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Eighteen

Second Year,
He Can't Annoy You.

Her friendship with Fred and George had become a sure thing, she and George constantly sent each other letters the odd time she might receive one from Fred but very rarely. She was most excited to get back to Hogwarts, she had been secretly training with her mother, helping her perfect her chaser skills, she would have asked James but that would have felt like too much of an advantage.

She spotted Ethan leaving earlier than he needed to, he would be turning 15 in a few months, her mother and father had given him a lot more freedom. And he took advantage of that freedom, staying out at Oliver's and Percy's then taking it one step further staying over at his girlfriend's.

Surely, her mother wouldn't approve of him staying at his girlfriend's house. She guessed her parents couldn't really tell him not to, they had moved in together when her father was 17 and her mother was 16. Ethan probably used that knowledge to his advantage. She could literally picture him saying:

"I'm not moving out, I'm just sleeping over, better than you two,"

She wondered his her parent's views would change if it were her, Laura or her sisters if they had a boyfriend, would they let them stay out? 'Probably not, dad's too protective' she made her way downstairs to see her mother, assuring Phoebe that her puppy; Moon would be perfectly fine while she was at Hogwarts.

"You ready for another year," she asked

"Yes, actually I am," Phoebe said, more cheerful than her first trip to Hogwarts.

"Aunt Aimee, do you want me to get my brother up," Laura asked, just as Rhea was about to tell her, her mother spoke.

"Actually, he's left already, he's gone to meet his friends in London for a bit, before the train leaves"

"Girls, I'm ready when you are," Sirius said from the door.

"We aren't girls were women," Laura told him, she smiled at them

"No matter how old you get you'll always be my girls," he held the door open for them, "after you ladies,"

As soon as she made it to the platform she eagerly looked for anyone of her friend with the intention of asking if they were going to try out for the Quidditch team. Angelina and Alicia both had doubts and weren't sure if they wanted to wait until next year, she hoped that she could persuade them to join her.

She spotted George and Fred with their family their younger brother and sister had come to see them off this year, she smiled. As she made her way over to them she notice Fred turned to talk to his father, George rolled his eyes, hurrying over to her, wrapping his arms around her.

"Still annoyed with me I see?"

"Nah, he's just pissed that he can't annoy you," she laughed with him, "Ron's coming next year, should be fun, we may have told a little fib about the sorting hat,"

"Rhea, leaving without saying goodbye,"

"Nope, dad, this is my friend George Weasley,"

"Nice to meet you,"

"Is he one of the twins that found my map?" Sirius asked,

"Yes, he is,"

"The other one's over there, Freddie!" she shouted waving him over,

"What?" he said,

"This is my dad or Padfoot,"

"Great to meet you, could I ask how you made that map?" Fred asked

"We owe you so much," George said, relating to their antics at the school.

"I'm afraid that secret dies with me," he turned to Rhea, hugging her tightly, "See you at Christmas, my little cub,"

"Bye dad,"

"Little cub," Fred laughed, she elbowed him in the stomach

"Shut up,"

***

Rhea promised her mother that she would be good for the first month of school, though Fred was proving to make that difficult. As they sat in their potions, he was trying his very best to get her to laugh, as Professor Snape would not approve of such thing in his class, he took the opportunity to sit next to her, poking her side, which made her laugh. She looked down at the table as Professor Snape turned around.

"Stop it, I'll get in trouble," she whispered, he leaned in close to her.

"Then stop laughing it's not funny after all,"

"Do you like to annoy me?" she questioned,

"Oh very much so," she smirked at her as he poked her side again, this time she banged her knee on the table, almost knocking their cauldron over.

"Miss Black is the reason you intend on disrupting my class,"

"Actually Professor, I have restless leg syndrome," she legged Fred's knee, "see, I can't help it," she kicked him again,

"That is enough, detention Miss Black," she gritted her teeth, glancing at Fred rubbing his knee

"See what you did?" she said, nudging his shoulder

"Me? You didn't need to start kicking me," he argued

"You got me in detention,"

"You got yourself in detention-

"Mr Weasley, there will be no talking in my class, you will join her for detention,"

After the class ended Rhea and Fred waited for their detention slips, as Professor Snape wrote out their detention date and time. They walked out of the classroom checking the time and realised they wouldn't be able to make Quidditch tryouts.

"What are we going to do?" Rhea said, looking down at the slip, "there's no way we could make it in time,"

"Not if we followed the school halls, but if we use the map we might be able to find a quicker way to Quidditch Stadium,"