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"ADFGHSKDFHDJFHJDS." Was all I could make out of the screeches coming out of my sister's mouth.

Lily's grin could almost be felt through our two way mirror. It genuinely made me really happy to see her this happy.

"Lily, breathe!"

Her smile showed no signs of fading any time soon. "I'm sorry, I'm just so happy!"

I chuckled. "I'm happy too! But you know, Tuney's going to take it as a personal attack that you're going to be engaged at the same time."

Lily's smile faded just the tiniest little bit. "I guess, but her wedding's definitely going to be before mine, James and I probably won't start planning for a while, we're both super busy right now."

"I know, that's why I thought he wouldn't do it until June, as planned."

Lily narrowed her eyes at me. "Wait, you knew about this?"

I shrugged. "Well, not this specifically, but I did know he was planning on proposing. I knew he wouldn't resist until June though."

Lily laughed louder than usual. "Oh my god it was so cute and so spontaneous, did I tell you how cute it was?"

"Yes, you told me."

"I'd literally been teasing him about how he couldn't surprise me anymore all week." Lily gushed.

"I know, I know, James is the best ever."

"While we're on the subject, there's a lot of cute guys at Hogwarts, I literally don't believe no one's asked you to Hogsmeade yet."

I looked away from Lily, and hoped she couldn't see my ears going a deep red in the dim lighting of my dorm. "Well, you better believe it, 'cause no one's asked me anywhere. I think I scare the men here."

"Probably, since men are so stupid." Lily said with a little huff. "I really wish you were here. So we could celebrate together."

I smiled at her. "Yeah, me too. But you still have Mary and Mel to celebrate. Have you told them yet?"

"No! I wanted to tell you first. But I'll probably tell them later today. By the way, does it seem like Vablatsky's planning on releasing you from duty any time soon?"

I sighed. "I...'m not sure. I mean, we are making progress. I don't get as many random visions anymore, and I've been using all the Seer stuff pretty well. The other day Dumbledore sat in with us, and the only thing I could predict was that someone would give him woolen socks for Christmas."

Lily laughed.

I frowned. "It's not funny. What kind of vision is that?"

"Dumbledore's odd like that, he was probably glad you saw that." Lily tried to comfort me.

"Actually, yes, he was oddly pleased, but I thought he was just trying to make me feel better."

I heard some shouting from Lily's end, but couldn't detect where it came from. Lily turned away for a second, before turning back to me. "Bow, babe, I gotta go, but I'll talk to you later."

"Okay, bye, I love you."

"Love you, too." Then she hung up.

I let my smile falter as I laid back on my bed. Thinking about Lily getting married was so surreal. I mean, she was only a year older than me, 19-years-old, and she going to be someone's wife, she was going to have a husband. She'd only been with James for about a year, but that's not really something I was worried about, since they started dating, both Lily and I had an unspoken feeling that he was the one.

I'd thought all this through before, when James told me he was planning on asking Lily to marry him. But now that it was actually happening, it made me think again. This would mean I'd have to live alone, which was fine, I was eighteen (in a few days), but there truly wouldn't be an Evans household I could go back to now. Huh. This would be fucking weird getting used to.

One of the worst rues of my sport, my beautiful, lovely amazing sport that I adored, was the music. Don't get me wrong, I loved music, and I loved being able to have music be such a big part of my skating, but the strictness of it was what bothered me.

I knew a lot of the rules in figure skating were old fashioned, but the fact that they didn't allow music with lyrics just limited skaters so much. As much as I did love classical music, there were so many lyrical songs I would've loved to skate to. I could rant about this for hours, to be honest, it frustrated me so much.

In fact, as my mind momentarily reeled thinking about this, I lost focus and popped my Axel — meaning I'd gone to do a double Axel but only completed one rotation — which made me stop for a second.

"RAINBOW!"

I turned, startled, to see Nat and Tessa coming into the room.

I rushed over to turn the music down. "What's up y'all?"

"We've been looking all over for you." Nat exclaimed as they approached the barrier. "Why are you here so early? You said you'd be taking it easy now the season's over."

