Chapter 14: Rose's decision

One month later…

"Rose, where are you?" Scorpius shouted as he walked through the door after a tiring day at work.

"In the kitchen," she shouted back.

Scorpius walked through the living room, where Emily was playing with her dolls, into the kitchen. Rose was sat at the table with a glass of orange juice in one hand and a piece of parchment in the other. Scorpius assumed it was another letter from Hugo pleading them to tell their parents.

"So, what did they say about the babies?" Scorpius asked.

"You would have known if you bothered to show up!" Rose replied in an icy voice.

"Hey, I said I was sorry, my boss wouldn't let me go! God I can't wait until I get paternity leave."

"It's okay; I understand that your work is important to you. I just thought that I would have come first." This was one of the many things he hated about Rose being pregnant. Hormones.

He chose his next words carefully so as not to upset her even more. "Rose, you, Emily and the twins are the only things that matter to me. I tried to get away but I couldn't. Please tell me what they said."

Rose sighed but answered anyway. "Well, they are perfectly healthy and progressing fine."

"And?"

"And it's a girl and two boys."

"Yes! Wait… what?"

Rose couldn't help but laugh at the look on his face. "I-I'm only jok-joking," she forced out between giggles.

"Ah ha, there is that mischievous side of you coming out again. So am I right in saying it is one girl and one boy?" Scorpius said.

Rose couldn't speak for laughing so, instead, she just nodded.

"humm… I suppose that was my punishment for not being there today?"

Rose managed to calm herself down enough to talk. "No, I'm not done with you yet. You are on putting Emily too bed duty for the rest of the month and cooking for two weeks."

"'Til the end of the month?! It's the fourth of april!"

"Exactly."

Scorpius groaned. "You're evil, you know that? What did the letter say?"

"That's why you love me… it was Hugo with the same thing as usual. I'm starting to worry about them, they seem really broken up. Not that I blame them, I mean if Emily ran away like we did I would probably be like them. I just can't imagine it." Rose's eyes started to tear up. "Stupid hormones."

"Honey, come on don't cry," he said softly putting his arms around her and resting his chin on her head. "Do you want to get in touch with them?" he didn't want to be found but he couldn't deny it to her any longer. She needed her family around her. She didn't know any different.

Rose nodded. What else could she do? She had her brother pressuring her and telling her how much they miss her. Contacting Hugo was supposed to make things easier for her, to help her with the loss, but it just made things worse. She needed her parents and she did not want to go through this pregnancy alone like she did with the last one. Sure she had Scorpius but there was plenty of time where he had ended up on the couch while she was pregnant. She wasn't ready to handle that again.

Then there was Emily. She needed her grandparents and aunts and uncles. No one even knew about her. She had grown up alone with no children her age to play with. Rose knew from Hugo that James had a daughter her age, which surprised her seeing as James was always a player and never wanted to settle down.

"Actually, no. No I don't want to go. It's too much hassle and I don't think I can face them again. You obviously don't want to see your family again. I mean why would you? Your father chucked you out and disowned you."

Scorpius's eyes turned dark at the mention of his father. "Thanks for the reminder," he said bitterly. "But, actually thinking about it I wouldn't mind going back. Just to show that stupid pig head that I am not afraid to show my face. That's why we should go back. To show everyone that we haven't run away, we just needed to get away."

"That couldn't be truer but my parents won't buy it. They know that I ran away to be with you. My brother keeps telling them that they will forgive me and all they want is for me to be at home, but how do I know if they will forgive you? I know my dad and as soon as he sees you he will want to punch your lights out. They couldn't care less if you were my husband or not, my family will want you away from me because you are a bad influence."

"But, Rose, I don't care! Do you remember what I asked you the morning after we had come here?" he asked. He remembered it like it was yesterday, not three years ago.

"er… no," Rose replied slowly.

"I asked you if you would rather run and be happy or stay and be miserable. You said run and be happy, the only thing is, your not happy anymore." He sighed and sat down next to her. "I don't believe you ever were. Sure you were happy to be with me and you were happy when Emily came along and you are happy about being pregnant again. But, just think to all the times in between, when were you happiest?"

"When I saw Hugo," she answered quietly after a moment.

Scorpius nodded. "Which tells you?"

"That I need to go back in order to be properly happy."

"Exactly." Scorpius smiled to himself. He may not be totally happy about facing her family after what they did but at least she would be happy. "So, when do we leave?"

"Can you give me a couple of days to get my head around this before we decide on this?"

"Sure, I am going to see how Emily is getting on with her dolls." With that he walked into the living room to find Emily.

Rose sat there with lots of thoughts going round and round in her head. How was she going to explain herself to the family? She had been gone three years without so much as a word to anyone (except Hugo) and now she was just going to go back. This was not good.

Just then the door bell rang.

