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Emma sat at the breakfast table in her mums townhouse the next day. The house was nicer than the last time she had been around last summer. Much more of a home and less boxes. Wren was nice enough she thought. He had bought her favorite cereal apparently. He left after her mum. “Well you have my number in case, I left some pocket money on the front hall table if you want to order a pizza or something”, He said, “Don’t use the oven or anything, it’s not electric like your dads”, He said, “No problem understood and thanks for the money”, Emma said, she wore Slytherin sweat-pants and a sweater. It was raining and cold today. “Have a good day”, Emma said as he left for work. Emma hung around and watched some tv. It was nice to have a break from school even if it was a few days. If she had gone to her dad’s she would have ended up babysitting his kids probably so this ended up better. Later she got dressed and went out to a cafe with the muggle money. She wondered the neighborhood. Finally going into a bookstore. “Emma ? What are you doing here ?”, Said Robbie Lester. “Oh hi”, Emma said fixing her hair back. She smiled. “My mum moved around here last year, I am staying for Easter”, Emma said, “You?”, Emma asked, “My gran lives across the park”, Robbie said. Robbie was in Ravenclaw and ambitious having taken an internship over the summer in her mums department. Robbie always stared at her in the library. “Do you want to get a tea or coffee ?”, Robbie asked, “Um sure”, Emma said. They walked to the corner shop and ordered. They sat and talked about their families and music. It was easy with him she noticed and he was funny. “I should get back, Potions work up to do”, Emma said around 2. “I could help you”, Robbie said, “Yeah sure”, Emma said. He got his homework from his Grans. She texted her mum-“My mate Robbie coming to work on potions hope that’s ok”, Mum-“Yeah that’s fine, just don’t use your bedroom”.
At the office-Annabeth laughed at herself. Sounding like a mum now. Don't touch boys. “What’s so funny ?”, Tristan asked, “Nothing just teenage girls”, She said, “The mailroom sent up a box”, Dean said coming over, “What?”, Annabeth said, they both got up and followed him to the conference room. A team of dark magic wizards were examining it. Everyone stayed back. Harry Potter was inside the room with it. Just then the box opened and balloons came out. Like the ones from WWW shop. Everyone knew where they had come from. Large and Pink. Inside each balloon was a leaflet. Harry popped one. He read it out loud, “We come by the night because we been ignored”, He said, “It’s a riddle”, Someone said, the Ravenclaws in the room were now loudly discussing it. The rest of the balloons were examined all the same. “Let’s get a cross reference with the missing times Dean”, Said Harry, “My team is on it sir”, Dean said and his small group left to look into it.
Around 4:30 pm Annabeth was able to slip away from work and was even able of convince Dean to give her Monday off to be with Emma. She flooed into her house taking her work robes off. She was dressed in black pants and a white collared shirt that day. She took her boots off near the door and saw a pair teenage boy sneakers. She then heard laughing from the kitchen. “Then he said we all had detention the whole class”, Robbie said, Emma was laughing hard. Tea and biscuits sat around the table. They had books, essays and workbooks out. Emma had completed her homework it looked like she thought. “Oh Robbie this is my mum”, Emma said seeing her now. “Oh we met actually last summer”, Robbie said, he stood up and shook her hand. “I am Robbie Lester”, He said, “I am Emma’s mum, Annabeth”, She said back. He turned to sit back down. “Get everything done?”, Annabeth asked, “Yeah we both did”, Robbie said, “Yep”, Emma said in a tone. Annabeth had broken the bubble clearly. Robbie took the hint quick. “So um Hogsmeade ?”, Robbie said boldly in their kitchen. Her mum was at the sink now acting like she was washing a dish. “Yeah”, Emma said quietly back. “Thanks for having me over”, Robbie said cleaning up and packing his backpack. “I will show you out”, Emma said. They said goodbye outside and Emma came back inside. “He didn’t want to stay for tea?”, Annabeth asked sitting down now playing with Emma’s books. “Seriously?”, Emma said, “No”, Emma said blankly. “His gran doesn’t live far from here, he had his own dinner later”, Emma said back. She packed her items up. “Well at least your school work is done”, She said upon seeing her daughters check list all completed in her school agenda book. “Yep”, Emma said taking her stuff upstairs. Annabeth followed. She went to her daughters room it looked normal. She sat down on Emma’s bed. “He was dishy”, Annabeth said, “No one says that anymore”, Emma said smiling at her. “He likes you”, Annabeth said laughing. “Oh no”, Emma said, “please no talks about sex and boys”, Emma said back. “We covered that a few years ago I do believe”, Annabeth said back. “So Hogsmeade, must be serious”, Annabeth said, “If they let us go at all”, Emma said, “I think our luck is changing”, Annabeth said with a sly smile, “I can’t talk about it obviously”, She said holding her hands up, Emma threw a pillow at her, “No I can’t tell”, Annabeth said. They laughed together. “Let’s get pizza and we can watch a movie tonight, Wren is at some pub quiz”, Annabeth said. “Yes, a regular girls night-pjs and face masks”, Emma said taking them out of her small travel bag. “These are fancy”, Annabeth said holding the mud masks. “Kat at school got them for my birthday”, Emma said changing into her pjs and out of her jeans. “I will order the pizza and you pick the movie!”, Annabeth said going to her room to change into matching pjs. A bit later she found Emma on the sofa. “I am so sorry, I need to go into work”, Annabeth said, “It’s alright”, Emma said, “I texted Wren he should be home by 11pm”, Her mum said back, “The pizza will be here in 30, ask who it is first and look out the window ok,” Annabeth said, “You know I am probably going to be dueling co-capitan in my 7th year right, I will be ok and lock the doors, mum I got it” Emm said back. “Ok I love you”, Annabeth said leaving for work. Emma was use to her mum up and leaving. She watched her movie and put the leftovers in the fridge. She went to bed around 10pm keeping up with her school timeline as she didn’t want to struggle with it when she got back. It was only a few days. She texted Robbie, “Parents are crazy”, “Tell me about it”-Robbie said back with a photo of wine bottles and a random party going on at his grans apparently. She said good night to him and settled down in bed. All doors and windows locked-check. Wren checked in on her and found her asleep later on. He went to bed also. In the morning he made pancakes.
“Your mums not back”, Wren said when Emma came into the kitchen, “Ok” Emma said back, “tea with milk”, He said setting it down. “Thanks”, Emma said, “I made pancakes, I remember they don’t make them at school”, Wren said, “Thanks”, Emma said. They sat down for breakfast. “So um what should we do today?”, Wren asked, “I don’t know ?”, Emma said, “We could check out a museum or something? Camden market ? “, He said, “Look I know your dad doesn’t like me but…”, He said, “It’s alright, how about we hit up the British museum, I haven’t been there in awhile”, Emma said. She wasn’t one to snub people. She was friendly to everyone. “Sounds good, I will get the tickets on my phone”, He said and went to get ready for the day. Emma did the dishes and cleaned up. She got changed into jeans, her t-shirt and her rain coat. They left leaving for the day leaving a note for her mum. Annabeth came home to find her house empty. She saw the note in the kitchen, “Hi love, Emma and I went to see some museums, be back later, Wren”. Annabeth had done an overnighter and went to bed. “Finally sleep”, She said falling into bed. She had dreams about the raid and the people that were in jail now. The team had been at it all night. They had caught some suspects, vampires creeped her out honestly.