Where The Wild Roses Grow
Chapter Four
Tell Me That You Need Me
Acacia sat on the bed with a teddy in her arms and her mouth opened ever so slightly. Behind her I held her softly trying to move with out waking her up. But in the end I awoke her and she looked at me confused and still, half asleep.
"Looks like I'm not the only one who needs a coffee." I said as she crawled into my lap and snuggled her head into my tummy. Picking her up I placed her on my waist while her head was on my shoulder.
As I stood up, I realised I had yet to change into my p.j's and instead had just gone to sleep in a shirt and underwear. Smiling I took Acacia with me to the bathroom and washed the two of us before changing into jeans and a t-shirt.
Acacia wore a soft dress and as I helped her to stand up, she looked down at the dress and pulled at it, it looked as if she was making sure it was really there. Smiling up at me she giggled and bounced up and down before taking a few steps forward.
"Come on luv, we're going to go to the shops." I placed a bonnet on her head before lacing up her shoes and putting my own on before holding her hand as we walked out the door.
Diagon Alley was filled with parents picking up things that their children had called for, saying they broke or needed new of. In one cases, a young child was going for their fist wand, obviously turned eleven recently and won't be starting Hogwarts or another school, until the school started the next year.
A few people she knew smiled at her and told her how much her daughter had grown, a few stranger's who heard this comment, either 'whispered' how young she was to have a child or sometimes one would come up to her and call her awful names.
They did not know me, and through this I gripped my daughter's hand, I would never turn back time to stop this from happening, no matter what. When I walked into the pet shop to pick up some food and treats for Oracle, I saw an old friend by the name of Luna Lovegood. Her arm was wrapped around a boy; I believed to be named Jesse, if memory serves me correct.
"Luna, hey, how are you?" I asked as I removed Acacia's hand from the cage in which a not so friendly owl was ready to bite of the fingers.
"Oh Aconite, I haven't seen you since, well this one came to the world." She said as she patted her head. Her long blonde hair was tied in a plait and went over her shoulder and fell to her hip.
"I know, and I'm so sorry, we should grab a coffee or something, if you're not busy of course." I added, knowing that Luna at times could be so wrapped up with the surrounding world, she forgot about things.
"Oh, Jesse, would you like to come with us?" Luna asked, as her baby blue's sparkled up at her partner. Wether she was silently sending a mental message or not, I knew nothing of, I was carefully making sure Acacia did not poke any of 'the pretty kitties'
"Oh no, you two-three, go right ahead, I'll just go to the quidditch shop while you're there." He smiled a dazzling smile and kissed Luna goodbye before he grabbed their bags and walked off.
"So are you too?"
"Straight after Hogwarts, we would of invited you, I swear, but he wanted just family." I nodded in understandment, besides, I probably would have been to busy with Acacia to notice (or even care) about a wedding.
As we walked to a café, the two of us had a nice conversation on what I had missed through the few years with Acacia. At the Coffee shop, I had a nice mocha and got a small drink of orange juice for Acacia. "So tell me about the in-laws."
"Oh well, the first time we met was when they came to my dad's house, if it weren't for the fact Jesse and I were hopelessly in love, I'm almost certain they would of pulled him away from me."
"How's the art career going?" I asked as Acacia tried to struggle out of my lap. Grabbing a napkin, she turned it into a crane for her to play with for a little while. "Good then?"
"Oh, well, not really, it's sort of a hobby since I've been more into teaching students about myths and legends to students and writing a few books."
"Oh I saw one called, the 'Snorklacks: Proven Myth or Reality?' that was a good read, I had a few laughs at some things that just reminded me of sitting next to you in Hogwarts at times."
"Oh yes, Jesse seemed to think that if it weren't for me being me, my beauty would probably be the only thing he liked, I'm not sure if that's a compliment though…" She seemed to trail off in thought until she saw the Crane had landed in her latte.
Pulling it out, she smiled and pulled her wand out before turning it into a flying crane that buzzed around Acacia's grasp, dodging her tiny fist.
"I should go and find Jesse before he tries and buys that new broom." I grinned and laughed a long with her light laugh.
"Give me a message or drop in at any time, I live over in an apartment next on the street opposite the leaky Cauldron." She kissed Acacia on the forehead goodbye before giving be a tight hug and running off to find her husband.
Acacia and myself finished our shopping before heading back home where I put everything away and gave Acacia a bath, it seemed that the shower this morning was to no use either of us as we were both covered in dirt here and there.
While we were bathing, there was a knock on the door, quickly charming my self dry and putting myself and Acacia's clothes on, I answered the door on the forth knock.
"Hey Ginny, what's wrong?" She looked at me angry and threw something onto the table. Hands on her hips she raised an eyebrow at me. Grabbing I looked at it and found it quite familiar.
"I knew I recognized that mischief in her eyes." She said to me darkly as she paced up and down the room. Opening the book, I saw it to be my diary from school; I had lost it after I left Hogwarts and some how it fell into Ginny's hands.
Swallowing softly, I looked Ginny straight in the eye and told her quite plain and clear, regardless of the truth that; " I have no idea what in the world you're talking about."
"A Smith boy my ass, Acacia is not Acacia Rosette Smith like you said, but Acacia Rosette Black." My eyes widened in terror as I realised she had found out. I turned away from her and took a deep breath,
"Please Ginny, please tell no one of this, no one you know ever." I emphasised the word ever so she'd realize that no one was to know of the dirty little secret. She hugged me and promised me before sitting me down.
"Start from the beginning." And so I did. I told her how I first seduced him, and how we sneaked so many times behind and at times in front of Harry, Hermione and Ron. I told her about what happened when I found about the pregnancy and I told her what he told me to say.
But I kept some tales confidential, regardless of what she read, I knew that some things would be kept hidden from her, like the fact that I slept with him in the not so past, past.
"So he doesn't love you." I shook my head sadly before taking a sip of my tea, the tears had made it slightly salty, but it tasted better then what I suspected a butterbeer would.
"I can't take it much longer." I whispered as she hugged me softly and ever so lightly. "I wish that he would tell me that he needed me." But the wish was an empty wish that would never be fulfilled, which depressed me so much.