"I am, I just wanted to get ahead in choosing new programs, I'm just getting some inspiration." I tried to catch my breath, I'd been skating non-stop longer than I thought.

"Oh have you picked? I wanna know, how do you pick, I want to help!" Nat jumped up and down.

"I haven't chosen yet, I can't choose until I see my choreographer, my problem is I only like music with lyrics."

Nat gasped dramatically. "You can't use music with lyrics? What the hell?"

I sighed. "Yeah, I've been complaining about it since forever."

"Anyway," Tessa leaned against the barrier. "We would like to know why on earth did you not tell us it's your birthday today?"

I looked down and shrugged. "I dunno, it didn't come up."

"Well, you're not getting away from us." Nat jumped onto the boards and threw her arms around me. "Happy birthday!"

I took a few steps back to regain my balance and put my arms around Nat's torso. Nat crawled over the barrier and joined the ice with me.

Tessa quickly jumped over the barrier too, and tore Nat off of me to hug me herself. "Felicidades, baby!"

I smiled. "Thanks, you guys."

"Now get those skates off 'cause we gotta party!" Nat exclaimed.

My eyes widened. "What?"

And with that my friends dragged me off the ice. I took off my skates and quickly gathered my things, rushing after the girls.

"What are we doing?" I asked my friends as they led me to — I believed — the Slytherin common room.

"It's just going to be a harmless little outing." Nat replied with a cheeky little smile. "And don't think Bella's not pissed you let her go to Italy with her parents during your birthday."

"Her grandma's ill, it's not like I could just ask her to stay behind." I defended myself.

I gave the password for the common room and Nat and Tessa followed me in. And the only person in the room just so happened to be Regulus.

"Hey, Reg." I said to him.

He seemed pleased to see me for a split second, then he looked over worriedly at Nat and Tess. They didn't really know what the extent of Reg and I's relationship, but they knew we were friends.

Nat got a look in her eye I didn't quite trust. "Why don't you go upstairs and change? We'll wait for you here."

I frowned. "Why don't you come up? I'm pretty sure it's empty."

Nat smiled innocently. "We'll be fine here, you won't take long, will you?"

I raised a brow. "Uh, I don't want to leave you here exposed though."

"Most people are gone for Easter, it'll be fine, just go." Nat urged me.

So I went. Leaving Nat and Tessa to take a seat on the loveseat next to where Reg was sitting.

"Greetings, earthlings, and welcome to Bow's last minute impromptu birthday celebration, put together by yours truly." Safety greeted us at a very cute setup by the Black Lake.

A fairly big, blue picnic blanket was laid out, almost completely covered with food, and a significant pile of presents on the corner.

I smiled. "Oh my god, this is so cute, you guys."

Saf extended her arm. "Well, sit, sit. It is time for some food and some presents."

I happily obliged. "Yeah, where did those come from?"

"About five or six arrived for you at breakfast; but since you left before the mail, we picked them up for you." Tessa explained. "And even though we had no time to get you a present, we managed to throw some stuff together."

"Oh. Thanks."

Saf pushed over four boxes to me. "I think these are from your sister, the owl that carried them looked like it was about to pass out from exhaustion."

I took the letter attached to one of them. Lily had already called to wish me happy birthday early in the morning, but I guessed she sent an extra birthday message.

Dearest Bow,

Happy birthday! I miss you lots, so I wanted to go all out on your gifts this year. I painted the boots myself, so you better like them, and I know they're no good for competition but I thought you could attach wheels to them and use them as roller skates, since you like it, and that way they'll last longer. The other two presents are pretty self explanatory, I think.

As you might have guessed, one of your other presents is from Sabrina, and the other one is from our lovely sister, Petunia. Yes, she got you a present. I'm not sure if she knows you're at Hogwarts since she never responds to my letters, but I figured she'd appreciate it if I got it to you.

Love you lots,

Lily

It was then I realised I was probably supposed to read the letter after opening Lily's presents, but I'd already spoiled one of my presents, no going back now.

So I opened the bigger box first. Which was the skating boots. They had a beautiful picture on them, it looked kind of like the starry night, I couldn't wait to wear them. But since she'd only sent the boots I'd have to go and get either the blades or wheels attached myself. I'd probably get wheels, Lily made some good points.

