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Chapter 14- I Just Wanna Believe In Us
"Don't you walk away from me!" Alicia folded her arms across her chest and marched after him. " I have a very serious situation that needs some clarifying, George Weasley!"
"Hey we were wondering when you'd get here." Katie's voice caused Alicia to halt.
Her friends sat smugly around the Weasley's kitchen table. Her eyes darted for a second to see if Anabelle had decided to attend the dinner, but the weight lifted from her shoulders when she saw George take a seat next to Lee. No Anabelle.
"Yeah well maybe if my friends weren't such prats we could have all arrived on time together!" She scowled in the general direction of Katie and Angelina.
Fred smirked and slinked his arm around Angelina's shoulder. "What's this serious situation, Ali?" He glanced at his twin who opted to shrug.
" My problems with George are quite personal." She glared at him.
"Sounds kinky." Lee chuckled but stopped when George threw a dirty dishtowel at him.
The Weasley kitchen looked relatively the same as always, and Alicia maneuvered herself around the large kitchen table in order to grab the only empty seat. A large bowl sat on the table and was happily stirring itself when she picked it up and moved it to the counter so it was out of her way. Each seat at the table was a different shape and color and Alicia felt her smile go wide when she sat down in the plush purple armchair that had always been her favorite. She was glad that Mrs. Weasley had never thrown the old thing out.
"Alicia!" Speaking of Molly, the round and jolly woman came into the kitchen and picked up the bowl that Alicia had moved. " So good to see you again, dear. I'm glad to see you made it." The large spoon stopped stirring as Molly emptied the contents into a dish.
"Wouldn't miss a good old fashioned Weasley dinner for the world." She spoke softly. It was dinner's like these that used to make her jump for joy in the past. These were the days she'd spend hours on end with George until dinner was ready. After dinner they'd go for a walk and George would tell her all his plans for the future joke shop. She missed those days.
"Well that's good to hear. Seems like only yesterday you and Ginny would be out back with the boys playing a round of Quidditch before dinner. Which reminds me-" The woman turned to the lot of them and shook the spoon. " why don't you kids head outside while I finish up in here. No use sitting around waiting while your still so young and spry." Molly let out a tiny giggle. "Besides Harry and Ron are out back and I'm sure they'd love to play."
Lee pounded his hand down on the table. "I call commentator!"
"Lee, you always call commentator." Katie shot up from the table.
"Don't crack jokes at me woman!" Lee called after her as they both left the kitchen.
"Well if Lee's commentator then I'm sticking to beater." Fred followed in step behind Katie and Lee.
"Me too!" George waved his arm around like a five year old and Alicia rolled her eyes.
"Chaser!" Angelina moved from the table so quickly that she knocked over the chair and stumbled to her feet. "Come on Leesh!" She reached for Alicia's hand and yanked the girl to her feet.
"Oh Alicia." Both girls paused and turned towards Molly again. " Ginny had some things to show you. I think you'll find her up in her room if you wanted to stop there first." Returning to her dinner preparations she turned her back on the girls.
"You go out and play and I'll catch up when I'm done with Gin." Dropping Angelina's hand she gave a nod towards the door. "Go on, I'll be out in a bit."
"Fine, but you better be prepared to go up against some tough competition." Angelina flexed her right arm. Alicia just burst out laughing and Angelina gave her a whack. "Laugh now, Spinnet." She snarled and then spun on her heel and headed outside.
Alicia took a breath to slow her laughing and made her way up the staircase towards the bedroom she had spent some of the best parts of her life in. Climbing the stairs she took a jump over the eighth step after recalling how it sometimes gave out without any warning. Suddenly she felt like she was fourteen all over again.
"Gin wait up!" She panted slightly as she tried to keep up with the youngster.
"Come on Ali! I have to show you this!" Ginny looked over her shoulder and laughed at Alicia who was obviously having trouble keeping up. "How do you keep up with Fred and George if you can't even keep up with me!"
"Sod off, Ginny!" Alicia reached the staircase and began to take them two at a time to keep up.
"Watch the eighth!" But Ginny's words came too late as Alicia hit the eighth step and felt it give out completely.
She screamed, her arms flying out in front of her as her body began to fall backwards. She heard a bit of thudding behind her and gave out a shriek as two arms slipped under her armpits and restrained her from falling. Her voice was caught in her throat, and she felt a few tears fall down her cheeks as Ginny bolted down the stairs.
