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"James, tell Albus to pass the potatoes."

"James, tell Atria to say please."

"James, tell Albus I say please… go dunk your head in the toilet."

"James-"

"Enough!" Grandma Weasley shouted. The entire table went quiet. Albus and I leaned back in our chairs, pouting. James looked ready to make a run for it or dodge an explosion. "Now, it's Christmas Eve and some of us would like to enjoy it."

It took a few minutes for everyone to return to their normal conversation.

Albus was only mad because Slytherin had once again beaten Gryffindor in Quidditch. I'm not sure why he was so upset at this point, he should be used to it by now. Slytherin had been undefeated since I arrived at Hogwarts.

Now, two years later, Albus was still pissy that he had never caught the snitch before me. He was also pissy about the fact that I was taking ten N.E.W.T courses. For sixth year, I had decided to keep all of my subjects and add Alchemy(which was only for sixth and seventh years). Most students dropped at two subjects and some only dropped one.

I had dropped none and Rose had only dropped one because she didn't like Arithmancy as much as she had expected.

Scorpius and Albus both dropped two subjects this year. Scorpius dropped Astronomy and Divination, Albus dropped History of Magic and Divination. Come to think of it, I'm not sure anyone carried on with divination. I wasn't even quite sure why it was a subject. Being a seer was not something that you could teach.

I was going over to Scorpius's house for dinner tomorrow. Grandma Weasley was quite furious when I announced this, as was Rose.

After dinner all the "kiddies" went into the living room and chatted. At one point someone, probably James, suggested spin the bottle. Then someone else, probably Dom, said that that was disgusting because most of them were related. Only Teddy and I weren't actually related by blood.

I ran into Albus on the way up to bed. We stared awkwardly at each other.

"I'm going to see Rosie." He said.

"Oh, okay. We're, um, sharing a room." I pressed my lips together. He opened his mouth, no doubt to throw an insult, but then shut it.

"I'll just follow you up then."

I stared at him for a second then slowly moved. Every time I stayed here I got lost. There were so many floors and multiple rooms on each floor, it was impossible not to get lost.

The Burrow used to be smaller apparently but Grandma Weasley had extended to house upward and added some undetectable extension charms.

"Hey, Al." Rose looked surprised that he was following me. She was sitting on one of the three beds in the room. I guess Dom was staying with us as well.

"We're doing the family quidditch tournament tomorrow." He told her. They always did that once I left. I suspected it was because Al knew he couldn't win against me and his dad let him catch the snitch first.

"Awesome." Rose grinned. She didn't play for Gryffindor but she still liked Quidditch. "Attie do you have to leave?"

"Astoria wanted to see me on Christmas and your grandma wanted me to be here for Christmas Eve dinner. Solution- have dinner, leave next day."

"When are you leaving?" Albus asked, with a surprising lack of resent.

"Probably around 10. Still morning but late enough to open presents." I smiled. I was wearing a black sweater that Grandma Weasley had made that had a big purple A knitted into it. Albus had a red sweater with a green A on it that matched his eyes.

The same deep green with a little bit of blue. They were really bright against his pale skin and dark hair. It was sort of… beautiful.

"I wish I could come. I hardly ever see Scorpius over breaks." Rose's shoulders slumped.

"Your dad would flip if you went to the Malfoy Manor." Albus said.

"You go." Rose pointed out.

"Yea, and every time your dad does a thorough evaluation of me to make sure I wasn't cursed or anything." Albus sighed.

"What if he came here?" Rose asked.

"Why do you care so much?" I questioned her. "It's only another week, then we go back." I shrugged. She jumped up and started pacing.

"But it's summer break as well. I hardly see him all summer, while you two see him every other day."

"Alright next time we hang out, you can come." Albus surrendered.

Rose flung her hands in the air and stomped out of the room. Albus looked traumatized by the extreme PMSing Rose had just displayed. He looked to me for an explanation but I had nothing.

"I didn't realize she liked Scorpius that much." Albus muttered.

"I think it's just that when we're doing our thing at school, they always hang out or mock us." I said. "They're each other's best friends at school, but at home their families keep them apart. Or at least they think their families keep them apart."

"Aunt Hermione would be fine with them hanging out."

"I don't think it's the mothers either of them are worried about. It's the dad's." I stared at him.

"Scorpius!" Rose shouted excitedly. He noticed her running at him on Platform 9 and 3/4 just in time. She threw her weight at him and it almost knocked him backwards into some family.

"Rose, how was your holiday?" He held her tightly before breaking the embrace.

"Good, a bit crazy and I was sad when Atria had to go."