The next one was a smaller box, which contained a beautiful silver bracelet with five charms attached to it, all shaped like flowers. There was a lily, a daisy, a petunia, a rose and an anemone (which my dad had once decided was his flower, since he was the only one who didn't have a flower name). It actually made me feel real mushy inside, and slightly sad that the five of us would never be together again, and not even of the three of us left, we couldn't gather more than two at a time.

The girls gushed looking at the bracelet but I just shook my head and moved on to the next one. Which was a bunch of Muggle snacks I'd been craving since I got to Hogwarts. Lily truly knew me best.

Sabrina was the only friend I'd actually managed to keep in touch with in the Muggle world after my parents died and I'd moved to London, we didn't really talk on a regular basis but we knew we could rely on each other. She'd given me a cute little journal.

Petunia's present made me nervous. I wasn't in the friendliest of terms with her, but I knew she didn't resent me quite as much as she did Lily. The box she sent was really small, and she sent no note more than a to and from card. It was earrings. Daisy earrings, which, believe it or not, I'd gathered a significant collection of through the years. But what really struck me was the fact that these weren't your typical commom daisy (a type of daisy I liked) earrings, they were red bellis daisy (which was my favourite kind of daisy) earrings — how she got them I had no idea —, but it said a lot to me.

As I passed the presents for the girls to see, a quick peek into two gift bags revealed Muggle stationary and sweets from James and friends.

"Time for ours now!" Nat clapped her hands excitedly as she handed me a small pink box.

Inside there was a full, monogrammed deck of beautiful tarot cards.

"I figured, since you like divination so much, and you're so good at it." Nat quickly explained.

"Thanks, Nat, my very first deck of tarot cards." I replied.

Nat gasped softly. "Oh god, really?"

I nodded, as Tessa handed me a simply wrapped that looked suspiciously like a book. And it was.

"Oh my god, my fave." I turned the book over, it looked used. I frantically turned the first page and did a double take. "Wait. Is this – is this a first edition?"

Tessa smiled and nodded. "Pues dijiste que Pedro Páramo era tu libro favorito y que te molan los libros antiguos, y mis padres tienen varios contactos en el mundo editorial, así que." Well, you said Pedro Páramo was your favourite book, and my parents have some contacts in the editorial world, so.

"Ay no, que rifada. Me encanta." Oh god, you're the best. I love it. I hugged her briefly.

"Alright, calm down y'all or I'll start speaking in Urdu." Saf pulled us apart and handed me her gift.

More thank yous flew around as I discovered that Saf had gotten me ABBA's new record, which was not supposed to come out in two weeks, but she somehow got.

"You guys, if these are your last minute presents I can't wait to see your pre-thought presents."

Let me tell you sneaking into Hogsmeade was not a pretty affair, or a clean one. After climbing through a mirror on the fourth floor, we went on a long, dark, damp walk through a long corridor, which led to the cellar of the Three Broomsticks.

And it was upon our arrival at the Broomsticks that we found the place deserted, with all the chairs and tables pushed aside. But as I looked to my friends in confusion, I realised this was planned.

Nat's knowing smile did not confort me.

Saf then proceeded to pull out of god knows where, my roller skates. "Since we've discovered roller skating is your guilty pleasure, we are going to have," she paused for dramatic effect, "a roller dance party!"

The girls cheered. How in the hell did they find that out?

I sat to put on my roller skates, which looked exactly like my figure skates, except they had four wheels attached to them, instead of blades.

I looked up as I heard sounds of more people arriving. I let out a sigh of relief as I saw it was only a few relatively close friends, Jem, Cristine (from History), Sara (Nat's dormmate), Dan (from music class), and, to my surprise, it was Regulus who brought up the rear.

I tried to ease my face from my shocked look as Regulus practically made a beeline towards me.

"Happy birthday." He said.

I swallowed. "Thanks. They invited you while I changed, didn't they?"

He took a deep breath. "But not before asking what my intentions with you were." Oh god. "I think they were... satisfied with my answer."

I somehow both wanted to know exactly what went down in that conversation because it worried me, but I also didn't want to know because it worried me. So I settled for a quick nod. "Get your skates on, then."

