Scorose - New Year's Eve

Chapter 14

Chapter 14 \\ New Year's Eve \\ WICELA

Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series nor everything that comes with it. The rights go to J.K. Rowling. The only things I own are the holes in her stories that I filled with my fantasies. 

Updated: May 4 (2016)

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"So you're pregnant?" Rose asked Helga. She was sitting on their new couch in their new home. At least, new for Rose, as she hadn't been able to visit her best friend sooner.

"Yes," Helga blushed. She hold her hands against her head, shaming for the fact she blushed, which made her even more red. 

"And you're engaged?" Rose asked. She pointed at the subtle, but still very obvious diamond ring at Helga's finger. 

"Yes," Helga answered again. Her hands fell down on her lap, knowing that it made no sense to hide her shame and excitement 

"And you're living in a beautiful house?" Rose asked. 

"Yes," was the answer yet again.

"And all of this in barely a month or two, three? Shit, Helga, your life is even more exciting than mine!" Rose exclaimed. She grabbed Helga's hand to take a loser look at her ring. It was beautiful, but Rose knew that Frank could've given her a free ring from those devices at a fair and still she would've said yes. She knew her friends since birth or so, but got to know them better since the beginning of Hogwarts. They weren't together before their sixth year, but even before that the sings that what they had was special, were already there. It was now that Rose could see that. At that time, it wasn't strange at all that Frank always chose Helga over her for partner work. Rose always worked with Albus — if they shared their class with Slytherin and if Albus wasn't working with Scorpius. Otherwise, Rose worked with a boy named Daniel. Daniel had been a fellow Gryffindor and was very smart. He never outsmarted Rose, but he was willing to try. He was quite like her, not much of a Quidditch fan and got her way of thinking during a project. Rose trusted him because of that and that helped with their partner work. 

Daniel. Rose smiled at the thought of him. She'd forgotten about him, like she'd forgotten about many of them. Mostly because she'd been obsessed with Nick since her fifth year — the same year Helga started being obsessed with Frank. The moment when Helga had started to speak about Frank in a different sentence than as a friend, Rose panicked. She never had thought about the possibility to have a boyfriend or to be in love. When her mother talked about the birds and the bees with her, she never really wanted to know anything about it. She just wasn't ready. Perhaps that had been the mistake all along in her whole relationship with Nick. She just wasn't ready for someone like Nick. So she'd pointed at Nick, saying to Helga that she knew the feelings she'd been talking about. All that time she'd felt the same about Nick."But you barely know him!" Helga had said and from then it had been Rose's mission to get to know him and Nick never protested to any of her attempts to convince her friends. He gladly played along — without even knowing he was in a play. Rose never really fell in love with him, but she fell in love with the thought of being in love. The way she saw Helga and the silly things she said to Frank because that, were just something Rose didn't know. She didn't know how it felt to be in love and if Rose Weasley hates one thing, it is not knowing something. 

"God, I've never been in love with Nick," Rose said. Helga, who had been rambling about baby names, gave her big eyes and after that short moment of shock and not knowing what Rose was talking about, she smiled. 

"How so?" she asked. 

"I was thinking about you and Frank getting married and than that you two always have been meant to be together and than my thoughts went all the way down to the Hogwarts days and it made me think about when you admitted you were in love with Frank," Rose said. Helga smiled and looked away, thinking about the same moment.