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Chapter 46: Boyfriends, family and The End

Adrienne POV: Age 17

"Are you okay, Ad? You seem a bit nervous?"

Even though he had spoken softly, I still almost shit my pants. I whipped away from the compartment window and turned to send my boyfriend, Nate, a smile. Though, considering I was about to throw up all over his shoes, I'm pretty sure it came out as more or a grimace.

"Do I? I feel perfectly fine. Everything's fine. You're fine, I'm fine… I said fine too many times, didn't I?"

He chuckled. "Yeah." Sighing, I leaned back against the chair and bobbed my knee up and down nervously. My best friend, Maria, smirked at me and raised her dark arched eyebrows, in amusement or in question, I didn't know. "What are you so nervous about, babe? Everything will be fine, promise."

I almost laughed at that one because he really believed it. I loved Nate, I really did, but he can be so naïve sometimes. Didn't he know who my family was? They were going to kill him.

What the hell was I thinking inviting home for Christmas?

Answer, nothing. I was thinking bloody nothing!

There wasn't one normal person in my whole bloody family. Well, Aunt Audrey was pretty normal, but she's also a bit of a bitch (in my Aunt Lily's words), so I stay away from her.

"You'll be fine."

Oh, Merlin, he thought I was afraid for myself. Didn't he realize I was scared for him? Not only was my dad going to throw stuff at him, but there were around another twenty other people in my family of the male species that had already threatened to cut his—uh-um!private parts off. Even my little brothers, who were six years younger than me, had backed him into a corner and threatened his life if he ever hurt me. Nate found it hilarious, I found it scarring.

I'd already met his family. His dad worked for the ministry, his mum was a Healer, his older sister was a Hit Witch, and his two younger brothers and sister were at Hogwarts. They were normal. My whole family should be sent to the loony bin for the sanity of not only me, but the rest of the world.

"I don't think it's her she's scared for, mate," Lewis laughed from opposite me.

"You're going to die," Maria put in not-so-helpfully.

"Or at least be sent to therapy," Gia giggled happily as if delighted by this possibility.

I glared at them all, why the hell was I friends with these people again?

Nate and I had a pretty cliché relationship. We never really got along at first, in fact I hated him, but then in sixth year we became friends after working on a potions essay together. After that we became pretty much inseparable, along with our other best friends, and then at the beginning of this year we drunkenly snogged in the common room and the next day we admitted we had feelings for each other. Cha-bing-cha-boom, here we were four months later disgustingly in love.

Gross, huh?

The train fell to a screeching stop but I made no attempt to get up. Nate laughingly pulled me to my feet and dragged me out of the compartment after magically making our trunks follow us. Maria, Lewis, Gia and Axel hugged me tightly before running off to their families and I stood near the train refusing to walk any further. Secretly, I was hoping they had forgotten about me so Nate and I could sneak to the Leaky Cauldron and just stay there for the holidays. However, given the fact that I also had two little brothers in Hogwarts, that seemed highly unlikely. Just as I was about to say "Oops, must have forgotten about little old me, LET'S GO!" I spotted my mum through the crowd hugging my brothers.

Nate immediately started to pull me forward and I flapped around like a headless chicken in refusal. I hadn't even pointed her out and he knew she was my mum. He probably recognized her from the papers and magazines, it also didn't help that I looked like her reincarnation. My little sister was with her too, but she was in a deep discussion with a little girl just behind her.

"Hello, Mrs. Potter, I'm Nathaniel Sloper," Nate said in his stupidly charming voice. I huffed and let him cuddle me into his side with his arm wrapped around my shoulders.

"Nate, it's great to meet you," mum smiled, shaking his hand. "Addie's talked a lot about you."

Have I mentioned my mum's a douche?

"Thanks mum, really appreciate that."

Mum smirked at me in that evil way she does when she's having fun. Dad says I inherited it too, but I don't see it.

"You're welcome, honey!" she chirped in an overly-happy voice. Stepping forward, she hugged me so tight all the breath in my lungs washed out.

"We're going to the Burrow," Wyatt grinned cheekily.

"That's why dad's not here," Wesley said as if I'd asked.

"It's also why you boyfriend isn't getting hexed yet."

"And why he's not crying."

"Boys!" mum screamed, though she was smiling a little. Traitor.

Nate looked a little nervous now. Can't say I blamed him, really.

"ADDIE!" Leah screeched shrilly as she grabbed hold of my waist. She was only six and wasn't allowed to go to Hogwarts yet, though I knew she desperately wanted to. "I missed you so much! It's really quiet without you!"

I highly doubted that considering that we had about a million cousins that were still not at Hogwarts, but I didn't have the heart to argue with her. Leah was my favourite, after all.

