Chapter 49: The Christmas Party (PT 4)

Rachel and Fred finally returned and were greeted by Ash who went up to them.

'Where have you been?!' Ash laughed

'No where, we've just been in the field' Laughed Rachel

'In the field eh? What were you doing?' Ash smiled

'Nothing, we were just talking' Fred explained

'Oh yeah sure' Ash winked

'So what's happened since we've been gone?' Asked Rachel

'Not much, I've been waiting for you, Hugo, Albus and James have been waiting for Fred and you missed all the food' Ash joked

'WHAT I MISSED MY LOVELY FOODIES' Fred was shocked

'Yeah, sorry Fred' Smiled Ash

'WHAT I CAN'T MISS THE FOOD' Fred screamed

'Well you have, sorry, but Albus, Hugo and James are waiting for you and everyone else is going to join you know' Ash smiled

'BYE RACHEL' Fred zoomed off

'BY THE WAY, THE FOOD IS GOING TO BE OUT IN A BIT' Ash shouted

Fred turned around and stopped running and sighed 'THANKS' he shouted

'YOU'RE VERY WELCOME' Ash shouted putting her thumbs up

'So' Ash turned to Rachel 'You feeling any better now?'

'Yeah so much better, I didn't want this night to be sad, I want this night to be fun' Rachel smiled 'Plus it's my first night meeting you as well'

'True, but it was nice meeting you today anyway' Ash smiled

'Thanks dude' Rachel smiled

Ash nodded and smiled at Rachel and then they hugged.

Fred got to the table where James, Albus and Hugo were and he smiled.

'WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE YOU DOING?' Hugo asked

'Nothing, I just went to find Rachel' Fred sat down and took his jacket off

'See I told you he likes Rachel, it is VERY obvious now Fred' James smiled

'Ha, funny, and you still fancy Ash, that's obvious as well' Fred grinned

'Yeah it is James, but you haven't even talked to her properly' Albus said

'ONLY BECAUSE TONIGHT IS HIS LAST NIGHT SLEEPING WITH HER' Fred laughed

'Shut up' James sighed

'SPEECHLESS BECAUSE IT'S THE TRUTH OOH' Smiled Fred

'No Fred, speechless because you're just weird' Laughed James

'Wait guys stop arguing!' Albus stopped them both

'What? Why?' James and Fred asked

'Sherlock keeps looking at us' Albus pointed at the cat who was staring at them

'I think he want's to talk to me' Fred smiled getting up

'Yeah he does, go' Albus said pushing Fred

Fred nodded and smiled as he got closer and closer to Sherlock who was still staring at him with his sea green eyes.

'Mr Weasley?' Sherlock looked at Fred

'What?' Fred was confused

'Why are you here?' Sherlock purred

'Because you called me here' Fred explained

'No, I did not call you' Sherlock said

'Yes you did! You've been looking at me from there for a while' Fred pointed

'Mr Weasley, don't you know the difference between staring and calling?' Sherlock purred

'Whatever' Fred said as he watched Sherlock drink some fresh milk out of the wine glass

'What's that?' Fred asked

'This is milk' Sherlock purred

'NO WAY!' Fred said before he turned around

'Sherlock, how much are you going to drink?' Fred heard a voice behind him so he turned around

'Rachel!' Fred smiled

'Oh hi' Rachel replied

'How are you now?' Fred asked

'I'm better yeah, enjoying the party now, you?' Rachel asked

'I'm perfectly fine, yeah' Fred winked

'Great, what are you doing here?' Asked Rachel

'I thought I should come and speak to your cat that's all' Smiled Fred

'My name is Sherlock' Hissed Sherlock

'Yeah I knew that' Fred said

'I think your friends want you back at the table' Smiled Rachel pointing to the table

Fred turned and saw Hugo and Albus waving like mad, but James wasn't there.

'You're right I should go' Smiled Fred

'Sure!' Rachel said before she got some milk out and poured more into Sherlock's wine glass

'I'll see you around dude' Rachel waved putting the milk bottle aside

Fred smiled and waved back as he watched Rachel walk away, he then grabbed the nearest drink an then took a little sip, which he thought would make him look cool.

'That's my mothers breast milk' Sherlock purred

Fred spit his drink out.

'WHAT, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?' Fred shouted

'You never asked, plus you didn't even look at what you were drinking' Laughed Sherlock sipping a little milk

'Shut up' Fred put the bottle down and then went back to the table

Ash and Rachel started talking and Rhea came up to them as they talked.

'Oh hey Rhea' Ash smiled

Rachel looked at her and sighed and turned around, pretending to sort her hair out.

What does she want now?

'Rachel' Rhea put her hand on Rachel's shoulder

'Get off me!' Rachel moved Rhea's hand off

'Gosh, I only wanted to apologise!' Rhea smiled

'Yeah, but if you haven't noticed already, I don't want your stupid sorry apology because you don't mean it' Rachel was angry

I don't think I'll ever like this Rachel girl, I was right, she's nothing more than a stray dog who's lost it's way, just like her father. One day I'll get my way.

Rachel looked at Rhea in a raging way, Rhea could see the rage in her eyes and she looked back, in the most cantankerous way.