"Oh gods Ali, are you ok?" Alicia just nodded, and remained unaware of the mysterious hero behind her. "You are terribly lucky George was here to catch you."
Alicia felt her heart stop beating. George? Glancing over her shoulder she looked up into a pair of eyes that were simply beaming with pride. "You owe me your life, Ali." He winkled. " I expect you to be groveling on your feet when I say so."
"Oh you wish Weasley!" Her words came out sort of raspy and stammered, but she stood up straight and pushed by Ginny. "Come on Gin lets get upstairs before George's ego blows up his head and blocks us from getting by."
" Come on how about one little kiss as a repayment." He pointed to his cheek and Alicia felt her cheeks go bright red.
"I'd rather kiss a toilet seat!"
" Fred and I could arrange that." He smirked.
"I wish you let me fall." She scowled and pounded her feet back up the stairs.
"You're weakening, Ali."
She heard him chuckle as they entered Ginny's room and closed the door.
She was pretty sure that was the day she realized that she loved him. For awhile it had sat in the back of her head and she brushed it off as nothing, but after he caught her- she knew the feeling in her heart meant something. It was something that Ginny proceeded to tease her about for the next three years.
Pausing at the top of the staircase, Alicia lifted her arm and gave a knock on Ginny's door. "Gin, it's me."
"Come in!"
Alicia pushed open the door and grinned at Ginny who was sprawled out across her floor. Pictures scattered around her body and Alicia immediately sat beside her and started sifting through the photos. "Your mum told me to come and see you." She glanced down at one of Ginny and Charlie and chuckled as Charlie had picked Ginny up and tossed her in a puddle of mud. "Making an album or something?"
Picking herself up and tucking her legs beneath her, Ginny shook her head. "Nah, not really. My mum forced me to go through a few old boxes that I had stored away, and two of them were filled with old photos."
"I remember this one." Alicia pointed to a photo of Ron and Hermione under a tree in their backyard. "Remember how embarrassed he got when you told him you were going to put it up in the common room when school started up again."
Ginny grinned. " Course I do. I still use many of those techniques to blackmail the poor chump." She reached over and took the photo from Alicia. " but these aren't the reason why I asked you to come up here…" Reaching behind her she pulled out a stack of pictures and grinned. " these are for you. Ya know, in case you decide you wanna go back to Australia at least you'll have these to remember us by."
Alicia quirked her eyebrow as she took the bundle of photo's. "You thought I was going back?" Placing them in her lap she untied the ribbon that Ginny had fastened them with.
"I wasn't sure." She shrugged. " All that really crossed my mind was making sure you didn't forget us."
Picking up the top photo she grinned at her fourteen year old self. "Why didn't you ever tell me I looked like such a boy." She pointed to her ponytail and dirt covered face.
"Like you've changed." Ginny gave a tug on her ponytail.
"Oh my Merlin!" Alicia howled out in laughter. "Look at this!" She pulled out a picture of Ginny. "You used to be so cute! What were you like ten here?"
Grabbing the photo from a snickering Alicia, Ginny smiled. "I was eleven actually."
"Ah so this was the Harry stage."
"Shut up."
For a good twenty minutes the two girls went through the stack. Alicia laughed madly at every single photo. Some were from the school year, while others were during holidays. Alicia smiled as she recalled every memory that went along with the captured moments.
"These are so great, Gin." She placed down a picture of Charlie holding her in a headlock. " I cant believe you found-"
Her heart stopped.
The picture began to shake and it took her a second to realize that it was her hand that was shaking it. The two figures in the picture smiled back at her, and she felt her eyes begin to fill with the tears of eight long years.
"I remember this." Her finger traced lightly over the surface of the photo. " I didn't even know…you snapped this?" She stole a quick glance at Ginny who was smiling softly.
"I couldn't really help myself, ya know." She shrugged. " It was the same day-"
"I missed the eighth step." Her words fell quietly across the room. " I remember." She brought the photo inches from her face and watched as they ran around in circles in the backyard. The rain was pouring heavily down upon them, and she laughed as she recalled how cold the droplets had been on her face. It looked as though she didn't even mind in the picture. The grin on her face was beaming with such delight that she chuckled softly.
" I wasn't even sure if you'd want this photo, but I remember how you told me that you loved him that day…."
