A/N: IMPORTANT!: THE FOLLOWING IS THE LAST CHAPTER OF THESE BONDS OF FRIENSHIP FOR EVER! IT IS GREATY APPRECIATED THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO READS THIS REVIEWS THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! EVER! THAT MEANS YOU ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO STORY ALERTED/FAVORITED WITHOUT EVER REVIEWING!

Truly great friends are hard to find

Difficult to leave

And impossible to forget

-Randolf G

Chapter 24—

Rose's POV

Well they're done. There's nothing to do now but wait.

Right now the world seems to have stopped. You know those times right before a big change will occur when everything just seems still? This is one of those times. Exams are over and summer is about to begin. We go home tomorrow but I've already packed so I have a few hours lapse time to spend with my friends.

This year, Scor will only be at his home for a month- a time in which we can pop in and see him at any time. I must confess that will definitely be one of the highlights of the summer…endless amounts of time to spend with Scor.

However, this year, Z will not be staying with us at all. She'll come before the week before school starts to get her things from Diagon Alley and hang out with us for a while but for practically the whole summer she'll be back home.

Which leads me to a point that I've been wondering ever since I met Z and never had the chance to ask her,

"Z?"

"Mhmm?"

"If you're American…why are you at Hogwarts?"

"You're just figuring this out now?"

"Well I mean I knew that it was strange but I never got the chance to ask you…"

"I was born in London."

"Oh."

"Yeah, the magic quill that writes down all the witches and wizards born in Britain wrote me down too because I was born in Britain even though most of my childhood I lived in America. I was actually invited to the American wizard and witch school too, but I always loved England even as a child, so I chose Hogwarts."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

Well, that clears that up.

"Ok, I'm going to go talk to Scor."

"AKA: even though I love you and won't see you at all this summer I'd rather spend time with my boyfriend whom I love because he snogs me senseless and that is a much better occupier of my time."

"Yeah, pretty much. Go play parent with Al."

Al had given Z a pygmy puff for her birthday. He apparently actually told her that she was getting one the day before her birthday, but then told her he was just kidding. His name was Alfred and he was yellow. And I must say, she and Al were doing a much better job keeping Alfred alive than Scor and I did with Alzie.

"You know what I miss most about having a boyfriend?"

Z had broken up with Ben just earlier that day. She decided to wait until NEWTs were over because she didn't want to emotionally scar him too much that his performance on the NEWTs suffered.

"What, for the whole five hours you haven't had one?"

"yes! I miss snogging. Snogging is wonderful." She sighs.

"That's why I'm going to go see my boyfriend- to snog him. So excuse me…"

I get to the door of our dormitory when I stop and turn around; Z is on her bed, writing in the red notebook Al gave her for Christmas.

"…But I'm sure that if you wanted to find somebody to snog, you could find someone who would be more than willing to snog you." MY COUSIN YOU BLIND GIRL! Hint, hint nudge, nudge wink, wink!

I find Scor sitting down in the common room with Al.

"Hello, love" I say and kiss him quickly on the lips.

He grabs my hand and pulls me into his lap, planting a swift kiss on my temple.

"Where's Kenzie?" Al asks.

"Upstairs, writing what's going to be probably another breakup song. Even though I think the breakup was pretty mutual."

Al smirks, "Right, I had forgotten."

I snort delicately "Yes, I'm sure you'd forgotten" I say sarcastically.

Scor chuckles while Al glares at me.

"How is she?"

"Not very heartbroken, you know she had been planning on breaking up with him for a while now."

"She had?"

Scor and I exchange a quick glance.

"Erm yeah, because you know he's leaving. She hates long distance."

"Oh." Al says.

Scor's hand brushes my hair over my ear and I blush and look at him.

He smirks at me- I know it's because he loves to watch me blush.

I roll my eyes at him and turn back to Al who seems to be suddenly very interested in something out the window.

"You can go up to her." I tell him.

