"Wake up, wake up! It's Christmas Eve and the Longbottoms are coming!" Lucy shouted shaking her very sleepy cousin awake.
"Ugh, why are you waking me up?" Dom said throwing her pillow over her face.
"Because Molly threw a book at me and Vic just wouldn't move. I shook Roxanne on the way in here-I stopped in her and Lily's room and Lily was out cold-and she said some not great things to me," Lucy told her, pulling back Dom's pink and green quilt. Dom curled up in a ball.
"Yeah, she's been acting weirder since her date with Tanner," Dom said, finally sitting up and grabbing her brush to comb her pale, strawberry blonde hair. Lucy resisted the urge to take a picture of the way Dom's bangs were falling into her eyes and her hair was sticking up towards the sky. "You're already dressed?" Dom said incredulously.
"Yes, it is already ten o'clock Dommy!" Lucy reminded Dom.
"Damn! They're going to be here at ten forty-five!" Dom screeched, jumping out of bed and rushing to her closet to grab a Holyhead Harpies t-shirt and jeans.( Lucy herself was wearing a white t-shirt, dark jeans, black converse and her hair was in a side loony braid.) "Let's go I'm starving!" Dom said opening her door and running down the rushed into the kitchen to join Their mother's as well as Gran and Aunt Ginny.
"Hey mum, Gran, Aunt fleur, Aunt Ginny!" Lucy greeted them. Dom just waved in their general direction before grabbing a homemade doughnut.
"Good Morning Lucille, Dominique," Her grandmother said to Lucy and Dom. Lucy's Mum smiled at them both and poured them some tea. Lucy accepted her cup of tea gratefully and picked up a bagel and started to smear cream cheese on it.
"LOOK OUT! ROUGE BLUDGER!" Lucy heard Freddy yell, she didn't even hesitate to duck. Gran's cabinet was not so lucky, glass and wood sprayed everywhere.
"FEDERICK LEE WEASLEY! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE MORE CAREFUL!" Gran screamed at Freddy, waving her wand to clean up the mess. Lucy had heard stories of how much her Gran had been feared by her sons from her dad and uncle's. But this, this was proof of how they must've felt.
"I'm sorry Gran! It won't happen again!" Freddy said running back outside. Gran sighed. "These boys are going to be the end of me," She said.
"Just wait until the Longbottoms get here, you'll have two more to deal with!" Molly said from the doorway, still in a dressing gown and slippers.
"And you'll have to deal with Lorcan chasing after you! Go get dressed Mol," Lucy told her sister.
"Not in the mood." "The Longbottoms will be here in ten minutes," Dom said. "And I will be right back," Molly said turning and heading back to their room.
"So, where will everyone be staying?" Lucy asked her Gran.
"Ben will be staying with Teddy instead of James and Frederick, and the twins Lorcan and Lysander will be staying with James and Frederick. Liesl will be staying with you, Victoire and Molly. And Alice will be with Rosalind and Dominique, Lena will be with Roxanne and Lily," Gran said.
"Okay, I think the girls are all sleeping in my room Christmas Eve, but the rest should go according to plan," Lucy replied.
"Where are Luna and Neville staying?" Her mother asked.
"In our one and only guest room," Gran said.
"We don't have a guest room," Dom told her.
"Yes, but your grandmother put a bed in the sewing room and is now calling it the guest room,'' Her Aunt Ginny told them.
"Oh."
The doorbell screeched.
"Mrs and Mr. Longbottom have arrived along wi-"
"THEY"RE HERE!" Molly shouted emerging at the top of the stairs, now dressed. Lucy ran to get the door and when she did she saw seven smiling faces looking at her for a split second before they all crushed her with hugs. Lucy hugged them all enthusiastically. They all did kind of a shuffle dance into the living room where the rest of Lucy's family joined in on the hugs and kisses.
"Hey Lu! It's great to see you, because I totally didn't see you a week ago," a tall girl with waist length blonde hair said slinging an arm around her.
"Hey Liesl! Here, let's take your stuff up to my room," Lucy said grabbing Leisl's bag.
"Okay! Where's Vic?" Leisl asked.