"And I was happy when she came." Scorpius chuckled. "But I wish you and Al could have come with her."

"Me too." Rose unconsciously stepped back. "We'll meet in the Room of Requirement at eight o'clock tonight to exchange gifts."

"Oh Atria already gave me gift."

"Psh, that wasn't your real gift. Just like the ones I gave Al and Attie weren't there real gifts either. You should've seen Al's face when I gave him a day planner." Rose grinned.

"Where are they anyways?" He looked around. He saw the Weasley's, all one thousand of them, but he didn't see the Potter's.

"I don't know." Rose shrugged, "But they'll be here."

A few minutes later the Potter's came in. Well, some of them.

"Aunt Ginny, where's Al and Atria?" Rose shrieked.

"We had to leave them at home if we wanted some of children to get on the train." Ginny said furiously. Scorpius's mouth dropped. The train horn shrieked and it was the last call to get on the train.

"Mum, are you going back to get them?!" James yelled.

"Get on the train, children." Hermione said.

There were a lot of grumbles.

"Are you going back for them?" Ron asked.

"We'll have to apparate them to Hogsmeade and I have someone meet them at the gates." Harry sighed.

"What did they do?" Ron asked, grinning slightly.

"They were just arguing and we told them to get ready and they weren't ready and we waited but they still weren't ready so we figured we'd get half of the children here." Ginny said, exasperated. "We should go get them, before they kill each other."

Hermione elbowed Ron when he laughed.

Except when they returned home, the Potter's found the manor completely empty.

"Oh, sh-"

"Harry!"

"What are we going to do?" Albus paced around. "They actually left us. I can't believe they left us." This rambling went on for a few minutes. He didn't notice that Atria had left the room and now returned.

She held her broom in one hand and a small bag in the other.

"What are you doing?"

Atria sighed. "I don't know about you, but I'm going to school."

"You're going to fly to Hogwarts?" Albus yelled.

"Your dad did in his second year. We just have to find the train, like he did, and follow it. I have all my clothes in here." Atria said, lifting the small bag. "Undetectable extension charm." She sneered at Albus's confused look.

"Don't you think mum and dad might be a bit cross if we do this? We could just wait for them to take us." Albus suggested.

"And let them simmer in anger for a few hours? No thank you." Atria rolled her eyebrows. "Better to ask forgiveness than permission. They'll be so impressed we wanted to go back to school, they can't be mad."

"That is ridiculous." Albus scoffed.

"Look, they could stop us from going back to school if we wait here, but they can't pull us out once we're already there. Besides, they might cool off if they don't see us for a little while." Atria grabbed her bag and made for the door.

"Ok wait." Albus said. She stopped at the door. "There's no way I'm getting blamed if you fall off your broom, so I'm coming." He said firmly.

"You're going to protect me?" Atria raised her eyebrows.

"No, I'm going to protect myself from punishment. What if muggles see us?" He remarked dryly. "And you need to charm my bag and help me pack."

"I'll do the undetectable extension charm, but I'm not going anywhere near your dirty knickers." Atria snapped as they went to Albus's room. "And we'll use cloaking charms so no one sees us."

"A what?"

"A cloaking charm. I've been working on it with George. Basically, we're going to sell jewelry that has a charm that making you invisible. Carrying an actual invisibility cloak round is too much work." Atria explained, talking slowly. Albus rolled his eyes.

"Yes, thank you." He snarled. "And you have some of the cloaking charms?"

"Yea,this will be a perfect test run."

"You haven't tested them out?" Albus shouted. "What if they don't work?"

"When has anything I've done not worked?"

He opened his mouth then closed it. Albus had first hand knowledge of how talented Atria was, because she tested much of her products out on him. Most of them were for pranking and had disastrous results.

Atria was right - everything worked fine.

Except for when they couldn't find the train and ended up flying around London.

"This was the worst plan ever!" Albus shouted over the wind. "Why did I listen to you?" Atria rolled her eyes.

"You wanted to protect me!" she shouted back. "Look, we'll go to Dufftown, that's not far from Hogsmeade."

"Fine!"

A few hours later they arrived at Dufftown.

"Now what?" Albus said.

"Now we get to Hogsmeade." Atria said firmly. "Then we take a secret passageway up to Hogwarts."

"Oh is that all?" Albus said sarcastically. "Hogwarts is an extremely secure place. There are spells and charms that protect the school from people just walking in." He said like he was talking to an idiot.

"Yes, I know." She snapped. "I also know how to get in and out."

"How?"

"James and Freddie, of course." She scoffed.

Albus paused. They wouldn't tell her.

But the look she was giving him said otherwise. "You know about the map?"

