ello! So, Reviews? Please? I mean, I have updated so much dudes and dudetts! Please? Pretty please? With scary black cherries on top?
He rolled around in the snow, making little paths. I laughed quickly, and flopped backwards, making a snow angel.
"Rita!" Come inside so you can shower, please!" she called.
"Okay, I'm coming!" I yelled back, whilst sneaking up behind the stray with armfuls of snow. I stood over him, and dropped all of it on him. He barked and stood up quickly, shaking the snow off all over me. I laughed loudly before running inside.
"HIYAH AUNT 'DROMEDA!" I yelled happily, throwing my arms around my great aunt. She laughed and squeezed me tight.
"Rita! Tonks! My two favorite girls!" She said, letting me go.
I jumped and down, "Guess what! Guess what! Guess what!"
"What?"
"I'm friends with the Weasley twins!" she groaned.
"Oh no. We're all in trouble now." She joked, taking our coats and hanging them up on the coat rack.
Tonks laughed, "That was about my reaction, too, Mum. Not only that, but they seem to be rubbing off on her more than I would like; pranked a teacher the other day, they did."
I smiled sheepishly and shrugged.
Uncle Ted came up and ruffed up my hair. I screwed up my face and swatted his hand away.
"Alright, well I have dinner ready and out on the table, and our customary 'one eve present for each person' under the tree, so… Let's eat!" 'Dromeda said. I smiled happily and followed her into the kitchen, taking the same spot I had taken last Christmas Eve.
We did this every year: we would usually come over here for the Eve and Tonks and my house for Christmas, but sometimes it gets switched.
We all linked hands and said a quiet prayer before digging in.
"It's great, Aun' 'Meeda!" I said, swallowing thickly and taking a swig of pumpkin juice.
"Well thank you, Rita." She said, a small smile on her face.
"Oh, I wonder who's dog that is?" Uncle Ted said. I cocked my head and peered around Tonks to look out the window, and saw the stray black dog sitting outside.
I choked on my food, covering my mouth to muffle the laughter.
"Oh, isn't that the stray from our neighborhood?" Tonks asked, turning back around. I nodded.
"It's the stray that's been hanging around our house lately, seems to like RIta." She said, cutting a piece of turkey and taking a bite.
"Hu. Followed you guys all the way here?" Ted asked. I shook my head.
"Couldn't have- we apparated."
"Rits! Did you dye your hair?" my aunt asked. I laughed nervously and said no.
"But- it wasn't black last time I saw you, it was kind of red!"
"Yeah, I just kinda woke up and it was darker. It's still actually kind of red you just can't see it unless you really concentrate on it."
"Oh, ok. I can kind of see it now…" Ted said, squinting a little. I shook my head and laughed.
"Present time!" Uncle Ted yelled, standing up and patting his belly. I laughed and stood up quickly.
"Race ya!" I yelled.
"Kids!" Aunt 'Dromeda yelled after us. We stopped in our tracks, stuck in the doorway leading into the living room.
"Yes?" We chorused.
"Clean up your plates." She said. Smirking at us. We groaned and I ran towards the table, taking my plate into the kitchen. My uncle smirked, waved his wand, and the plate went straight into the sink, while he ran into the living room.
"Ugh, that's cheating!" I yelled, running after him.
"Not if you're of age!" He called back.
"But I'm not, which is why it's cheating!"
"Nu-uh!" He said, like a little kid. I laughed, and vaulted myself over the couch, falling right in front of the tree as he came around the corner.
"I win!" I said, pumping my fists triumphantly into the air.
"Alright, kiddo. Here's your present from me." He said, picking up a shiny green one.
"WAIT! WE HAVE TO GET THE CAMERAAA!" Tonks and Andromeda yelled. I laughed and yelled back
"Well then hurry up, slow pokes!"
"Okay! Ready!" Tonks said, sitting down on the couch, soon joined by my aunt.
"Okay. Here you go." I said, handing them my presents. They were pretty simple, I had to make all of them.
"You didn't have to!" Aunt 'Dromeda said.
"But I wanted to, and you guys always get stuff for me…" I said.
Tonks unwrapped hers. It was a little ballerina tree ornament made out of re-shaped glass and feathers that I had done at Hogwarts, smoothed down by magic. The ballerina's hair changed colors every few seconds.
