Chapter 26: Do Tell
All of this belongs to J.K. Rowling
That day Hannah and I had a picnic. While we ate she laid down her head on my lap as I played with her hair.
The smile never disappearing from my face. I had spent the night at Hannah's, and we ha enjoyed a peaceful Saturday morning. Today was the usual Sunday lunch at the Burrow, I had asked Mrs. Wesley if she would mind if we brought Gran and Mr. Abbott with us. She had responded saying that of course not, 'the more the merrier'.
Right now we were in the Burrow's sitting room, waiting until lunch was ready. We would be telling everyone today and Hannah had the ring safely in her pocket, as to not give anything away before time. I kept on sneaking glances at Hannah, every time she saw me she smiled and continued talking to whoever she was talking to. Hermione and Ginny, who were the only ones I had told gave me knowing smiles every time they caught me.
Soon Mrs. Weasley calls everyone to the table and we take out spots. I start talking to Percy buy get extremely distracted, considering he was talking about the Ministry and I was too concentrated looking at Hannah talk to Fleur.
"Neville?", I hear a voice call me.
"Huh?", I ask looking at Gran who was looking at me expectantly.
"What has got into you boy?", she asked.
"Sorry I was thinking", I say sheepishly, everyone was looking at me the whole table silent.
"Do tell", Ginny says, leaning forward on her chair.
I give Hannah a squeeze of her hand under the table, asking if she wanted to do to now. She squeezed it back, signaling that she did. I feel Hannah's hand slip from mine and go to her pocket, getting out the ring and slipping it on under the table, luckily no one was in the other side of her to catch her movement.
"Well I…er we have an announcement", I say smiling at Hannah, she smiles back and I stand up, and she follows my lead.
I look at everyone's expecting faces, even Teddy, Victoire and Dom had stopped playing with their food to listen.
"We're getting married!", I exclaim.
Everyone's, excluding Mr. Abbott's, Hermione's and Ginny's, mouth drops for a second before Gran stands up and runs to us, not as emotional as Mrs. Weasley last time, but still hurriedly.
"I knew you had it in you boy", she says giving me a hug and a kiss on the cheek, she then goes to Hannah whispering something in her war that I was still able to hear.
"Tell me if he treats you right", Hannah laughs but nods as everyone else stands from their chairs and coming over to congratulate us.
"Congratulations love, you grew up so fast, your mother would be so proud of you, she was when she moved to take care of us from up there", Hannah's dad tells her. Her eyes get misty and she gives her dad a tight hug. I pretend not to listen just to give them more privacy.
"Thanks daddy", she says and he kisses her forehead.
Soon all the girls are crowded around Hannah, admiring her finger and giggling like schoolgirls.
"Harry?", I ask and he turns to look at me a smile on his face.
"Yeah Nev?", he asks.
"Would you be my best man?", I ask him scratching the back of my neck. He grins and gives me a brotherly hug.
"Of course Neville, thank you for thinking of me", he says and I shrug showing him that it was no problem.
The rest of the day we spend at the Burrow, planning the wedding and talking about random things, it is not until about ten o'clock that people start to leave among them Hannah and I. I spend a few hours with her, on her couch in complete comfortable silence. At midnight I kiss her passionately and hold her close, the. I kiss her hand where the ring lay and wink at her before flooing back to my office at Hogwarts.