"Probably either snogging Teddy or putting on make up," Lucy responded honestly. Liesl laughed, they headed up the stairs where Lucy pushed open the door to her bedroom. "Eeeek!" She squealed.
"Eeek!" Squealed Teddy and Victoire who had been snogging on Victoire's bed.
"Ugh! You do know I live in here to?" Lucy asked.
"We uh, didn't think you'd come in here," Teddy said, who at least had the decency to look ashamed.
"Again I say, I live in here too," Lucy repeated.
"Uh, well, sorry," Teddy said jumping off the bed and leaving the room.
"Ugh Vic, can't you guys do that somewhere I don't have the chance to walk in?" Lucy said, sitting Liesl's stuff on her desk chair and then plopping down.
"Well, Teddy only came in here to tell me the Longbottoms were here and things got...carried away," Victoire said defensively. "
Yeah right!" Liesl said sitting on Molly's bed and taking off her coat.
"It's true!" Victoire said.
"Okay, whatever," Lucy said laughing.
"Ugh! where's Molly?" Victoire asked.
"If your asking because you think she'll sympathize, I doubt she will," Lucy told her cousin who had started doing her makeup in the vanity mirror.
"No! I just want to go find someone who will be nice to me!" Victoire retorted.
"Okay, Mum is in the kitchen," Lucy told her.
"Ta gueule!"(Shut up) Victoire said.
"I don't speak french but I after all these years I think I know what that means. Um...Shut up?" Liesl said. Lucy nodded. "Well, I saw Ben here I wonder if that'll be awkward," Liesl said. Ben was Neville's son by his first marriage to Hannah Abbott, they got divorced while Hannah was pregnant with Ben(They didn't know that the time). A year later Neville married Luna(who had Leisl by her marriage to Rolf Scamander) and Hannah had married Ernie Macmillian who legally adopted Ben, and Neville adopted Liesl. Only when he got a letter from Ben saying he wanted to meet him(his biological father) did Neville find out about him. It caused a huge fight between Neville and Hannah.
"I doubt it, its Hannah he's upset with, not Ben," Victoire assured her.
"I know but still."
"It'll be fine your dad's not one to release his anger on kids," Lucy piped up.
"I guess, now where's James I have a prank idea and I have been meaning to get back him for quite some time," Liesl said mischievously.
...
"So where's everyone else?" Lily asked Lucy while bending over into a backbend and grabbing her ankles. Lucy frowned, she was flexible but not as flexible as Lily, who was basically a rubber band.
"I think they're getting stuff for the sleepover," Lucy told her.
"It's a sleepover?" Lily asked popping back up.
"Yes Lils, just like every Christmas since I was seven, Rose was was five, Dom was six and you were a baby,"Lucy reminded her.
"Oops, I'll be right back I'm gonna get some stuff," Lily told her. Now Lucy was worried "some" stuff to Lily was a normal person's "I'm going on a three month vacation" stuff.
"Left, right, Left, right, left, right, okay going through the door!" Dom said. Rose, Dom and Alice (Liesl's 14 year old sister) were carrying what looked like Dom's mattress.
"D-om! I told you not to bring your whole mattress this year!" Lucy whined.
"Yeah I know, but we need more space for sleeping than just you, Molly and Vic's beds," Dom reasoned. Lucy sighed.
"So where are you gonna put it?" She asked them as they shuffled in.
"In between you and Molly's beds and we are going to bring my mattress in and put it between yours and Vic's,'' Rose told her.
"Who's where?" Lucy asked. They set the mattress down with a thunk.
"Well, I think you and Molly will be in yours, Vic and Liesl will be in hers, Rose and Rox will be on her mattress, Alice and I will be on mine and Lena and Lily will be in Molly's," Dom replied. Lena was Liesl and Alice's 12 year old sister.
"I don't think Molly will be thrilled with the idea of not being in her own bed."
"I already asked her," Rose told them.
"You did?" Lucy asked skeptically, it took more than asking to get Molly to agree to something.
"...And two hours of begging, four chocolate frogs, and a container of broom polish later, she agreed," Rose finished.
"That sounds more like Mol," Lucy agreed.