"Oh, Rita! I love it!" She said, causing me to blush. I shrugged.
"You're welcome."
Tonks had gotten me another notebook, I liked to write; Uncle Ted got me a hair brush that makes your hair grow when you brush it; and from Aunt Meda I got the annual Christmas outfit. She gave it to me every year on Christmas Eve.
It was a pretty dress with straps about four fingers wide, held tight to the torso at the top, and flared out a little at the waist. It was a rich, dark, blue, and was bewitched to look like it was snowing- or raining, depending on how you wanted it that day. Followed by that was a pair of matching blue flats, and a sparkly white cover up that went down to my calves.
"Wow! You've really outdone yourselves this year!" I said happily, getting up and giving them all hugs. Tonks laughed.
"Not really. I just got you a notebook. Although… I did get you a pretty cool gift for tomorrow." She said, a knowing smile on her face. I smiled back.
"Bye, guys, love you!" I called over my shoulder as Tonks and I walked out to the apparation point.
"See you tomorrow!" Tonks yelled, taking my arm, and turning on the spot.
Next moment and we were standing outside the house, and we rushed in from the cold.
"I'm going to go write a letter to Hermione and Neville, and the twins, then I'm going to bed. 'Night, Tonks!" I said, walking into my room.
"Goodnight, Rita!" She called back, going into her own room.
I closed my door and walked straight to my desk/vanity, laying down my hairbrush. I opened a drawer and pulled out three pieces of paper.
(this is in cursive) Dear Hermione,
Happy Christmas! Hope you got plenty of snow, and the muggles aren't too boring, haha just kidding. In fact, you are probably having more fun than I am, Although, that black dog I was telling you about the other day has been following me around again, it's pretty funny. Hope you got all of your homework done- what am I saying? Of course you did! But what I want to know, is how in the heck you are getting to all of these crazy classes of yours! Are you using a Time Turner? Haha! Just kidding! Hope you like what I got you, I thought it was pretty cool. Well, I'll see you on January fifth, Happy Christmas, Hermione!
Forever Friends,
R. E. B.
(A/N: Oh my Merlin, just realized that her initials are the same as Regulus' hahaha. Well, this will be funny to write when Harry reads the note from the locket….)
I rolled it up and attached it to her present. I got her a book on time turners- as a joke, and an advanced arithmancy textbook.
I took the other piece of paper and started writing on that, too.
(also in cursive) Dear Neville,
Hi, I know we haven't talked in awhile, and I know I'm not really supposed to(and vice versa) but I just thought I would write to you and say Happy Christmas! We aren't really speaking, so I'll keep this short. Besides, I don't want to get you into trouble with you Gran.
Happy Christmas!
Rita Elizabeth
I sighed and rolled that one up as well. I attached it to a small box of three chocolate frogs.
I wouldn't write the Twins' letter in cursive, because they always complained about my 'curly, girly, swirly writing'.
(not in cursive) Dear George and Fred,
You see what I did there? Said 'George and Fred', instead of 'Fred and George'. Sounds odd, doesn't it? I just thought, 'hey. Maybe George is sick of Fred always being first.' Ha. Just kidding. And, even better, I'm not writing in cursive. Because that's what it's called, Fred. Anyways, Happy Christmas! Tell Ronald I said hi. Hahaha, just kidding, don't do that. I didn't really know what to get you two, so this letter just comes with some money for you to get pranks. Oh, and some old prank stuff I found in an old box Tonks had. They're pretty awesome.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Rita Elizabeth Black
P.S. Sorry, but that's how you are supposed to sign off a letter. In CURSIVE.
I attached that to a small package with some weird pranks in it. I had found the box over the summer during a nasty bout of boredom. One made it so that if someone consumed it they would become anti-gravity… kind of. Another was a bottle of something that would make people sprout elf ears from the top of their head. I didn't bother labeling these, thinking it would be funny to watch the twins test them out on each other. I smiled to myself as I tied Fred and George's to my owl, and Hermione's to Tonks'. Whichever owl got back first would then take Neville his. I sighed and kicked off my shoes, throwing myself down onto my bed.
I fell right to sleep.