the fabian and lunar eclipse.

chapter 8: the promised pie

"IT IS JESUS'S BIRTHDAY AND YA'LL ARE STILL ASLEEP"  lee shouted at the group of friends,

in regards to christmas spirits and also the gryffindor dormrooms being practically empty since most of the students went home; mcgonagall had allowed the remaining students which just so happens to be the weasley clan along with luna, angelina, lee, harry and hermoine to have a sleepover at the commonroom the night before christmas, 

much similar to the one they had a few weeks prior in the great hall but this time it was more due to luna and ginny begging mcgonagall to bend the rules just this once rather than the looming fear of a serial killer's presence in the school.

"i hate him with such grace" ginny muttered to hermoine who just hummed back a response, barely awake.

"OH what's this? mum send a pie for someone-" 

"-PIE, PAWS OF BITCH, THATS MINE" luna quickly got up from under the mount of blankets she was only to see a blanket covered george weasley standing over her head with his 24 carot smile,

"happy christmas, darling" he said with an amused tone, clearly impressed to see his plan to wake luna up work.

"-wait so, there's no pie?" ron asked with a bit of a rasp in his voice, having just woken up due to the mention of pie, much like luna

"im gonna scream so hard, you guys need to brace yourself." luna asked in a strangely cold voice with her face getting redder by the second, from the lack of expected pie

"oh my god, george what have you done, she's going to combust" harry said while pretending to take cover under the pillow ginny's head was on; knocking her head over on the blanketed floor with a thud

"i hate you with such grace as well, you specky git" ginny muttered while getting up and glaring at the boy who simply gave her a smile that definitely made her blush (not that she would agree)

"okay now, we might have pie somewhere in there under the humongous pile of gifts. right george? RIGHT?" angelina asked while trying to calm luna down by brushing her hands through her hair

"uh- yes ofcourse. im sure and even if theres no pie ill er- make it for you, produce it for you!" george said while stammering and trying to calm the shorter girl down

"okay enough, i think its time we open gifts" hermoine said while tying her bushy hair into a low bun 

"how do you do that?" luna asked with a look of awe in her eyes

"do what?"

"just get up and look like THAT" luna said while making hand motions fanning herself

"aaaaand she's up and about flirting with granger hence the world has restored its pace, lets open gifts yeah?" fred asked while motioning towards the christmas tree with a huge pile of gifts underneath.

the group quickly stumbled across the room to pick out all the gifts with their names on it and for a good amount of time only the sound of tearing of wrapping paper could be heard in the room followed by the gasps of pleasent surprise and a bunch of other " woah's " and "oh my god, wow's"

since it was luna's first christmas away from her family -

xavier had chosen to go home since none of his housemates were staying at hogwarts for christmas, although with much reluctance since his sister would not do the same but understanding that she had chosen to stay back to accompany her best friend who was also spending christmas away from home for the first time and wasn't too thrilled about it but felt better knowing luna would be there with her.

-she chose to open her gifts from her family first: she got a set of handmade rings and bracelet from her ma that she absolutely could not wait to wear.