Ch2: Wedding of Child
Eleven years later the man laughed as he saw his new son-in-law sweep his mother out on the dance floor.
He smiled and sighed; he'd done it so far. He'd raised their children the best way he knew how and he found a lot of help from his mother.
She watched them when he was at the school and helped them in so many other ways as well.
"Gran's something isn't she?" Andrew laughed walking up behind his father.
He was now a strapping lad of seventeen with his auburn hair slicked back and twinkling blue eyes.
"I've always said that son. Even my father said he was very lucky to have even had her," Albus nodded.
"Should I be worried that Gran will try to steal my husband?" Adrianna asked joining her father and brother.
Albus smiled brightly at her. Of the five she was the most like her mother with black curls pulled into an elegant bun, emerald eyes, and soft porcelain skin. She even wore square reading glasses.
Her wedding dress was her mother's; white silk cut to fit her body and slightly off the shoulder with tapered sleeves that stopped in triangles at her hands.
"Not likely. Although he does seem as enchanted by her as the rest of us," Albus chuckled.
"Albus I refuse to let you stay in the corner. You're daughter has just married and you need to be out on this floor," the elderly woman replied as she and Adrianna's husband came up to the trio.
"Mother I…"
"Nonsense son. I taught you how to dance so I know you can," she smirked taking his hand, "Michael you don't mind letting me go to dance with your wife?"
"Not at all Kendra," the groom bowed before sweeping his giggling wife onto the floor.
"Come along Albus," the woman smiled and pulled her son onto the dance floor for a gentle waltz.
"Ah this song takes me back," she sighed as they glided across the floor.
"How far mother?" Albus asked smiling down at her.
"To my own wedding day. This was the first song Percival and I danced to as husband and wife," she smiled as memories clouded her eyes, "I still miss him from time to time. Just as you miss Min."
"I do," he sighed, "Merlin help me I miss her so."
"The pain never leaves Albus. But it does get better you know that," she said softly.
"I know mother," he said spinning her out and back in.
"You always were a smart one love," she smiled touching his cheek, "But don't tell your brother I said that."
"Yes mother," he laughed as they spun around the others on the floor.