Disclaimer: Harry Potter and it's characters belong to J.K. Rowling. I own nothing except my original characters and plots.

A/N: I am SO sorry to you all, my readers. a little explanation. I felt this story didn't really have a strong storyline. Now I have added more in hopes it's a better read for everyone. I will TRY, not promise, to keep up with updates. basically this story will still have same aspects of the last one before I took it down. I just wanted to start over. I still have the old chapters, I'm gonna update them, so hopefully updates will come quicker for you all. one more time, i am sorry. enjoy :)

The unsaid

As Rose Amelia Weasley stepped onto Platform 9 ¾, she mostly just saw steam from the train fogging over the platform. She couldn't really make out anything or anyone so she just waited for her parent's and brother to come through the barrier.

As she waited, she thought about the upcoming year. Another year. Hopefully she could just get through this year with no problems. Fortunately, it was her last year. Probably everyone else would be sad to be stepping onto this platform for the last year, but she was grateful. Not really happy or ecstatic, just grateful.

Her younger brother, Hugo, stepped through the barrier followed by Ron and Hermione Weasley. They made their way through the steam, weaving around other people and their belongings. Several minutes later they found her Uncle Harry, Aunt Ginny, and her cousins Albus and Lily. "Last year for Rose and Albus. Are you sad that it's your last year?" her dad asked while looking between Rose and Albus. She merely nodded, not wanting to voice her true feelings. Albus on the other hand started talking about how he would miss getting on the train every year and going to Hogwarts. She tuned out their conversations.

She didn't mind the train ride; eight hours of spending time with her two best friends and catching up on each others holidays. Thinking of her two friends, Rose looked around the platform, trying to spot them through the thick crowd. After a minute of searching she remembered that she didn't have to look. All she had to do was stop and listen. She closed her eyes and strained her ears, listening to random conversations between other people.

"Mo-om! I'm almost 17 and you're still fussing over me and my clothes. Who cares if they're wrinkled or full of lint? I'm almost of age now. You got to stop coddling me."

"Kianna Charlotte Vane, I am your mother and you are my one and only baby. I can coddle you right until you're 60 years old if I want. 37 hours of labor, Kianna, 37."

"Oh puh-lease! You're still riding that hippogriff. So what if you were in labor with me for 37 hours. That excuse would have worked if I was 12 or something but I'm 16 now."

"Exactly! 16. Not 17."

"Argh! You're so difficult sometimes!"

Rose giggled to herself and turned to her left, peering around her family. A few feet away she saw Kianna standing with her mom, Romilda Vane. She made her way over and stood beside Kianna. "Hey Kianna. Hi Mrs. Vane."

"Please, Rose, Mrs. Vane is my mother and I am not married. Call me Romilda."

Rose nodded and smiled. "How was your summer?" she asked and turned to face Kianna.

"Boring. How was yours?"

"Meh. About the same. Want to find Mimi?"

"PLEASE!" Her eyes went wide with relief. Romilda cleared her throat and gave her daughter a look. "I mean, yes. I would like that." Romilda nodded once and started talking to other people on the platform.

Rose raised one eyebrow. Kianna just waved it off with her hand and started walking. Rose fell in step with her. "Really though, how was your summer, Rose?"

Rose sighed and said quietly, "Hugo this and Hugo that, as usual. Seriously, he was done being cute when he turned 8. How long are they going to keep it up?" Kianna only shook her head in response. "Whatever though. My family talks about Hugo enough. We don't need to add to it. How was your summer?"

"My mom dragged me all over the place and kept talking about the days when I didn't talk back. I'm tired of being an only child with a single mother. She needs a distraction. She's putting all of her attention on me and I don't like it. It's driving me crazy!"

"Parents." was Rose's reply while shaking her head.

After wandering the station for five minutes, they finally found Mimi and her mother Cho. "Make sure you pass with excellent grades this year, sweetie. It is your last year after all."

"Yes, mother. I promise to make you proud."

Cho smiled and patted her daughter on the shoulder.

"MEEMERS!" Rose and Kianna screamed at the same time and engulfed Mimi in a hug.

"Guys! What did I say about doing that to me? You know it scares me!"

"That's why we do it." Kianna said with a huge grin.

"Let's go reserve our spots on the train before it gets full." Mimi suggested.

They picked a compartment at the back of the train. They put their trunks away and stepped back onto the platform to say one last goodbye to their families before the train left for Hogwarts. Rose found her parent's again. Her mom was hugging Hugo and telling him to have a good year and to behave.

