Niqui waved as Seb took Renee out of the apartment. Apparently his mother had been harassing him for a week about when she was going to see her granddaughter and with the upcoming arrival of two of her cousins, the young parents figured that it would be best to get the little girl out of the house before any spells went flying from the two very divided sides of the Weasley family. Niqui really couldn't blame Seb too much for wanting to get away from the potential female drama, but he did make it clear that family or not, if Rose did anything to hurt Niqui that he would be back in a heartbeat.

She really had a wonderful life, assuming that her thot of a cousin didn't try to ruin things between them again.

Rose had seemed to get it in her head that her inability to keep a man interested in her was entirely Niqui's fault and she should be punished for it. Rose started a smear campaign against Niqui that she assumed would end the second the redhead left Hogwarts. Niqui assumed that once she was a full fledged witch that such childish acts would be beneath her, but she should have known better than to assume any Weasley would be able to let go of a grudge. It was in their nature and came with the temper and freckles.

Once her husband and daughter were free from the future war zone, Niqui fell back on her pale yellow couch and stared up at the ceiling for a moment. This was not how she wanted to spend her day off from the shop. Yes, she was able to see Roxy and that would always be top on her list of things that she loved to do, but Rose was potentially crashing the event and that was just going to be awful. Niqui closed her eyes and remembered all of the reasons why drinking even something small was a horrible idea. Opening that dam of bad experiences would only add to Rose's ammunition and there was no way that she wanted to go back to her seventh year persona of Bad News Niqui. Of course, if Rose apologized and actually meant it, they would be fine. Unlike Rose, Niqui refused to turn her back on family.

Hell, Niqui had slept with the man who Roxy was in love with and that didn't stop them from staying best friends. She laughed when she heard the buzzer go off to allow Roxy into the building, and then her loud mouthed cousin start to wail from the sidewalk. She rolled off the couch, landing gracefully on her hands and knees before popping up and scurrying to the open window.

"Right here you loud ass!" She called back with a smile on her face. Even with their moments of not speaking to each other, Niqui knew that she could always turn to Roxy for anything. She held up one finger to Roxy to show her that it would just be one moment and went to the wall that would open the front door for Roxy. She wanted to see her cousin more than anything because being near Roxy gave her a level of strength that just couldn't be put into words. They were like gossiping Valkyries when they were together. They could eat their weight in chocolate and just feed from each other's energy until all of their enemies were called horrible names and then laugh at all of their stupid stories and jokes.

She unlocked her front door, since she knew that Roxy would come barreling through it any second.

Niqui unlocked her door and heard the ninja noises from her cousin. Even after all of their drama together their seventh year, they managed to work it out between them. Roxy had a line of men after her anyway, she didn't seem to care too much that Niqui took one. Especially after what Krum did to her. When Roxy saw that Krum had been able to get her pregnant and then walk away from her, she seemed to realize that she dodged a damn bullet with him. Thankfully he had been keeping his distance, and she wanted to keep it that way.

The three of them had been impossibly close, but Niqui didn't want to have that friendship with him back. She couldn't trust him because he showed her his true side and it was a monster. When Roxy walked in, Niqui felt all of that pain melt away because she had her Roxy through all of it. She hugged her cousin tightly and laughed when she insisted that they got their chocolate on. Her sobriety had been something that she worked hard to maintane, but she had the best support system in the world for it. She had her husband, her daughter and her family. Even if Rose was getting on her very last nerve, there were enough Weasleys who actually cared about her.

"Seb and Renee went to see grand-mère and grand-père." Meaning they went to see the Rousseau grandparents in France. Probably would be there for a weekend if Noelle had her way. Which usually happened because she was Noelle and as much as Seb would hate to admit it, there wasn't much in the world he was able to deny his sister.

"So it's just the two of us, unless the thot decides to come about." She sat down on her couch and smiled at her cousin, hoping that Roxy would take cue and do the same. After she broke out the chocolate of course. The two had so much to catch up on, and Niqui wanted to hear all of it. She wanted to know how Roxy was enjoying her time at Aridorn, if there was anyone special in her life.

"How are you? I've missed your face."