knock knock
3. Your character walking in on mine having a tea party with stuffed animals.
Rose loved tea parties. Ever since she was a little girl, tea parties were one of the few girly activities that Rose actually enjoyed. The last time she’d had a tea party she’d been eleven. It was right before Rose had gone off to school without Lily by her side and the two girls had been terrified that going to Hogwarts would change everything. Little did the two girls realise just how right and how wrong they were about how Hogwarts would change things.
Now though, Rose just needed the familiarity and the easiness of setting up a tea party. They’d had so many as kids that Rose hardly had to think about how she arranged the seats or setting up the tiny cutlery and dishes just as they should be. She’d put biscuits in to bake while she brewed a pot of tea and it wasn’t until she was pouring the hot liquid into the tiny saucers that she realised that she hadn’t invited anyone over to the tea party.
Groaning she knew that by the time she contacted anyone and they got to the house the tea would be cold and everything would be ruined. She stood in front of the prepared table trying to figure out what she was going to do until she remembered the trunk in the back of her wardrobe that was full of stuffed animals and clothing she was never going to wear again but she refused to throw out. It had sentimental value.
Running up the stairs two at a time, Rose was in her bedroom faster than she’d ever remembered getting to her room. She threw open her wardrobe and pulled the trunk out before popping it open and starting to throw clothes onto the floor as she dug to the bottom reaching for the stuffed animals she hadn’t played with in years if she’d played with them at all. Finding a well worn Babbity Rabbity stuffed animal as well as a cat that looked like Crookshanks, and a few others, Rose wrapped them all in her arms before bounding down the stairs back to the abandoned tea party.
She carefully set each stuffed animal in front of a saucer and placed one of their stuffed paws on the tea cup, the other on a biscuit. She had just been about to sit down and enjoy her one woman tea party when there was a knock on the door. Rose seriously contemplated ignoring it and pretending she wasn’t home but the chances of another Wotter going missing/being attacked were so high that Rose felt her chest tightening worrying that something was wrong with a member of her family. Crossing the living room, Rose walked over to the front door and opened it to find James in the doorway.
“Hey, Al sent me over to get some of Uncle Ron’s experimental tricks for our next- were you having a tea party by yourself with some stuffed animals?”
Rose crossed her arms over her chest, a dark blush spreading across her neck. She wasn’t sure if she was blushing out of embarrassment or out of anger at her cousin just barging into her home the way he had. Ignoring the fact that she’d opened the front door for James and had wordlessly let him into the Granger-Weasley home. “I was going to have a tea party until I realised I hadn’t actually told anyone I was having a tea party.” She responded closing the door behind James who was still eyeing the tea party set up with laughter written all over his face.
“Rosie-” James started and Rose put up a hand to cut him off.
“If you want any of my Dad’s experimental jokes you’re going to sit down, wear this hat,” She plucked a large sun hat off the nearest stuffed animal to her, “and enjoy a tea party with my old stuffed animals. Otherwise you can turn around and walk out and try again later.”
James eyed Rose for a moment before taking the hat out of Rose’s hand and sitting in the empty spot Rose had reserved for herself. Smiling a little, Rose grabbed the Crookshanks looking stuffed animal and sat down opposite her cousin. This was going to be the best tea party ever. Especially if Rose could find a way to get photo evidence without James noticing.
