Crescent Moon - J. Whitlock

SIXTEEN

June 3rd, 2006.
(Aquila is 27 years old)

—— "Mom, do we have to go to Bella's graduation, it's not like we're related." Sirius asked as he rolled his eyes and flopped onto the couch in the living room, Aquila sighed, she asked herself the same question.
"I suppose not, but if we don't go what will we do instead?" Aquila asked as he made him a sandwich, Aquila's long brown hair was frizzy, due to the humidity, and her silver-blue eyes were drowsy. Joleen, the up and coming baby, was keeping her awake at night.
"We should go to a museum!" Sirius said with an exited shout.
"I guess we can go, it's not too late it's only ten." Aquila said thoughtfully as she turned to her son. "Go get dressed, and grab your book, I'm sure you'll want to write stuff in it." Aquila said as Sirius ran up the stairs and went to put on daywear. Aquila on the other hand, was already ready to go, she was ready to go the graduation.
"MOM SHOULD I BRING A JACKET?" Sirius yelled from his bedroom upstairs.
"No need to shout, and yes, bring a coat." Aquila said as she headed up the stairs and went to put on more casual clothing.
"Okay!" Sirius said as he ran around his room trying to find a jacket. Aquila was now in hers, and Jasper's, bedroom. Slipping off her burgundy red dress, and taking off her black high heals, Aquila went and got out a white shirt that had the small words 'honey' on it, a grey jacket, baggy jeans and some white tennis shoes. Grabbing a shoulder bag with a undetectable extension charm on it and placing money and food inside, Sirius and Aquila set out to go to a museum.
"Siri, are you ready to go?" Aquila called to Sirius who just stood at the bottom of the stairs.
"Where are y'all going?" Jasper drawled behind Aquila.
"Oh no... mom!" Sirius called as Aquila ran through the hallways.
"Coming baby!" Aquila yelled as she thought Sirius was injured, that's when she saw Jasper.
"Where are y'all going?" Jasper asked as Aquila made a guilty look.
      "We're going to Swan's graduation." Aquila stated although it sounded more like a question. Jasper, who was smiling, started laughing before heading upstairs to change out of his tuxedo that Edward made him wear so he too, could go to a museum.
     "That was close." Sirius said laughing as Jasper came down in light grey sweater, dark blue jeans and some black tennis. Sirius hugged Jasper as his father chuckled, hugging the dark haired boy tight.
     "Y'all ready to go?" Jasper asked as Aquila nodded swift, laughing. Sure, Edward was going to kill Jasper for nat making his family go to Bella Swan's graduation, but that didn't matter now.
    "Of course, love." Aquila said as she grabbed a liquid from the counter and gave it to Jasper, who looked at it before taking a swig.
     "How could you? It's Bella's first graduation!" Aquila could hear Edward's voice in her head. "It's about a half an hour drive to the museum." Aquila told her boys as they got into her car. "Sirius sit normally." Aquila told Sirius as he went from a laying down position to a normal sitting position.
      "I got a gift for you little man." Jasper said as he grabbed something from inside a white bag. Jasper pulled out a large tan cattleman hat that looked almost identical to his own except on the side where the initials SCB, instead of JWH.

—— Aquila painted her lips a bright red and wore a light basil green dress that was fluffy and was almost a quinceñera style dress, with silver and blue details lunging the dress making floral patterns. Aquila stood next to Hermione as they both waited for the right moment to enter. "Are you ready?" Hermione whispered, her blue dress fitting her in all the right places.
"Never." Aquila said with a smile but then Hermione had a bright expression.
"But we'll do it together." Hermione and Aquila said in unison as both of them saw their dates. Once Hermione saw Victor Krum, she headed down the stairs, making her grab entrance. Once Hermione with with Victor, Aquila stepped out into the light and for a moment everything stopped. Seamus was staring at the bottom of the stairs waiting for her. As Aquila picked up her dress, and walked down the stairs, she gracefully smiled at him, that was before she tripped and felling right into Seamus' arms. Who laughed before taking her arm and leading her into the ball room were they stood next to Fred an Angelina.
Seamus started talking about Dean and left her standing, waiting for a dance. Aquila knew this would happen but her heart broke. "Sorry Aquila, but I didn't really want to be here with you, I wanted to be here with," Seamus started.
"Dean, you wanted to be here with dead. Go on then, have fun with him." Aquila said as her voiced cracked. Seamus walked away, leaving a heartbroken Aquila.
"Honestly Ronald. You know what you'll do next time there's a dance." Hermione yelled from somewhere else. "You'll pluck up the courage to ask me before somebody else!" Hermione continued as she stormed out of the great hall before yelling at Harry.
"Oh Aggie..." Harry said when he saw her mascara stained face and her teared filled eyes. Harry brought Aquila int a hug and rubbed her back, trying to calm her down. "It'll be okay. How bout this, I'll dance with you." Harry said with a sad smile as he took her hand and pulled her to the dance floor where Ginny and Neville were one of the last ones dancing.
"Thank you for such a good night Neville." Ginny told the older, more awkward, boy as he awkwardly bowed. "There's no need to bow!" Ginny told Neville as he gave her a slight kiss on the cheek before scarring off to his bedroom. Ginny was left, Star struck, that was her first kiss, by a boy. Soon, Ginny too left the dance floor and now it was just Harry and Aquila sitting in the middle of the floor.
      "Am I just not good enough?" Aquila asked Harry as she cried into his shoulder. Dumbledore, who was watching skillfully snapped a picture.

Written: Apl. 27, 2023
(Sorry this took so long to upload, I had no ideas 😭)