"And it was the same day we had that huge fight." She grinned. "so I stormed out into the rain and when he followed me out I tackled him to the ground." Right on cue she watched as her photo-self tackled George to the wet ground.
"I watched it all from the window." Ginny blushed. "and don't think I was spying or anything, but I was just concerned when you stormed out of the house in such a fit. When I saw that you two had made up…well the mood of the picture just seemed so perfect."
Her eyes remained glued to the photo. " We danced." She felt a tear roll down her cheek and slid off her chin. " Even in the rain, without any music, he asked me to dance with him" A small chuckle escaped her. "Oh and I was still so mad at him, but my heart just skipped a beat when he asked me." In the photo she watched as he rolled her over and rubbed her face in the mud. "Sometimes he was such a prat, and other times-" Her photo-self laughed as he lifted her to her feet. His photo image bowed and held out his hand. Giggling she took his hand and in the rain they danced. " other times he stole my heart."
Ginny kept quiet as Alicia watched the photo for what seemed like an eternity. She hadn't meant for the picture to upset Alicia, but it was obvious from the pain in her eyes that this photo was pulling up memories that had left a permanent impression on her soul. Each tear that fell was evidence to that. There was a instinct running inside Ginny to yank the photo from Alicia's hand before she went completely nutters staring at it, but by the time she had worked up enough courage to do it Alicia placed the photo down the front of her shirt.
"This really means more to me then you could ever know, Gin. Thank you." Throwing her arms around Ginny, Alicia squeezed her with every ounce of strength that she had.
"Anytime, Ali." Ginny pressed her eyes closed and grinned. She didn't think there could ever be a better time to give her friend that special picture. For some reason it felt like this moment had been the perfect opportunity, and perhaps- well perhaps it would bring about some serious realization for the two daft wankers. After all it was evident that the two were still head over heels for each other. All they needed was that tiny little push. Ginny hoped she had pushed hard enough.
"Girls!" Molly Weasley's voice carried up the stairs and into Ginny's room which caused both girls to pull back from the hug.
"What mum?" Ginny yelled so obnoxiously loud that Alicia cringed.
"You girls have been up there for far too long. The others are done playing, and we are just about to sit for supper. Come down and join us." Her voice carried off and both girls assumed that she had gone outside for dinner.
"Come on, if we don't hurry up the boys will eat all the food." She rolled her eyes and pushed herself up from the floor.
Together the two girls hurried down the staircase, Alicia's hand placed lightly over her breast where the picture sat snugly. She'd would have normally placed it in her pocket, but the chance that someone would see it was far greater then if she placed it beneath her blouse. Suddenly she halted.
"Ginny I haven't seen your brothers in years. This is going to be so weird." Her face was flushed and Ginny snickered.
"Nah don't worry about it. What's the worst that could happen?" Grabbing her hand Ginny pulled her through the door and into the backyard. All heads turned in their direction, and Alicia suddenly felt very exposed to the entire Weasley family.
"Oh my gods, look at little Ali." Charlie Weasley got up from his seat and bounded around the long picnic table. Taking her in his very large arms he cracked her back and grinned. " Baby Spinnet it's been so long." with that he proceeded to put her in a headlock. Oh how things just never change.
"Charlie!" Molly yelled firmly. "Place Alicia down this instant."
"Mum I haven't seen her in years!" He still hadn't let her go from the headlock and Alicia desperately tried to squirm her way out of it.
"Charlie, now!" This was all that was needed for Charlie to let her go and place her gently back on the ground.
"It's good to see ya kid." He ruffled her hair and smirked.
"Kid? Merlin Charlie I'm twenty five." She gave him a shove. "What are you now, thirty? You old man…" She burst into a fit of giggles as Charlie swatted at her ponytail wit ha bit of a grumble.
"Come on now, come on now…." Molly waved the three of them towards the table. "Lets get to eating before the weather turns sour."
Alicia glanced up at the sky and frowned at a few dark rolling clouds. She felt Ginny give her a shove and snapping back into reality she approached the long table that seemed to be filled with snickering faces. Her eyes darted from seat to seat and she watched as Ginny quickly sat beside Neville and Charlie reclaimed his seat in between Bill and Harry.
The sodding idiots.
