Leah was practically bouncing off the walls as she waited for her friends to arrive at her house. They were scheduled to get there at five so they could all have dinner together then the boys could start a bonfire in the backyard. The sixteen, almost seventeen, year old couldn’t wait. Her father had left only moments ago and he had told her to owl him once everyone got there so he knew she wasn’t alone. He would have stayed long enough for them to arrive, but his business trip just couldn’t wait. Thankfully, Leah understood.

After pacing her living room for a bit, Leah decided to get some air to wait for her friends. The garden needed pruning anyway so she decided to get that done. Ginger, her two year old maltipoo dog, followed her out and went sniffing around the garden; he was Leah’s best friend and he was also the cutest dog on the face of the planet. If Leah knew her friends, she knew that Jae would be the first one to arrive. The two had been dating since their third year of wizarding school and there was no end in sight to their relationship. Leah sincerely thought she was in love.

Speak of the devil.

“’Ello beau’iful,” Jae smiled after aparating to his girlfriend’s front lawn. He had recently gotten his license to aparate and he was using every possible chance he could to do so, much to the annoyance of his little brother. Leah stood and ran into Jae’s arms. Jae beamed and kissed her gently on the lips; something he wouldn’t be able to do too much while everyone else was there because he knew that Legend would say something silly about it. What was he gonna do though? He loved Leah more than anything in the world. He was in love. That was the bottom line. He put her happiness before his and she always scolded him for that, but did he care? Not at all. She was more important.

Looking around, he noticed that he was the only one here. Yes, he noticed that before, but he also noticed that her father was nowhere to be seen either. A mischievous grin spread across his face as he kissed Leah again. He was a man, after all. What did you expect? “And now we wait for the otha’s,” he whispered in her ear.

Leah smiled brightly as her boyfriend took her into his arms. She had missed him. It had been quite a while since they’d seen each other, seeing as she had gone on holiday with her father and brother. “Hello darling,” she greeted him, standing on her tip-toes to reach his lips. He was quite tall and still growing. As he whispered something in her ear, she giggled and looked his straight in the eye. “Don’t make everyone feel awkward when they get here. You know Ledge will go insane if you even kiss me,” she reminded him. She took his hand as he chuckled at her and led him over to the bench in front of her house and sat down. “And now we wait.” She was in her glory.