A/N: It's raining at the Burrow. Weasley family fluff.
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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments): HOPSCOTCH - (setting) Burrow
Ultimate Battle Competition!: (setting) Burrow
The six-year-old sighed as he stared out the window at the gloomy, grey sky. Large droplets of water hit the cool glass before him, blurring his vision of his water-logged backyard. Ron hated when it rained. He couldn't go down to orchards, he couldn't go out to the pond, he couldn't run through the tall grass. He had to stay indoors all day.
He leaned forward, placing his chin on his arm. He could play with his siblings but he didn't want to. Bill and Charlie had already gone back to school a few days ago and wouldn't be back for a long time, Percy was so boring to play with since all he wanted to do was read, Fred and George always played tricks on him when they played together, and Ginny was a girl.
He jumped a bit when he felt warm arms wrap around his shoulders, before turning into his mother's embrace. She smiled as she leaned down and placed a kiss on his cheek, prompting him to rub at his skin furiously, but a slight smile was still left behind. He secretly loved when she paid him attention over his siblings.
"Is everything all right, Ronald?" she asked. "You've been staring out the window all morning."
"I'm bored, Mum. There's nothing to do," he answered, his voice slightly muffled by his hand.
"Why don't you play with Fred and George, or Ginny?" she asked.
"I don't want to play with them," he said. "I wanna go outside, but it's raining."
His mum made a soft sound under her breath as Ginny came up behind them, hugging their mum around the legs. Then she said, "Ron, go and get you and Ginny's rain things."
He spun around with a bright smile on his face. "Really, Mum?" he asked.
With her quick nod, he jumped to his feet and ran to the coat closet, ready to go outside.
Molly stood on the backporch, keeping dry as she watched Ron and Ginny playing in the rain. She smiled as she watched her youngest boy run towards the large puddle that had formed in the middle of the backyard, jumping with his arms outstretched before landing with a big splash. A few moments later, Ginny splashed next to him, letting out her own bout of raucous laughter. Normally, he would have been upset by their matching green and blue rain slickers, but he was having too much fun to care. She rarely let them go out in the rain, scared that they would all catch horrible colds, but she also hated to see her babies sad.
A few moments later, the door behind her opened with a bang before Fred and George tumbled out in their bright orange rain slickers, running straight towards Ron and Ginny in the big puddle. Ron screamed as they jumped in, the dirty rain water splashing up into his face, before laughing once more.
"You didn't tell us you came outside, Mum," Percy said, pushing his glasses higher up onto his nose as he stood beside her, his thick book tucked under his arm.
Molly chuckled as she put an arm around her son's shoulder. "I knew you boys would figure it out eventually," she said.
