Chapter 2: Welcome Home

Lily PoV

I walk into the kitchen to find Rose putting the finishing touches on a platter she was working on. "Hey, Rose do you need any help in here?" I asked to get her attention.

Rose shakes her head no. "Lily can I talk to you about something." Rose walks out to put the platter on the table before anybody gets here. "Scorpius, I'm fine." Rose walks back into the kitchen with Scorpius on her heels.

I laughed. They both look at me frowning. "What?" I asked them.

"Lily how could you let Rose carry that tray in there?" Scorpius asked. He was upset that Rose was carrying a platter.

"Scorpius, I'm fine. I'm only pregnant, I'm not going to die from carrying a tray of food." Rose went to the refrigerator and got out some things. She set them on the counter and turns to Scorpius with love in her eyes. "I'm fine. I need you to go and get the drinks I ordered from the Leaky Cauldron." Scorpius nodded and left the house.

"Now that I got him to leave the house. What is going on with you?" Rose asked getting another platter going.

I knew what she was talking about. This was about Lorcan. I've ignore Rose for most of the week. I knew she wanted to talk about Lorcan. I finally couldn't ignore her anymore when she asked me to come over early to help her. So now I'm standing in her kitchen. "I don't know what you are talking about, Rose." I said without looking at her.

"Yes you do. This is about Lorcan and why you don't care that he is home." Rose said. I took a carrot off the platter. She slapped my hand.

"It just that he is your friend, Lorcan and I were not that close. So I don't what the difference if he is gone or he is here." I ate the carrot.

"There more then that." Rose didn't believe me for a minute. She lifted her right brow. "You want to tell me what really happen."

I roll my eyes. If I didn't tell her, she won't let go of it. I sighed. "The last time, Lorcan and I saw each other, we didn't part very well." I didn't have to tell her that he broke my heart and that I cried my heart out for the next three weeks. She wouldn't have notice anyway, with her hiding in her room all summer.

"Oh." There was pity in her eyes. "Are you okay?"

"It's fine. It happen almost nine years ago." I smiled a fake smile.

"You can hide from him when he here." Rose said. She took a seat at the table.

"I can't hide from him." I get us some tea.

"Can I ask what was the happen nine years ago." Rose asked.

I take seat at the table with the tea. "I told him I was in love with him and he told me that it was just a crush. He left me standing there crying."

Rose's eyes widen. "You told him that before he left." I nodded. "Wow." Rose tried to say something else but couldn't.

"Anybody home." I heard my aunt Hermione call from the front of the house.

"In here Mum." I give Rose a look not to her mum anything. "Why not, you told both our mothers about Scorpius when we were starting to date."

"It's not my fault that our mother's have super hearing." I said.

"We have super hearing, Ginny." Aunt Hermione said.

"I guess so." My mum said. "Maybe it comes with motherhood." I moan. I want to bang my head on the table.

The rest of the time we work to get ready for the party.

Lorcan PoV

I walked into a red brick, two-story house with Lysander, Dad, and Mum. There was a banner over the doorway the led to the kitchen that said, 'Welcome Home, Lorcan.' I smile and see all of my friends standing around. Mum and Dad go to where their friends are.

"Where is our hostess?" I asked Lysander. He scans the crowd.

"Right over there talking to her brother and Al." He pointed out.

We walk over to her. I can see that she is expecting her first child. "Rose, you have gotten big since the last time I saw you." I whisper in her ear.

Rose turns around as quickly as her pregnant body can allow. "Lorcan, thank you. I blame my husband." She finds her husband talking to one of her cousins. He felt her glaze on him; he turns around and smiles at her. You saw the love he had for her.

"If you say so. Last time I checked it takes two to tango." I laughed. She rolls her eyes. I turn to Al and shake his hand. "How are you doing?" We talk for about ten minutes, before I saw her.

Her bright red hair stood out against the green paint on the wall. Her slim figure had craves in the right places. She was smiling at something the person was saying. My brother saw where my eyes went.

"Who is she? I don't remember her from school." I ask him.

He laughs "That's Lily Potter. Al's little sister." She grew up in the last nine years. The last time I saw her I told her to get over me.

I make my excuses and walk over to her.

Lily PoV

I saw Lorcan walking my way. He had a smile on his face. I look back at Roxanne. To hear about her date she had last night. I tried to ignore the feeling I had on the back of my neck. He knew he was coming closer. I felt the goose bumps on the back of my neck.

"Are you all right, Lily." Roxanne asked.

"I'm fine." I smile trying to tell her everything is okay. "So are you going to see him again." I change the subject.

Before Roxanne could answer, I heard the voice that I was dreading. "Hello, ladies." Roxanne and I turn to see Lorcan standing there. He was wearing muggle clothes. He had on a dark blue shirt and a pair of jeans. He was better looking then he was seventeen. He was broader in the shoulder; he had lean muscular body.

My eyes travel back up to his face and smile. "Welcome back. How was your travels around the world?" I asked.

"It was good." He beamed. "Everything that happen in the past is still in the past." I could read his eyes. He was sorry about what happen, but he didn't want to say anything in front of everybody.

"Yeah." I said. We talked for the whole night. He barely left my side. We laughed and I don't remember having that much fun in a while.