She glared at Angelina who was wiping tears away from her eyes. Fred shoved a piece of roll into his mouth and rubbed the empty seat beside him. "Grab a seat, Ali." He stifled the rest of his laughter by shoving the remainder of the roll into his mouth. The only two who seemed to be unaffected by the humor in this situation were Mr and Mrs. Weasley. Though she supposed they never really understood what happened with George. So when she sat down into the seat beside Fred she casually glanced to her left and noticed a satisfied look on George's face. From across the table Ginny, Lee and Katie kept their eyes glued down to their plates in order to refrain from bursting into laughter themselves.
Gits.
Even Hermione, Ron and Harry thought the situation was humorous, and when Bill leaned over to ask Harry what the situation was Alicia just looked down the table at them and glared. Suddenly the rain seemed very inviting.
"Well don't just sit there…dig in." Molly reached for a bowl full of salad and piled some on her plate.
"Come on Ali, eat something." Fred snickered again and Alicia reached under the table and dug her nails into his knee. "Ow!"
"You are so lucky your parents are in our presence right now." She hissed in his ear.
"Angie, would you control your maid of honor. She's threatening me." Fred whispered in Angelina's direction but she was too busy talking to Fleur who was sitting on her other side. "Angelina!" Fred yelled in her ear, and as Angelina jumped slightly in her seat she lifted another roll and shoved in into his mouth.
"Gff I loff ur semtems." He spoke with the roll still shoved in his mouth.
"What?"
"I think he said 'God I love her sometimes.'" George piped up next to her but she pretended not to hear him. He just rolled his eyes and reached for another piece of chicken.
Alicia sighed and turned her attention back to her empty plate. Even though she suddenly had no desire to eat she supposed she had to have something so Molly wouldn't feel awful. If only Ginny hadn't shown her that picture before dinner sitting beside George wouldn't be so bloody difficult.
"So Alicia " Her head perked up at her name and she leaned a bit over the table towards Harry.
"Yes Harry?" Gods the last time she had spoken to him was right before her last day at Hogwarts. He had certainly grown.
"Angelina was telling us how your currently seeing, Wood." Alicia felt her face pale. "How is the bloke? Still a ruddy drill sergeant when it comes to Quidditch?"
Alicia felt her eyes go wide and she shot Angelina a look. Angelina just shrugged and forked a heaping mound of mashed potatoes into her mouth. "Uh, yes I, well you see Angelina set me up on a date with him and we've only really gone out twice."
"Wood? Really, now?" Charlie spoke up beside Harry. " Would have never guess you and Wood becoming an item." SHe noticed how Charlies eyes flickered towards George for a brief second. " I hope those rumors aren't true then for your sake." He lifted the drumstick from his plate and took a huge bite of chicken.
"What rumors, dear?" Molly quirked her eyebrow.
"Yes, please, what rumors?" Alicia reached for a roll and felt her hand clasp down on another. Her eyes shot to the bread basket and she quickly retracted it when she noticed it was George's. He just grinned and she turned her attention back to Charlie.
"Oh you know…the rumors." He rolled his hand in front of his face.
"Yeah but he denied those rumors ages ago." Angelina piped up and then quickly shut her mouth as Alicia gave her the patented death-stare.
"You knew about rumors!" Alicia yelled out in a tone that made the entire table jump. "Why'd you let me go out with him if there were rumors! Wait…what are the rumors." She heard George chuckle beside her. "Butterfly George." She pointed across the table and smirked as George jumped slightly in his seat. At least that shut him up.
Charlie swallowed the lump that had formed in the back of his throat. All eyes were focused on him as he took a long sip of juice. Alicia's fingers were tapping nervously on the picnic table.
"Wait are these the gay rumors?" Lee nonchalantly spoke up from across the table.
"What?" Voiced every person at the table. Well minus Fred who had proceeded to spit his pumpkin juice onto Neville.
"That's not the rumor I was talking about!" Charlie shook his head back and forth.
"Me either!" Angelina slammed her hand down onto the table.
"Oh." Lee shrugged and went back to eating his macaroni.
"Lee!" Alicia threw a roll across the table at him.
"What?" He spoke with a mouth full of macaroni.
"The rumors!" This came from Angelina's mouth who was a genuinely surprised as Alicia.
"Eh, I read in some magazine that Wood was having an affair with some fella. When they asked him about it he denied it. Caused an uproar too cause apparently he got a lot of threatening owls from people who didn't approve. Ya know how silly people get about things like that. " He rolled his eyes. " It cleared up though after a few months. A few people saw him with a couple of girls and the next day the pictures were plastered all over the Prophet." He shrugged again and went back to eating.
