Chapter 8
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At lunch time everyone could be found in different parts of the Burrow.
Hermione, Lily, Ginny, Molly, Helen (Charlie's wife), Tonks, Fleur, Luna, Angelina and Katie were all in the kitchen talking about Hermione's life, Angie and everything and anything else.
Harry, Draco, Arthur, Sirius, James, Charlie, Remus, Bill, Ron, Fred and George were talking about the Marauders best pranks and what pranks they think the kids will play at school this year.
The older kids (13 and over) were sitting in one room listening to music and talking.
The younger kids were playing with Bella downstairs.
Upstairs
The kids were all talking. Just they were talking about different things.
Angie, James, Sirius, Damien, Ben, Dave, Raye, Kyle and Yasmin were talking about Quidditch, Damien, Luke, Darien Nick, and Josh were talking about what pranks they should pull and Louise, Mina, Jess and Maddie were talking about books they had read.
In the background the new wizarding band "Phoenix Flames" were playing on the CD player. The song playing was called 'Tears Run Fast'. It was a sad song that was getting on Angie's nerves.
About halfway through the song Angie screamed out "I have had enough." Everyone looked at her in shock.
She got up and left the room.
The men joined the women in the kitchen and they began drinking Butterbeer and talking.
She was on the stairs when she screamed out "MUM!!"
Everyone downstairs jumped up as instinct cut in and they drew their wands. All except Hermione. She was sitting down laughing. "What?" she yelled.
Angie stormed into the room, walked up to her mum and said "Get me to the cottage, I need my cds."
"Oh are they playing sad songs?" Hermione said with a smirk.
"Yes. Can we go?"
"Sure babe. Be right back." Hermione said putting her Butterbeer on the table and apparating back to the cottage.
The two apparated back about 2 minutes later. Angie was holding a plastic bag presumably filled with cds.
"Thanks mum." She shouted before running back up the stairs.
"Honey, what was that about?" Harry said handing Hermione her Butterbeer.
"Oh ever since her break-up with Jake she can't stand sad songs." Hermione said with a smile.
"Jake?" Harry said getting a bit protective.
"Her ex-boyfriend." Hermione said with a smirk.
"Hey Hermione, how did they break-up?" Tonks asked.
"Well
Flashback
It was a beautiful warm, starry night.
Angie was lying on the ground with her head on Jake's chest. His arm was wrapped loosely around her shoulders. They had been going out for two years now.
Jake looked down at Angie and gently kissed her on the forehead. She looked up at him and kissed him on the lips.
They kissed for a little while and talked for a little while before Jake said "Ang, I'm moving in 4 days."
"Oh, well we can still see each other can't we?" Angie asked.
"Well no babe we can't. I'm moving to Australia so we can't really floo there and back." Jake said.
"Why not?" Angie said, silent tears running down her face.
Jake wiped the tears away with his thumb "Our place won't be connected to the floo system and we will have homework and Quidditch to worry about."
"Does this mean we have to break-up?" Angie asked through her tears.
"Yes. Unless you want to continue a really long distance relationship, which I personally think wouldn't work because we have a whole ocean separating us. We can still see each other during holidays I reckon. We will just be extremely close friends." Jake replied, wiping her tears and then his own.
"Yea. But that doesn't mean I won't miss you." Angie said.
"I'll miss you to." Jake replied.
Angie sobbed loud. He wrapped his arms fully around her, sat up and rocked her back and forth.
"Hey now stop crying, we still have 4 days together. Lets make the most of them." Jake said.
He stood up and extended his hand. Angie took it and he pulled her up and into a hug. He pulled back a little bit and kissed her tears away. He lifted her chin and kissed her on the mouth. They then walked inside.
Hermione heard and saw everything. She knew that the day he left would be hell for Angie.
The next four days passed really fast.
On the day Jake was due to leave; Angie was hugging him and crying. She didn't want him to leave.
"Hey
babe, look at me. I want you to move in. Fall in love again. Find
someone who will love you like I do." Jake said kissing the top of
her head "Just please, don't forget me." "Are you
kidding? I love you." Angie said, tears running down her face.
"Never forget me either."
"That would be impossible. I love you too. Write me as often as possible. OK?" Jake said tears running down his face as well.
"Of course. I expect a reply to every letter I send, if you don't reply, I'll send you a howler." Angie said laughing.
"Ok. Don't forget what I said. Fall in love again cause if you don't I'll come back and kick your little ass to kingdom come." Jake said with a smile.
Angie laughed and kissed Jake one last time. The kiss lasted about a minute before Jake had to leave.
She hugged her mum. As he was about to apparate away, she blew him a kiss.
He blew a kiss back at her right before he apparated away.
Angie sobbed into her mum's chest. She would never forget her first love.
End Flashback
"Oh that is so sad yet sweet." Ginny said.
Back Upstairs
Angie walked into the room and walked over to the CD player. She turned off 'Phoenix Flames' and took the cd out of the CD player.
"HEY!!" Everyone shouted at her.
She put a cd into the machine, pressed play and switched to song three.
'Girl Next Door' began to blast out of the CD player.
"Ahh that's better." Angie said sighing contently.
"Angie, what is this?" Mina asked.
"This is Saving Jane. This song is called 'Girl Next Door'. It's way better then any sad stuff. I hate that stuff." Angie said.
"Why?" Victoria asked.
"Well because I spent a month listening to these sorts of songs and they always make me wanna cry, so I don't listen to them". Angie said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Angie, why did you spend a month listening to them if you hated them?" Lita asked her incredulously.
"I spent a month listening to them because my boyfriend of two years and I broke up." Angie said nonchalantly.
"WHAT!! Where does he live? How did he do it? I'm gunna Kill Him!!" James and Sirius said.
