I wanted to tell you in a letter, that's why I asked you to come here this weekend. So we could talk. Secondly, I didn't want to tell you completely about Harry, because of what you went and told me the last week before I came here. If you told me sooner, something would've maybe happened. And, It's not like he chose to be famous, infact, he doesnt even act like it. Would you want people glancing at your forhead everytime, and people always wanting you dead? No I don't think so. And, I think Dumbledore would have perfer'd me to say with family anyway, but I didn't want to move again," she told him.
"Or even come back home.." Taylor grumbled, rubbing his leg where she kicked him.
"Taylor!" she hissed. "It's just to painfull for me right now..."
"Anyways," he said, getting up and slinging his coat back on him. "I'd better get going before the weather really gets bad."
Zen sighed, knowing he was really leaving because he was pissed. "Oh alright, " she checked her watch and didn't realize how long it had been. "I'd better go too."
Taylor left rather quickly, without much of a goodbye, or a usual goodbye hug. Which only confirmed that he was pissed off. Zende got up and walked back to the school, somehow knowing everyone would be in the common room, that's where she went. Plus, she needed to change into something dry and warm. As soon as she got through the portrait hole, she nearly got pounced on by Harry.
Harry was so happy that Zen was back, he asked her how it went and she told him she'll tell him after she went and got changed. When she was finished changing, she came back down and her and Harry went into a corner together to talk. Silver was happy and in her glory that Ron's talking to her again. Ron spotted her notebook she was doodling in earlier, "You know..it drives me crazy not knowing what you do in there," he said picking it up.
Silver's eyes grew to the size of saucers, and grabbed the notebook from him, "Well, it'll only drive you even more crazy," she smiled ha-ha-inly at him, "because you'll never get to see what's in it. It's my private thoughts..my privateness..just me!" She held it to his face and pointed to what was doodled on the front with big letters 'Silver's Privacy..You'll be hexed if you open it! Muwhahaha!' Ron just laughed at it. Silver gave him a serious face, "Want to see if it works?"
His laugh fell to an almost scared face, "Knowing you..no thanks!"
Sil grinned, "That's what I thought." Then she put the book back down.
Ron looked at Silver seriously, "You know..Draco came and tried talked to me the other day.."
"He told me.." she sighed and looked at him.
"I guess I should have listened to him...I mean coming from someone that hates my one best friend, and hates me too, coming to talk talk to me..was kind of unexpected...but yet..he's dating you and I don't think anyone expected that.." he said finding his hands suddenly interesting.
She tried to tease him a little, "So you're calling me ugly? And saying that no one will ever date me?"
His eyes widen and looked at her, shaking his head madly, "No way! I'd never say that! You're the most beautiful thing on the face of the earth," Ron blushed a bit causing Silver to blush wildly. She had to smile, it was so sweet.
She then leaned her head on his shoulder, as he put his arm around her, with a huge grin and they sat like that for a while.
At last, it was the day before Christmas. Harry, Zende, Silver, and the Weasley kid's were spending Christmas at the school. Zende wasn't sure weither to feel excited that it was her first Christmas with them, or upset that it was her first out of many Christmas's away from home, and that she hasn't heard form Taylor since they met in Hogsmeade.
Silver was off spending some time with Draco, since he had to go home for Christmas. Harry and Zen were sitting in the common room, just talking "You alright?" Harry asked her.
Zende sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder, "I guess.."
"You guess?" Harry asked. Zen just shrugged. "'Cause it's your first Christmas from home..?" he guessed. Zen just nodded slightly.
"Yeah, pretty much..." she forced a little smile.
"Well," Harry grinned, pulling her closer. "Don't worry... I'll make sure nothing happens.." Zende just smiled and sat there for a while. They sat there for a while, not really having anything else to talk about, when out of nowhere, Harry jumped up and pulled Zen off the couch. "C'mon!"
"What? Where?" she looked at him like he spoke alien.
