Luck

Saturday, January 2019
London

"Oh my god, you are more beautiful than in the pictures your dad has shown me, if that's even possible!" She was taken out of her trance, 'cause Emma, hugged her without a warning, "I am... Thank you?", Valerie was in shock, she wasn't the hug type, but she liked it, it was nice, and comfy.
"Sorry, I got too excited, I'm Emma and she-" Emma stepped away, turned around and put her hand out inviting the redhead girl to come closer, "is Hannah a friend's daughter, but she'll live here for a while" Hannah blushed a bit at the presentation, but smiled, she had a beautiful smile, "Hannah why don't you show to Valerie her room, and you get to know each other? Her father said, inviting the girls to know each other. Valerie looked at Hannah and nodded, while Hannah did the same thing.

*****
"So, how did the trip go? Hannah asked shyly, sitting on the edge of Valerie's bed, while the blacked haired put her things in place in the room.
"Please, don't make me remember it. I just will say that it got delayed, a little girl bothered me, and I was sat beside a woman with a fat baby, the last wasn't horrible though" Hannah laughed and Val threw her a killing look before joining her.
"Alright, it wasn't good, but at least you go here. What do you do in your normal routine?" Valerie threw a confused look at the girl, because of the sudden question, "What? Your father said that we had to talk, so let's talk"
"My live it's so boring. I work on a Primark, where the people are ruder than anything else. I like to sing and play the piano, although I just do it for myself. And nothing else really..."
"And about relationships?" Hannah had straightened up, proving that she was interested in the answer. Valerie wasn't thrilled about it.
"Just one, and it didn't finish well... It is something that I don't like to talk much about it" Vivian said looking at her shoes a bit ashamed, Hannah noticed it. "Hey" She called the London girl, "there's no need to be ashamed of it. I also had a relation that turned on really toxic" Said the Scottish girl, making eye contact with the visitor. They smiled.
"Okay, enough talking about sad things, let's go back and go for a walk with them or something. By the way I'm the invited, and you haven't helped me to put any of my things in place, I will have to give you a bad grade" Valerie mocked as Hannah stuck her tongue out and threw a pillow at her.
*****
They were sitting on the couch and talking about live and what they were going to do that afternoon, "We could take a walk, I want to see the Edinburgh's streets so badly" Said Valerie with emotion, her dad was smiling while denying, "Sweetheart you've seen all the possible streets here, are you sure you don't want to do another thing?"
"No, I don't, you know why I want to... The streets remind me so much of Harry Potter, it's like being at Hogsmeade" She replied, with a funny frown. She loved that city so much, the streets were so magical from her point of view. "Sorry, what's Hogsmeade?" Valerie turned her head so fast to see Hannah with a confused look, she was shocked, "Sorry, what!? You have never watched Harry Potter?"
"No, sorry, I'm not into it" Hannah said a bit shyly, she felt intimidated by the black haired look. She was looking at her as if she had committed the worst crime. Valerie turned again her head to look at her dad, and at Emma -which were trying to hold their laughs-, and said, "Dad, Emma, I'm sorry, but we are not going to go for a walk, we are gonna stay here and watch Harry Potter, I can't be in the same room with someone who hasn't seen it" She sent a wink towards the redhead girl and went to get everything prepared.
What she didn't know is that the last time her dad watched the films was when she was around sixteen and that Emma also hadn't watched any of them. It was going to be an interesting afternoon.

*****
They started the first film around 3 p.m. It was now around 10 p.m, and they were watching the fourth film. It was a bit cruel to say that Emma and Hannah were loving Cedric too much. Valerie knew what was about to happen, and she was going to enjoy it.
Cedric and Harry touched the cup, and Val was trying to not laugh.
It happened.
"What!?"
"No!"
Sobs were heard, mouth covered by hands. All the girls were crying, the only exception was that Valerie's cries were of fun, she was laughing at the girls' reaction. She was also looking with adorableness at Hannah, who was hugging the pillow so strongly, "Oh, poor little thing, come here, you are choking the pillow", Hannah left the pillow at the side, and hugged Valerie, while complaining, "You are so evil, you knew that this would happen, and you didn't warn us"
"I'm sorry, but I truly wanted to see your reactions about it... Spoiler, they were hilarious", She mocked and Hannah threw the pillow behind her at the girl, "Hey, you have already thrown me two pillows, so you better stop, or I'll kill you"
"Yeah, I'd like to see you trying"
They kept talking about random things and decided to go and get some sleep.

*****
Valerie put her pyjamas on, and got inside the bed. When she got in position, she decided to call her best friend and tell her about the day...
The phone rang one, two and three times before Astrid actually picked it, "Hey you! I was starting to get worried, what were you doing?" Valerie told her with a smile, "Unlike you, I was trying to get some sleep, but I wasn't being successful so, glad you called, tell everything about it".
Valerie told her about the shitty flight, the babies, the delayed plane, everything. She also talked to her about Emma and Hannah, but specifically about that last one. She told her about that bright red hair and that blue eyes, and also about the Harry Potter moment.
Astrid was holding a slight smirk and Valerie realized that when she was finished talking, "No, no, no. You can take that smirk away. Stop thinking what are you thinking"
"But girl, maybe this is your opportunity to get back in dating" Astrid teased her a bit, "I don't know As, I don't think so" Valerie thought about it for a moment, she felt not prepared, "I'm going to hang you off, I need to sleep, love you" Valerie said to Astrid, she was so tired, "Bye Val, have nice dreams".
Valerie put her phone to charge, took a nice place in the bed, and turned the lights off.
She fell asleep.