Chapter 6
Gryffindor Common Room, 4 days until the end of 7th year.
"Yes!" Rose uttered as she fell on to the two-seater, "we are done!" Alison sat down in beside Rose while Zoe sat on the floor in front of them. "And more importantly after this summer, I won't have to see Malfoy everyday."
"I'm sure you'd miss bickering with him actually," Zoe mumbled, sharing a smile with Alison.
"I can assure you I won't!"
"Well Malfoy aside it is still going to be different now," Alison interjected.
"Yeah this is one of the last times we will be in here," Zoe agreed sadly, looking around the common room. "I mean who knows the next time we see each other it could be years and years down the track, we could all old and wrinkly."
"Well if you both marry my cousins, I'm sure we'll see each other more often then that," Rose said with a chuckle.
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Louis and I just want to take things as they come," Zoe said through a bright smile. Rose noticed Alison didn't say anything to the comment she made. Alison and Albus had actually talked about things such as marriage even though they had only been together about a year. They wouldn't let anyone else know but they were very serious about each other and sharing a life together. It all just came down to timing. "Anyway, more importantly what are we going to do now?" Zoe asked.
"Get jobs or further study," Alison answered.
"Well now that Mum and Dad have finally agreed, I can go to muggle culinary school in London," Rose voiced excitedly. "Might even get my own flat closer to the city," she then added as an after thought.
"What about you Alison?" Zoe asked.
"Ahh, I've been offered a paid internship at the Prophet," she replied a little unsure. Rose noticed but thought she would ask later. "You?" Alison said looking down at Zoe.
"I have to put plans on hold for a bit, Mum really needs help at the café," Zoe replied, "but it's not like I had any plans anyway."
"Excuse me, are you Miss Garcia?" a second year asked Zoe.
"Yes"
"Professor Longbottom would like to see you."
"Okay thanks," Zoe said with a smile as the second year ran off. "Well I better go, see you at dinner?"
"Yeah sure" Rose answered. Alison gave Zoe a smiled as she got up and left through the portrait hole. Once Zoe left Rose turned to Alison, she seemed to be deep in thought.
"Ali, is everything alright?" Rose asked tenderly, "you know with you and Albus?"
"Of course, why would you ask?"
"I don't know but something's on your mind."
"It's just, I know what I want out of life and I can see it but I feel like I shouldn't be able to," Alison said and looked over at Rose, "does that make sense?"
"Ahh"
"Look it's like this; I can already see my life played out in front of me. Writing at the Prophet, married to Albus," Rose raised her eye brows in surprise but didn't interrupt, "a big house in muggle suburbia, two maybe three kids." Alison paused and blissfully smiled to herself thinking of the life she wants to lead.
"Have you talked to Albus about this?"
"Yes"
"And what did he say?"
"He wants the same thing," she answered still smiling in a daze. "Though he did say he wanted four kids, but I said he might be pushing it," Rose's jaw dropped in shock at her best friend's casual tone, "it's not like he has to carry them around for nine months." Alison finished, giggling to herself, not realizing the state of shock Rose was in.
"Ok hold on, let me get this straight. You and Albus have talked about having kids and stuff," Alison nodded, "together?" Rose clarified.
"Yes," Alison answered, now a little worried at her friend's reaction. "See this is what I mean, I am 18 and I am already talking about settling down. Is that wrong?" Rose leaned back on the couch, thinking and processing what she was just told.
"It's not wrong," she said finally breaking the silence and addressing Alison calmly. "It's just a little different," Rose finished with a comforting smile.
"Yeah, who wants to be normal anyway?" Alison said causing both of their smiles to grow on their faces before stretching into laughter.
Scorpius lay stretched out on his bed, reading one of his latest muggle car magazines, a courtesy from Ron, when Albus exited the bathroom. Albus seemed unusually quiet, but at the same time really, really happy. He seemed so chilled out about leaving Hogwarts, which was odd considering he used to stay up all night fretting about it. It had been plaguing Scorpius for days, he couldn't understand it. Dan made his way into the bathroom and Simon was already fast asleep according to the snoring coming from the other side of the room, so Scorpius took his chance.
"Hey Al, are you alright?"
"Yeah, of course," Albus said turning to face Scorpius, "why do you ask?"
"It's just…you've been…well different lately," Scorpius struggled to find words, "and I wasn't sure if it was a good different or a bad." A confused expression washed over Albus' face as he began turned down his bed. "I mean, I know how worried you have been about life after Hogwarts," Scorpius added.
"Not anymore, mate," Albus said with a smile.
"What?" Scorpius sat up and faced Albus.
"I'm not worried anymore."
"Since when?"
"Since I fell in love with Alison," Albus answered naturally. Scorpius smiled, it was a good different.
"Well that's great, I'm happy for you mate." That's when Scorpius knew Al was serious and knew he planned that someday Alison was going to be his wife.
"Thanks," Albus sat on his bed facing Scorpius, "What about you? Are you worried?"
"Nah," Scorpius replied laying back down.
"Are you still going to try working for that muggle Mechanic Garage?"
"Yeah"
"But you can't do that for the rest of you life"
"Of course I can, as long as it pays the bills right?"
"What about when you have to support a family?" Albus argued.
"A family?"
"Yeah, a wife and kids"
"That's not in the cards for me," Scorpius said hiding the small trace of sadness in his voice. He was always worried about a family; he had never had a good one growing up and didn't want to repeat his father's mistakes. Plastering a smirk on his face, he continued, "Besides I won't have time for that when I'm going to be awesome Uncle Scorp to Alison and your kids."
"Aww, I don't know about awesome," Albus said causing both to laugh wildly.
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