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Dell opened her eyes and dusted the ashes off of her as she stepped out of the fireplace and looked up to see the smiling faces of Fred and James, and behind them the inside of the large cabin.
"Tyler here yet?" Dell asked and received shaking heads of no.
"Here," Fred said, and cast a spell so that flowers appeared which he handed to her. James rolled his eyes.
"Ah yes, December 27," Dell said shaking her head as she remembered her boyfriend was officially of age.
"And he hasn't stopped using magic," James said, glaring at his best friend, as his birthday wasn't until July 12th.
"Then when you guys take your apparitions test in April you'll be popping everywhere," James said, upset that he wouldn't be able to take his until the summer.
"Actually, the test is a week before my birthday," Dell said, "I'll be taking it with you. Only Fred and Tyler will be taking it in April." That fact seemed to brighten James' day.
"Tyler's birthday is February 17th, right?" Dell asked, trying to remember the exact date of her best friend's birthday.
"Yeah, but," A smirk that Dell had learned to be wary of appeared on Fred's face and soon James wore it too, "He was supposed to be born on the 14th."
"No way, Tyler was supposed to be born on Valentine's Day? Too bad he wasn't, we could tease him so bad. We probably still can tease him though…" Dell thought it over in her head the smirk appearing on her face.
"Tease who?" Tyler asked as he walked in the door, his parents following and heading to the kitchen where the other adults were, them staying for the party.
"You were supposed to be born on Valentine's Day," Dell said making Tyler glare at first Fred then James. Albus, Rose and Roxanne who were walking pass stopped to look. "I bet Carly would love that."
"I broke up with Carly," Tyler said, a scowl having arrived on his face at the mention of her name.
"About time," Albus said, and Rose nodded in agreement.
"Did anybody like Carly!?" Tyler asked raising his hands in exasperation.
Dominique had heard the last comment, stopped and said, "No, not really," Before continuing on. Tyler just hit his forehead before walking up to Dell, Fred and James.
"Oh, and don't tell anybody when I was supposed to be born," He said to Dell, glaring at Fred and James who had obviously already known that fact. "That goes for you too," He added looking over at Albus, Rose and Roxanne who had continued walking to wherever, though it was no doubt intended more so for Roxanne. They just continued walking.
"Well why don't we show you where you'll be sleeping," James said, though Dell could have sworn he also whispered a "Good going" to Tyler, which might have explained why Tyler hit him.
Fred took out his wand and soon both Dell's and Tyler's trunks were floating, having all three of them that were still underage glare at him, and just making him smirk.
"Well, the rooms go by age, since basically every cousin has one their age, except for Victoire and Roxanne. Even though a lot of them – the majority, really – are of different gender, they're cousins. Victoire convinced them to let her and Teddy share a room-"
"Well it wasn't hard, especially since Teddy proposed on Christmas Eve." Fred cut James off, which caused James to glare at him as they walked through a long hallway with many doors.
"Wait," Dell said, having stopped, and the other three looked back in surprise. "Victoire and Teddy are engaged and you didn't think to mention it."
"Well, no, it's not like it's a big deal anyways, Aunt Audrey won the bet for when they'd get engaged, though Aunt Ginny won it for when they'd get together." Fred said with a shrug and Dell hit herself in the head.
"How can I hang out with such idiotic-" Dell started but was quickly cut off.
"All boys are idiots," Dominique said having arrived in front of them with Lucy.
"But what did these imbeciles do this time?" Lucy added, seeming calm for once.
"They didn't think to mention that Victoire and Teddy were engaged – said they didn't see the importance of it." Dell said and shared a look with the other two girls that just confused the boys more.
"Remember this Dell, boys know nothing. They may be beyond smart, get the highest grades, but they know nothing," Dominique said.
"Nothing," Lucy added with a knowing nod. Dell sighed but nodded in agreement, and all three boys looked affronted by what was said.
"We are going to continue on as if that didn't happen," Fred said as Dominique and Lucy left, all three boys looking annoyed. Dell just smirked and nodded and they continued on.
"Anyways, as I was saying before that little interruption, Victoire and Teddy are sharing a room, which makes Roxanne the only one with a room to herself. So, if you haven't guessed, Tyler you'll be in the room with me and Fred, and Dell, you'll be in with Roxanne." James finished his earlier spiel.
Fred opened one door to a room that was very messy and floated Tyler's trunk in. The door beside it was already open and could be shown Roxanne digging through her trunk, and Dell guessed the bed without everything on it was hers.
"Hey," Was Roxanne's muffled greeting.
"OK guys, let's go get something to eat, the party should be starting in about three hours, and from what I've seen, girls take a long time to get ready." Fred said earning him a hit from Dell and Roxanne to throw what turned out to be a muggle studies book at him.
Still, they headed to the kitchen, unknown of what would happen at the party.
Edited 2020-02-15