Atria scoffed. "Of course. I also created some of the passageways." She smirked at the positively horrified look on Albus's face.

Of course, she can do everything.

"We should go before anyone realizes we're not where we're supposed to be." Atria said.

"Whatever." He muttered.

After flying through some rain they finally arrived in Hogsmeade late at night. They were sore and cranky after flying for so many hours.

"Come on." Atria hissed as she quietly moved out of sight.

"Where are we going?"

"Hog's Head. There's a passage that'll take us to the Room of Requirement."

"You know about the Room of Requirement?" Albus exploded. "Why did James tell you all of our family secrets?" He shouted.

"It's not a family secret!" She yelled back. "Anyone can use it, just like the passages!"

"The map-"

"Your dad told me about it." Atria hissed. Albus sputtered. "You're just cross because you were already the disappointment of the family and now you have to deal with me being the best in our year and your own parents like me more than you." Atria had worked herself into a frenzy.

Albus looked at a loss for words because he was so furious.

"You have no fucking idea what you're talking about." Albus seethed. "You're a stray that my family took in. You're like a pet, living in the house, but not really a part of the family and if the house were to catch on fire, no one would try to save the pathetic little mangy dog."

Atria had tears swimming in her eyes from frustration and the back of her throat burned from the restraint it took not to punch him. "You can find your own way to Hogwarts." She disappeared somewhere.

"Dammit!" Albus hit a wall.

"Where are they?" Rose bit her lip. "Uncle Harry should have brought them back by now." Scorpius sighed.

"Who knows? They're probably in major trouble. We might not see them until tomorrow." Scorpius said.

They sitting in the Room of Requirement eating sweets and drinking butterbeer. Rose had turned the room into a small library with a cozy sitting area.

"What are we going to do for Atria's birthday?" Rose asked. Scorpius looked surprised.

"I dunno." He shrugged. "It's not for another three weeks." Atria's birthday was on January 21 and every year they had some type of party. Their fourth year, Atria's first, it had been a large party with most of the school invited. Most of Slytherin and Gryffindor, a lot of Ravenclaw because of Dimitri, and a fair amount of Hufflepuffs as well were all there.

Fifth year it had been cut down to close family and friends. Dimitri had been there even if he and Attie had broken up. Scorpius didn't know why they were still friends.

"It's her seventeenth birthday!" Rose protested. "Good thing we have a Hogsmeade weekend in two weeks." She propped her legs up on the arm of Scorpius's chair.

"Rose!"

"Atria." Rose and Scorpius jumped up. "Wha- Where did you come from?" Rose asked. Atria had tears running down her cheek and she bit her lip.

"What happened?" Scorpius asked, putting an arm around her and directing her to the couch. Atria sniffled. "Did you get in trouble?" She shook her head.

"Albus and I were going to sneak back into school, before anyone could notice that we were missing." Her lip trembled. "But we got in a fight and I left him in Hogsmeade."

"You just left him there?" Rose shrieked.

"He'll be fine." Atria hissed. "He deserved it. He called me a house pet."

"And you no doubt said something to provoke him." Scorpius muttered.

"You never take my side!" Atria shouted. "I am so sick of Albus ruining everything!" Then she stalked out.

Scorpius sighed and grabbed Rose when she tried to run after Atria. Rose looked down at his large hand.

"They're going to have to sort this out for themselves." He said. "Let's go get Al."

"Now do you see why I don't bloody like her?" Albus snarled. He looked so on edge Rose was afraid to say anything.

"Yea, well she wasn't too pleased with you either." Scorpius clearly didn't have the same fear Rose did.

"She started it." Al hissed.

"What did she say?"

"Basically that I was at the bottom of the food chain in our family and that my parents liked her better than me."

Rose inhaled. "And what did you say?"

Al pressed his lips together. "That she was a stray that my family picked up and even though she lived in our house and she was fun to play with, she' not part of the family." Rose gasped.

"Al!" Scorpius scolded.

"And that if there was a fire, no one would try to save." Al admitted, but didn't sound that ashamed.

"Albus Severus Potter!"

"What? She was a bitch as well."

"Yea, but you know your parents love you and that she was just lashing out." Scorpius said. "She isn't actually part of the family and I think it bothers her she doesn't have a family who would risk their lives to save her."

"Although any of us would try to save her." Rose interjected.

"WHY IS SHE ALLOWED TO LASH OUT AND I'M NOT?!" Albus shouted at the top of his lungs. All three of them went silent went silent.

"I'm going to go find her." Rose said quietly and left. Albus deflated slightly.

