While Branwen watched both the other girls leaving dressed up for the night, she sighed. She knew it was her own fault that she wasn't doing anything like that tonight; she'd told Peter she wanted to organise Valentine's Day, and so she only had herself to blame.
She looked down at her clothes; she was in a pair of jeans and her blue woollen top. She had planned a special surprise for Peter and so needed to stay dressed warm. Her hair had been pulled up into a high ponytail and she thought that compared to the other two girls she looked terrible.
Pulling on her trainers she looked up at the two remaining girls. Amanda was curled up on her bed reading The Iliad while Lily had The Odysseus at hand. They looked so relaxed and as if they didn't care about what day it was.
"How do I look?"
Lily smiled at her before answering
"Prefect, Peter is going to be so surprised."
"Yeah and besides the surprise is going to get him, it's so simple and perfect unlike anything our families would ever think of, it's so romantic."
"Thanks guys, I better go down."
"Hey wait up Bran, Lil and I will come down with you then we can go to the hall and get food, I'm starved."
The three headed down to the common room and saw James standing there with a girl who looked a bit younger than them. Branwen knew her to be Avadne; she was only a second year but had the will to charm anybody.
James wrapped his arm around the girl and with a wave to the other guys had headed out of the portrait. This intrigued Branwen but she instantly forgot it when she saw Peter looking straight at her.
She smiled warmly as did he, he two had dressed down because she had told him he must, he had on a pair of black jeans and a navy shirt with a muggle style jacket at hand.
"You look beautiful, Bran."
"Thanks, let's go."
With a wave to the remaining two girls she grabbed Peters hand and led him out of the castle. Instead of heading in the direction of Hogsmeade though she led him around to the big oak tree near the lake.
The snow was falling comfortably around them and the frozen ice of the lake reflected the almost full moon (it would be full in three days). On the grass Branwen had laid out a blanket and on it lay a basket.
Smiling she sat down on the blanket and Peter giving her a quizzing look followed and yelped slightly.
"It's warm!"
"Of course, I've put a heat charm on the entire blanket so we don't freeze to death."
She moved closer to the boy and opened the lid of the basket. Carefully she pulled out some sandwiches and butterbeer bottles. They sat cuddled up on the blanket eating slowly through the sandwiches and drinking the butterbeer.
When they had finished Branwen again went into the basket and pulled out a strawberry cheesecake. They sat and laughed and then to Branwen's surprise Peter pulled out his wand and muttered something under his breath.
She felt her eyes widen and her mouth drop as she looked at the falling snow around her, it had changed to a very pale pink colour and each flake had been transformed into perfect little hearts.
"Happy Valentine's day, Bran."
She turned to look at him as he slowly handed her a small box, she opened it and looked inside. There was a long sliver chain and on the bottom sat an elegant welsh dragon in solid silver. It looked rather fragile and Branwen was afraid to touch it.
"Do you like it? When I saw it I just thought of you, it was labelled as Cymraeg draig, and I asked your father what it meant and he told me it meant Welsh Dragon, and well that's what you are so I just thought…"
His voice had fallen flat and Branwen looked up at him, his eyes were filled with emotion as if willing her to say she liked it, without answering him she leaned in taking his lips with hers. When she finally pulled back she whispered.
"It's prefect."
He grinned at her as she again went into the basket and handed him a badly wrapped gift.
"It's not much but I thought you'd like it, I made it myself."
She watched as Peter quickly pulled the wrapping off and his eyes squinted as if really inspecting it. Branwen felt butterflies like never before as she waited and it felt like a lifetime before he turned and smiled.
"Did you really make this, it's amazing!"
She relaxed after this and nodded.
"Tad showed me how to make them years ago."
"I love it, but what does it say there?"
She took the wooden spoon from his hand and ran her fingers across the interlinked sections of the love spoon.
"Caru chi"
"Yeah, and that means in English?"
"That I've got to buy you one of those muggle dictionary's Lily's got that translates from English to Welsh."
"Branwen!"
"Okay, okay well chi means you, and well Caru means love."
The boy grinned more as he leaned in to kiss her once more.
A/N: The pronunciation for the name Avadne is Ay-vah-nee.
Okay so I hope to have another chapter up for you before HBP is released but I've got two birthdays between then and now but I promise I will try, otherwise it won't be until I finish reading the book (which might be a while since I'm working for the five days after it's released)
Jessie yeah I like the idea of using Sirius to get a table, after all being from a family that is well known has advantages and why not share it with friends. Yeah roman is going to be rich, he's 4lbs 12ozs now and he's expected home in 3 weeks.
Taylin I know you always review and I checked again but you're review for chapter 39 isn't there which is why I didn't mention you in the last chapter, I'm sure that you've reviewed and I think maybe fanfic might have got rid of it since they like messing with accounts at the moment.
Firewalker It sounds like you do enjoy snorkelling, you should def give scuba diving a go if you ever get the chance it's a great experience, although I got freaked by being so far under the water that I kept going back to the top.
Yeah Remus likes Ginny but he kinda has since the first Hogwarts ride but just cos he likes her that doesn't mean anything will happen. As for Frank and Joe they are great aren't they, pity there aren't many guys like that, at least here anyway.
Fourth of July well I don't celebrate it, I'm Welsh (British) and it's an American holiday. We celebrate 5th November instead. It's bomb fire night it's the anniversary of Guy Fawkes trying to blow up Parliament in the 16th century. Anyway I hope you all had a good 4th July.
Like I said I'll try to post again before next Saturday but I might not be able to. Please review now that you've read all this
Kris