Just as Rose was about to say goodbye she remembered something, 'You've disappointed me, Rose. I can't believe you would embarrass me like this.' The words cut off her air circulation and what she was about to say caught in her throat. Whenever she remembered those words, it always twisted like a rusty knife in her stomach and she always had to suppress a tear. No parent should ever say that to their child because they would always remember it.

Her mom was holding out her arms for a hug. The only thing Rose could do was wave and bolt for the train as fast as she could before tears started forming. She got to her compartment and took a seat beside the window, leaning her head against it. She spotted her mom and saw the hurt look on her face. If only her mom knew she was hurt too by the words her mom said about a year ago. Before she could dwell on it anymore her two best friends stepped into the compartment and closed the door. She immediately pretended to be asleep so they couldn't see the hurt look in her eyes. She couldn't deal with her friends' questions just yet. They'd be able to see right through her lies and half answers.

...

As she was pretending to sleep, she started thinking about her first year at Hogwarts. It wasn't as exciting as everyone made it out to be, at least to her anyways. If people were to really stop and think about it, it's a scary first experience. Only 11 years old and getting shipped off to an isolated place in the middle of no where. Not able to see your family until Christmas break. It's pretty frightening.

Of course she couldn't actually voice any of her opinions, who would listen? All of her other family were excited. If they thought she wasn't excited, they would have thought she was crazy. When she got there, it was hectic. Students everywhere, it took her awhile to find her cousin Albus.

Her parent's told her about Hagrid but she didn't believe them when they said he was tall. Instead, he was HUMONGOUS. The way he was yelling around too (well that's how she saw it but really, he was saying 'firs' years'). As big as he is and as tiny as she was, she was scared out of her wits. She couldn't help but cling to her cousin Albus.

Then there was the boat ride to the castle and hearing stories about the giant squid. Who the heck has a giant squid just swimming around in their lake? What if it were to snatch one of the kids from the boats?

As the castle came into the view, all the other kids gasped and pointed and thought it looked so awesome. Rose, on the other hand, couldn't help but think it looked like an eerie haunted house. She watched a lot of ghost hunters and what not as a kid and they always investigated a castle or two. She laughed at the thought of them finding the castle ghosts and seeing them so plainly with the naked eye. She wondered what they would do. Attack them with questions about the afterlife or ask them why they are still wandering around the castle.

Her mind always came up with the weirdest things. She always found that she giggled to herself. Sometimes people question her sanity but she didn't care. It was her own inside jokes that she hoped to find best friends to share them with. She didn't really want to be best friends with her cousins. She would be too closely related to share private details with them. Once sorted into her house, she decided she would try to find friends.

She was so deep in thought, she found herself waiting outside of the great hall before she realized where she was. Her palms started sweating and her heartbeat started racing, it didn't show on her face though. She was always good at hiding her feelings. As they walked into the Great Hall, all eyes were on them, making her feel self-conscious. What if she tripped? If anything, she was glad she wasn't the type of person to accidentally fart when they were nervous. It made her smile and relax a little.

As they were getting sorted, a little girl started crying when the hat was trying to sort her. When the hat called out her house, Gryffindor, the girl jumped and started bawling even more. Rose decided then and there to get to know that little girl, hopefully becoming friends with her. Five students later, another little girl sat on the stool. She actually started arguing with the hat and literally yelling at it. Everyone watched with bated breathe and trepidation about what would happen. Two minutes later the hat yelled Gryffindor. The little girl stomped to her table and sat down beside the crying little girl. Rose smiled and also wanted to be friends with that girl, two completely opposite girls. Rose would be the one to balance them both.

Rose of course was sorted into Gryffindor immediately when the hat was put on her. The one that had the entire school shocked though was Albus Severus Potter being sorted into Slytherin. Nobody knew what to say. Rose was proud of her cousin though. Not following traditions, swaying from the path of the Potter/Weasley last name. She wondered why he was so scared of being put in Slytherin in the first place.

After dinner, the houses followed their respective Prefects to their houses. The whole place being made of stone, it was bound to be cold. And it was, Rose found herself shivering. As she lay in bed that night, she wondered if she would become good friends with her three roommates.

Three weeks later she remembered being lost for four hours on one of the many floors of Hogwarts. She just huddled in a corner and cried quietly. Her cousins had to find her using the Marauder's Map. After being found, one of her cousins always tried to hover near her protectively and she wouldn't hear of it. She didn't mind her family, but sometimes it was all too much for her. She would rather have her own friends.

