One Black Petal Ch13

"Merry Christmas!" Shouted Ginny making Hermione and Rose jump in surprise. Both girls had been sleeping quite comfortably before the red head disturbed them. Then to follow up her merriment Ginny jumped onto the bed and bounced up and down just to make sure the two girls didn't go back to sleep.

"Ginny, I definitely don't understand how you always wake up so early." Rose said trying to cover her head with the blanket to block out the light. Just as she had finally accomplished it the blanket was pulled off the bed sending an unwelcome breeze upon the two girls. "Ahh!"

"BRRrrr." Hermione wrapped her arms around herself and shivered.

"Oh come on, it's not that cold." Ginny walked to the trunks at the foot of the bed and opened them. Rose, finally awake, looked around the room and saw many Quidditch posters hanging everywhere. There were also a few posters of young wizards whom she didn't recognize as being Quidditch players. Then before she could look anymore something landed on her face, blocking her view. She grabbed at the invading item and found that it was a sweater. "Put those on." Ginny ordered. Rose looked at the rest of the clothes that were laying around her and shrugged before getting out of her night clothes and obeying the younger girls order.

"Soooooo, it's Christmas." Rose said slowly. The other two girls looked at her suspiciously. Rose inched towards the door. "I'll race you down!" She shouted already half way out the door. Hermione and Ginny took off after her giggling the whole way down. Rose was nearing the bottom of the stairs and as she reached the bottom someone around the corner scooped her up into his arms. Rose was so disoriented that it took her a few moments to realize who it was. "Sirius!" She said excitedly while wrapping her arms around him. Hermione and Ginny finally reached the bottom of the stairs and turned to see the scene with big smiles on their faces.

"Hey, you didn't think I would miss Christmas did you?" Sirius said playfully.

"Never doubted it." Rose said happily. "Where's Harry? Is he up yet?" Sirius put Rose back on her feet.

"Well I was on my way to wake him up when I heard Giant's feet coming down the stairs in a thundering herd." Sirius said while pretending to stomp around like a giant. The three girls laughed at his amusing antics.

"Well I wouldn't wait much longer if you plan on watching us open the presents." Rose said. "I don't think I can wait much longer." Sirius smirked at her and walked up the stairs.

"If you do plan on opening the presents I wouldn't let Mrs. Weasley see ya do it." The three girls turned to see Tonks and they all ran to her and gave her a big group hug. Lupin and Kingsley were the next to receive hugs as they waited for the boys to come down.

Before they knew it Sirius appeared right in front of them out of nowhere sending Rose's heart into her throat in surprise. Almost as sudden, thundering footsteps could be heard coming down the stairs. Harry and Ron came to a halt at the bottom of the stairs trying to catch their breath. "Hey, You...cheated." Harry said pointing an accusing finger at Sirius.

"Aw well, what can I say, I'm a sore loser." Sirius winked at Rose.

"Oh wow, what's that smell?" Tonks said sniffing the air.

"Mums, gingerbread cookies, of course." George answered."Speak of the devil." He said with a smile as Mrs. Weasley came in with a plate of cookies. Each one had white frosting faces along with three gumdrop buttons that went down the center of the cookies.

"Cookies?" Mrs. Weasley offered. Bill was the first to scoop up a cookie and stuff it in his mouth, then as soon as they were gone the plate refilled itself on the spot. "Cookie?" She offered Sirius and he took one. "Come now, take another, there's plenty to go around." Sirius smiled at her hospitality and took two more.

"A right fine cook you are Molly." He complimented which made her smile happily.

"They are good and cute at the same time." Tonks sat on the arm of a chair playing with her cookies and made them fight to the death.

The only person in the room who didn't take a cookie was Fleur, which wasn't much of a surprise.

"When can we open presents mum?" Ginny asked.

"Not until everyone is here." She looked around the room and found that the only people who were missing were Percy and Arthur. "Your father should be home shortly, he had a meeting this morning at the Ministry."

Just as she said Mr. Weasley appeared a few minutes later as everyone was engaged in their own little groups chit chatting. Percy didn't come much longer after that and they all waited anxiously for Mrs. Weasley to give them the thumbs up. "Whose turn is it to hand out the presents?" She asked and Ron raised his hand vigorously unable to talk with the enormous amount of cookie that was crammed into his mouth. "Alright Ron get to it." Ron went to the tree and found a present for everyone who had one and gave one to them.

"Ok, on three people." Ron said after finally swallowing the cookie. "One...Two...Three!" He yelled and everyone holding a present started ripping. The first presents were all from Mrs. Weasley. You could tell because they were all scarves with their initials on them.

"Thank you Mrs. Weasley!" Everyone shouted at once. She smiled brighter knowing that everyone liked their gifts. A few more gifts were opened in the same manner. Sirius had gotten both Harry and Rose a necklace that had the Griffindor emblem split in two with each half on each necklace. They put the necklaces on and put the halves together to form the whole emblem.

"Thanks Sirius, it's brilliant." Harry said with a smile.

"Ok, I know everyone is waiting to see what the heck this thing is." Ron handed Rose the small box Draco had gotten her. Everyone turned to her, some had confusion written all over their faces. "It's from Draco." Ron blurted out to the people who were left in the dark.

"Oh really?" Sirius looked at her with a smirk. "No doubt it's something expensive."

"Well go on, dearie." Mrs. Weasley urged. Everyone concentrated on her, watching every movement like it was the most interesting thing in the world.

She untied the silver ribbon and stuffed it in her pocket, then she began ripping open the green paper and found a small cardboard box. She opened the lid and took a peek inside. She was about to put her hand in but a Golden streak whipped out of the box sending Rose's heart into her throat for the second time. She dropped the box, startled and looked into the air trying to figure out what it was. She found a gold light hovering above her and was confused.

"This note says to hold out your arm." Sirius said. "It fell out of the box."

Rose looked back at the light and held out her arm. A second later the light sped towards her and began circling her wrist. It circled faster and faster until it was nothing but a blur. The light finally faded and left a very expensive looking, golden bracelet. She looked at it in wonder and as she examined it she found an engraving in it. She brought it to her face to try and decipher what it said. Then as she finally found what it said a feeling she had never felt before ran through her body.

'Secretly Yours'

"Oh my." That's all Tonks could say.

"That was amazing." Ginny said.

"Oh...My godbaby is growing up." Sirius said as he went to his knees and pinched her cheeks.

Rose rolled her eyes and smirked at the man. "Oh." She wiped away a fake tear. "My godfather has found his inner comedian." Sirius smirked right back. "It warms my heart to the point of..." She brought her hand to her mouth. "Sorry I can't be that ditzy anymore, it makes me ill." Everyone laughed at her.

"Well, it looks like that's all of 'em." Ron said looking under the, now, bare tree.

"Not quite." Rose said running back up the stairs. When she came back she was carrying her broom. "I have one last present for Ginny." Ginny's face lit up. "I know you can't fly without your magic so I figured I would take you for a ride on mine."

Ginny ran to Rose and gave her a hug. "You are my best friend ever, Rose." She stood back and Rose could see tears in her eyes. "Well, Hermione to." She said wiping the tears away.

Everyone went outside to watch the two girls fly around. The scene made Mrs. Weasley smile brightly. She hadn't seen Ginny this happy in a long time.

"I'm so glad she's finally smiling."