Well, heres the second chapter. :D Dont forget to review.
Chapter Seven.
Mel woke up that morning to someone poking her. She groaned and swung at whatever it was. She didn't want to get up. Bella wouldn't have poked her though, she knew better than to try and wake her up that way. It was a good way to get hurt.
Bella woke up to something, she wrinkled her nose, no someone poking her. She pried one eye open a fraction of an inch.
"Jake. Justin. We love you, but if you don't leave. You. Will. Die." Jake just smiled and continued poking her, finally Bella sat up and smacked him upside the head.
"Ow! Issy!" Bella smirked, and looked over to see Justin doing the same to Mel. Bella expertly took a pillow and threw it with practiced eased at Justin's head
"Ow! What the bloody hell Bella?" Mel rolled over and punched Justin,
"Ask your sister, that's nothing compared to what I've done to her before when she wakes me up. It tends to get ugly." Bella smirked, but nodded all the same. Jake laughed at his brother, as he got lectured by two 14 year old girls for waking them up too early. Bella saw him laughing and turned to him to yell at him, too.
"Jakey." Bella said sweetly, a tone Mel knew met trouble. "Do we need a repeat of last summer?" Jake paled and held his hands up in surrender.
"C'mon, Justin, we need to ah...go help Mum remember?" He grabbed Justin's arm and ran out of the room. Bella burst out laughing, "I love doing that." Mel laughed but rolled her eyes. "More sleep?" she asked as she rubbed her eyes. She was so tired, but she couldn't figure out why.
Bella started to move around to get ready for the day, but Mel just couldn't seem to wake up the whole way.
"Come get me in a little while. I think I'm definitely need more sleep." Bella nodded, pulling up her hair, before going downstairs still in her PJs. She walked into the kitchen and greeted her mother, before sitting down and pouring cereal.
"Where's Mel?" Gwen asked,
"Sleeping, the boys woke us up way before our sleeping in time." Gwen chuckled and nodded.
Mel woke up to Bella quietly telling her it was time to get up an hour and a half later. This time she woke up without swinging at anyone and was fairly pleasant.
"Who are you and what have you done with my Melly?!" Bella yelled jokingly. Mel laughed and got out of bed. Bella watched as Mel got ready,
"So do you have your presents for everyone? Mum said we can go into town, if you don't."
"I need to get your Mum a present and ones for the boys….. I also want to stop and pick up flowers for mum and daddy's headstones. Do you think your mum would take me to the cemetery?" Mel asked Bella. Bella nodded "Yeah, she's off of work until we go back to school. Do you want me to call the Marauders and Lily? We can go with you if you want." \
Mel smiled sadly. "Yeah, if you would. I don't think I can deal with going by myself yet." Bella came over and hugged her before heading back downstairs to talk to her mum before calling the gang.
Within the hour, Sirius, James, Remus, and Lily were there. When Sirius came over to kiss Bella hello she shook her head and motioned to her brothers who were watching the gang like hawks.
"Right, I'll go drag Mel down here. C'mon Lils." She grabbed the red heads arm and pulled her upstairs to her room. Mel heard Lily and Bella coming up the stairs, which meant everyone was here and ready to go when she was ready. She hugged Lily and asked how her holidays were so far. Lily knew she was trying to keep her mind off the visit that was coming up. When they went downstairs she was attacked by hugs from all three boys, but Remus' hug was the longest. She took comfort from it and didn't want to let go from someone who knew exactly what she was going through. Bella and Sirius smirked at each other, when Remus and Mel hugged, for a long time.
"Okay lovebirds-Ow!" James glared at Lily who smacked him over the head. Soon they all left the house laughing and joking loudly. Mel was both excited and upset that she was going to her parents' graves. She knew that Christmas was her parents' favorite holiday when they were alive, and she wanted to decorate their head stones with flowers and a ribbon around each vase. She was glad her friends were going with her. She couldn't do it alone. Not yet, she wasn't sure if she'd ever be able to anytime in the future.
The group stopped a few feet away from the graves, allowing Mel to go alone, but still be with her. Bella shivered slightly, which caused Sirius's arm to tighten around her, Lily and James were standing hand in hand beside Bella and Sirius, and Remus stood in front of the two couples but still behind Mel. Bella gave Mel an -what she hoped- was an encouraging smile, and motioned for her to go on. Mel looked at them, as if pleading for one of them to go with her. She stood there, fixed on that spot.