Don't tell Wes or Wyatt that. They'd pull a really awful prank on me…again.

"I missed you too, Lee," I said. "This is Nate."

"Hi Nate, I'm Leah!" she exclaimed brightly. Leah's always happy, mum says she got it from Aunt Coco. Merlin knows she didn't get it from any of us.

"Nana Molly's making dinner, so we're going straight there this year," mum whispered as we walked to the back of the platform.

I didn't know whether to smile or cry.

I loved my Nana Molly, or Great-Nana Molly as I have to call her when around my Nana Ginny, Annie and Edith, and I loved the Burrow, but going there meant that everyone was going to be there. Nate didn't have to just deal with the weirdness of my intimidate family, but also the whole God damn clan.

Yes, we're a clan, that's how many of them they are.

I was going to ease Nate in slowly. I was going to introduce him to my parents and my siblings, then very, very slowly, I was going to introduce him to the rest. You know, maybe in a few years' time… over the floo network.

Nate was currently being climbed on by Leah whilst he had a cheery conversation with my brothers about Quidditch, which he loved and was beater on, whilst I was chaser. Back in my fifth year I was elected captain of the Gryffindor team (my dad's threw a massive party and bought me three new brooms for that one) and I loved to rub it in his face. Maria says that's mean, but I think it's hilarious.

Anyway, back to the point.

"Can't Nate and I go back to the house?"

"No. Sorry. I don't want to be a grandma just yet."

Hypocrite.

I told her this and she laughed, patted my hair and told me I was going to the Burrow or she was bringing Aunt Rose to get me there.

Yeah, that shut me up.

Mum made us all join hands and then we apparted to the front of the Burrow. Over the years the Burrow had been renovated over and over again (mostly to keep the thing standing), but it still didn't look right. It looked more like hell than home. But inside it was the best damn place in the world. It was like my fourth home, first being my actual home, second being Hogwarts, and third being my grandparent's house.

Leah twirled around as she walked down the path and the twins tried to push each other over into the mud. Mum quickly popped up beside me and asked me a couple of questions about Hogwarts, gave a pointed look at Nate, give me the thumbs up, winked and then ran off into the house.

Dear Merlin, what have I brought myself into?

When we got into the Burrow there was literally a shit load of people there. Children were running around screaming, adults were yelling and chasing after them, while others were laughing with each other in any free space they could find. Remus, the son of Uncle Teddy and Aunt Tori, gave me the thumbs up as I walked past him and his sister Dorie, who smiled at me, to the kitchen.

I introduced Nate to my Nana Molly and Nana Ginny first, who both kissed and hugged him, along with the rest of my Great Aunt's. They always seemed to gravitate to the kitchen now to drink coffee and bitch about their husbands and how "life is passing by them". I don't really listen to them anymore.

I was content with staying in there for the rest of the day, but Nate wanted to meet the rest of the family (how he was going to regret that later) so he made me go with him into the living room.

"Addie!" my Aunt Carly beamed, hugging me. "They're all outside playing Quidditch."

As usual, then.

There was a pretty vicious Quidditch match going on outside when we got there. My Aunt Hermione had cast a warming spell all over the backyard so there was no need for coats or scarves. It was weird, actually, it was like a large bubble around the house that just showed off clean green grass with no snow. However, where the warming charm stopped, there was a thick layer of bright white snow there.

My Grandpa Harry kissed my head and asked me so many questions I almost burst from over-thinking. He then sized Nate up, dared him to hurt me and then went off on his merry why. The rest of my Uncle's did the same thing, though in a more brutal manner. Uncle Freddie even made a slitting throat motion with his hand.

I face palmed.

"Addie!" I heard my name being shouted and looked up just in time to see my dad before I was scooped into his arms and twirled until I almost spewed. "Finally, you're here!"

"Dad, I think I'm going to spew."

He laughed. Moron. "You won't, don't worry," he dropped a sloppy kiss on my head. "How was school? Still winning the cup?"

"Always," I said proudly. "Um, dad, this is Nate."

I was going to add "my boyfriend", but I didn't want my dad to have heart attack right now.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Potter," Nate greeted politely.

"Hello, Sloper."

Really, really?

Dad glared so hard at him I was surprised his eyes hadn't popped out of his head. When he started to growl, I hit him across the head. "Dad, honestly, stop it."

"No."

"You're such a child."

"So are you, which means you shouldn't have a boyfriend."

"At my age you had a baby."

I could practically hear my Aunt Cooper scream "Ooooo, OWNED!" in her head,

Dad spluttered for a while. "Yeah, well, that's different."

"How?"

"It just was! Stop grilling me!"

I smirked, he scowled.

