Chocolate Covered Strawberries [Remus Lupin]

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Jasmine chuckled at them before she advanced into the room and pushed open the kitchen door. Mrs Dixon was cooking at the stove another one of Robyn's sibling in her arms as she was softly humming some unknown tune.

''Hello, Mrs Dixon. Need any help?'' Jasmine slowly set down the box with the cake on the counter.

''Oh, Jasmine sweetie, welcome!'' Mrs Dixon beamed at her sideways. ''I was wondering when you're going to drop by. I think Robyn's in her room if you're looking for her.'' Her Spanish accent was so unique and for some reason, Jasmine really felt at home here at Robyn's.

''Min-min!'' The little girl in Mrs Dixon's arms made grabbing motions to Jasmine.

''Hi, Cece!'' Jasmine reached out as well.

She caught her when the three-year-old Cece nearly slipped out of her mother's hold. Mrs Dixon was a Muggle and to have a house full of wizard kids, while your husband is sleeping, and to be living in a foreign country, Jasmine bet it wasn't easy on her. But Mrs Dixon was always smiling and she was such a nice person, except when she was yelling at her kids in Spanish to stop making a mess or something else. Cece played with Jasmine's hair as she hoisted her up on her hip.

''Thank you, Jasmine.'' Mrs Dixon smiled gratefully for any help. ''I can't help but wonder how much quieter it will be when Leonardo and Viviana go to Hogwarts.'' She sighed and couldn't decide if it will be a good thing or a bad thing.

Jasmine noticed Cece was looking at a hairpin Jasmine had in her hair with much interest in her eyes. Jasmine reached up and unpinned it before she secured it in Cece's unruly hair. The small girl giggled and smiled as she kept gently tugging on Jasmine's hair. The door opened abruptly and in stumbled the twins chased by Robyn who looked rather distressed.

''Mum!'' Viv shouted laughing merely along with it. ''Robyn's got a love letter from a boy!'' She ran around the dining table with an envelope in her hands.

''A boy?'' Mrs Dixon's voice held amusement and she glanced at Jasmine with raised eyebrows and a small smile. Jasmine couldn't help but laugh at the situation as Robyn bolted after Viv making unnecessary noise in the room.

''Give it back!'' She shouted, barely rounding the corner of the table.

''Ooh! What's this?'' Leo leaned on the counter and eagerly opened the box Jasmine brought with.

That caught the attention of Mrs Dixon, first noticing the box. Leo already reached in and grabbed a piece of the marble cake. ''No sweets before dinner!'' Mrs Dixon said loudly but Leo ran out of the kitchen mouth full of the cake.

Cece watched with wide eyes as all the commotion slowly died down, but it was nothing unusual for this flat. Robyn successfully received back her letter after she pinned Viv to the ground and almost ripped it out of her hands. She blew a strand of hair out of her face when she stood up and safely pocketed the letter.

''Hey, Jass!'' She smiled at her best friend and walked around the table. She tickled her little sister quickly before picking her up from Jasmine's arms with a grunt.

''I hope you're staying for dinner Jasmine.'' Mrs Dixon turned to the light brunette with a sweet smile.

''If you'll have me.'' Jasmine politely replied.

Mrs Dixon smiled even brighter and immediately answered 'of course' and then went on with saying she's always welcome in their home. Jasmine chuckled as she saw Robyn trying to make Cece laugh in her arms doing funny faces. Then the dark brunette motioned with her head at the door and Jasmine followed her as she exited the kitchen with her sister still in her arms. Now Cece made grabbing motions for the loveseat where Mr Dixon was now awake, the result of the twins yelling on the floor by the couch over some contraption. Mr Dixon chuckled as Robyn dropped Cece on his lap before his eyes settled on Jasmine.

''Jasmine! What a pleasant surprise! How long have you been here?'' Mr Dixon avoided Cece's arms that were wailing around so she wouldn't hit him.

Jasmine laughed softly as Robyn sat down on the couch and waited for them to finish talking so she could finally steal Jasmine for herself. ''Long enough to hear some Spanish and give Cece another hairclip,'' Jasmine said with a light voice.

Robyn's dad laughed and noticed that his youngest daughter really had a new pin on her curly hair. Jasmine also added that she brought the cake, knowing that Mr Dixon especially really appreciated home-cooked muggle pastries. He wouldn't admit it but Jasmine believed that the sole reason why Robyn's parents went so well together is because Mrs Dixon was a great cook and Mr Dixon liked literally everything.

Before the conversation would continue and get deep, as it has got once before between Jasmine and Mr Dixon, Robyn stood up and whisked her away. The two laughed as they ran to the upper level of the flat before they settled into Robyn's room. Each found a comfortable position on the bed and they started chatting as if they haven't seen each other in weeks.

''I wish you could sleep over.'' Robyn whined a little as she looked at her best friend.

Jasmine frowned shortly. ''I know. But my mum can cover for me only so much. Dad would lose it if he found out I am spending 'precious family time at half-bloods''' She rolled her eyes and made quotations marks around the last bit of her sentence.

''But he's okay with punishing you and making you stay in your room during Christmas? Father of the year.'' Robyn added sarcastically.

Jasmine could only shrug and frown. She hated to admit it sometimes she wished she had a family like Robyn, everything seemed perfect. No matter how much Robyn complained of her younger siblings and them being annoying, Jasmine loved being at their flat. With the whole family the space just livened up and it always made for a good time if she spent it there.

''Well at least let's make the most of it while you're here.'' Robyn changed the mood and sat up on the bed and Jasmine agreed.

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Remus threw the scarf around his neck tying it loosely before fixing his new coat his parents afforded for his Christmas gift. He didn't bother to fix his messy hair, knowing it will get messy the moment he opened the door.

''Mum! I'm going to the Potters now!'' Remus shouted into his house hoping she would hear him wherever she was. He waited for a moment thinking she's going to answer immediately.

''Oh, Remus wait!'' He heard her call back. Then her footsteps neared from the living room until she appeared in front of him with a package in her hands. ''This came in for you earlier.'' Remus's mum offered him the brown package with a thin strip wrapped around it.

Remus furrowed his eyebrows as he took the package in his hands. His name was written on the package with cursive writing. He undid the strip and tore the paper to find a small box and a note attached to it. After opening the note he quickly scanned the words and a smile appeared on his lips.

Dear Remus!
Merry Christmas, I hope you have great holidays! To make up for not letting you close to the secret stash of chocolates at school I sent you something that will make your time a bit more bearable. ;)

Jasmine

Remus bit his lip to avoid smiling too big as he took the lid of the box. Inside was a stack of different types of chocolates, box full of it actually. Unaware to him his mum was observing him, having her own peculiar thoughts about his smile.

''Who sent it?'' She asked curiously trying to look at the note but Remus stored it inside the box before she could.

He cleared his throat and only then realized how big he was smiling. ''A friend.'' He answered vaguely.

His mother was taken aback but she smiled nonetheless. He said goodbye again and kissed his mum on the cheek before leaving the house. When Remus was talking about his friends he always called them by their names, so this was definitely something new. 

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I am no Spanish speaker I just thought that Robyn's family would speak two languages and to avoid any confusion I didn't translate it with google translate. 

If you do speak Spanish feel free to comment on those sentences. :)

Also, thank you for 10k, I love you guys!❤️