"Rose, I can't get passed the staircase." He rolls his eyes like the annoying cousin he is. I'm trying to help him!

"Skip the third stair and hop twice on the seventh."

"What?" he looks at me like I'm crazy.

"Trust me."

He looks like he's actually thinking about doing it…

"Seriously Al, I'm sure she'd love to have you up there."

He quirks an eyebrow at me "If you want to be alone with Scor, just say so."

Scor tightened his grip on my waist reassuringly.

"Of course I don't mind the extra alone time with my boyfriend…" I say looking at Scor again, "but I really do think Z would like to see you."

Do you see what I do for them? One day they will thank me!

"Whatever." Al says and walks away.

I swing both my arms around Scor's neck.

"So loverboy…what do we do now?"

He smirks at me and I know we are both distinctly aware that this will be the last time that we are alone without any parental supervision for a whole summer. Well, there won't be parents constantly watching us this summer so we'll be able to get away…but it won't be the same.

"I know a place we can go." He says.

The train ride home is relatively uneventful.

I say relatively, and I guess that just proves how crazy my family is.

James and Fred have had their last big hurrah or whatever it is, with Z's help of course, and gave out free candies to everyone. That should have been the first clue. Isn't one of the most commonly known rules 'don't take candy from weird people'?

Anyway the candies ended up exploding, then they melted, and created a huge chocolate swimming pool type thing; which was delicious, but also awful for any kind of clothing whatsoever.

For the remainder of the trip Al, Scor, Z and I shared a carriage, hanging out.

"Well, I guess this is goodbye." Z sniffs dramatically.

"Oh please," I say "we'll owl and I know how to use the telephone for extremely urgent matters."

I hug her tightly and pass her on to the next person, my boyfriend-that will probably never get old.

"Make sure to write, eh?" Z begs.

"Of course, Z" Scor hugs her too and passes her to Al.

Z just looks at Al as Scor comes up beside me and slides his arm around my waist.

"Bye," Z whispers.

Al holds out his arms and Z jumps into them.

When he finally let's go, she winks at him and says,

"Now if you ever get tired of the love birds over there" she nods in our direction, "just come and visit me!"

"Really?"

"Well, check in first, who knows what I may be doing! Some much summer, so little time!" she smiles and quickly pecks us each on the cheek before turning and disappearing into the vast crowd.

I give Scor a quick kiss and an "Owl me!" before Al and I too venture into the crowd to find our family.

A/N: THE END! wow. I honestly never thought this day would come! This has been such a crazy ride! This is the end of this stage of their lives but NEVER FEAR a SEQUEL is in the works. HOWEVER while I enjoyed writing this story, the sequel will be fundamentally the same but even more unique!

Some things that I left you hanging on that will not be resolved in the sequel so i feel the need to enlighten you:

1. Sasha is a lesbian. She's in love with Z. :0 I know I know...it just didn't fit into the end of the story...I didn't feel like it was really necessary to add in there...but I'm curious...did anyone guess that?

2. NO AL AND AMY NEVER GOT TOGETHER! They just became close friends.

3. Z did actually finish that 'project' -you might get some hints of that in the sequel- but again I didn't feel that her writing was as prominent as it was at the beginning of the story so I didn't put it in.

4. And yes, Z is a figment of my imagination- she is not me or really in any way close to me and just because she is not just a way for me to insert myself into the Harry Potter world IN ANY WAY! she is completely OC. just to clarify :)

AND THAT'S A WRAP!

please please please tell me what you think! THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER OF THESE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP EVER SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW THE OPINION OF EVERYONE-ESPECIALLY YOU PEOPLE WHO STORY ALERTED/FAVORITED AND NEVER REVIEWED.

I hope you enjoyed it,

~wwwccd

p.s. I will probably begin to edit this story now. When i first publish it's all about the plot but when i edit it will be about grammatical stuff and maybe slight changes to the story- but nothing major.