Alicia was silent but suddenly famished. She piled loads of food onto her plate in order to keep her mouth occupied so she wouldn't have to talk. Charlie on the other hand still shook his head.
"I was gonna bring up that rumor about him swindling money out of the league, geez." And with that the rest of dinner was finished with talk about the wedding.
"Which is why I chose to have one large section for guests instead of a bride and groom side." Angelina handed Molly another dirty bowl and watched as the woman charmed away the filth.
The other girls silently rolled their eyes and gagged at the topic of conversation. Which wasn't so awful when they first started talking about it, but you could only talk about wedding plans so long before going nuts. Unless you were Angelina of course. Alicia had been making faces at Katie, who had been throwing odd looks at Ginny, who was mimicking Angelina for anyone who would watch. The three girls were in silent hysterics while Angelina kept her back to the three of them. Which saved them from the wrath of Angie.
When the final bowl was placed away and Angelina had finally calmed down the wedding jabber, Alicia craned her neck and glanced out the window. The sky was growing darker by the minute, and she watched at the wind had slowly begun to pick up speed. The boys were seated in the other room doing typical cliché boy things, and the girls had opted to help Molly clean up for desert. Now with everything packed away she had some spare time before any cake was served.
"I'm gonna go outside for a bit." She placed her hands down on the surface of the table and pushed herself up.
"Want me to come with?" Katie arched her eyebrow.
Alicia felt the tip of the photo pressing against her skin and she quickly shook her head. "I'll be back in a few…just need some mental time."
"I'll give a call when desert is out, dear." Molly smiled so wide that her eyes became narrow slits. "Shouldn't be too long so don't go far."
Alicia nodded silently and then before any other questions could come her way she slipped out of the room and made her way into the backyard.
Land.
The one thing she had always loved about the burrow was the hills in the backyard and the endless green land. Some days she felt she could sprawl out onto her back and stare at the vast sky for hours on end. The top of the hill was always the best place for that. So she folded her arms across her chest and strolled across the grass towards the sloping hill. It wasn't a spectacular hill, but it dipped just enough that they used to have rolling contests when she was younger. Of course she always won.
Crossing her legs she sat down on the grass and tilted her head back to face the sky. The gray clouds were beginning to turn a darker shade, and she closed her eyes waiting for the storm to settle down upon her.
"You busy?"
Without opening her eyes she just sighed as she spoke. "Do you enjoy following me around?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" She felt him sit down beside her and she felt then it was only polite to sit up straighter and open her eyes.
"Oh don't play, George. It's why I was ticked when I got here." She shot him a look with her eyes narrowed, but when his expression didn't falter she just rolled her eyes. " I know about those stupid little disk things. Fred was telling me that he found a bunch of them out at the shop, and that you guys hadn't used them in months. Suddenly you find use for a tracking device, and show up on my date with Oliver in a sleazy bar?"
"Hey I like that bar!"
"That's not the point." She waved her hand back and forth. "The point is you followed me…you keep following me!"
George's expression still didn't waver. "Alicia I have no idea what Fred may have implied to you, but I didn't follow you with my devices. I'll have you know I used it in order to keep one of our delivered items secure on the map. We just sold a huge amount of fireworks to a big wig in France. I wanted to make sure they got there all right." Hell maybe he needed to become an actor. He needed to get a hold of Anabelle's agent.
Alicia, eyes still narrowed, lowered her guard for a minute. "So you are promising me that you didn't follow me last night?" The corner of the picture poked her again beneath her top. Her eyes went soft.
"Ali, I swear." He held up his right hand and crossed his heart.
"Fine." She averted her eyes from him and continued to stare out across the land.
"So what were you and Gin doing upstairs? We waited for you to play for awhile but then Angelina got cranky." He bent his knees and rested his chin down upon them.
"She had some things she wanted to show me. Some pictures from school and stuff." A clap of thunder sounded in the far distance and she wrapped her arms around her legs.
"Oh."
If there were any time she hated awkward silence, this was definitely one of those times. Especially with the damn picture poking her sending memories of what once was though her head.
"George…" She sounded like such a child.
"Yeah?" Another clap of thunder muffled his voice, but she distinctly heard the nervousness ring out.
