𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒~ 𝐹.𝑊𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑦

THIRTY FIVE

It was Christmas today and the day mr Weasley was coming home so everyone was extra excited. "Merry Christmas!" The twins jump on me I laugh at their enthusiasm as it wakes me, "Merry Christmas." I mumble back, sleep still in my voice making them look at each other. "Pathetic you've got to say it with more enthusiasm it's Christmas not just any old day." I roll my eyes but smile at them, "merry Christmas!" I say with as much enthusiasm I can making them grin. "That's more like it, now come on!" They say pulling me out of bed.

We go down to see Mrs Weasley crying, "what's wrong mum?" George asks worriedly, and then we see the package in her arms, "Percy sent back his Christmas present without so much as a note." She says making me frown, I couldn't help but wonder if my mother cried over me like this. It seemed unlikely. She begins to cry harder at the twins attempt to cheer her up by insulting Percy making me slap them, "stop it you're not helping." I hiss making them step back. Thankfully Remus comes over and he begins to calm her down, the three of us take that as our que to leave.

We make our way to Harry and Ron's room to find them opening some of the presents by their beds we were going to do an in person gift exchange later and I was so nervous because I really hoped everyone would like the presents I had gotten for them. "Merry Christmas!" I grin making them both smile up at us, "Merry Christmas!" They beam back, before Fred and George tell them not to go down for a while. "Why not?" Ron asks us confused. "Mum's crying again," said Fred heavily. "Percy sent back his Christmas jumper."

"Without a note," added George. "Hasn't asked how Dad is or visited him or anything. . . ." Ron looks annoyed by the news, "We tried to comfort her," said Fred, moving around the bed to look at a painting that Harry had. "Told her Percy's nothing more than a hu- mongous pile of rat droppings —"

"— didn't work," George, finished helping himself to a Chocolate Frog. "So Lupin took over. Best let him cheer her up before we go down for breakfast, I reckon."
"What's that supposed to be anyway?" asked Fred, squinting at the painting. "Looks like a gibbon with two black eyes." I too try and figure it out even turning my head to see if that helps. "It's Harry!" George exclaims, pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back!"
"Good likeness," said Fred, grinning, harry then threw his pillow in his direction only for the twins to apparate away as I laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" He asks making me shake my head, "nothing, I've just never seen you look so handsome before." I add nodding towards the painting making him throw his other pillow at me. Him and Ron laughing as it hits me square in the face, "you're lucky that it's Christmas and so I'm going to let that slide." I say making him smile innocently at me.

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We all had a nice breakfast and were just hanging out as we waited for Mrs Weasley to bring Mr Weasley home. "You look beautiful." Fred says as he wraps his arms around me from behind, I smile and turn around so I could see his face. "Thank you, you look cute, I love how you and George are wearing matching jumpers, it's adorable." He blushes, "I'm not cute." He says making me laugh, "it's not a bad thing," I assure him as he pours looking extra cute. "As sickeningly adorable as the two of you are can you stop?" I laugh at George's complaints and purposely kiss Fred to annoy him further. Once I pull away Fred shakes his head and pulls me back into him so that we can continue kissing.

"Hey loverbirds cut it out or go and get a room." Ginny says making me laugh really loud as Fred stares at his younger sister in disbelief. "Ok let me go, I'm gonna ask Ginny to braid my hair." I tell Fred as his arms are wrapped securely around my waist. "I can do it." He offers making me look at him surprised, "you can?" He nods, "I'm a man of many talents love." He winks making me giggle.

"Since when did you have a tattoo?" Fred asks after he's done braiding my hair, "she does, where?" George asks coming over to see, "behind her ear." He says as everyone else crowds around. "Alright everyone relax I'll show you  my tattoos." I say standing up as they all look up at me expectantly. "Tattoos? As in plural?" Hermione rolls her eyes at Ron's question, "well considering she said tattoos and not tattoo yes it would appear Lyra is indicating that she has more than one tattoo." He rolls his eyes back at her, "alright calm down it was just a question."

"Anyways how many do you have and since when?" Fred asks intrigued, "she has four." Sirius answers as he enters the room, "I actually have five, and I got them done just over a week ago." Sirius's eyebrows furrow, "five? No when we went you got four." He says making me face palm, "you went with her?" Hermione asks accusingly as Remus has joined the room, "who went where?" I shoot Sirius a disbelieving look as he realises what he said.

"Lyra and Sirius snuck out to get tattoos." I gasp as I look over at Hermione who just snitched on us, "you what?" Sirius and I share a look, "it's ok we were completely safe." I try and say but Remus is glaring at Sirius.

"You snuck out to let Lyra get tattoos? That was so irresponsible Sirius and so unsafe what if you were seen?" He shrugs, "we weren't and besides no one would've recognised us we went to that small muggle village Lyra lived in, there was barely anyone around." Remus sighs at his friends nonchalant behaviour, "Sirius you were under strict instructions not to leave the house, and Lyra is not even old enough to be getting tattoos."

"Well I mean the guy didn't ask my age besides Sirius stayed in his animagus form so no one even suspected anything, I was going to get them with or without him anyways." I shrug making Remus shake his head at me, "you weren't supposed to leave here either, the two of you got lucky, but don't go pulling any stunts like this again." He says making Sirius nod, "you got it moony we'll be completely responsible." He assures Remus before winking at me from behind his shoulder.

"So what did you get?" I nod, "I have one on my ankle..."Before I can continue with my sentence George has grabbed my leg and pulled it up making me let out a yelp as I go flying backwards. Fred catches me and steadies me, "oh it's a little badger with a hufflepuff scarf?" He looks up confused but everyone aside from him and Ron have figured out what it meant. "For Cedric?" Hermione asks making me nod, "yeah...every tattoo I got is meaningful to me."

"Now can you let me go George, I will show you the tattoos myself." I say laughing as he blushes and drops my leg after everyone has had a look. "It's really cute." I smile, "thanks."

"What's the one behind your ear mean?" I smile as I reach up to touch it, "it's a lotus flower, they symbolise new beginnings." I say, "new beginnings?" Fred asks me, "it's a reminder to me the embrace my new beginnings, like leaving the manor lead me here where I found all of you." They all smile at that. "I have one on the side of my rib cage, it's the constellation that Draco was named after, now I know you're not his biggest fan but he's my brother and regardless of his stupidity I love him." I say noticing their distasteful looks. "Well show us." I blush a bit not really wanting to lift my shirt to them all. "It is pretty cool." Hermione says as I giggle because Fred was tracing over it and I was pretty ticklish, he smiles softly at me.

The two of us stare at each other until someone clears there throat, "right," I say blushing about realising the room was full, "and um I got one on my collarbone." I say pulling my jumper down slightly to show them the small bunch of flowers that slightly curved resting just under my collarbone. "Flowers? How are flowers meaningful?"

"They're narcissus flowers." Hermione says elbowing Ron, "I got them for my mum Narcissa." I explain making everyone nod quietly as I wipe my eyes thinking of her and how much I actually missed her. I had at least seen Draco at school but I'd only seen my mum once at the station. "Um anyways."

"You said you got five that's four." I smile now thinking of my last one, "that's because this one I got in secret." Sirius looks confused, I pull my jumper back down to show my other collar bone which held a small trail of paw prints. He looks like he's about to cry, "for me?" I nod a really big smile on my face, at his reaction this may have been the best Christmas present I could ever get.

He pulls me into a tight hug making me laugh, "that's the best present anyone could get me." He whispers making me smile, "thank you, for everything. You somehow weasled your way into becoming one of the most important people in my life." I say making him laugh, "same goes for you trouble." He looks down at me a fond smile on his face.