She was jerked awake by Kianna. She smiled to herself but didn't show it on her face, of course her friends wouldn't let her sleep. "Oh, my darling Prince Charming" she said while feigning sleep and trying to grab Kianna.

"Rose! Wake up!" Kianna slapped Rose lightly.

"Ow! You could've been more lady like in waking me up. Talk about a rude awakening."

Kianna scoffed and replied, "You weren't even sleeping anyways. We know when you're sleeping."

Rose only gave Kianna a questioning look but she did not elaborate any further. "Well, how do you know when I am actually sleeping?"

"Like we'd tell you." Kianna said and walked out of the compartment.

Rose would drop it for now but bring it back up later. "So why did you wake me up?"

"You mean why did I fake wake you up?" Rose just rolled her eyes and kept quiet. "Because I'm hungry and didn't want to go to the trolley by myself."

"Kianna, do you always need me or Mimi to hold your hand for everything?"

"Yes." She replied with a goofy smile.

Rose sighed dramatically but didn't actually mean it.

As they got to the trolley, Kianna bought her sweets first, considering how narrow the train was. Once Kianna was done buying her sweets, she stood where Rose stood previously and waited for her to buy something. As Rose was looking down at all the sweets, she couldn't make up her mind.

As she was looking at all the sweets, her hair came down from behind her ear. She wasn't used to having her hair straight. It had always been naturally bushy until this past summer. She finally had enough and bought a muggle hair straightener. It was worth it because she loved how it looked straightened.

A sexy voice interrupted her thoughts. "Hey there."

Rose recognized the tone right away as Scorpius Malfoy's. 'Must be hitting on a girl before school even starts since he's using that tone' Rose thought to herself. Whenever he used that tone with girls they always melted or sighed or fanned themselves dramatically.

"Cat got your tongue?"

At that Rose looked around inconspicuously and saw no other girl but her. She suppressed a laugh and looked up to smile at Scorpius. "Why, hello Scorpius. Good summer?"

The many emotions that flashed across his face was priceless. "Rose?! Wha… I… um…"

"Wow. I never thought I'd see the day Scorpius Malfoy at a loss for words." Rose paid for her sweets and turned to Scorpius one last time. "Bye handsome" she said with a wink and a little wave. She could've sworn she saw a little blush but he hid it well. As she walked away, she swung her hips a little.

"What was that about?" Kianna asked with excitement in her voice.

"Scorpius used his 'I want to fuck you' tone on me."

The two girls shared a look and started laughing loudly. It wasn't that they didn't like him, no. It was that he never used that tone on Rose or her two best friends. Sure, they agreed he was hot but he was just… Scorpius. There really wasn't an explanation for him. And she didn't really like judging a book by its cover anyways. She always tried to remain good natured when it came to judging. Good natured meaning she didn't judge until proven guilty. As the saying goes, innocent until proven guilty. Of course there were exceptions for people like Voldemort.

She was sitting down in their compartment before she realized she zoned out from thinking. She tended to do that sometimes.

"So, Rose, we found something for you over the summer." Mimi spoke up for the first time since the train ride started. "It took us awhile to find it but we did. Kianna and I pooled our money together and bought it. We hope you like it." Mimi finished while handing Rose a small paper wrapped gift.

"You guys! I didn't even get you anything." Rose said as she accepted the gift.

"Oh, don't worry. It didn't cost that much. It's more the sentimental value for buying it." Kianna reassured.

Rose hugged her two best friends and started to tear the wrapping paper off of the gift. It was a small jewelry box, bigger than a ring box but not by much.

"We remembered how much you love them and you won't find it in any store, muggle-wise or wizard-wise. Rose was trying to remember what she loves so much as she opened the red velvet box. Not even thirty seconds went by before she dropped it like it burned her hands.

"Get it away from me! Get it away!" Rose screamed. She started panicking and folding her knees up to her chest.

"Rose! What's wrong? I thought you loved hair barre-"

"DON'T say that word! JUST GET IT OUT OF MY SIGHT!" Rose screamed with true fear in her eyes. Her heart was racing, tears were stinging the back of her eyes, and her lungs felt like there was a huge pressure on them not letting her breathe properly. She started taking deep breaths to calm herself down.

Mimi picked up the hair barrette and put it in her bag. They were at a loss for words as Rose put her forehead on her knees, muttering incoherently to herself. They both felt helpless.

A/N: Don't hate me for ending it like this *hides* Just what is Rose hiding from her friends? follow my story to find out ;) and why would Hermione say such horrible things to Rose? as the chapter suggests, a lot of unsaid things about to unfold :)