"We'll get everyone together n go out in the snow!" he said.
She just looked at him like he was in insane, then laughed. "Ok, ok. you go get everyone, while I get ready."
"Yeah, yeah," he said, and left quickly.
Zende couldn't help but laugh at him on her way up the stairs to get changed. After she got changed, she came back down just when Harry was coming back. "Ready?" he asked.
Zende grinned and did alittle pose. "Yup." She grabbed her coat off the couch while she was being pulled out by him. "Slow down there, speedy!" He just laughed and continued pulling her further and further through the field.
Everyone was pretty much already in the spot they all were going to meet at. Draco had already left earlier that day since the train was leaving. Silver went down to Hogsmeade with him to see him off. Silver, Fred, George and Ron was already there when they saw Harry and Zende bopping down to them. Silver and the guys were engaged in a snowball fight. The twins on one team and Silver and Ron on the other. Once Zen and Harry figured out what was going on they split up and joined teams. Zen went with the twins and Harry went with Ron and Silver, since it made it even with the genders that way. It wasn't really a game. Just snow balls flying through the air trying to hit someone that wasn't on their side.
A little while later everyone got kind of bored and tired and just fell in the snow and laid there. After they rested they started to goof around in the snow. It was getting colder and darker, so they decided to call it quits and head inside to get warmed up and dried off. As they got inside they were tired out from the day and decided to head to bed early.
Finally it was morning. Christmas Day. Silver was exhausted and didn't want to get up right away, since Draco gave her a special book and quill to contact him without it being noticable and stayed up most of the night talking..or rather writing..to him. With only a few hours of sleep, Ron came bopping into the girls' dorm since there wasn't any one there anyways, and pounced on Silver's bed, "Wake up, Silly! It's Christmas!" She groaned and turned over trying to avoid him. Without warning, he grabbed onto her blankets and pulled them off of her.
Sil turned over and glared at him, "I was warm and toasty, and I was sleeping. But you disturbed my peace."
Ron just gave her a look, "But it's Christmas! Time to open up presents!"
"Ronny...Christmas is all day long..we don't have to open presents right away..I don't have to, atleast," she said with her eyes closed.
He just frowned and made a cute puppy face, "Pwease, Silly? Pwetty pwease?"
She sighed, and opened her eyes, "Fine..but you owe me. I don't know what you owe me..but you just do!" Sil got out of bed and pulled a blanket off of the bed with her and wrapped it around her. She headed down the stairs with Ron's arm around her and lead her to a couch and plopped down beside her.
Ron giggled, "Present time!!" Everyone just laughed. Harry and Zen sat in a seat together, Fred and George was on the floor and Ginny was in a chair. Everyone started to swap around presents. Ron gave Silver a few. He saved the more special one for last and handed it to her.
Silver was smiling with happiness and took it from him and opened it. When she saw what it was, it caused her to stop smiling and look at in awe. Ron looked at her scared, afraid she wouldn't like it. It was a beautiful sterling silver necklace with a shining topaz stone in the middle of the charm. This brought tears to her eyes.
"You don't like, do you?" Ron asked afraid of the answer.
She looked up at him and tried to swallow back tears and shook her head at him, and hugged him tightly, even gave him a kiss which surprised him. "Put it on me?" she asked. He nodded, as she turned around for him to place it apon her neck. As he got it on, she looked down at it and touched it, "It's so beautiful, Ron," she then looked back up at him, "I love it. It's the best present I have ever recieved. Ever," she smiled at him.
Ron couldn't help but beam. Then George spoke up, "Why are you crying, Sil?"
Before she could answer Ron give his brother a look, "If you happen to notice the type of necklace it is..it's sterling silver..the silver for Silver..and the topaz stone..for her mother..whose name was Topaz." Ron gave him a 'duh' look.
Silver couldn't help but get tears in her eyes again and hugged Ron tightly and whispered in his ear, "Thank you so much, I love it."