Chapter 12:

As we headed back upstairs we literally bumped into Roxy and Louis.

"Sorry!" Louis apologized.

"Don't worry about it." I mumbled.

"I'm guessing you were sent to get us?" James asked.

"You are right as ever!" Roxy joked.

"What's happening then? How are we getting back?" I wondered.

"We are going home now. They have got a plan but we need to get to the Great Hall now." Roxy answered.

We headed to the Great Hall which was far from empty. It seemed the whole school had been asked to turn up! We walked between the Ravenclaw and Gryffindor tables to where we had landed last night. Standing there were our parents, the teachers and the rest of us teenagers.

"Nice of you to join us!" Fred smirked.

"Please let me hit him." I heard James plead under his breath. I couldn't help but grin and he seemed to notice because he smiled back.

"It's nearly time to go; everyone knows what to do right?" Harry asked.

"Not really, we have just got here?" James reminded his dad.

"To be quick, Hermione and Malfoy have been working on this thing to bring us back." Harry said.

"It should be coming through soon enough." Ron said.

"But how?" I asked.

"I've been contacting Hermione through this two way mirror so she knows when to reopen the portal." Harry explained.

"I'm guessing the portal is that thing that sucked us in?" James supposed.

Everyone nodded.

"What about everyone here? Are you going to erase their memories?" I asked.

"Professor Dumbledore is going to take care of that!" Harry answered.

Suddenly, the portal opened up and stayed open.

"We don't have long before it closes!" Harry said.

I turned to the younger version of my mum and gave her a hug. The last hug I'm ever going to get from her.

"I'll see you soon!" she smiled.

"Yeah, you will." I smiled weakly.

I gave my younger dad a quick hug as well because it would have looked odd otherwise. Victoire, Teddy, Louis, Roxy, Fred, Ron, Lily, Rose and Hugo had already gone through. I took James's hand as we followed my brothers and his threw the portal. It was the same feeling as last time except we were going up instead of down. After about what felt like hours the space around us filled and became clear. We were thrown out of the compartment and landed on the floor outside. I missed my brother by inches as I landed but James fell on top of me. I blushed.

"James, can you please get off my sister!" Aidan said.

James looked and me and scrambled off and got to his feet before pulling me up.

"And promise me I won't have to say that ever again!" Aidan warned.

"I hope you never will!" James reassured him.

We moved out of the way of the compartment so our dads, Ginny and George could get back threw. They didn't appear too long after. Before we went back to Hogwarts we were allowed to spend a few minutes with our parents, in our case just our dad.

"Don't scare me like that ever again!" He said.

"We won't!" The three of us chorused.

"Dad?" I asked. "What happened between you and Mum?"

He sighed but told us anyway.

"We went to the Yull Ball together in our fourth year. But I only asked her as a friend but she liked me more than that. I didn't want to go further and she ended up hating me because of that."

"Then how come you ended up together?" Jake questioned.

"War brings people close again." He added simply.

After about 5 minutes, Hagrid arrived to escort us back to the castle. We walked in silence after greeting Hagrid and leaving our parents. We weren't looking forward to meeting the Headmistress.

"Yeh have tae go into the Hall, it is still dinner and yeh all have tae eat!" Hagrid told us.

"This is going to be good!" Louis added in an undertone.

We walked through the open doors to the Great Hall. The place was full. Once people started noticing us, the whole place was alert and staring in our direction. It seems the rumour of our little trip had gone round the school. The Gryffindors stood and started clapping and whooping. I saw our friends start to wolf-whistle. Some of the Hufflepuffs and the Ravenclaws joined in but none of the Slytherins did. No surprise there, they hated us.

We went and took our seats at the table under the glare of McGonagall.

"You guys are gits!" Joshua greeted us.

"Nice to see you too!" Fred said sarcastically.

"Why did you not find us when you got on the train? We would have loved to come!" he retorted.

"It wasn't exactly planned!" I answered.

"An honest mistake, I'm guessing?" Emily teased.

"Shut up!" Roxy grinned.

"So what was it like?" Josh pressed.

"It was good. They met their parents. James nearly got detention. Casey lost her temper with a teacher and another little detail happened!"

"What little detail?" Maisy interrupted.

"Let's just say you owe me 3 galleons Josh and you too Emily!" Fred held both hands out. "Cough up."

"I don't owe you anything unless …" Emily turned wide-eyed to James and me. "No?"

"Yes. " Roxy confirmed.

"You couldn't have waited two weeks? No, you just had to get together yesterday!" She complained. "I would have won in two weeks!"

"Well, I'm sorry but if you hadn't betted in the first place you wouldn't be complaining!" I smirked.

"How did this happen?" Josh asked.

"None of your business!" James joked.

"Come on mate!" Josh whined.

"Drop it!" he warned.

Josh dropped the subject. As we started to eat, McGonagall made an announcement:

"I would like to make it clear that no student is to own a time-turner and due to recent events…" she paused and shot us knowing looks. "… All students will be briefed by their heads of house in the morning about the importance of not meddling with time! That is all."

Everyone glared at us but we just grinned. It soon turned into laughter. We finished eating while explaining to everyone what happened there leaving out the James and me parts out. Maisy seemed to be sulking for her normal joyful self was absent. I suddenly felt sick; I hoped she wasn't acting like this because James and I were together? For Godric's sake, that girl needs to get a grip she was the one that broke up with him!

As we headed back to the common room with James's arm around my waist, I couldn't help but wonder what Maisy was going to say when I turned up. As we entered the Gryffindor tower I lied and said that I wanted to get some sleep. I gave James a quick kiss on the lips before heading up to the dormitories. The truth was Maisy was already up there and I wanted her to get it out now rather than later.

"Hey!" I greeted as I got in.

"Hello." She muttered.

"I'm guessing the school has been quiet with us being away?" I asked.

"Yes it has." She said plainly.

"Can you just spit it out?" I had had enough of the games.

"Spit what out?" she answered in the same tone.

"Why the hell you have been sulking since we got back?"

"For a smart girl, you can be pretty dumb." She declared. "I thought it would have been obvious!"

"Yeah I know James and I. But why act like this?"

"Because I still like him alright?" she snapped.

"Then why break up with him?" I replied.

"Because, our O.W.L.S. were at the end of the year and I needed to concentred on them. And my mum though it was best because of the amount of trouble he always got himself in!" She admitted.

"I didn't stop hanging out with you when you were with James did I? I didn't start hating you either!" I reminded her. "So don't treat me like this."

I turned and got ready in the bathroom. I went to bed and stared up at the ceiling, Maisy had made my heart break more than once. But there was no way I was going to break up with James. I knew she was feeling heartache but she will get over it, just like James got over her.

"I'm sorry." Maisy whispered.

"Don't worry about it." I confessed.

"What was it like in the past?" she asked.

"Great." I had to admit.

"At least you enjoyed it." She said.

"One day, I swear we are going to get ourselves killed." I said before turning over and falling asleep.

THE END.