Alice Prewett had fully anticipated spending her final full weekend as a Prewett doing nothing but finishing details for the wedding, but her friends clearly had other intentions for her. Though she’d considered staying the weekend at Frank’s, and what would soon be her flat, Hestia had lured her in with wine and cookies and one last weekend being together. And really, considering how she was so abruptly leaving her best friend to take over their home on her own, how could Alice refuse her anything?
Friday night had gone so lovely, night curled up in their living room, going over old memories, getting lightly buzzed, and munching on snacks until, curled up together on the floor, they fell asleep.
Waking up, Alice had anticipated a day of packing and cleaning perhaps. Instead, Hestia and herself made a spot of breakfast, and her dearest friend ushered her out for an errand of sorts.
The errand, it turned out, was a day at the spa. Giggling, Alice agreed to as much, though she pointed out that such a trip would be best for next Saturday. After a full body deep tissue massage, Alice made her way out to the area where she was meant to meet Hestia for pedicure and manicures, only to find the room filled with every one of her bridesmaids waiting for her.
Many a hug and hellos later, all seven girls found themselves being made over, sharing stories and laughs until all of their nails were in perfect shape once more, and everyone received a refreshing facial and shoulder massages.
Next, the women lead Alice to the beach, where they’d prepared a raft to float out into water, stocked with a lovely picnic basket filled with Amelia’s grans infamous pasta, wine, and fruit for lunch. The seven sailed out far enough into Tinworths beautiful waters to evade all those swimming and enjoying the day in order to sunbathe, and for Alice to finally tell the story she’d been itching to tell the girls.
She’d begun from the start as they all sipped on wine, telling them of how she’d always had a sort of admiration for Frank that somewhere along the way had turned into something she hadn’t even recognized as being a crush. That it wasn’t until she entered the Auror Academy and saw Frank regularly that she realized there was something more there.
That before they began working together, she knew they would be together one day, how it developed as they worked together. Growing day by day, like the most beautiful of flowers, slowly blooming into the most beautiful of the bush. How by Christmas, she knew she would love him until her dying day.
Then, how they’d been mid-fight about something involving work when he, very abruptly, asked her to marry him. How she was so incredibly furious with him, and at that moment, near heartbroken in having to tell him no.
Quickly, she moved forwards, onto the happier things of them promising one another July, and him speaking to her father, and then proposing once more while on a small vacation, and after destroying her in Gin Rummy, as per usual.
Lunch came and went swiftly as her friends all grilled her with questions, digging for more information. By the time they decided to sail back to shore, Alice was positive she’d told them everything about her relationship minus one, very important story. The time she nearly died. For Alice, that particular one would remain in the vault, to protect her friends, and herself.
By the time they reached shore, a familiar face greeted them, Marlene McKinnon. At first, Alice was rather worried she may make some sort of comment, particularly with the way she looked her over at first. But fortunately for her, Marlene seemed to have other things in mind for the day, and soon enough Alice found her clothing being changed and everyone was guided off to the next adventure.
Roller Derby.
The adventure that followed was both painful and full of laughter once all of the women allowed themselves to relax and have fun with it. Many a bruises were earned, a little blood shed here and there, and Alice couldn’t remember feeling more alive nor more excited to live. The rush could rival that of dueling, something Alice thought to be impossible.
Marlene made Alice promise to come do it again, in her normal joking sort of manner, but Alice had every intention to do just that. Not only to bond with Marlene more, but to indulge in the strange high the sport gave her.
As the now group of eight left, Alice was rather looking forward to going home and crashing for the night -- but the girls had other ideas. Before she could attempt to invite them to spend the night at her and Hestia’s home for the night, they were dragging her off (after making her change into a rather flashy, non-Alice type of dress) to the Groovy Ghoul. A place she hadn’t been since Robert’s birthday, which she only briefly made an appearance at.
What was to follow was what one would imagine of a hen party. More alcohol than Alice had consumed in her entire life, enough dancing to make her feet ache for days, a tiara marking her as the bride to be that Alice would hold onto in a secret spot to remember the day forever, and men who danced a little too provocatively and with a little too little in the way of clothing a little too closely to a very drunk Alice who could only giggle until she could no longer breathe many a time.
The next morning, she would wake to a body that felt close to death, but for that night, Alice felt as though she were on top of the world, even if her heart ached for Frank to be with her. It filled her with so much love and light to know that even if Frank would become her husband, that she would always have so many people by her side to love and care for through the good times and bad.
It had been a long but extremely exciting day at the Muggle Liaison office, with lots of new experience gained, and Charity had taken to the streets of Diagon Alley to pick up some more books about Muggles from Flourish and Blotts. It was a very beautiful day, and the weather seemed to match her personality, bright and cheerful. Annoyingly cheerful, some might argue.
It was with this attitude, that when Charity was half skipping down the cobbled busy street and saw a lone man, sitting, looking positively angry, she decided to take it upon herself to brighten his day. The naive and innocent former Hufflepuff firmly believed that everyone needed a little bit of love and company once in a while, and this gentleman certainly didn't look approachable enough for anyone but Charity to say hello.
“Hi!” She said, excitement evident in her tone as she sat down next to him. “Gorgeous day, isn't it?”
Charity had spent that weekend at home, her parents insisted she return home so that they could discuss something important with her. She wasn’t especting what they were going to tell her though. She was expecting another social event, hem going away for a while, something like that, not that they’d found the boy she was to marry. Safe to say, Charity didn’t take it very well. She had been longing for one person in particular too long to take having to give that up.
She was never one to talk back, but in that moment she’d done a lot of things she never had before. She yelled, she pleaded, and she spoke up against her parents. She hadn’t done any of that since she was quite young, and for very good reason, not that she remembered what that reason was anymore. Of course, this outburst only led to her father getting angrier than Charity ever remembered seeing him. She left the house that weekend sporting some bruises and marks she hadn’t had since she was young.
Now that she was back at Hogwarts, she’d skipped her classes, which was something Charity never did. She’d also left her hair down, hoping to cover some of the marks. She was out by the lake, leaning against the tree she usually read under. She did have her book with her, though it was in the grass beside her completely unopened. Tears slipped down her cheeks, her knees pulled up to her chest.
opening credits: this is what it sounds like // of veronameeting for the first time: she’s a rebel // green dayhey, i kinda like you: miracle // hurtsi’m going to kiss you now: mr. brightside // the killersfalling in love: laughter lines // bastilleyour place or mine: hey there delilah // plain white t’snaked in bed: twin skeletons (hotel in nyc) // fall out boyfirst fight: mowgli’s road // marina and the diamondsmaybe we should take a break: i know you care // ellie gouldingi want you back: flaws // bastillewill you marry me: the phoenix // fall out boyfirst child: do i wanna know? // arctic monkeyswe’re getting older: the parting glass // ed sheeranif you die i’ll go with you: immortals // fall out boyend credits: ghosts that we knew // mumford & sons