"Will someone come up with me?" She asked quietly as she pulled her coat tighter around her. She looked at the lot of them in the hopes they wouldn't say no. Remus nodded and stepped up with her, Bella went to go too, but Sirius held her back, shaking his head.
"We'll be right here Mel." Lily whispered, James and Sirius nodded. Bella leaned up "What was that?" She whispered in Sirius's ear, Sirius sighed, "No matter how much we want too, we wont ever really be able to help her...Remus can." He returned softly. Bella sighed, almost sadly and leaned against him.
Mel was grateful that it was Remus that went with her. She kind of wanted Bella to go too, but she knew that Bella didn't understand like Remus did. Remus wrapped his arm around her for support as they walked up to the headstones.
"Hi mum, hi daddy. Merry Christmas!" she said as she knelt down in front of the stones, wiping her tears. She tried not to let anyone know how hard this first Christmas without them was. Bella watched her best friend try not to cry almost broke down herself. She took a shakily breath and buried her head in Sirius's shoulder. He rubbed in between shoulder softly, he knew that Mel's parents were Bella's second parents.
Remus knelt down beside Mel and kept his arm around her for support. Mel wiped her tears, and leaned into Remus' side as he held her. She turned her head and nodded, holding her hand out beckoning Bella to come over. She knew that in a way she was being selfish by not seeing how Bella was hurting too. They practically lived at each other's houses during the summer. She was just in so much pain she didn't see anybody else's. Bella took a deep breath and walked, tripping over her own feet as she went, over to Mel's other side.
"Hey Mum, Mr. G" Bella said, "Merry Christmas." Mel and Bella were beside themselves. Remus hugged Mel and patted Bella's back, and walked back to the group. He knew they needed a few minutes by themselves. Bella took a shaky breath.
"Don't worry you guys. My mum is taking care of Melly. She's staying with us, when we aren't at school. We're going to a Christmas party on Christmas eve.." She trailed off looking at Mel.
Mel sniffled, "I promise to keep doing well in school, and that I won't do anything stupid. We love you.." Mel pulled her jacket tighter around herself, then looked at Bella. She was always like a sister to her, but now she really was. She was glad that she was always going to be there now.
"Are you ready?" Bella asked her quietly. She didn't want to be in the graveyard anymore that she had too. She loved creepy places as much as the next girl, but she hated graveyards.
"Yeah I'm ready to leave."
Bella and Mel got up and walked back to the group. She had visited their graves and put flowers down. She walked behind the rest of the group. Bella walked back to the group, and right into Sirius's arms. Sirius hogged her close, while Mel put flowers down. After Mel re-joined the group, Remus put his arm around her shoulders. Then they started walking back into town. As the group walked down the street going to the shops, they saw someone playing the guitar on the street corner.
"What's that?" Sirius asked looking at Bella, Mel, and Lily. "Its a guitar. A musical instrument." Lily said. When the guitar player finished his song he looked up, he had dirty blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Bella?" He asked half confused, half shocked. Bella gasped,
"Daniel!" She jerked out Sirius's grip and ran up and nearly tackled him.
"How are you? I haven't seen you since-" Daniel laughed,
"Since I left the prison we called Primary school?" Bella rolled her eyes and chuckled.
"It wasn't that bad." She watched as her best friend interacted with Daniel.
"So, who's the group? He asked her. Bella pointed at Sirius,
"That's my boyfriend, Sirius, then there's James, Lily, Remus, and last but not least, Mel." Sirius piped up,
"Hey what about Peter?" Mel, Bella, and Lily rolled their eyes. "Well he isn't here now is he? Why would I introduce him if he wasn't here?" Sirius pouted when he realized how stupid what he said sounded.
"Guys, this is Daniel, he's a friend of mine from Primary school before he went to the states....and why are you back?" Daniel laughed,
"Tommy boy is getting married, and as little brother I'm a groomsman." He made a face, and Bella laughed,
"Well good luck with that, and tell Tommy I said hey." She went back over to the group. Mel walked with the group, but kept silent, not because she was in a bad mood or anything, but because she was for once enjoying being silent. That in itself shocked the group, but she smiled at their usual banter and giggled at Remus' stupid jokes.
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