On May 2, 2014 at 3 a clock.
16-years-old Teddy Lupin was once again sitting in the green and blue dressed room of requirement.
This year Teddy's hair was short and spiky. Today like most day's he was keeping it orange.
He was sitting in one of the sofas, the one right in front of the fire place and he was annoyed.
She was late.
They had never said a specific time to meet, but she had always been there by two o'clock. It had been over an hour.
What if she didn't show up? He didn't want to spend the day alone, and he definitely didn't want to go down to the party.
He had made the mistake of going down to the great hall for breakfast that morning and had been greeted with pitting looks from all the teachers. Why did today have to be so different? They never ever looked at him like that normally!
The door opened and he straightened up in the sofa.
The today 14-year-old Victorie Weasley snuck in to the room, throwing a quick glance down the hallway outside to make sure no one saw her.
Right before Christmas she had cut her hair short. It had now had some time to grow, it was back to hanging past her shoulders and the edges was naturally uneven and more flowing than they had been when she had cut it off.
She was casually dressed in school uniform. A white shirt with the top buttons open, a blue and bronze stripped tie lose around her neck and a knee long black skirt. Her feet were bare as she tipped in with her magical bag over her shoulder.
She brushed her hair out of her face as she turned around to face him.
"Sorry!" She said quickly and went to empty her stack of presents on the coffee table in front of him. "I had to sneak away from Dom." She rolled her eyes.
Dom, or well Dominique, was Victories younger sister. She was a first year and a Ravenclaw just like her sister. And she idolized Victorie to the point where the older girl sometimes wanted to strangle her.
"She dragged me all the way down to the great hall before I convinced her I had forgotten my shoes and had to go back up to get them" She hinted to her bare feet.
Teddy laughed. "Wonderful!"
"Did she at least remember to say happy birthday?" He asked carefully, he didn't want to upset her. Vicky didn't get upset though she just sighed.
"Like she would ever have time. You could have thought I was blind seeing as how she found it important to describe every single detail of the decorations. I doubt she even knows this is my birthday sense we never celebrate it on the right day any ways."
She handed him a small box.
"Here help me open this now, we're behind schedule" She winked at him as she said the last part and he laughed again and took the box form her.
She didn't get as much clothes this year so no fashion show this time.
She did get a lot of magic comic books something she had found a love for during the past months, since her brother had gotten some at Christmas, and they spent a long time reading thru them and playing out some random scenes from theie favorite comics.
"Now miss Tophat!" Teddy said with a ridiculous pompous tone as he looked at her like she was a very annoying child. "We can't have this kind of behavior among muggle's now can we?" he looked around like he was worried someone was watching them.
"Mr Denton, I ashore you that the muggle's on this street have far more interesting things to gossip about than my yelling at a small man with a hideous mustache."
At this Teddy gave her a look like she'd just insulted his entire family and as she watched him a big messy and orange, matching his hair, mustache grew out on his face.
At this Vicky completely lost it and fell into a pile of pillows on the floor laughing soon joined by Teddy who was laughing just about as much himself.
The drawing of the real Mr Denton on the cover of the comic book looked affixed and every drawing of him in the book walked away and didn't show up again for a whole week.
They ate apple pie from grandmother Molly. Filled the room with pink anti-gravity bubbles from the magical bubble gum her uncle Charlie had sent her.
They spent an hour floating around in the room and then rather hard crash back down when the magic wore of. Teddy ended up having a big bruise on his left upper arm where he hit the side of the table when he fell.
They, very carefully, opened this year's birthday card from Gabrielle. The song was the same but once again the small explosion it created bore a different affect then the previous years: This time it spitted out long lines of colorful silk dancing around the room weaving into shapes and forms and moving in time with the music.
The silk then dwindled to the floor and slowly faded away.
They then spent hours playing the muggle game monopoly that Victories aunt Hermione had given Teddy for Christmas.
Victorie had won big by the end of the game.
And then as the clock turned 9 they snuck back to their respective common rooms.
With about half of Victories birthday chocolate secretly stuffed in Teddy's pockets.