"I will get it?" Scorpius called from the living room. Rose heard him unlocking the door, then hushed voices before, "Rose!" sighing she stood up and walked through the living room, where Emily was still playing with her dolls, and into the hall way. As soon as she saw who was at the door she froze.

In her door way stood the three people she had wanted to see ever since she left England. Hugo stood with Albus and Kimberly next to him. Albus looked just as handsome as ever with his messy raven black hair and emerald eyes. Kimberly looked exactly the same as the last time she saw her, young face, long, straight red hair and dazzling hazel eyes. Rose was speechless.

"I didn't know you were expecting anyone," Scorpius said bringing her back to reality.

"I wasn't, but let's not stand here in the door way staring at each other. Come in." The three visitors stepped inside and rose led them into the lounge.

"Rosie, its so good to see you again," Kimberly said giving her a hug.

Rose returned the hug but not before noticing something shine on her left hand. "You didn't say you were engaged, or rather Hugo didn't."

"Actually that's why we are here-"

"Wait a second, sorry Kim, but… Rose, is she yours?" Albus asked pointing at Emily.

Rose just rolled her eyes at him. "Al, who else's is she going to be? Her name is Emily."

Albus just shrugged. "She would be what… two?"

"Yes…" Rose didn't like where this was going. She could almost read the next question before he said it.

"Is that the reason you ran away?" Albus tore his gaze away from Emily to look Rose straight in the eye.

"What? No! I didn't find out I was pregnant until after we ran away. Albus, if that is why you are here… to accuse me then you might as well just leave now," Rose said, anger was evident in her voice and in her eyes.

"its not!" Kimberly said quickly. "The reason we are here is not to point the finger or judge you," she glared at Albus as she said this. "or to make you go home," she then turned her glare to Hugo.

"Then why are you here? I know its now just to see me because you would have done that earlier if that was the case."

"Rose, believe it or not that is what I am here for. I just want to know why but that can wait until after Kim has asked you her question," Albus said, his attention back on Emily. Rose was confused now.

"Rose, I'm here because I am getting married in what… three weeks?" Kimberly started. "I have kind of wanted to ask you this for a while, ever since Hugo found out where you lived. I just put it off. But I am here now because of a promise we made as kids, do you remember when we said that we would both be maid of honour at each others weddings, obviously I couldn't be at yours for obvious reasons," she gave a small glare in Scorpius's direction. "But will you be at mine?"

Scorpius dropped his staring contest he was having with Albus and turned to Rose. Upon seeing the exited yet held back look on her face he said, "Right, I will go pack then."

"Wait; let me get my head around this."

"Rose, it is obvious you want to go and be Kimberly's maid of honour, besides didn't we just agree that we were going back anyway? This is the perfect opportunity." Scorpius just realised that he had landed himself on the sofa for a week after saying that.

"No, you decided that!" Rose practically shouted.

"I asked you the same thing I did almost three years ago. You gave me an answer; it is as simple as that!" Scorpius said calmly. "You wanted to go home and see all your cousins and I know that you are dying to make up with your parents so let's just go and get it over with!"

"Get it over with!? You sound like you don't want to go back!" Rose was almost shouting now. Emily had gone over to Hugo and hugged him because she didn't like the raised voices.

"Rose, you know as well as I do that your father is going to want to punch my lights out, if we are going to go I would rather get the black eye now than have it at Kimberly's wedding."

"At least he is smart!" Albus put in while sniggering, earning a glare from everyone in the room. "All as I'm saying is that he has a point. Uncle Ron will not just standby and welcome him with open arms after he 'manipulated' you into running away."

"Manipulated? Does he not think I can think for myself? Scorpius, pack our bags. We're leaving." With that Rose stormed into the kitchen and put the kettle on.

Everyone turned back to Albus with glares on their faces again.

"What? I had to say something to make her go didn't I? This just means that she will have a go at Uncle Ron. Now, what I want to know is how long she was pregnant before you ran away?" Albus asked, he clearly though that was why they had run away. Either that or he wanted to punch Scorpius himself.

"I dunno, a couple of weeks." With that he went upstairs to pack their suitcases, leaving Rose to chat with her cousins.

"Rosie, are you okay?" Kimberly asked walking into the kitchen.

"I'm fine, Kim… just a bit overwhelmed. Congratulations by the way." She added some hot chocolate to a mug and then the hot water.

"Thanks," Kimberly said with a smile plastered on her face. "You too."

"Huh? Oh did Hugo tell you or am I that transparent?"

"both, but somehow I don't think Albus knows."

Rose laughed. "I wont be telling him for a while either, he already looks like he wants to hit Scorpius for getting me pregnant once."

They both laughed.

"Are you ready to go?" Hugo came through and asked.

"I guess I will never be ready but I am going to have to face them sometime," Rose replied.

"Okay, meet me at my house Rose I have a spare room big enough for the three of you," Hugo offered.

"Thanks, Hugo."

"Come on then."

an: bit naf n random i no but it works out for the minute and i really wanted to get an update on this

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