"I'm sorry about yesterday. Ya know bringing up all that old stuff in front of Anabelle." She shifted her weight and finally turned to face him. " It really wasn't right of me."
"Two apologies from you within the last few days." He made a noise in the back of his throat. " Accepted….but only because I have to apologize too. I started it after all." Reaching out he gave her arm a nudge. "Guess we're even now or something."
The nervous hesitation was so thick between the two of them that Alicia took a very deep breath in order to keep composure. "Guess that was one thing we were always good at." She shrugged as George quirked his eyebrow. "Fighting you prat. We always knew how to push each others buttons."
"In many ways." He replied softly, his eyes finding refuge in the dark sky.
"Of course I always won the battles." She puffed out her chest slightly. "I always was better at that stuff."
"Are you crazy?" Another clap of thunder boomed above them and this time a few spots of rain fell from the heavens.
"No! You know certainly well that I always beat you!" By now Alicia had gotten to her feet and her hands were placed firmly on her hips.
"That's such bull!" He was on his feet now, and his body towered over her tiny frame. "I'll take you right now, Ali." He struck his fist against his chest.
Alicia threw back her head and laughed. The rain was beginning to grow heavy and she tossed her ponytail back and forth allowing the water to whip around her head. "You're nutters, Weasley!"
"Oh yeah?" He advanced on her.
"Yeah." Without warning she ran full strength against him and knocked him to the muddy ground. "One for me and none for oh so macho you." She struck her own fist against her chest.
"You're cheap." He groaned. "But I'm cheaper." And with a toss he rolled her over and placed her in the mud.
"George!" She tried to push him off of her, but her kept her arms pinned firmly to the ground.
"Say it." He grinned. "Come on Ali, say it and I'll let you go."
"I will not!" She tossed again but failed to even move a inch from beneath him.
"Ali…"
"Ok" She sighed and took a deep breath. "George Weasley you are oh so strong and mighty and it's an honor to have you hold me down because so many other girls would die for a chance like this." She glared at him as he laughed. "Ok can you get up now?"
He only laughed harder and she took advantage of his weakened state and pushed him off of her. Kicking a wad of mud in his direction she began to storm back towards the house.
"Alicia come on." He managed to hoist himself up and catch up to her.
"George I used to hate when you'd make me say that back at Hogwarts." The rain had matted her hair down against her head.
He thought she never looked more beautiful. "Why didn't you ever say anything?"
"I did! I told you every time you'd make me say it!" She balled up her fists and let out a huff. "You just chose to ignore me…ya know sometimes I think you just love to-"
George bowed and held out his hand. "Alicia, care to dance?"
"What?" She blinked.
"Dance with me." He took her hand and gave her a twirl. "Like old times." He pointed towards the rainy sky and grinned.
The corners of the picture seemed to pinch her awake and she felt her cheeks go red. "Like old times then?" With a shaky hand she gripped his shoulders and allowed the nonexistent music to move the two of them together.
"Remember when we danced just like this that summer you came to visit?" His hand moved down to the small of her back and he dipped her.
"Remember when I told you that you were a horrid dancer?" She chuckled when he grimaced. "well I was lying. You are a magnificent dancer." Tilting her head to the side she glanced back up at the house. "Don't you think we ought to go inside?"
Looking down upon her he shook his head. " Nah…this is where I wanna be right now."
"George." She took a breath and rested her head against his chest.
"Mmhm?"
"This doesn't mean- I don't think we should- I just - I can't…." Somehow the words she was looking for became lost within her.
Kissing the top of her head he felt his heart drop. " I know, Ali. I just want you to be happy." He wasn't sure if it was just the rain, or if his tears had somehow mingled with the droplets. All he knew was that even though they weren't actually together that this was all he had wanted. This was all he needed to believe.
"Would someone call George and Alicia inside for desert?" Molly's voice rang from the kitchen.
In the sitting room about a dozen faces were pressed up against the window watching the two dance out in the rain.
"I'll call them!" Fred grinned and made way for the door.
"No!" Ginny grabbed him the arm and stepped in front of him. Turning back towards the window Ginny smiled. "They've waited eight years for this….for merlins sake let them enjoy the rain."
I hope you all enjoyed this sappy chapter. Bleh the next chapter should be up within the week unless Im having a good day and get it all done in some miraculous time. It will still take place at the Burrow so some fun should still be around :) Until then hit that little purple button and leave me some love. Thanks guys!