I got up just as the music started blaring ABBA. Ugh, there's no dance party better than an ABBA dance party.

Saf skated over to me with a bit of a crazed look in her eye. "But this is a roller skating dance party with a twist," she yelled over the music.

It was then when some wet, gooey substance hit me from behind. "What the – ?"

The lights switched off, but a dim glow seemed to envelop the room.

"It's a blacklight roller skating dance party!" Nat finally burst, her hand slightly coated with a layer of some kind of fluorescent liquid.

And that's what got the party started. Soon enough everyone was covered in either really messy or really nice lines of fluorescent paint. And I gotta admit, it looked cool as shit. Also, everyone was a little drunk. I'd been trying to hold my alcohol though, partly because I wasn't much of a drinker, and partly because I really wanted to remember all of this down to the T. The only other person who seemed mildly sober was Regulus, but he seemed to be enjoying himself, he'd even let Nat paint a small design on his face, which somehow made him look about a hundred times hotter.

I went over to dance with Reg, if he was annoyed by my antics he didn't show it as I sang at the top of my lungs, dramatically dancing next to him. I might have been a little tipsy but I was definitely contact drunk. All the crazies around me made me feel like I really was drunk off my ass.

I felt so brave I even tried to do an Axel on my roller skates, but it did not turn out well, and I twisted my ankle and fell on my ass.

"Daisy, are you okay?" Regulus rushed to my side.

"I'm fine." I leaned on him to get up, but as I put my weight on my left foot, I instantly regretted it.

"Daisy, your foot, you can't get injured. Come on." Regulus put his arm around my waist and helped me skate outside, and I tried to calm my pounding heart.

Regulus helped me sit on the bench right outside the Broomsticks. I'd actually sobered up from my contact drunkness by the thought of injuring my foot, but the tipsiness remained.

I rolled my ankle a few times but it seemed a lot better than what I first thought. My bones had probably just moved wrong, but it seemed to be fixing itself.

I perked up as I heard the beginning notes of 'Andante, Andante' play from inside the café. "Oh my god, we have to go in."

Regulus held me back by the arm. "No, you're hurt, you have to take off the skates."

I huffed. "It's nothing, I swear, it only hurt for a little bit." I got up.

Regulus gave me a look. "Daisy – "

I frowned. "Don't call me that."

"What?"

"I assume by now you've noticed my close friends call me Rainbow or Bow, you can too, you know. I've just been forgetting to tell you."

Reg looked slightly shocked as he looked away from me and a slight blush crept up his cheek. "Alright... Rainbow."

My insides suddenly turned into total mush and I struggled to stay standing. I stretched my arm towards Reg. "I'll stay out here, but we have to dance at least this song."

Reg took my hand and took a step towards me, the warmth of his body enveloped me. I did a few spins and turns because I really liked the way the skates made my dance moves all flowy.

'I'm your music
I'm your song
Play me and time again
And make me strong.'

I sang, stepping back closer to Reg as the music toned down. He slipped his arms around my waist, and I laced my fingers behind his neck as we swayed slowly.

'There's a shimmer in your eyes
Like the feeling of a thousand butterflies.'

I sang softly, looking directly into Reg's piercing grey eyes, which honestly made me feel like I was going to pass out any second. I couldn't help but lean into him, almost as if I was trying to get a closer look at his eyes.

'Andante, andante
Tread lightly on my ground
Andante, andante
Oh please don't let me down.'

My body felt like it was burning up as our embrace somehow brought us even closer. Our noses were almost touching. I'd never seen his eyes look so soft, I couldn't look away. His grip on my waist was tight but he brought one hand up to caress my jaw with his thumb delicately.

I couldn't even tell what music was playing now as our breath started mixing together. I held my breath as his soft lips brushed mine. But before I could even freak out, my brain must've short circuited or something, because I took a step forward and full on pushed my lips into his, he took a second to respond but then he kissed me back with such fervor that I didn't see coming. My lips moved against his as if hungry for him. It was a pretty good feeling, kissing Regulus Black.

I couldn't think of ever having such a perfect birthday.