"Mum's pregnant!" I told the boys and Pans as I entered the common room with Matty. Pansy ran up and hugged me. Enzo grabbed me next, he kissed the side of my head. Draco and Blaise shared a look.
"We knew it!" Dray said. I laughed and sat on the couch between him and Enzo.
"A new baby! How exciting!" Pansy declared. I nodded.
"I hope it's a boy." Blaise added. I shook my head.
"Girl." Pans and I said together.
"Whatever is it," Enzo derailed the fight about to occur. "let's just hope it's healthy." I leaned my head on his shoulder, his hand rested behind me, just above my waist. Matty glanced at his hand, then me, then back to Enzo's hand.
"I'll cut it off Berkshire." He warned, I rolled my eyes.
"Fuck off, Matty." I replied.
"We've sat like this for years?" Enzo questioned. Matty shook his head.
"Yeah, I didn't mind when she was fourteen and geeky but now she's growing up and you lot need to learn to keep your hands to yourselves."
"Hey! I was not geeky at fourteen!"
"You were tragic at fourteen, El."
"I'm revoking your room at my house."
"You can't do that."
"I'm turning it into the nursery."
"Nova will give me another." I stuck my tongue out. Matty was more of a brother than anything. Mum and dad like to say it's like watching Uncle Sirius and mum, or Aunt Cissa and dad back in the day. Matty's protected me forever.
"You're a child." He told me.
"You're hardly older than me!" A whistle in the tune we all knew came from down the hallway. Nan's whistle. It used to mean it was time to come inside, but here it was a different way for us to communicate. I did a quick headcount, we were all here minus Theo. He never did the whistle though. I looked to Matty. He looked around but stood up and did it back. It chimed again through the vast room.
"I'll go find out." He told me, I popped up after him.
"Not without me." He gave me a look.
"Elenora. More people hate you right now than those who like you. Sit down."
"You have plenty of enemies too." I reminded him.
"Yeah, and?"
"I'm going."
"We're all going." Pansy demanded as she stood up. Matty gave her the look previously reserved for us. "It's our whistle. Effie taught us. Anyone with enough nerve to use that against us gets to answer to all of us." Matty sighed, but accepted his defeat. Enzo grabbed my hand as we stood up.
"I think you should sit this one out." I shook my head.
"Pansy's right." He nodded, but there was more he wanted to say.
"It came from this way." Matty told us as he set off.
"Your nan was here earlier, right? Maybe it's her. Or Monty." Pansy offered. I shrugged.
"They took mum and dad out to dinner. Shouldn't be back yet." She hummed. We all walked down the halls together, listening for the whistle. It finally came again, louder this time. Two high pitched notes, held out longer.
"Hey!" A whisper came, I whipped around. Enzo pulled me behind him.
"Wow, Harry said Lorenzo was smitten but I didn't believe him." Rosie stepped out of her hiding spot.