"HEEEEEEEELP!" cried a voice from the door. Lucy turned to see Lily carrying several blankets and pillows, so many you couldn't see her face.
"Here, I'll help you Lily," Lucy said taking a pile of junk from Lily and placing it on Molly's bed."Has anyone seen Molly lately?"
"Last I checked Lorcan was chasing after trying to kiss her in the field behind our house," Alice told them trying not to laugh.
"OMG! I told Mol to try to remain at least fifty feet away from at all times," Lily said.
"Yeah but that's never stopped Lorcan from trying!" Lucy told her. Lorcan had fancied her since their fourth year,(and his third). Molly did not requite the feeling. "
AHHHHHHHH! GO AWAY!" They heard Molly shout.
"And that would be proof that Alice is right," Rose told them. The door flung open and a blur of auburn hair and a Gryffindor scarf flew in and then the door slammed once more.
"Feeewf, I got away!" Molly said with a sigh of relief as she shook the snow out of her hair and hung her coat in the closet.
"So, Lorcan has restarted his Molly chasing again, has he?" Lucy said raising her eyebrows.
"Ugh, yes! He was fine at dinner, then when we were all outside I got onto our swing and he started running up to me. I reacted to my instincts and started to get the hell outta there!" Molly told them.
"Where's everyone else?" Lily and Lucy were on Lucy's bed, Dom and Alice were sitting on Dom's mattress, Rose was creating a burrow on Molly's bed with the blankets that Lily had brought in, and Molly of course was standing by the door.
"Umm, Liesl and Vic are trying to get James back for turning there hair red and gold last week, Lena is outside with Al and Louis, she's hopelessly in love, and I don't know where Rox is," Rose told Molly.
"Roxanne is in our room and texting on her phone,'' Dom told them.
"Who's she texting?" Rose asked.
"Probably her boyfriend," Lily said frowning.
"-Wait a second-Roxanne has a boyfriend? Who?" Alice asked.
"Tanner Wood," Dom said making a face.
"The sixth year that asked you out first day of term?" Alice asked, confused.
"The very same." Alice looked appalled.
"He's not a gentleman! Or even cute"She said.
"Or anything like Mike!" Dom agreed. Mike Creevy was the guy Dom had fancied for years now.
"Nobody's like Mike!" Lucy told her.
"Your right Mike's special!"Dom said.
"I meant, I've never met that big of a geek outside of my house!" Lucy finished.
"Hey! Just cuz he's smart but not in your house doesn't make him a nerd or a geek!" Dom retorted.
"Yeah sure, whatever you say," Lucy said laughing. Dom made a face at her.
"Hey!"
"AHHHHHHHH! MY HAIR! MY PRECIOUS HAIR!" A voice shrieked. Two other voices giggled. "WHAT have YOU done?" James yelled.
"Well, it sounds like they got him back!" Rose said laughing.
"I can't believe you dyed my hair the nerd house colors!" James said. Liesl and Victoire came into the bedroom almost falling down laughing. James appeared seconds later, sure enough his hair was blue and bronze.
"Looks a sight nicer than the colors you dyed our hair last day of term!" Lucy told him, getting up to inspect his hair.
"But its the colors of the nerd house!" James whined.
"Better than the colors of the bighead house!" Rose retorted.
"Hey! Stop laughing, you too Alice! Your my best friend, BACK ME UP!" James said to them.
"I would, but you are a bit of a bighead!" Alice told him.
"Thanks Liss, I feel really loved," James said mock upset.
"I didn't say I didn't love you I said you were a bighead!" Alice said coming over and putting an arm around him. James stuck his tongue out at her.
"Ah, young love!" Dom said. James punched her arm.
"Anyways, I'm gonna get outta here cuz, I'm guessing I'm not invited to your sleepover," James told them.
"No, your definitely not," Molly agreed.
"Well, so long suckers!" And James left their bedroom.
"So! Let's get this party started," Alice said flopping onto Dom's mattress and opening one of the chocolate bars on Molly's desk.
"Hey!" Molly yelled. "Those are mine!"
"No there not I brought them up here for tonight," Lucy told her.
"But they were on my desk!"
