Chapter 2

Rose was annoyed. Very. There somehow weren't enough boxes at the apartment at all! You know, when she just doesn't want a box, lo behold! There would be about 10 boxes lying on the path just waiting for her to trip and fall into one, but when she wants one, they all just disappear from sight! Not one, mind you, not one could she find.

Stephanie walked in tired, and plumped herself on the couch. "This day couldn't get any longer! Al has like a million useless stuff lying around, and he refuses to throw it too! You should have seen how much scorpius and I tried. Trying to persuade him is like trying to persuade a door to open itself!"

Rose gave her the 'I pity you' face. Her curly hair was tied up in a bun, as strands of hair came streaming down her face.

"Yeah Al's like that" she said, categorically. "I remember when I had to stay at the uncle Harry's place once. I tried helping Al to clean his room, cuz aunt Ginny was getting seriously pissed. That guy had the whole 2016's Sunday edition of quidditch daily! He refused to get rid of them! Said they helped him in chasing manoeuvres! Somehow I think uncle Harry scared him into throwing the lot into the rubbish.

Stephanie stared with rose with utmost terror in her eyes. "Rose I don't think so. I definitely came across a pile of Sunday edition quidditch daily. I think it was 2016 editions."

Rose stared at her friend incredulously. "Did it... Did it have an old picture of dragomir gorgovitch dropping a quaffle and the title being 'the record winner for most quaffle drops in quidditch season has not yet been broken. Check out the others who came close to beating that record! It's jaw dropping!' "

Stephanie looked out of her mind with worry now "oh god, yes!"

Rose and Stephanie stared at each other for a few more minutes. Rose suddenly began to crack up. Watching rose stifle her giggles, Stephanie couldn't help it too. Soon both of them were laughing uncontrollably, with rose collapsing, holding her stomach while Stephanie rolled off the couch, laughing. They kind of stopped and looked at each other again and promptly started laughing again.

"Oh my god did you see that look on your face!?" Rose shrieked through her laughter.
"Oh forget that! You should have seen yours" roared Stephanie

They both clearly couldn't talk and just kept on laughing. While the laughter somewhat receded, they picked themselves up and sat on the couch, rubbing away the tears from their eyes. A comfortable sort of silence reigned as both of them just contemplated on life.

"Rose I'm seriously gonna miss living with you" said Stephanie, languidly.
"Yeah... Me too. "replied rose, slightly sad.
"Okay whatever" said Stephanie who sat up straight and shook herself off of lethargy. "Do you need help? Anything at all?"
"Oh thank god you mentioned it! You see, we are short of boxes for my stuff. Have you any idea what we can do?" Said rose. Relieved that her friend had changed the topic.
"Well why don't you transfigure some stuff you don't want? That will be..."

And the evening was spent in transfiguration of boxes.

A few days passed, and everything was ready. Rose looked at her sealed boxes that were stacked up neatly against the wall on one side of the room and on the other side of her room her bed and closet that she decided to shift magically. Stephanie enters her room and knocks on the door, with a wistful smile on her face. Rose turns and looks at her, smiling wistfully back as both of them envelope each other in a hug.

"Ready?" Asked Stephanie, breaking from the hug.
"As I'll ever be" replied a suddenly disgruntled rose.
Stephanie chuckled. "Okay let's go check on the guys."

They entered the guys apartment to find Al and Scorpius sitting on the Sofa and watching some TV.

"Hey Al, you ready?" Called Stephanie
"Oh hey fanny! Yeah. I'll be there." Said Al and he took out his wand.

"Dude I can't believe you're going" said scorpius, looking dejected.
"Yeah man but don't worry. I'm just across the hall we can do the same things" said Al, looking sad but trying to be upbeat.

"Yeah...but... Okay we had this talk. We'll make some time" said scorpius giving Al an one sided smile.
"Yup we will" grinned Al, as they hugged.

Simultaneously Rose and Al lifted their wands and their boxes begin to levitate and each of then went across the hall. To them it was an end of an era, but it was actually the beginning of a new chapter of their lives.

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Yay! I'm back! So after a long hiatus (and lots of needling from my buddy Aquila) I have decided to write again!
After this story, I soon will be starting new ones! Check out my one shot realisation, oh gods why.
And please review and point out if I make any mistakes. Cookie for those who know the levitating spell for objects like boxes (clue: order of the Phoenix, Tonks)

Always willing to entertain my readers
Anne