Rose Between Two Thorns.

Chapter 12

*Christmas Eve, Eve* *Late night*

"So tell me, Katie who has the lucky honour of taking your delicate hand to the ball?" I ask sweetly, as I polish the nails of her right hand. Looking up, I catch Katie blushing.

"Danny O'Brien" she mumbles.

"No way" Mione gushes, as she places my nail kit on the bed next to Katie. "The Danny O'Brien? From Hufflepuff? Tall, buff, and good looking O'Brien?"

"The one and only" Katie laughs, while I give Mione an incredulous look.

"Since when do you check out how buff guys are Mione?" I ask, turning back to Katie's nails.

"I don't know" she laughs, sitting on my bed.

"Since Victor Krum started talking to her in the Library" Abigail laughs as she dances around the room, holding what looks to be something made of gold.

"Wait is that the egg?" I ask. She nods and attempts to balance it on her head, and failing miserably.

"You forgot all about it didn't you Tabs?" Katie asks.

"Well with everyone whispering about me in the corridors and daily articles about how I shamed the school in the Daily Prophet, I have tried to forget about it." I admit to the group.

"You know it needs to be figured out before the second task which is in like, three weeks." Abigail says, tossing the egg onto my bed. I roll my eyes and continue to work on Katie's nails.

"Okay let that dry and then we will stick the jewels on" I tell Katie. She nods, so I turn to Mione, who thrusts her hands at me.

"What do you want done?" I ask.

"That really nice blue that you have, maybe with a little silver" she says. Reaching over to my kit, I pull out the blue nail polish and some silver eyeshadow. With quick hands, I clean her nails, trim them and apply clear polish.

"Dun dun duun, dun dun dunnun..." I murmur under my breath as I shake up the nail polish.

"Really? Smoke on the water?" Katie groans.

"Why is it that I am the only one who appreciates the kind of music that muggles listen to?" I complain, applying the nail polish to Miones nails, "Mione, your hands are shaking, make dem staaahp!!!" I whine

"I cant" she whines back.

"Because muggle music is just weird" Marie comments, walking into the room. "You know you can use magic to do your nails right?"

"I prefer to do them by hand, it makes time go by faster and you get an effective touch" I answer. "Besides, the muggles find interesting things to do with their music, without using magic. They have these things called reco"—Hermione cut me off

"Don't try to explain these things to them, it will only confuse them more" she says.

"Helloo, we can hear you, you know" Marie whines.

"There are things that are really cool in the muggle world, my uncle – he's a muggle – brings us these weird things for Christmas and birthdays, but I find them oddly fascinating." Abigail says in a rush.

"Like what?" Hermione asks, interested.

"One Christmas, he bought my brother something, it was like a little bus thingy with wings and it had a little box that had all these buttons that apparently made it fly. I think he called it a-a 'Oropane'" she says.

"An Airplane?" Mione asks.

"Yeah something like that. It got us kids really confused, like how could this thing fly, I mean surely it was too heavy to get off the ground, but then he tried to explain something called 'pysics'......" I tune out, concentrating on finishing Miones nails. Blowing on them slightly, the polish dries quickly, so I place her hand on her lap.

"Done!" I say triumphantly. "Don't move them for about twenty minutes otherw"—

"Twenty minutes?" Mione shrieks.

"OTHERWISE they won't dry properly" I finish, ignoring her protest.

"Oh alright then"

"Is everyone sorted for tomorrow then?" I ask the room at large. A chorus of "Yes"s follow my question.

"Okey dokie" I laugh, walking over to the large wardrobe and pull open the doors to reveal my dress, now out of its package, and hanging for everyone to see. I finger the soft fabric, straightening out small pieces here and there.

"Your dress looks great Tabs" Abigail says hugging me from behind.

"Yours looks great too" I say, pointing my finger at her one, hanging next to mine.

"Meh" she mumbles into my shoulder.

"Come now, we must all get our beauty sleep if we wish to look glamourous tomorrow." Katie says.

"We shall be the fabulous five" Marie laughs.

"People shall be lining up to dance with us" Mione adds.

"Charge 'em ten Galleons for a five minute dance" I add to the conversation, earning a chuckle from everyone.

"Nah make it a three minute dance" Marie says.

"Ooh speed dancing huh?" I chuckle

"Hells yes" Katie chimes in. We all laugh.

"Alright, alright. Beauty sleep needed" I say, shooing everyone to their beds. Hermione packs her things up and leaves to go to her dorm room, while I feed Jeffery some of the food I snuck from dinner. With him growling in contempt, munching on the food happily, I crawl into bed, and soon feel the familiar call of much needed sleep take me over.

*Christmas Eve*

"Okay, okay, so with some help from dad, we managed to pull this whole ordeal off. So when mum went to cut open the pie, the mouse trap flung open and sent the pie straight into her face" Mione finishes telling the story to a group of Gryffindors, who roar with laughter. Fred and George loll around the table, laughing their heads off, while I sit there, my head in one hand, smirking at the story.

It had all started when someone found a picture of a mouse trap in the Daily Prophet and had asked us what it was and how it works, which soon lead Mione to telling a group of them the famous Granger Christmas story from when we were younger.

"So there was no magic involved at all?" a fifth year asks. Hermione opens her mouth to reply but I beat her to it.

"Really, the only magic there, was the sound of laughter from everyone" I say "A little bit of laughter never hurts anyone, unless its mocking or at a terrible misfortune."

"Yeah because all we want to hear at breakfast is what some muggle contraption can do from mudbloods" Weslin says from behind us. "Especially since the mudblood is a Champion and everyone hates her"

"Don't call them that" Fred and George growl between their teeth. Weslin smirks.

"Just ignore them Fred" I say, irritated with the whole situation, and turn back to my breakfast.

"How can I Tabs? They constantly mock you and call you and Hermione that—that vile name. They deserve to be punished." Fred growls.

"Just wait until they do it in front of a teacher or something, they will pay for it." Mione says.

"Come, Freddo and Georgie, let's go to the Lake or something." I say pushing away my breakfast and getting up from the table. I can tell they are both getting irritated. "Mione, meet me in my dorm room at three, spread the word to the other girls also" I instruct my sister. She nods. Dragging the boys behind me, we head to the lake where hopefully we can spend some fun time together.

Hiya my awesome readers, I'm sorry for not updating when I said I would, my brothers been in hospital for the last three days and last night I went to see Robbie Williams live!!! EEKKK it was fantastic!!!!!!!! comment and vote!! :D :D