"That doesn't make them yours," She told Molly.
"Does so!" Molly said folding her arms. Lucy just rolled her eyes. Alice giggled.
"Okay! Anybody have anything important? Kisses, first dates, hot gossip, weird rumors, anything?" Dom asked, holding Lucy's hairbrush as a microphone.
"God Dominique, why do you have to be so immature?" Roxanne asked Dom, applying more of the bright red lipstick she was wearing. Lucy frowned at her, what was up with Roxanne lately?
"That is not hot gossip nor is it a weird rumor!" Dom said maintaining her game show host voice.
"And by the way I would not wear that shade of lipstick at your age you look like a coquine!"
"What's that?" Rose asked, furrowing her brow.
"It's french for slag -or someone who does not dress or act like a fourteen year old in other words," Lucy told her, and gave Dom a look that said Do not use language like that near Lily and Lena! Dom shot her a look back that said That's why I said it in french, stupid! Lucy just glared.
"I have news!" Lily said.
"Goody," Roxanne muttered.
"Mum said I could get a second piercing in my ear for my birthday!" She exclaimed.
"Ha! Like Uncle Harry would let you!" Molly said.
"Don't rain on my parade!" Lily shot back.
"Big deal! I already have two piercing in each each ear plus a belly button ring!" Roxanne gloated. Lily said whatever at the same time Molly, Victoire, and Lucy all screamed What? "And my boyfriend is taking me to Madam Pudifoots first Hogsmeade trip back after holiday!" She bragged.
"What? That's the day you promised to go for a girls day with Alice, Iris, and the rest of us!" Dom shouted in outrage.
"Yeah, but that was before Tanner asked me out, now I have more important things to do than go and do childish things with you kids," Roxanne responded. What was with Roxanne!
"I am fifteen! YOU are thirteen that hardly makes me a kid compared to you! And you promised you pinky promised!" Dom said tears welling up in her eyes, Lucy got up and put an arm around her.
"Ugh, pinky promises are for like, second years!" Roxanne replied.
"I'm a second year!" Lily said in outrage, Lena nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, and that was two weeks ago-I was in the common room at the time- and as far as I'm concerned, two weeks ago your were still a third year not a second year!" Molly told her.
"Yes, but I was so young, naive, and innocent then," Roxanne said, pulling out a nail file and filing her nails.
"You're still young, hopefully still innocent and you're even more naive now then you were then!" Lucy told her.
"And you told Dominique you would go, you should never back out on a promise!" Victoire said, starting to get upset.(Dom was her baby sister after all)
"More importantly, never put guys before your friends-they will stick with you even when you get dumped-AND even more importantly then that, Dom is your COUSIN! You put friends before guys, but you put family even before friends! WE will stick with you when no one else will! Lucy told Roxanne, starting to shout. "Dom is your closest cousin, your best friend. If I promised Victoire or Molly something, I would NEVER back out on that!"
"Well guess what Lucille? I'm NOT you! I'm not some goody-goody prefect! Your just jealous I have a boyfriend and you don't!" Roxanne snapped at her.
"JEALOUS? IF I WANTED A BOYFRIEND I WOULD'VE SAID YES ONE OF THE TWENTY THREE TIMES BEN ASKED ME OUT!" Lucy shouted at her, letting go of Dom and standing up.
"WHY THE HELL, HAVE YOU BEEN ACTING SO TERRIBLE ALL OF A SUDDEN? Huh? Why Roxanne? Do you think it's cool? Cos, its so not!"
"WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN TELL ME WHAT TO DO, HUH LUCILLE AMELIA? Why?" Roxanne shouted back.
"Since you started hurting members of my family, I always side with my family. I always put them first!" Lucy told her.
"Uh, hello? I'm your family, I'm your cousin and I don't see you siding with me! I'm just as much family as Dominique!" Roxanne said, looking offended.
"Not if you act like that, your not!" Lucy retorted. "Now, if you don't mind please take yourself and your attitude, and leave my room please, I think Molly and Victoire will agree." They both nodded. Roxanne gave one last glare and stomped out.
"Well, now that she's gone, can we adjust so I have my bed back?" Molly asked them all.