Angie laughed. "Hey chill. We couldn't help breaking up, he was moving to Australia and we decided that such a long distance relationship would be too hard to do. If you two go anywhere near him, I'll kill you."
"Ok. We won't go near him." James and Sirius said with their heads bowed.
"Hey, that reminds me, I have to write him. Anyone have a quill, some ink and some parchment?" Angie asked.
Darien handed her a quill from the desk in the room, Josh handed her some ink and Ben gave her a few pieces of parchment.
"Thanks." Angie said and sat down to write a letter.
Dear Jake;
Hey. How are you? I hope everything is good over there in Australia. Everything here in England is pretty good. You'll never guess what, a few days ago, I found out who my family was AND I found my dad AND I have two older brothers.
How scary is that? My dad is the FAMOUS Harry Potter! You'll have to come over here and meet him. He is pretty cool. We have so much in common. We both play seeker, we both have had numerous Quidditch injuries and we are both very good at Defense Against the Dark Arts.
How are your holidays? Mine are okay. I think I might be changing schools so I can be with my family, hold on my brothers are leaning over my shoulder telling me to tell you their names are James and Sirius and that I WILL be changing schools.
I Miss You. You do know that I EXPECT a reply! I better get one or you know you are getting a howler.
Lots of Love
Angie xxx
She put down her quill, put the cap in the ink and folded up the parchment.
"Does anyone have an owl I can use?" Angie asked
"Yea, come with me." Darien said standing up.
Angie followed Darien downstairs where they walked into the kitchen. "Hey mum, dad, can I floo home with Angie, she has a letter she needs to send." Darien asked his mum.
"It's ok with me what about you Hermione?" Tonks asked.
"Yea sure, is that letter to Jake?" Hermione asked.
"Of course it is. I told him no reply equals a howler." Angie said with a smirk.
Hermione laughed and said "Go on because dinner will be ready soon."
Darien and Angie walked into the lounge room; Darien grabbed a handful of floo powder and stepped into the fire. Angie followed him in. Darien put an arm around her waist and pulled her closer. They both felt a little spark but ignored it. Darien threw the powder into the fire and said "Lupin Manor."
In a whirl of emerald green the two disappeared. They passed fireplaces and saw into people's homes before they landed on the floor at Lupin Manor.
Angie landed on top of Darien as he didn't get out of the way fast enough.
"Hello there Angie." Darien said with a smirk.
Angie laughed and jumped off him and held out a hand to help him up.
"Come on, I'll show you to the Owlery." Darien said leading here through the house.
She attached the letter to the leg of a beautiful black owl with a white circle around the eye.
"That's my owl. Her name is Panda because of the white area around her eye." Darien told her as Panda flew away to its destination.
"Cute. So who do these owls belong to?" Angie asked pointing at the other owls in the Owlery.
"Umm, the Brown Barn Owl is dads and it is called Sye, the white spotty one is mums and it is called Cloud, the black one with the bright blue eyes is Minas and it is called Skye. Stacey doesn't have an owl yet, she will probably get one for Hogwarts if she doesn't choose a cat." Darien said pointing at each owl in turn.
"Ok. So do you wanna head back?" Angie said walking to the door.
"How about I give you a tour of the place then we will head back." Darien asked.
"Ok. Lead the way." Angie said.
For the next 20 minutes Darien showed her his room, Mina's room, Stacey's room, his parent's room and anywhere else in the manor.
They walked back to the fireplace. "I'll go first." Angie said.
"Ok. But get out of the way fast because as soon as you leave, I'm coming after you." Darien said with a smile.
Angie laughed, turned around and picked up a handful of floo powder. "The Burrow." She cried right before she was gone in a flash of emerald green.
When Angie left, Darien had some time to think. Angie would never like me. She probably thinks of me as her brother after what I did to help her. Well if she doesn't like me, I will still always be there for her no matter what.
Darien followed Angie. As he slid out, Angie had just stood up and was talking to Mina, James, Sirius and Ben. He knocked into her and she landed on top of him.
She started cracking up. Her laugh was infectious because Darien soon followed then everyone else.
She jumped off him and held out her hand. He took and they stood up.
"Come on you two, grandma wants to start dinner and she can't do that if you two aren't here. What took you so long?" Ben asked with a secretive smile.
"Yea. You were only sending a letter. What did you to do?" James said getting suspicious.
"Nothing, Darien took me on a tour of his place that's all. Come on, I want dinner." Angie said.
The six of them walked into the kitchen. Sirius Sr. opened his mouth to ask what took so long when Angie said "Before you ask, Darien took me on a tour of the manor. That's all. Now let's eat."
Dinner was delicious. There was a roast chicken with stuffing and vegetables. For dessert there was a chocolate cake and ice-cream.
Just after everyone had finished dessert, Angie was helping Mrs. Weasley move the dishes to the sink and everyone else was talking. Harry looked at his father, godfather and Remus. They nodded at him and he nodded back. He cleared his throat and got the attention of the entire kitchen.
"Everybody I have something to say. I want to propose a toast. To Hermione for coming back safely. We missed you heaps." Harry said.
"Hermione." Everyone chorused then took a drink.
"Also I have something else to say," Harry said walking over to stand in front of Hermione. He kneeled and every female in the room gasped. "Hermione, I love you so much. You are the mother of my three wonderful kids and I can't imagine ever being without you again. Will You Marry Me?" Harry said pulling out a square cut diamond ring, surrounded by little emeralds on a gold band.
Mrs. Weasley dropped the plate she was holding, Angie gasped, James and Sirius Jr. chocked on their drinks, Fleur, Angelina and Katie started to cry and Luna and Ginny squealed in delight.
"Well… I…" Hermione said.
TBC