Rolling my eyes, I took Nate's hand (dad growled again) and pulled him over to meet my younger cousins. He looked completely overwhelmed by how many of them there were. Heidi and Helen, my Uncle Louis and Aunt Coco's identical twin daughters, thought it would be funny to freak him out so they popped up at the same time on either side of him. He actually thought he'd gone bonkers for a couple of seconds before he started to laugh. Daisy, Aunt Rose and Uncle Scorpius' daughter, climbed up his leg and onto his back, she had a thing about that lately, and called over her brother, Lee, to join in. Deciding he'd been through enough torture, I pulled him away, only to run into Uncle Albus and Aunt Cooper with their three kids, Poppy, Sophie and Cade, running around their feet.

"Alright, Addie?" Uncle Albus asked, hugging me. "Sloper."

"Honestly Albus, don't be mean to the boy," Aunt Cooper said and I suddenly liked her a hell of a lot more. "Hello Nate, nice to meet you."

Why did everyone know his name?! I'd only told my parents about him… and my brothers, there's my answer, the little shits.

I quickly dragged Nate into the house but there were people everywhere. I couldn't get away from my family… then again, I never could, even in school. My dad's side of the family bred like rabbits, and my mum's side wasn't much better. Uncle Josh had about ten kids to loads of women, he was the bad seed of the family. Even my Aunt Sage had just had her first kid, Anna, and kept going on about how she wanted 'a big family with loads of animals'.

I feared for the future.

Great-nana Molly shouted us for dinner and we sat around the giant tale in the backyard. We sat opposite Uncle Freddie and Aunt Carly (Uncle Freddie gave Nate the evil eyes) and their kids, Madison and Ricky. Madison had just started her first year of Hogwarts and was sorted into Gryffindor, Uncle Freddie had cried when he found out (my dad made a special trip to Hogsmeade to tell me, we laughed for three hours). My little cousins, Justin and Amelie, sat with Aunt Lily and Uncle Blaise, throwing food at each other and the people around them. Aunt Dom and Uncle Derrick's kids, Jett, Arielle and Jordan, were singing 12 days of Christmas at the top of their lungs while Simon, Aunt Coco and Uncle Louis' eldest, screamed for them to shut the hell up. Uncle Hugo was feeding his youngest, Tristan, and getting food all over his hand-knitted sweater from nana Molly, while his wife, Leanne, shook her head and cut up the meat for their eldest, Collin.

"You're going to dump me, aren't you?" I whispered to Nate.

"What, why would I do that?"

I motioned to my family. Great-Uncle George had given Leah a sip of his coffee and she was jumping up and down on her chair while my dad tried to calm her down. It wasn't working, she was just making the other kids of the family excited and start to squeal.

"I like them," he grinned.

"… Are you on crack?"

"They're unique," he shrugged. "I like that."

Shocked, I leant up and kissed his cheek. Uncle Freddie coughed as if we were about to shag on the table. I sent him a glare and ate my food. Later on Nate had to get back to look after his younger siblings so I kissed him goodbye and went outside to sit on the stairs with my dad.

"What do you think of Nate?" I questioned quietly.

"He's not good enough for you."

"Dad, honestly," I snorted. "He's more than good enough for me."

He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Yeah, alright. He's cool. He wasn't scared by our family, that's a good thing. And if you're happy, I'm happy."

I reached over and hugged him. "Thanks daddy."

He smiled, I knew why. I hadn't called him daddy since I went off to Hogwarts and decided I was 'too grown up' to call him daddy. He had been upset but got over it when I said I wanted to play Quidditch with him. Having one of the chasers from the Puddlemere United team as a dad had its perks.

"What are you two doing?" mum walked over with Leah on her hip. "Don't you want to play the Quidditch game?"

I peered over her and watched as Uncle Louis gathered people for a game. My brothers saw me and ran over, sitting on either side of dad and I. I wrapped my arms around Wesley and squeezed, he pretended to choke.

"No, I think I want to sit here for a while and talk to you lot. We haven't had time to talk today."

Dad glanced at me and smiled. "Yeah, me too."

Mum chuckled and sat next to Wesley with Leah on her knee. Leah looked like mum, but she had dad's eyes and lips. We all had the same strawberry blonde hair, while the twins had dark brown hair, like dad, and light blue eyes, like mum. You could see that we were all related just by looking at us.

And as I talked to my family, listening to my dad's Quidditch games and my mum's funny stories about what kids had done at Uncle George's joke shop, which she was co-manager of with Uncle Freddie, making jokes with my brothers, and giggling with my little sister, I realized I wouldn't change my family for the world. Sure, we were strange and sometimes downright mental, but we loved each other and weren't afraid to show it.

I loved my family.

Except my Great-Aunt Brenda, and cousins Natasha and Kristina.

Natasha had far too many cats these days.

The End.


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