'Well then… Apologies?' Ash smiled

'I'm not going to be forced to apologise to her' Rhea widened her eyes

'Good because I never wanted an apology anyway' Laughed Rachel

Rhea let out a little furious groan and then walked away. Ash looked at Rachel and didn't know what to say…

Both are my friends, both are great friends, but I don't want to take any sides.

Ash wanted to say something to make Rachel better but she couldn't think of anything but then all of a sudden there was a noise…

'Dinner will be served now' Ginny said into the wand

Saved by the microphone.

Before you knew it, people were rushing to get their food and people were getting all sorts of things, most people had already sat down and were eating exceeding well and Ash and Rachel got into the queue for eating and people were serving the food, both Rachel and Ash got the same food and then they got to their table and they started eating, there were on a table joined by Fred, Albus, Hugo, Lily, Rose, Fi, Rhea, Sid, James, Harry and Ginny. Fred was making groaning noises while he ate because he enjoyed the food very much as everyone else was trying their best not to laugh eating and staring at Fred.

'Fred, you do know you should stop making noises when you eat' Rachel laughed

'Rachel, you know you should stop talking because it sounds like you're barking' Rhea said before she took a drink out of her glass

'You're really funny Rhea, you should go to the circus because you make GREAT jokes and you look like a clown as well' Laughed Rachel

'Shut up, you do know her boyfriend is here now?' Sid stood up

'Now, now we don't want to argue while eating' Ginny tried to calm the atmosphere

Sid nodded and sat down and looked at his plate and started eating.

'So how's everyone?' Asked Ash

'I'm good' Fi replied

'Yeah I'm okay' Albus and Hugo replied

'Meh' Rhea said

'Same as Rhea' Sid said

'I'M BUZZING' Fred laughed with a mouth full of food

Ash nodded and smiled and then started eating more.

Time passed and everyone finished eating and went onto dessert, everyone on the table had a lot of desserts as they were mini desserts, and once they were done, they had a small but a very, very, very strong mint to make their mouth a little more fresher… They talked for a while, Rachel and Rhea didn't talk that much, as they were too busy looking at each other furiously. Then there was someone controlling the music.

'Witches and wizards, grab your partners and start dancing, we need more people on the dance floor and if you don't get your butt on the dance floor then a certain spell which is casted when you say 'Tarantallegra'' The man said

Everyone started rushing on the dance floor and started worrying, Sid and Rhea got in pairs at first only because they knew they wanted to be with each other, Rachel being new to all of this stayed where she was but then she was pulled by Fred and they went on to the dance floor together. Everyone was in pairs, including all the parents and all of the younger people and then there were different people who still hadn't got into pairs, and they looked around to see if they knew anyone they could get onto the dance floor with, James looked around and didn't see anyone he knew but then he turned around and he saw Ash, she was standing there smiling as she watched everyone else get together and knew she had to eventually get on with someone. James smiled and took his jacket off and then went up to Ash who was scared a little when she saw him and then smiled.

'What's wrong?' Ash smiled

'Would you like to dance?' James held his hand out

'Oh… Sure' Ash smiled and placed her hand in his hand

James and Ash made their way to the dance floor and everyone looked at them in surprise.

The music started and then they started dancing to The Weird Sisters, The Malfoy's and Popperzard. They smiled and danced together for a while and then all of a sudden the room went dark and everyone smiled and laughed and James held Ash's hands and smiled at her, there were some small silver lights and everyone knew this was the slow dance, the music started and then everyone started dancing, together holding hands.

'You know you're really good at dancing slowly' Smiled Fred holding Rachel's hands tightly

'Well you are as well, and as you know the girl and the guy have to be as good as each other to dance perfectly' Smiled Rachel before Fred twirled her around

'Rhea, for whatever happened today, I'm sorry' Said Sid

'No, it's fine, it's not your fault, it's Rachel's' Rhea leaned in and kissed Sid on the lips gently making him smile

'Why did you ask me to dance with you?' Asked Ash

'Because I guess, I wanted to' James smiled

'But why?' Ash asked

'Because you're looking… Really nice tonight and at the yule ball you were a great dancer as well' James smiled as he twirled Ash around

'You're really good as well, you're amazing at dancing and you're looking very smart tonight' Ash blushed

'Thank you, but I just don't want this night to be over, I mean being with you, with some fake stars and talking and seeing you smile' James stopped

'Go on...' Ash said as James felt Ash's hands hold his tighter

'It's just perfect' James smiled

Ash smiled and leaned in and kissed his cheek, James wanted a proper kiss with Ash, for once and he was going to try but he gave up, he didn't want to take things further if she didn't want anything…

The Christmas party was over after everyone had finished dancing and all the guests started to leave. Eventually the time came and everyone was gone and it was only James, Ash, Rachel, Fred, Rhea, Sid, Hugo, Albus, Lily, Rose, Harry and Ginny left, of course the other parents were there. Together they had to tidy the pavilion and they tidied the place using different spells as well as brooms and stuff. Soon everything was packed up and tidied and they took the tent down and they were sad that this had all come to an end… They all went back inside the house and then sat down and Ginny was going to go and get a hot drink for everyone while they opened the presents, when her and Harry noticed that there was something odd about Ash, James, Rhea, Sid, Fred and Rachel…