"Ms. Williams!" McGonagall's voice boomed through the halls. Everyone else was in their common rooms by now. I stopped to face the old Headmistress.

"Yes, professor?" I replied sweetly.

"What are you doing here." She said tightly.

"Um… going to school."

"You know very well what I mean. Is Mr. Potter here?"

"Yep, we're safe and sound." I knew as soon as I left Scorpius and Rose had gone to fetch Potter.

"I'm sure." She said dryly. "Why don't you make your way to the Slytherin Common room?" She asked in a way that was more demanding than questioning.

"Okay."

I was exhausted. Albus Potter had pissed me off past the point of return and I felt bad for Rose and Scorpius who caught the brunt of my anger. I felt someone bump into me.

"Oh sorry." We said simultaneously. It was a boy who I sort of recognized, probably in Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. He ran a hand through his dirty blonde hair.

"Sorry." He repeated. I realized I was staring at his mouth.

"No, that was my fault. I wasn't paying attention. Just lost in thought, I suppose. I really should have be looking where I was walking." I rambled. He chuckled, and mate, it was a lovely chuckle. Nice and deep, but also carefree.

"I'm Justin." He extended his hand. That name sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it. "Head Boy." He said.

"Oh, sorry of course. I definitely know who the Head Boy is." I said. He raised his eyebrows. "No, that's a lie. Who's the Head Girl?"

"Halfway through the year and you don't know who your head's are?" He laughed again.

"I'm Atria."

"I know."

"Oh."

"Yea, I was thoroughly warned about you. And your friends." He smirked. His eyes were brown, like chocolate.

"Whatever you heard, it's a lie." I said automatically.

"Actually, I've heard good things."

"Then you know it's a lie." He raised his eyebrows and grinned.

"Good to know." He said.

And then I stood there grinning like an idiot. But in my defense, he did as well, only he didn't look like an idiot - he looked hot.

The only thing was he was a bit short. I was already short and he was probably only six inches taller than me. All the other boys I knew seemed to tower over me, not that that was a bad thing.

Justin was more reachable. I could just stand on my toes and kiss him if I wanted to. Not that I would.

"Attie!"

Rose was barreling down the hallway until she came to us.

"Hey Justin." She nodded to him. I looked at her. "What? I'm a prefect."

"And it's a cross I have to bear." I sighed. Justin laughed and smiled at me again.

Rose giggled. I gave her a look and she motioned to my hair. It had probably gone red or pink and, of course, matched the color my cheeks probably were.

"It's your own fault you don't know who the Head Boy is."

"Well, now I know." I gave Rose a pointed look and she bit her lip to stop herself from smiling.

"And I'm in Hufflepuff." Justin interjected.

I made a face and Rose cleared her throat giving me another pointed look. "Sorry, I just-"

He laughed. "It's okay. I could say the same about Slytherin." He said. "Each house has it's stereotypes."

"Anyways," Rose drawled out, "We should be going. Being caught out past curfew with the Head Boy could be bad."

"Yes, he could give us detention." I said. Rose rolled her eyes and started to drag me away. "See you later." I said, walking backwards so I could face him. Rose spun me around.

"You seriously didn't know who the Head Boy is?" Rose demanded.

"Why would I know that?"

Rose blanched. "Because I've mentioned him to you!" She screeched.

"When you start talking about prefect duties I tune out."

"Attie-"

"I know, I know. And I'm sorry, but-"

"No, it's alright. I understand perfectly."

"Have you seen Amanda?"

Rose nodded. "At the feast and we talked a little after. She wanted to go see Eric though." I made a face and Rose right. "If you would just get to know him."

"I swear he was making eyes at me." I interrupted her.

"It's not fair to Manda."

"What?"

"You've had lots of boyfriends and she gets one and you think he's interested in you?" Rose said. "It's not fair to Amanda. She's allowed to have a guy like her as well."

"Exactly!" My voice raised. "That's why she shouldn't go out with Eric bloody Muller."

"Attie!"

"But," I paused. "If she's determined to do this I will support her."

Rose pausd. "Right. Well, that's good."

"And I'm sorry for leaving Albus in Hogsmeade." I muttered. Rose raised her eyebrows. She had lovely eyebrows- perfectly arched and auburn. "But don't tell him that I'm sorry 'cause he totally deserved it." She laughed.

"Have you ever thought about what would happen if, I don't know, maybe you guys just left each other alone?"

"What do you mean?"

"All you talk about is how much you hate each other."

"Yep."

"And yet, you spend so much time and effort on each other. You wouldn't have to see each other if you just ignored him."

A day without making fun of Albus?

"Sounds rather boring." I smirked.

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